Well, no shit. This international student scam should have never been allowed to happen. The government ripping off Canadians is one thing, we're used to it but the government ripping off the people of the world is another thing entirely.
So far I've met, or talked to 5 or 6 Indians who don't even know how fucked they are because the government lied to them. They've saved up enough to come here, pay for maybe a year of school and 8 months in a rooming house and if they can score a minimum wage job they may even get a chance to eat something too.
All of this seems great until you hear the courses they're taking. It's all dead-end shit that they've been sold by a salesman posing as an international student advisor.
1-year certificates in marketing, digital communications, sports management, interior design, human resources and worse. Just ridiculous classes for someone who wants to immigrate and doesn't know the culture.
They're being sold on taking the classes that most Canadians avoid because they know that it won't lead to a job.
Of course they're graduating, not being able to find employment and having to return to their countries as penniless failures. Of course they're pissed about it, and trying to fix the situation.
Just to sponsor someone as an employer, you have to hire them, fill out a bunch of paperwork then send in off to the government for approval, and that approval will take 8-12 weeks.
That's a lot of hoops for an employee who doesn't know the culture, may not have great language skills and to make matters worse, firing them will make you feel like garbage.
Even interviewing them for a garbage position makes you feel like shit. I once interviewed for a team that was doing outbound calling for duct cleaning; even the most desperate Canadian barely gives a shit about such a job but the I'd have to deal with international students whose study terms were up. They'd always be dressed their best, were positive about the role, tried their best to impress you and were very nervous about getting rejected.
They'd get rejected of course. The job was only for a 6 week contract, 6 hours a day with no breaks, minimum wage, work weekends and holidays (not that the applicants were told that, of course.)
You have to feel bad for them. They shouldn't be allowed to immigrate, but our government and colleges shouldn't be taking advantage of them.
It's gross and un-Canadian. They have a right to be pissed.
SARS in the early days was fucking terrifying.
The people who got it at first are still crippled to this very day. SARS fucked up a few thousand people very badly.
SARS didn't go away, it just mutated to the point where it became utterly harmless. Everyone has had SARS at this point, without being sick or even noticing.
Any rapidly mutating virus becomes inert at a blinding pace because it's far more advantaged by not fucking up the infected. Every mutation that kills someone, or in the case of SARS fucks up the lungs to the point where someone can't produce a powerful cough prevents itself from being spread.
The way that disease progressed from deadly to harmless rocked the worlds of epidemiology and bioweaponry.
Imagine a disease that went from deadly pandemic status to nothing in a matter of months? Imagine a disease that could trash a country for a couple of months yet be gone by the time the invasion was ready?
That's SARS.
Much like SARS before it.
A more suspicious person than me might note that due to insufficient measures, SARS went from world-destroying plague to benign disease that doesn't hurt anyone in a matter of months.
Which of course, was what made it so interesting to bio-weapon researchers because it was a plague with initially dire effects, but that rapidly became safe withing a relatively short period of time which makes it ideal for warfare.
Provided that it doesn't fizzle out too soon, of course. Slowing down transmission increases the time that SARS would have taken to become harmless.
This US election is so fucked. The only consolation is that at least it isn't 1912 and the anti-interventionist isn't being gifted a win.
(Not that I wouldn't have gone Bull Moose, of course.)
I like the vibe here at the moment.
We just need to make an effort to post more rather than hanging out in the comments.
As for people, they can come when they want but there's nothing wrong with a slow board. The slowest boards are the closest boards.
Metacanada had way more upvotes, it didn't have that many more people.
I'm very down with the .win boards. The vibe is far more positive than reddit and it's growing over time.
I'm enjoying this.
Fucking hell. That triggered me.
He did, but I'm not even sure that caused his overdose because he was doing meth and fentanyl in the most uncomfortable way.
Oral doses take a while to take effect, up the ass is a very unpredictable way to take drugs because the entire thing is one big mucus membrane.
Either way, the cops get off on October 15. Right in time for the debates and the election.
I bitch about Canadian airline prices all the time but I wouldn't take a flight with Spirit Airlines and their $50 flights for all the cheese in Switzerland.
I've seen at least 4 fights involving this airline in the past month or so and now there's a video of a black woman blocking a white woman from using the bathroom due to white privilege and black supremacy? That's a new one, I must say.
The proliferation of black social media spaces really hasn't been good for a lot of them. There's a lot of supremacist writing, bizarre theories, Farrakhan quotes and general craziness with no educated voices at all. They misinterpret all kinds of things and use them to form insane theories which this woman seems to taken to be gospel.
This won't end well. That woman managed to make an entire plane of people think forbidden thoughts, I'm sure and an outbreak of hardcore racism seems to be inevitable at this point.
I just feel sorry for all of the decent black people, because they're the majority and they are going to suffer along with the BLM and Black Supremacist lunatics when they're innocent of their sins.
Obama was terrible for race relations. Utterly terrible.
"Freeland's overweight boyfriend."
Perfect. Just Perfect.
We'll see. Even if there's a serious crackdown on election day people might be dissuaded from voting.
That being said, it's America and disrupting voting is a serious move so I'm sure that the riot teams will be on stand-by because if they aren't serious violence will break out.
The problem with the system is that by the time the executive who made the decision to off-shore the coding's actions start to have consequences, they're generally in another company after using the amount that profits increased to get themselves another job.
It happens all over the place. It's a terrible trend and it's wrecking our productivity.
The problem was that he supported her after she quit her job. That means that she's been dependent on him according to the courts and that he's paying for her house. Most people don't have the means to do that.
The government takes a dim view of people supporting a partner for 10 years then cutting them loose; the government has no desire to support the partner either once they've been abandoned and made destitute,
It's difficult as a man but by no means impossible. Women who will have successful careers simply aren't doing the live abroad, travel and party away their twenties thing. That's like guys who spend their twenties trying to become a rock star or a rapper. There may be a lot of them, but they're to be avoided by anyone seeking a serious partner. The problem is that they're the ones who are doing a ton of dating, running around the online-dating carousel and generally slutting it up so it seems like there's a ton of them but that's an illusion. Far more of them don't want to have a casual relationship, don't want to slut it up and seek a secure life. That's what you have to look for.
The great thing about coming after the boomers is that no one wants to live like them. No one wants to go through a divorce, or to have an insecure life. There's some who are so scared that they turn away from it altogether, like the women you described but most people just don't want to live like that. The key is finding them.
Rocky Dong wasn't bad at first but he didn't stop making those fucking videos.
Renata Ford though? She's a well-known lunatic who most people assume has a serious drug problem.
The recruiting of immigrants and muslims as candidates was a major problem as well. Just because the party was accused of racism didn't mean they needed to play that game; it was a massive turnoff.
I couldn't even vote for my PPC candidate either, there was no way that guy deserved to be in the House. It was a nightmare.
It's been helping him in the polls, but if there's a credible and serious threat of violence on election day then it could hurt him.
I wouldn't drive through one of those anti-fa blockades for all the money in the world.
The damage has been done when it comes to the rioting. The only thing left for the DNC is to disavow and hope that the intimidation factor works out.
Wait.
We can have anything we want printed on stamps and they're official postage?
I just checked, it's real. For less than $40 you can do this with whatever image you choose.
I don't know about any of you but my life just became a lot more fun.
Just marry someone who makes a lot more than you.
It's the days of equal rights. A woman's job needs to be a part of the equation when you're considering whether to be involved with her.
This guy made a ton of mistakes.
First of all, he got a date with a woman at a gas station. That's no chance meetup, that's a woman who saw the kind of car a divorced multi-millionaire drives and wanted in.
Then he showered a woman with cash when she was blatantly avoiding co-habitation to keep the alimony going, then proposed to her with a 7.5 carat diamond ring (that's probably over a million right there) but demanding a pre-nup.
Did he think that she'd want to take a chance on both losing her current alimony and not getting any in the future? She's already been discarded once, she isn't going to chance being discarded again, but without any money this time.
Did he think she'd take a chance on possibly living the rest of her life on $250 a week?
This isn't a scary story, this is just a stupid multi-millionaire.
He was blatantly financially supporting her for 10 years. He was throwing a ton of cash at her, he knew that she was a golddigger, and he knew that she divorces hard but that still didn't stop him from fucking up the engagement by demanding a pre-nup.
Some guys are just stupid. The courts were always going to look at a 10-year relationship where she makes nothing and he's giving her the equivalent of 50 grand a month as them being common-law.
This guy inherited his money, he didn't make himself wealthy and it shows.
$600,000 a year, for 10 years.
Fucking hell.
It's interesting to see how people act when they're in the majority rather than in the minority.
Let's be frank though, the boldness of the average white woman in the GTA blows my mind. They've been ginned up on feminist propaganda that they'll take insane risks without any thought in the world about their safety.
Like the mask-Karen that you see in the video. Going up to a strange man on the bus, shaming him with her phone out with no clue as to what could happen to her. I wouldn't do that and I'm a big guy, I just know that's a great way to get yourself stabbed by a lunatic.
She got spit on, and called a racial slur. She should count herself lucky. She could have ended up knocked out, stabbed, followed home and raped, or even killed. There could have been lifelong consequences because she confronted a random person on a bus, and while not all people on a bus are crazy, all crazy people take the bus.
Shocking behaviour all-round in this video.
Too soon.
They'll give it a couple of weeks to re-ignite the flames. If they do it now then the unrest will sizzle out before it gets a chance to disrupt the election.
It has to be timed to begin with the debates, if not then they'll have wasted all their efforts.
You're going to have to be a little more specific, are we referring to WWII, or to when he sabotaged the British pound, or to the last US election where there was a clear attempt to sabotage the US dollar no matter how much it fucked with Israel?
Nah, the CPC wouldn't have backstabbed Scheer like that if Bernier was lurking. The party brass had no intention of letting him influence the party's direction and they were certainly reticent of making waves, much as they are under O'Toole.
Max was right to start his own party, his major mistake was growing it too fast and bringing e-celebs into high profile positions.
Frank Vaughan for example, feuded with the party supporters on twitter, spent a lot of time enhancing his own celebrity, and has done an incomprehensible amount of damage to the party after he was blown out in the election.
Then there was the one who was trying to promote her singing career, the ones who got exposed for making seriously racist comments right before the election, the ones who were selling their own party merchandise, the ones who were super pro-life, and the ones who couldn't stop talking about their diversity like that gay Metis veteran.
When you looked at the candidates, you'd think that Bernier had jetted around the country establishing an EDA and certifying candidates in every riding over a period of six months or something. Which is just what he did.
Then there was the issue of his staff, his social media has been fucked. Whomever is running his twitter account got into a public fight with Jessica Yaniv of all people right before the election. That was embarrassing and his twitter has gotten worse, the other day whomever runs it was tweeting about all of the mentally ill people driving their cars while wearing a mask.
That's the kind of thing that makes supporting the PPC hard.
He can still rebuild but I don't think he had any chance of becoming CPC leader. They'd rigged a leadership convention against him, dropped him from the cabinet and the election shows that they had a strong contender lined up for his riding. They were in the process of getting rid of him when he split off.
It's a poor comparison to compare Bernier to Trump anyhow because Bernier wasn't running for president, he was running as the leader of the House. If America had our system then Trump would have been running against Ryan, not Bush and he wouldn't have had a chance in hell.
Trump is something that can be done in America, not Canada. Bernier was right to take the path he chose, the problem was the strategy.
There's actually some legitimacy to the claim that Netflix is satanic. I hate to say it but it's been true since they hired the Obamas.
The old girl was watching a show about the devil the other day, he comes to earth, he's really cool, some feminist mary-sue falls in love with him, and Michael is the bad guy.
There seems to be a lot of shows about casual hook-ups, naked greed, and now they've sunk so low as to show a poorly disguised soft-core child porn.
It's clearly had a lot of propaganda on the platform for a while now (not as bad as Crave but still) but they have really crossed the line.
Makes me sad, they were the ones who brought back Trailer Park Boys and put out Swearnet: The Movie but this is ridiculous.
Sounds good, unless you have a better topic I'll suggest one. Is hatred of George Soros anti-semetic?
You start.
They can come here if they really want it.
I will fuck them up.
Come on OGFT, you pussies. You know our mods will sticky the thread and keep it up for a week.
Who wants it?
The thing about the PPC is that it has tons of support from all spectrums of Canadians but it can't resist the chance to use them to defend themselves over accusations of racism.
Max was the worst for that in the last election, but he certainly wasn't the only one to play that game.
The problem with identity politics is that it's hard not to get backed into playing it, which was precisely the problem with the last campaign.
Tons of dusky-skinned Canadians support the PPC, the key is for both them and the party to deny that they're anything but Canadian and to sneer at the wrongful accusations of racism rather than try to disprove them.
One of the best thing that Jordan Peterson ever did, and the prime reason why he's so hated is for him telling everyone that if they were in Nazi Germany, they'd be a Nazi.
That messed up countless people, because they know in their hearts that it's true.
Wilhelm Reich was a fucking degenerate pervert (peak Wiemar-level, the book "Passions of Youth" features multiple chapters analyzing him raping mares as he entered puberty, he was arrested by the FBI in America for having a research lab where he did nothing but study women masturbating) and the only scientist in history to have his research notes ordered to be burned by two countries, but my fuck did he hit the nail on the head with "The Mass Psychology of Facism."
When people truly feel threatened, they regress into toddlers, and when a toddler feels a threat the only thing they want is a strong, paternal threat to stop it and they don't care about anything about the paternal figure apart from will it stop the threat and make them feel safe.
Methods don't matter. Morality doesn't matter. Freedom is a foreign concept. It's toddler shit; eliminate whatever is scaring me and making me cry; I don't care how you do it, I'll just love you for doing it.