Oh, look, propaganda pretending to be a blog post pretending to be news.

Shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic at this point.

Manufactured consent masquerading as news.

Billionaire power is corrosive to maturity; you can make everyone do what you want, so why find common ground or compromise when you can just throw a shitfit and demand that people agree that pineapple is tasty?

Just think, they could’ve spent this energy making WordPress not suck for Kubernetes deployments instead, but that’s fine, we can settle for being told what to think and feel instead.

🤡

Can’t wait for Google to add a required login checkbox that says “I accept that Jesus Christ is the one true Lord and Savior”…

And I’m being downvoted. Cute.

Keep em coming, kids. Nothing I’ve said is wrong.

All of the apartheid, none of the citizenship!

Can’t wait to be called a dirty snowback in my own city by my American masters!

Kinda crazy how the Fallout Bible is looking like a prophecy minus the nukepunk tech

CEOs gathered around the table, telling spooky stories

“If you say his name in the mirror three times, he’ll come for you!”

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-collapse-is-coming-will-humanity-adapt/

The projected collapse of the environment around 2040?

• Order his murder
• Pardon those responsible
• ???
• Profit?

Not advocating, just saying the “logic” of complete immunity plus his pardon powers means he can just make it go away, right? (This is why the idea of prosecutorial immunity is a terrible one.)

Single-payer, government run healthcare is protection for the people, and therefore, democracy.

Government is supposed to be the insurance company we all invest in to guarantee the continuation of civilization in a way that benefits us all.

Demand the end of private health insurance and eliminate biased access to medical care.

Frankly, I think everyone in New York City had better understand that if they convict this guy that they’re next on the list.

Not that I’m happy about that, but forcing a guilty verdict here is just gonna throw their lives into turmoil, even if it’s not something they want.

Trying to put a lid on this to maintain order is only going to give others the push they need to follow suit; the only way to handle this properly is to start passing laws banning the kinds of behavior these insurance companies continue to engage in (while simultaneously prosecuting the murder, because no one’s going to weigh the specifics when they decide that it’s open season on anyone that made them suffer).

And, of course, if the jury says not guilty, let it go.

There are ways to do it, most of them tracked to prevent the funding of terrorism and crime.

Bringing a suitcase full of cash into the country isn’t going to work, either. They’ll just seize it at the border.

You could always go to the effort to establish a charity, but I’m not a US citizen so I don’t know enough about what’s allowed or available with respect to what qualifies something to be a charity.

Maybe if you make it a “Christian” organization dedicated to providing legal defence to “wayward souls” or something?

Just be sure to do it via cash so they can’t put you on a list.

Donation services and apps usually have clauses about not using the money for criminal defence, so they’ll just refund it.

I’m glad they pressured the Liberal party into pushing universal dental through; that was a damn necessary change and no one should need to think of their teeth as “luxury bones”. Still wish they’d had the balls to dissent on this, even if they didn’t threaten anything over it, but I suspect it’s because they don’t see a problem with it either.

Most of the gun crime they’re hoping to prevent is committed with illegally-smuggled or stolen firearms. This is nothing more than taking advantage of a small, politically-convenient target group that no one cares to understand.

After all, only the unhinged and right-wing fascists want “assault-style” guns, right?

Apparently I shouldn’t have my Sub2000 because it gives off evil “assault-style” radiation that’s rotting my brain and making me want to commit horrible crimes, and I need the firm, paternalistic guidance of people who are, at best, passingly familiar with the concept of which end of the gun should be pointed downrange.

They’re going to pay me “fair market value”, so it shouldn’t bother me that much, right? Set aside my selfish desires for public good and all that?

Well, aside from the fact that the government never bothered to set aside anywhere near enough money to perform any sort of reasonable buyback of these firearms, they’ve also managed to spend $67 million dollars without even getting any of them back to begin with

(This next URL is sketchy looking, but it’s a PDF report from the Parliamentary Budget Office) https://distribution-a617274656661637473.pbo-dpb.ca/4196f91c9ca790eba879bf359fc2535b02af838191712fcef827a0643d71b4a7

If you don’t want to click it (fair), the TL;DR is that the RCMP’s estimate for a complete 100%-compliant buyback would be about $225 million dollars…but the industry estimates have it closer to $756 million. Oh, and that was before the first Order-In-Council where they banned most of these firearms. Since then, lots of Canadians (like me) with R/PALs went out and bought replacements in the form of these “variants” which will also now need to be bought back.

Even worse, none of this takes into account the idea that people have spent tons of time and money on all sorts of things related to these firearms, including:

Ammunition

Not everyone has multiple guns that use the same calibre of ammo! Ammunition is expensive and reselling it is quickly going to become impossible when no one wants to buy guns anymore.

Accessories

Super expensive optics, grips, stocks, aftermarket parts, all of which are now nowhere near as valuable in a market that will rapidly be shrinking as people give up on trying to buy new rifles again.

Clubs, Memberships and Competitions

Did you just spend $225 to enter a pistol-calibre carbine competition? Well, guess that’s getting refunded! …Unless you were an international competitor, in which case, they’re still going to be doing it without you…and probably won’t refund you (maybe, some of them are pretty cool, who knows?)

Maybe you dropped a big chunk of change on a club membership that had facilities that accommodated safe use of these firearms, and now you don’t have any firearms to safely use there. If you’re most of the way through the year, what are the odds that they’ll give you a partial refund for the membership? Not likely, given there’s nothing stopping you from taking a bolt-action rifle there…yet.

You wanna know the worst part of all of this? I’m not politically conservative at all. Trans rights are human rights! You wanna have a dog-pile orgy with twenty of your closest friends? Are they all of age and capable of informed consent? Get tested first and go for it!

So, I either vote against my hobby to protect everyone else from the CPC’s braindead platform, or I do something stupid and vote for PP to keep my guns (and he’ll probably do nothing to reverse any of this anyway, so obviously that’s not really an option).

I guess the dozens of us socially-liberal gun owners can go fuck ourselves, as long as the guns aren’t scary and black.

By the way, I own a rifle that’s still functionally identical to some of the guns banned under this new OIC. Really, they should just pass a law banning all semi-automatic firearms for civilian ownership, instead of this whack-a-mole crap where people have to gamble with their money to find out if they’re going to be allowed to own it for any length of time.

Begun, the trade war has.

Working as intended.

All while providing an “obvious” foil for the educationally challenged to pretend that he’s trying his best in good faith, when the destruction of US hegemony is entirely his handler’s goal.

Unlike that hand-crafted, artisanal crack made by your local Pyrex scholars!

I am shocked to learn that this political response is not based in fact