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I’ve seen this photo posted several times on social media today. Apparently it’s from a music festival in Calgary that took place this weekend. 
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Aug 29, 2021 02:44
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Pretty sure that's Chasing Summer, an EDM festival they hosted downtown this weekend. We're so very hosed. e: jesus lmao  quote:The province says that as of Aug. 27 there are COVID-19 outbreaks at nine AHS and Covenant Health acute care facilities: Pleads fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Aug 29, 2021 |
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Aug 29, 2021 03:20
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The edm anti vaxx venn diagram is pretty close to a circle.
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Aug 29, 2021 04:16
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that's more a Shambhala thing, Chasing Summer is pretty mainstream college crowd stuff.
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Aug 29, 2021 04:46
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Pleads posted:Pretty sure that's Chasing Summer, an EDM festival they hosted downtown this weekend.
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Aug 29, 2021 05:08
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Shaq was going to play then he bailed so that was funny.
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Aug 29, 2021 05:32
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berenzen posted:Would you prefer a small oligarchy of big businesses instead? I'm fine with small businesses as a concept. As individuals they often are innovative or provide better quality than the big box. The issue is they inevitably form small-business organizations, which join together in regional, provincial, and national umbrella organizations. They then organize to fight against anything that would improve worker's lives and complain endlessly about everything. They're as bad as real estate boards. And then this brings you to a place where a party that should be for workers specifically calls out support for small businesses when they already have an insane amount of government support. I want to see NDP candidates talking about tackling the massive wage theft, the denial of benefits, the low pay, not more goddamn support for businesses.
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Aug 29, 2021 14:28
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Small business owners are the real welfare queens
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Aug 29, 2021 16:28
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I really enjoyed them seeing them begging for their welfare cheques during the pandemic tbh
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Aug 29, 2021 16:32
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RBC posted:I really enjoyed them seeing them begging for their welfare cheques during the pandemic tbh Not just begging, demanding. While simultaneously fighting against CERB. Big businesses are just as bad but they at least knew to not make their wishes public (except for the Westons, and at this point they should have every penny taxed and given to the tens of thousands of workers they exploited during covid). e: Oh god I just scrolled past the Alberta covid numbers post. Approaching Florida levels of spread. 
Furnaceface fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Aug 29, 2021 |
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Aug 29, 2021 18:29
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The Richmond Hill NDP still haven’t run a candidate so I guess I’m stuck voting for the liberal landlord.
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Aug 29, 2021 18:57
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I think most people won't start paying attention until after the labour day weekend. Polls and lack of candidates mean nothing until then
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Aug 29, 2021 19:29
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Kraftwerk posted:The Richmond Hill NDP still haven’t run a candidate so I guess I’m stuck voting for the liberal landlord. if it makes you feel any better the eventual NDP candidate will probably be a landlord too
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Aug 29, 2021 19:33
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Did someone say Small Business?quote:Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole announces plan to rebuild Main Streets Free money to Doctors/Lawyers/Dentists to invest in some strip mall or some poo poo that they'd have invested in anyway.
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Aug 29, 2021 21:00
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Femtosecond posted:Did someone say Small Business? or just free money that they can pump into their own self proprietorship slush fund
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Aug 29, 2021 21:09
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Femtosecond posted:Did someone say Small Business? That brings up an interesting question from me, cause we have a Main Street in Vancouver that barely qualifies as a “Main Street” (goes DTES to Mt Pleasant to just housing). What street is Main Street then?
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Aug 29, 2021 21:09
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A local hairdresser spent 5 grand on new signage with government money during the pandemic build back better
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Aug 29, 2021 21:10
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Brian Pallister leaving on Wednesday. I take no pleasure in reporting this lol
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Aug 29, 2021 21:24
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Discussions with my dumb conservative family really drive home how means testing poisons social programs and holds back their development. Simple back of the envelope math reveals that in every way my brother's family is better off with $10 a day daycare over the Conservative childcare tax credit, though he immediately dismissed the $10 a day program because "it's years away and it'll never arrive" and "it'll be means tested so much I'll probably not get any benefit anyway." There's no trust with the government to actually deliver, and the Conservative tax credit is trivial to implement so yields immediate benefit. The sad thing is that he's probably right. Even if means testing the program is the most efficient way to do it according to some economist, by cutting a chunk of the populace out of the program, you create a new segment of political opposition to it, which works against the creation of said program. Edit: There's some psychology of "means testing = I don't get anything" at play too I think. Even if this program was $20 a day for him because he makes too much money, he'd still be better off than now (and probably the Conservative program) but I don't think people are thinking along these lines. Edit edit: Funny thing is I don't even know if this program will be means tested, but by means testing some things, it's like an infection that spreads to everything else where people start to presume it will be and government is simply leaving the details out. (Again it's about lack of trust in the government) Femtosecond fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Aug 29, 2021 |
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Aug 29, 2021 21:25
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Can't believe your dumb conservative family is suspicious of the federal Liberals big election season promises.
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Aug 29, 2021 23:32
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Furnaceface posted:e: Oh god I just scrolled past the Alberta covid numbers post. Approaching Florida levels of spread. Being in Calgary this weekend, you can see why. It seems almost performative, how everyone is acting. It's like "look at how little we care about covid".
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Aug 29, 2021 23:47
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Being concerned about the state of the world has been politicized to the point where people are literallychoking to death while pretending things are fine.
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Aug 30, 2021 01:06
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Alberta delenda est.
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Aug 30, 2021 01:07
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Femtosecond posted:I don't think people are thinking Yeah.
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Aug 30, 2021 01:19
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I'm in an office full of conservative mindset people from Alberta and surprisingly (or maybe not) it's been the young women that are thinking about having children that have been impossible to turn to getting the vaccine. I've gotten to a couple of the others that aren't complete chuds but unfortunately the women have grouped around the opinion that they will not be getting any vaccine until there is a "proper" "long term" study of the effects of the vaccine on newly born children, which is a really convenient excuse to put it out of consideration for 2 or 3 years from now at minimum no matter what evidence comes out proving the vaccine is safe during that time. When I've told them that the delta variant virus can make them go sterile and beyond that is causing severe permanent damage up to death to a significant percentage of even young and healthy people who get it they say that they don't care because they know that if they do get it they won't die (???). It's quite a mindfuck to limit your lifestyle choices to protect the people around you when they themselves do not give a single poo poo about catching the virus.
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Aug 30, 2021 06:00
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I’ve met completely liberal women who don’t want the vaccine due to reproductive concerns and worries about after effects. They wind up turning to poo poo like essential oils instead.
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Aug 30, 2021 06:20
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The healthcare field doesn't have a great history of treating women well, but there's a massive predatory alt-med industry designed to prey on these valid issues and take people down a deep dark rabbit hole. Combine MLMs (that generally target women) that sell alt-med snake oil poo poo and you get a horrible combination.
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Aug 30, 2021 06:55
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Femtosecond posted:Did someone say Small Business? Hey great! Not one, not two, but three different ways of returning tax money to rich people. This is the kind of innovation and forward thinking I look for in my representatives. ChickenDoodle posted:That brings up an interesting question from me, cause we have a Main Street in Vancouver that barely qualifies as a “Main Street” (goes DTES to Mt Pleasant to just housing). What street is Main Street then? Main is also not very attractive to pedestrians on the southern portion because of the pretty big incline it takes after Terminal. Commercial is a slightly better Main St. Are main streets allowed to be downtown, Robson perhaps? I might actually consider Denman as having a 'main street' kind of feel.
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Aug 30, 2021 13:30
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Kraftwerk posted:I’ve met completely liberal women who don’t want the vaccine due to reproductive concerns and worries about after effects. There are also plenty of young men who won't get vaccinated because they're convinced they will go sterile too. It's a popular rationale for not getting the vaccine in general and as you suggest seems to transcend political affiliation as well. Like the other more niche but still popular "you're all going to die within 3 years", it seems to set itself up as a sort of delayed prediction of doom, probably because the immediate possible side effects of the vaccine are easy to demonstrate as very rare.
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Aug 30, 2021 13:47
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https://twitter.com/rohanarezel/status/1432142836057706502?s=19
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Aug 30, 2021 14:12
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Since I have a CineD gang tag and we're talking about landlords, I always read these landlord lists and hear the voice from the trailer for DEATH PROMISE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBvIc438kds Also Brian Pallister is stepping down as Premier on Wednesday so I'm guessing that Manitoba will have Premier "Betsy Devos and Ted Cruz and oopsy also literal Nazis as my peers at speaking engagements" Goertzen.
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Aug 30, 2021 15:57
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InfiniteZero posted:literal Nazis as my peers at speaking engagements" Goertzen. Whoa whoa, friend. You can't just call those Nazis Nazis! That's rude! They only really count as Nazis if they've invaded Poland and have a card from the Fuhrer himself. Shame on you.
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Aug 30, 2021 16:06
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InfiniteZero posted:Since I have a CineD gang tag and we're talking about landlords, I always read these landlord lists and hear the voice from the trailer for DEATH PROMISE. Death Promise is an incredible movie, both straight and Rifftraxed
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Aug 30, 2021 16:10
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EvilJoven posted:Being concerned about the state of the world has been politicized to the point where people are literallychoking to death while pretending things are fine. Speaking of politicization. I don't follow this thread closely, but what are people's thoughts on federal proposals for mandatory vaccines for things like transportation? I seem to find myself in this odd zone where I'm mostly opposed to requiring vaccines (unless say you're a nurse at a hospital or old folk's home) and yet I have both doses myself and think the vaccines are beneficial. I find anti-vaxers to be morons but don't agree with those that think it should be mandatory which seems to be put me in this political no-mans land. Apologies if this has already been discussed to death.
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Aug 30, 2021 16:32
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Count Roland posted:Speaking of politicization. I don't follow this thread closely, but what are people's thoughts on federal proposals for mandatory vaccines for things like transportation? 100% for all restrictions on non-essential activities for the unvaxxed. Out of curiosity what's your opposition to them being mandatory? Actual valid medical exemptions are miniscule (basically just a confirmed serious reaction to the first shot or a known PEG allergy).
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Aug 30, 2021 16:42
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Count Roland posted:Speaking of politicization. I don't follow this thread closely, but what are people's thoughts on federal proposals for mandatory vaccines for things like transportation? I'm personally highly in favour of mandatory vaccinations with (ideally pre-existing) medical exemptions only. If you're actually allergic to a vaccine ingredient there's no reason to crack down on those people, but some sort of safeguard should exist to prevent antivaxxers from finding unscrupulous doctors who will write them all notes for $50 or something. Even if there are no penalties at all (but this is kept secret) the announcement of vaccine mandates has led to a pretty sharp vaccine uptake. As for Federal vs. Provincial jurisdictional questions, I'd much rather see it be overseen by the Federal government, because the Alberta government is too beholden to right wing crazies to implement a passport system, and I'd like to be able to travel to other parts of the country.
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Aug 30, 2021 16:57
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Count Roland posted:Speaking of politicization. I don't follow this thread closely, but what are people's thoughts on federal proposals for mandatory vaccines for things like transportation? I'm confused, you said you're on board with mandates in hospitals and long-term care homes but "don't agree… it should be mandatory"? What principle guides your thoughts on which jobs should require vaccination? I think reasonable people can disagree on where exactly to draw the line. The pediatric cancer nurse who moonlights at the long-term care home across the street, sure. The sole proprietor hobby farmer who spends all day outside five miles from the nearest human, maybe not. In between are a ton of jobs with a huge range of interaction with vulnerable populations. The "federal" part is a fun wrinkle too, because provinces have a varying willingness to do even the most obvious and non controversial work to quash covid, so some kind of useful baseline for anything in federal jurisdiction becomes more appealing.
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Aug 30, 2021 17:04
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flakeloaf posted:Put me down for $20 on the CPC, for saying the quiet part about racism out loud goddammit https://twitter.com/davidakin/status/1432333789875908618 
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Aug 30, 2021 17:47
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Otoole had to sidestep questions about whether he denounces Cheryl Gallant's batshittery after she put out a video suggestion that Trudeau will implement a climate lockdown. I honestly want that woman to die. Throw herself in the goddamn river and then drown while complaining that we don't need the coast guard on the Kitchissippi.
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Aug 30, 2021 18:00
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If the Conservatives won they're probably going to make her Environment minister to own the libs. I hope people think about that before they decide voting is a waste of time.
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Aug 30, 2021 18:13
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