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I honestly have grave doubts about Canada conscripting citizens over a finance war, that would not fly, I imagine it would cause a shit storm from the public.
From what I’ve seen in this article,.and the world at large right now,.I fully believe.the point stands for what if Russia or China starts a war with NATO. Unfortunately, only a.few years ago that seemed an impossibility, now it seems damn likely.
As per usual, it’s not all that easy. Sometimes war breaks out no matter what you do, see Ukraine. Sometimes you need to go to war to stop genuine evil, see world war two. The Netherlands, as far as.I know, still sends a large batch of tulips to Canada as a thank you for their soldiers liberating the country. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
Of course everyone is against conscription, but once shit hits the fan,any will feel different and for those that don’t, would you prefer living under the gentle hands of Putin, desperately trying to stay away from high windows? Downtown Vancouver would be screeeeewed!
No one wants conscription, but we live in an imperfect world
Police officers also have to follow the law. Only in specific circumstances to they get to break certain very specific laws, like drive through a red light.
They’re police officers, they are supposed to give the right example, ALWAYS. They’re supposed to at least try to be better than the rest of us. Parking where it’s dangerous can’t be just waved away with a pretext like “I need quick access tpy car”
Great but… What’s there to investigate? They parked illegally, they refused to even say “oopsie”, let alone ticket themselves as they should, and then gave the finger. It’s all on a few minutes video, this is not rocket science.
Just punish this behaviour accordingly, put them on a week of unpaid leave and require them to take some training or something, tell the rest of the police force to start fucking behaving themselves like the example they are supposed to be.
No investigation required
I should become a Loblaws C executive. I’ll be able to commit all sorts of crimes that normal people get jailed for, only a thousand times bigger! And I won’t be punished at all, I’ll just have to pay a little bit of tax and that’s it! And then the kicker, they’ll just let me continue commitingy crimes as of nothing happened!
You read it all yet completely missed or ignored the point.
Religions are ALL make belief, sometimes based on nonsense written thousands of years ago, sometimes nonsense written just a few decades or even years ago. There is zero evidence of any supernatural part of any religion nbeinh even remotely true or having happened.
Religions have not brought a net positive to this world. The majority of wars have been over religious differences, it leads to discrimination and suppression. It has been used to justify the most terrible horrors this world has seen, it has been and is continues to be used to control people.
These two facts combined makes it something that may not ans cannot even remotely touch government, education, healthcare and other areas of civil life.
Religions people either mix their religion one way or another into their work because that is what religion dictates. I do not want your stone age or modern myths and fables in a class room, I don’t want to have to talk about humna rights to someone whose religion requires him to suppress the rights of other (that would be just about every religion out there)
Call is a vitriolic rant.if you will, I’m still right. That straw man argument actually is based on news reports about doctors not wanting to treat certain patients. Same in the US there are loads of doctors who are unable to disentangle their religious nutjob beliefs from their professional duty and use religion to discriminate.
Do I really need to make a more comprehensive list of the negative effects of religion on humanity? Don’t make me go there.
If you work at the government, medicine, schools… You shouldn’t be allowed to display any religious symbols, and if it were up to be I’d require those jobs to be atheist only. If you still haven’t passed the stage where you’re 5 years old and make belief fables are real to you, then you have no place in auch jobs. Grow. Up.
Because frankly, religions are made up nonsense. I stopped believing in Santa Claus with I was 8 or so. Why are there still adults believing in magical sky beings? More importantly, why do we all act as if this is normal, actually still the norm, and all agree that it’s something untouchable even when it’s clearly evil and not for the betterment of humanity?
Seriously, if you think about it for even a second, it makes no sense. What does make sense is that religions are widely and pretty much exclusively used by those in charge to control those that follow the religion.
The church of the flying spaghetti monster (FSM) exists for a reason: It shows how easy it is to make up some nonsense and fly with it. You want to allow religious clothes? Then you have to allow me to wear a spaghetti strainer on my head as it’s the official wear for followers of FSM.
What, you don’t allow it because FMA is made up nonsense? Well, I got bad news for you… Christianity is also made up, same as Islam, same as Scientology, same as Hinduism, same as all religions. If you start looking at religions you can see how one influences the next, and so on… The stories of Jesus and Horus are really very similar.
Simple fact: there is exactly zero scientific evidence that any supernatural person or entity exists, there is tonnes of evidence that we have all made it up, and continue to believe in it for… Reasons?
And yes, religion always exerts its influence. Merely displaying religious wear is to show what you think and want. Do you think I’d be able to have a free discussion about human rights for women with a government official wearing a burka?
So with all that in mind, do I have to sit and look at your religious wear because you somehow failed to grow up? How far should we let that go? I’ve seen multiple arguments that Muslim women should be allowed to wear burkas. Are you going to sit at a government office in front of somebody you can’t even see because she is 100% covered, even the eyes? Should we allow it a step further, allow that in class rooms (yes, I’ve seen cases for that too)? How about then the next step where they will demand that they can only interact with women because their god demands it?
You might think that these are edge cases but that is what’s att he core of this issue. If you allow one, you HAVE to allow all. I say: allow none. If you wan tto work for the government, if you want to work at a school, you wear and express no religion, period. It’s the easy and fair solution. Again, if your religion doesn’t allow you, that’s on your religion, not your government.
And if you allow your fantasy wear, then you have to allow mine too, or start defining what religion is real and what not and I would LOVE to see that debate…
Exactly.
You just have to take it off.
If you don’t, you’ll also have to allow full burkhas, and sorry, not sorry, that is so far over the line that the line becomes a dot.
If you’re stuck in believing faerytales, that’s fine, to each their own poison, but you don’t get to display it in government positions. Or school positions, for that matter.
Just to be clear: if Netflix would have high quality versions of ALL movies and series and now the bullshit it’s turning into, I would never Pirate. Too much trouble, too much work, too expensive. Netflix would be could be easy but instead it’s getting shittier by the minute.
Don’t get me started on Amazon or disney
Over 2500 movies and over 200 series. There is a lot of todo maintenance (adding subtitles, converting some movies that are still in blueray or dvd iso) and in total some 100TB. A lot of it is lower quality, working on improving that
Edit: it’s a huge amount of work and money and I’m only doing it as a sort of hobby since netix turned to shit. Give me one provider that can show me everything from every country, whenever I want, on whatever devit I want, no gro blocking, no ad bullshit, and I’d happily pay twice, three times the amount I do now. But here we are, and here is my collection because half the shit I have can’t be watched anywhere else. Fuck the enshitification
Yeah, dial down the rhetoric! We only want to get rid of all undesirables, dismantle all social systems, dismantle democracy, remove taxes for the rich and put all tax burdens on the poor, install a theocracy, jail our opponents and remove all climate protections.
And then you have the gall, THE GALL, I TELL YOU, to call us bad? STOP THE RHETORIC!
So how about we petition to require rainbows everywhere? Apparently you only need 10% of votes