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Canada's gun laws are very capital-L Liberal in that it's legal to buy an assault weapon, provided you buy it from a company that has jumped through the appropriate loopholes. Can't buy an AR-15, but you can buy a wk180-c that looks, works, and shoots the same as an AR-15. We can either decide to ban semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines, or we can keep chasing the tail of outlawing whatever gun got used in the latest mass shooting. But I have a feeling that gun enthusiasts prefer the current state of affairs, silly as it is, over a ban on semi-auto rifles with detachable mags.
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considering how many more people are killed by motor vehicles every year than firearms, i suggest rigorous and comprehensive restrictions on private vehicle ownership
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Considering how many people die of covid every year, I propose a compromise where everyone can legally shoot people who are unmasked in public buildings
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Chamale posted:Considering how many people die of covid every year, I propose a compromise where everyone can legally shoot people who are unmasked in public buildings what about the classic nose-out boomer men
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a primate posted:what about the classic nose-out boomer men aim for the knees
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Gonna miss being able to spot from across the room who's a loving moron or not just by how they wear their mask. Also gonna miss being able to give people the 'are you really this loving stupid' slack jaw facial expression without it being so obvious I get canned for it.
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Chillyrabbit posted:Every time a gangster shoots at each other with prohibited pistols, the government needs to ban certain named rifles by what they look like to protect Canadians. 
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EvilJoven posted:Gonna miss being able to spot from across the room who's a loving moron or not just by how they wear their mask. Yeah I'm going to miss all of this too. I hope not to wind up as a bouncer/host/bartender again, but when I was doing all of that last year I got real used to mouthing "gently caress you" over and over. That's gonna be a hard habit to break.
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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:I think that whenever Yemen isn't on CBC all of the news anchors should be saying, "Where's Yemen?" Yemen is an atrocity of the highest order and the rank hypocrisy of how our country and every other country supporting Saudi Arabia's attempts to pacify that population through some of the most brutal sanctions and warfare going on right now means it's really hard for me to take serious the sanctimony around Russia. Putin sucks, here's me putting in those caveats right now but half a million children in Yemen were starving last year. 10 000 have been killed since the conflict began. Dreylad has issued a correction as of 22:16 on Mar 3, 2022 |
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Oxyclean posted:we need more direct and higher speed roads with less stops so we don't have cars wasting gas idling. all pedestrians will have to use bridges or tunnels to cross roads so less cars need to stop at cross walks this but also nobody is going to build the pedestrian part
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Dreylad posted:Yemen is an atrocity of the highest order and the rank hypocrisy of how our country and every other country supporting Saudi Arabia's attempts to pacify that population through some of the most brutal sanctions and warfare going on right now means it's really hard for me to take serious the sanctimony around Russia. Putin sucks, here's me putting in those caveats right now but half a million children in Yemen were starving last year. the way twitter has been pushing unsolicited "news for you" into my notifications about the ukraine thing multiple times a day, something they never did with any other news event before or since, is making me want to stock up on tinfoil
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has the whole point of capitalism just been straight-up racism?
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leftist heap posted:this but also nobody is going to build the pedestrian part and if they do, lol if you think it'll be accessible to anyone with even the slightest mobility issues
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Karach posted:has the whole point of capitalism just been straight-up racism? The rich folks probably rape a lot of kids, too, but, yeah, probably.
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Juul-Whip posted:the way twitter has been pushing unsolicited "news for you" into my notifications about the ukraine thing multiple times a day, something they never did with any other news event before or since, is making me want to stock up on tinfoil The worst part is that the war in Ukraine has affected global food prices, so now even more people in Yemen are going to starve to death because funding is drying up.
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Dreylad posted:Yemen is an atrocity of the highest order and the rank hypocrisy of how our country and every other country supporting Saudi Arabia's attempts to pacify that population through some of the most brutal sanctions and warfare going on right now means it's really hard for me to take serious the sanctimony around Russia. Putin sucks, here's me putting in those caveats right now but half a million children in Yemen were starving last year. 10 000 have been killed since the conflict began. Why do you hate the hard-working members of the middle class just scraping by in their day jobs for General Dynamic Land Systems Canada in London, Ontario?
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Oxyclean posted:we need more direct and higher speed roads with less stops so we don't have cars wasting gas idling. all pedestrians will have to use bridges or tunnels to cross roads so less cars need to stop at cross walks We already got this in a lot of places and oh look it just made everything worse.
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Karach posted:has the whole point of capitalism just been straight-up racism? i'd say it's more that racism is a useful tool for capitalists. it's one of the things you can use to divide the working class into smaller, more manageable chunk, with an implicit hierarchy that makes the chunks that are higher on the pecking order do a lot of the work keeping down the people underneath them, which capitalists would have to do themselves with a unified working class that a whole lot of capitalists are also racist shitheads certainly helps making this happen
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Fashionable Jorts posted:and if they do, lol if you think it'll be accessible to anyone with even the slightest mobility issues Honestly I feel like the bridges would be far more pedestrian antagonistic then not for that reason. bridges means people can shout at you for not using them EvilJoven posted:We already got this in a lot of places and oh look it just made everything worse. But that first one implies creating dedicated pedestrian/bike infrastructure to go with the dedicated car infrastructure. The second is more that if you want to slow people down, you need to do more then just put up speed limits. infernal machines posted:considering how many more people are killed by motor vehicles every year than firearms, i suggest rigorous and comprehensive restrictions on private vehicle ownership
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infernal machines posted:looks like alberta should just invest in destabilizing governments of oil producing nations perhaps some sort of noisy convoy?
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Dreylad posted:Yemen is an atrocity of the highest order and the rank hypocrisy of how our country and every other country supporting Saudi Arabia's attempts to pacify that population through some of the most brutal sanctions and warfare going on right now means it's really hard for me to take serious the sanctimony around Russia. Putin sucks, here's me putting in those caveats right now but half a million children in Yemen were starving last year. 10 000 have been killed since the conflict began. Something I was thinking about the other day wrt media coverage is that this is the first time I can remember that the media are reporting on a war from the point of view of the victims and the invaded. Virtually every other war, we're on the side of the aggressor and our media coverage reflects it.
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pokeyman posted:perhaps some sort of noisy convoy? it worked pretty well that one time, maybe they can export the idea
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Lostconfused posted:https://twitter.com/OmarAlghabra/status/1499472158996803585 Dva Mashas
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Huh, I guess this is a bigger deal than I thought. I assumed it only made the news up here in Yellowknife because it's Yellowknife. I thought it was happening all over. Here's some local coverage: https://cabinradio.ca/86775/news/plane-carrying-russians-is-grounded-in-yellowknife/
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Durf posted:i read it all motherfuckers! and always appreciate vyelkin effortposts I enjoyed this comic as well! It's fairly US-centric but given our cultural overlap it's pretty much the same poo poo. The only misstep in the comic imo is that there aren't any open symbols of nazism (ie swastikas or SS bolts) held by the chuds, which was mostly accurate in 2019 but lol, not anymore.
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vyelkin posted:Something I was thinking about the other day wrt media coverage is that this is the first time I can remember that the media are reporting on a war from the point of view of the victims and the invaded. Virtually every other war, we're on the side of the aggressor and our media coverage reflects it. It's the same problem I have to work through with the Ottawa convoy. It's good the police didn't horribly bludgeon those people who were mostly annoying but not violent (though there are those who were), I want that treatment for everyone. Yes, it's good that the coverage is sympathetic to Ukrainians who are being crushed by an aggressive neighbour, that coverage should be extended to every country enduring the same tragedy. Ultimately hypocrisy is a rhetorical dead end when it comes to this stuff. I don't think about it too much otherwise I will go nuts. Dreylad has issued a correction as of 23:55 on Mar 3, 2022 |
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Dreylad posted:Yemen is an atrocity of the highest order and the rank hypocrisy of how our country and every other country supporting Saudi Arabia's attempts to pacify that population through some of the most brutal sanctions and warfare going on right now means it's really hard for me to take serious the sanctimony around Russia. Putin sucks, here's me putting in those caveats right now but half a million children in Yemen were starving last year. 10 000 have been killed since the conflict began.
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recognizing hypocrisy is indispensable if youre going to bother consuming newsmedia at all since it helps you know who will just say anything so long as it promotes their preexisting position and who is bothering to try working from a place of principle. This helps you calibrate your bullshit detector and properly weigh the deluge of information youre exposed to. "whataboutism" is a great little rhetorical trick
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for instance if you are gung ho (insistent that everyone who doesn't care as much as you make yourself appear to is morally lesser than yourself) about the crimes of your country's official adversaries but silent about the crimes carried out by your own supposedly democratic government in your name, you should unzip my pants, take out my dick, and put it in your rear end! you cant tell me poo poo
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drat horror queefs posted:I enjoyed this comic as well! It's fairly US-centric but given our cultural overlap it's pretty much the same poo poo. The only misstep in the comic imo is that there aren't any open symbols of nazism (ie swastikas or SS bolts) held by the chuds, which was mostly accurate in 2019 but lol, not anymore. the punisher skull subbing for the Totenkopf was a take i've never considered also the overlap totally exists. i was trying to explain to family members how unerving it was seeing the same kinds of people in the Canadian truck protests, and how myself and my friends didn't feel comfort or representation from a bunch of large violent white dudes with goatees and Oakleys that looked like they fell out of the Jan 6 insurrection
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Dreylad posted:It's the same problem I have to work through with the Ottawa convoy. It's good the police didn't horribly bludgeon those people who were mostly annoying but not violent (though there are those who were), I want that treatment for everyone. Yes, it's good that the coverage is sympathetic to Ukrainians who are being crushed by an aggressive neighbour, that coverage should be extended to every country enduring the same tragedy. I feel like very little genuine sympathy is actually being put out there for the actually existing Ukrainian people. I'm kinda reminded of Thomas King's distinction between "dead Indians" and "live Indians." Dead Indians, as a cultural type easily categorized for the benefit of the majority, are beloved while the actually existing human beings are either ignored or reviled. Right now there's a fondness for the idea of suffering Ukrainians, but little (institutionally) being done to help the actually existing people. And if the actually existing people were to make serious material demands, that love would evaporate quickly. I mean, just look at how many people are fantasizing about idiotic war scenarios that would see countless actually existing Ukrainians killed. The sympathy is for the idea, not the actual people.
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Hand Knit posted:I feel like very little genuine sympathy is actually being put out there for the actually existing Ukrainian people. I'm kinda reminded of Thomas King's distinction between "dead Indians" and "live Indians." Dead Indians, as a cultural type easily categorized for the benefit of the majority, are beloved while the actually existing human beings are either ignored or reviled. Right now there's a fondness for the idea of suffering Ukrainians, but little (institutionally) being done to help the actually existing people. And if the actually existing people were to make serious material demands, that love would evaporate quickly.
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Hand Knit posted:I feel like very little genuine sympathy is actually being put out there for the actually existing Ukrainian people. I'm kinda reminded of Thomas King's distinction between "dead Indians" and "live Indians." Dead Indians, as a cultural type easily categorized for the benefit of the majority, are beloved while the actually existing human beings are either ignored or reviled. Right now there's a fondness for the idea of suffering Ukrainians, but little (institutionally) being done to help the actually existing people. And if the actually existing people were to make serious material demands, that love would evaporate quickly. That sounds like whataboutist tankie talk! (but seriously good post)
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paul_soccer12 posted:recognizing hypocrisy is indispensable if youre going to bother consuming newsmedia at all since it helps you know who will just say anything so long as it promotes their preexisting position and who is bothering to try working from a place of principle. This helps you calibrate your bullshit detector and properly weigh the deluge of information youre exposed to. this might sound hilariously naive, but I'd never considered this utility of recognizing hypocrisy, and I appreciate it also you're doing the lord's work syqing the ukraine thread
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So, uh, Toronto goons? Have they not been trimming back the Bovine during the pandemic? https://twitter.com/neighbours_wifi/status/1499545563565637635
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Bilirubin posted:So, uh, Toronto goons? Have they not been trimming back the Bovine during the pandemic? Is that actually what the front of the Bovine looks like now? I haven't been to Toronto since I went to a 3Teeth / Author & Punisher concert back in 2019. If so, I am impressed.
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