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Man respects the rejection. Is still seen as the problem.
Bonus:
This is basically the HR meme.
I mean...is she literally asking to be stalked? Like, I'm not saying that to wish it on her, I don't, but I can't read this as anything other than "Oh, you're saying I'll get a stalker? Well that's fine because those aren't even real lmao."
I think she's just mad that she can't virtue signal about how "A man can't take a hint". Or some bullshit like that.
I hate the sentiment I've seen over the past several years that is:
"Ignore consent, risk life, limb and jail, JUST IN CASE I actually want you to try harder. No my brain isn't broken by SMUT and 'Dark Romance'. I want you to take rejection, continue to stroke my ego, and then I'm going to go fuck 30 other people, tell you about it, and expect you to keep your distance until I CONSIDER you as a possibility."
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday that Alberta was "essential" to the country's future, hours after the province's leader move
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday that Alberta was "essential" to the country's future, hours after the province's leader moved the oil-rich region closer toward a referendum on independence.
Separatists in the western province spent months collecting signatures seeking to trigger a binding October vote on seceding from the nation.
On May 4, they delivered their petition to provincial officials, insisting they had collected more than enough names to force a vote under Alberta law.
But an Alberta judge shut down the process, saying the citizens' initiative was invalid because the separatists had failed to consult with Indigenous groups whose rights could be threatened if the province separated from Canada.
In an address late Thursday, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith called the judge's decision "erroneous," charging that it "interferes with the democratic rights of hundreds of thousands of Albertans."
Smith, a conservative whose political coalition includes separatists, said she supports "Alberta remaining in Canada."
But she insisted she would not let "a legal mistake by a single judge" quash a debate that needed to take place.
"It's time to have a vote, understand the will of Albertans on this subject and move on."
Smith said she had structured her question such that it does not violate the judge's ruling, because it "does not directly trigger separation."
In October, she plans to ask Albertans if they want her government "to commence the legal process necessary to hold a binding referendum" on independence.
Carney, who spent most of his childhood in Alberta, responded on Friday in a taped video address from Parliament Hill.
"Canada is the greatest country in the world, but it can be better, and we're working on making it better. We're working with Alberta on making it better," he said.
Alberta "is essential" to Canada's future, he added.
Polls show that roughly 30 percent of Alberta's five million people support independence, a record-high figure.
The separatist camp accuses Ottawa of stifling Alberta's oil industry with excessive federal influence, while blocking investment over what they view as unreasonable concern about the environment.
Carney and Smith are working together on advancing a new oil pipeline, something resisted by Carney's predecessor Justin Trudeau.
Smith has voiced hope that increased federal support for the oil industry could help tame separatist anger.
Here's the fun part, they didn't have to ask the tribals, because the treaties signed are null, they have been violated time and time again, only truly upheld in a symbolic sense.
Alberta also doesn't need the approval of the courts, it can make a Unilateral Declaration of Independence, the same way the US colonies did when they broke away from the British Empire.
Alberta possesses the fourth-largest oil reserves in the world, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explicitly championed Alberta as a "natural partner" due to its massive natural resources, and shared frustration over pipeline restrictions under Ottawa.
Adding Alberta to the US would give the US direct, uninterrupted control over the critical mid-continent energy corridor, feeding right into dozens of refineries.
Right-wing US talking heads and politicians view Alberta's conservative, independent political landscape as a natural cultural fit for the current American administration.
However, just taking in Alberta would go against what the US wants.
The US relies heavily on a unified, stable Canada to secure North American airspace, and the Arctic.
If Canada fractures into pieces, CSIS notes that joint defense frameworks like NORAD would face severe, and unpredictable disruptions.
This would leave the northern border highly vulnerable to foreign adversaries like Russia or China.
If the US moves to absorb Alberta, it destroys its relationship with the rest of Canada, Ottawa and British Columbia would immediately cut off, or heavily tax all rail, road, and pipeline transit from Alberta to the coast.
The US would find itself babysitting an isolated inland territory cut off from global shipping lanes, for a time at least, as the US and Alberta would move to reroute shipping lanes through the US.
This is why I suggest the US annex the entire nation, and while this would add 26 seats, I can assuage concerns of a leftward shift.
The common international stereotype of Canada as a uniformly progressive nation obscures a deeply rooted, highly influential conservative core.
The reality is, that Canada is secretly conservative is backed up by voting data and public opinion.
In multiple federal elections, the Conservative Party of Canada won the highest share of the total vote, even if the seat distribution allowed the Liberal Party to form a government.
This means more Canadians voted for conservative representation than for any other single party.
The massive popularity of conservatism across Canada shows that Canadians feel alienated by Ottawa's focus on progressive social policies.
Millions of Canadians prioritize economic survival, lower taxes, and personal freedom over the federal government's agenda, and it has been this way for decades.
While the federal leadership in Ottawa projects a progressive image to the world, the day-to-day governance of Canada tells a completely different story.
The vast majority of Canadians live under provincial governments led by conservative, or right-leaning premiers.
Provinces like Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario are governed by strong conservative majorities.
These provincial governments frequently team up to legally, and politically fight federal policies, such as the carbon tax, environmental regulations, and firearms legislation, proving that a massive portion of the country's institutional power is actively right-wing.
Canada's progressive leadership relies almost entirely on concentrated urban ridings in downtown Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Outside of these three major cities, in the suburban communities, small towns, and rural areas, Canadian culture is deeply traditional, self-reliant, and aligned with right-wing principles.
Treating the values of downtown Toronto as "the values of all Canadians" is precisely what has caused decades of intense political resentment.
Recent polling shows that even on issues traditionally seen as "progressive consensus" in Canada, the public has moved sharply to the right.
Due to severe housing shortages, a strained healthcare system, and rising costs, a clear majority of Canadians now believe that immigration levels have been too high for too long, and that the government's policies have broken the country's financial stability.
If you were to integrate Canada into the United States federal framework, the structural design of the system would heavily penalise urban progressives, and in turn structurally protect right-wing power.
In Canada's First Past The Post system, votes are not pooled nationally, they are locked within geographic boundaries, this produces a few distortions.
Left-wing voters are heavily concentrated in dense urban cores, winning a city riding with 85% of the vote is an "inefficient" use of votes, because any vote over 50% is essentially wasted.
Right-wing votes are spread out more evenly across rural and suburban ridings, allowing them to win more seats with fewer total votes.
If Canada were absorbed into the US system, the progressive monolith stereotype would completely dissolve.
The US legislative architecture is explicitly built to prevent densely populated, progressive urban areas from dominating the federal government.
The US Senate gives exactly two seats to every state, regardless of population, for instance, California has approx. 39 million people, yet has the same voting power in the Senate as Wyoming who have approx. 580'000 people.
If Canada's provinces became US states, right-wing strongholds like Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba would get 6 US Senators combined.
Less populated Atlantic provinces, which hold deep conservative streaks would add more right-leaning senators.
The US Senate has a built-in structural advantage for Republicans because conservative voters are spread out across a higher number of smaller, rural states.
This system gives proportional power to smaller, rural states so they aren't overwhelmed by urban coastal states.
Leftist voters in massive cities like Toronto, Vancouver, or New York can't use their high numbers to overwhelm the rest of the continent, because votes are trapped within state lines.
A candidate could win 90% of Toronto, but they still only get Ontario's fixed electoral votes.
Unlike the American system, which protects rural areas by giving every state two Senate seats regardless of population, Canada’s system is designed so that seats in the House of Commons closely track where the majority of people live.
Because Canada has urbanized rapidly, cities have naturally accumulated the vast majority of political power.
Because nearly 82% of Canadians live in urban areas, cities automatically receive the overwhelming majority of seats in Parliament.
Rural areas have massive amounts of land, but because they have very few people, their riding boundaries have to stretch for thousands of kilometres just to match the population of a few city blocks in Toronto.
Elections in Canada are not won or lost across the vast rural expanses of the country, they are decided in the dense suburban and urban "belts" surrounding major cities.
The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area contains 55-60 seats in the House of Commons.
Greater Vancouver holds nearly 30 seats.
To form a majority government in Canada, a party needs 170 seats total, a political party can completely sweep rural Canada, but if they lose the cities and suburbs of Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, they cannot legally form a government.
By subjecting Canada to the US system, I am repeating myself, I know, but I'm hammering the point home, you effectively neuter the urban areas, equalizing voting power across the nation, making Canada a nation that is deeply right-wing.
This has been my 27th bid to convince Americans to Annex Canada.
I wasn't nearly as politically "aware" back then, but what can Canada, politically, like back under Harper? Or even Cretin, sorry chretian?
It was a lot better, but still as politically compromised as it is now.
If Canada joined the US, each new state would have to write a new Constitution consistent with our system. Not sure how that would go.
The parliamentary system would be out. No more "forming a government" for the new state governments. That alone would be a major shock to the system, I'd imagine.
Louisiana uses civil law not common law, and they do fine. Canada is a lot closer to the US mainstream than that.
Back to the original post, the First Nations would be way better off under the BIA than under whoever runs their affairs in Canada.
My point was not so much the difference as the sudden change.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday that Alberta was "essential" to the country's future,
Yes because communists always need the capitalists to keep things going.
...Fascism is when someone is opposed to terrorism and assassination, I guess.
When their psychopathy is revealed, they put the clown nose on and claim it was all a joke. It's not just professional "comedians" that use this excuse.
This is what abusers do. They insult you, degrade you, and when you call them on it they tell you it’s your fault for being too sensitive.
The left is abusive.
Take a second to put down your phone, turn away from your computers. Say a prayer for the families of those who are mourning their lost soldiers this Memorial Day. God bless you and your ultimate sacrifice.
With all this redistricting efforts from Republicans in the South, you don't think they are trying to bring back Jim Crow?
No I don't. That's dumb.
Anon in case your public school history education missed this, Democrats instituted Jim Crow laws. Democrats flipped their lids when Republicans freed the slaves. Democrats didn’t even try to hide it.
(This is a real poster from 1869. It is not AI.)
Democrats have always been on the side of racism and segregation.
Civilization was built by men because men want to impress women and provide ever better for their women and children. We want to look good for other men and look admirable to women, so we build and strive.
Women are vital to this. Without women, male ambition devolves into pointless waste in rivalries, petty conflict and egotistic chest-beating. Women "civilize" men. They take that inherent restless energy, ambition and competitive spirit and by their presence and their role as mothers and wives, channel it into something much more productive.
It's almost as if we were made for each other.
If you've ever worked in a group project or went to the DMV and you still support communism you should be legally required to wear a helmet in public.
Someone tell Trump '1984' wasn't supposed to be a blueprint .. (cartoon Pat Bagley)
This just proves leftists have never read 1984.
And they don’t remember Covid. It wasn’t the “anti-vaxxers” who were dying.
I will not shut up about the covid injections. Every medical professional promised it would provide complete immunity. You can not get infected. You will not get sick. Most importantly you won't pass it on to others.
But people got sick anyway.
Well there's going to be an incredibly rare break through case but it's only like 0.1%. It WILL work as advertised.
People kept getting sick.
They must have gotten infected a few days before the second shot took full effect. Don't worry. It still works as advertised.
People were still getting sick more than a month after their second shot.
It must be a mutation! The virus was out for a year and a half but it was just the last few months where the shots were available that finally gave it the chance to mutate. You'll need a booster which they promised you wouldn't need but in the meantime it still works on the original flavor.
People were still getting sick with covid classic and the jabbed were still spreading.
For the next year it was more of the same. People still getting sick regardless of whether or not they got the shots and the ones who did insisted their own compliance was the only thing stopping the disease from killing those who didn't. The stupid antis will all die off any day now.
Finally it was blatantly obvious that the shots don't work as advertised so they changed the narrative. Vaccines don't work like that. They never worked like that. Anyone who knows anything about vaccines knows they don't work like that. All it does is make you less sick.
The problem is that at no point prior to this did the mainstream medical scene stand up and say that it doesn't work like this. In fact a select few scientists spoke up and said the shots don't work as advertised. Their careers and reputations were ruined for being evil antivaxxers.
Worse yet all the work to force the general public was based on a lie. The entire point of forcing people to get the shots and to carry proof of compliance was based on the promise that it would stop me from spreading the virus to others. The experts were supposed to know that this wasn't how it worked and they said nothing. They were never wrong. It was always your fault for not understanding the science.
That's not even getting into the heart issues associated with the shots.
The idea that maybe ultra greedy corpos fabricated the demand for a product and paid off public officials to influence people to believe a mandate was necessary is unthinkable. Clearly the only opposition to this is an opposition to science.
All it does is make you less sick.
This is the problem with marketing the Covid vaccine and why so many people are skeptical of the whole vaccine industry now. They told us it was a vaccine when it’s really a therapeutic. That’s why they can’t call the flu shot a vaccine. The flu virus is always changing, so they can’t formulate a true vaccine for it. The flu shot might keep you from getting sick, but if it doesn’t, it will at least hopefully keep you from getting horribly sick.
If Big Covid had just told us what the shot is, you wouldn’t have all this backlash now. Instead they oversold it, and even as evidence mounted against the shots’ effectiveness, they continued to bully us and threaten you with your job even if you worked from home. Public health burned through all its credibility and next time we need them, no one will be listening.
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That stating your feelings doesn’t mean anything but trying to get you to see why I am upset
not an attack on you
a chance for you to help me understand the why
Life hack from an old man: Don't give people that you don't love the authority to upset you. That includes me.
You don't know me, let alone love me, don't let my words hurt you. I'm not worthy of that authority.
If by chance my words have hurt you then perhaps you love something that I have written about. It might be a good time to reevaluate that thing to see if it is worthy of your love.
some of the replies on the USSR post are....disheartening, to say the least.
Reference post here for newcomers.
I wouldn’t let it bother you @thearcalian. Commie loving lefties aka progressives aka tankies do so many mental gymnastics and huff their own farts to the point that I am pretty sure that the vast majority have some kind of brain damage.
I get capitalism isn’t perfect with the pay to play politics and the cronyism born in board rooms where the focus is exclusively “line go up at the expense of everything”. It’s an imperfect system and I get the anger against it but instead of trying to reform and improve what is objectively a better system to live under, they just wanna rip it up and go to communism.
There are oceans of bodies, usually mass murdered in the millions by their own government, wherever you find communism. It is a system that simply does not work outside of a lecture hall.
And for those who shriek that I must be a nazi for not liking communism, I’ll point out that nazi and communism are pretty much, if not the same thing. The nazi party was the National Socialist Workers’ Party.
It was a single party rule by the National Socialist German Workers Party aka Nazi party, enforced with a secret police and paramilitary, the Gestapo, all major industries were state owned and controlled, the population was fed a steady diet of propaganda and had a strict enforcement of government censorship and of course we can’t forget the ghettos and concentration camps for Jews, political prisoners, homosexuals, the disabled and many others deemed undesirable or problematic.
That is a part-for-part direct clone with what the USSR had with the Politburo as the single party apparatus, the KGB functioning as the paramilitary secret police force, state controlled media and propaganda, state controlled industries at all levels, and state run gulags and internment camps for political prisoners and all manner of undesirables in Siberia and many other places where few, if any, ever returned from.
The USSR also banned homosexuality/LGBT rights for most of its existence and was punishable by 5 years in a Soviet prison so don’t go waving your pride flags in Soviet Russia unless you want a fast ticket to the gulag. To this day, modern Russia is one of the least progressive nations in Europe thanks to the persistent culture created by this policy. I raise this point because it amuses me to watch tankies and progressives adorned with rainbow everything try to justify a system of government that openly persecuted their very identity as one they wanna live under. TDS is gonna TDS I suppose but moving on.
In conclusion, no, progressives and tankies. If you support communism and have a raging hate-boner for Jews and Israel, you’re way more in line politically with nazis than I’ll ever be and you’ll ever admit. Regardless of how you wanna frame commies being on the left and nazis being on the right, they’re two sides of the same coin. I would put both on the left because they’re fundamentally and functionally damn near identical. That is a fact, backed up by some of the darkest chapters in humanity’s history.
History, that it seems a lotta young kids these days either don’t know or selectively wanna pick and choose from like a buffet and ignore the literal tens of millions who died at the hands of communism and socialism. Sorry @thearcalian but you and I just can’t fix the stupid in the comment section from the people who say such things because that’s willful ignorance.
No amount of us preaching about it is gonna change someone with a hardened heart.
Tagging @soonergal @annoyinglyamerican @ann-american @yetanotherdayofdrudgery @prolifeproliberty @recoiloperated @irishironclad and @theconstitutionisgayculture since y’all might also get a kick outta this rant.
The problem is these people always imagine they’ll be living in the Winter Palace looking down at the hoi polloi. They never think they might actually BE the hoi polloi.
It’s like the libs who idolize The Hunger Games or Star Wars as anti-capitalist. They think they would be Katniss or Luke or Leia. They don’t imagine they would more than likely be slaves in the spice mines or working for the Empire.
“We live in a fascist state,” she told the flight.
Why it it always left wing women who freak out on planes?
Because they can get away with it. If a man did this someone would take him down, but no one wants to hit a girl, so the women get away with it.
If men thought they could behave this way and get away with it, they’d do it too.
Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, has been elected mayor of New York City.
As one of the “downwardly mobile” (but not one who would have voted for Mamdani), this article makes some good points. The right would be wise to listen.
More proof of how the inhumane left sees babies as disposable.
They no doubt learned this tactic from Hamas
