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On 9/28/2021 at 6:08 PM, Infidel Dog said:
I'm pretty sure that's happened at six flags before. At first, I thought you were resurrecting an old story.
The way I remember the story the first time around it was the same thing.
But speaking on the way all media has to walk on egg shells when noticing the race of perps unless they're white, this one kind of reminds of that wave of "Asian attack" stories.
And at first the insinuation was all over, everywhere that white neo-nazi types were beating up on these poor old Asian women and such. Then they started to post videos of who was doing it and when all the black faces continued to show up the story disappeared.
This kind of thing happens regularly, at fairs, at shopping malls, and on city streets. It's always gangs of dozens and sometimes hundreds of Black 'youths' but the race is NEVER reported by anyone. Just like the numerous brutal attacks on Asians were largely ignored unless the media could find a white man to blame. During the entirety of the BLM riots over more than a year with the media constantly tsk tsking about 'racism in the police department' no one ever actually demonstrated that racism, nor ever mentioned the disproportionate death toll among Black men at the hands of police was because of the hugely disproportionate violent crime rate among black men.
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One can accept that one's country did not always act with propriety and justice in the past without veering over into sniveling shame and guilt-mongering the way the wretched Trudeau Liberals and much of the liberal left have done. Did Canada treat natives (and others) poorly in the past? Sure. So did everyone. It was a different world with different moral standards based on more of a hand-to-mouth existence for most. No, it wasn't genocide. Not even remotely so. No, I feel not the slightest shame. No, I won't wear orange nor get down on my hands and knees and lick the feet of every native the way Trudeau and the progressive left is doing.
The whole residential schools thing is wildly overblown, based on the vast, towering ignorance most Canadians have of history. We have fourth rate teachers being paid first rate wages to indoctrinate children in progressive virtues instead of teaching them about things like history. Thus they're open to the hysterical nonsense our lazy, third rate progressive media puts out. Lots of people died back in the day as diseases ravaged the nation. More died in a large, residential building, obviously, as these diseases spread most easily in such places. But that is something not known at the time.
The situation with natives in this country is an absolute mess, exacerbated by the brainless left who want to keep the natives as dime story Indians living on isolated reserves with no future and no economic means of survival. The only way this ends is to close down the reserves and incorporate natives into the rest of the nation. Not something likely to happen under a prime minister who denies Canada even IS a nation, and who would gladly give it back if he could - then retreat to his homeland, which he thinks definitely is a nation: Quebec.
Until then, the corrupt native rights industry will continue to do its best to shame and extort money out of bleeding heart liberals, who don't even dare ask what it's being spent on as natives live in poverty.
You want reconciliation? Close down the reserves and get rid of the Indian Act. That's the only way it happens.
And that's the truth.
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4 minutes ago, Aristides said:
And yet, other EU countries have good facilities for those same long distance drivers.
True. I think they have to look into who gets to decide such things. Is it a matter of national regulations or local councils who don't want big dirty trucks in their towns overnight. I don't know enough about the difference in how truckers are treated in France, Germany, Spain, etc. vs the UK.
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I've remarked before about the similarity between the dishonest, narcissistic phony Justin Trudeau, and the dishonest, narcissistic phony Donald Trump. And one of the ways I'm thinking they're similar is that like Trump, Trudeau will be smiling inside with delight at getting help in elections from a government hostile to his country. I expect him to do nothing whatsoever about this, much as Trump never attempted to do anything about Russian interference helping his campaign.
But it shows have dictators do their best to ensure western countries are led by pliable weaklings they can control.
There is growing evidence that for some voters, foreign matters played a key role, not due to personal preference, but foreign interference. And that interference had a direct impact on votes, seat count, and the shape of the 44th Parliament.
It started on August 25, when Chinese ambassador Cong Peiwu implied that Conservative leader Erin O’Toole preferred to advance the Conservatives’ “political interests” over our country’s relationship with China. Cong added that his country would oppose “hyping up issues related to China or smearing China.”
Suddenly, Chinese language social media platforms such as WeChat were rife with falsehoods smearing Conservative candidates, even suggesting that the party was planning to ban WeChat itself. Websites attacking Conservative candidates, including Kenny Chiu, Alice Wong and Bob Saroya sprang up. All three held ridings with a heavy concentration of Chinese-Canadian voters, and all three lost their seats to their Liberal opponents.
This disinformation appears to have had the desired effect. Quito Maggi, president and CEO of Mainstreet Research, noticed a shift in the preference of Chinese-Canadians early on. Forty-three per cent said they’d vote Liberal, while 25 per cent picked the Conservatives and 24 per cent backed the NDP. “More than two-thirds … supporting non-Conservative candidates was highly unusual,” Maggi said. While some observers believe Chinese Canadian voters switched their vote due to anti-Chinese prejudice, or out of personal concern over the Conservatives’ stance on China, the size of the swing alone suggests that something else was at play.
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Found this on Ground News. Interestingly, no left wing media are covering it at all. Also interestingly, just to show you that the media embargo on describing race extends across all media, neither FOX nor Brietbart will describe the vandals/brawlers causing the chaos by any other words but 'young people' or 'teenagers'. Not even they dare to say the word "Black". As in, "Black youths brawled and assaulted people and smashed cars and equipment." But hey, they will show you the videos so you can see for yourself. The left wing media ignore the story completely. Just as they do other, similar stories of similar violence sprees which erupt on a regular basis in the US.
Chaos and violence break out at Maryland Six Flags, police launch investigation
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19 minutes ago, Aristides said:
Brexiteers were moaning about Eastern Europeans taking their jobs so they all left and this is some of the fallout.
On the other hand, they were right. There was such a plentiful supply of poor eastern Europeans the trucking companies made the jobs so crappy no one else would take them. And all the pristine towns and cities turned up their noses at the thought of a truck stop or letting trucks park free anywhere overnight, which made the job suck even more.
Without any foreigners the companies would have to raise wages, and local towns and councils would have to find places where truckers could sleep for the night or they'd refuse to drive there.
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38 minutes ago, Aristides said:
Drivers who were EU citizens went back to EU. EU drivers don’t want to come to the UK because of red tape and poor amenities for drivers compared to Europe.
This is what I've read. It's easy to be a truck driver in other parts of the EU. In the UK there isn't even a place to park your rig and sleep for the night unless you want to pay a ton of money. Most towns have nowhere you're even allowed to pull over and park for the night, much less a place where you can get something to eat and a shower. There are tons of rules and regulations, costs and fees, and the trucking companies have lowered the wages to the ground back when they could attract desperate Europeans from the likes of Poland and Romania which caused the professional British truck drivers to quit in disgust.
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18 hours ago, Yzermandius19 said:
your certainty is unfounded
even Harper cut military spending
and O'Toole is a bigger cuck than he ever was
O'Toole was a captain in the Air Force, which makes him less of a cuck than a drama teacher or an economics student. Lest you forget, Harper backed down completely when faced with losing his job as PM, gave in to the opposition, and opened the spending taps wide.
18 hours ago, Yzermandius19 said:Canadians don't like military spending, including the Conservatives
Simply not true. Conservatives always want more and their platform calls for higher spending. As for Canadians, I don't think military spending has ever placed highly on their lists of either for or against. I would say Quebecers generally have no use for the military, but the rest of Canada is different.
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21 hours ago, -TSS- said:
In the Netherlands where they have a PR electoral system they elected 17 parties to their parliament. That's a bit overdoing PR. In other countries with PR they have thresholds between 3-5% to stop splinter-parties from entering parliament.
However, nobody can deny that the Netherlands is one of the best places to live in the world. Therefore the claims that changing the electoral system to be fairer would somehow lead to turmoil are rubbish.
The Netherlands is a small country wrapped in the protective economic and military embrace of the EU. Things might go differently for other countries trying the same system.
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1 hour ago, TreeBeard said:
Does legislation need to be changed first?
Nope. It is merely expanding the definitions of what the government considers acceptable grounds to be granted asylum here to encompass pretty much anything..
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8 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:
The SUN article conflates immigration and refugee programs, but what's new from the shittiest, laziest, most dishonest mainstream media outlet in Canada.
That said, unlimited refugee claimants is NOT supportable. Some of this makes sense "Sorry Mr. Gay Afghani but can you PROVE that you would be at risk under the Taliban government ?" but a whole lot of it does not.So... yay SUN I guess ? at least for having something substantial to base the article on and doing some original work. ( Versus the PostMillennial and The Rebel) I suppose they are earning their generous government handout after all.
Yes, well, it's a rare occasion when I use the Sun for a cite, but sometimes they and yes, even the PostMilenial and Rebel cover stories most of the mainstream shies away from because they're self-censoring.
I suspect that once word gets out, and it will get out quickly, we will see a flood of new applicants from all over the world, including a ton more border crossers.
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12 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:
Yes, we all do it all the time.
I don't ban anyone.
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12 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:
1. I don't think that you have shown the relationship between the existence of the groups and the laws, only that they exist in the same place.
But we can say that the hate speech laws have been useless to deter hate and racism in Europe.
12 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:2. If I were to use the approach you used above, I would say that Canada has more restrictive laws than the USA and less of a problem, therefore the laws are having an effect. I don't know that 100% though, even if I lapse into saying it sometimes.
The US's problem with racism comes from their history, not their present. Ours, like that of the Western Europeans, comes from immigration.
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3 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said:
Don't blame Trudeau for our military profile. He is a reflection of the mood in Canada.
I do blame Trudeau. He has indefinitely postponed military procurement programs and refused to properly equip the military while prostrating himself before China's dictator.
I'm fairly certain someone like O'Toole would be a lot friendlier to the military.
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3 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said:
Australia has the advantage, not only being an island, but having no potential adversary within reach. An invasion of Australia would be a logistical nightmare to invade and defies any cost - benefit motivation.
Sure. But what about blockading or intercepting their shipping? Being an island makes you vulnerable to that. Especially from submarines.
3 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said:I have to ask how much deference a half dozen submarines armed only with conventional weapons, are going to have against China?
A half dozen nuke boats and a tighter military relationship with the US and UK would likely deter any action on the part of China.
3 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said:Canada is also safe from invasion from all directions except the south. Sending an invasion force across the Pacific,
You seem to think invasion is the only possible use of the military. It most definitely is not. Further, the closer Canada works with and is allied to the US the more likely the US is to help us out here and there with regard to other things - like 'buy america' legislation, for example.
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22 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said:
Look at this through the eyes of the person who is paying the freight. Since 1960, the taxpayer has spent over a half trillion (US) dollars on Defence and what have we got to show for it.
How much do you pay for your home insurance? What do you have to show for it?
The military is a complete waste of time, except for when you need it. Then it's priceless. What other large organization do we have to call upon for any kind of emergency? We don't have a National Guard, like they do down south, and are one of the lowest policed countries in the western world. We have no way of coping with civil disorder if it were to start. We have no organization we can use to evacuate people in an emergency, as in an earthquake or flood. None to call in on even a health emergency, as we did recently.
Oh, and there's that sovereignty thing. If you want to claim sovereignty over a large and valuable piece of land you had better be able to enforce that claim or someone else will come and take it away from you.
22 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said:My point is, to avoid being dragged into another debacle like Afghanistan by our allies, we need an independent military that doesn't need "allies." But, we keep coming back to the question, how many of you are willing to pay 70% of your income towards Defence?
Does Australia have a 70% income tax rate? Does the Australian government devote so much money to its military it can't afford robust social services? Nope. Two thirds of our size with a better, more modern military. And yet somehow they can manage that and we can't?
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China says we need to 'draw lessons' from our recent experiences. In other words, bow lower bitches.
I have ZERO doubt that is precisely the lesson Trudeau and his entire party have drawn and they will do their level best to bow very low indeed from now on whenever China glances our way. They simply lack the courage or mental fortitude to stand up to China, nor even the will. Too many of them are actively working for Beijing as it is.
BEIJING — The release of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou shows China’s strength and Canada should “draw lessons,” China’s foreign ministry said on Monday, after state media called it an opportunity for a reboot of bilateral relations.
Meng’s return shows the ability of the Chinese government and ruling Communist Party to protect its citizens, companies, and interests, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a regular daily briefing.
“Canada should draw lessons and act according to its own interests,” she added.
President Xi Jinping personally handed down orders for handling the case, Hua added without elaborating on the orders.
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/china-says-canada-must-draw-lessons-from-the-meng-wanzhou-case
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8 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:
ok, a hunch then. Got it.
Well, there's this. In Western Europe, which has had many hate speech laws far and away more restrictive than ours for decades there are actual huge racist organizations, even political parties. If there are any in Canada beyond the internet they consist of a half dozen guys bitching at each other in some barn somewhere. I mean the British National Party has been able to elect members of the European parliament, as well as various local officials. Other large racist organizations participate in elections in Europe, too, and often elect people. Marie Le Pen could win the next election in France.
You think the KKK could openly run candidates and get elected in Canada or even the US?
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7 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:
1. No, I'm banning it because it is useless and ugly. Did the Quebec City Mosque shooter like the anti-Muslim content for its interesting analytical content ? Maybe. Anyways.
Do I get to ban stuff I think is useless and ugly and incites people to do nasty stuff? Do we all?
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Apparently in their zeal to fill Canada up with impoverished third world people the Liberal government is planning a huge expansion of what constitutes acceptable grounds for becoming a refugee in Canada. Basically, if anyone was ever mean to you, you qualify. Welcome to Canada. The welfare office is over on your left. And you can apply for your free health insurance just to the right. Refugee claimants have doubled under Trudeau. Watch them double again now.
In an email sent to staff and adjudicators on Sept. 20, Richard Wex, the Liberals’ appointee as chairperson and chief executive officer of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, laid out a massive expansion of the reasons immigrants can be allowed to enter and stay in Canada.
Under the new guidelines, contained in a document marked “Draft” and covered by solicitor-client privilege, civil service officers who do an initial screening of immigration and refugee claims, plus the immigration and refugee judges who hear appeals of the officers’ decisions, are instructed to accept any applicant who has an “intersectional” claim.
Intersectionality is defined as two or more of “race, religion, indigeneity, political beliefs, socioeconomic status, age, sexual orientation, culture, disability, or immigration status,” that “impact an individual’s lived experience of discrimination, marginalization or oppression.”
No longer will claimants need to prove, for instance, that they face torture or death if forced to return to their home countries. Nor will they have to satisfy the UN’s definition of a “refugee.”
Now, if they merely claim they have been discriminated against or persecuted for being poor and old, or Indigenous and holding political views targeted by some developing country’s strongman, in the Liberals come.
https://torontosun.com/news/national/gunter-liberals-plan-to-make-immigration-to-canada-much-easier
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Canada is soft on China and the US knows it. We're an unreliable ally on almost every front, and not even mildly embarrassed about being freeloaders.
“the United States has no closer or more reliable ally than Australia.” - Joe Biden
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/np-view-canada-is-soft-on-china-and-the-u-s-knows-it
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Here's more, in the context of Trudeau's infatuation with China. While the backroom Liberals have been ensnared by a variety of preferential investment opportunities and now mouth pro China platitudes Trudeau's love affair is based on his own shallow, vapid ignorance. The same kind which made him and his father such fanboys of Castro and Cuba.
While Harper’s vision was to establish Canada as a “global energy superpower,” which would shift the centre of Canada’s political gravity westward, Trudeau’s was just as straightforward: Beijing’s promise of a win-win relationship would unlock untold riches for Canada’s middle class. The power would not shift westward, but would rather entrench itself in the Liberal party’s bastions within the Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto triangle.
Armed with growth forecasts and statistical projections helpfully provided by McKinsey & Company — the global consulting firm whose managing director, Dominic Barton, would go on to play a more public role later in the drama — Trudeau laid out his case in a widely published manifesto within days of declaring his candidacy.
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On 9/24/2021 at 7:39 PM, Queenmandy85 said:
Why do you single out China among all the countries that are running spy rings in Canada?
Does Russia control all the Russian language media in Canada? Are tens of thousands of Russians coming to live here every single year?
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23 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said:
The Royal Navy has offered to help Canada patrol the Arctic, but the Canadian government has not accepted yet. As a sister to the RCN, we should be jumping at the chance.
Won't happen. The Liberals would be afraid this would point out how utterly defenseless and without any abilities we are in the north, and they don't want to spend any money to improve that.
Trudeau's hand-wringing, virtue signaling holiday
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No one found any 'abuse' the last few months. All they found were old graveyards where residents of these old schools were once buried after dying from various communicable diseases.
You can wrap yourself in shame all you want. I feel none. Canada acted way better than most nations of that time.
Why? They don't work!
Most of these little reserves only have a few hundred people on them. They wouldn't even exist if they were white because white people wouldn't locate a town in areas with no economic reason to exist. And if there was one, and there was many, when the economic reason disappeared, people would leave for a better life elsewhere. We're spending a fortune to provide services to these tiny hamlets we don't for anyone else. We recently paid $33 million to provide a complicated filtration system for a reserve with 400 people living on it. And like other such filtration systems we have built in the past, it was turned over to the band council. No doubt it will fall apart in a year or so from lack of maintenance, just like all the others have.
The courts are very left wing and stopped caring about law some time ago.