And give up paying rapefugees' rent for them?
Fat chance.
Court attendance is often compulsory
Mandatory vaccination
So, if I don't get vaccinated, I'll never have to go to court?
Sounds like a win-win.
Russia subreddit quarantines rest of reddit.
All I've seen is Tony saying that the media-induced absolute hysteria over Ukraine is disproportionate, and he's right.
I haven't seen anyone on here supporting Russia. It seems like most of us are concerned with keeping our own countries from becoming involved, which we absolutely should be.
On the one hand, this is certainly a blow to the built-up delusion of the liberal-internationalist woke-globalist elite. For decades, the West has been ruled by people who live in a fantasy world, a world where there are "international laws" that everyone agrees on, a world where we really don't have to bother with things like war, or investing in our own defense, because we've created this homogeneous global society where everyone shares our values and believes in our goals.
The issue is that these people have an astonishing resistance to the effects of reality on their delusions. Even now, they're clinging to narratives like "Putin is now an international pariah because of what he's done." He's not. Half of the world is rooting for him, specifically because he's given a black eye to the West, but these are the kinds of things that are being bandied about in woke-globalist circles.
They simply cannot fathom and refuse to accept the basic reality that their vaunted "international law" is meaningless without the power or the will to enforce it, and that because of the expansion of the welfare state and the erosion of ingenuity in our societies, both the result of the the cultural cancer that is their belief system, we no longer have either.
I'm beginning to wonder if even the advent of World War III will be enough to make these people engage in any introspection, or if they'll genuinely go to their graves still believing that if they just censor enough wrongthinkers, the nukes will magically stop flying.
For people who want their salad turned into candy.
All NATO and Biden had to do to prevent this was come out and say that Ukraine wouldn't be invited to join NATO. That's all. But they wouldn't do that, because they had every intention of expanding their military alliance, which was established specifically around the principle of hostility to Russia, right up to Russia's border, after promising they wouldn't do so.
As disproportionate a response as this invasion might be, I simply refuse to accept the simplistic narrative that Russia is the sole aggressor here. This is the result of three decades of Western provocation, coupled with Biden's obvious weakness.
Biden and every other NATO leader kept up their aggressive posturing, but made it clear that they didn't have either the resources or the will to actually pursue military action, and even now Western populaces don't want war, which is why our leaders should have treated Russia like an equal partner and negotiated with them honestly. Instead, they treated them like a pet bear, assuming they were harmless because they seemed tame, poking and pissing on them until finally they snapped.
If the loss of Ukraine is the price we have to pay for avoiding nuclear war, at this point it's worth paying. And after we've paid it? we should hold every last one of our so-called leaders responsible for creating this situation in the first place, because it's not just Russia's fault that this is the choice we have to make.
Why do I hear the sound of vodka-soaked laughter?
Pink bob-with-long bangs is now an acceptable regulation haircut.
I don't give a fuck what Putin is or isn't. All I care about is keeping the rest of us out of this war.
That's just stormfags projecting. They wouldn't be so emotionally dependent on you if you'd stop giving them so much attention.
Russian spies: "Haha. Testosterone go brrr."
Our governments are all complicit in bombing civilians, including children, in countries all over the world, and we continue to let them get away with it because we're too comfortable to do anything other than bitch.
But, up to this point, at least we've been free to bitch. Very soon, we won't even have that.
We have too much of our own shit to deal with to let the same people who've been pissing on us for decades while telling us it was raining drag us into yet another war in order to paint over their own failings. Every last one of our so-called "democratic leaders" would govern like Putin if they thought they could get away with it, and they have literally all just proved it.
If NATO gets involved in this conflict, it will be World War 3. China will become involved, and our supply chains here in North America will be completely disrupted as a result. As for Australia, isolated as you are, the consequences would be even worse. On top of that, NATO involving itself will exponentially increase the likelihood of nuclear war.
There are absolutely no good reasons for why we should let ourselves get dragged into this, and an endless supply of reasons why we shouldn't.
Calling out globalists beating the war drums in an effort to distract normies from their own collapsing house of cards is not the same as Putin apologia.
I don't give a fuck about Putin or Ukraine: I live in a country that just embarked on a campaign of persecution against peaceful protesters that's so tyrannical it makes Putin look like Thomas Jefferson. More to the point, so do you.
Are you sure this Ukraine bullshit is the fight you want to prioritize?
Just for this I hope Putin invades Turkey next.
Fully automated trucking is next. They're already testing it. Blue collar protests won't be a problem if you don't need working class people to maintain your supply chain.
There's nothing to worry about. I have it from reliable sources that it's only 3.6 roentgen.
Oddly, it did happen right outside the hotel where the Mounties were all staying.
Donald Neil Plett is the leader of the Conservative Party in the Senate. This is not the first time he's given a speech that's torpedoed one of Trudeau's power grabs. The Senate defeated Bill C10 last year, largely because of him as well.
The answer to the bank accounts bit is yes. The government announced it was unfreezing the accounts it had frozen and wouldn't freeze anymore.
Tens of thousands of people across Canada have spent the past week moving assets around and pulling cash out because of those measures, whether they had anything to do with the protests or not. All of the big Canadian banks are too heavily leveraged to be able to absorb that. They've borrowed huge amounts with using money in people's accounts as collateral, and people just yanked millions of dollars out of those accounts.
I would not be surprised to learn that there were several profanity-laced phone calls between the bank execs and the government about that, and Trudeau has destroyed investor confidence with it. Who in their right mind would invest in any sector of the Canadian economy if the government is going to give itself the power to freeze your assets on a whim?
Trudeau is done. The announcement is him trying to save himself, but it's not going to be enough.
They will literally release any Toronto gangbanger on bail on an assault charge.
So that's a big middle finger to everyone who's spent the past few years telling me it wasn't a honey pot.