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@DeeWilly11 @BraedenSorbo The difference is that a guy doing meth on a street corner will have a whole army of social justice warriors defending his right to do so. A guy in a button down shirt is completely on his own specifically because he doesn't look homeless.

@BraedenSorbo He should go do meth all day on a street corner. They'll leave him alone forever.

I have not seen anybody talking about what’s going on in Canada right now. This man was pulled over and told by police that he had to come with them because a psychiatrist labeled him “certifiable.” No paperwork, no rule of law, just a doctor saying that if he didn’t come with him right then and there that he would be arrested. The fact that a government could do this is terrifying.

@reader24601 @tmshrout @FuzzyFace56 @bryanrbeal @EWErickson Totally out of touch with reality. Polish resistance manufactured guns in basements in occupied Warsaw. You can make a gun from plumbing from Home Depot. Guns are simple tools and there is no development or regulation that puts them back in the box.

@tmshrout @FuzzyFace56 @bryanrbeal @EWErickson Fingerprint technology would solve that issue immediately. You act as if the illegal gun problem is impossible to solve, when it obviously isn’t.

The craziest statistic you will hear all year: more Europeans die from summer heat than Americans die from guns

@SassySouthBlond Why would you write this out? Obviously you do not know anything about cars. Do you even own a car?

Stop blaming Gen Z for $600-$700 car payments. Buying an $11k (with taxes and fees) used car is a trap. Banks charge insane interest rates on these cars because of the risk, and Gen Z doesn't have the cash for endless repairs and rentals when something breaks on them. Plus, you can't fix a POS car in an apartment parking lot without getting evicted or fined. Newer cars with lower rates are literally their only viable option. Newer cars means higher insurance as well. They can’t drive around these old cars with no safety net (no collision coverage). They aren’t experienced drivers. If their parents gave them a decent car when they started driving and it is still in great shape great. A lot of them didn’t and by the time they reach the age of moving out their cars are shot and they have to buy new ones and that has to be budgeted in. This is not a luxury buy. This is a necessity. By the time you average out repairs all the time on an older car plus the interest rate hike plus all the hassle an older car is going to bring to a young person, they are going to buy the newer car. Every single time. They can’t haul their kids around in an unreliable car breaking down in terrible areas all the time.

@miket136 At the end of the day, independence will manifest as people getting together in town halls and deciding what the law should be amongst themselves.

"Permitted" Albertan: become comfortable with the idea that we can decide to stop asking permission.

What do you mean, "wait?" You're not the first person to ask these questions. Nothing would happen if Calgary and Edmonton voted to stay, because there is no equivalent process to the Clarity Act for a municipality seceding from a province, and municipal governments have no constitutional power or inherent sovereignty themselves. Furthermore, any persuasive argument about job loss or capital flight or landlocking would be exponentially more true if the cities tried to force it. In any case, at the very least it would require provincial legislature to make it happen. First Nations voting to remain would just mean that reservations continue to be administered by the Canadian federal government and Clarity negotiations would need to make accommodations for that. Entirely possible outcome.

@miket136 Wait what if Edmonton and Calgary overwhelmingly elect to stay in Canada? Ft McMurray? First Nations? It’s almost like the separatists live in a world where there only best case scenarios exist for them

In abstract with all other things equal (including body fat %), sure, if they're grappling on the ground and fatso gets on top. On balance of factors here, no. Fact is that fatso is also old. Lay this guy flat on the ground and it'll probably take 30s and crawling on hands and knees just for him to get back on his feet. Now put 150lb dad on top of him. There's a good likelihood he would get injured just from trying to fight. Roll an ankle, pop a knee, break a wrist, hip or clavicle. Etc. Someone the age of fatso can end up in the hospital just from getting pushed and falling the wrong way.

@alphafox People who have never had to tussle don’t understand weight. Yellow vest has a huge huge advantage.

Who is the real Karen here - 🤔 Biker refuses to use the grass to avoid pedestrians on the sidewalk. Pedestrians get annoyed he is making them move, yet he insists he has the right of way.

@alphafox Cyclist very obviously- both as the person overtaking and for the fact that he's filming to catch these kinds of reactions to his behavior.

@ThisIsMeCassie But... you don't have to ask questions like this. If you really cannot be in the same room with someone that may have an opposing perspective from you, I think you're probably just a narcissist. Maybe look for a therapist.

Somebody asked me out on a date to go have a drink and some food… and I had to ask the question Are you a separatist? I can’t even believe this that I have to ask these questions now before I can go even meet somebody because I really just can’t hang out with people that are actively trying to break up Canada. This is what Marlena has done to our daily life Constant fucking chaos #ableg

There will be no constitutional negotiation because the amendment formula is designed to prevent it. If Alberta is a "new hire," then you acknowledge it's not indentured. We're not demanding a seat at the head of the table, we're recognizing that "corporate" is dysfunctional and that we'd be better off starting our own "firm."

Alberta joined Confederation in 1905, not 1867. The founding deal was already written, the rules were already set, and Alberta signed onto an existing arrangement. Then Alberta struck oil. Now Alberta wants to rewrite the constitution it inherited. Think about that dynamic for a second. You are the new hire. You did not build the company. You did not negotiate the founding partnership agreement. You showed up decades later, accepted the terms, and were handed a desk. Then you hit a massive sales streak and suddenly you want to vote like the CEO and renegotiate the partnership from scratch. The original partners, Ontario and Quebec, built the institutional framework, absorbed the risk of Confederation, and carried the country financially for generations before Alberta was even a province. The equalization system Alberta despises today exists because the founding provinces understood that regional economies are uneven, and a country only holds together if the arrangement is broadly fair over time. Alberta’s contribution to Canada is real and significant. The oil revenues that flowed east supported federal revenues and transfers for decades. That deserves acknowledgment. But “we generate revenue now” is not the same as “we designed this institution and therefore get to unilaterally change its rules.” Every new partner in any organization brings value. That does not automatically translate into governance authority that overrides the foundational agreement everyone else built and agreed to. If Alberta wants more weight in Confederation, the path is constitutional negotiation with the other partners. Not threats. Not sovereignty referendums. Not pretending the founding compact was illegitimate because it predates your membership. You want a seat at the head table? Earn it through the process that exists. You do not get to flip the table because you are currently the top salesperson.

@kinsellawarren Feeble criticism considering it'll be against the backdrop of how your generation has destroyed the country.

You've legitimized separatism and rendered it permanent in Alberta for generations to come. History will remember you as unfit to run a two-house paper route.

@leilanifarha I remember when the BCSC came to a similar conclusion in the late 2000s, and the homeless promptly took over the park right behind the very same Provincial Court of BC and occupied it for the next decade. People like you are judas goats for society, truly.

HUGE LEGAL WIN FOR UNHOUSED IN CANADA "...They are Us. They are rights bearers no less entitled than any other Canadian citizens to the full benefit and protection of the Charter." Goosebumps! Those are the words of an Ontario Superior Court judge, recognizing the humanity of people living in homelessness. (1/10)

@hades_smile @hughjaynus420

@hughjaynus420 Who is stopping your 16-20 to get this job? Really get over this victim mentality. If you are born in Canada, you are already far ahead of someone who is born in India/Pakistan.

A 16-20 year old Canadian kid is meant to have this job, not a person on a student visa…

@Tablesalt13 I'd probably dial the multiples back to Bench 0.75x Squat 1.5x Deadlift 1.5x But add run 10km or swim 2000m in under 1hr.

All men should be able to bench press their body weight squat 2x their body weight and deadlift 1.5x their body weight.

Going to the gym is racist. -Canada

@batsewp @Tablesalt13 Squats and bench, perhaps. Deadlifting however is the most fundamental, practical, and important lift a person can even train. If you cannot pick up at least your own bodyweight off the ground you are a liability.

@Tablesalt13 Why? Lifting heavy perfectly balanced weights doesn't reflect practical use of strength. Fitness is important, but setting these arbitrary standards is more about ego than anything practical. It's performative.

@acoyne If Albertans vote to leave, and you want to keep the oil under the ground, how do you propose enforcing that? You're suggesting civil war.

"Its" wealth? Among the most absurd assumptions in this whole surreal debate is the idea that Alberta, in the vanishingly unlikely event that it was ever permitted to detach itself from Canada, would depart with its entire current territory — including the parts with the oil. There is zero possibility of this, and even less legitimacy to it. The provinces control natural resources under the constitution of Canada — but under the constitution of Canada, and as provinces of Canada. The minute they cease to be under the constitution, they cease to enjoy any of its guarantees. Conrad Black: Canada better hope Alberta doesn't leave with its wealth | National Post nationalpost.com/opinion/canada…

@mileslunn @miket136 If you think a chamber of commerce can shut down businesses, or actually has any authority whatsoever, your opinion is worth about as much as a bag of dogshit.

@miket136 Unions represent workers and most workers know separation is bad for them. Chamber of Commerce can shut down businesses for a day of protest. All methods need to be used to stop this madness.

This may sound extreme, but Chamber of Commerce and Alberta Federation of Labour should make a joint demand to drop referendum or face a general strike and shut down of businesses. Time to go nuclear to end this travesty.

Entirely spineless perspective. If humanity turned away from challenges every time they were encountered, simply for the fear that trying and failing would be worse than closing our eyes and doing nothing, we'd still be sleeping in the mud without fire. One might wonder if the entire reason the city plumbing is so fucked up is because someone shared your thought process. "Yeah, but have you thought about what poking around might do to traffic?" The purpose of democracy is to allow people to shape their own collective destiny. Sometimes that means asking big, scary questions. Otherwise, if we really just reduce democracy to picking whether Tims should get 200k or only 195k TFWs this year, we can kiss our asses goodbye.

Voting on whether to have a vote is a ridiculous lack of provincial leadership. Calgary is a globally connected city. Separation uncertainty is costing us jobs. We have real work to do: building homes, improving public safety, fixing infrastructure, growing our economy, and making life better.

@jkenney Kenney said his government believes a referendum would force the federal government to negotiate in good faith, based on a Supreme Court ruling tied to Quebec's separation referendum. cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

Like the vast majority of Albertans, I’m both a proud Canadian, and a proud Albertan. We are a smart, hard working, innovative and loyal people. Those who went before us built one of the most prosperous and generous societies on Earth. And we’re not going to let anyone tear apart our home, the true North strong and free. It’s time to fight for our country. Alberta: let’s lead, not leave. votetostay.ca/about/

@cspotweet @LukaszukAB Well, allow me to insist to the contrary.

Chatted with @LukaszukAB just after his petition was approved for a separatist referendum. He insists top legal scholars say his petition called for a legislative option by checking the appropriate box, not a referendum

@Sarkiology @Anarseldain @Asmongold @Awk20000 You're telling on yourself. An attitude like that just says you've got nothing going on.

@Anarseldain @Asmongold @Awk20000 Conservatives proving every day that they are whiny little babies. The right in America is The only group worse than the left.

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