All purpose news and politics thread part v: The quickening

[Gray Lensman]

Fun fact: There is no proper separation of church and state in Canada. Ontario (one of the most liberal provinces, if not the most liberal) has public Catholic schools paid by tax dollars and Christianity runs deep there. Even the idea that millions of tax dollars shouldn't go directly into Catholic coffers is utterly foreign to the majority there.

Not really surprising when I hear it, even though I wasn't aware of the fact. With Canada's history as a British colony (where the head of state is also the head of the church) and peaceful independence, the thought of separating the two probably never came up.

[GindyPosts]

Broccoli Samosas on Trump's menu to Namaste India: Why this may be the first time someone close to him may see Trump eat a vegetable

Naturally, conservative Indians who idolize our Fearless Leader complained on Twitter today about the gall for the event to serve Trump a vegetarian menu, ignoring the fact that the country of over a billion is filled with vegetarians, and suggested that to serve him such a disgusting thing as a broccoli samosa was a disgrace. Then again, their leader is currently working on ostracizing and filing every Muslim in India into concentration camps and rewriting history doing so, with his followers also criticizing those who call attention to this by going "What about Kashmir?!"

Don't they know his diet largely consists of McDonald's and well-done steaks drowning in A1? Besides, samosas are deep fried, so nutritionally, they're the same.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

It just keeps coming and coming

Bernie Staffer Mocked Warren’s Looks, Pete’s Sexuality on Private Twitter Account

Positively revolting. While Mora was fired, one suspects another troglodyte will fill the void and continue the nastiness. Sanders needs to put his foot down and tell his surrogates to stop the bullshit, and do so publicly so everyone knows he won’t put up with the Trump-like vulgarity.

[Theleviathan]

It really is a no win situation. Biden, Buttigieg, Bloomberg, and Buttigieg would be complete fools if they didn't find a way to turn every question into a Bernie hatefest. If whoever is preparing them isn't saying "go after Bernie, go after Bernie, go after Bernie" they should be hung. Healthcare? "We can't talk about healthcare without bringing up how crazy Medicare for All is". Education? "Bernie wants rich kids to get tax money to go to college". Foreign policy? ".... **** the Iraq War was really the right move and Bernie is a fool". I don't care anything. Scream Castro. Scream Communist. Scream Russia. Scream guns.

Because I'll tell you right now, this is the election for many of those people on stage. They won't be viable after Super Tuesday if things go the way they have been.

Yup, I expect tomorrow to be akin to 4-5 Warrens leveling their best shots at Bernie's Bloomberg. He's going to get the ire of that entire field on stage and they will look to puncture every weakness and rattle him.

As just an honest observer, it's by far the most interesting debate. It'll probably be the most crucial one of the entire primary.

[Theleviathan]

Fun fact: There is no proper separation of church and state in Canada. Ontario (one of the most liberal provinces, if not the most liberal) has public Catholic schools paid by tax dollars and Christianity runs deep there. Even the idea that millions of tax dollars shouldn't go directly into Catholic coffers is utterly foreign to the majority there.

Canada, like all of Europe, gets romanticized by the left. But truthfully, every nation has a ton of shitty stuff behind the curtain. And that's even with it being mostly a bunch of lily white populations with limited cultural diversity. Hell, speaking English vs. French is enough to have secession talks. Imagine what the canucks would do with our levels of religious, racial, or cultural diversity. Europe is the same - most of those nations have nowhere near the diversity, or the lineage of colonial impression, of many other nations including the U.S.

That's not to say diversity is bad, just that it presents a lot of challenges for a society to work through.

[Celgress]

Positively revolting. While Mora was fired, one suspects another troglodyte will fill the void and continue the nastiness. Sanders needs to put his foot down and tell his surrogates to stop the bullshit, and do so publicly so everyone knows he won’t put up with the Trump-like vulgarity.

"Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.”

"Hatred unifies the true believers."

Eric Hoffer 1951

I think for the Bernie Bros their Devil is the Democratic "Establishment". Anyone who they think is standing in Bernie's way automatically becomes part of this "Establishment" and must be eliminated by whatever means necessary. They also feel a need to dehumanize their Devil because those who stand against their glorious vision of the future must be "evil".

[GindyPosts]

Canada, like all of Europe, gets romanticized by the left. But truthfully, every nation has a ton of shitty stuff behind the curtain. And that's even with it being mostly a bunch of lily white populations with limited cultural diversity. Hell, speaking English vs. French is enough to have secession talks. Imagine what the canucks would do with our levels of religious, racial, or cultural diversity. Europe is the same - most of those nations have nowhere near the diversity, or the lineage of colonial impression, of many other nations including the U.S.

That's not to say diversity is bad, just that it presents a lot of challenges for a society to work through.

Oh, there's right wing stuff in Canada, for sure (such as the National Citizens Alliance). I've mentioned how if Ted Cruz was back in Canada, he would definitely be a member of the People's Party of Canada when someone discussed what infamous Quebec creation Caillou would have become if he grew up on Twitter. It's just that they, like you said, don't have the ethnic diversity we do. The only major issues they have are for diversity are the French Canadians (Quebecois) and the Native Inuits, to which they created Nunavut, and in the case of the latter, haven't exactly spent much money or resources improving the infrastructure in that isolated province, since they didn't expect the natives and others to start moving to Iqaluit and other towns en masse after 1999.

[Celgress]

Oh, there's right wing stuff in Canada, for sure (such as the National Citizens Alliance). I've mentioned how if Ted Cruz was back in Canada, he would definitely be a member of the People's Party of Canada when someone discussed what infamous Quebec creation Caillou would have become if he grew up on Twitter. It's just that they, like you said, don't have the ethnic diversity we do. The only major issues they have are for diversity are the French Canadians (Quebecois) and the Native Inuits, to which they created Nunavut, and in the case of the latter, haven't exactly spent much money or resources improving the infrastructure in that isolated province, since they didn't expect the natives and others to start moving to Iqaluit and other towns en masse after 1999.

Keep in mind the Inuits are only one tribe or nation among many. These tribes are spread out throughout all provinces and territories but most are found in more northern and remote areas because that is where the reserve system penned them up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nations

[Superbat]

LMAO

Pete went to a protest for a photo op and was chased away

[Superbat]

How Does Bernie Pay for His Major Plans?

https://berniesanders.com/issues/how...s-major-plans/

[InformationGeek]

Meanwhile, I managed to screenshot this since the original tweet got deleted and this reply was the only way save that Bloomberg tweet.

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[Celgress]

WTH did I just see (above tweet)!?

[Tendrin]

So, a bill was introduced in the South Dakota legislature that:

(1) Permit any form of marriage that does not involve a man and a woman;
(2) Appropriate benefits to persons who enter a marriage other than a marriage involving a man and a woman;
(3) Permit counties to issue marriage licenses to persons other than for a marriage involving a man and a woman;
(4) Treat sexual orientation as a suspect class or as a basis of prohibited discrimination;
(5) Recognize a person's belief that that person was born a gender that does not accord with the biological sex of the person as determined by that person's anatomy at birth;

It looks like the bill has already been withdrawn because holy crap it's bad.

https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislativ...uced&Bill=1215

It also tries to ban trans people from existing outright because of course it does. Hey, WBE! The sponsor is Representative Tony Randolph. Got him in the list?

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

Meanwhile, I managed to screenshot this since the original tweet got deleted and this reply was the only way save that Bloomberg tweet.

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Bloomberg is truly garbage and it's kind of gross that certain people are willing to toss their moralities aside to prop up a racist like him because he isn't Donald Trump. He's a Republican who was behind one of the most racist policies of the last decade who blames poor people for every problem with the country.

[Celgress]

Bloomberg is truly garbage and it's kind of gross that certain people are willing to toss their moralities aside to prop up a racist like him because he isn't Donald Trump. He's a Republican who was behind one of the most racist policies of the last decade who blames poor people for every problem with the country.

I can't vote for him because of that and, well, the stupidity of the Big Gulp debacle.