That’s why it was manageable and not debilitating.

Ever since 2018 I have been getting a flu shot every year, too. Why? In 2018 I had the worst flu ever. It was BAD. Arguably worse than even the one time I got covid in 2022 (despite being twice vaccinated for that at the time). The horror of that flu made me never want to get the flu again.

I did… but it was never that bad.

OK someone keep me up to date… what happened? I think the last civilization I played was 5, and I dont recall that one being able to change civilizations midgame.

Edit: sorry last one I played was 6. And I don’t remember being forced fo change civs. Was it in a DLC or what?

I remember many years ago (like in 2016 or 2017) a Japanese fascist railed at me that they dont want millions of blacks in their country… I found his writing style to he very Japanese. In that he was saying stupid and abhorrent stuff, but was still very polite in that he was saying please in places you wouldn’t expect to find in such a speech.

Even more recently Korean nationals are really hating on black people… like why? There are barely any in their country and those that are aren’t some ghetto gangsters. They are the wealthier and more educated blacks.

More surveillance doesnt mean more safety. The US’s murder resolution rate is 50% despite more surveillance than most countries. Even New York City, a place with an ungodly number of city controlled cameras and even more private cameras STILL has a murder resolution rate of around 50% as well.

And the resolution means a person is arrested and charged. It does not mean convicted. I don’t know how often charges are dropped due to changes or acquittals or having a conviction overturned later due to any number of factors. All this means the percentage of solved murders is probably even less.

Seeing a politician behave in a manner that was seen as unthinkable even a few years prior does a lot to change what people think is possible.

The surveillance bills and alleged ‘strong borders’ shit that only exposes more and more Canadians to surveillance by foreign enemies is just utter shit. I nearly threw up when I learned about Bill C-2.

I voted for Carney specifically so shit like this won’t happen… but it did!

Veiled? This is as brazen as it gets.

Sorry for the delay in responding. I wanted to reply to this for a long time but I just kept forgetting.

I would need to speak with actual lawyers and people like that to make a real system other than what I have in my mind… but to keep things short, if a public servant, such as a police officer or soldier (enlisted or officer, but officers would be held to a much higher standard) does something major such as murder or human trafficking and does so with the expectation that he will get off on the charges due to him ‘doing his job’, then that would be treated very different than if he was doing a crime under ‘normal’ circumstances. A police officer selling drugs on the side for money should not be treated as anything other than a regular crime. Because I doubt there is any mechanism for them to claim ‘I was just doing my job!’

For the situation you mentioned Canadian police and starlight tours… are they doing it with the full belief that their position as police will protect them? Then yes, fuck em’. Life in prison at least, and harsher terms than if a normal civilian did it.

For soldiers committing war crimes, such as the numerous examples by the IDF that need no mention here… as far as I am concerned, I wouldn’t mind if they put them feet first into a woodchipper. Officers who order that shit or purposefully allow their enlisted men to do that shit would suffer even worse reprecussions. I don’t just mean the death penalty for the officer, but also a lot of their properties taken away, meaning their immediate family would also be harmed… that is something that MUST be on their minds if they decide to do that shit.

As for commanders and high ranking officers and politicians who do this shit? Yeah, Netenyahu has warrants out for his arrest. But I would say that it needs to go farther, his entire cabinet needs to be wanted AND I wouldn’t be above putting bounties on their heads if they decide to evade capture.

I remember before I was a naturalized Canadian citizen and I had to go through the US border for visiting family or doing some minor business, they would interrogate me and fingerprint me all the time (they probably have my fingerprints in a database). That sucked. But I never went through any searches until recently, and it fucking sucks. I have family in the US that I cannot visit now because I feel like something really bad will happen to me with ICE if I go.

Also despite him releasing all birth documentation that proved beyond all doubt that he was born in the US, had an American born mother, and everything… and then they photoshopped his certificates and acted like those were the released documents and mocked him.

Fuck them.

I got banned for calling out Israeli war crimes and saying that netenyahu needs to be tried and hanged for his crimes. I will not take that back. The whole thing changed my view on the death penalty.

I used to be 100% against the death penalty for any reason. What happened now is that I believe that the death penalty for major crimes committed under the auspices of the state.

What do I mean? I mean if you have a mass shooter or serial killer like Nikolas Cruz or the BTK killer, they get to spend the rest of their existence in prison. But if a soldier drags out a single civilian and kills them for fun, thinking that their uniform and propaganda apparatus will protect them, then I want a swift execution. Conviction and one quick appeal. No more than a few months waiting for their sentence to be carried out.