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Franks Happy Place posted:Wait are you in the industry? PM me. Not in the TREE GAME myself. PT6A posted:Huh, I wouldn't have guessed that, but I guess I was wrong. It seems weed does have similar price variation compared to wine. I don't personally consume cannibis, however it will vary in THC concentration and have 'notes' like fine booze so it's both strength and quality. The people that will consume it medicinally will probably find a strain they like at the price they are willing to pay (cheap as hell) which is why its mostly in the $10-15 range. The funny thing about it is that getting a card to buy is pretty easy. Legal WEED.
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jm20 posted:Not in the TREE GAME myself. Don't forget that actual weed (aka flower) is an ever-shrinking subset of the sector. Concentrates (dabs) and edibles are growing the most, and those can have vastly different pricing at the high end, especially the finer resins.
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# ? Mar 11, 2016 09:05 |
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The roommate I recently kicked to the curb would never loving shut up about the weed types when he worked at a dispensary. Then he got fired for being a fuckhead, and got a gig as a "marijuana product consultant", ie: he reviewed dabs / shatter and got the product for free in return, selling part of it to cover his rent in addition to being a grunt labourer. Hearing someone mumble spaced-out about butane-extracted THC concentrate, as if it's a fine wine, made me want to beat his head in with a brick. I hate stoners with a passion.
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# ? Mar 11, 2016 12:15 |
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If you don't mind, Dreylad, I'll cover this one:quote:Good Friday morning to you.
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# ? Mar 11, 2016 12:20 |
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Recently, a cache of ISIS intelligence - essentially raw recruitment files - was passed on to Five Eyes to look at. It's not wholly trusted (some strange mistakes and misspellings are casting doubt), but it does have a half dozen Canadian names. I think this is something that will be difficult for Canadians to swallow, but there is little precedent for alleged supporters of foreign militias to be stripped of passports and citizenship, even those as vile as ISIS. It violates several tenets of due process. The Liberals have vowed to repeal C-24, but have not actually announced the proposed replacement. We do need a replacement, because current law is not robust enough. However, Trudeau's commitment during one of the debates to prosecute is fairly admirable.
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# ? Mar 11, 2016 13:01 |
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A number of these guys are dead, and they were all (except one) already known to be ISIS supporters, no? I don't think it changes much.
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# ? Mar 11, 2016 14:30 |
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Is APTN run by ex-conservative staffers or something? They're putting up a ton of stuff that is not Sunny Ways. http://aptn.ca/news/2016/03/11/indigenous-affairs-minister-bennett-avoid-questions-on-education-promise/ quote:Officials at Indigenous Affairs are continuing to block questions to Minister Carolyn Bennett on the fate of her party’s $2.6 billion promise on First Nation education which was based on money that didn’t exist.
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Pinterest Mom posted:THC's right - much (most is my sense) of the institutional NDP prefers Sanders to Clinton. I have to disagree strongly with a bunch of these points. I don't have a problem with your first paragraph: yes, Bernie tends to surround himself with those who think like him, and he's old and has been saying the same lines for so long that it's taking him some time to come around to new movements like BLM, whereas Clinton is much more skilled at pivoting to appeal to numerous diverse groups at once. That's an undeniable fact and I agree. Institutionally, there isn't an infrastructure in place for a left-wing president, which is exactly Sanders' point. He's been repeatedly telling his supporters, at rallies and in ads, that he can't do this alone and electing him to the presidency will accomplish nothing if there isn't a widespread and sustained, long-term political movement backing his left-wing reforms. That's why he keeps talking about a political revolution, because the whole point of his campaign is to create a mass movement in society that will place pressure on American electoral politics from the left the same way the Tea Party places pressure on American electoral politics from the right. All those policies you talk about--single payer, $15/hr minimum wage, free tuition, etc.--are impossible in US politics as they currently stand. But frankly, the problem with the North American left at the moment (I would say all of the Western left but I think we're seeing the beginnings of a move away from this in Europe) is that we don't dream big. We don't propose big social changes any more, because we've been taken over by Very Serious People who believe so strongly in incrementalism that they run campaigns based on ATM fees and balanced budgets instead of expanding the welfare state. This also goes hand-in-hand with the left's foreign policy circles being taken over by hawks. Look at the contrast between Corbyn and the Blairites in Britain if Sanders and Clinton isn't a big enough contrast for you, the Blairites are legitimately shocked that left-wing pacifists exist when they've spent the last 20 years arguing that bombing everyone who looks at the West funny is the solution to all problems. Frankly, the problem I have with your post is that incrementalism doesn't build social movements, and social movements are what achieve real change. The Tea Party is a social movement, and it achieved real change over the last six years. We may hate that change, but they have accomplished a lot, from stopping every legislative proposal put forward by Obama and the Democrats since 2010 to massive, sweeping state-level abortion restrictions in red states. That's the kind of power a social movement has. And we don't have that on the left, and Clinton is not going to build one. Universal healthcare, free tuition, and a $15/hr minimum wage may be impossible under Sanders, but his prominence in arguing for those issues and in building a movement that fights for those issues is to be commended, because it will lay the foundation for future US leaders to actually pass those reforms. That will not happen under Clinton because she's not even arguing for those policies, so of course she's not building a movement to fight for them. Frankly, the way to achieve the kind of large changes our society needs to recover from thirty years of neoliberalism is by asking for a mile and taking a foot, not by asking for a foot and taking an inch. This is of course ignoring Clinton's disastrous record on foreign policy and international trade, which Sanders would be a marked improvement on and which is entirely an executive branch function. The crux of this matter comes down to asking "What is the purpose of the left wing?" Why do we exist? You're making an argument, and this is also the argument that the NDP has been making for the last few years in every election where they think they have a shot (so, not Alberta), that the point of the left wing is to be slightly more competent administrators than the right wing, and to follow the gradual progressive change of society rather than fighting against it. The argument that Sanders is making and that the left wing of the NDP is making, is that the point of the left wing is to advocate and fight for fundamental progressive change in society, to have the state lead society forward rather than following it from behind--essentially, to build social movements for progressive causes rather than simply following the social movements that already exist. If there isn't a social movement that lets you pass a $15 minimum wage, then build one. Don't just point to the lack of a movement, throw up your hands, and say "but hey, we can make progress on the backs of the gay marriage and BLM movements that sprang fully formed out of the ether". For an example of this, just look at Clinton vs. Sanders on gay rights--Clinton has come around to gay rights because society changes its views and she's gone along with it. Sanders has been fighting for gay rights in Congress for decades, since before the country decided gay people were deserving of the same rights as everyone else. This is a fundamental disagreement over what is the point of progressive politics, and I think it speaks to the problems a lot of people in this thread have with the NDP. We want them to advocate actual change the way Tommy Douglas did in the 60s, which gave us large parts of the Canadian welfare state even though we never had Prime Minister Douglas. We don't want Thomas "I'm a slightly more competent executive than either of those other guys" Mulcair. This is, of course, not to say that I wouldn't vote for Clinton or Mulcair. I voted NDP in the last election and if I were eligible to vote in America I would vote for Clinton over any of the disastrous Republican candidates in the general, but I don't buy your argument at all that Sanders won't pass his policies so therefore we should choose the person who won't even attempt them. I think that kind of argument is actively harmful to left-wing causes.
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vyelkin posted:This is, of course, not to say that I wouldn't vote for Clinton or Mulcair. I voted NDP in the last election and if I were eligible to vote in America I would vote for Clinton over any of the disastrous Republican candidates in the general, but I don't buy your argument at all that Sanders won't pass his policies so therefore we should choose the person who won't even attempt them. I think that kind of argument is actively harmful to left-wing causes. I'd vote for the ghost of Karl Marx over any of the Republican candidates, though. I mean, between someone I'm ideologically opposed to and someone I think could be legitimately insane and/or mentally enfeebled (the entire Republican field at this point), I'll pick the sane person every time, no matter how much I disagree with them.
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# ? Mar 11, 2016 17:23 |
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Ikantski posted:Is APTN run by ex-conservative staffers or something? They're putting up a ton of stuff that is not Sunny Ways. Apparently all MPs run and hide like children when things aren't going their way
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# ? Mar 11, 2016 17:27 |
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Your busted-rear end Zach Braff-looking Prime Minister just spoke at my university. He said some poo poo about being a feminist and had the undergrads swooning, which is ironic because my university just got slammed for hitting a sexual assault victim with a gag order He basically pumped out platitudes like a fortune cookie factory, including about the environment, which is also ironic since he supports Keystone XL and David Suzuki called him a "twerp", and about education, which is triple ironic because half my library is literally off limits because he's speaking next door Please take back your bad politicians, we have too many here as it is
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A condemnation from David Suzuki is what we call praise round these parts.
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Panama Red posted:Your busted-rear end Zach Braff-looking Prime Minister just spoke at my university. He said some poo poo about being a feminist and had the undergrads swooning, which is ironic because my university just got slammed for hitting a sexual assault victim with a gag order
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Panama Red posted:He said some poo poo about being a feminist Sorry, do you think being a feminist a bad thing?
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Well, it's okay to BE a feminist, but as soon as you talk about it, you're just being insufferable.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Sorry, do you think being a feminist a bad thing? looks like school didnt do anything for your reading comprehension
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CLAM DOWN posted:Sorry, do you think being a feminist a bad thing? Men need to be comfortable calling themselves feminists... It's 2016 guys.
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Panama Red posted:Your busted-rear end Zach Braff-looking Prime Minister just spoke at my university. He said some poo poo about being a feminist and had the undergrads swooning, which is ironic because my university just got slammed for hitting a sexual assault victim with a gag order I don't understand what is ironic about an outside speaker having a belief system that doesn't fall in line with the actions of your university administration.
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It's like rain on your wedding day.
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InfiniteZero posted:I don't understand what is ironic about an outside speaker having a belief system that doesn't fall in line with the actions of your university administration. It's American irony, not real irony.
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Ikantski posted:Men need to be comfortable calling themselves feminists... It's 2016 guys. I prefer egalitarian
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CLAM DOWN posted:Sorry, do you think being a feminist a bad thing? drat, that was a nice callout. You seem like an extremely progressive and respectful person. What's your twitter so I can follow you?
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# ? Mar 11, 2016 18:57 |
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y'all need to reanimate jack layton and then conquer/annex the US please otherwise american refugees will soon be streaming to cape breton
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Panama Red posted:Your busted-rear end Zach Braff-looking Prime Minister just spoke at my university. He said some poo poo about being a feminist and had the undergrads swooning, which is ironic because my university just got slammed for hitting a sexual assault victim with a gag order
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Brannock posted:drat, that was a nice callout. You seem like an extremely progressive and respectful person. What's your twitter so I can follow you? What is this response???
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Why does Facebook mobile notify me every time Trudeau does a livestream
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Eox posted:Why does Facebook mobile notify me every time Trudeau does a livestream You 'liked' him at some point, or are 'following' him.
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Brannock posted:drat, that was a nice callout. You seem like an extremely progressive and respectful person. What's your twitter so I can follow you? This is a really weird reply, but if you're interested in twitter, this is CI's: https://www.twitter.com/richmondchinese
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Panama Red posted:Your busted-rear end Zach Braff-looking Prime Minister just spoke at my university. He said some poo poo about being a feminist and had the undergrads swooning, which is ironic because my university just got slammed for hitting a sexual assault victim with a gag order You know this thread is normally pretty quick to criticize the liberals and our vacuous selfie-taker-in-chief but if there's one thing that drives Canadians apoplectic it is being criticized by Americans, and the last fuckin thing any of us can handle is an American slagging one of our politicians. YOU ELECTED BUSH YOU LIKE TRUMP THE REPUBLICAN PARTY EXISTS DON'T YOU KNOW THAT WE'RE MORE loving POLITE THAN YOU, MORE RATIONAL AND OH YEAH WE HAVE HEALTHCARE! HEALTHCARE GOD drat IT! YOU RACIST YANKEE HICK WE BURNED THE GOD drat WHITE HOUSE WE WON 1812 AAAAAAARGH!" gently caress
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# ? Mar 11, 2016 21:29 |
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Put Hilary in the GOP race, their electorate wouldn't notice a difference.
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Helsing posted:americans Americans Americans Americans Americans AMERICANS https://youtu.be/KMU0tzLwhbE
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Helsing posted:You know this thread is normally pretty quick to criticize the liberals and our vacuous selfie-taker-in-chief but if there's one thing that drives Canadians apoplectic it is being criticized by Americans, and the last fuckin thing any of us can handle is an American slagging one of our politicians. YOU ELECTED BUSH YOU LIKE TRUMP THE REPUBLICAN PARTY EXISTS DON'T YOU KNOW THAT WE'RE MORE loving POLITE THAN YOU, MORE RATIONAL AND OH YEAH WE HAVE HEALTHCARE! HEALTHCARE GOD drat IT! YOU RACIST YANKEE HICK WE BURNED THE GOD drat WHITE HOUSE WE WON 1812 AAAAAAARGH!" gently caress If I was going to criticize Americans I would just say Obama and Trudeau are 1 in the same. The outward appearance of progressive politics, but the same corporate lapdogs. Also we burned the White House down at some point.
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Pinterest Mom posted:THC's right - much (most is my sense) of the institutional NDP prefers Sanders to Clinton. Well I appreciate you taking the time to answer in some detail and I should emphasize that I wouldn't have bothered to bring this up if I didn't generally respect your political opinions (despite a fair amount of disagreement on the particulars). I have to say though very little of what you've written here makes sense or rings true to me. I feel as though everything Hilary represents is not only a failed strategy, but a strategy that has actively been making things worse. I just cannot conceive how any lefty leaning or progressive individual could want someone with so much baggage, or could essentially want a continuation of the Obama administration. Clinton's relationship with Wall Street, her continuous advocacy for the TPP (which, on its own, would probably be one of the worst things to happen to America / Canada in 30 years), her criminal foreign policy (which is so much worse than even you allude to), her track record in the Clinton administration. I don't look at the Democratic race and see two different flavors of progressiveness. I see someone who, whatever their flaws, talks about mobilizing a grassroots movement to effect substantive change, and on the other hand I see someone who has actively helped to overthrow democratic governments, who is extremely close to Wall Street and the military industrial complex, and whose attitudes s and biography embody everything wrong with the Democratic party. I would far prefer no governance to Clinton's version of governance.
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American, campaigned for presidency, the Canadian National Igloo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFgPX0hnNfA&t=536s
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DariusLikewise posted:If I was going to criticize Americans I would just say Obama and Trudeau are 1 in the same. The outward appearance of progressive politics, but the same corporate lapdogs. Also we burned the White House down at some point. So far as I know Trudeau never signed off on any orders to assassinate teenagers, has never bragged about being good at killing, and has never gone to a meeting of nervous Wall Street execs, right after they crashed the economy, to declare that he was on their side and was the only thing standing "Between them and the pitch forks." On the other hand I find that whereas Obama comes off as a conservative in liberal clothing, Trudeau just comes off to me as kinda clueless and stupid. With Obama I get the sense that, while he was shockingly naive about how the Republicans would treat him, the real issue isn't that he's naive but rather that he's just drank very deeply from the neoliberal coolaid (he even admits he would have been a moderate Republican in the 1980s). With Trudeau, on the other hand, I just can't shake the sense that he's really not all that bright. I know this is a pretty shallow political analysis, "Trudeau is dumb, lol" but I've never been able to shake it. Every time the guy opens his mouth I can't stop thinking "what a loving doofus this guy is, how did he get elected?" EDIT -- Loving the new world filter
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Canadians hate muslims and harper and that's how Trudeau got elected. It has nothing to do with his actual merits as a leader.
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Helsing posted:So far as I know Trudeau never signed off on any orders to assassinate teenagers, has never bragged about being good at killing, and has never gone to a meeting of nervous Wall Street execs, right after they crashed the economy, to declare that he was on their side and was the only thing standing "Between them and the pitch forks." The guy entered the political spotlight by punching a native in the face for 15 minutes and now he's tripling our boots on the ground in Syria and appointed the ex-chair of CD Howe as Minister of Finance. Postess with the Mostest fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Mar 11, 2016 |
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Ikantski posted:The guy entered the political spotlight by punching a native in the face for 15 minutes and now he's tripling our boots on the ground in Syria and appointed the ex-chair of CD Howe as Minister of Finance. Yeah but they're outflanking the NDP from the left!!!1!
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more like dICK posted:Canadians hate muslims and harper and that's how Trudeau got elected. It has nothing to do with his actual merits as a leader. Except one of Trudeau's biggest campaign promises was to accept a whole bunch of Muslim refugees. In other news, apparently there was a march to Kent Hehr's riding office earlier, to protest something or other about Canada giving money to Ethiopia, which is apparently being used to fund some conflict I've never heard about. I have no idea what they expect to accomplish, since I don't think Kent has any connection to foreign aid, but I suppose it's still more useful than the protests that gently caress up 6 Ave to sit in front of the Chinese consulate and whinge about PRC's treatment of a bunch of strange cultists. EDIT: Admittedly, it did raise awareness for their cause, because now I know that the Ethiopian government is trying to take land from the Oromo, and apparently doing so violently, whereas before I'd never heard of it. Whereas I know all about Falun Gong and I just really, really don't loving care. PT6A fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Mar 11, 2016 |
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