Western Expresso

[djforsberg]

Originally Posted by rrskylar

Reeks of desperation to try and get anyone into the hollow shell of a museum!

If it quacks like a fascist and walks like a fascist...

[rrskylar]

Originally Posted by OTA in Winnipeg

^Have you been?

Yes I have and I’m embarrassed to say more than once!

[rrskylar]

Originally Posted by djforsberg

If it quacks like a fascist and walks like a fascist...

Nice from our resident communist!

[djforsberg]

Originally Posted by rrskylar

Nice from our resident communist!

I’m a socialist but I don’t take offence to being called a communist. The fact you don’t take offence to being called a fascist is pretty fucked up. At least the idea of communism is a democratic world for all people. Meanwhile, there is no mistaking what fascism is.

[Hecate]

Fascists like to “other” people and djforsberg does an excellent job of that. He does a good job at playing victim too. I’m apparently xenophobic towards people from Saskatchewan. Lol. Maybe djforsberg is xenophobic towards Manitoba’s conservatives. Lol.

Seriously, I had high hopes for the museum when it opened, but it’s a dud. in all honesty, they hired the most uninspiring people to bring this museum to life. Next to nothing ever changes and when it does, it’s like one glass case, put together with less thought than a high schoolers science diorama. What do the curators do there all fucking day, day after day after day.

[djforsberg]

Originally Posted by Hecate

Fascists like to “other” people and djforsberg does an excellent job of that. He does a good job at playing victim too. I’m apparently xenophobic towards people from Saskatchewan. Lol. Maybe djforsberg is xenophobic towards Manitoba’s conservatives. Lol.

Hope you find a way to get over it. Besides your incorrect use of the word, I make no distinction between conservatives in Manitoba or in Saskatchewan. I will continue to criticize the conservatives who have actual power and are making life worse for everyone. I will also criticize the similar ideas being shared by others who allow this to happen, such as when someone throws out "wokeness" as if that's the real problem today. Throwing that word out there is nothing but a cry of victimhood when all it is people discovering that their values and/or behaviour are abhorrent (though I won't deny that people of all political stripes can be targets of suppression and censorship but not in the way people who use the term "woke" and "cancel culture" suggest). People have a choice to either evolve, isolate themselves in their bubbles, or continuing whining about it online.

There is a reasonable way of criticizing political parties and museums, but the way some people approach it is far from reasonable.

[esquire]

All these years later and I still haven't truly, properly checked it out yet. I took my dad not long after the museum opened, but he had mobility problems at that point and it wasn't an overly long visit.

Up to this point my kids have been too young for it, although I am thinking of giving it a try again by taking my oldest. I'm sure it will still be an abbreviated visit, though.

[Hecate]

Originally Posted by djforsberg

Hope you find a way to get over it. Besides your incorrect use of the word, I make no distinction between conservatives in Manitoba or in Saskatchewan. I will continue to criticize the conservatives who have actual power and are making life worse for everyone. I will also criticize the similar ideas being shared by others who allow this to happen, such as when someone throws out "wokeness" as if that's the real problem today. Throwing that word out there is nothing but a cry of victimhood when all it is people discovering that their values and/or behaviour are abhorrent (though I won't deny that people of all political stripes can be targets of suppression and censorship but not in the way people who use the term "woke" and "cancel culture" suggest). People have a choice to either evolve, isolate themselves in their bubbles, or continuing whining about it online.

There is a reasonable way of criticizing political parties and museums, but the way some people approach it is far from reasonable.

Lol victim card again. Maybe you need to get over it. Xenophobia is a fear or prejudice of outsiders. We live in the same damn country. From Oxford English Dictionary.

xen·o·pho·bic
/ˌzenəˈfōbik,ˌzēnəˈfōbik/
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adjective
adjective: xenophobic
having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.
"the xenophobic undertones of this argument"

I do not dislike people from Saskatchewan, I do not dislike liberals. I dislike you. There’s a difference.

[pspeid]

Originally Posted by esquire

All these years later and I still haven't truly, properly checked it out yet. I took my dad not long after the museum opened, but he had mobility problems at that point and it wasn't an overly long visit.

Up to this point my kids have been too young for it, although I am thinking of giving it a try again by taking my oldest. I'm sure it will still be an abbreviated visit, though.

I have to admit I've only been to it once but I was impressed with both the building and the displays. I was concerned that a museum dedicated to human rights would end up being a chamber of horrors, recounting one atrocity after another. While it certainly doesn't shirk from pointing out where abuses have been or continue to occur, it also celebrates the situations where concerned individual or group efforts have made positive change in this area. I definitely intend to go again, and perhaps join the museum to support it.

[djforsberg]

Originally Posted by Hecate

Lol victim card again. Maybe you need to get over it. Xenophobia is a fear or prejudice of outsiders. We live in the same damn country. From Oxford English Dictionary.

xen·o·pho·bic
/ˌzenəˈfōbik,ˌzēnəˈfōbik/
Learn to pronounce
adjective
adjective: xenophobic
having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.
"the xenophobic undertones of this argument"

I do not dislike people from Saskatchewan, I do not dislike liberals. I dislike you. There’s a difference.

You’re the one who brought it up again. I never once singled out Manitobans except in one obviously sarcastic post. You and others suggested I have no right to talk about politics from a Manitoban POV. That is xenophobic. Also, I am not a liberal.

[BuildUpWpg]

Wow, look at the hi-rise devastation in Turkey. This is nuts!

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world...dfb8afa0fa6fc3

[optimusREIM]

This is why we have expensive to comply with building codes. Annoying at times, but well worth following. Engineering has obviously improved, but I imagine that not many buildings in those parts are built to account for major earthquakes

[Highwayman]

Originally Posted by rrskylar

Reeks of desperation to try and get anyone into the hollow shell of a museum!

Why do you even live here ? You are the most negative person. They should have a display at the human rights museum just for you. One that shows all the kids that go their on field trips how not to turn out in life.

The Human Rights museum is a beautiful building inside and I'm guessing you have never been inside it. Winnipeg is lucky to have landed it here and not in Ottawa.

[zalf]

Originally Posted by esquire

Up to this point my kids have been too young for it, although I am thinking of giving it a try again by taking my oldest. I'm sure it will still be an abbreviated visit, though.

There are elevators, of course, but if your kids have the stamina for it, try to walk all the way to the top. It makes a big difference to the experience and emotional impact. I'm no architect and am basically a philistine in most ways, but this building was the first time I've really appreciated how architecture can shape your experience of a place.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by zalf

There are elevators, of course, but if your kids have the stamina for it, try to walk all the way to the top. It makes a big difference to the experience and emotional impact. I'm no architect and am basically a philistine in most ways, but this building was the first time I've really appreciated how architecture can shape your experience of a place.

Oh yeah, that's the plan. But my kids are elementary school aged, they are just being introduced to the basic concepts of human rights. I think a two hour visit is realistically about all I can expect at this age and attention span

[rrskylar]

Originally Posted by Highwayman

Why do you even live here ? You are the most negative person. They should have a display at the human rights museum just for you. One that shows all the kids that go their on field trips how not to turn out in life.

The Human Rights museum is a beautiful building inside and I'm guessing you have never been inside it. Winnipeg is lucky to have landed it here and not in Ottawa.

And you are? There is ignore feature in this forum, feel free to add me to it at anytime woke joke!

[Hecate]

Originally Posted by djforsberg

You’re the one who brought it up again. I never once singled out Manitobans except in one obviously sarcastic post. You and others suggested I have no right to talk about politics from a Manitoban POV. That is xenophobic. Also, I am not a liberal.

Again, playing victim. It’s telling that you seriously believe you’re a victim of xenophobia. Delusions of grandeur? Of the last four pages of the Manitoba politics thread, half of the posts were you, someone who doesn’t even live here, continuously shit posting and bashing our government. They literally started another Manitoba politics thread because you derailed the other one so badly. So I reiterate. Telling you to shut up and get a life, in that context, is not xenophobic.

[djforsberg]

Originally Posted by Hecate

Again, playing victim. It’s telling that you seriously believe you’re a victim of xenophobia. Delusions of grandeur? Of the last four pages of the Manitoba politics thread, half of the posts were you, someone who doesn’t even live here, continuously shit posting and bashing our government. They literally started another Manitoba politics thread because you derailed the other one so badly. So I reiterate. Telling you to shut up and get a life, in that context, is not xenophobic.

[1ajs]

hey viking u seen this?

bit of a comidic video on some of downtowns surface lots

https://vimeo.com/201757105?fbclid=I...a3VhHwZnepWPzg

[trueviking]

oh that's gold!!!!!