getfiscal posted:

yes. i've sat in the house before in model parliament, and people i've talked to today are pretty surprised and upset about it. i just talked to a person at subway and she said she has to take a double shift tomorrow because her manager drove to ottawa to be with his university-age kids. it doesn't affect me much but i get why people are upset.

i'm not surprised, i'm not sure how a person could read/post/think about things such as are discussed at internet forum tHE rHizzonE and be surprised by extreme political violent acts, but even with my expectations of everything going to shit i'm still not going to enjoy seeing things become more militarized and violent and fearful.

i would prefer it if everyone just simultaneously realized that our society is organized in a shit way and stopped fucking around

but oh well

jools posted:

bbc radio 4 just played cbc radio 1 for about half an hour this evening and it had some guy going on about "an attack on our culture and way of life". it was pretty cool. still not a patch on a Troop getting straight up beheaded though

we don't have a lot of murders here or anything so it doesn't take much for there to be a huge impact to everyday society. pretty sure a beheading would take us right from hockey and polite smiles to armbands and salutes in like a week

drwhat posted:

jools posted:

bbc radio 4 just played cbc radio 1 for about half an hour this evening and it had some guy going on about "an attack on our culture and way of life". it was pretty cool. still not a patch on a Troop getting straight up beheaded though

we don't have a lot of murders here or anything so it doesn't take much for there to be a huge impact to everyday society. pretty sure a beheading would take us right from hockey and polite smiles to armbands and salutes in like a week

your murder rate is like 50% higher than the UK's, is the funny thing.... i think "psychologically" its like the UK thinks of itself as a big-boy nation where big-boy things happen like Teror Attaq so theres a certain level of taking it on the chin domestically but also being warmongering shits abroad. whereas canada is a bunch of fucking pussies.

tpaine posted:

oi bruv, we sent in 300 blokes to put a cork in the ol' taliban. that's summat you wankers couldn't be arsed to toss in. yeh?

don't get all browned off, hoser. montreal alone sent in 200 french/english dictionaries (etc.)

Enjoy your probation

jools posted:

drwhat posted:

jools posted:

bbc radio 4 just played cbc radio 1 for about half an hour this evening and it had some guy going on about "an attack on our culture and way of life". it was pretty cool. still not a patch on a Troop getting straight up beheaded though

we don't have a lot of murders here or anything so it doesn't take much for there to be a huge impact to everyday society. pretty sure a beheading would take us right from hockey and polite smiles to armbands and salutes in like a week



your murder rate is like 50% higher than the UK's, is the funny thing.... i think "psychologically" its like the UK thinks of itself as a big-boy nation where big-boy things happen like Teror Attaq so theres a certain level of taking it on the chin domestically but also being warmongering shits abroad. whereas canada is a bunch of fucking pussies.

yeah like any imperialist state has narratives about violence that have no basis in reality. in canada the discourse around violence is extremely racist, in a quiet subtle mode of "things Other people do to each other when they're not white" so your average white person doesn't even think about it. there's absolutely nothing in the public consciousness like chav hooliganism or getting shot at by appalachian hillbillies(???) or whatever. so of course once they are forced to conceive of violence happening to them that racialized element completely dominates their imaginations.

i had the surreal experience of visiting my hometown (at the time the Murder Capital of Canada, runner up in every other category of violent crime, and overwhelmingly white) and being told how brave i was living in the dangerous big city with all those "ethnic tensions." if you try to tell people that, for example, toronto is one of the safest cities in canada (and not just the suburbs) they will flat out refuse to believe you.

i might have a distorted perspective on all this because i'm in alberta and oil money turns people into nightmare monsters but i know some amount of this permeates throughout the rest of the country

shriekingviolet posted:

i'm in alberta and oil money turns people into nightmare monsters

alberta owns, people just get shanked in the safeway in edmonton for whatever. oil money
(i was born there and left asap)

most canadian establishment concepts about the world are vestigial british imperial ideas. tut tut, shame about those browns, eh wot

plus a bunch of liberal multiculturalism jerkoff stuff

tpaine posted:

don't listen to any rhizzoner who tells you that it's your state or province or whatever that is uniquely awful. as a floridian, i get it here a lot but you and me shrienkingviolent, we know that's false. we know that the rest of our countrymen are just as bereft of value. only difference is, it's a little warmer here. outside at least, not inside

i think it would be an advantage to grow up in florida, you'd discover the horrific emptiness of modern life faster and then be able to concentrate on drinking yourself to an early death, masturbating, and playing video games

oh and posting about it

tpaine posted:

dr qhat

i think every time i click on your music youtubes i feel like i'm in a 70s scifi film that explores existential dread and horror. like solaris

i guess that fits your overall thesis about humanity though so good choice

shriekingviolet posted:

i love edmonton and it owns

ok stockholm syndrome guy. well maybe it isn't horrible, but it really doesn't have a lot going on and when you're 17 you want to go to a "real" city, so i left and didn't come back (much). it really doesn't compare to toronto or montreal for places that feel like real functional neighbourhoods and communities. edmonton always felt like an empty concrete box to me.

but yes people's perception of danger is funny/sad. like people in vancouver losing their shit about the Downtown East Side because you can see poor people there. actual, living poor people. i was walking with my gf once to some place over there and a cop actually stopped us to tell us that "we shouldn't be going that way". i guess i look acceptable for poorzone entry by myself but not when escorted by a lady

daddyholes posted:

*churns up*