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MNIMWA posted:No kidding - half the posts on r/Canada are op-eds from the national post or other inflammatory nonsense and the comments are truly insane. There's a post in there today about cultural programming for black youth (the NatPo op-ed is typical "this is segregation?" "MLK wouldn't have wanted this!") and all the comments are crying reverse racism, CRT is to blame, the woke are running amok etc. One of the /r/canada mods was a self described white supremacist and the sub gets pretty heavily brigaded by the "just asking questions" coalition from /r/metacanada
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Jun 23, 2021 20:39
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apatheticman posted:Reddit is a white supremacist cesspool... stop going. Smaller subreddits dedicated to learning about a topic are usually fine.
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Jun 23, 2021 20:46
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Noblesse Obliged posted:You can. Just gotta be bear spray. You can't just walk around a city with bear spray
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Aug 19, 2021 18:53
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If I'm vaccinated in AB, how do I get a vaccine passport for BC?
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Aug 23, 2021 23:54
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the talent deficit posted:you can't. Am I going to be able to show my two pieces of paper to be allowed access to things?
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Aug 23, 2021 23:58
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nine-gear crow posted:It's gonna be one of those things like how nobody realizes that money is actually worthless and imaginary and only has power because everyone agrees it does. I don't know if I've ever met anyone who doesn't realize that money only has value because everyone agrees it does. Also, that doesn't mean that money is "worthless and imaginary". People agreeing that something is worth a value is the opposite of "worthless"
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Aug 24, 2021 05:49
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Arc Hammer posted:They deserve to lose but not just so the Cons can take their place and wreck poo poo. There are good people in this country who don't deserve to suffer because the government sucks and their neighbors are racists. Why do you simultaneously believe that they deserve to lose but it would be worse if they lose?
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Aug 24, 2021 23:28
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Arc Hammer posted:Because I have a hard time accepting that our options are only "lovely status quo" and "even shittier status quo." Unfortunately our electoral system is FPTP, which nearly universally polarizes to two parties with a tendency for people to vote against their least favorite option, rather than for their most favorite option. I'm not sure how this can be fixed.
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Aug 25, 2021 00:00
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apatheticman posted:Nurses are right to quit. Nurses also end up in the hospital. Guess they deserve to die too?
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Sep 3, 2021 05:17
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Vintersorg posted:That’s exactly what they said. Right. It is, and and it looks like they just confirmed it
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Sep 3, 2021 05:22
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Vintersorg posted:Let people be angry FART AMPLIFIER. You can be angry at antivaxxers without dragging the thread down with posts about how society deserves to die because of Covid. It's not productive or healthy.
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Sep 3, 2021 17:09
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Normy posted:I'm not convinced ranked choice would benefit the Liberals the most. The NDP is the #1 second choice for almost all other parties' supporters. Talking about which party benefits most from electoral reform misses the point. The parties would evolve out of necessity and Canadians would benefit.
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Sep 19, 2021 02:23
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Sashimi posted:Since this is the second election in a row where the CPC has got more votes than the Liberals yet ended up with significantly fewer seats, why aren't they screaming at the top of their lungs for electoral reform? It plays into the conservative persecution complex, and gives them plenty of mud to sling at Trudeau since it was his government that immediately dropped that campaign promise once elected in 2015. This seems like it should be a slam dunk issue for them to take up, am I missing something? Electoral reform doesn't play predictably into our current conception of party politics. For example, a ranked choice voting system like STV changes the dynamic of campaigning entirely 1) The simple fact that you're not the most popular candidate in a riding doesn't necessarily mean that you have to oppose the most popular candidate. You can appeal to the commonalities of a candidate while offering something different/above that candidate, because being the number 2 choice has value, unlike in FPTP 2) More conservative representatives in Eastern Canada, and more Lib/NDP reps in Western Canada because more than one candidate per riding can be elected. 3) A party's base is incentivized to vote for the most appealing option, rather than against the least appealing option. I think any discussion on which party benefits/hurts with electoral reform fundamentally misses the entire point of electoral reform. Proper electoral reform would be unpredictable and transformative and cannot simply be thought of as shifting the balance of power from one party to another.
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Sep 22, 2021 23:40
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You can't arrest a premiere for doing a bad job
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Sep 28, 2021 00:30
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Orthanc6 posted:Yeah actually I'm gonna jump on the bandwagon here and say provable incompetence or negligence of someone at the top of the totem pole should be an arrest-able offense. There should be a cost to the privilege of power. Objectively terrible idea. Legislators would be arrested and charged for legalizing drugs or safe consumption sites or for things like crimes committed by refugees.
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Sep 28, 2021 00:59
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Another Bill posted:That similie doesn't hold up, because if legislators let people into the country and they were murdering 25 people a day or legalized a drug that killing so many people that morgue were literally overflowing with bodies.... well I think I'd like to see some criminal investigations into those circumstances as well. Actually, it does hold up, because there is death toll right now due to drug use that a conservative could easily blame on liberal drug policies.
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Sep 28, 2021 01:15
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Normy posted:All the homeowners have to die eventually then it's payday! Unless the population decreases or we build more homes, prices will increase
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Oct 8, 2021 15:47
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half cocaine posted:https://twitter.com/globedebate/status/1446447296208531462?s=21 Banning Chinese access to 5G infrastructure isn't WW3 fomentation.
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Oct 8, 2021 22:52
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https://edmontonjournal.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/they-are-trying-to-kill-us-alberta-city-at-odds-with-homeless-outreach-group/ The Alberta "Kill The Homeless" Advantage
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Oct 13, 2021 20:21
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half cocaine posted:That's cool. Just wanted to make it clear that anyone who advocates against alternative voting is just trying to stack the cards for their team. Can you please actually provide evidence of this? I advocate for single transferrable vote. Can you please explain how this means I'm trying to stack the cards for my team?
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Oct 20, 2021 23:02
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This "how old are you now" stuff is like elf on a shelf. It's apparently some beloved tradition that I've never really been exposed to, and the first time I head of both I felt like I was in an episode of Sliders.
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Oct 21, 2021 19:29
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EngineerJoe posted:Corporate penalties really need to go from fines to shareholder dilution. Pull an Enron? 100% of your shares are turned over to the state for redistribution. Pull a lesser crime? 40% dilution? It's the only thing that matters. How would that change the behavior of the company?
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Nov 10, 2021 21:44
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Muscle Tracer posted:The owners of the shares select the board, who select the CEO, etc, so having the gov own those shares would have an obvious difference. Presumably shareholders also don't want to lose their shares, which they bought. Would it? There's no additional incentives to not break the law that a government can offer in that scenario. Muscle Tracer posted:Presumably shareholders also don't want to lose their shares, which they bought. That's the case for any loss of value, such as corporate fines, which are already ineffective. The real solution is to put real people in jail, since only people can actually commit crimes.
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Nov 11, 2021 07:40
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terrorist ambulance posted:We're all in on "it's probably the good covid", seemingly I think it's more hoping, as it tentatively appears to be the case, that the skyrocketing case count doesn't translate to increased deaths or hospitalizations.
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Dec 30, 2021 01:36
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terrorist ambulance posted:Hasn't been the case in Uk, Denmark, or New York, but maybe we'll be different. There doesn't seem to be a plan if we're not, so let's all cross our fingers In Denmark, the daily death count was increasing before the Omicron cases skyrocketed and the increase levelled of as Omicron skyrocketed. In the UK deaths have remained level. In NY, deaths have increased marginally. However I did look into the hospitalizations in those locations and yeah it's concerning. Obviously deaths lag hospitalizations which lag cases, so now I'm a bit more concerned.
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Dec 30, 2021 01:52
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terrorist ambulance posted:I'm not a cspam doomer, I accept Omicron may be less serious or lead to less deaths, but the case counts are absolutely exploding and the only way that's not disastrous is if Omicron IS way less serious. Even then, if we max out our hospitals, it'll still be bad. Well that and even if the hospitalizations and deaths are lower, if the long haul covid rates are similar it's going to be a nightmare. It's definitely not a good time to see a bunch of graphs turn to vertical asymptotes.
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Dec 30, 2021 02:00
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RBC posted:they don't count those as "hospitalizations" under the provincial covid statistics How does it work?
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Dec 30, 2021 22:06
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Another Bill posted:I posted it to show that if you're well vaccinated then its emerging that things haven't gotten much more dangerous for you by one measure. It doesn't show that though, because it's old data
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Jan 5, 2022 01:54
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flakeloaf posted:
You can have a mature discussion about the subject without pretending that education isn't important
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Jan 13, 2022 20:10
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Powershift posted:Somebody assaulted some cops at the Coutts blockade, the cops all left, and there is now another blockade on highway 2 by standoff. Where are you seeing this?
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Feb 2, 2022 01:19
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The Human Crouton posted:Don't get angry at me. I'm on your side. I said the trucker slave class should continue to deliver goods to you after you break up their protest. Maybe post your point instead of vague riddles
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Feb 7, 2022 02:31
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https://twitter.com/davidreevely/status/1492274517963587587 judge: "i want the blockade gone so traffic can move" lawyer: "ok but can you guarantee there won't be bad weather or construction"
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Feb 12, 2022 00:13
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Alctel posted:How much power does the city council have over the police force? If it is indeed just mass amounts of officers ignoring orders, can they all just be fired and new recruits hired? Explain how you'd even go about firing a whole police force who is already ignoring their orders. How are you going to take away their weapons and equipment?
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Feb 13, 2022 06:01
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Grouchio posted:The army rolls in and arrests them? That would be a disaster.
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Feb 13, 2022 06:33
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Slotducks posted:no gently caress it keep going - this stupidity must keep growing and the cpc must fade into obscurity I can assure you that this isn't going to go as you hope
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Feb 15, 2022 21:12
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Raenir Salazar posted:The money thing I'm not really informed about, anything that cracks down on crypto I think is good; the government potentially freezing assets of people it doesn't like or threatening it might be concerning in the abstract but isn't like something that I know enough about the details to comment. The idea that invoking federal emergency powers to freeze the assets of people is right or wrong depending on their position on the political spectrum is spectacularly awful. The majority of Canadians are correctly in favor of breaking up the Ottawa occupation and border blockades. The majority of Canadians are correctly in favor of seizing funds donated to groups who are using them to do these things. But if you think the majority of Canadians are going to be ok with some elderly person getting evicted or not being able to buy medication because their bank account has been frozen due to convoy donations, you're mistaken. It will be a complete disaster. For the Liberals to suggest that members of Pro-Trump movements who donate to this kind of thing, you should be worried about having your loving bank account frozen, is loving insane. I live in Northern Alberta and I don't have to walk through a store for more than 2 minutes to hear frothing at the mouth level insanity against the Trudeau government. The response to the completely legal and ethical vaccine mandates has translated into death threats against people I know and work with. The response to an actual government overreach that fucks with people's ability to put food on the table and pay their mortgage would be catastrophic.
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Feb 21, 2022 02:13
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Lead out in cuffs posted:I guess it's worth noting that only around 76 bank accounts have been frozen, and from the sounds of those have been only for people receiving money for the convoy, not those sending it. People receiving money for the convoy should have the accounts frozen. I'm also fairly skeptical that the government would actually go after people who donated. However, suggesting that people who donated should be worried about their account being frozen is going to drive crazy people crazier.
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Feb 21, 2022 02:26
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Noblesse Obliged posted:Old people have been dying from our evil system since it began. Why is only when alt right assholes start getting consequences is there handwringing about it? Not a justification for doing bad things.
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Feb 21, 2022 02:34
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Noblesse Obliged posted:What bad thing has been done? Some theoretical sympathetic old person op is making up in their head? You can refer back to the previous comments to see what was being discussed.
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Feb 21, 2022 02:40
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Development posted:https://twitter.com/ctvqp/status/1495433975648735241?s=20&t=6PmwUI3o7yc4vbuwhof6fA Thanks. I hadn't seen that, so it's a relief. I wish they'd been more clear about this earlier, but it's good to have a definitive response the government can be held to.
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Feb 21, 2022 02:50
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