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Cake day: October 30th, 2023

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  • Thanks, didn’t even notice which community I was in.

    It was interesting to read and compare it to current times where “no one really knew” the real reason until their 1952 trial it seemed, where they questioned members who had seen Hitler’s dead body regarding this, and they used testimonies to set the record straight. Then his death certificate in 1956. Insane about Stalin and his disinformation campaign to keep the army going, and comparisons to our own times now. Bastard knew the day after his death and started throwing out all of the “he ran to Argentina!” Bullshit that we still hear to this day.

    Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!



  • “We get democratically elected, and some judge slaps an injunction on bike lanes. Don’t the judges have anything better to do than worry about if we’re taking out bike lanes or not taking out bike lanes?” he said.

    Now let’s do some changing

    “We get democratically elected, and some judge slaps an injunction on killing kids. Don’t the judges have anything better to do than worry about if we’re killing children or not killing children?” he said.

    It had might as well read the same, because regardless all he’s taking about is nonsense, as if laws aren’t supposed to make sure elected officials aren’t running away with their power. I can’t stand this useless prick, and appreciate my own riding for voting NDP, but holy shit has the rest of the province (read: GTA) really fucked up.


  • Dammit, Ontario, why did you re-elect this guy again?

    Because when Trump came into power this time around he started making a bunch of “no 51st state” hats, and the people love that support him love themselves a hat and didn’t want to become a part of America, so he was the clear choice.

    It didn’t help that the provincial Liberals were trying to bring in Crombie (Ford Lite) and the NDP couldn’t campaign themselves out of a wet bag. It was another abysmal turnout (sub 50%, I think it was 45%) and it seemed to be because he had a anti-Trump narrative at the time.

    Everyone that votes for him seems to conveniently forget how he went quiet after his Maralago visit and disappeared back to his cottage until the election took place. They forget the period where he stopped posturing and disappeared.






  • Been interesting to watch the seats swinging, it’s going to definitely be close all night.

    I’m curious how Polievre will do in his own riding, he is against a liberal Bruce Fanjoy who has actually done pretty well for himself and the early voting was counted first in that riding which had Bruce up a few votes so it’ll be a matter of time to see how it actually goes since the early vote was said to be largely Liberal supporters.

    Edit: oh my god he did it, he lost his seat to Bruce.







  • They’re just as involved in the Arctic as Russia is, not to mention a lot of their illegal fishing in our waters. They’ve been just as involved in trying to put people in positions of power in our government, and have had their own CCP police stations where people can report on dissenters of the CCP on Canadian land.

    This thread is so focused in other comments about how “America is just as bad if not worse of a problem for Canada!” And that alone makes me wonder how much Chinese propaganda is showing up on Canadian social media channels, even newer ones like Lemmy. The fact of the matter is that there can be multiple threats, and ignoring China just because the US is being a big, loud, scary threat right now is not what I want the leader of my country to be focused on. Carney has been doing well to bring up the problem of the US wanting our minerals, while also pointing out other adversarial problems focused around trying to open up shipping lanes through the Arctic in our land.





  • I’m one of the people who have helped set up a community for skaters/longboarders in my city which has seen a great regular base of people coming back weekly. The ages vary from all spans. Do you want to know what I’ve found the key to be?

    A) The meetups have to be accessible to the group, meaning something which doesn’t require people to pay for. People can’t afford anything right now, especially the younger people. Having somewhere public to go and hang out together and skate is a huge benefit. The costing leads us into the second more important step;

    B) community willing to gift old gear to new riders. If people come join our community, there is often someone available with an extra board they don’t use as much and are happy to gift to new riders who seem interested in following meets. Finally, and actually the most challenging;

    C) making sure to limit political discussions. People in our group of over 40 people obviously have a wide swath of beliefs, and if anyone gets discriminatory, we shut that shit down and explain to those people that the group is inclusive and has no interest in those discussions here. We always have the risk of members clashing, but with a larger group we’ve found over the past couple of years we’re able to at least shut that stuff down sooner, since the majority of people involved just want others to skate with and make friends with for their hobbies, and less so their beliefs.

    All of this to say the most important part is free third places. If people don’t have places they can go together that doesn’t empty their wallets, then yeah, people are going to stop going out and will stay inside instead. It’s another failing from the generations that have come before closing down more public spaces and trying to monetize everything, including government services.