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If someone didn't know their Star Wars, I'd run the other way too

I've not seen any of the Star Wars franchise. Its never interested me.


The non-biological term would be "billionaire".

The non-biological term would be "publicly-traded corporation". If anything their behavior is worse when there is no controlling founder.

This thread is an exaggeration. Disney could have operated Micky Mouse themed casinos on its premises with probable success, it could also lobby to change regulation that is associated with that.

However companies have balancing factors which are other than maximizing short term profits, such as moral image


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maybe these tech companies do not subscribe to your notion of modern day gestapo (an organization that was involved in killing 10+ million people in horrible ways) or a "genocide" that is minuscule in comparison to american bombings in Japan, which were similarly in the context of war and actually targeted civilians

Maybe your use of these hyperboles are just an artifact of speech deficiencies of our social media engineered reality?





Do you have another less biased source?

From Wikipedia:

> The Fraser Institute is a conservative Canadian public policy think tank registered as a charity.

This is the first time I am hearing about the mass graves being a hoax.


Not the OP, but

>As of April 2025, no bodies have been exhumed from the suspected gravesites, largely due to a lack of community consensus on whether to investigate detected anomalies at the risk of disturbing burials.[9] As of January 2024, at least three official excavations had been performed with no bodies discovered, though at least one excavation only investigated a portion of the reported ground anomalies at that site.[10][11][12] Disputes regarding the conclusiveness of the evidence has helped spawn a movement of denialism about the existence of some or all residential school burial sites.[9][13][14] Indigenous groups and academics have dismissed claims of a "mass grave hoax", saying that claimed discoveries of mass graves were present in a minority of stories published by mainstream media and that there had been public misinterpretation of what had actually been announced in 2021.[15

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...

It sounds like the "mass" part of the "mass graves" is disputed, and there's motte-and-bailey on both sides (eg. "you must think nobody/bazillion died in residential schools") muddying the dispute.


Only four supposed mass graves have been investigated and all four found no bodies. There is no credible evidence that says there are mass graves


It wasn't exactly a "hoax" though, more like sensationalized reporting. Like "so-and-so identified a site where we believe there could be bodies buried" turned into "mass grave uncovered"

Some potential burial sites were investigated, no bodies were found. Unmarked graves in association with residential schools certainly have been found in Canada, and since proving a negative in regards to these claims is untenable, the media is generally reluctant to say "see, there were no mass graves after all"


Where have unmarked residential school graves been found? Also investigating other supposed grave sites have been disallowed by their respective tribes


Here's one from Saskatchewan for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20170408082324/http://www.sicc.s...



>[Quillette] has been described as libertarian-leaning;[2][3][4] the Columbia Journalism Review called Quillette "the right wing's highly influential answer to Slate",[5] and it has been criticized as an "anti-PC soapbox"[6] and for being "reflexively contrarian".[7]

People who were skeptical at The Fraser Institute are probably also skeptical of Quillette



One hundred percent agree with you. This is a perfect example where what's remembered as history is largely influenced by what was told by the victor.


Looks like Franklin won, then.


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