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Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception. -C.R.B

[rEqN @rEqN_]

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[chl$ @chelsssseeeea]

LOTR might genuinely be one of the greatest things humans have ever put on a screen and I’m not even exaggerating. You can watch it as a kid and think it’s about hobbits and swords and this terrifying ring. Then you watch it as an adult and realize it’s basically about everything that actually matters.

Power corrupts people and evil usually starts really small..Good people can be tempted and courage isn’t about being fearless. Friendship can literally carry you when you can’t carry yourself anymore. The smallest person in the room can change the course of history. You do the right thing not because you know you’re going to win, but because it’s the right thing to do.

Honestly… I think it should be mandatory viewing for kids at some point. Not just “watch the movie” but actually dissect it. Why does Boromir fail? Why can Sam resist what other people can’t? Why does Frodo show Gollum mercy? Why is Aragorn a good leader when he spends half the story reluctant to have power? What happens when someone becomes consumed by resentment, fear, or the desire to control other people? Then make kids apply those questions to their own lives. Friendship, temptation, loyalty, courage, responsibility, choosing who you want to be when nobody is forcing you to choose correctly. There are probably more useful lessons about becoming a decent human being buried in those movies than in half the stuff we make kids memorize in school…and those are learnings and lessons that would stick and could carry you through all of life.

My favorite part is that the heroes aren’t these invincible characters either. They’re tired, scared, tempted, and completely outmatched. Half the time they have no idea what they’re doing but they just keep going….

Then somehow Peter Jackson took ALL of THAT and made three epic movies at the same time, filled them with real sets, real landscapes, thousands of extras, incredible music,… and made something that still looks better than movies being made with $200M budgets 25 years later.

I really don’t think we’ll ever get another thing like it.

[Shelley Crowley🇨🇦 @MrsDrBee]

We aren’t asking you to “prove your trauma.” You’ve accused Canadians of all manner of unspeakable crimes. If those crimes have been committed they must be investigated. If true, they must be prosecuted. If false, that is libel, which is a crime. You are not entitled to force generations of Canadians (including those not yet born) who had nothing whatsoever to do with residential schools to wear sackcloth and ashes forever while paying billions of dollars in taxes to you. You are not entitled to tell our children that they are evil oppressors. I think that you’ve blood-libelled us, and I, along with many of my compatriots who wanted nothing more than to make things right are now fed up. Do you imagine that you are the only people who sit with grief and the bones of your ancestors? You are not, I do assure you. You are not.

[The Witcher @thewitcher]

Perils, potions, monster contracts, and an elusive reunion… It’s time to return to the Continent and face the Wild Hunt once more.

The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt - Remastered is here, as a free upgrade bringing countless improvements to Geralt of Rivia’s adventure across visuals, performance, gameplay, and more!

Available now to all owners of the game on GOG, Steam, Epic Games Store, https://t.co/3lNm1kfN8b, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2.
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[Karen Woods 林爷 @KarenFactsLover]

If you dismantled Canada today, expelled its current inhabitants, i.e citizens and immigrants, and gave ownership of the land to the last recorded tribe that had occupied it before, you would not be returning it to its original occupants; you would simply be handing it to the next-most-recent conquerors.

If the premise is that today's Canadians are on stolen land, then the first nation's people are not the original land owners either. Their ancestors stole and conquered this land from other native tribes. So who exactly is this Land Acknowledgement dedicated to? Earlier thieves?

Hence, I refuse to participate in this bullshit Land Acknowledgement .
#cdnpoli

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Jon Stewart goes off on the Supreme Court and Citizens United

He argues that treating corporations as people and money as speech has made it nearly impossible to reform the political system.

Stewart’s blunt conclusion?

“Money in elections is killing this country.”

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

While the federal government says Bill C-34 is about protecting children from online harms, the proposed “Safe Social Media Act” raises significant concerns for freedom of expression and online anonymity. In practice, broad age-verification requirements could require Canadians to identify themselves to access social media, weakening a long-standing ability to criticize politicians, challenge decision-makers, expose wrongdoing, and speak freely without fear of retaliation. At the same time, the legislation would expand regulatory control over content moderation, increase government oversight of AI outputs, and drive greater collection of personal data.
https://t.co/azTe9Da3CS

Take a stand against Bill C-34 today by submitting a pre-written letter to your MP and Prime Minister Mark Carney.
https://t.co/PGIBFerCzQ

[ESL Counter-Strike @ESLCS]

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[Nikola Kovač @NiKoCS_]

Never give up ❤️

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

Bill C-34 creates a social media ban for Canadians under 16 at the expense of all Canadians' privacy.

Sections 26, 27(1), and 27(2) of Bill C-34 require that affected social media platforms “implement age-verification and age-estimation measures designed to prevent a person under the age of 16 from being able to have an account with, or be otherwise registered with,” those social media platforms.

Bill C-34 requires that such measures must provide for the “protection” and eventual “destruction” of “personal information that is collected for age-verification or age-estimation purposes.”

It is not yet clear how this will be accomplished. What is clear is that these measures must be “effective.” Users commonly verify their age by submitting government-issued identification documents, such as driver’s licenses or passports. And, the technology exists for social media platforms to estimate the ages of users through biometric data, e.g., facial geometry, eye shape, skin elasticity, hairline, etcetera.

This age-verification and age-estimation monitoring will not be limited to Canadians under age 16. For social media platforms to determine access eligibility for any user, platforms will have to evaluate the access eligibility of every user.

The goal of Bill C-34 is not merely to remove Canadians under age 16 from affected social media platforms but to keep them off those platforms. To achieve this goal, social media platforms may be compelled to adopt ongoing age-verification/estimation measures to ensure continued compliance.

However affected social media platforms satisfy these requirements, Bill C-34 fundamentally reimagines how all Canadians access social media.

This Bill deputizes affected social media platforms into forcing Canadians to surrender more data as a precondition of participation in the digital public square. This, in turn, raises serious concerns about Canadians' privacy rights and may engage constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure - guaranteed by section 8 of the Charter.

Read the full text of the bill here: https://t.co/BAHnXrsJIR

[Ramez @Ramez05]

Crimson Desert so far has felt like a better version of Dragon’s Dogma 2 in almost ever way

[Patrick Moss 🇨🇦 @VoyceReason]

Yeah, those Canadians that:

1. Smuggled our diplomats out of Iran.
2. Joined our war in Afghanistan when we were attacked.
3. Put up thousands of stranded US travellers for days after 9/11.

"Those fuckers better watch their backs."

[austin @austincsgo_]

inferno has got to be the worst map in cs

[Counter-Strike News @TheCSTimes]

B site entrance with "The Messi Peek" shared by u/Sporkiboi on Reddit 😅

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

The community note 🤌😘

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

If you've got a problem with Canadian fans booing the U.S. national anthem, take it up with the guy who keeps threatening to annex their country.

[halifax man @lexisfriend]

This is written by a Florida judge and posted on face book. Everyone should soare a few minutes and read his words about Canada and the United States

[Roddy 🇨🇦 @RodKahx]

If you're a Canadian and you are even remotely cozying up to the idea of becoming the 51st state, or making suggestions that we bend the knee to Trump's economic force, you are a traitor.

Get out.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Better health coverage?

If Canadians became U.S. citizens they would lose their free health care, pay nearly three times more for their prescription drugs, and many of them wouldn’t be able to get coverage at all.

Something tells me they won’t be interested.

[rEqN @rEqN_]

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