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mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through
again what? ive never been confused that the beer store is a private monopoly

that doesnt mean we have to keep it

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Tighclops
Jan 23, 2008

Unable to deal with it


Grimey Drawer
nationalize the beer store and imprison the current owners

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

Tighclops posted:

nationalize the beer store and imprison the current owners

:hmmyes:

Mister Speaker
May 8, 2007

WE WILL CONTROL
ALL THAT YOU SEE
AND HEAR
the only cool thing about The Beer Store, literally, is how stepping into one sometimes feels like entering a refrigerator, because that's basically what it is.

Hot Karl Marx posted:

canada shouldnt send arms to ukraine, the KSA, or anywhere really

now tane i can get into

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

My favourite thing is how it took grocery store beer for them to let you look at the selection

HookShot
Dec 26, 2005

Futanari Damacy posted:

I'm frankly appalled that you people have any energy left to discuss war OR applejack when this is happening

https://twitter.com/aaronhoyland/status/1560343400267653120

"A banner week for misogyny" as if nothing worse has happened to any woman in Canada. Women in the US have had their reproductive rights taken away, the level of outrage to this by contrast seems... disproportionate? As in I hope they still have energy left to care about other, worse things when they do inevitably happen?

This happens to be one of the most high profile, publicly visible cases of a regular occurrence in the workplace, where women, especially older women, are pushed aside and fired when they get too old and especially after they dare speak out about the rampant injustices that are prominent in the workplace.

Yes, its important to talk about this. Will Lisa LaFlamme personally be fine after all of this? Yes. Does it represent a very visible example of discrimination every woman in Canada faces, many on a regular basis? Also yes.

Part of this is the media pushing stories about other media. But the story only has legs because half this country recognizes exactly whats happened here because theyve seen it before and are rightfully outraged.

Drunk Canuck
Jan 9, 2010

Robots ruin all the fun of a good adventure.

Tighclops posted:

nationalize the beer store and imprison the current owners

agreed but also rename it back to Brewers Retail

Mister Speaker
May 8, 2007

WE WILL CONTROL
ALL THAT YOU SEE
AND HEAR
Miles "Brewers Retails" Prower

Tighclops
Jan 23, 2008

Unable to deal with it


Grimey Drawer
return brewers retail to the people
return lovely beer to the peehole

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.

HookShot posted:

This happens to be one of the most high profile, publicly visible cases of a regular occurrence in the workplace, where women, especially older women, are pushed aside and fired when they get too old and especially after they dare speak out about the rampant injustices that are prominent in the workplace.

Yes, its important to talk about this. Will Lisa LaFlamme personally be fine after all of this? Yes. Does it represent a very visible example of discrimination every woman in Canada faces, many on a regular basis? Also yes.

Part of this is the media pushing stories about other media. But the story only has legs because half this country recognizes exactly whats happened here because theyve seen it before and are rightfully outraged.

a client of mine, who is a woman of colour, in her 70s, is completely convinced it was a contract negotiation gone very very wrong, and all the coverage is just spin

Precambrian Video Games
Aug 19, 2002



Hot Karl Marx posted:

canada shouldnt send arms to ukraine, the KSA, or anywhere really

hosed up that you want to ship good Canadian legs overseas instead when people need them to walk and do other regular biped stuff

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007






defund the cbc

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.
betteridge's law

redbrouw
Nov 14, 2018

ACAB
cspam should be closed

Drunk Canuck
Jan 9, 2010

Robots ruin all the fun of a good adventure.

redbrouw posted:

cspam should be closed

agreed but also rename it back to laissez faire

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




bring back LF

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.
we've replaced the libertarians with tankies, let's see if anyone notices

Virtual Russian
Sep 15, 2008

the word "tankies" used to mean something. Pretty lame it just came to mean anyone, possibly leftist, that I don't like.

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




Virtual Russian posted:

the word "tankies" used to mean something. Pretty lame it just came to mean anyone, possibly leftist, that I don't like.

i used the word "poster" for that

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Tankie means you don't want to send in the tanks when the CIA tells you to

Mister Speaker
May 8, 2007

WE WILL CONTROL
ALL THAT YOU SEE
AND HEAR
https://twitter.com/esmahanyyc/status/1561170727964774401?t=eUcC5oGckeRSXw3EijNCHQ&s=19

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo
bump

Futanari Damacy has issued a correction as of 14:33 on Oct 29, 2022

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

evilpicard posted:

My favourite thing is how it took grocery store beer for them to let you look at the selection

this must vary by location, theres some here that only have the counter and some that are walk in fridges and at least one that just has always had everything out at room temp

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Chamale posted:

Wait really? Freezing beer does that? How does applejack work then?

freeze distillation does not create methanol, it just doesn't take it out. There is methanol in all beer and wine.

just don't drink apple jack like a "whisky bottle per day" alchoholic and you will be fine. The problems come up because it's cheap and alcoholics use it to save money

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

CLAM DOWN posted:



defund the cbc

I read this article yesterday and on the whole thought it came down on the "no, privatization won't solve anything" side pretty strongly but I was still enraged by the tone because it insisted on couching the entire thing as a "he said she said" situation where "Minister so-and-so says privatization is great but critics say it sucks poo poo and never solves anything" and yes they gave the critics (including a bunch of actual doctors and healthcare professionals) a lot more space to explain all the problems, but they never once bothered to insert any analysis to actually tell the reader that yes, the critics are correct. A perfect example of how modern journalists are taught that objectivity means never taking a stance on anything rather than it meaning that you objectively assess the news and provide analysis of it.

Cool Kids Club Soda
Aug 20, 2010
😎❄️🌃🥤🧋🍹👌💯

Virtual Russian posted:

the word "tankies" used to mean something. Pretty lame it just came to mean anyone, possibly leftist, that I don't like.

Post / av combo :discourse:

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m
Apr 16, 2017

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apatheticman posted:

It's not hard to hold "Wow it sucks that journalists are getting death threats" and "Wow if they didn't spend decades both sidesing everything under the sun we wouldnt have this problem" in your mind in the same time.

Sucks for them individually but to tone police what others are doing with their messaging is just hilarious given the circumstances.

Anyways mainstream journalism has generally always been beholden to the capital class.

For CSPAM it seems to be very hard, considering that a bunch of posters were calling some guy a good leftist for harassing and threatening a weatherman on a local tv channel after a hurricane wrecked some east coast town a year or two ago

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m
Apr 16, 2017

Í̝̰ ͓̯̖̫̹̯̤A҉m̺̩͝ ͇̬A̡̮̞̠͚͉̱̫ K̶e͓ǵ.̻̱̪͖̹̟̕
Chud (bad): harassing a weatherman for being a part of the very lying crooked lame stream media because they've been told they're bad by Trump

Antifa supersoldier (good): harassing a weatherman for being a part of the very lying crooked lame stream media because they've been told they're bad by the host of a podcast

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:

Antifa supersoldier (good): harassing a weatherman for being a part of the very lying crooked lame stream media because they've been told they're bad by the host of a podcast c-spam

Danaru
Jun 5, 2012

何 ??
https://twitter.com/EmmaJackson57/status/1561115827109122050

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo
bump

Futanari Damacy has issued a correction as of 14:33 on Oct 29, 2022

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo
Let people who hate raking leaves decide for themselves whether they want to live in a world with or without any trees

Evis
Feb 28, 2007
Flying Spaghetti Monster

theres a federal carbon tax that applies if the province doesnt have one

Lien
Oct 17, 2006
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Frosted Flake posted:

Im so mad I can barely breathe, but I just found out Veterans Affairs says worker inappropriately discussed medically assisted death with veteran VAC is pushing Euthanasia.

With the law soon to be extended to the mentally ill, I can see this being pushed as a less expensive form of care for the disabled, chronically and mentally ill. For VAC, its perfect - veterans having suicidal thoughts or at risk of killing themselves is awful, looks bad, veterans getting medical assistance in dying is nice, progressive.

Oh, this is already happening to disabled people. It's not a future-state issue. Plus, people opting for MAID because they can't find adequate housing/services/are being starved to death by lovely inadequate supports etc

pokeyman
Nov 26, 2006

That elephant ate my entire platoon.

Evis posted:

theres a federal carbon tax that applies if the province doesnt have one

ns government just asked to be excepted from that because something something hydroelectricity newfoundland

which probably won't work so there'll be a carbon tax here soon enough. but in the meantime the tweeter is technically correct

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m
Apr 16, 2017

Í̝̰ ͓̯̖̫̹̯̤A҉m̺̩͝ ͇̬A̡̮̞̠͚͉̱̫ K̶e͓ǵ.̻̱̪͖̹̟̕
The Vancouver mayoral race is heating up!!! It's hot news! I can't wait to vote for one of the 6 people who will change absolutely nothing and then wonder why everybody is still upset about housing, homelessness, and addiction. Or Ken Sim who will hire 100 new cops I guess, and somehow generate 100 new nurses out of thin air

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m has issued a correction as of 17:58 on Aug 21, 2022

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

wait, so is this the return of TUPAC?

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo
bump

Futanari Damacy has issued a correction as of 14:33 on Oct 29, 2022

HookShot
Dec 26, 2005

Futanari Damacy posted:

Saying the story has legs implies it has momentum of its own but as weve already discussed, the people making the story inescapable are just reporters signal boosting their own outrage. Most people dont care one way or the other, they just arent tweeting about it with the same self-interested ferocity.

Oh, people aren't tweeting about it, well then.

The stories about it have hundreds of thousands of views. I've had three women speak to me about it in real life, where they brought up the topic. The petition to reinstate her has over 125,000 signatures. But yeah, keep telling me how "people" don't care because you personally haven't seen a bunch of outrage about it.

I really wonder why that might be.

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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m
Apr 16, 2017

Í̝̰ ͓̯̖̫̹̯̤A҉m̺̩͝ ͇̬A̡̮̞̠͚͉̱̫ K̶e͓ǵ.̻̱̪͖̹̟̕

Futanari Damacy posted:

The winning campaign proposal is you can have two of these, but you don't get to choose which ones

*Vancouver guy voice* then I choose we get to have homelessness and addiction, and we will get rid of housing

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