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MarquisDeSade posted:People in Ontario can start downloading their enhanced vaccine certificates. Those born in January - April can get it today. May - August tomorrow and September - December on Sunday. Supposedly in iOS 15.1, due in a few weeks, this will allow you to put the wrong code in your wallet app.
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Oct 16, 2021 17:26
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Hey so now that China has hypersonic missiles, what's the tankie playbook say? Is discourse expected to pivot to surrender to save lives or something? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Oct 17, 2021 00:30
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half cocaine posted:Hey so now that China has hypersonic missiles, what's the tankie playbook say? Is discourse expected to pivot to surrender to save lives or something? what's the justification for the US having the same or similar? saber-rattling empire states have guns to point at each other for MAD, this is nothing new
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Oct 17, 2021 00:36
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half cocaine posted:Hey so now that China has hypersonic missiles, what's the tankie playbook say? Is discourse expected to pivot to surrender to save lives or something? they won't shoot first we will though if anyone does, at any rate. Think the domestic crisis brewing and all our factories being in Asia has at least delayed any apocalyptic confrontation for a bit, until we feel confident we can manufacture circuits for ourselves again
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Oct 17, 2021 00:37
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Arivia posted:what's the justification for the US having the same or similar? saber-rattling empire states have guns to point at each other for MAD, this is nothing new According to Wikipedia: quote:Such a weapon would allow the United States to respond far more swiftly to rapidly emerging threats than is possible with conventional forces. A PGS system could also be useful during a nuclear conflict, potentially replacing the use of nuclear weapons against up to 30% of targets. The US justification is it provides a more flexible means of responding to threats, something that is generally useful to you as one of the major peacekeepers in the world; and if the second part is true then it may also considerably reduce the death total in a nuclear exchange and allow for more flexibility in how nations avoid escalation by adding additional intermediate steps. Ron Paul Atreides posted:they won't shoot first This has been thoroughly discussed about in the China thread but in general no one is expecting the US to shoot first in any sort of meaningful way in any hypothetical conflict between the US and China, the most likely scenarios is a conflict involving either North Korea, India, or Taiwan which escalates.
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Oct 17, 2021 00:44
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Raenir Salazar posted:According to Wikipedia:  at US 'peacekeeping'Raenir Salazar posted:This has been thoroughly discussed about in the China thread but in general no one is expecting the US to shoot first in any sort of meaningful way in any hypothetical conflict between the US and China, the most likely scenarios is a conflict involving either North Korea, India, or Taiwan which escalates. Sure. And it will be the US who kicks it off. If the world ends in fire, it's the US that will light the match. e: vvvvv fair. Said my piece, won't respond to this topic again. gfy half cocaine Ron Paul Atreides fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Oct 17, 2021 |
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Oct 17, 2021 00:46
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Love yet another china derail in the CanPol thread. 
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Oct 17, 2021 00:49
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My buddy in the US military wrote some book on doctrine about the Chinese and now has a bunch of random twitter accounts/bots tweeting out inspirational "we can beat the commies" live laugh love messages that quote it. It's both weird and hilarious. Anyways, I have completed 3 volunteer training sessions for the Alberta NDP and have a riding meeting later in October. Putting my money where my "gently caress alberta I'm moving if the UCP win again" mouth is.
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Oct 17, 2021 01:20
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Orthanc6 posted:This super sucks, I still listen to their podcast every week, they're a super fun couple. Should be noted the guy grew up in Montreal so him leaving is certainly not for lack of trying. Obviously some people will get along fine being English in Montreal, but there's a real problem going on there. Next week's "Castle Superbeast" podcast on Twitch will probably be pretty heavy on the details of this event and everything leading up to their decision. I’m sorry but you are an idiot if you believe that story. No one in MTL is being hate crimed for speaking English
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Oct 17, 2021 02:05
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:they won't shoot first lmao loving moron (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Oct 17, 2021 02:27
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Oct 17, 2021 02:40
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Starks posted:I’m sorry but you are an idiot if you believe that story. No one in MTL is being hate crimed for speaking English
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Oct 17, 2021 02:56
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Some of the paranoid anglo comments about this make me laugh, but I'm certain this did happen. Hochelaga continues to be a special netherworld of grodiness, although it's not like anglos get pushed in front of buses there or whatever, this seems like a sad one-off. I used to buy my smokes at a dep during lunch when my work was there a decade ago and I'd have to time myself so I didn't run into the daily, gigantic line-up of sickly-looking ten year olds buying Monster drinks. There's a memoir that came out this year by a sociology teacher who was born in Chile but raised in and around that borough. I've only read bits of it, but had another bit described to me: she writes of how in her first seedy apartment building there (as a child, with her parents) upon arrival to Canada, all the poor brown families like theirs were cooking constantly, which meant that there was a constant onion stench permeating the entire block, and she found it nauseating. Then, her and her parents moved to a block full of poor white families and the onion stench was replaced by a cigarette stench. I guess her point is then that the reality of the depths of misery happening in the hood dawned on her and she finally came to believe that her and other immigrant families were resourceful enough that they would probably nest successfully at some point, by comparison to these sedentarily sad sack whites. Hochelaga is basically where there are oodles of proletarian quebecers, unevenly distributed elsewhere in the province also, who never got out of the intergenerational cycles of abuse that they collectively endured pre-quiet revolution, and so they do not have the emotional or economic security they in principle should have since then. But then, there are also oodles of (socially ascended) bourgeois pig-dogs who know this and profit from these folks by stoking hate. Jam Band Death Cult fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Oct 17, 2021 |
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Oct 17, 2021 03:13
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Ok but where are you getting hochelaga from? The original tweeter said she’s in downtown.
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Oct 17, 2021 04:47
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Starks posted:Ok but where are you getting hochelaga from? The original tweeter said she’s in downtown. Jam Band Death Cult fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Oct 17, 2021 |
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Oct 17, 2021 05:11
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Yo who’s gonna be the two michaels with me at Halloween
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Oct 17, 2021 06:55
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ARACHTION posted:Yo who’s gonna be the two michaels with me at Halloween I'll be 2018, you can be Kills.
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Oct 17, 2021 07:25
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Starks posted:I’m sorry but you are an idiot if you believe that story. No one in MTL is being hate crimed for speaking English Reminder that people outside Quebec still consider the coloured folks to be people, too.
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Oct 17, 2021 09:28
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I live in hochelaga and have yet to be hatecrimed for speaking English. I feel like there are some details the OP is leaving out? Granted, she is also a woman, so that does bring on another level of harassment in general.
fartman fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Oct 17, 2021 |
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Oct 17, 2021 16:48
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Trapick posted:The tweets even make it clear it's pretty specifically their neighborhood, you think there couldn't be a block or two full of assholes who still love the FLQ? They should release a neighborhood guide. Like walk score. The xenophobic asshat index or something. You could generate it from past election results. Not even just for Montreal.
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Oct 17, 2021 17:06
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Bleck posted:Reminder that people outside Quebec still consider the coloured folks to be people, too. ?
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Oct 17, 2021 17:38
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fartman posted:I live in hochelaga and have yet to be hatecrimed for speaking English. I feel like there are some details the OP is leaving out? Granted, she is also a woman, so that does bring on another level of harassment in general. The tweeter mentioned their harasser likes to expose himself or some such. Kind of a "he's not political, he's crazy" flag for me
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Oct 17, 2021 17:43
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Bleck posted:Reminder that people outside Quebec still consider the coloured folks to be people, too. You should be forced to spend some time visiting small town southern Ontario after making a bold statement like this.  Rust Martialis posted:The tweeter mentioned their harasser likes to expose himself or some such. Kind of a "he's not political, he's crazy" flag for me Thats kind of the point of the tweets if you read them all. They single him out as the source, its just that the rest of the neighbours (and apparently police?) are fine ignoring that behaviour as long as its directed at the right people.
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Oct 17, 2021 18:01
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I look super French and people get very mad when I don't speak it. Not running down the street tantruming, but a handful of people have been real jerks about it.
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Oct 17, 2021 18:11
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How do you look French?
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Oct 17, 2021 18:56
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A pretentious clown with a baguette?
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Oct 17, 2021 19:04
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Garlic and onions hanging around your neck, smoking Gauloises and drinking 50?
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Oct 17, 2021 19:15
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Crow Buddy posted:How do you look French? It's probably the mime makeup that throws them off, but you'd think they'd understand why they can't speak.
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Oct 17, 2021 19:15
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infernal machines posted:It's probably the mime makeup that throws them off, but you'd think they'd understand why they can't speak. It's this But in seriousness it's just what they tell me. I don't fuckin' know, the nose maybe? I heard similar things when I lived in a border town when I was younger
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Oct 17, 2021 19:22
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GonadTheBallbarian posted:It's this born with the word "tabarnak" for a mouth
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Oct 17, 2021 19:24
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fartman posted:I live in hochelaga and have yet to be hatecrimed for speaking English. I feel like there are some details the OP is leaving out? Granted, she is also a woman, so that does bring on another level of harassment in general. Yeah I haven't lived in Montreal for almost 20 years but I feel Iike there's some big details left out of that story somewhere. I was an Anglo who lived in St Henri / Little Burgandy but I never saw that level of vitriol...
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Oct 17, 2021 21:15
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I grew up in Montreal and I still remember asking a public transit bus driver for help and he asked me if I spoke french. I said yes and he said 'so speak it'
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Oct 17, 2021 21:26
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I think generally at worse I get that moment of confusion when I speak English to someone speaking French and they need a moment to switch to English; at my work all meetings switched to English since I'm the only one who doesn't speak any French. I think Montreal has generally been fine as a monolingual English speaker (I was born and raised in Quebec but never learned French). I think the worst experience are actually in my rural hometown in Vaurdrail-Dorion whenever I try to order coffee at timmies and none of the cashiers speak English but they have english speakers right loving there in the back they could just send out to speak to them. Instead of being trying to figure out wtf "iced frappe cappuccino" is. So it takes literally five minutes to make my order before they give up and grab their manager to get my order. In general growing up the largest issue was not being able to get any jobs that were customer facing but I never met anyone who was like "gently caress you anglo scum" but then again if they were I wouldn't understand them so I win.
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Oct 17, 2021 22:15
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Another Bill posted:Yeah I haven't lived in Montreal for almost 20 years but I feel Iike there's some big details left out of that story somewhere. I was an Anglo who lived in St Henri / Little Burgandy but I never saw that level of vitriol... 20 years is a long time for political environments to change. I feel like that filter that normally kept people from saying racist/misogynistic/xenophobic things in public has been deteriorating at an incredible rate over the last 5-6 years. Having a premier that incites that kind of thing certainly isnt helping either.
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Oct 17, 2021 22:58
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Oct 17, 2021 23:42
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Any time I tried to speak French in Montreal the other person would just switch to English.
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Oct 17, 2021 23:54
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Evis posted:Any time I tried to speak French in Montreal the other person would just switch to English. Yes, this has always been my experience, I think just trying helps a lot. I just start in my not so great French and both francophone and anglophone stop me to prevent the entire situation from being awkward, both saying "Oh, I speak English."
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Oct 18, 2021 00:49
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infernal machines posted:It's probably the mime makeup that throws them off, but you'd think they'd understand why they can't speak. Don't give them the idea for Bill 97: "An Act Requiring all Mimes in Quebec to Mime in French."
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Oct 18, 2021 01:51
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Evis posted:Any time I tried to speak French in Montreal the other person would just switch to English. Oddest experience, about 20 years ago on the metro (Green line), back then the driver had to announce all the stops. We leave Guy-Concordia, and the announcer suddenly yelled "Prochaine Arret.. ANGRIGNOOOn". (Next stop - Angrignon). Except - Angrignon is the very first station on the green line, and the next station was Peel. Then we leave Peel (next stop McGill), and the announcer proclaimed " Prochaine arret... AAAANGRRiGNON!". This continued, right up to Berri Uqam. Never found out if it continued the rest of the way.
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Oct 18, 2021 03:56
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Guigui posted:Oddest experience, about 20 years ago on the metro (Green line), back then the driver had to announce all the stops. We leave Guy-Concordia, and the announcer suddenly yelled "Prochaine Arret.. ANGRIGNOOOn". (Next stop - Angrignon). Maybe they meant to say that's the direction they're going?
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Oct 18, 2021 04:02
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