PatrickoftheG

PatrickoftheG, 1 day ago to random

Special thanks to the nice mattress store for not asking for my e-mail address.

PatrickoftheG, 3 days ago to Canada

What's your favourite RCMP scandal, #Canada ? Others can play by adding in fun incidents involving their gendarmerie too.

Once upon a time in Alberta, there was an Albertan farmer who complained about the pollution from a nearby oil site. He complained a lot. He might have even tried bombing them. The oil company didn't like him.

The oil company convinced the RCMP to bomb their infrastructure, which they did, so they could pin it on the farmer. The horsey police did so

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/rcmp-bombed-oil-site-in-dirty-tricks-campaign-1.188599

PatrickoftheG, 3 days ago to random

Haiti has a troubled relationship with slavery, what with being full of slaves who were liberated thanks to the French Revolution and then reenslaved, and then freed themselves, and then made to pay reparations.

This Memorial Day, I ask you to remember the soldiers who died in the Marine Invasion of Haiti a war ::checks notes:: about invading Haiti and reinstating slavery again to build infrastructure for the United Fruit Company.

9/11 never forget they hate us for our freedom.

PatrickoftheG, 3 days ago to random

A thing I find funny about Americans and the American mindset is that they truly believe, if the other guy wins, or the courts decide, all those regulatory agencies will go away.

My brothers and sisters in Christ, they don't really exist right now if you have the money available to play the game. All the fight is just so that the players won't even have to pay the right bribes in the future. Pardon me. Not bribes. Campaign donations and PACs.

https://undark.org/2024/05/22/beef-climate-friendly-usda/

PatrickoftheG, 4 days ago to random

Even cows know better than to trust the average man.

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-reveals-cuddled-cows-therapy-animals.amp

PatrickoftheG, 7 days ago to random

I agree with the #whitehouse on this one.

Hamas would need to kill at least 25000 more innocent Israeli women and children for there to be equivalence between what it did and what Israel did; oh, and they would need to grow Tel Aviv by about 4 times its natural population, and then starve it and thirst it for six months also. Also while eliminating all its civilian infrastructure.

PatrickoftheG, 8 days ago to random

A guilt that I carry is this.

I hate cleaning up dishes and tools for meal preparation. I hate it so much that I basically live on disposal plates and cutlery, like a monster. I hate it so much I will prepare mostly just slops to eat from one pot or something so I don't have to do anything.

If it takes longer to plan, get, make, and clean up after than it does to eat I don't want any part of it at all.

My partner? She loves to cook. She makes delicious, happy food that is a joy to eat...

PatrickoftheG, 12 days ago to random

I do not understand how this isn't a war against the helot class, at best, or pure and applied ethnic cleansing at worse. It's only important government ministers calling for it, right?

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-14/ty-article-live/u-s-germany-slam-right-wing-israelis-attack-on-gaza-bound-aid-convoy/0000018f-74c8-dd07-adbf-fffa73560000?liveBlogItemId=1166400525

PatrickoftheG, 15 days ago to random

No, it's not.

Most websites aren't even worth surrendeeing an email address to read an article, even if it only takes ten seconds to block them afterwards.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68977522

PatrickoftheG, 15 days ago to random

"The IDF did not directly deny accounts of people being stripped of their clothing or held in diapers. Instead, the Israeli military said that the detainees are given back their clothing once the IDF has determined that they pose no security risk."

This is, for sure, the most moral army the in the world, yes sir.

Fantastic there's no power in the West that will turn down the money they make from letting this continue.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/10/middleeast/israel-sde-teiman-detention-whistleblowers-intl-cmd/index.html

PatrickoftheG, 17 days ago to random

I like this building.

I think it's a pool. I should come to this hood more often.

PatrickoftheG, 17 days ago to random

I wonder why Canada doesn't actually favour a two-state solution to anything? Wouldn't happen to have anything to do with the layers of amazing settler colonialism, would it?

https://montrealgazette.com/news/national/canada-abstains-on-palestine-recognition-at-un-open-to-statehood-before-peace

PatrickoftheG, 19 days ago to random

Just made authentic Southern biscuits for the first time in my life, going so far as to order fancy American flour for the occasion. A little disappointed to discover these are just scones, aren't they? I mean they are good. And my breakfast sausage gravy is divine. I was just hoping for more?

PatrickoftheG, 21 days ago to random

The fun thing about ethnic/religious nationalism is that it's really trivially easy for politicians to turn normal people into racist shit. Easier if you have the media on your side.

It's basically a cheat code to win elections and works everywhere.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/world/india-votes-in-third-phase-of-national-elections-as-modi-escalates-his-rhetoric-against-muslims

PatrickoftheG, 24 days ago to random

It has been 156 days since Henry Kissinger died. Shame on us all for letting him get to old age.

PatrickoftheG, 27 days ago to random

I think there's a fairly high number of posters out there who, after leaving a public comment, really only want to see the spiritual equivalent of "YAS KING" or YAS QUEEN" and then get upset if it's anything else, and then call it a day I guess. Surely there's has to be a better place for that than an open forum?

PatrickoftheG, 29 days ago to random

The crazy thing about the American election isn't that people are voting for Biden, listen I totally understand having to vote for a lesser evil and to hold your nose when doing so, but the people who think he has been a force for good ever in his life? Hold your nose, vote, that's fine. But to see his historical record and be proud? The Hell?

I can't tell if it's just good propaganda or that thing where people can't help see the world as my team vs that team, just wowsers shameful though.

PatrickoftheG, 1 month ago to random

I am old enough, in a place that was backward enough once upon a time, to not have been issued a birth certificate at all. I had a baptismal certificate issued from a church and that was good enough.

That was how intertwined church and state was around here. It is a level that many Americans aspire to. They should probably ask themselves what happened next. I think they would find a hilarious surprise waiting.

PatrickoftheG, 1 month ago to random

"Why are you wearing a mask?"

"Lady, I wear it to hide my facial hair. You should too."

Awkward morning.

PatrickoftheG, 1 month ago to random

I was told that I owe it to my ancestors to make as many children I as I can. I believe my ancestors owed it to me not to pass along such a shitty world.

At least I'm not going to do that, and boy is it going to get shittier fast because I do not have the courage to do what we all know must be done.

PatrickoftheG, 1 month ago to random

Remember, kiddies, if your government and giant corporations are raking in big dollars right now by supporting international ethnic cleansings, it may be worth your time to consider that they are not above killing you for the money either.

PatrickoftheG, 1 month ago to random

Seeing the "they didn't burn witches" things going around again, and the adjacents.

Note: They burned anyone who they accused and who confessed. Which is everyone, because all you need to do to make anyone confess to any crime at all is to sleep deprive them for two days.

Note 2: And when you pay someone by the number of witches they find, that technique is an amazing way to skyrocket yourself to exciting new income levels.

PatrickoftheG, 1 month ago to random

"All of the henchmen were murdered PG-13ly." ~Tom Chick

The loathing these people have for when R movies have their sequels toned down for the more delicate among us.

PatrickoftheG, 1 month ago to random

A fun thing to think about is when your preferred application folds, who buys their data and gets to use it for what? Just because X company is legit (it probably isn't) doesn't mean the vultures that get to pick its corpse clean are going to be legitimate.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/grindr-users-seek-payouts-after-dating-app-shared-hiv-status-with-vendors/

PatrickoftheG, 1 month ago to random

Took a moment for me to realize it wasn't you know who. "Why is he on a sign?" asked my brain before realizing.