MAID discourse about Canada is always a mess because even if you remain broadly skeptical of MAID as a whole, the non-Canadian reporting on it is just basically entirely driven by ideologues who think we have what Europe has

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So Said's case is that Orientalism is a distinct 19th/20th century phenomenon, growing out of the European "rediscovery" of the Middle East following Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798. "The decadent east" is older than that, of course! But "Orientalism" isn't.

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Actually yes this is the better answer: if Meta is a publisher making first amendment protected decisions, than it should accept all publisher related liability for those decisions.

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Remember last year (or 2024?) when the anesthesiologists gaslit everyone about how insurance companies were screwing patients over and cutting coverage and then it turned out the insurance companies were merely planning to stop giving anesthesiologists special treatment relative to other doctors.

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and the fact that the uninsured will be billed 8 or 10 times insurers' negotiated price seems, um.... bad.

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