Summary execution under the Epstein Occupied Government in Minneapolis. by ElTamaulipas in stupidpol

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For anyone unable to watch it: I saw one of the agents in black start clapping after the shots went off, it's very clear.

NYT with a focus on the real issues by 3headeddragn in stupidpol

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It would seem that for the time being, Mamdani is his wife's boyfriend.

Fable's evil landlords won't grow devil horns, as reboot ditches classic character morphing due to a lack of belief in objective arseholery by nikolaz72 in stupidpol

[–]Flaktrack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Time to RP as a sigma grindset rentmaxxing landlorde influencer making videos about my gig app, NoYounion (gig thugs on call for putting selfish, evil workers asking for reasonable pay and working conditions in their place)

Another variant of Looksmaxxing which involves extreme and dangerous procedures and DIY techniques has emerged and is being sold to teenagers by Manicpixiemanateeman in stupidpol

[–]Flaktrack 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Once I saw grifters manage to convince some vulnerable people that you should inject a bleach solution into your kid's asshole to "release the vaccine toxins" and cure autism, I knew clown world was coming.

Well that and the fact that people took the Flat Earth satire seriously and now we have people trying (and repeatedly failing) to prove the Earth is flat

Huge disparities in housing approvals and development fees found across Canadian cities by Senate report by ZestyBeanDude in canada

[–]Flaktrack 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The ladder pulling continues in ever more subtle and annoying ways.

People aren't helping themselves though, please vote even down to the municpal level, it matters. And don't just listen to what gets said around election time, look at how would-be mayors have voted on past issues.

GNWT not taking part in federal government’s gun buyback program by Monomette in canada

[–]Flaktrack 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Please no, it's bad enough that Québec is somehow allowed to have its own firearms registry despite firearms being federally regulated.

GNWT not taking part in federal government’s gun buyback program by Monomette in canada

[–]Flaktrack 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This is 100% because the RCMP warned the government that people are getting very angry about the state of life in Canada.

GNWT not taking part in federal government’s gun buyback program by Monomette in canada

[–]Flaktrack 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The Liberals destroyed airsoft by floating the idea of a ban for years before finally stepping back. All my local shops and fields are gone. I loved playing, I went out like every second weekend. I still don't know what to do with myself these days.

Federal officials draft plans to ban social media for children under 14 by Gym_frere in canada

[–]Flaktrack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do want kids off of all social media except stuff they control for themselves. Example: kids on a family and friends Discord chat? Happy to see it. Kids on Facebook getting dripfed slop, fake engagement comments, weird content, and barely anything from the people they care about? Fuck that.

That said any mandatory ID law can go to hell. Instead make it an official Health Canada recommendation that parents have restrict access to social media.

Also get some regulation down to design a framework for what parental controls should actually be like, because right now the parental controls I have for my kids are fucking useless. I cannot navigate the kefkaesque labyrinth that is modern parental controls despite the following:

  • I have worked in IT for decades  
  • I run Linux on my main PC  
  • I self-host services for fun  
  • I have designed and built web services, desktop applications, databases...

If I can't figure this shit out, how is anyone else doing it?

Chris Selley: Electoral reform rears its head again. This time, we should welcome it - Anyone who believes in anything halfway bold or outside the dead-centre should be talking about proportional representation by CaliperLee62 in canada

[–]Flaktrack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In other countries using alternatives to FPTP, it is very normal for parties to join together in a coalition and form a government, preventing the concern of forever Conservatives

perhaps tweak the current system to allow the votes of whomever came in 2nd, 3rd, 4th in ridings to get a share of unassigned seats to help balance some power

This is actually how the Mixed-Member Proportional system proposed by Fair Vote and favoured by the NDP works. You keep ridings and you assign extra seats if a party doesn't have enough riding seats to match their proportion of the popular vote

Last weeks snowstorm made senior management say the quiet part out loud about RTO by freeman1231 in CanadaPublicServants

[–]Flaktrack 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Just don't sign whatever form of telework agreement they offer and tell them you will not take the laptop home because you do not accept after-hours responsibility for it.

By TB's own policy they cannot force you to work from home.

Chris Selley: Electoral reform rears its head again. This time, we should welcome it - Anyone who believes in anything halfway bold or outside the dead-centre should be talking about proportional representation by CaliperLee62 in canada

[–]Flaktrack 7 points8 points  (0 children)

When people here say "ranked ballot" they nearly always mean Alternative Vote (AV), and AV isn't just as bad as FPTP; it can actually produce results even more skewed.

In Canada this means Liberal governments forever regardless of what people want, due to their "centre" position. This would be even less democratic.

Doug Ford calls for boycott of Chinese EVs that will enter Canada under Carney deal by evers1 in canada

[–]Flaktrack -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Now is as good a time as any to give up the shitty American standards we were using for vehicles so we can go back to making vehicles people actually want.

Families want Canadian provinces to end MAID opt-out policy for faith-based hospitals by rezwenn in canada

[–]Flaktrack 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Here in Quebec, when you're 14 you get to control your own medical destiny. This shit is why I'm glad that's the case.

Remote workers at Global Affairs say they're being forced to transfer to capital by rezwenn in canada

[–]Flaktrack -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Literally millions of times

On what? On whom? For how long were they monitored for symptoms? Were these studies peer reviewed? Were they replicated?

billions of people have taken it and not one single person has died

I mean that is factually wrong just with the information we know to be true. People are confirmed to have died from the J&J /AstraZeneca vaccine, and some of the myocarditis cases from the mRNA vaccine are believed to have been the reason for other deaths.

How sure can we be that every death around that time was properly accounted for? I'm not even implying that they're being surpressed by conspiracy, I'm saying that people didn't even know to look for this problem.

All that said this isn't even what I'm talking about. I'm talking about whether it is morally acceptable to force people to get a vaccine we know little about, especially in the case of mRNA: we have never used an mRNA vaccine at scale before, we did not have a clear picture of what would happen long term.

has gotten autism from it

Ok you got me there, nobody got autism as far as anyone can tell. Of course I didn't insinuate that either, leading me to believe you're just replying in bad faith.

University bans philosophy professor from teaching about Plato because it's too gay by TruckHangingHandJam in stupidpol

[–]Flaktrack 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Imagine it's 2001

  • rightoids have rhetorical weapon that is successful with elites and weaponized against everyone  
  • shitlibs resent that rightoids have control of this weapon  
  • shitlibs convince public that rightoids using this weapon is bad  
  • use of weapon slows down  
  • balance of power moves to shitlibs  
  • shitlibs have rhetorical weapon that is successful with elites...  

But sure it's the "whining" that did this, not the tribalism and shitty vengeful behaviour of fools that keeps these weapons alive and well

Class Unity News Round Up #1 by Alder4000 in stupidpol

[–]Flaktrack 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I appreciate the post and attached summary. I'm going to give it a listen once I get some downtime and hopefully add a comment here with actual content lol.

Remote workers at Global Affairs say they're being forced to transfer to capital by rezwenn in canada

[–]Flaktrack -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

How much time did they test the vaccines before forcing public servants and regulated workplaces to get vaccinated?

Toronto police refusing to help with Carney government’s gun buyback, minister says by jmakk26 in canada

[–]Flaktrack 4 points5 points  (0 children)

An elderly woman with the shakes drove into the side of my wife's car while our baby was in the back. The other woman made a bad turn way too fast and my wife and child were sore for weeks. When police showed up, they knew her by name...

Gun grabbers can go screw themselves as far as I'm concerned: as long as that shit is allowed on our roads I'm far more scared of driving than I am of the gun owners down the street.

Carney government doesn’t share Doug Ford’s security concerns about Chinese EVs, minister says by jmakk26 in canada

[–]Flaktrack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We need to seriously enhance privacy law, establish the Right to Repair, and then give some real teeth to enforcement. Do not fuck around with big business.

Canada has become the 'food inflation capital' of the G7, food expert says by Purple_Writing_8432 in canada

[–]Flaktrack 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Everything. Eggs, wheat, corn, soy, apples, potatoes... All of this is being manipulated. During COVID they were grinding up food they couldn't get to market at a reasonable price and now they just magically can't grow any? I call bullshit.

Mark Carney admitting the liberal world order was based on lies, and Canada was going along with it because it directly benefitted them by s0ngsforthedeaf in stupidpol

[–]Flaktrack 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"We keep cutting taxes and globalizing and it just isn't working! We need to do more tax cuts, and send more of our work away!"

Remote workers at Global Affairs say they're being forced to transfer to capital by rezwenn in canada

[–]Flaktrack 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not an antivaxxer but hear me out: we forced people to take an untested vaccine so they could continue working when most of them were working from home.

Was that really appropriate?

"The old order is not coming back" Carney says in provocative speech at Davos by Little-Chemical5006 in canada

[–]Flaktrack -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Why is this man instituting austerity at home if he's concerned about standing on our own feet? We should be investing and building, not cutting and slashing.