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Mark Gates

@MarkOldGate

Vancouver Island, BC Katılım Kasım 2023
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Mark Gates
Mark Gates@MarkOldGate·
@TRobinsonNewEra He should never have died by hanging. If he had to die, it should have been a drone attack.
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Mark Gates@MarkOldGate·
@conservmillen As Jonathan Haigt says, most parents overestimate the danger of the real world and underestimate the danger of the online world.
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Allie Beth Stuckey
Allie Beth Stuckey@conservmillen·
Insane how many libs are criticizing “invading the privacy” of a teenager by checking her phone at night. How are there people who still think this way? If you’re not doing everything possible to protect your child from unfettered access to the internet, you’re doing a bad job as a parent. This is so obvious
Megan Basham@megbasham

Last night, after she’d gone to bed, my 16 y/o daughter receives a text from a friend. (We keep electronics in our room at night). I know my daughter isn’t gonna see it for a while and I know the answer to the girl’s dance-class-related question. So I just pick up the phone and answer it really quick as if I’m my daughter and leave it at that. Tonight, I see her giggling over her phone. I ask what’s up. Apparently, the other girl’s mother had just wanted to get an answer to the question really quick, so she picked up HER daughter’s phone and texted mine as if she were her daughter. (basically both of us were too lazy to go through the rigmarole of explaining, “hi, this is Mrs. So-and-so, and here’s why I’m texting you on your friend’s phone…” But the funny part was how the two girls figured this out. Because the first one was so appalled at seeing her mother‘s perfectly punctuated and capitalized sentences, that she felt she needed to come clean that it was her mom lest my daughter think she is that conscientious. And my daughter, likewise, didn’t want her friend to think that SHE uses correct grammar when texting either. So what I learned today is that it is apparently humiliating to be caught correctly formulating sentences via text.

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Mark Gates@MarkOldGate·
@Templarpilled Was Shakespeare not British? If you are making Britain less British, that is not DE-colonizing.
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Mark Gates@MarkOldGate·
@GrageDustin Is she a lousy speaker or did that purposeless meander serve some sort of tactical goal?
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Mark Gates@MarkOldGate·
@NiohBerg A public hanging? Are they announcing the date and time and location?
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𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎
Reminder that even during this war, Melika Azizi is on track to be hanged. She was charged with being an "enemy of islam" for protesting in January. She was beaten in the courtroom. The islamic regime is actively executing people even right now, because murder is all they know.
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Mark Gates@MarkOldGate·
@Raymondyost @NiohBerg Maybe not. If Russia had not bled itself white, the Iran war might not be going so easily. If Trump had won in 2020, there might not have been a war in Ukraine.
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Raymond L. Yost JR.
Raymond L. Yost JR.@Raymondyost·
@NiohBerg I wish that President Trump had not been cheated out of his election win in 2020. I can't help but think that if he had been in office sooner, thousands of Iranians would still be alive and already free. PEACE, FREEDOM, AND PROSPERITY FOR IRAN.
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Mark Gates@MarkOldGate·
@JPutanero @hollyanndoan Government should apply the law evenly. That is the first principle. You would like a change in the law (good): even a rapid change (possibly good). But if you want a draconian enforcement against one group while being permissive to another, that is not law at all.
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Jose Putanero 🇨🇦@JPutanero·
@MarkOldGate @hollyanndoan I was paraphrasing you: because others did it without being arrested we have the right to do it without being arrested. The government should have used the convoy as an opportunity roll back tolerance for all such protests.
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Holly Doan
Holly Doan@hollyanndoan·
“It would be open to lawyers to ask the Chief Justice to recuse himself in light of his highly inappropriate comments which demonstrate a clear bias against the peaceful protest and those who participated in it. It would be up to the Chief Justice to acquiesce to this request or not.” — @JCCFCanada On April 9, 2022 Chief Justice Richard Wagner told @LeDevoir: “What we saw on Wellington Street here was the beginning of anarchy where certain people decided to take other citizens hostage, to take the law into their own hands.” Two lower courts subsequently ruled cabinet acted unlawfully in invoking the Emergencies Act against #FreedomConvoy protestors. Blacklock’s January 19: blacklocks.ca/chief-judge-ca… @FedCourtApp_en @FedCourt_CAN_en @SupremeCourtCA
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Mark Gates@MarkOldGate·
@JPutanero @hollyanndoan Strong, consistent enforcement of public order is a worthy ideal. Invoking national emergency against a lawful, if loud and rowdy, protest; when other provocative protests do not even see arrests, is not that.
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Jose Putanero 🇨🇦@JPutanero·
@MarkOldGate @hollyanndoan For the last forty years the courts, step by step, have rendered the country ungovernable. They have started to try to put the genie back in the bottle on the Gladue decision. Maybe they can walk back their overly generous interpretation of "free speech".
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Mark Gates@MarkOldGate·
@KatKanada_TM Aggressively partisan question is met with substantial policy-oriented answer.
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Kat Kanada@KatKanada_TM·
Poilievre was asked why he went on the Joe Rogan podcast now and not sooner. He cites the upcoming USMCA/CUSMA negotiations and says he wanted to "maximize Canadian leverage going in."
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@JPutanero @hollyanndoan An interesting, defensible standard. It is not, however the standard we have been using in Canada for the last 30-50 years.
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@hollyanndoan Blocking roads and harassing pedestrians is not "peaceful protest". After one day they had said everything that had to say and it just became an act of physical intimidation.
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@hollyanndoan "It would be up to the Chief Justice to acquiesce to this request or not.” And it would be up to the Canadian people to open a discussion on the legitimacy of the current Supreme Court structures or not.
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Mark Gates@MarkOldGate·
@Oakvillejaysfan We should have built them 10 years ago, or 5 , or 2. We are too late to address this crisis. Maybe we can help with the next one.
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Jim Ferguson
Jim Ferguson@JimFergusonUK·
🚨 BOLTON WARNS EUROPE: THIS COULD BACKFIRE HARD John Bolton has just laid out a consequence European leaders may not have fully thought through. By dismissing Iran as “not our war”, Europe may be triggering something far bigger. Because the response from Donald Trump is predictable: “Then Ukraine isn’t our war either.” That’s the strategic risk. For years, Europe has leaned heavily on American: Military support Financial backing Security guarantees Particularly in Ukraine. But alliances are reciprocal. If Europe chooses to step back when the U.S. faces a major geopolitical confrontation… It opens the door for Washington to do the same. And that changes everything. Bolton’s warning cuts to the core of alliance politics: You don’t get to pick when solidarity applies. Because once that precedent is set… NATO cohesion fractures Support for Ukraine becomes uncertain And the entire Western alliance enters a new phase of transactional relationships Europe may think it’s avoiding escalation. But in reality, it may be inviting a strategic reset — one that leaves it far more exposed than before. The question now is whether European leaders recognise the gamble they’re making… Before the consequences arrive.
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Mark Gates@MarkOldGate·
@Meanmelon @JimFergusonUK * "I think what you're going to see is that Russia will be held accountable if it invades. And it depends on what it does. It's one thing if it's a minor incursion and then we end up having a fight about what to do and not do, et cetera." - Biden, January 19, 2022
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Mark Gates@MarkOldGate·
@Meanmelon @JimFergusonUK Biden betrayed Ukraine. That's why there is a war. Obama denied military aid against Russian aggression. Trump I offered military aid. Biden cut back again and explicitly said that a "minor incursion"* would be OK. Now that it's on Trump is ensuring Russia loses.
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