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Brian Jones

@RocksGin

Retired Canuck. Science is fact. Religion is fiction. Life isn't a popularity contest. I block idiots, including anyone that calls anyone else a "retard".

Canada Katılım Şubat 2018
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Brian Jones
Brian Jones@RocksGin·
@JulianKlymochko More likely his disastrously poor judgement in failing to ensure some sort of french language version of his condolence message resulted in his losing the confidence of the board. He was 'invited' to retire. Gets a great big pay-out. Quitting would have been less attractive.
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Julian Klymochko
Julian Klymochko@JulianKlymochko·
*AIR CANADA CEO MICHAEL ROUSSEAU TO RETIRE bro chose retirement instead of learning french
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Rebekah Jones
Rebekah Jones@GeoRebekah·
Men think this is an improvement. MacKenzie Scott, Princeton graduate, writing novels at age six, studied under Toni Morrison, founded Amazon, and one of the biggest philanthropists in the history of humanity. Versus.. whatever the fuck this is.
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Brian Jones
Brian Jones@RocksGin·
@RealDonKeith We call it 'judge-itis'. One of the guys I used to golf with had it, big-time. Overbearing sense of self importance and infallibility. Really tedious.
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Don Keith
Don Keith@RealDonKeith·
Watch this pompous, arrogant judge with his elitist attitude berate an IT worker who was trying to help him. Harris County, Texas Judge Nathan J. Million of the 215th Civil Court is facing criticism online after this video circulating on social media shows what a pr*ck he is.
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Brian Jones
Brian Jones@RocksGin·
@mrmikeMTL Several nodes, but one of them undoubtedly is the SCOTUS decision in Citizens United. Guaranteed an end to anything approaching a true democracy because dark money could now determine who runs for office and has the most campaign funding, and what legislation gets passed.
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Mr. Mike
Mr. Mike@mrmikeMTL·
Can anyone pin-point the exact moment where everything in society just got substantially worse???
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Brian Jones@RocksGin·
@KimDotcom Because U.S. domestic and foreign policy is now determined by one thing; money. It's a very long tradition but the Rubicon was crossed when SCOTUS decided Citizens United and firmly established that dark money and lack of election finance law guarantee that money runs America.
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Kim Dotcom
Kim Dotcom@KimDotcom·
Very few support Israel. Very few support Trump. Even less support the Iran war. The whole world is against it. Markets are crumbling. Fertilizer prices go up. Fuel prices go up. Remind me again. Why is this happening?
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Brian Jones
Brian Jones@RocksGin·
@realstewpeters I don't think the U.S. spends much of anything on military "defense". They spend it on military "offense". The U.S. has only had to defend its territory once, at Pearl Harbor. The rest of the time the U.S. has been after someone else's oil and/or the overthrow of foreign gov'ts.
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Stew Peters
Stew Peters@realstewpeters·
The United States spends more on military defense than the next 9 nations combined. It has more aircraft carriers than the next 10 countries put together.. and it hasn't won a land war on someone else's soil since 1945.. Let that sink in.
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Brian Jones
Brian Jones@RocksGin·
@Scott_Wiener And Putin called his invasion of Ukraine a "special military operation" IIRC. Trump isn't very original.
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Brian Jones
Brian Jones@RocksGin·
@sarobertsonca Now that right there is about the dumbest, laziest political analysis I've ever seen.
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Scott Robertson
Scott Robertson@sarobertsonca·
James Moore: "I think Mark Carney is one of the luckiest political leaders that we've seen in this country in a long time in the fact the New Democrats keep tripping over themselves and electing people who are not electable to the broader Canadian public."
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Brian Jones
Brian Jones@RocksGin·
@realMaalouf Multiculturalism is an assembly of differing mono-cultural communities, each attempting to avoid integration with the prevailing culture of the country to which they have emigrated.
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Dr. Maalouf ‏@realMaalouf·
Pakistani immigrants are demanding that Japan change its culture to fit Islam: "My children are Muslim. I don't let them celebrate Japanese festivals. Instead, they take the day off from school. There’s no Islam in Japan. Japan needs to become more multicultural." Deport!
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Brian Jones
Brian Jones@RocksGin·
@BuzzPatterson What a complete crock of nonsense all of this is. Hard to believe that so many educated, informed, 21st century people still believe any of this nonsense.
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Bev 🇨🇦
Bev 🇨🇦@Garnet_2203·
This woman spent 10 years reading every holy book. The Bible, Quran, Torah, Vedas. Same verdict: they all oppress women. They all push racism. They all lock in class. These aren't ‘spiritual’ books, they're political books. Control bodies, bloodlines, power. Read them yourself. The truth's right there in the text. So when you see these Conservatives Politicians like Jamil Jivani pull these kind of stunts, remember what they stand for.
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Brian Jones@RocksGin·
@mkraju If he does what he's threatening here, I believe with military adventure by Israel and the U.S. will rapidly evolve into a full-on world war.
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Manu Raju
Manu Raju@mkraju·
Trump’s new threat: US will be “completely obliterating” electric plants, oil wells and Kharg Island if Straight of Hormuz is “not immediately” reopened
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Brian Jones
Brian Jones@RocksGin·
@ianrich15813274 I suspect there are hundreds of people both foreign and domestic who know the truth about Trump. If it hasn't gotten out by now I doubt that it ever will. Trump has been a criminal for over 6 decades and he's never been 'outed' yet. There's much more to this than meets the eye.
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Ian L Richardson
Ian L Richardson@ianrich15813274·
I would say there is about a 90% probability that Putin has something huge on Trump. How would America cope if the proof emerged that it twice elected a traitor? We may find out.
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Brian Jones
Brian Jones@RocksGin·
@MarvinTBaumann My bet is that such an animal would be impossible to effectively, efficiently, govern. The larger and more dispersed, and diverse, the population, the more difficult it becomes to find commonalities/consensus. We have this problem in Canada a good deal of the time.
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Dr. Maalouf ‏@realMaalouf·
“One of the main problems in the countryside is dogs. Muslims don’t like dogs.” Liberal commentator complains the British countryside is racist and Muslims avoid going there because too many people walk their dogs, which are haram in Islam. These people are really insane.
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Brian Jones@RocksGin·
@MrJoKeR604 I don't dispute that CBC needs to engage foreign correspondence to help keep us informed. But I am getting seriously tired of CBC's constant, not subtle, social engineering.
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J Hunter🍁
J Hunter🍁@MrJoKeR604·
It amazes me that we were both born and raised in the same city, yet somehow his brained turned out this way.
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Jeffrey Luscombe
Jeffrey Luscombe@JeffreyLuscombe·
I had a loved one in my family choose MAiD when he was in the last months of painful bladder cancer. I see a lot of people on this platform calling it immoral. The only immoral thing I see is making people suffer when they choose to die on their own terms with dignity.
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Brian Jones@RocksGin·
@SistaRuthDOPD Women are neither 'compelled' or 'forced' to do this to themselves. But many women ARE compelled/forced to wear hijab etc.
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Sista Cate Ruth ♿
Sista Cate Ruth ♿@SistaRuthDOPD·
Is a society that compels women to mutilate themselves, in this way, really any less oppressive than one that forces them to wear a hijab?
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Brian Jones@RocksGin·
@Euan_MacDonald To do that, the U.S. would need to re-build its manufacturing sector which it outsourced to S.E. Asia for cheap labor. Then it would need to build export markets, but it lost all of them to tariffs and threats. The U.S. will have a very hard time re-building itself after Trump.
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Euan MacDonald
Euan MacDonald@Euan_MacDonald·
With the loss of access to NATO bases around the world, the US would lose its ability to project its power worldwide, and decline from being a global superpower to a hemispheric power. That's where Trump seems to want to take the US - a power on a par with Russia and China.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: NATO wasn’t there for us. We send billions of dollars to them every year to protect them. We would have always been there for them. But based on their actions, I guess we don’t have to be, do we? Why would we be there for them if they’re not there for us?

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Brian Jones@RocksGin·
@UkrReview It's already a 'pay to play' system. The 5% of every member's GDP that Trump is always on about is billions of dollars and virtually ALL of it is spent in the U.S. buying U.S. manufactured weaponry. If NATO evaporates, the defence industry gets decimated.
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The Ukrainian Review
The Ukrainian Review@UkrReview·
🇺🇸❗️Trump is considering a major change to how NATO works, proposing a “pay-to-play” system where countries that don’t spend 5% of their GDP on defence could lose their say in key decisions, - The Telegraph 🇩🇪 Trump is considering withdrawing US troops from Germany.
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