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You see that dip in global life expectancy in the 1950s?
That was caused by one man, Mao Zedong.
Mbappe should have apologised only for not being ruder about him.
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Remember that insane asylums were deemed inhumane, as opposed to letting crazy people openly die on the sidewalk in front of children, which is fine
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I think what makes these fake Apple Pay scam/prank situations so emotionally volatile is that they combine several nightmare scenarios for the victim into one attack.
For starters, you're getting robbed in public. This is embarrassing, especially for a man.
Second, you're on camera unexpectedly for a large audience. This should be illegal. It's not, but it should be.
Third, you're being played for a fool because you don't really know how the technology of Apple Pay / contactless payments works, and someone is exploiting you over it.
So we end up with a scenario where some random guy--in this case, a middle-aged man stocking the frozen pizzas--is getting robbed, humiliated, and made to look foolish by what is likely a teenage mulatto who's exploiting a type of "I'm not touching you" loophole in the social contract, where the pizza guy would go to jail for a long time if he punched the scammer because ultimately the prankster (a) hasn't stolen anything, and (b) hasn't laid a finger on the victim.
It creates a real 'naked in front of the whole class' simulation where over 7 billion people will have permanent access to an episode of "This is what the pizza guy would look like if someone were robbing him using a technology he's too old to understand. See, look how mad he is over the IDEA of losing $10! Look how stupid he is! They didn't even take any money!"
This is a worst-case scenario for the victim. Most people are not designed for this. Complete public humiliation, absolute demoralization, no rightful recourse in the eyes of the law, no way to take back what has been stolen from you because no money was actually taken; only your dignity and sense of self-worth.
This is what happens to actual Americans in 2026 who still try to live by following the rules, working hard, and sticking to the script. They get publicly humiliated by 90 IQ mystery meat ethnics exploiting them for content to earn shitcoins with which to gamble on prediction websites.
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I used to think a lot of other hunters were just lazy and didn’t want to wake up for first light, but then I eventually found out that a lot of grown ass men are just legitimately scared of the dark, and IMO that’s even worse than being lazy.
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As Chief Stewart Philip declares war on British Columbians, he has been leaving his own people to rot and die slowly on the Streets of Vancouver BC while collecting millions in Tax Money
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Our initial story: police have charged 3 people with murder in the death of Faisal Hussein, a 12-year-old Edmonton boy whose body was found 200 km north of the city. Police say he was kidnapped & murdered by people w whom he was involved in "criminality." edmontonjournal.com/news/cri…
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I don't know why so many people have trouble believing that an unplanned additon of 30,000 adults to Kitchener-Waterloo, a metro of 600,000 people in a matter of months would cause housing shortages.
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This thread makes a common fundamental error - it ignores demographics. The housing demand from a 30 day old is different than a 30 year old.
An unplanned surge in the adult population has a different impact than an unexpectedly high number of births.
AM I A DEI HIRE?
What a terrible question to have hanging over someone’s career simply because of the colour of their skin.
Imagine spending years studying, working hard, making sacrifices and earning your qualifications, only to have someone quietly wonder whether you got the job because of your abilities, or you are another DEI hire?”
Think about how insulting that is. Years of hard work and achievement reduced to race. And here’s the cruel irony: policies intended to empower minorities can sometimes leave them having to defend the very success they worked so hard to achieve.
Let’s be clear. Racism and discrimination exist everywhere you go in the world. And for sure, civilized societies must confront them. And I believe many people who support DEI genuinely want to create a fairer society. But good intentions don’t always produce good outcomes, and we should be willing to question whether our approach is helping or hurting.
I want an Alberta where every child can grow up believing something simple: If I work hard, develop my abilities and earn my qualifications, I will have a fair opportunity to succeed.
Not because someone owes me a position. Not because an institution needs someone who looks like me. And certainly not because my background should define what others expect of me. But because I have something valuable to contribute.
That’s what true inclusion should mean. Creating a fair opportunity for people to enter the room, contribute, succeed and be respected without anyone questioning why they’re there.
That is why I wholeheartedly welcome Premier Danielle Smith’s government decision to introduce legislation aimed at putting merit and qualifications at the centre of public-sector hiring. Credit where credit is due!
The Premier is bringing an important debate about merit, fairness and individual dignity into the open.
We should NOT lower the bar but definitely remove the barriers. That’s exactly what this legislation is going to fix.
DEI is nothing but replace discrimination with another form of unfairness. And don’t reduce anyone’s achievements to their race.
Your skin colour is part of who you are. It should never be the explanation for what you’ve achieved.
That’s the Alberta I believe in.
And that’s why I support Premier Danielle Smith’s proposed public-sector hiring reforms. I admire her courage in tackling an issue that too often gets buried under political correctness and fear of controversy. Whether people agree with every detail or not, this is a debate worth having.
Leadership sometimes means having the courage to challenge conventional thinking, ask uncomfortable questions and stand up for what you believe is right, even when it isn’t politically convenient.
That’s the kind of courage I respect in Premier Smith. And that’s why I support her.
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New book next week: A Capable Man and Other Stories. It’s the follow-up to Hollywood Samizdat, and looks like it might be the 2nd part of a trilogy. Stories about fatherhood, obligation, beautiful women, and the limits of competence. Watch this space.
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CBC contributor and freelance journalist Sarah Hagi (@KindaHagi) told defeated Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford that after the race it’s “prob hard to not have really dark thoughts,” that he is “alone,” and that he “should give into them.”
Bradford has young children. Multiple people immediately called the post out as disgusting and urged her to delete it. She doubled down, saying she’d say it to his face and that she doesn’t “give a fuck about Brad Bradford.”
Encouraging anyone to commit suicide—especially a public figure who just lost an election and has kids—is bad judgment that draws widespread scorn. You don’t get to treat the resulting pushback as harassment or invent a story about targeted abuse of “Muslim journalists.” This one was earned
No doubt in a few weeks there will be a scare report about the widespread harassment of Muslim journalists. This is how some bring it on themselves
Government licensed casinos, the “safe injection sites” of gambling.
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this is not a small group of people on the left anymore, but a large, dominant faction without whom democrats can’t win elections. and there is no debating them, because they aren’t interested in changing your mind. they just earnestly want you to die.
Twilight at 3:30 AM for June and July where I live? No thanks.
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Hilarious foid non sequitur.
Women value social harmony & low-conflict environments more highly than men. This makes women less tolerant of disagreement, so as they rise to higher administrative and political positions, things like censorship become a growing fixation.
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