cecilkorik

Make Apathetic Gretzky American.

I think Walter would be ashamed, I knew him personally from his charity work and he was a good man, a true Canadian and pretty opinionated in his own quiet way. I’m glad he didn’t live to see his son involved in and downplaying this shit. I can’t imagine how he would’ve felt good about it. Money and celebrity (and as someone else suggested, maybe CTE too) corrupts some people. It seems Wayne is one of those.

Elbows up, our defense doesn’t care whether he’s a star player or not.

They can try. Bans require enforcement, and they catch a few of us weirdos from time to time, but the hydra always grows more heads.

The dark web became known as the hideout of internet criminals. Once we’re all internet criminals, it will just be the hideout of everyone. Time to drop all these commercial services that we’ve let take over the internet and go back to being anonymous weirdos talking to other anonymous weirdos on websites run by anonymous weirdos. The web was ironically a nicer place. Also a shittier place, but at the same time a nicer place. This is why we can’t have nice things.

Canada is one of the few non-nuclear-armed countries in the world that has so much nuclear technology, expertise, infrastructure, and resources, that we are considered effectively zero days away from nuclear weapons. In other words before anyone else discovered we were considering pursuing nuclear weapons, we would already be armed with them. For the intents and purposes of most risk assessments, Canada is already nuclear armed, just without the expense of doing all the work of building, testing and maintaining them. This presumes we could start (or perhaps already have started?) such a program clandestinely, which remains to be seen, of course, and depending on your point of view, could be argued to be pretty unlikely. Our level of preparation could certainly be called into question in the event of a surprise attack, by say, our closest ally, trading partner and neighbor. You’d have to be sort of nuts to imagine such a bizarre scenario. It is an interesting thought experiment though.

Thanks, you’re the hero the bread-buying public deserves.

I feel like there was a different settlement for something very very similar in the not too distant past. I distinctly remember getting a prepaid credit card for like $50 or something as the settlement. I am pretty sure it was Loblaws too, but maybe it was Sobeys. Am I dreaming or does anyone else remember this?

I agree with the author’s conclusion that the KSS-III is the most sensible choice at this moment. However this does not mean that our navy does not also need 212CDs. Unfortunately it probably, knowing Canadian politics, means we won’t ever get them.

This phrase is rather telling:

since Arctic sovereignty remains popular within Liberal and Conservative circles alike

The fact that “sovereignty” is considered a political question at all, and is merely “popular” and not “essential” is beautifully emblematic of the completely absurd Canadian point of view on the issue. If we are not willing to defend our North, then we frankly do not deserve it, and almost certainly will not have it for much longer.

It’s funny how your point of view shifts when Instead of calling them immigrants, you start calling them people.

I think everyone acknowledges Canada has brought in too many immigrants recently, but it’s not bad because immigrants are inherently bad, it’s bad because we’ve brought them here under false pretenses. They are expecting that we will be able to provide opportunity and wealth that they could not get elsewhere, and we have far, far outstripped the economy, in its current configuration, necessary to deliver that. Our government did a stupid. Probably intentionally. And it will have consequences, which will be many. And people will blame immigrants for those consequences. But it’s not their fault. It’s the government who has robbed them, and us, of the economic necessities to better ourselves. We’re in the same sinking boat as the immigrants. We can throw them out of the boat if we think it’ll float a little better with less weight, but really we would be better off teaming up with them to stop all the assholes drilling holes in the bottom.

His issue isn’t about economics though, his issue is about racism. He’ll just dress it up in economics when it’s convenient to do so.