Ive seen more “violence” at a rave.

May I remind you that the last time the Emergencies Act precursor, the War Measures Act, was used it was during the October Crisis when there were terrorists who were responsible for more than 200 bombings and dozens of robberies that left six people dead. and then the FLQ kidnapped and killed Quebec Minister of Immigration and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte and dumped his body in a car trunk. THAT required extraordinary measures for the violence. Someone tossing rocks at a vehicle does not.

None of that is true. There is not ONE video of people shitting on someone’s lawn - its downtown Ottawa, homeless people are everywhere - what there IS is video of many of the protesters CLEANING the streets, picking up garbage, shovelling walkways. And there was NO violence - except from the cops who used pepper spray, took down people violently, shot a reporter in the face at point blank range with a tear gas cartridge, and then trampled an indigenous woman when they brought in mounted patrols. You read too much bullshit news. If you watched the live feeds ALL of this is documented.

“As disturbing and disruptive the blockades and the convoy protests in Ottawa could be, they fell well short of a threat to national security,” wrote the three judges on the appeal court.

Anyone watching live feeds could easily tell this was true.

The thing is that this liberal gov and and the previous one don’t care about what was legal or right, they want their pound of flesh, so I won’t be surprised if they try to take this to the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, Chrystia has conveniently left the country, Justin is off somewhere with his astronaut, Mendicino is gone, Blair demoted, Peter Sloly, Steve Bell, Jim Watson are all gone, Jody Thomas is gone… the only people still being persecuted and dragged through years and years of “lawfare” are the convoy organizers. For a LEGAL and PEACEFUL protest as proven in COURT, not in the mass media or the court of public opinion.

What a screwed up country with no consequences for those who illegally persecuted them and continue to do so.

You know that global climate change is actually GLOBAL, right? So 98.5% of the planet’s emissions do not come from Canada. And of the tiny amount that does, its less than half coming from oil and gas. That 0.7% is a rounding error in a computation that greatly depends on what’s input.

Canada’s O and G sector is NOT the great demon you’re making it out to be - it’s barely a factor in climate change. If you REALLY want to make a change, chase the countries who are major polluters - China and the US - you know, the two places that produce almost ALL the goods you buy and consume. Start with boycotting all your purchases from those two countries and I’ll believe you actually care about climate change.

So, block the main income producer in western Canada, so that the province that imports its oil and gas from other countries and has an abundance of hydroelectric as IT’S main natural resource can be happy?

Yup, that’s exactly the kind of attitude that has made western Canada so resentful. Especially when we know we’re sending that ‘blocking’ province 14 billion a year out of the revenues of the resource they love to block. Make it make sense.

What part of it is dying? The demand for natural gas, keeps going up. We literally had two countries come to us when Russia shut down their gas lines, asking us to supply them and our (not so smart) PM at the time not only said no, but that there was ‘no business case’ for shipping more gas. Im pretty sure when there’s a customer knocking on your shop door asking when you’re gonna open up that there’s a business case.

Eww. Not likely.

Are you trying to say that a blowjob is NOT sex?

No I meant sex. Intercourse is sex. Blowjobs are sex.

Of course I dont believe in consent. Its a mans world. We take what we want when we want it. That’s the way its supposed to be. /s

C’mon man, its not your first day on the internet nor mine. You know and I know exactly where that kind of personal question leads and Im not that dumb.

You want me to discuss the intimate details of my sex life on Lemmy? LOL. Want nudes too?

Bigger breaking news: Giving someone a blowjob IS having sex with them. Whoosh.

No because she’s giving a guy a blow job she can’t claim she didnt consent to having sex with that guy. Its a nonsensical claim.

Yeah 2 hours of a full length feature movie with really good actors might hold my attention but two hours of a random youtuber, highly unlikely.

As for consent, sorry, Im used to being a loving committed relationship, not one night stands with strangers while cheating on my fiance after picking up someone in a bar. I know what my wife likes and doesnt like and once the train leaves the station, we’re not pausing to get ‘informed consent’ about every little change up. But you do you. Or someone else. Whichever :)

I didnt watch the video (2 hours? No thanks) but I think the judge made it clear that the primary witness gave unreliable and untrustworthy testimony which really sank her credibility in this case.

It hit peak head shaking wonder when the Crown prosecutor argued that just because she was sucking on a guy’s johnson doesnt mean she was consenting to other sex acts? Specifically “You cannot treat that as a communication of consent to any other sexual act.” Which means, in that lawyer’s world, one must ask consent to every individual act.

Does that include changing positions good sir? “Uh, just because I did doggy style doesnt mean I consented to reverse cowgirl. How DARE you assume I consented!”

Hmm, I get the impression these people have never actually had a sexual relationship? Probably just safer to print out a consent form for each act and then have both parties sign before each act to make it clear they were both ok with it. I heard that works /s

Im not going to bother watching this. 456,000 Albertans just signed a petition to keep Alberta IN Canada. You know how hard it is to collect nearly half a million signatures with 6,000 volunteers in a few weeks time? VERY hard. But they did it because Albertans dont want to leave, that’s just hype and hot air.

There are more cases. You can google them. The Democracy Fund has been busy defending these people and getting their jobs back and getting their fines quashed. I didnt say that the vaccines weren’t legitimate. I was presenting the clear fact that people were indeed forced to comply in taking them. And some lost their jobs for not doing it. And some were given ridiculous fines for not doing it. Which contradicts the statement above that no one in Canada was forced to take the vaccine. We most definitely were.

No, telling someone they will lose their job if they dont get vaccinated is not ‘forcing’. Its more like ‘gentle persuasion’ right?

Of course people were forced. There are quite a few cases in Canada where people were laid off or fined who subsequently got their jobs back after the lunacy was over and they won their case in court. The Democracy Fund has been fighting these cases all over Canada.

One example: https://www.ccpartners.ca/blog/details/the-employers-edge/2023/03/23/arbitrator-reinstates-employee-dismissed-for-just-cause-for-not-providing-proof-of-vaccination

Another: https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/former-westjet-employee-awarded-65k-for-wrongful-dismissal-over-covid-19-vaccination/

And $300,000 in fines for Amish people and liens on their property is not “forced”??: https://www.thedemocracyfund.ca/amish_community_overcomes_financial_barriers