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I’d have more respect for our Canadian leaders if even ONE of them would just stand up at a podium and say “nope…we’re ignoring it. Everyone knows it’s a pump and dump scheme to deflate and reinflate stocks. And in a week he’ll be removing them.”

Everyone KNOWS he’s a fucking grifter, but politicians don’t want to say it out loud.

Trump: Putting the “fat” in “fatwa” since 1946.

That’s good to hear. It’s been many years since I’ve stayed in touch with either my extended family or my friends who live down there. (Most of my family moved from Portugal to Canada, but a couple of distant cousins moved instead to Brasil…around Niteroi if I remember correctly)

I last spoke with them in the early 2000s, and back then it was a pretty crazy contrast between the rich and the poor. Almost no true middle class. You either were wealthy enough to have servants, or you WERE the servant and went home to your favela that (if you were lucky) had electricity.

This is unquestionably a good thing. But it’s also kind of weird that it’s Brasil of all places in on this, since the inequality there between the super wealthy and the folks living in the favelas is just an accepted part of life…kind of like the caste system in India.

I’m not saying that that’s a good thing. I’m just saying that I wouldn’t imagine the Brasilian authorities would actually give a shit considering the state of their own inequality and how it’s just kind of taken as a “reality of life” down there.

It’s been a long time since the six-day-war. Most states in the middle east are more technologically capable than they were in 67. I’m thinking it’s time for that coalition to form up again and gang bang Bibi and his buddies. We’d see some different results.

One of the best. But messy as heck to eat.

Whether it’s a roast pig, or a burger, or a pizza, there’s a reason pineapple is always brought up.

Controversial or not, the concept of something being both savory and sweet at the same time is popular (and frankly…delicious) Heck, it’s the whole reason Chocolate Covered Peanuts exist.

Pineapple is easily the best for that kind of combination. Apple comes in a close second (hence having an apple butter pork tenderloin, or apple sauce with pork chops, etc…

Why pineapple gets singled out and derided over every other fruit that does the same thing is just weird.

Shadowrun on the Sega Genesis. It led me to my favorite genre of…well…anything… It was my introduction to Cyberpunk, essentially. And in a lot of different ways, it’s factored into most of hobbies (writing, painting, etc…)

The world doesn’t run on “probably”. Nothing ever gets accomplished by assuming “it’ll probably happen anyway.”

Would it have defeated it if they hadn’t performed their protest and maybe made a few other legislators rethink how unpopular of a bill it was? If they hadn’t protested, would legislative complacency just allowed the bill to pass unremarked on.

The purpose of a protest is to draw attention to something so that other that have the power to do something about it might do something about it.

I’m not saying the bill failed specifically because of the protest, but to think the bill was guaranteed to have failed anyway even without it is naive thinking.

I agree. That’s why it’s called “having the courage of one’s convictions”. The people who are protesting are willing to accept the consequences of their actions in order to shake up the system.

But when the system makes up and applies consequences retroactively, it starts a very slippery dilemma where a person can’t protest for fear of “hypothetical” repercussions.

You can’t have the courage of your convictions if you don’t know what the consequences of those convictions are going to be. And you can’t know what the consequences of your actions will be if they’re just made up ex post facto and applied punitively in order to stifle debate rather than following an already established protocol.

disrupts the parliamentary process

That’s the entire point of a PROTEST though…

I’m sure he only means it as “this is the shitty way the world actually works”. Not that he personally believes it himself.

This is basically going to make the population choose between smoking and having kids.

Hell I’d start smoking again.

Someone please put razor blades in this fuckers twelve daily bigmacs already please.

The only thing that has kept circling my brain for the last half a year has been the scene in Demolition Man when Wesley Snipes says:

“Please just kill this guy already…”

Why is the ICC not on something European like Proton Mail?

Yep. And therein lies my frustration.

David Decoteau (or he’ll sometimes use his alias “Richard Chasen”) stole the perfect premise for what could have been a great shlocky low-to-mid-budget action movie. And no NO ONE can ever make it without being compared with…that…whatever it is…

I in no way call this “mediocre”; Its just a flat our terrible low budget bullshit film that the director made as an excuse to hang out with shirtless dudes.

But years ago the guys at Red Letter Media did a segment on “Bigfoot vs D.B. Cooper”, and that premise alone (what happened after D.B. Cooper landed) has lived in my brain ever since.

It legitimately angers me that such a great high concept idea was completely wasted on what basically amounts to gay porn.

Welcome to Canadian Parliamentary politics, where every good step forward has an equal and opposite step backwards.

While I still prefer it to the alternative system to the south; where it’s all bad steps. I’d be lying if I said our own system was perfect by any means.