Ham Longshanks 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
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@DouglasKMurray
No matter what you say, no matter what pictures take or evidence you present, the people you're talking to will never believe you
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@dondarlingSJ
@PierrePoilievre
It just seems too much of a coincidence that we're running a 40BB$$ deficit and the only cost you're looking at cutting is the home of your political opposition... Like if you can't see that this message only appeals to highly partisan LPC members I'm not sure what to tell you...
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@crowndefensx
I mean, they're not diametrically opposed... Still givin me the ick somethin fierce
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@vxPreetiSharma
In Canada you don't need a license to practice journalism.
If the standard is 'if I don't agree with this journalist they shouldn't be allowed to question me' you're not going to like that standard.
Besides, that's all a little unCanadian don't you think?
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@JeremyWard33
What is the ask of the international socialist in this circumstance?
No country is willing to intervene because they'd rather let the people suffer than stand accusations of imperialism.
Is that good? Or should the international community intervene in earnest? Because this 'it
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@ChiefLord999
@crazyclipsonly
The issue is a car fleeing from police is massively dangerous to the general public and quite often can result in the injury of innocent people. The classical calculus is the safety of the innocent general public is prioritized over those currently committing a crime which I
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@AlaromaPolitics
I actually don't get it. It's the one solution to the pretend problem they invented. It's almost like they just want the human race to stop existing.
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@OneEyedAlpaca
If after all of the sacrifices I make and energy I spend for my wife's well being it would shatter my heart into a million pieces to find that bag. I feel so bad for anyone who can't trust the person they're with.
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@Belviathan
@MelonieMac
Because enjoying a thing isn't necessarily satisfying and limited to the hobbyists. Controlling something is extremely satisfying especially something that you have contempt for. There's a whole class of people whose only enjoyment is controling and manipulating others enjoyment
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@ArarMaher
Right-wingers don't hate Muslims, but the hate you have in your heart for them is obvious.
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@EdbieLigerSmith
@TheOmniLiberal
@normfinkelstein
`NORMAN FINKELSTEIN (03:18:43) That’s MENS REA 03:18:43].
STEVEN BONNELL (03:18:46) Yes, I understand the state of mind, but for genocide, it’s called dolus specialis. It’s a highly special intent. Did you read the case?`
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@RobShaw_BC
It's almost like if you treat money like it has no value people don't want to lend you theirs... So weird!
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@DrDadabhoy
It's the same as it's always been, to provide legitimacy to the exercise of naked imperial power.
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@tyler_allen
@ThomasSowell
@longsre
Children weren't born with an utterly insurmountable portion of national sovereign debt and were not doomed to indentured servitude to pay down the bills of the planners' "bright ideas". If youre not wealthy your children will be slaves and all of the compassionates will cheer
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@LisbonMile
Do you see how this can just be considered a literal bribe? The apocryphal largess that a democracy will vote itself to death through? Do you think they have better policy or are you just happy to receive something so valuable? Because your post isn't about policy it's about the
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@gilmcgowan
Why do you suppose those things are happening in BC as well? I'm guessing it was the conservative government from 2017?
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@peaceseeker71
@PierrePoilievre
If anything should concern you it's one party rule. We should have tossed out LPC 5 years ago it's the stable shelf life for any regime most of the big hurts your children and grandchildren will feel will because of the poor financial decisions of this administration.
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@skyriders1
Loud horn noises are probably the closest thing that you can imagine to armed conflict so... checks out that you believe this
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@patgagnon_75
I still don't understand this graphic, that's the cost of the office of opposition leader. Do you want to get rid of parliament? Or just have a parliament with only members from the party in gov? I don't get it.
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@TheRealDKGray
The issue isn't trans kids causing trouble or whatever you're trying to imply it's that these procedures are irreversible.
The idea that you can simply 'pause' puberty is a cruel fiction contrived by radicals to implement their preconceived solutions.
When you stop puberty you
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@I_amMukhtar
I feel like if ahead of time someone would have suggested that this many immigrants in the UK would refuse to fight for their country due to feeling like people aren't nice enough to them you'd be characterized as a woeful bigot. The honesty is very helpful!
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@HeidiBriones
So I should risk my SDE career and threaten my family's livelihoods so I can 'more authentically' argue against collectivists who care little for substantiative arguments and will just take the opportunity to call my boss and lie about me?
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@SuperAG01
@msciarrino10
@BidenLs
Wait until they figure out the implications of inflation for the working class
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@Fadi_S_Ennab
Maybe if Hamas didn't go on a rape spree in the name of Palestine this position would be easier defended
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@TheOmniLiberal
That response you got from Finkelstein reeks of an ego rejection of that which he couldn't answer with reason
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@brethordark
I view it as more then that. Call it 'Toxic Canadianity'. There's an entire class of people think that our good fortune comes from the ability to apologize and be compassionate instead of the basic geopolitical truth which is we were neighbours with the guy who won the world in
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@therealmrbench
The fact that he doesn't burst into flame is almost enough to make me question my faith
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@merry123459
If you think PP bringing his staffers fast food is him trying to dunk on starving kids, you might need to go outside and touch grass...
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@_fabeany_
I'm not even sure if you have the self-awareness to be embarrassed by making this post
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@troonytoons
This has the same energy as 90s goth and 00s emo. It's like the new "ITS NOT A PHASE, MOM" is mutilating yourself to make it being a phase impossible. Or, the in-group symbolism evolved to be immutable - once you're in, YOURE IN BABE
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@needy_peaty
@bappobebased
How can you say this unless you're in your 20s. Even memories of the 90s should render this statement inaccurate
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@TristinHopper
I think historians will view us as people who sacrificed the poors for a more 'moral' economy based on superstition - not unlike aztec sacrifices
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@FromKulak
This is what worries me about military industrial complex brochure imperialism.
Russian military sector is about making as much conventional knockout power as possible for the cheapest investment in the cheapest way. They're basically semi-auto howitzers on soviet tractor
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@SholaMos1
Politically speaking, I love when you talk it just shows everyone what you are: a simple, selfish, and hate-filled person. That being said, I'm very literally going to say a prayer for your soul tonight..
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@bobittyboop
Why is it LPC members are always trying to look at me like an enemy combatant. I don't impugn you with evil even though there's an extremely good case to be made for the spending ruining the future of our children. Even if you don't agree, it's what our models say and
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@FahadAmirN
I'm trying to understand the 'ceasefire now' position better. If Israel ended the war, what happens when Hamas continues firing rockets? Any time I ask this question I get viciously attacked, and the only people who have bothered talking about it say 'Hamas will stop when all the
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@PeterHRatcliffe
Okay but what about for the people with mental or physical disabilities who the government will first under-provision such that they have no quality of life THEN offer MAID as a replacement for $. It's a well documented phenomenon I doubt you even need to look it up. What then?
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@Wikipodia
It's not capitalism. Capitalism isn't a system. We had capitalism before we had language. It's the absence of a system. It's your ability to say no to giving up what you own. It's these peoples' freedom to exchange what they own for drugs. What would you replace capitalism, aka
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@OgouRive
@JeremyWard33
So you don't want them to intervene. Do you just want to leave Haiti to it's own devices?
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@Martyupnorth_2
They know that their supporters view math as an esoteric art reserved for high priests and that they'll just cheer for whatever they're told is good
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@cbcwatcher
Of course they're consistently involved, it's literally their full-time job. If they weren't there inciting crimes against police and public they wouldn't get their salary.
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@BriannaWu
The worst part is they're actually creating the incentive structure needed to get people to support hardliners who seek to finish the war ASAP regardless of human cost. The protection of the iron dome is now being threatened, this doesn't give them pause it puts them on a clock
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@officialJosh_A
It's really the only way to deal with a captured media
The more you take their power away the less incentive there is to maintain the control apparatus
We might even see real journalism return
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@ice_gurl77
according to the standard that you literally by your own admission made up for this post? wow... so impressive
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@schwarz
This just shows an incoherent worldview. What are you wanting to ban? Taking prisoners of war? Why not war itself? Until you guys deal with the material reality of conflict I'm not sure how you expect anyone to take you seriously...
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@jacktodd46
@DefendCanada88
@CBC
What the hell does this even mean? Is your own caucus failing your purity test?
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@JohnRustad4BC
yeah it's too bad there's no proper conservative movement for next generation nuclear power production. you could cut off anti-human degrowth activists at the knees and maybe sell enough to california to be in the black to boot
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@FoxyJazzabelle
What precautions do we make to avoid our own internal biases in the media we consume and criticize? I'm not comfortable with the implied assumptions about who can and can't be aware of their own biases..
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@Kanthan2030
Nuremburg trials go against all principles of decent law. In what trial would you have the prosecution, defense, and judge all the same team?
It was just the soft-launch of the UN's world-tier authority before people realized the UN was designed as a tool to add a thin veneer of
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@Windsandstars2
@rick_pittman
Enjoy. I hope that once all the neighbours you failed to stand up for are gone that there are still people to stand up for you when the state transgresses against your conscience and deeply held convictions.
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@varindeus
Notice how it's always a 'social construct' when they wanna get their grubby little fingers on it
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@charlesadler
If it's the 5 year old that wishes to pay off the maxed out credit card does that imply it's the adult that's trying to get two more credit cards and a payday loan?
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@JonathanTurley
What cost? They're not setting a standard and everyone knows it. It's just garden variety blatant hypocrisy where they know no one will hold them accountable..
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@rick_pittman
I'm moving my family to the UK. Sadly I wanted to stay in Canada forever but I don't think that's viable. Sooner or later I'm gonna end up in trouble for my conscience.
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@MrStevenSteele
@iamyesyouareno
That you would bother qualifying it says everything. Your argument is irrelevant, your position reveals all.
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@4noura
Hamas is using the civilian population as a human shield - that is a war crime. Good or bad, Israel can now not be convicted of a war crime because of Hamas' actions - that's how the law is written. Moreover, what's 'at stake' is that if Israel and the world at large decide Hamas
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@birgitomo
If someone's mental health crisis has deteriorated to the point where they're wielding extremely lethal bladed weapons at police officers then the failure is upstream with their GP. There's no reasonable way to expect an officer to disarm someone threatening lethal force.
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@KimballFinigan
@preta_6
That women deserve women-only spaces to feel safe such as a change room
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@retail_recruit
@PierrePoilievre
The original bad thing about fascism wasn't the thumb they put on the market, or that they took a firm hand with the railways - it was the absolutism and totalitarianism of the ideology. It was an ideology so certain that they found opposition simply unacceptable. Sound familiar?
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@officialJosh_A
Well the first question, similar to the apple question, was front-loaded with negative implications "increasing restrictions on transgender youth" which puts you in the position of dealing with the built-in lies of the question or give an earnest answer and conceding the lies.
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@Charlie85915085
This is how fascism actually starts, and not fascism as a Leninist reaction, but the absolutism, the dehumanization, the idea that your political opposition must be stopped. Soon it'll be 'the conservative party must be stopped by any means'. Less than ten years before people
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All the chaps know there's only one Queen of Canada
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@JamesWGarrett1
@JeremyDBoreing
Not a religious construct. Starting a war because you're so eager to massacre a thousand innocents is evil.
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@Kanthan2030
It's tough for the Yanks because their cultural consciousness starts at the moment their country was created.
I'm not talking about 1776, I'm talking about 1763 - the two principal global powers had just finished exerting inconceivable blood and treasure to rationalize North
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@OdessaOrlewicz
It's the newcoming immigrants for whom I feel worst. We know that they're basically coming here to be forced to sleep in a room with 5 other people and work for a minimum wage that will likely see them accumulate and furnish debt.
Sometimes when I'm feeling cynical I feel like
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@RichardHanania
I literally can't believe you posted this meme in December 2023 with how bad it has aged. Big scorpio energy
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@audragabrielle_
I think you might be surprised what a lot of Pro-Palestine people mean when they say 'from the river to the sea'
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@t_eghosa
@streetfighthard
Another tragic drum fire death, when will kids learn not to put rubbing alcohol on drums then play those drums then ignite the alcohol?!?!
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@Chasingharmony1
@YearnToLearn_
You might want to try checking your sources and bias because you're spreading dangerous misinformation.
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@fredhickey
If you have some incisive fact-based argument for why if we care about our children we should vote LPC I'd be eager to hear it and I promise I won't be rude
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@jomilleweb
@ArchwellF
@SussexEvent
They have an army of worshippers which I will never understand. The RF at least works tirelessly, and had ancient connections to the land and people. Meghan was on Suits. 🤷♂️
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@Martyupnorth_2
inflation up
interest hold, plus an announced .25 rate cut 'some time in the future' to test the water re: bond market reaction
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@mdfzeh
Yeah you saw the security apparatus moving real fast this morning pumping out references to 'ground attack s-300' before that hero sprung into action
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@Kanthan2030
'The' war is definitely coming. Once they realize the only way to provision the eternal growth ponzi scheme is a good old fashioned war reset it's inevitable. Right now they're still trusting their models that their green investments are going to pan out and magically create a
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@SholaMos1
Let's play 'guess if Shola literally doesn't understand that people don't like when people involve them in elaborate lies or if she's just grifting for $$$'
I guess
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@malmesburyman
Teach them some code, but not in depth - and definitely not multiple languages. These days everything is so high level that knowing languages isn't nearly as important as being up to date with popular technology. It's like studying medicine but all the organs are always changing.
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@JimMcMurtry01
@TrailDailyTimes
Residential school denialism? When the hell did this become a thing?
Last I heard my progressive friends just didn't want to talk about it anymore because they knew nothing was found.
When did it become equivalent to holocaust denial?
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@whstancil
I think what people don't realize is it's Netanyahu's most twisted fever dream that Biden should stop sending weapons, or more specifically stop provisioning the Iron Dome - it would give him the excuse to paint this all as an existential crisis for Jewish people and take this
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