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DaysBefore
Jan 24, 2019

Was out in Ontario over the Canada Day weekend and saw so many gently caress Trudeau signs and shirts lmao, including a dude on a big rear end tractor in the parade. Funniest thing I'd seen in a long time, wish I had gotten a good picture.

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InfiniteZero
Sep 11, 2004

PINK GUITAR FIRE ROBOT

College Slice

ZShakespeare posted:

Well to be fair Trudeau is bad.

Yeah, but conservatives prove that the idea that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is loving bullshit and that sometimes the enemy of my enemy is just a loving moron with a MANDATE FREEDOM sign on his lawn.

EvilJoven
Mar 18, 2005

NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?
Fun Shoe
We hate Trudeau because he isn't all the things the right says he is.

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

They're right about him being performative, cowardly, hypocritical, elitist, etc.

Aces High
Mar 26, 2010

Nah! A little chocolate will do




Oxyclean posted:

Shooting Stars? I feel like I saw a better/funnier version back in the day, but this was basically the first thing youtube turned up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVWBvDE97Gs

shooting stars! I knew there was a word missing but thank you for solving that. It immediately came to me because it was super popular in the hockey threads, because people kept falling down.

I also like the song

Fidelitious
Apr 17, 2018

MY BIRTH CRY WILL BE THE SOUND OF EVERY WALLET ON THIS PLANET OPENING IN UNISON.

evilpicard posted:

They're right about him being performative, cowardly, hypocritical, elitist, etc.

Yeah, I just don't want to give any cred to people who declare him to be an authoritarian hyper-socialist because he didn't resign when the convoy crowd told him to. He should have given himself up for arrest right.
The enemy of my enemy is most definitely not my friend when they are these people setting up just down the street from where I live.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/united-people-of-canada-st-brigids-security-force-1.6546148

They talked to one of their "security" guys, who said he had been given the explicit duty of herding the homeless people in the area away from the building so that it remains "family-friendly".
Meanwhile their parking lot is full of trucks with the standard gently caress Trudeau flags and stickers on them.

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

By "family friendly" they of course mean "no LGBTQ+ people allowed"

teethgrinder
Oct 9, 2002

evilpicard posted:

They're right about him being performative, cowardly, hypocritical, elitist, etc.
That's just the pot calling the kettle black though

InfiniteZero
Sep 11, 2004

PINK GUITAR FIRE ROBOT

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EvilJoven posted:

We hate Trudeau because he isn't all the things the right says he is.

Exactly, when the neighbourhood psycho is ranting about how Trudeau is an ultra-left socialist I just feel sad because he got my hopes up.

Vintersorg
Mar 3, 2004

President of
the Brendan Fraser
Fan Club



Imagine trying to "arrest" the police. :lol:

https://twitter.com/imposter_edits/status/1558920707437957126

So no, we don't gotta "hand it to em" for hating Trudeau as well. I'll take Trudeau for a 1000 years over whatever these fuckers support. And it ain't the NDP either.

Tsyni
Sep 1, 2004
Lipstick Apathy

Vintersorg posted:

Imagine trying to "arrest" the police. :lol:

https://twitter.com/imposter_edits/status/1558920707437957126

So no, we don't gotta "hand it to em" for hating Trudeau as well. I'll take Trudeau for a 1000 years over whatever these fuckers support. And it ain't the NDP either.

Next time I see my RCMP landlord in the yard I'm going to tell him he's under citizen's arrest for covid crimes.

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

It's specially funny since cops are some of the biggest covid conspiracy loons out there. They're usually bending over backwards to to avoid hurting their q allies.

Morrow
Oct 31, 2010

Baronjutter posted:

It's specially funny since cops are some of the biggest covid conspiracy loons out there. They're usually bending over backwards to to avoid hurting their q allies.

That's what they did here? Instead of dispersing the angry mob that gathered outside the police station intending to seize police officers, they just locked the door and stayed inside for several hours until the mob wandered into a restricted area.

And this was an event that had been advertised for months, so it's not as if it was a surprise.

InfiniteZero
Sep 11, 2004

PINK GUITAR FIRE ROBOT

College Slice

Vintersorg posted:

Imagine trying to "arrest" the police. :lol:

COPS HATE THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK: just say "stand down!" until the magic phrase makes the world work the way you wish it did.

I'm not up for the "gotta hand it to them" thing either but to be so blissfully stupid to believe in magic words and stuff might be pretty useful. I wonder if they also experience the rest of the world like a 7-year-old child, having their minds blown away by stuff like magnets or flashing colours and numbers and poo poo.

PT6A
Jan 5, 2006

Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane
The local defense attorney can probate me if he wants but: man, the cops should just beat the loving poo poo out of these Queen Dildo loons. It'd be doing the world a favour.

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Danaru
Jun 5, 2012

何 ??
But if they beat any of the Q loons, they might not let them join in after work

TrueChaos
Nov 14, 2006




PT6A posted:

The local defense attorney can probate me if he wants but: man, the cops should just beat the loving poo poo out of these Queen Dildo loons. It'd be doing the world a favour.

so the cops should beat the poo poo out of people protesting who's message you disagree with, got it.

To be clear, I think the Q-anon people are stupid as hell, but this take is just about as moronic as their positions.

PT6A
Jan 5, 2006

Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane

TrueChaos posted:

so the cops should beat the poo poo out of people protesting who's message you disagree with, got it.

To be clear, I think the Q-anon people are stupid as hell, but this take is just about as moronic as their positions.

https://twitter.com/dril/status/473265809079693312?lang=en

TrueChaos
Nov 14, 2006




Cops beating people up is bad. Your failure to recognize this as such says more about you than anything else.

Precambrian Video Games
Aug 19, 2002



PT6A posted:

The local defense attorney can probate me if he wants but: man, the cops should just beat the loving poo poo out of these Queen Dildo loons. It'd be doing the world a favour.

Just to be clear, what would you like the cop beating up people policy to be once they're done with this particular group?

Oxyclean
Sep 23, 2007


Cops already have a policy of beating up people, they just don't employ it against right wing dickheads.

Drakyn
Dec 26, 2012

PT6A posted:

The local defense attorney can probate me if he wants but: man, the cops should just beat the loving poo poo out of these Queen Dildo loons. It'd be doing the world a favour.
I mean this as neutrally as possible: I think you'd find fewer people disagreeing with you if you posted fewer things that read as hyperbolically-violent spleen-venting.

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

Mentally ill caterpillars following each other in a circle until they die don't need a beating or jail, they need help from a system that no longer exists

Oxyclean
Sep 23, 2007


I mean, yeah, in an ideal world we'd be giving people the help they need, including financial support that would massively deflate the power of regressive reactionary movements.

But in the mean time it's hard not to feel like i'd rather this poo poo pushed back against before it evolves into the next existential threat to a minority group/rights.

Entropic
Feb 21, 2007

patriarchy sucks

DaysBefore posted:

Was out in Ontario over the Canada Day weekend and saw so many gently caress Trudeau signs and shirts lmao, including a dude on a big rear end tractor in the parade. Funniest thing I'd seen in a long time, wish I had gotten a good picture.

Thunder Bay the other day:


Even got the upside-down Dutch flag which i guess means european stuff is continuing to drift over as general anti-government vibes devoid of all context like the "yellow vest" stuff did.

PT6A posted:

The local defense attorney can probate me if he wants but: man, the cops should just beat the loving poo poo out of these Queen Dildo loons. It'd be doing the world a favour.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Like I said in the CSPAM canada thread, most of Didulo's hardcore followers are genuinely mentally ill and it would be better for everyone if they got a psychiatric evaluation and some chlorpromazine instead of getting knocked around and thrown in jail for a night.

Entropic fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Aug 16, 2022

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
PT6A was right

RBC
Nov 23, 2007

IM STILL SPENDING MONEY FROM 1888
With these people they've never faced any real legal consequences in their lives, when you give them an inch they take a mile. Getting slapped around by the police wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to end the nonsense. Maybe some cops will also get injured in the process. I see it as a win win.

Karatela
Sep 11, 2001

Clickzorz!!!


Grimey Drawer
If nothing else, cops throwing down and kettling or beating the flu trux klan idiots would at least give us equality in policing, and its only somewhat more likely than cops ceasing to beat leftists and indigenous people. Its like sovcits; some are a mess and need help, but if cops are gonna go buckwild anyway on someone it might as well be on the people demanding those beatings.

Fried Watermelon
Dec 29, 2008


Cops can't beat themselves dumbass

Mr. Apollo
Nov 8, 2000

Interesting Canadaland article on the firing of Lisa LaFlamme.

https://www.canadaland.com/bell-executive-who-fired-lisa-laflamme-interfered-with-ctv-news-coverage-says-colleague/

quote:

Bell Executive Who Fired Lisa LaFlamme Interfered With CTV News Coverage, Says Colleague

"He doesn't like it when women push back."

Lisa LaFlamme, chief anchor of CTV National News, was unceremoniously and clumsily fired because she pushed back against one Bell Media executive, say several sources with firsthand knowledge of the situation.

Michael Melling, vice president of news at Bell Media, is responsible for ousting LaFlamme, multiple sources tell Canadaland.

Melling did not immediately respond to emails requesting comment.

One high-level CTV National News source provided Canadaland with a thorough account of today’s events, aspects of which were corroborated by other sources.

CTV National News staff found out about LaFlamme’s exit at the same time as the public, stunning CTV team members who were spoken with for this story.

LaFlamme clashed with Melling on two key issues: one, as previously reported by The Toronto Star, was a dispute about the size of the budget CTV News had dedicated to coverage of the Ukraine war – LaFlamme wanted more resources than Melling wished to provide.

In another instance, LaFlamme stood up for her executive producer Rosa Hwang when Melling tried to shuffle her off of the CTV National News broadcast and into a role at their local Toronto news channel, CP24.

But the issues that CTV journalists have with Melling run deeper. “He’s a company man,” says the high-level CTV source. “He does not stand up for the journalists…He doesn’t like it when women push back and he brags about how he’s destroyed careers of anyone who dares push back.”

Melling also allegedly interfered with CTV’s news coverage, breaking a promise Bell Media made after a prior incursion from an executive into the newsroom.

In April of 2015, Bell Media’s then-president and CEO George Cope ousted Bell Media president Kevin Crull for interfering in CTV News coverage, and vowed that “the independence of Bell Media’s news operations is of paramount importance to our company and to all Canadians. There can be no doubt that Bell will always uphold the journalistic standards that have made CTV the most trusted brand in Canadian news.”

Our high-level source at CTV National News alleges that Melling broke this vow today, when he seized control of the newsroom to shape its coverage of LaFlamme’s ousting.

“Melling determined the copy that went into the show about LaFlamme’s departure,” they tell Canadaland.

Also, “he wanted a talkback with Omar (Sachedina),” LaFlamme’s replacement.

However, the newsroom resisted this directive, feeling that it would be inappropriate and disloyal to LaFlamme for CTV to include a segment with her replacement while denying her the opportunity to address her viewers.

Melling conceded the point, Canadaland is told.

Finally, our high-level source questions the official reason Bell Media gave LaFlamme for firing her.

In a press release, Bell called it a “business decision.”

If there is a business case to be made for firing the anchor of Canada’s top-rated newscast, Melling has allegedly kept it to himself.

“He’s never articulated any sort of semblance of a vision to any senior leader in the newsroom,” says the source.

The source believes that the Melling has consistently demonstrated a lack of respect for women in senior roles in the newsroom and that he fired LaFlamme in order to seize control of CTV News and to send a message.

“Lisa was the most powerful woman at CTV News and he managed to get rid of her. This is about the corporatization of news. This is about this toxic work environment that Michael Melling in his short tenure has created in the newsroom…

When people dare to speak out, they no longer work for the company.”

Mr. Apollo fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Aug 16, 2022

InfiniteZero
Sep 11, 2004

PINK GUITAR FIRE ROBOT

College Slice

Entropic posted:

Like I said in the CSPAM canada thread, most of Didulo's hardcore followers are genuinely mentally ill and it would be better for everyone if they got a psychiatric evaluation and some chlorpromazine instead of getting knocked around and thrown in jail for a night.

The problem is that your wishful thinking for them is just as useless as PT6A's plan to have them beaten by cops because it just doesn't happen and they're both fantasies in 99/100 cases.

TheCenturion
May 3, 2013
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PT6A posted:

The local defense attorney can probate me if he wants but: man, the cops should just beat the loving poo poo out of these Queen Dildo loons. It'd be doing the world a favour.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

All cops are bad, except when they're delivering extrajudicial beatings contrary to the charter to people *I* don't like; then they're cool and good. Also, cops learning de-escalation techniques and how to deal with genuinely mentally ill people is good, except when the mentally ill people in question are ones I don't like, in which case, break out the batons, boys.

Tell me, do you also advocate for forced sterilization of people you don't think should be reproducing? Maybe forced relocation of people you find, hmmm, what's the word, undesirable?

TheCenturion fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Aug 16, 2022

Oxyclean
Sep 23, 2007


TheCenturion posted:

All cops are bad, except when they're delivering extrajudicial beatings contrary to the charter to people *I* don't like; then they're cool and good.
:jerkbag:

e: Saw your edit. gently caress off with the hyperbole. Like the post below suggests, it's not really a stretch to imagine PT6A just wants a change of pace of where cops direct their violence. They're clearly venting.

But if you want some stupid strawman bullshit: I suppose your okay with fascists overrunning the country, just so long as there's no police violence.

Oxyclean fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Aug 16, 2022

TheKingofSprings
Oct 9, 2012
Honestly it would just be nice if the cops beat the fascists instead of the socialists for once as a change of pace

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Who will stop them?

I mean that, Bell Media owns so much of Canadian broadcasting, they can do literally whatever they want and no one externally is going to do anything about it.

Another Bill
Sep 27, 2018

I stumbled ass-backwards into a comfortable, easy life for reasons beyond my comprehension and now I think I'm better than you for it.

TheKingofSprings posted:

Honestly it would just be nice if the cops beat the fascists instead of the socialists for once as a change of pace



Never gonna happen

e: also Canadaland's site has crashed from all the Lisa Laflamme traffic lol

Mr. Apollo
Nov 8, 2000

infernal machines posted:

Who will stop them?

I mean that, Bell Media owns so much of Canadian broadcasting, they can do literally whatever they want and no one externally is going to do anything about it.
I agree, I don't expect anything to come of this.

TheCenturion
May 3, 2013
HI I LIKE TO GIVE ADVICE ON RELATIONSHIPS

Oxyclean posted:

:jerkbag:

e: Saw your edit. gently caress off with the hyperbole. Like the post below suggests, it's not really a stretch to imagine PT6A just wants a change of pace of where cops direct their violence. They're clearly venting.

But if you want some stupid strawman bullshit: I suppose your okay with fascists overrunning the country, just so long as there's no police violence.

See, that's what I'm talking about. State authority illegitimately used is still illegitimate when it's against people you don't like.

No, I'm not OK with fascists overrunning the country, but you and PT6A still don't deserve beatings yourselves just for advocating populist police brutality.

You simply cannot say 'well, it's OK for cops to beat the poo poo out of people who believe in the queen of the galactic federation, but not OK for cops to beat the poo poo out of, say, Sammy Yatim.'

TheCenturion fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Aug 16, 2022

Vintersorg
Mar 3, 2004

President of
the Brendan Fraser
Fan Club



Yes police shouldn't be beating people up but if you watch that video those people get majorly aggressive and dangerous. If it was the US there would be dead bodies with cops getting pushed around like that. These maniacs think they are above the law and you don't talk people down like that. Some amount of force is necessary. Cause if the general public try to fight they get in trouble.

How do you stop a bully? Talk em down?

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odiv
Jan 12, 2003

TheCenturion posted:

You simply cannot say 'well, it's OK for cops to beat the poo poo out of people who believe in the queen of the galactic federation, but not OK for cops to beat the poo poo out of, say, Sammy Yatim.'
I mean you can when you have zero authority or realistic expectation of it ever coming to pass, but maybe I'm just splitting hairs a little too much.

In good news, the feds just promised $34M for Metis in the NWT to address urgent housing needs.
https://cabinradio.ca/101967/news/housing/canada-announces-34m-for-nwt-metis-housing-projects/

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