Return of Roscoe

[Return of Roscoe @Roscoe7002]

@sam_gzstrength For building functional strength the deadlift is always a huge force multiplier for me.

Hits almost every major muscle group, core strength/stability, burns calories, boosts test levels.

Since 50 I moved to high reps at 250ish (for injury prevention) but a 405 1RM very doable

[Return of Roscoe @Roscoe7002]

@MarcMillerVM Fuck you and fuck liberal race-hustling

[Julian Assange @ImJulianAssange]

Under the last ten years of liberal leadership, welfare costs in Canada have increased from 77 billion to 135 billion all paid for by Canadian taxpayers.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

This is one of the most bittersweet moments of our lives.

Our son-in-law was laid off in Winnipeg a few weeks ago, his company closed down in Canada. He is 33, a software engineer, and he and our daughter have a new baby.

Now Roblox has recruited him to Silicon Valley. Our daughter will be able to stay at home with our granddaughter, which she would not have been able to do in Winnipeg, like most working parents we know. A huge plus, considering the woke goofball education systems everywhere in the West.

We are proud of him. He earned this. It is an extraordinary opportunity for their young family.

But my wife and I are crushed.

We spent our lives building in Manitoba. My wife ran a Lab and Imaging Unit. I ran businesses, farmed through brutal weather, survived terrible government policy, cared for aging parents, raised our family and contributed to our community. Farming was not merely hard. It was years of risk, sacrifice and uncertainty, with governments constantly making life more difficult for the people who actually produced something.

Now Canada is losing another highly skilled young worker because the opportunities are better somewhere else.

Mark Carney and Wab Kinew can talk all they want about growth, innovation and compassion. People live with the results, not the speeches. Winnipeg cannot compete for talent when taxes are high, productivity is weak, investment leaves, wages lag and essential services fail.

COVID was already more than I can forgive. Families were divided, businesses were damaged, children lost years, peaceful protesters were treated like enemies, and the politicians responsible still speak as though they acted with perfect wisdom.

Then there is healthcare.

My wife had a stroke. It took three years to find out what had happened. Vision problems. Three years of waiting, confusion, worsening symptoms and watching someone you love struggle while a supposedly world-class public system, that she worked hard in for 40 years, moved at a crawl.

That is not compassion. It is institutional failure.

So yes, this move is bittersweet. I am proud of our children and angry at the country they feel they must leave. They are going where talent is valued, work is rewarded and healthcare is part of the employment package.

Carney and Kinew should be ashamed of the country and province they are helping to govern. Their policies have consequences. Families pay them. Patients pay them. Workers pay them. Grandparents pay them.

We moved to Winnipeg from rural Manitoba to be closer to our daughters. A plane trip to our olderst daughter in BC and a walk down the street to our youngest daughters home.

We are allowed to grieve this. We’ll miss birthdays, spontaneous visits, and having our grandchild just down the road. At the same time, this move will give our daughter and grandson financial security that lasts for decades.

My wife and I spent much of our lives trying to give the next generation better choices than we had. Ironically, that success will mean watching them build their future somewhere else. We will miss our daughter, son-in-law and grandchild terribly, we could just walk down the street to see them… now it will be more flights.

And I will never forgive the people who helped make leaving Canada the only sensible choice.

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

Watch this Oxford Union debate carefully.

A man stands up, cites the data, and then proves the entire point in real time.

43% of British Muslims want Sharia law.
53% want schools with strong Muslim values.
24% sympathize with violence to “protect” their religion.
78% say no publication should ever show a picture of Muhammad.

He holds up a Charlie Hebdo cartoon.
The room immediately turns on him.
Points of order. Interruptions. Fear.

His own wife asked him not to show it because of what might happen to their family.

That is not theory.
That is the live demonstration.

Free speech is not dying in the West.
It is being surrendered one nervous silence at a time.

Canada is watching the same script play out.

Different stage. Same ending if we keep pretending the data doesn’t exist.

#cdnpoli #FreeSpeech

[Return of Roscoe @Roscoe7002]

@DeiCivitas Those same officers will happily arrrst and charge free men for “speech crimes”.

We know this categorically. Any cop that had the sand to refuse tyrannical orders was purged from ranks during COVID.

[Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM @echipiuk]

The other thing that really bothers me about this post and then it being deleted is the lack of accountability.

If an ordinary citizen makes a “mistake” involving the law, they cannot simply delete it like it never happened. They must answer for their actions. Public institutions, especially police services, should hold themselves to at least that same standard.

The Edmonton Police Service published this message, encouraged people to report others, and then deleted it without any public explanation, clarification, or apology. That is not accountability.

When public institutions expect a higher standard from citizens than they expect from themselves, public trust is eroded. Accountability must apply equally to everyone, especially by those entrusted with enforcing the law.

[Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM @echipiuk]

In case you missed it, this is what the Edmonton Police posted, and then deleted.

The fact that an organization like the Edmonton Police published this and included a link encouraging people to report mean tweets, and then deleted it is deeply concerning.

It demonstrates a troubling misunderstanding of the law by the very institution entrusted with enforcing it. Police are expected to understand the legal distinction between offensive or unpopular expression and criminal conduct before asking the public to report it.

Police resources should be focused on investigating real crime and protecting public safety, not inventing new standard or creating confusion about the line between offensive speech and criminal conduct.

In a free and democratic society, offensive or unpopular opinions should not become the subject of police reports simply because someone disagrees with them. We must educate people, elevate the conversation, and encourage respectful dialogue, but that responsibility begins with those in positions of leadership and public trust.

If we want a better conversation, it must start at the top, not the bottom.

[Return of Roscoe @Roscoe7002]

@kenpaquette @sunlorrie The Stete doesn’t get to break its own laws just cuz a majority of jelly-headed Karens thinks it’s ok.

[Return of Roscoe @Roscoe7002]

@ryangerritsen Any man whose neck circumference is equal to that of the average adult male wrist, should be barred from holding public office by default.

[Devon Stack @Black_Pilled]

It’s worse than that.

This is person, not just vehicle level, persistence. The sensors capture Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, RFID, tire-pressure monitors, key fobs, wearables, earbuds, and even pet microchips. AI then treats the recurring bundles of these signals as a durable signature. It’s like the stream I did where I talked about ways they can identify you even with a VPN because they can bundle other anonymous data points about how you move your mouse etc that together paints an identifiable picture.

Change plates, switch cars, walk past the pole or ride a bike, the same bundle can still identify you. The plate reader becomes optional at that point.

Silent, no hastle rollout on existing infrastructure. Agencies can enable the capability without new poles, fresh contracts, or fresh public votes. It’s just a new feature on the already normalized tech that everyone in government especially law enforcement wants.

Passive mass collection + relationship inference - remember the contact tracing they wouldn’t shut up about during covid? This does that. Everything that radiates nearby is logged and stored permanently. Recurring co-location tracks who regularly travels or spends time together, creating an inferred social graph without anyone ever knowing it. Collection happens silently 24/7 regardless.

This changes flock cameras from “where did this car go?” to “where did this unique device constellation go, who else was near it, and what pattern does that form?”

But somehow we can’t deport people. I wonder who this could be for…

[Return of Roscoe @Roscoe7002]

@FLEXjss @cideralowekoda @bushcrafter79 Manual is the only way to enjoy that power.

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

I want Elon Musk to give Mel Gibson $100 million to film an Odyssey adaptation with painstakingly historically accurate ships, armour, weapons, and casting, with all dialogue taken straight from the original poem and delivered in Homeric Greek.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

I don’t know all the issues with Nolan’s Odyssey because I saw a black Helen of Troy and a tiny troon playing a war hero and I didn’t give him my money because the movie was obviously made to destroy my civilization

Is that so hard?

[Return of Roscoe @Roscoe7002]

@stayaway_002 “guaranteed sex” lol.

[Return of Roscoe @Roscoe7002]

@patcondell Back in the “treat everyone fairly” stage of anti-racism that seemed pretty reasonable …

That quickly morphed into a grievance culture where whitey was branded inherently evil and all the other races didn’t get the “be fair” memo.

Now it looks like a giant grift… cuz it is.

[Return of Roscoe @Roscoe7002]

@SStricklandMMA Roofing was my first job outta high school, then the Army.

Roofing was more miserable than war.

[Return of Roscoe @Roscoe7002]

@DeiCivitas @NatashaMontreal Conservative passivity is an succinct and accurate summary

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

Every Canadian should be able to speak their mind without wondering whether they'll eventually need a lawyer to explain what they meant.

That's why Bill C-9 matters.

Governments rarely take away freedoms all at once. They do it one carefully worded bill at a time, each one sold as "reasonable," "necessary," and "for your own good."

This isn't just about one piece of legislation.

It's about a governing philosophy that seems to believe Ottawa should referee more of what Canadians say, think, and express instead of focusing on the things government was actually hired to fix.

Housing.
Affordability.
Crime.
Productivity.

Those problems didn't disappear. They just became less politically convenient.

A government confident in its record doesn't need to keep expanding the rules around acceptable expression. It earns trust by solving problems.

Bill C-9 isn't the whole story.

It's another chapter in a pattern where government grows, discretion expands, and Canadians are asked to trust that every future government will exercise those new powers wisely.

History suggests that's not a bet free people should ever make.

#cdnpoli #BillC9 #FreeSpeech #Canada #CivilLiberties #MarkCarney

[Return of Roscoe @Roscoe7002]

@saskatchewan_in 100% accurate. They use incrementalism to kill freedom by a thousand bureaucratic paper cuts, so as to not startle the citizenry into action.

As a 40yr gun owner I’ve seen how this strategy works on Canadians and it doesn’t bode well; most clamour for tyranny (remember COVID?).