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Jumpin on 17 April 2025
Leynos said:

There has not been a successful attempt to assassinate the president since 1963. The closest we came was in 1981 with Reagan. Ronald is pretty much the reason Republicans are the way they are today. He set the wheels in motion for the decay. There may be a lot of guns in the U,S but the only one in the last 100 years who had success had both US and Russian military training. The rest didn't know how to properly use one.

Speaking of that guy.

I wonder if he thinks this will impress Jodie Foster? :D



I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.

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SanAndreasX on 17 April 2025

I guess Kilmar Abrego Garcia is still alive in El Salvador. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) was finally allowed in to see him.



Signalstar on 17 April 2025
Bofferbrauer2 said:

Looks like the Trump administration is now starting to try banning books critical of them by ordering to delist them from Amazon:

And it's not just his book: https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/1juqjeh/trump_admin_trying_to_remove_books_from_online/

Some of those titles are gold!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1gWECYYOSo

Please Watch/Share this video so it gets shown in Hollywood.

EricHiggin on 18 April 2025
SvennoJ said:

Canadian form of protest (electoral reforms needed here as well)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/longest-ballot-protest-candidates-carleton-riding-poilievre-1.7503993

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will be facing more opponents than ever in his eighth federal campaign, thanks to dozens of protest candidates running in his riding. Nearly 80 candidates registered to run in the Ottawa-area riding of Carleton, where Poilievre has been the MP since 2004.

Most of those candidates are linked to an electoral reform advocacy group called the Longest Ballot Committee. The group wants to put a citizens' assembly in charge of electoral reform and says political parties are too reluctant to make government more representative of the electorate.

Still far less options than a Dutch voting ballot!

You vote for the candidate you want to see in parliament, no riding bullshit.

First past the post, winner takes all system sucks. We can't vote for Carney here, not even Bonnie Crombie (Ontario leader of Liberal party) have to vote for Chuck Phillips instead. And we've been pushed into a new riding, so no idea who is 'ahead' or whether it's close in the riding we're voting in now.
https://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/news/local-news/some-brant-county-residents-will-head-to-the-federal-polls-as-part-of-a-new-riding


I guess we're 'lucky' we haven't yet entirely been locked into a two party system like the USA, but it's basically Liberal vs Conservatives every time with the NDP and Block Quebeqois to align with if neither gets the majority.

It looks like Liberal+NDP again for next term with the latest poll results. So I'm guessing the safest bet is to vote for Liberal in this new riding unless NDP is ahead here and a Liberal vote would hurt the NDP vs Conservative voters.

There's a good chance it won't matter anyway as the Progressive Conservative Party is massive in Ontario. (PCP 80 NDP 27 Lib 14 seats) While not the same as the (federal) conservative party: The CPC (conservative party of Canada) is a centre-right political party that runs candidates in Federal Elections in Canada. The PC (progressive conservatives) refers to various centre-right political parties that run in provincial Elections but do not run candidates in Federal Elections. (Note however that there is significant overlap in the demographics of their voter bases and significant interaction between the federal CPC and provincial PC parties.

NDP is second, Liberal last. So maybe better to vote NDP to give them a chance to win my riding instead of the conservatives, and thus give Carney a better chance. Fucking twisted.

I know who I want to vote for but I don't know who to vote for.

Voting in a different riding now as for the provincial elections a month ago. I don't even know the NDP candidate in this new riding, Peter Werhun apparently. Can't (pointless) vote for the Green party at all: The Green Party candidate not based in the local riding, and is not actively campaigning. She advised FlamboroughToday by email that she agreed to have her name included on the FGNB ballot as a “paper candidate” to help the party achieve the 90 per cent benchmark needed for the leader to participate in national debates, and to give Green party supporters the chance to “vote with their heart” in this election.


Looking at the Provincial election results in my provincial riding

PC Will Bouma* 24,169 47.3%
NDP Harvey Bischof 12,002 23.5%
LIB Ron Fox 10,364 20.3%

Yet now we're mixed in with this riding while cutting out Brantford cit

PC Donna Skelly* 23,790 49.4%
LIB Joshua Bell 15,135 31.4%
NDP Lilly Noble 6,095 12.7%

So yeah, the conservatives are likely gonna take my riding, while leaving me guessing whether to go for Libs or NDP.
I'm thinking Lib would be better against conservatives in the new riding.

Election reforms needed! I would like my vote to count, not to get discarded in a first past the post system.

I replied to you in this Canadian thread.

Holy shit, Canada's having an election! But why?



PS1   - ! - We must build a console that can alert our enemies.

PS2  - @- We must build a console that offers online living room gaming.

PS3   - #- We must build a console that’s powerful, social, costs and does everything.

PS4   - $- We must build a console that’s affordable, charges for services, and pumps out exclusives.

PRO  -%-We must build a console that's VR ready, checkerboard upscales, and sells but a fraction of the money printer.

PS5   - ^ -We must build a console that’s a generational cross product, with RT lighting, and price hiking.

PRO  -&- We must build a console that Super Res upscales and continues the cost increases.

Machiavellian on 18 April 2025
SanAndreasX said:

I guess Kilmar Abrego Garcia is still alive in El Salvador. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) was finally allowed in to see him.

I seriously thought the guy was dead or beaten so badly that he probably would not be recognizable the way the Trump administration has been fighting to do nothing.



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SanAndreasX on 18 April 2025

Dr. Oz and RFK are spouting some scary Mengele shit.

RFK lamented that autistic people will never pay taxes.

Dr. Oz says it’s every American’s duty to take less medications so they’ll be healthier for military service.



Leynos on 18 April 2025
SanAndreasX said:

Dr. Oz and RFK are spouting some scary Mengele shit.

RFK lamented that autistic people will never pay taxes.

Dr. Oz says it’s every American’s duty to take less medications so they’ll be healthier for military service.

And Trump is talking about deporting anyone with mental illness. lol Guess I am moving at some point against my will along with millions more.

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Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

sc94597 on 18 April 2025
SanAndreasX said:


RFK lamented that autistic people will never pay taxes.

The ironic thing about this comment of his is that I am autistic. When I was diagnosed I was a point away from being diagnosed with what was called "Classical Autism" at the time. Ended up being diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) because my scores were mostly too high for "Asperger's Syndrome" but that one score being a point too low for "Classical Autism" prevented that diagnosis. 

This was a year or two before the DSM V collapsed it into Autism Spectrum Disorder (which made sense in my opinion.) 

Anyway, I paid $45,000 in local, state, federal, FICA taxes for last year. That is more than the median individual income in the U.S. Add on another $6,000 or so in sales tax and the high payroll taxes my employer pays too. 

RFK Jr. is an idiot drug addict. 

Edit:

Misremembered, the categories were "Autism Spectrum" and "Autism" and I was diagnosed according to the DSM V. Although this was a second diagnosis a few years after my first.

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SvennoJ on 18 April 2025

KFC outlets in Pakistan attacked in Gaza war protest

Police have arrested scores of people in Pakistan in recent weeks after attacks on outlets of the US fast-food chain KFC, sparked by anti-US sentiment and opposition to its support of Israel’s war on Gaza, officials said.

Police in major cities, including the southern port city of Karachi, the eastern city of Lahore and the capital, Islamabad, confirmed at least 11 incidents in which KFC outlets were attacked by protesters armed with sticks and vandalised. At least 178 people were arrested, the officials said this week.

In Lahore, police said they were ramping up security at 27 KFC outlets around the city after two attacks took place and five others were prevented.

KFC’s parent company, US-based Yum Brands, has been affected by boycotts related to Israel’s war in Gaza.

In Pakistan, local brands have made inroads into its fast-growing cola market as some consumers avoid US brands.



US firm Cisco bars discussions on Gaza

US news outlet Zeteo is reporting that Cisco fired an employee who was outspoken on Palestine, accusing them of making comments that “contribute to a harmful work environment and harm other employees”.

Zeteo shared a video of Cisco’s Chief People, Policy & Purpose Officer Francine Katsoudas announcing the new restrictions on discussions related to the Middle East during a company meeting.

“Some topics are just simply too hard, too painful, too divisive. One example specifically would be the ongoing conflict in the Middle East,” Katsoudas said. “We have made the decision that this topic cannot be discussed, cannot be debated, in company or organisation-wide meetings.”

Cisco has faced widespread criticism for providing technologies used by the Israeli military, with rights advocates accusing the firm of being complicit in the killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

“As one of the main providers of networking hardware for the Israeli military, Cisco is potentially implicated in the mass killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians” during the war, Investigate, a project of the American Friends Service Committee, says on its website.

In October, the US news outlet WIRED also reported that Cisco employees seeking to advocate for Palestine within the company said they had been marginalised.



SvennoJ on 18 April 2025

Over 1,000 foreign students in US have visas revoked amid Trump campus crackdown

The Associated Press (AP) news agency reports that at least 1,024 international students at 160 colleges, universities and university systems in the US have had their visas revoked or their legal status terminated since late March.

US President Donald Trump’s administration has argued it should be allowed to deport noncitizens over involvement in pro-Palestinian activism at campuses across the US.

But in the vast majority of visa revocations, colleges say there is no indication the targeted students had a role in protests, the AP reports. In messages to their campuses, colleges have said they are asking the federal government for answers on what led to the terminations of visa and residence status.

“These are unprecedented times, and our normal guiding principles for living in a democratic society are being challenged,” University of Massachusetts Boston Chancellor Marcelo Suarez-Orozco said.

US judge orders pro-Palestine student be moved to Vermont

A US court has ordered immigration authorities to transfer Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk to Vermont, where her legal petition to be released from detention could be reviewed while she is present in person.

Ozturk – a graduate student at Tufts University – was arrested by plain-clothed, masked immigration agents last month over her support for Palestinian rights.

A federal judge found that Ozturk has constitutional grounds to challenge her detention, dismissing the Trump administration’s argument that federal district courts cannot review its actions on immigration.

Ozturk was moved to Louisiana after her detention in what critics say is part of a government effort to keep detainees away from their supporters and lawyers – and in conservative-leaning legal districts.

“For the foregoing reasons, the Court concludes that this case will continue in this Court with Ms Ozturk physically present for the remainder of the proceedings,” US District Judge William Sessions said.