Chris Kootenay

[Chris Kootenay @chris_tml]

@OverDrive1050 Wtg being considerate and generous with your friends. You aren't as big of a douche as I had thought. Sorry.

[Chris Kootenay @chris_tml]

@ShesCome_Undone @TheTennisLetter You finding Jesus is what's missing

[Chris Kootenay @chris_tml]

@unspinthespina1 I thought of City and Colour - Strangers. This verse specifically -

"We look to the heavens above for advice on our lives
Searching for God at the bottoms of bottles and in strangers' eyes
We're living in desperation, drowning in medication
Lost in the folly of our age"

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, says that passengers on the Titanic actually didn’t want to leave the ship for almost two hours after it hit the iceberg.

Pavel Durov says we are in a similar situation: our ship has already hit the iceberg. We have already started to sink without even realizing it. He is talking about the ship of our personal freedoms.

He says that personal freedoms have been eroded almost everywhere in the world, with very few exceptions. He has witnessed firsthand the methods governments use to suppress our freedoms and take away our basic rights. He has seen all the tricks: the PR tricks, the legal tricks, the political tricks, the manipulations, and the official excuses.

The thing that bothers him most today is that some of the same tricks employed by authoritarian regimes in places like Russia, China, and Iran are now also being used in some Western countries.

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Here are some key statements from Pavel Durov:

“Thousands of people are getting arrested every year in the United Kingdom for social media posts.”

“You say something politically incorrect online, you may end up being fined or spend some time in prison. In Germany, people get arrested and persecuted for insulting politicians online, thousands of people every year.”

“You call a politician a bigot or a thief online and you can serve up to 3 years in prison. So, now people are afraid to use their real identities. People stop using their real names when they make comments online.”

“The criminals will be fine. It will be the law-abiding citizens who will be put in danger.”

“Last year, a French tax official was caught stealing the financial data of people who held large amount of crypto assets… you have a catastrophic rise in the number of kidnappings in France. Just in the first 3 months of 2026, you have over 40 victims of kidnappings in France.”

“Another trick that has been used by authoritarians for decades. And now it is being increasingly exported from the East to the West. I’m talking about selective enforcement of laws.

The way it works is pretty straightforward. First, you need to introduce a large number of laws. You need to overburden a certain industry with excessive, mutually exclusive, contradictory regulation. As a result, you make compliance impossible. Now you can treat every entrepreneur, every CEO, every business owner in this country as a criminal.

But then the government carefully starts to choose who to persecute. If the business owner is loyal, if it complies with immoral, unlawful demands from the government, gives certain political favors, then the law enforcement system and the judicial system look the other way. But if the business owner decides to stand up for the constitutional rights of his or her fellow citizens, if they refuse to cave in to political demands from the authoritarian government, then the persecution comes in full.”

“We cannot afford to have this ship sunk. There is nowhere to escape. In the past, dissidents from authoritarian countries could flee to the West. But if the current trajectory continues, in a decade or two from now, they will have hard time trying to understand whether they have already left their repressive homeland or they’re just entering another open-air prison.”

“Those who are willing to give up their essential liberty for some temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

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Which would you choose: essential liberty or temporary safety?

[Lobo Tiggre @duediligenceguy]

"Canada takes about 20 years to permit and build a mine compared with 14 years in Australia..."

Not good, eh?

[Roman Baber @Roman_Baber]

This morning I wrote to Minister @melaniejoly demanding that she release a full copy of the ISED Memo and publicly reject the litigation strategy proposed.

Canadians should not be placed in legal jeopardy for exercising free speech!

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

You NAILED IT @JasminLaine !!

[Dan Dicks @DanDicksPFT]

Canada Plans To SUE CITIZENS For “MISINFORMATION” Online While The EU Goes For “CHAT CONTROL”!!

The Canadian government is quietly planning to sue its own citizens for posting “false and misleading” information online.

A bombshell 35-page internal memo from Industry Minister Mélanie Joly’s department reveals they’re considering legal action against individuals on Facebook, X, LinkedIn and more, all in the name of “protecting trust” in government.

Meanwhile, the EU is pushing “Chat Control”, mass scanning of private messages, photos, and files on WhatsApp, Signal, and other encrypted apps.

In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth breaks down the leaked Ottawa memo and connects it to the growing global censorship machine.

This isn’t about protecting the public, it’s about control.

Mass non-compliance is the answer.

Speak freely, support independent platforms and push back now before it’s too late!

[Cole Jaczko @colejaczko]

How to become universally loved

1. Always be smiling, happy, & in a good mood

2. Have a pure heart & genuine intentions

3. Genuinely want the best for others & actively root for them

4. Help people win: make intros, support what they’re doing

5. Wear your heart on your sleeve, tell people how you feel, give compliments

6. Be the type of person they can’t meet twice

7. Be there for them thru the highs & lows

8. Genuinely ask how they are doing & be there to listen: celebrate the successes and support thru the lows

9. Have amazing memories with them

10. Reach out whenever you think of them

[Chris Kootenay @chris_tml]

@MmisterNobody Dignity

[Chris Kootenay @chris_tml]

@ryangerritsen Somebody needs to clothesline him

[Chris Kootenay @chris_tml]

@miles_commodore Lol Ramos with the bat flip from a single when losing 10-0 🤣🤣

[Chris Kootenay @chris_tml]

@awakeandseeing All we can ask for. Happy 29th! Enjoy your day

[Joseph Bourne @josephbournex]

First Nations man speaks out against First Nations spending largely lining the pockets of chief in councils by the millions while First Nations people don’t even have drinking water

Government corruption no matter where you turn in Canada

[Elliot Daigneault @hrh_elliot]

Canada in 2026:

🇨🇭Swiss prices
🇲🇽Mexican salaries
🇸🇪Scandinavian taxes
🇭🇹Haitian services
🇷🇺Soviet infrastructures

🇫🇷French Arrogance

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

🚨 This is what happens when the “stolen land” narrative gets hit with actual history.

Native guy starts in on white people being on “stolen” land…

Then this Native woman shuts it down with facts:

- Native Americans weren’t here “from the beginning.” Their ancestors crossed the Bering Land Bridge from Siberia 15,000–20,000 years ago.
- Once they got here, tribes conquered, displaced, and built empires over each other (Comanches pushed out the Apache and built the Comancheria — sound familiar?).
- Every single piece of land on earth has changed hands through conquest. That’s how human history works.

She nails it:
“What you call stolen, I call conquered.”

Then she drops the line that actually matters:

America 🇺🇸 and Canada 🇨🇦 took it, kept it, defended it, and built the greatest Countries the world has ever seen — with more freedom, opportunity, and prosperity than any of those tribal empires ever dreamed of.

On the 4th of July she’s celebrating 250 years of that progress… not raiding villages and scalping people.

This is the response every “land acknowledgment” warrior needs to hear.

Who’s sick of the selective history?!??

#StolenLandMyth #4thOfJuly #AmericanHistory #FactsOverFeelings #CanadaFirst

[Dallas Brodie @Dallas_Brodie]

Have you noticed that the pace of court cases, treaties, secret deals, etc. is picking up? Seems to me the Reconciliation Industry knows the political winds of change are blowing and the gig will soon be up! All the players wanna get their heads in the trough before the money and deals stop flowing.

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

Holy sh❗️t!!

David Eby's government, backed by Mark Carney, are negotiating a backroom agreement with a tiny indigenous community governance of over 11% of British Columbia.

Even more so insane, the territory claim covers 70% of the Golden Triangle area which is one of Canada's most important mineral deposits areas that is just starting to really develop and the whole point of Stewart port development.

This will absolutely destroy investment in the area and sent Canada back decades.

[Chris Kootenay @chris_tml]

@Tablesalt13 You're naive if you believe ANYTHING, any government is telling you. Lazy way out. Nobody is coming to save us. Its up to us!

[Chris Kootenay @chris_tml]

@Tablesalt13 Its got nothing to do with immigration. Little to none where I live. I'm 44 and on 4 non-profits boards, not cause I want to. All the 70+ year old, mostly Liberals (why they have so much control) stepped down and nobody stepped up. People are busy, I get it. 2-3 hr/month.

[Michael @HolderOftheFire]

The same people pissing and moaning on this app will be pissing and moaning 5 and 10 years from now.

How do I know this?

I have been on this planet for a bit of time now, misery loves company and to pull as many down with them as they can, so they dont feel alone and inadequate by themselves.

Winners and go-getters will do what they always have. Win and go get it. It is in their blood. They dont complain. They suffer silently and get to work.