Technically I don’t think anything could be perfectly protected from corruption sadly. Elections Canada is funded by Parliament, NOT by the party currently in power at the time. But theoretically if the party in power has a majority, they could do whatever they wanted, like cutting Elections Canada’s funding by majority vote. But the absolute shit-show that would result would be insane.

The American system confuses the hell out of me.

Took me far too long to figure out what I was looking at here…

Well yes, for sure. Basically what I’m meaning is that while I respect his right to have that opinion. I in now way respect the opinion itself.

People have a right to be stupid. But that doesn’t extend to having the right to be protected from the consequences of being stupid.

I don’t agree with his idea that he can be “non-political”, but it is a well written and understandable statement from him in the article.

It’s all well and good to want to be non-political, but in the current climate, all “non-political” means is that you’re rich enough to ignore other people’s problems because you are secure that they will never become yours. And THAT is where I have an issue.

Milla doesn’t get enough credit for being a kick-ass female action star. You rarely see her mentioned with the likes of Sigourney’s Ellen Ripley or Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor, etc… Yet she easily carries the franchise on her shoulders. Just all around bad-ass.

My apologies. I should not have assumed the worst.

You can have a strong partnership without joining each other.

Brothers don’t have to live in the same house.

Sure. But to be fair, you take the fur off a bunny and it looks pretty similar to the scientist’s aproximation.

No such thing. We are all just people on a spectrum somewhere between good and evil. No such thing as pure good, and no such thing as pure evil.

Even Hitler loved dogs.

That being said, however, I can’t think of a single positive thing about Trump

Back in the day when camping wasn’t just condos on wheels; when the best a poor man could hope for was a pop-up tent trailer in a campsite with a picnic table and one of those swiveling barbecues on a post, Instant coffee was my jam.

Early morning. Mist from the lake still not fully burned off. No constant background hum from power lines. Just me, getting the barbecue fire started while drinking my cup of instant coffee that I made with my portable kettle that plugs into my trucks cigarette lighter port.

Instant coffee will always be special to me.

Called it.

The moment I saw an example of how it tended to shrink the size of North America on the map, I KNEW is be waking up to a story about the Cheeto administration having a problem with it.

Imajica by Clive Barker flipped a switch in my (then) teenage brain making me understand that “fantasy” books don’t need to have swords, wizards, and all the other tropes. That the idea of “fantasy” as a genre is far far richer than I imagined.

It’s not even about “spending your own resources on others”. Its about where the government spends YOUR money.

If I pay $100 dollars in income tax (for example), is the government spending that $100 dollars on MY healthcare, MY roads, MY sewage and water lines, MY roads.

Or is the government handing my $100 dollars off to private contracts who are then profit motivated to spend only $20 dollars providing those services so that they can keep as much of it as possible?

Socialism isn’t “free stuff” or directly paying for other peoples stuff. It’s about making sure the tax dollars are spent on US. When that happens, a surplus results that allows us to help others who are struggling.

Politically there’s always a bunch of conspiracies. I don’t really know to much about that. All I know is that he was a pretty rabid horn-dog.

There is no doubt in my mind that JFK would definitely be in the epstein files…

Fair enough. But too many people think privacy and security are the same thing.

GrapheneOS is dedicated to both privacy and security, whereas e/os (while it does have some security improvements over stock android) is much more focused on the privacy side of things.

Are they a misogynist? Are they racist? Are they hateful? Are they classist? Are they kind? Are they empathic?

I’m guessing if they’re getting their hygiene tips from the man-o-sphere about things like pheremones, etc… they’re likely also going to be all of the above (except the last one).

Bruce

I was wondering when someone would finally get around to making a youtube video about my ex-wife.

Insert sad incredible hulk theme.