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Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

Also Author of Future Sepsis (Also available on Amazon!)

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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

No argument there. I'm seeing 10 year old vehicles with 200,000 miles going for tens of thousands of dollars. Like.. What the hell is wrong with people?

For sure, but what sucks is it happened in the entire vehicle market.

Little lady wanted us to look at a minivan, and when I saw a new one is $70,000 -- Like... what?! Who is buying new vehicles at this point?

Lol "we pushed companies to doing unsustainable things and now we're shocked that there are consequences"

Yes, that happens pretty much every time, which is why every communist country ends up with famines.

It blows me away the people whining that the cyber truck isn't the price they expected it to be 5 years ago.

If you're go to a dealership near me you can't get *any* truck for $36,000, much less one made with cutting edge EV tech with a stainless steel body and frame. It's like people don't realize the past 5 years had consequences.

(not that much?)

Just imagine: if they build the line and there's terrorists there then suddenly we'll get to see spec ops: the line irl

I've seen redditors in the streets.

It looked a little like this:
Someone wearing a Naruto akatsuki robe

The double standards are disappointing in that regard too.

2000 they cried that the election was illegitimate.
2004 they cired that the election was illegitimate (due to voting machines, no less!)
2008 they said the elections were perfect
2012 they said the elections were perfect
2016 they said the election was illegitimate
2020 they said the elections were perfect

hmmmmm...
Detective musing "There's got to be a connection!"

Honestly, I saw the story but I have to admit, I call bullshit on the idea that the vaccines were so overwhelmingly lethal.

If that many people died, we'd know without a study or a whistleblower or anytihng -- we'd know because everyone would know multiple people who died from the shot.

Canada had an 85% vaccination rate among adults before the goal posts shifted, and I absolutely saw an overwhelming prevalence of bad side effects of the vaccine (I slept for an entire day and night after taking it, my father was going to do a contracting gig and he was so sick from the shot he had to quit, and several people I worked with told me stories about how bad the vaccine made them feel), I'm not aware of anyone who died of the shot.

I got blocked by Jeff Cliff for pointing out this about both covid itself and covid vaccines -- if either one was as lethal as claimed, you wouldn't need to measure deaths with a micrometer, we'd all know lots of people who died.

Here's an example (not the one I'm going to talk about, but this is the website):

https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/house-documents/parliament-43/session-1/2023-11-29/hansard

There was a bill going through that directly impacted me, so I was paying close attention. It was around budget time so I got to read members of provincial parliament arguing whether a certain line item on the budget went up from last year to next year or not.

I don't know why exactly anyone in comics gate would have to steal from their customers. They're charging like $85 for a comic book. The scam is already built into the price...

(Except Tennapel. His books are works of art worth the price)

Just more evidence that January 6th was a coup, but not the coup that everyone thinks.

For a little while I even read the transcripts of my provincial parliament. It convinced me that most politicians don't just act retarded, they actually are.

Don't most of us do that (to an extent)?

As a perpetual sufferer of 8th grader syndrome I deeply want the truck that looks like I drew it in the margins of my notebook while taking notes in class.

I'm not gonna pay for one, but I would to love to win one in a lottery.

It's interesting that people don't intuitively understand the relationship between the two

tbh, free markets sure seem to be favoring asians at the moment.

otoh, these people claim "whiteness" is defined by being rich, successful, and powerful because they're racist.

Don't go to New York City. Even once. It is, as I understand it, a little hell.

(There were multiple angles I could go with here, but this is the easiest one)

Back when I was young, there was a lot of Christian media that was just insufferable. It was preachy, it was badly done, you felt like you were doing a job watching it.

So does that mean media can't work with Christian themes can't work?

Obviously not. Because I'm a weeb I'll use Trigun as an example of a show with very heavy Christian themes, it's widely accepted as a great work of anime and all kinds of people love it in part *because* of the beautiful Christian themes it contains.

In the same way, you can explore many woke themes and actually not be insufferable. It's been done a lot to be honest, previous eras had really good creators believe in woke sort of ideas but they still made amazing art containing those themes. But most woke media today reminds me of the old Christian media, just as preachy and insufferable and unwatchable.

A lot of people say things like "Canada doesn't have free speech because it doesn't have a first amendment."

The reality is worse than that. Canada is one of just a few countries to have freedom of speech enshrined in its constitution, specifically the 1984 constitution act that Includes the charter of rights and freedoms explicitly giving all Canadians freedom of speech.

The courts strike down laws on constitutional grounds all the time, even. The truckers won many of the cases brought during the convoy for example.

People will point at the notwithstanding clause as an example of how Canada doesn't actually have any rights, but to invoke the notwithstanding clause an unconstitutional law needs to be effectively renewed every 5 years. It's a lever that is often threatened but rarely used.

The real problem is that you can't rely on laws to police the government. The people in government need to hold those as sancrosanct because otherwise the government which is filled with lawyers we'll just find a way around the laws that they're not allowed to break. And that's what we get to see in Canada.

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