Oman seems perfectly nice.
But the UAE has spent the past few years funding and supporting the RSF as it genocides it’s way across Sudan, so I’ve got fuck all sympathy for them sudddnly finding war at their doorstep
This is an incredibly stupid idea.
And worse, it’s very plausibly true.
God damn it.
Awesome! Well done!
I don’t love that the article (and the exec summary from the study) group all the 29 countries together for their results. It’s not incorrect, but I can’t draw any snarky conclusions about North American Gen Zs if it’s Thai, Turkish and/or Indonesian young adults who’ve gotten more conservative.
“If we're relying on the RCMP to save us from foreign interference during a provincial referendum, it’s not gonna happen. And I would say the same for CSIS and for any kind of regulatory body, frankly,” said security expert Patrick Lennox. Story by #ableg @iciemmanuel.bsky.social
It feels like I looked away from UK politics for like a year and a half and Labour suddenly turned themselves into the Tories but more wishy-washy.
Reading her comments, I just assumed she’d be from some right-wing party.
Illustrated most eloquently in Yes, Prime Minister:
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Damn, that was good.
(It’s an ongoing minor annoyance of mine that the level of eloquence and public speaking in the UK HoC seems to always be so much higher than the Canadian HoC)
Pluralism asks a lot more of our leaders than populism does. It asks them to do the hard work: to negotiate, to build consensus and buy-in, to explain trade-offs honestly, and to accept blame when decisions are unpopular if necessary.
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I don’t know this guy, but reading his replies, I genuinely think he’s trying to justify some genocide.
He seems to believe (correctly) that random Israeli civilians shouldn’t be targeted because of their gov’t’s actions.
But he’s damn near gleeful about Palestinians civilians getting targeted.
If Alberta Separatists want to be taken seriously, they need to form their own party and run candidates for MLA.
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It troubles me how glibly some people equate the actions of undemocratic armed groups who purport to act on behalf of a group of people with violent retribution against that same civilan population. Would you say the same FAFO line in Vietnam or Northern Ireland?
The thing is, you’re kinda off-base here. The Rwandan genocide kicked off partly because the Tutsi-dominated RPF was gaining ground in its war to take over from the Hutu-dominated gov’t. And like our current situation, the civilians getting slaughtered had no say what the armed groups were doing.
The mass murder of civilians in Gaza, the brazen attacks on hospitals and schools, without any accountability has created a new kind of warfare that should terrify and enrage all of us.
Every child lost is someone’s whole world. Every life lost matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It’s worth remembering that historically, medieval knights had a much/most of their social standing tied up in being fit and capable of inflicting violence. Training and practicing fighting in armour meant they were real good at it. Like very toxic gym bros crossed with private military contractors.
On that topic, YouTube fed me this video last year, and it’s one of the few times you see a fight from the perspective of lightly armoured guys fighting and losing against someone in armour.
It would have been terrifying, even for seasoned soldiers of the era.
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I’m from Canada and look, I think this guy’s really got a point:
He should stay in Dubai forever.
If you spend time in the bad place, you’re hearing this claim a lot:
Alberta sends $23B more to Ottawa than it gets back. If we separated, we’d erase the $9B deficit and have a $14B surplus.
It sounds simple. It’s wrong. Here's why. 🧵
Y’know, I try to be more polite than this on here, but damned if you didn’t say exactly how I felt about this. Cheers.
Maclean's approached me about writing a personal essay on Alberta Secession and my opposition to it.
It was published today.
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If they made a fully realistic film about him, several scenes would need a flashing sign “THIS IS NOT HOLLYWOOD EMBELLISHMENT. HE ACTUALLY DID THIS IN REAL LIFE”
For sure. I don’t know why we don’t have hero-worship memes for Francis Pegahmagabow like there are for Simo Häyhä.
Dude got 370 sniper kills and captured another 300 in WWI.
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When I step into Alberta classrooms and see immigrant and refugee children excited to learn, and teachers inspired to teach, I see my mother’s mischievous grin and feel her fierce curiosity. May Albertans never lose the compassion and common sense that makes public education a public good.
I don’t think this take is particularly warranted.
But I’m replying mostly because you should be informed that the cat in your profile picture is a very good cat, and very handsome/pretty.
I don’t think there’s anything that could make them happy. They’re so disconnected from reality and hopped up on the righteous urgency of their echo chamber that no governing politician will maintain their favour
This is fantastic
Man, I would absolutely buy and wear that sweater if I could. Cool history, dope design.
Okay, yeah, I’m on board now.
But only if he can exclusively use metaphors from hockey to describe things, as that’s his only frame of reference.
In general, yes, but I want that for other players.
I kind of love McDavid as a robot who only wants to do hockey and when he’s not doing hockey, he’s thinking about hockey. He’s charming in his boring simplicity.
