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QuantaStarFire posted:> killing capitalism No, and Agenda 21 owns.
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ChickenWing posted:Given that probably about the population of canada unironically thinks that voting for Donald loving Trump is a good idea, yeah that's probably not such a great thing Who said it would be democratic? Probably a temporary dictatorship of the proletariat until individual areas are ready for more and more local control after successful re-education and the elimination of serious counter-revolutionary elements, might take a generation or two.
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Dec 2, 2015 17:32
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Also employers would need to actually pay people proper wages to do lovely jobs. People would just say no to gross, dangerous, or backbreaking work until the pay was worth it. This would be very good for the people overall even if it made some things more expensive, the gains in wages would more than make up for it, the top would end up having to eat it.
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Dec 2, 2015 20:22
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One reason I like my apartment is that there's a landlord screening everyone with decades of experience weeding out dangerous or annoying idiots. In a condo anyone with money can buy in and if you find out they're awful later it's really really hard to get rid of them.
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Dec 3, 2015 19:13
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Was actually just the Harper's cats hooked up to keyboards.
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Dec 3, 2015 20:19
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Can you get Justin to at least grow a full dignified beard? Not the poo poo he tried to pull before, that was gross. Can he even grow a proper beard?
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Dec 3, 2015 21:54
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vyelkin posted:No offence man but you clearly didn't read the article. First of all, it talks about how this is a development since a cross-party consensus on Uruguay's energy future was reached in 2008, so figures from 2006 are no longer relevant. Second, the article clearly addresses the issue of importing electricity: It's almost like we're the most uselessly corrupt country in the G7 or something!
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Dec 3, 2015 22:12
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OSI bean dip posted:Most of the dispensaries are run by organized crime . So all these happy branded pot shops all over Victoria are all HA or something? Are they all sort of working together under a large organized crime umbrella or rival groups control different shops?
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Dec 5, 2015 00:47
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Yeah, it's like they are the pure platonic idea of inferior racial other that all other inferior others are held up against. North America is a wonderful place.
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Dec 6, 2015 01:31
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Dreylad posted:It's good some society is at least trying these policies out, even if only to learn that more about the implementation and how humans behave when they benefit from them. You say this as if countries actually learn from each other's policy successes or failures. "It's different here". Failed policy pushed by politicians here? It will work here, we have a better financial system. Successful policy from another country? No, things are different here, it wouldn't work, we need a home grown solution.
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Dec 7, 2015 05:58
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PT6A, get in there and make that party recognize the plight of the drunk cigar smoker and how sin taxes push you towards crime.
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Dec 8, 2015 20:30
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When I was getting my internet hooked up the Shaw worker was asking me why I wasn't getting TV as well. I told him with the insane rates Shaw charges due to their monopoly I can't afford both internet and TV, and if I'm paying so much for internet I might as well use it to save money on TV. I got a whole speech about how Shaw isn't a monopoly because there's also Telus and actually profits have been down because more and more people like me aren't getting TV. Shaw is going to have to keep upping internet rates to compensate for their losses on TV, it's a real problem and anyone who doesn't get TV + internet is basically a free-loader being subsidized by TV subscribers. I told him that even if their profits are down, they are still turning a huge profit and don't "need" to raise rates. If people don't buy as much TV they just downsize the TV side of things. Also who gives a gently caress if their profits go way down, so long as they can pay their staff and keep the company running they should be happy. He just muttered about how young people these days not paying for TV is going to "bring the whole system down" and "if Shaw can't turn a good enough profit a lot of people will be out of jobs". I told him I hope shaw goes out of business because I didn't subscribe to TV and the government buys the whole thing on the cheap. He said "you really think government will be able to run the internet? You'll be paying for union staff and you'll be stuck with a real monopoly, besides a lot of people will lose their jobs" I guess Shaw's got their staff pretty well brainwashed. \/ Just don't pay for cable and the whole system will collapse into socialism. Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Dec 9, 2015 |
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Dec 9, 2015 18:49
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CLAM DOWN posted:Ugh, someone at work I liked and respected just casually mentioned that "Trump really has the right idea about refugees and terrorists, I like that guy a lot" Yeah a person I really like and respect just turned down a really great chance to move to Germany because it's only a matter of years before the muslims take over and fully destroy the country (which is already crippled with handouts to muslims and muslims can't be jailed for crimes there because if you even accuse a muslim of a crime the media calls you a racist)
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Dec 10, 2015 21:14
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Any time I or my friends left anything in a cab they've either stolen it or ransomed it back. gently caress them. Also gently caress libertarians. Government taxi monopoly with strict conduct rules and good working conditions and fully modern implementation.
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Dec 11, 2015 19:46
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Femtosecond posted:How on earth does anyone from COPE get any traction at the BC NDP? Their policies were a garbage fire and they got completely and utterly smoked in the municipal election. They are huge, unredeemable failures.What justification is someone at the BC NDP using to give these folks any position of relevance? -Garbage fire polices -Unredeemable failures -Smoked in elections Sounds like perfect BCNDP material.
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Dec 12, 2015 08:29
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Dreylad posted:Yeah, it's like all the pushback against GMOs. Roundup has been getting a lot of bad press but it's how we've been growing cash crops and soybeans for years and years. Right but roundup makes bee's GMO.
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Dec 16, 2015 18:03
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sliderule posted:I'm trying to make sense of this. Is the apostrophe a typo? The roundup contaminate's the bee's noble nature, once they've had a taste for science they begin to create their own GMO's for their hive. GMO honey. GMO's cause cancer, so the colony dies of the bee's own GMO cancer.
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Dec 16, 2015 18:13
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Is JT going to take away my increased TFSA limits harper wisely gave me so I could grow into the middle class?
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Dec 17, 2015 00:03
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Bleeding hearts???? I can think of a few people deserving of their heart plugs getting pulled.
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Dec 17, 2015 20:58
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As soon as you add a car, specially an SUV driven by someone middle class or above, it's basically a get out of jail free card. If you ever want to murder someone, just hit them with your car. You probably won't even lose your license (that might hurt your ability to get to work!!) permanently. Cars just kill people all the time, they're accidents, nothing can possibly be done. Better infrastructure? Too expensive. Stricter rules? Oppressive.
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Dec 18, 2015 18:11
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CLAM DOWN posted:I really hope the political landscape changes drastically as those old idiotic bigots die off. Have you met any 30 something or 20 something's that aren't your self-selected circle of friends? Oil workers, trades people, anyone in the resource sector. Startup tech libertarians. Fresh off the cargo cult plane MBA grads. They are all enthusiastically ready to fill in any void of horrific ill informed political opinions left by any dying olds.
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Dec 18, 2015 18:18
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Jordan7hm posted:Best part about the Suter thing: once he is released from jail he is banned from driving for 30 months. You never get a bit buzzed then get into an argument while driving and get so emotional you run drive into a building and kill people? Could happen to anyone, shouldn't affect our charter protected right to drive. Always focus while driving, don't text and drive, don't eat and drive, don't drive when you're not in control of your emotions, make sure crosswalks are clear before making a turn, check your blindspot for bikes. gently caress this nanny state poo poo, those are just suggestions for nerds. If everyone actually had to follow those rules driving would become stressful work. Driving should be fun and relaxing and accessible to everyone, don't stress me out with rules and actual consequences for breaking them.
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Dec 18, 2015 18:47
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Count Roland posted:What is a thug hugger? Someone not tough on crimes that aren't people that look like them killing people with negligent driving.
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Dec 18, 2015 20:08
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In the military the people who kill people and are trained to kill people are a tiny minority. Most are like trades types jobs or computer stuff or loving web developers. They all exist to support the people who kill people, and fix and maintain the infrastructure needed to support said killers. I actually know a surprising amount of military people, and they're all just working class shlubs fixing engines or doing accounting or computer stuff. None of them give a poo poo about the military, "the mission" or patriotic garbage and would try to quit before they had to kill anyone or really deploy outside of Canada. It's an easy job with a fantastic pension and benefits and that's it. One dude is an officer and excited to see combat and fight bad guys and "help people" but he's the minority. Police, yeah, that's 100% people who want to power trip and shoot bad guys because all cops end up as front line soldiers on the war on crime, you can't become a cop and spend your entire career fixing police cars or maintaining the police website.
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Dec 18, 2015 22:55
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Dude was kidnapped and had his loving thumb cut off. I think in this case we've gotten our pound of flesh out of the guy. For me it's not this specific case, just our very lax cultural and legal attitudes towards driving and road safety. Driving should not be mandatory to be a functional adult in our society outside of a few neighbourhoods of a few big cities, and driving should be taken a lot more seriously where it's harder to get a license and easier to lose it. But because everyone has to drive to work and or they'll actually starve to death in their suburbs we can't have stricter driving laws because even the worst driver who should never be given control of a huge vehicle has no alternative, so the bar has to be set that low. Like still every time someone is run down by a driver not paying attention it's always "why didn't that pedestrian look???" "You can't just walk blindly into the street even if you have a green!". There's still a ton of victim blaming and excuses for the perpetrator. Totally unpredictable accidents do happen, but in almost every case they are avoidable by simply paying full attention to driving, treating every second like it's a terrifying life or death situation, and making sure your vehicle is in safe working order. Just "I wasn't paying attention" is an accepted valid excuse. It should be criminal negligence. Treat them a few steps below commercial pilots or something. You don't have to ban people for life, but if you rear end someone, or hit a pedestrian, or get into any accident you could have possibly avoided it should involve an actual investigation where you have to prove it was unavoidable and were following all rules to the letter or else your license is instantly taken away and you need to start from scratch to get it back, which should involve fairly lengthy and intense training.
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Dec 19, 2015 00:09
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So if someone committed a crime that would normally carry say a 5 year sentence, but before the guy was even arrested or charged some vigilantes decided to lock him away in a terrible dungeon for 5 years with even worse conditions than a government prison. He eventually gets out or the police find him and finally charge him for the crime. Would the court say he's basically already served his sentence, give him a reduced sentence, or full sentence?
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Dec 19, 2015 03:00
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Jordan7hm posted:Tons of government workers take transit in Ottawa. Because gently caress parking downtown. This is actually the key. Parking policy above all others determines car usage in an area. Some people advocate more on the road side of things, but that just leads to crippling congestion. Tackle the parking end of things and you can have smooth flowing roads AND low car usage. When "the market" is actually determining the price and amount of parking, driving into a city generally becomes ridiculously expensive.
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Dec 21, 2015 19:01
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Jesus christ 10 lane bridge replacing a 4 lane tunnel??? Why??? For that money they could have built an LRT or something out to the ferries.
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Dec 21, 2015 23:49
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Don't over-build your stupid exurban mega bridge in Ladner, rip up that stupid elevated highway that cuts Toronto off from the waterfront, put good transit in order of where it will be most used, don't run over cyclists or pedestrians. Those are my strong canadian transport related opinions.
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Dec 22, 2015 01:02
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I want to be a pro abortion protester. Did you mean an anti-abortion protester? Or an abortion protester that's a total pro at protesting abortion?
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Dec 23, 2015 06:46
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I've gotten 4 calls from the NDP this month asking me for "year-end donations." I didn't even get this many calls during the election. What the gently caress.
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Dec 25, 2015 02:21
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It's slightly cold and been a bit damp so typical Victoria Christmas. I think in my entire lifetime we had one maybe two white Christmases.
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Dec 26, 2015 04:24
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Yeah it's fun getting out of one's self-selected group of people you can stand. My dad went out mixing with strange others and found him self the only person at a party not angrily raving about Syrians invading Canada and how this loving useless generation needs to get jobs, buy houses, and have kids otherwise the muslims are going to out-populate us. Yeah thanks old-money rich boomers, wonder why we're not buying enough houses or raising families. Nothing to do with your guy's supported policies and economics.
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Dec 26, 2015 19:57
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Canuckistan posted:Saw this on Reddit and had to share. I had no idea what a shithole Chilliwack is. Hard working rural canadians, real canada.
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Dec 29, 2015 18:56
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Femtosecond posted:Cameras seem like obvious wastes of money to me, though there's clearly a huge industry pushing them for crime prevention. Police are searching for this suspect *blurry 12x15 pixel face shot* Unless they can be used to clearly identify someone they're fairly not useful.
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Dec 29, 2015 20:54
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Why are you even noticing lovely chains exist? Block them from your mind and view, unsee and unknow them.
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Dec 30, 2015 05:12
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Some people genuinely rather have "stability" than fairness. "What if the communist party gets a seat?!"
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Dec 31, 2015 19:13
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Direct democracy on every single issue otherwise there's no proof popular will supports it. Get rid of these elitist civil servants and "experts" too and put their jobs down to a referendum every time.
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Dec 31, 2015 20:47
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They the ones pushing people out of helicopters? I mix up all my criminal canadian mining companies up.
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Dec 31, 2015 23:25
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Yeah it's probably good for him. I used to care a lot more about politics back when I thought I had a horse in the race and there was hope for the world and would get emotionally invested in every election on every level. Now I hate all the parties and see the world and system as unsalvageable and hopeless. But at the end of the day my actions aren't any different. I still vote for who I hate the least, I still try to do what ever is in my power to make the world a better place, I'm just not expecting anything. Just do your best to be a good person, stay involved, but don't obsess or invest your emotions and self-identity in politics.
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