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Yeah, of all the things to feel national pride in, playing a friendly game of hockey in a war zone is pretty far from the worst.
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Dec 22, 2017 17:47
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Leofish posted:Jordan Peterson is the bitcoin of professors. You'd be rich if you invested in them two years ago? I hear the guys Patreon is like #2 on the whole site now.
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Dec 22, 2017 18:09
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Reince Penis posted:US: Boy the people who voted for Trump sure make us seem like a country of idiots Please explain why soldiers taking some time to enjoy a game of hockey while in the frozen hellscape of Korea is stupid.
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Dec 22, 2017 19:01
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Feeling the same pride holding a hockey stick as a gun is ridiculous jingoism. It's a terrible holiday sentiment.
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Dec 22, 2017 19:30
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Next time I'm playing shinny on the pond, I'll be sure to always keep a mental image of OUR TROOP in the back of my mind. 
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Reince Penis posted:Feeling the same pride holding a hockey stick as a gun is ridiculous jingoism. It's a terrible holiday sentiment. The point Your head
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It's cool and good to defend blatant military propaganda. Nice work.
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Jesus christ it's not military propaganda, you're completely missing the point of the story.
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It's equating the national symbol of a hockey stick, something every Canadian child plays with sometime growing up, with the guns soldiers use. I think you're missing the point if you can't see the propoganda there.
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Dec 22, 2017 19:40
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Reince Penis posted:It's equating the national symbol of a hockey stick, something every Canadian child plays with sometime growing up, with the guns soldiers use. I think you're missing the point if you can't see the propoganda there. You're an idiot
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Reince Penis posted:It's equating the national symbol of a hockey stick, something every Canadian child plays with sometime growing up, with the guns soldiers use. I think you're missing the point if you can't see the propoganda there. No, it's really, really not doing that. Did you actually read the full story, or did you read the headline and hurry off to post indignantly in the CanPol thread?
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Duhhhh critical thinking how does it work
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Reince Penis posted:Feeling the same pride holding a hockey stick as a gun is ridiculous jingoism. It's a terrible holiday sentiment. You rolled a 1 on your "I am the most left in Canpol today" throw and you follow it up with even more awful attempts at doubling down, you are either incredibly stupid or incapable of understanding the sentiments someone might've had during a war 70 years ago.
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How do you function IRL?
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Reince Penis posted:Duhhhh critical thinking how does it work it's pretty obvious you don't know.
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Reince Penis posted:It's equating the national symbol of a hockey stick, something every Canadian child plays with sometime growing up, with the guns soldiers use. I think you're missing the point if you can't see the propoganda there. I get where you're coming from and I'm not going to say you're exactly wrong in principle, but I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill. The guy in question has to be pushing 90, I'm not going to be jumping at the bit to call him imperialist scum for having a fond memory of having some harmless fun where no one got hurt or shot in a war 60 years ago. Yes, it's propaganda, but it's also such a minor example it barely ranks.
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Reince Penis posted:Duhhhh critical thinking how does it work Like, is your argument that we're still fighting the Korean War? Because the other option here, that you're equating it to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is loving dumb. Nobody ever talk about the lives of people who served in WWI and WWII, it might drum up support for some stupid gently caress-off war we're having in the 21st century E: Since the timing is right, I want to bring up the Christmas truce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce and how cool it is that people from both sides were briefly able to stop fighting and actually enjoy commonalities shared between them as human beings before they went back to senselessly dying in a war that was little more than an attempted power grab bought with human lives by their respective masters. TheKingofSprings fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Dec 22, 2017 |
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I can't believe there's still problems with the federal government payroll: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/phoenix-pay-problems-december-27-1.4461500 who was the poster on here who said it was going to be fixed like a year ago and everything would be fine??? it blows my mind that there has been no job action by the rank and file on this
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War and hockey are both stupid so it makes sense to equate them in the Canadian mind
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Well you see, actually the story about how it how it filled a former solider with national pride to be seen as something other than a solider, is about glorifying the military and war. Seriously, this is like one of the multiple choice questions they use on English achievement tests to see if someone is grasping the meaning of a text beyond the most literal possible reading, and Reince has picked the obvious joke answer.
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I spent four years behind the taped end of a sick for my country and all I got was millions of dollars and a traumatic brain injury.
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I equate a puck to a grenade getting shot into a net/foxhole and the subsequent red siren as the explosion/my best friends face being melted off
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patonthebach posted:You'd be rich if you invested in them two years ago? I hear the guys Patreon is like #2 on the whole site now. I meant more than his most ardent evangelists are weird goobers and also he is a silly person. (But you make a good point. If I had gotten all uppity about pronouns like an rear end in a top hat two years ago I could be rich now.)
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Wirth1000 posted:I equate a puck to a grenade getting shot into a net/foxhole and the subsequent red siren as the explosion/my best friends face being melted off There are no atheists in the net.
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infernal machines posted:There are no atheists in I mean...
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remember when Don Cherry turned an entire Coach's Corner into an extended rant about how Canada was being a bad friend by not going to Iraq in 2003 WHEN YER DOWN DERE DA BAR AND YER BUDDY GETS IN A BAR FIGHT YOU GOTTA HAVE HIS BACK! YA GOTTA BE THERE FOR YER BUDDY
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When your buddy goes to a dive in the next town over and starts throwing punches 'cause the owner looked at him funny, you gotta be there to help his rear end cash those cheques. Then you gotta stick around for the next decade while the patrons alternately rebuild and burn the place to the ground, taking a shot to the head every once in a while, for your buddy.
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Is this thread a safe space for saying you hate Don Cherry??
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Wirth1000 posted:Is this thread a safe space for saying you hate Don Cherry?? No that’s deeply unCanadian. He is awesome because he is a completely senile crazy old coot. I don’t often agree with him, but it’s funny to watch because he’s so batshit crazy.
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Wirth1000 posted:Is this thread a safe space for saying you hate Don Cherry?? Is it ever. He is a racist hate golem draped in the finest military couch covers.
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Oh, he's from Kingston. Well, that certainly explains everything about him.
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Furnaceface posted:Is it ever.
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On the subject of Don Cherry, at least this was good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdJp5-g69go
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Furnaceface posted:Is it ever. But it's nostalgic, because we can remember when a person like that was considered only fit to be an oddity on Canadian television, instead of the President of the United States.
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PT6A posted:But it's nostalgic, because we can remember when a person like that was considered only fit to be an oddity on Canadian television, instead of the President of the United States. Are you trying to imply that when Canada reaches its Trump cycle we are going to elect a Don Cherry led Conservative Party?
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From an actual serious job ad I saw:quote:About us: These are the jobs of the disruptive ~future~ IoT AI Big Data deep machine learning blockchain STEM
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eXXon posted:From an actual serious job ad I saw: Our cyberpunk hellscape dystopia isnt even shaping up to be one of the fun ones. This really is the worst timeline.
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