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Juul-Whip posted:let's check in on Lindsay Shepherd I've never heard of True North but I did see a construction worker wearing a TRUE NORTH CANADA STANDS WITH HONG KONG t-shirt the other day that made me do a double take. I guess I get it now.
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Juul-Whip posted:let's check in on Lindsay Shepherd *extremely Tofino guy voice* look at the kook
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flashy_mcflash posted:I watched her stupid video and to no one's surprise she doesn't give any substantial reason why she's against it except that she's being told to. itS AboUt pErsOnaL fReEdoM
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hi canadians, just dry-coughing into this thread from down south to ask if y'all would please take mike pence off our hands, consider it reparations for the lobster man and the egg man, but more importantly it looks like our horse-loving veep would fit right in? https://twitter.com/BoneLamb/status/1286295008065269761
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:hi canadians, just dry-coughing into this thread from down south to ask if y'all would please take mike pence off our hands, consider it reparations for the lobster man and the egg man, but more importantly it looks like our horse-loving veep would fit right in? Us taking Mike Pence means you have to take Jordan Peterson, Jason Kenney, and at least two Fords. Do you really want this smoke
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Danaru posted:https://twitter.com/Tim_Bousquet/status/1286334920739217413?s=19 Isn't Leanne Fitch the former police chief of Fredericton PD that took over when they were having a massive corruption/nepotism/brutality scandal? If I recall she basically ended that scandal without holding people responsible. Fired a sergeant or something, prevented massive public inquiry. I remember that there was a father/son combo on the force where the father supervised the son and had cleared him on like hundreds of brutality complaints or something. Other highlights of that era was the PD getting in a weird turf war with the Army from the base a town over and just beating the poo poo out of soldiers in downtown freddy. It getting videoed multiple times was what led to public outcry and Fitch being brought in. Oh, also the police began harassing some local kook. They would raid his home, take his computer, smash his stuff. All because he ran some weird anti-police blog. Like random conspiracy stuff. The guy was totally harmless. I believe he got a higher court to order the police to stop. Virtual Russian has issued a correction as of 21:57 on Jul 23, 2020 |
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flashy_mcflash posted:Us taking Mike Pence means you have to take Jordan Peterson, Jason Kenney, and at least two Fords. Do you really want this smoke jordan peterson is a vegetable, he can't bother anyone any more
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flashy_mcflash posted:Us taking Mike Pence means you have to take Jordan Peterson, Jason Kenney, and at least two Fords. Do you really want this smoke america had a crack-smoking mayor decades before toronto, you think some b-list fords are gunna phase us? but pence is a pretty big name so in the interest of proportionality we are willing to take trudeau, he would be perfect for the virginia governorship america is happy to take the vegetable who only eats meat off your hands, living here he'll be dead in weeks so it's what we call a win-win. as a show of good faith plz assassinate all canadians who are responsible for nickelback, tia
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:hi canadians, just dry-coughing into this thread from down south to ask if y'all would please take mike pence off our hands, consider it reparations for the lobster man and the egg man, but more importantly it looks like our horse-loving veep would fit right in? First of all, raccoons aren't pets. Furthermore, I
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Does getting sprayed by a skunk count as a 'sexual experience'? If so, I fully acted as a matchmaker for my buddy's dog the other night in the park.
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Virtual Russian posted:Isn't Leanne Fitch the former police chief of Fredericton PD that took over when they were having a massive corruption/nepotism/brutality scandal? If I recall she basically ended that scandal without holding people responsible. Fired a sergeant or something, prevented massive public inquiry. I remember that there was a father/son combo on the force where the father supervised the son and had cleared him on like hundreds of brutality complaints or something. Other highlights of that era was the PD getting in a weird turf war with the Army from the base a town over and just beating the poo poo out of soldiers in downtown freddy. It getting videoed multiple times was what led to public outcry and Fitch being brought in. That was all connected. quote:Charles LeBlanc roams the streets all hours of the day and night. He often videotapes police interacting with citizens, and sometimes, well, let’s just say the police aren’t acting in the best possible manner in some cases. https://christopherdiarmani.com/548...harles-leblanc/
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My buddy works construction in Cape Breton and has always talked about how affluent Germans were flocking to the region and building fancy new homes. This is somewhat puzzling, because while the area is gorgeous, it's a little difficult to understand why so many German people were moving there. Turns out that this is probably because they are motivated by a far-right, doomsday cult that has chosen Cape Breton as its new base of operations. https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/report-german-nazis-are-buying-up-land-in-cape-breton/ quote:Germany’s largest weekly magazine Der Spiegel is reporting that a right-wing network of prominent Germans, including Eva Herman, a well-known former news presenter on German television, is setting up a colony of far-right radicals and ideologues in Canada, and they’ve been buying land in their chosen location — none other than Cape Breton Island. The video attached to the article seems to be a pretty innocent documentation of Cape Breton's rural charm and simple way of life. But if you look at the Youtube account, you'll find a trove of far-right German content with all the obsessions that you'd expect from the European far right. I find this fascinating because this has been going on for quite a while without much notice from the locals (the Germans bring in a lot of business, so who's going to complain?), but also because the Nazi thought process is quite interesting. Cape Breton is extremely white, rural, and economically depressed, yet also beautiful and friendly. So in a way, it combines the fascist nostalgia and yearning for an imagined 'simpler time' of small villages filled with white people, but at the same time, gives formerly urban European newcomers extraordinary purchasing power (land and homes are extremely affordable) and privilege. Who's going to question folks bringing so much money onto the island, and how much scrutiny could they expect living in a land that capitalism has long since abandoned? funny song about politics has issued a correction as of 12:06 on Jul 24, 2020 |
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:america had a crack-smoking mayor decades before toronto, you think some b-list fords are gunna phase us? but pence is a pretty big name so in the interest of proportionality we are willing to take trudeau, he would be perfect for the virginia governorship you can have John Baird and we’ll take George and Jeb for a Baird in the hand is worth two of the bushs
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Noblesse Obliged posted:you can have John Baird and we’ll take George and Jeb  ^^^Particularly if that's original. I mean, I know it's not exactly an original concept but it's well played.
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Arivia posted:I remember a couple homeless agencies going on record and saying "yep, we helped our clients apply because they need the loving money and gently caress the rest of the poo poo." good. re: other cerb stuff - i didn't know there was an expectation already to make people pay back cerb, seems like a really stupid idea but then again, given the current gov its something i can 100% see happening.
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infernal machines posted:the only expectation to pay back the CERB benefit would be if you applied without qualifying to receive it. if you are one of the millions of people that met the qualifications for CERB and received the benefit, the government isn't asking you to repay it. But you will have to pay taxes on it - surprise! (And that's going to be 20-30% for most people, though more like 28-37% Quebec and farther east)
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They’re continuing to send CERB payments to people who have through the bi-weekly form declared themselves no longer eligible due to partial employment. It’s anybody’s guess how much of that they’ll try to claw back. I know I can’t pay my rent without it, but I also know there’s zero chance I’ll earn enough between now and next April to pay it back. It’s causing more than a little anxiety, which pairs nicely with the anxiety around being forced back to work with the public in a pandemic.
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if it's anything like other government benefits they will eventually want every penny of it back. the good news is they will let you set up a payment plan and after several months of rifling through your finances you will be allowed to make a not entirely usurious monthly payment until the balance is paid off.
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I've been hearing talks of a 6 month "pilot" UBI in October to replace CERB. I assume its only 6 months because they are praying covid will be done in 6 months and they can get rid of it, rather than have it become a permanent institution like universal healthcare.infernal machines posted:if it's anything like other government benefits they will eventually want every penny of it back. the good news is they will let you set up a payment plan and after several months of rifling through your finances you will be allowed to make a not entirely usurious monthly payment until the balance is paid off. lol they can add it to my student loans that i am already too poor to pay Rutibex has issued a correction as of 20:52 on Jul 24, 2020 |
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GlassElephant posted:That was all connected. Wow it really was all connected. Very normal stuff right there.
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barbara kay:  the national post is no longer a sufficiently safe space for my personal brand of privileged white shittynesstw: the post millennial is the new safer space for lovely columnists
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"Even when there was no blowback to my editorials I worried about something happening, but it didn't." They really want to be victims, jesus christ
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Dreylad posted:"Even when there was no blowback to my editorials I worried about something happening, but it didn't." Reality: No one was reading her editorials.
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Dreylad posted:"Even when there was no blowback to my editorials I worried about something happening, but it didn't." Terminally liberal guy I know says that every time he speaks he's worried he'll say the wrong thing and get cancelled, fired, and become destitute. Says that's the real censorship, that he cannot think thoughts without doubting himself and fearing public retribution. Dude is a nobody social worker, no one cares what you have to say or post. It's a completely imagined persecution and victimization that they desperately want to bring down upon themselves.
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he needs to log off. probably for most people this feeling will eventually dissipate if they just log the gently caress off
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Virtual Russian posted:Terminally liberal guy I know says that every time he speaks he's worried he'll say the wrong thing and get cancelled, fired, and become destitute. Says that's the real censorship, that he cannot think thoughts without doubting himself and fearing public retribution. Dude is a nobody social worker, no one cares what you have to say or post. It's a completely imagined persecution and victimization that they desperately want to bring down upon themselves. It's becoming another moral panic. One we seem to have every couple of decades or so. Juul-Whip posted:he needs to log off. probably for most people this feeling will eventually dissipate if they just log the gently caress off A monk asked Zhao Zhou to teach him. Zhao Zhou asked, “Have you posted?” The monk replied, “Yes, I have. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. More troubling still, institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms. Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes. Whatever the arguments around each particular incident, the result has been to steadily narrow the boundaries of what can be said without the threat of reprisal. We are already paying the price in greater risk aversion among writers, artists, and journalists who fear for their livelihoods if they depart from the consensus, or even lack sufficient zeal in agreement.” “Then log off,” said Zhao Zhou. At that moment, the monk was enlightened. Dreylad has issued a correction as of 00:09 on Jul 25, 2020 |
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Virtual Russian posted:Terminally liberal guy I know says that every time he speaks he's worried he'll say the wrong thing and get cancelled, fired, and become destitute. Says that's the real censorship, that he cannot think thoughts without doubting himself and fearing public retribution. Dude is a nobody social worker, no one cares what you have to say or post. It's a completely imagined persecution and victimization that they desperately want to bring down upon themselves. perhaps, if you can't speak for fear of being criticized for what you say, you should reconsider what you're saying? just a thought. i'm really having a hard time finding a fault here, because it seems like exactly the intended effect
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Dreylad posted:A monk asked Zhao Zhou to teach him. yeah, this
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infernal machines posted:perhaps, if you can't speak for fear of being criticized for what you say, you should reconsider what you're saying? I dont want some kid to go hungry because his dad said something racist online. There should be a better safety met before we start taking away livelihoods
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