Dervish

Holy fuck

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The Nexerus said
^ Restrictions on personal freedoms have decreased under the current government.The G20 protesters flew in to do so, and not just from other places in Canada. There are some people so disillusioned that they'll spend a month's salary to go protest the government for no particular reason.The world would be a significantly better place if everyone who calls themselves an anarchist disappeared overnight.

I still don't know why they host G20 summits, because I seriously wonder what they accomplish other than the host city getting trashed, dozens if not hundreds of people arrested and detained (often illegitimately), and sometimes people get killed. Couldn't they all, I don't know, have a Skype call and save the tax payers a boatload of money, and if they did have to meet up, not spend millions on making things like fake lakes and other giant money sinks? The G8 summit in Huntsville had barely any protestors because nobody wants to drive that far up North, and the police can block off the highways leading it it. Why not hold the G20 there, or at one of the several military bases where you can easily prevent civilian access?

At this rate we should just declare independence!

JUSTICE!

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Shy said
Please don't take our glorious leader.

The man. The legend.

The last video sounds like some kind of shit you'd see in WWE.

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The Nexerus said
Good answer.I like small government, but I'm not an anarchist nutjob. Investing in the police force is rarely done to discourage dissent, least of all in somewhere like Canada.

Yeah, usually the population's pretty chill.

Unless their hockey team shits the bed in the playoffs.

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Doivid said
^ see what I mean about Dervish's role lately, guys?
also you can't be a delegate to convention if you oppose the very idea of it, now can you dervlesberg?!

I don't need to be no stinkin' delegate to get shit done here.

Viva la Revolution. Or something.

Doivid said
You're preaching to the choir, but I was still curious. :x

It was mostly a general statement for everyone, it just kind of veered off my reply to you. El oh el. :D

Smiral said
>implying we're not in the same generation

You ain't in Gen X boy

I'd be actually interested to find out how many people on RPG aren't Gen Y/ Z (pretty sure they decided that that's started now).

Bigger question is, what the hell are they going to do after Z?

natsumehack said
It's not 3/4 nat shit4/5 sounds about right.

I lulz'd.

Seriously, though. I don't actually have a problem with you for the most part, since you are actually capable of posting something witty and insightful when you actually try. Remember when you did that resolution to cut back on the nonsense? That was gold, Natty boy.

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Doivid said
Let's keep in mind whenever one 'side' pushes a policy/law that gives more power to a group (like the police) it's usually not coming from a political ideology, but instead a precaution against civil unrest. I'm not saying it's impossible that liberals would have supported the law, but by and large anyone at the grass roots level was either complicit or being used. From a purely strategic point of view, it's just practical for holding onto power.

Political parties up here have this habit of introducing bills without consulting public opinion, and it's often been the reason they've been promptly booted out the next election.

Trust me, I'm politically moderate, I actually lean more liberal than conservative in a lot of ways, and this current conservative administration's done quite a few things I'm not exactly comfortable with, so I wouldn't be opposed to a change of power in the next election.

I'm still allowed to call out a government for making awful decisions that enable a scandal-ridden police force to do shit like that out on it. The main problem with previous liberal administrations is they're the kind of party that does things without really thinking about it, so they end up doing a lot of awful, uninformed things without really weighing in if it's necessary. It's the kind of mentality that gets playground equipment banned at schools because kids might hurt themselves (totally happens), bans tag at schools (happens), and basically coats everything in a thick layer of political correctness as to not offend anyone, resulting in everyone getting frustrated. Not to mention approving a bunch of projects that go way over budget and are often completely unnecessary/ alternate solutions weren't sought. It's part of the reasons I left Ontario, the provincial liberal governments that have been in power for nearly as long as I've been alive have been mind-flayingly awful and have done a lovely job running the economy into the shitter.

To give you an idea of how bad it is, all you need to do is look at Rob Ford. Now, he's pretty right-wing, but people were so desperate for a change after horrific city mismanagement that they took a chance on that guy.

Desperate people do stupid things.

Once again, I'd like to lament that I'm not anti-liberal, just the particular parties that had been elected that I've lived under since I've been alive.

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Doivid said
How would this be enforced?Can spam afford to curtail any kind activity, if it was possible?

I don't see the point of trying to start a Crusade over posters who don't type like everyone else. Spam's not an exclusive VIP club, everyone's welcome to it. People are complaining it's stagnant and awful and all the old guard is gone and blah blah blah, being hostile to new people who legitimately haven't done anything wrong than have a different manner of posting is a pretty awful way to revitalize the community.

Face it, the old "golden age" of Spam's come and gone, and when it hits its stride again, it'll be different. About all anyone can do is politely suggest people do or don't do something instead of basically telling them to fuck off. If you want people to post threads so the forum isn't 3/4 Nat Bullshit, then don't chase them off.

If it were any easier, it would be all your mothers.

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Oh no, somebody who's nice is using a lot of emoticons. Better overreact and insist they're a blight on humanity and indicative of a failing generation.

*Spam Logic*

There's a lot of deeply lodged rectal sticks up in this thread.

Seriously, out of all the awful shit people post around here, excessive emotes are hardly the worst of it. Stop getting your grannie panties in a knot, boys.

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Goldmarble said
One of those?People who likes firearms, likes modified cars, and likes the occasional large quantity soft drink? Who doesn't give a damn if you're gay, straight, bi, pan, or asexual...and does wish that at the very least, the laws would be changed to allow same sex couples to have the same rights and responsibilities as "traditional marriages", whether that union is called a marriage or not?Which "one of those" am I?

We should meet up for a shooting day at some point.

Anyways, what's worse is when your idiot liberal government decides to give the RCMP powers to change firearms laws without telling anyone and then decides to ban a shitload of rifles that were never used in a single crime since they were imported, turning thousands of law abiding Canadian citizens into criminals overnight because the property they legally paid for is now apparently illegal.

Bullshit number one.

And the year before, forcing High River to evacuate because of flooding and then taking the opportunity to break into people's houses to confiscate their firearms without warrants and saying the owners can get them back if they prove ownership, which if their house is flooded, might as well be destroyed.

Bullshit number two.

So, to recap, the RCMP has been fucking over law abiding citizens for stupid, inexcusable reasons because they think military-style guns are scary looking, even though they're almost never used for anything illegal. Meanwhile, since 2003, 20 people have been killed by the police using Tasers, which I'd like to point out were meant to prevent people from dying from gunshots.

TL;DR Screw the coddling, ill-informed government that decides that the police should have the ability to change laws instead of enforcing them. I shouldn't have to lose my personal property that I spent nearly $1000 dollars on legally after going through the long process to obtain a license to do so because some asshole with a pen decided that it was a scary looking weapon that might suddenly be converted into an automatic weapon after it passed several inspections and import requirements to demonstrate that it in fact could not. This whole thing makes about as much sense as giving the police powers to ban cars because somebody MIGHT get into an accident with one and be tempted to speed.

"Oh man, those Corvettes go mighty fast. Scary. Better make them prohibited, just to be sure."

It's the exact same thing, only people have committed waaaay more crimes with Corvettes than with the guns they banned.

All because some jackoff Liberal government back in the late 90's decided that the police should have the power to do whatever the fuck they want.