I'm certainly hoping that if they try, the natural consequences of such a ridiculous set of actions would play out.
I was on a road trip this week, and I ended up stopping off at a few really small cities. Kenora, Dryden, Ignace.
Everywhere we stopped, it was east Indians.
Now, I've got no problem with those folks. I know that there's lots of stereotypes, but the ones that I know are fine. I've lived with them and I've worked with them.
But here's the thing: this is something that just happened in the past 15 or 20 years. People who aren't aware of northwestern ontario, it's been facing the same issues as rust-belt america. When I graduated from high school in Dryden in 2001, it took me 8 months to find any kind of job at all because the paper mill had just laid off 2/3 of its workers, and over the past 15 to 20 years that has continued to be the trend. I'm still in touch with one of my teachers, and the city hasn't been thriving. It's been slowly turning into a place where tax money gets deposited.
Everyone's had to leave. So why on the planet Earth would a bunch of new migrants end up in those cities and towns? It isn't like either one of those places has any particular School systems, you're not moving to Ignace or kenora to go to university. I don't know, who told them that filling out these dying cities is a good idea?
Everywhere we stopped, it was east Indians.
Now, I've got no problem with those folks. I know that there's lots of stereotypes, but the ones that I know are fine. I've lived with them and I've worked with them.
But here's the thing: this is something that just happened in the past 15 or 20 years. People who aren't aware of northwestern ontario, it's been facing the same issues as rust-belt america. When I graduated from high school in Dryden in 2001, it took me 8 months to find any kind of job at all because the paper mill had just laid off 2/3 of its workers, and over the past 15 to 20 years that has continued to be the trend. I'm still in touch with one of my teachers, and the city hasn't been thriving. It's been slowly turning into a place where tax money gets deposited.
Everyone's had to leave. So why on the planet Earth would a bunch of new migrants end up in those cities and towns? It isn't like either one of those places has any particular School systems, you're not moving to Ignace or kenora to go to university. I don't know, who told them that filling out these dying cities is a good idea?
Canada has a new program that helps provide 100% immunity to covid. Its called MAAID. It's a quick procedure, and if you go through with it, 0% of the people who get the procedure get covid afterwards.
Is that being the case, I think that everyone who is afraid of covid should go out and take advantage of this program, and we won't have a problem anymore. They'll be protected from covid. They'll be protected from long covid too! It provides total protection.
Is that being the case, I think that everyone who is afraid of covid should go out and take advantage of this program, and we won't have a problem anymore. They'll be protected from covid. They'll be protected from long covid too! It provides total protection.
I'm firmly against the demeritocracy creating a new aristocracy of losers. But just treating people in such a way that they have the universal basic right to go out and live normal lives, I don't see any reason to be opposed to that.
I asked my MP about this and she told me to kill myself. (She was really nice about it though)
Maybe I'm thinking about it wrong, but didn't Blue beetle just come out and Barbie has been out for like a month? It's not like either one of these movies is one of those slow burn movies where this very well made but not very well known movie slowly builds up steam. They're both part of the establishment Hollywood system, with massive marketing budgets behind them...
The last 6 years would have been a lot different if trump was a better judge of character
If that were the case, then there wouldn't be any school shootings. You might be too young to remember, but I remember 2008 where a strong Democrat president was in charge, and in 2009 they ended up with a majority in the house and a supermajority in the Senate so they could end any filibuster.
That seems to be the case with both political parties, once they actually get power they're like a dog chasing a car who catches up to it and doesn't know what to do with it.
That seems to be the case with both political parties, once they actually get power they're like a dog chasing a car who catches up to it and doesn't know what to do with it.
There are a lot of societies with guns that don't have mass shootings. Commonplace mass shootings for whatever reason are a uniquely American phenomenon.
My hypothesis rolls around two different things.
The first, not the guns themselves, but the attitude towards the guns. I don't know of anywhere else on Earth that guns are considered as a very first resort sort of solution to problems with other people. Canada only very rarely has school shootings, and it's considered to be a big deal if they do happen. And Europe has had some school shootings as well, they do happen other areas of the world just not as commonly. But you can see it even in the gangs that come to Canada from the us. Canadian gangs are very rarely used firearms, but American gangs are coming in through toronto, and they're bringing their American gun culture with them, and now more and more we're seeing criminals carrying guns in canada.
The second, is the overprescription of antidepressants. I've conceptualized antidepressants as emotional morphine. Whatever you are feeling gets the volume turned down. Now in the case of negative emotions like depression, that might be a good thing. But sometimes those emotions are things like discussed at the idea of going to shoot up your school. It's one of the same reasons that suicide rates are so much higher amongst people who are prescribed antidepressants, because the powerful emotion that would stop someone has been repressed by the drug.
In switzerland, every able-bodied man between certain ages has a military rifle at home in case they get conscripted into military service. So obviously just having guns around doesn't automatically cause these things, because Switzerland has a very low instance of gun crime.
My hypothesis rolls around two different things.
The first, not the guns themselves, but the attitude towards the guns. I don't know of anywhere else on Earth that guns are considered as a very first resort sort of solution to problems with other people. Canada only very rarely has school shootings, and it's considered to be a big deal if they do happen. And Europe has had some school shootings as well, they do happen other areas of the world just not as commonly. But you can see it even in the gangs that come to Canada from the us. Canadian gangs are very rarely used firearms, but American gangs are coming in through toronto, and they're bringing their American gun culture with them, and now more and more we're seeing criminals carrying guns in canada.
The second, is the overprescription of antidepressants. I've conceptualized antidepressants as emotional morphine. Whatever you are feeling gets the volume turned down. Now in the case of negative emotions like depression, that might be a good thing. But sometimes those emotions are things like discussed at the idea of going to shoot up your school. It's one of the same reasons that suicide rates are so much higher amongst people who are prescribed antidepressants, because the powerful emotion that would stop someone has been repressed by the drug.
In switzerland, every able-bodied man between certain ages has a military rifle at home in case they get conscripted into military service. So obviously just having guns around doesn't automatically cause these things, because Switzerland has a very low instance of gun crime.
Do you know if communities federate across instances? If so, I'll host a copy to keep my "host your own shit" mantra going.
Shit should be a first amendment violation.
Why should parents be forced to pledge allegiance to some insane new age religion?
Why should parents be forced to pledge allegiance to some insane new age religion?
To be fair, the median salaried employee didn't engage in a psy-op so successful it got leftists to simp for big pharma. He probably deserves a raise!