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DnD not being moderated anymore or did they rehire that guy again?
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May 29, 2021 05:37
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A Chicago friend was saying his insurance company sent him a bill for the free vaccine administered by a NG member. I suspect fear of medical bills plays a large part. (He told them to pound sand.)
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May 29, 2021 20:52
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vyelkin posted:I think this is broadly accurate. White Canadians think of residential schools as strict boarding schools where children occasionally died. You don't have to look very far for this, that's the crux of what Sassafrass said in a particularly callous way a few pages ago. If white Canadians acknowledge it as genocide at all, they acknowledge it as cultural genocide that tried to eradicate indigenous culture, not as physical genocide that murdered countless children. This kind of news, the physical remains of dead children in numbers people previously didn't realize, is the only kind of thing that breaks through that cozy feeling of "well we did something bad but it wasn't that bad, really". Even if you are a Canadian that believes they were really bad and were a genocide, you still were probably not actually expecting an unmarked mass grave of children that had kids dumped into it within living memory.
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May 31, 2021 23:23
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PT6A posted:I mean, no offence meant, but what is the other possibility? We knew children would simply “disappear” so where exactly did you think they were ending up? None taken it is a huge blind spot. I went to school earlier than some in the thread. I suppose I figured when kids died there was some record of it and the parents were notified, and the police just ignored the murders. Not literal Pickton farms.
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Jun 1, 2021 06:21
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You know Doug McCallum would have built them whatever they want too so I’m kinda glad that timing didn’t work out.
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Jun 2, 2021 04:28
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What caused the independence support collapse?
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Jun 3, 2021 00:14
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mediaphage posted:you have it backwards; it's exploded Ironically this now makes perfect sense. 
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Jun 3, 2021 01:09
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j3SChqp51Y
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Jul 16, 2021 22:20
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DynamicSloth posted:Every flavour of neoliberal hegemon in North America be they Democrat, Republican, Liberal, Conservative or New Democrat has approached the pandemic in precisely the same manner, viewing it as a balancing act between the economy and public health. Now plainly none of them achieved what they wanted because that's a fundamentally brain broken way to approach a public health crisis, but there's enough of an illusion of difference that most of their traditional voting blocks think we weren't all trying the same abysmal approach long after other countries provided superior models. To a greater or lesser extent, every state and provincial government in North America has realized they are in a prisoner's dilemma. Since the US is the way it is, pursuing a Covid zero strategy is a futile effort. The policy goal was obviously; 1) Keeping the lights on and avoiding the need to bulldoze mass graves in metro areas; 2) wait until vaccines got to a certain % of the pop and just deal with it from there. Whatever BC did or didn't do, it wasn't going to change what happened next door or anywhere to the south of us. The blaming of youth on not getting vaccinated is dumb and annoying, but my 17 has already had two shots so the 20 year olds being the end of the line is probably not much of an excuse anymore. (Kelowna's actual problem is that it is filled with old people and is basically a suburb of Calgary.)
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Aug 7, 2021 03:36
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They are still banned from Federal contracts, no? Or did Trudeau actually succeed when he interfered with that?
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Aug 11, 2021 23:41
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In this case, the governing party does have some advantages as the head office can tell the riding associations to have their nominee ready by DATE which just happens to be when the writ is called. Everyone else is reading tea leaves. That said, it is Calgary so take a look at who the Liberals are running there before judging the NDP too harshly for who they are running. Riding associations are kinda stuck working with what they’ve got in the area.
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Aug 21, 2021 16:42
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Arc Hammer posted:BC's microcosm of the Canadian "at least we're better than X" identity never stops being amusing/infuriating. They're no better than Alberta. Alberta recently attempted to remove the need to isolate if you currently have Covid. BC is certainly not doing this perfect, but it is still legit better than next door.
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Aug 24, 2021 19:58
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tagesschau posted:I hate seeing this repeated as though it implies vaccinated people aren't any less likely to transmit the virus. They're much less likely to get infected, and even if they do get infected, their viral load is slightly lower and they don't remain infectious for quite as long. So vaccinated people are indeed much less likely to transmit the virus. At that point, you are in risk management territory which is a thing as a species we are REALLY bad at dealing with. Additionally I feel that there are a LOT of people that think vaccinated = immune, since that is generally how vaccines are perceived to work and media has incorrectly leaned that way (though not universally so.) I would rather err on the side of being overly cautious on the risk of infection among the vaccinated.
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Aug 31, 2021 18:57
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ZShakespeare posted:That being said I'm not aware of any organizations that operate in that space, have good politics, and can utilize computer touchers ( maybe because computer touchers seem to mostly be libertarian poo poo heads?) It won’t specifically help the NDP but if you are a leftist computer toucher, it is important to talk about your politics with your fellow computer touchers. The libertarian techbros are just the loudest, they don’t speak for everyone and alternative voices need to speak up.
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Sep 5, 2021 17:24
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O'toole doesn't strike me as anything other than a milqetoast Conservative, however they certainly have someone in their communication department (and elsewhere I presume) that is 100% a Nazi.
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Sep 6, 2021 20:38
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shades of eternity posted:The problem is we've seen it work. That is a load bearing use of 'work' there. I am now imagining a world where Ford was just a slightly odd mayor of Toronto, without the media making sure the world was aware of what he got up to after 6PM.
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Sep 7, 2021 21:30
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Rebel was already platformed by the debate. Answering a question, telling them to piss off or asking who farted is just theatre.
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Sep 11, 2021 02:44
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tagesschau posted:On what basis? The prime minister has always had significant leeway to advise the governor general, and even in granting the prorogation, she required there to be a confidence vote pretty quickly after Parliament resumed. The unfortunate fact is the Liberals couldn’t keep their own party in check for 6 weeks (or however long it was) making her decision the correct one. That coalition wouldn’t have survived their second vote.
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Sep 12, 2021 08:23
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:Hey D&D how're we doin this afternoon It is made weirder as I think they all agree with one another, but are so mad about it they cannot tell.
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Sep 18, 2021 21:42
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Typo posted:Canada doesn't even have gerrymandering, but the Libs have like 40 more seats than their % of popular vote would indicate. The discrepancy might legit be worse than the gerrymandered US house map. That skew occurs because the CPC run up the score in the prairies, which is less a systemic issue (considering we will never get away from FPTP) and more of a regional social issue. Ron Paul Atreides posted:I know it was short notice but was there even all that much variance on policy this election? This election had the least amount of policy differences between CPC-Lib-NDP that I have ever seen. (For a layman that is never going to read any of their policy documents.)
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Sep 24, 2021 21:37
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I am sort of curious, since the Chinese government didn't really even try to put a fig leaf over it, how big of a pay day are those two guys looking at once they are home?
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Sep 25, 2021 02:29
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Trapick posted:From who? I assume that the Chinese government has assets (perhaps not though) in Canada. Maybe Huawei, but I assume that would be an order of magnitude tougher to prove.
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Sep 25, 2021 02:35
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Wistful of Dollars posted:Obviously these guys were on a list of some kind but if the security system had grounds to charge them with spying why did they not arrest them earlier? They decided to ignore these people, potentially for years, when they had grounds to charge them? Presumably if they were assets of some type, it was of the variety that just about every country (with interests) inserts into just about every other country (where they have interests.) China certainly has similar activities going on over here, and it's likely mostly benign influence gathering. It gets played up as quite a sinister thing in the media, but I have trouble accepting that every instance of a foreign actor trying to influence something in that foreign entities favour is de facto worst than what Alberta does to itself. We're not talking about 007 stuff here.
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Sep 26, 2021 17:49
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Normy posted:All the homeowners have to die eventually then it's payday! Blackrock will never die unfortunately.
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Oct 8, 2021 08:05
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How do you look French?
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Oct 17, 2021 18:56
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infernal machines posted:You know the hole they dug that led them to re-brand as Meta? No one has learned anything. Who would complain? That is entirely consistent with Facebook executive leadership.
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Nov 7, 2021 05:07
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Alctel posted:This is 100% accurate Kinda my own sentiment as well. I am not going to consider it a governance failure to accurately predict that a mudslide is going to happen or a road is going to wash out. This is only notable since so many of them happened during the same storm. And considering the BC Libs aren't even rumbling about the same poo poo as this thread should probably give you an idea of how they would have handled it. The storm that did this was the second "OMFG we are all going to die"* rain storm to hit the PNW this month. Nobody is getting worked about about rain here, even if we should. * our media is so stupid and every storm is the coming apocalypse and frankly I don't pay any attention to it anymore.
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Nov 17, 2021 18:59
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The BC NDP govern like the Federal Liberals more than anything else.
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Nov 25, 2021 18:50
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infernal machines posted:Anyway, I always look to this thread for the freshest, most learned takes on Sino-Global relations. Maybe we can get some of the climate threads excess moderation or something.
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Jan 2, 2022 03:13
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Femtosecond posted:There's some sort of Realtor -> Bitcoin/NFT -> Anti-vaxx pipeline going on. Seen in amongst realtor Vancouver RE bulls too. Not sure there needs to be an "Or maybe" here. Certainly a lot of it is just chasing gains where everything is speculative in the first place.
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Jan 3, 2022 22:58
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Teenagers can just go get vaccinated in BC and do not require consent from their guardian.
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Jan 7, 2022 00:38
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Have I got this correct? In order to not mandate the vaccine, they are going implement a tax on the unvaccinated which is going to create a cottage industry of forged out of province vaccination certs? Since this will be tax evasion, the enforcement of which has to be equal or greater cost than the enforcement any mandate might have been? Neoliberalism is just brain worms top to bottom.
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Jan 11, 2022 21:50
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Unlike summer vacation, the current situation is less being free from the shackles of education but being stuck in a significantly worse educational setting. I am not writing letters to the editor about my kids mental health, but dismissing that some kids are struggling is idiotic. Everyone is struggling with their mental health at the moment, our kids are no exception.
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Jan 13, 2022 17:29
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enki42 posted:Definitely blundstones don't seem at all like winter boots to me. Feels a lot like prioritizing fashion over functionality if you're out in the snow in those. Someone earlier mentioned Doc Martens so I assume actual winter boots was definitely not a criteria.
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Jan 18, 2022 22:59
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Lead out in cuffs posted:So they dropped all COVID restrictions and also passed anti-mask and anti-vax legislation? hosed up if true. BC is still a bad province though, but this isn't the reason for it.
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Jan 22, 2022 20:50
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PittTheElder posted:At least they're committing fewer sexual assaults than the Canadian military? They're still truckers, we aren't comparing them to the RCMP.
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Jan 28, 2022 04:45
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One weird trick to defeating tow operators. Apply the brakes. Why has no one ever thought of this before?
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Feb 7, 2022 18:29
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MNIMWA posted:The online right started freaking out because Trudeau said some anti-vaxxers are anti-science, and so on Yeah the right wing in Canada only started to freak out about Trudeau in December of 2021. jesus loving christ, can you people go home?
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Feb 10, 2022 18:44
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MNIMWA posted:I'm talking about the specific freak out where they're mad about him disrespecting anti vaxxers, not one of the many earlier freakouts Well, I am sure this freak out was fundamentally different than those times they freaked out when he said "Hello, I'm Justin Trudeau" or "ummm..."
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Feb 10, 2022 19:57
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Acerbatus posted:There are def still saying trudeau is slandering her with false claims lol how do you even deal with people like that. There is video of a CPC politician talking to the press with a swastika waving in the background, within the last two weeks (maybe three now). Just roll the tape.
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Feb 17, 2022 00:41
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