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It's election time in Manitoba! The Liberal candidate in my riding and leader of the provincial party was super nice and also had the most wonderful deer in the headlights look when I told her I was primarily going to base my vote on who vows to privatize the least amount of public assets and that I was fully aware that P3s are a garbage idea that only serve to enrich the wealthy.
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Jordan7hm posted:https://opseu.org/news/union-province-reach-deal-corrections-talks Or the prisoners. Ikantski posted:
We're not funded by the government, we're funded by the mandatory fee the government forces taxpayers to give us. Bev Oda says hi.
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# ? Jan 9, 2016 19:37 |
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It's funny that when standard private business practices become public people get outraged.
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# ? Jan 9, 2016 19:44 |
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Franks Happy Place posted:Fortunately there are about... six? of us who are adult and experienced enough to be kicking and screaming against that outcome. I see what you did there It will be very interesting to see what happens to a policy that came out of the desire to be rid of a rule against something, as opposed to the desire to have something. If this had sprung up from a critical mass of people who actively wanted weed to be legal, then they would have done at least some of the legwork towards coming up with practical solutions to the kinds of problems we're going to face, and there'd be a coherent advocacy group with some legislative street cred. Instead, it seems to me like this movement kinda sprung organically out of the justice system's desire to be rid of it and the public's willingness to push the limits of that laxity. Does that mean the lack of arrests and prosecution attempts mean their victory condition is largely satisfied, so they have no motivation to get off the couch and work on formalizing something that goes beyond the status quo?
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# ? Jan 9, 2016 19:45 |
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flakeloaf posted:I see what you did there I would hope not as that creates a very nebulous hole in the laws and their enforcement. The last thing we or law enforcement need is the ability to determine which laws to enforce at any given time. It opens up exploitation form both sides and that scares me more.
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# ? Jan 9, 2016 19:57 |
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Cow's run off, Paw! We oughta shut that there door! e: That's exactly what's just happened and it's for the best. Police and prosecutorial discretion are a very important safety valve where the laws impose what would otherwise be totally unreasonable demands on the justice system. flakeloaf fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Jan 9, 2016 |
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I heard that some Syrian refugees got pweppersprayed in Vancouver but can't find the story. Anyone got a link?
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# ? Jan 9, 2016 20:37 |
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bunnyofdoom posted:I heard that some Syrian refugees got pweppersprayed in Vancouver but can't find the story. Anyone got a link? http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/syrian-refugees-pepper-sprayed-outside-vancouver-welcome-event-1.3396899
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^ Was just going to post that, gently caress VancouverEvilJoven posted:It's election time in Manitoba! This is probably the first election ever where I don't like anyone Pallister is a wingnut Rana Bokhari has good ideas, but wants to sell off everything and has no base for actual implementation Greg Selinger is Greg Selinger
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# ? Jan 9, 2016 20:57 |
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it wasn't the rcmp doing the sprayinghockeydog posted:So it is true-bringing in these refugees will result in terrorism.... Rare exceptions to the rule still don't mean you should read the comments, but flakeloaf fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Jan 9, 2016 |
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Proof that Vancouverites are the worst, IMO. Cultural Imperial was right after all!
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# ? Jan 9, 2016 21:52 |
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flakeloaf posted:We're not funded by the government, we're funded by the mandatory fee the government forces taxpayers to give us. Bev Oda says hi. That's what got me about it. They could add an "Eternal Governance Tax" to every purchase that goes straight to the Liberal party who are not a government agency or funded by the government and make the same argument.
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# ? Jan 9, 2016 22:32 |
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I can't wait to see what people do to refugees once they start having their helocs called.
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# ? Jan 9, 2016 23:02 |
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loving cyclists, ban bike lanes and stop these hate crimes.
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# ? Jan 9, 2016 23:04 |
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PT6A posted:Proof that Vancouverites are the worst, IMO. Cultural Imperial was right after all! Don't be smug. Part of the problem is that we're loading up on rear end in a top hat economic migrants fleeing west.
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# ? Jan 9, 2016 23:20 |
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Hexigrammus posted:Don't be smug. Part of the problem is that we're loading up on rear end in a top hat economic migrants fleeing west. I've lived here my entire life and Vancouverites really loving suck
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# ? Jan 9, 2016 23:24 |
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CLAM DOWN posted:I've lived here my entire life and Vancouverites really loving suck Run into an rear end in a top hat in the morning, hey that's life and sometimes it ain't peaches. Start running into assholes all day and chances are... Lived here all my life, people are the same as anywhere.
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# ? Jan 9, 2016 23:43 |
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jfood posted:Lived here all my life, people are the same as anywhere. No, as I've discovered travelling, people are quite a bit better in other places.
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# ? Jan 9, 2016 23:44 |
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You were gonna leave, no one felt the need to make a fuss
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# ? Jan 9, 2016 23:46 |
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Fact: I was actually really happy living in Seattle. People were polite, helpful, and easy to talk to. Consider that most americans consider seattlites cold and distant. gently caress Vancouver. nuke this city to glass
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# ? Jan 9, 2016 23:51 |
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pepper-spray-attack-1.3396899quote:"This isn't who we are," Trudeau said in a tweet. Robertson, also on Twitter, described the incident as a "disgusting display of hate." actually it is
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# ? Jan 10, 2016 00:12 |
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Nicknames for Justin Trudeau I have seen in CBC comments since his election: Trudump Trudope Turdeau Justine Justin Hair-do Pot Minister Trudeau Jihadi Justin Sunni Ways Right-wingers are giant children.
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# ? Jan 10, 2016 00:51 |
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I don't think people coming up with dumb, childish names for politicians they don't like is restricted to one particular side of the ideological spectrum.
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# ? Jan 10, 2016 00:59 |
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PT6A posted:I don't think people coming up with dumb, childish names for politicians they don't like is restricted to one particular side of the ideological spectrum. Harper was really only known as Harper, PMSH, and Satan.
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# ? Jan 10, 2016 01:09 |
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My sister laughs every time she calls Harper "He who shall not be named". We don't talk politics much.
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# ? Jan 10, 2016 01:24 |
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PT6A posted:I don't think people coming up with dumb, childish names for politicians they don't like is restricted to one particular side of the ideological spectrum. Yeah, there are always assholes on all sides, it's true, but right-wingers, in my experience, are far more likely to have derisive nicknames for their political opponents than left-wingers. For example: Furnaceface posted:Harper was really only known as Harper, PMSH, and Satan. I saw Harpercrite a few times, but that's the only one that stood out to me. And I wouldn't see it in every big collection of comments. It was not as encompassing as what I was referring to. Maybe Hitler, but every politician gets called Hitler at least once in their career. If they don't, they're boring. But, living in Ontario, under a Liberal government for example, Dalton McGuinty has been called McGuilty on a regular basis, as well as every other negative word you can think of, preceded by Mc, because that's just the perfect name for that kind of tomfoolery: McLiar, McUseless, McWindbag, McDouchebag, you name it. The stuff for Trudeau is in practically every comments section. I'm just sour today. I don't even particularly care about Trudeau that much. Is it too much to ask, though, that you use the proper name of the person you're criticizing? Disagree with him all you want, but Jesus, act like an adult.
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Furnaceface posted:Harper was really only known as Harper, PMSH, and Satan. Don't forget Dear Leader.
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Whiskey Sours posted:Don't forget Dear Leader. That was this thread's go-to.
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Whiskey Sours posted:Don't forget Dear Leader. I was always partial to Pedosmile Sweatervest, but that was really nichey.
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# ? Jan 10, 2016 01:38 |
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Leofish posted:I'm just sour today. I don't even particularly care about Trudeau that much. Is it too much to ask, though, that you use the proper name of the person you're criticizing? Disagree with him all you want, but Jesus, act like an adult. I agree, I'm just saying it's a distasteful and stupid thing that pretty much everyone engages in from time to time, not simply a right-wing thing.
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# ? Jan 10, 2016 01:40 |
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To be fair, politics are never really argued at a high level, it's usually someone characterised as left-wing against some characterised as right-wing spewing out the same facts at each other which usually dissolves down to name calling.
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James Baud fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Aug 26, 2018 |
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CLAM DOWN posted:I've lived here my entire life and Vancouverites really loving suck I'll take your word for it. Other than a stint in university Vancouver has always been that big cloud of dirty pink smoke at the south end of the Gulf, to be avoided except for the occasional shopping trip. During part of uni I lived in East Van, which was full of perverts, students, and junkies at the time. Not sure how much I should extrapolate from there.
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# ? Jan 10, 2016 02:02 |
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Leofish posted:Nicknames for Justin Trudeau I have seen in CBC comments since his election: I'm a fan of Justine, because it's basically LOL HE'S A GIRL AND GIRLS ARE BAD
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# ? Jan 10, 2016 02:57 |
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Gus Hobbleton posted:I'm a fan of Justine, because it's basically LOL HE'S A GIRL AND GIRLS ARE BAD Except for sex, because when two guys do it it's icky and bad!
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# ? Jan 10, 2016 03:05 |
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I could get behind Trudope
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# ? Jan 10, 2016 10:28 |
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Mods please change my name to Pot Minister Trudope of Canadabs. tia
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# ? Jan 10, 2016 11:57 |
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All this focus on the race to 25k when in reality you could just donate and it would help many more in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.quote:The simple way Canadians can help Syrians
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Kafka Esq. posted:All this focus on the race to 25k when in reality you could just donate and it would help many more in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. Haha, like the average Canadian has money they can donate. No one's going to dip into their HELOC for that!
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The Manitoba Liberals are going to win and they are going to Lib the gently caress out http://www.manitobaliberals.ca/home-ownership-matters HOME OWNERSHIP, EVERYONE BUY A HOME!
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