Yes

Why would it matter that they did?

According to whom?

Gather up all your friends and create your own sovereign nation, I’d suggest acquiring nukes asap. Unfortunately this is the only known solution to prevent authoritarians taking your shit

This is it. We don’t think any of that shits going to come to pass either but it’s the principle. We’re gonna act like it is going to happen until we’re sure it’s not

This applies actually to all engineers

The residence of the opposite teams leader is a legitimate millitary target

I don’t want to explain guac without avocados

Yeah shits pretty fucked up. Guess history ain’t done after all

Nope. Not all

As a reasonably informed Canadian who’s been around and knows a thing or two. For international folks I’ll try to summarize it.

The notwithstanding clause is weird as fuck. It’s a statement in our bill of rights that’s doesn’t really exist within the British version of this system, nor does it’s power really derri e from them. It’s just a phrase In our laws that says, in essence, "all this law shit applies. Notwithstanding when then government really, really, REALLY! needs to do something.

So, the provincial and federal government can kind of just say, well notwithstanding XYZ bill, because of bullshit emergency we aren’t doing that.

But it’s also the nuclear option, if you do that it means you couldn’t convince 50%+1 of you constituents it was the right thing to do and you do it anyway. It doesn’t TYPICALLY end well.

But as with any inherently authoritarian power, it’s been used for good on occasion so people will defend it

Hey America. The world will judge you by how long this continues before you end it

College athletes yes (historically, this is significantly less true now)

But professional athletes, assuming the name it to the big leagues are generally very well paid even for random guys you don’t know. Star athletes make millions/tens of millions per season

Wait now, does this motherfuckwr have 3 dads are you telling me?

I know it isn’t. That doesn’t mean you’re not still on some bullshit though yourself. I believe in a stateless future, but I also believe we’re all joking if we think we have it figured out problems sorted from all our philosophy books

Domestic abusers are living the dream right now, setting themselves up to live in this new, permanent, bullshit filter of 1982 we all live in

I don’t believe in the “great man” theory of history, but an awful lot of bullshit does seem to line up with that one guy

I mean yeah, but the main thing they developed to deal specifically with those issues was the state my guy

Could I just suggest you remove “hun” and push the second syllable of cushion I to that slot

And what if the stateless society over there has the natural resources we need?

And I mean, you’ve basically just described feudalism. If you kill my mom and I kill yours back. And then your brother kills 2 mom’s from your village back, you end up eventually killing 50,000 moms