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Dr. Eddies Wingman said:
Maybe you'll find the Holy Grail on your journey.
if you've not already got one :p
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Actually, I have this. Grailly as fuck, if you ask me. I found this in the Valley of the Kings almost exactly 20 years ago. Too scared to drink from it though...

Ok so the pic, taken from my phone of the one true grail wont upload, it says its too large for the server. Really? A tasty grail shot from my phone? What up? Well, pity for all of you, you would have got to see my hand. And grail.
 
We're moving into the second week of the occupation of Ottawa by pro-COVID idiots, and I'm starting to lose my patience. Every time Indigenous land rights protestors block a single intersection, the cops arrest as many as they can and beat the shit out of them. These guys, they let them set up camp and then do nothing to get rid of them.
 
LooseCannon said:
We're moving into the second week of the occupation of Ottawa by pro-COVID idiots, and I'm starting to lose my patience. Every time Indigenous land rights protestors block a single intersection, the cops arrest as many as they can and beat the shit out of them. These guys, they let them set up camp and then do nothing to get rid of them.
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White people gonna white. White people in power gonna let them white.
 
That stinks. Why are authorities so obsessed with appeasing what they think is the average Joe? Work are currently making a bigger deal about 'we don't discriminate against people who aren't vaccinated', than encouraging all employees who can to get a vaccine.

I thought Canada's treatment of native people was a lot better in recent times?
 
Brigantium said:
I thought Canada's treatment of native people was a lot better in recent times?
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It's not Black folks in the US bad but it's the next thing to it. There's a lot of controversies around this currently, from the fallout of the Pickton murders in BC (and overall why there's so many missing Indigenous women across the country), challenges with land rights in Indigenous-administered lands, and of course the horrifying reveal of hidden graves at former residential school sites - some of which are graves that were always secret, some of which were large graveyards where the headstones were purposefully pulled by the Catholic Church in the 50s and 60s. Speaking of the Catholic Church, they were ordered to pay $35 million to survivors of residential schools in 2005, so they formed a corporation to handle it, raised very little money from themselves, said they had filled the debt by service in kind (IE the cost of running churches and schools in regions where Indigenous people were impacted by residential schools), declared bankruptcy, and never paid out a cent. And then there's the fact that basically every Indigenous person in Canada is or is directly descended from someone who went through the process of being dehumanized and having their culture forcibly stripped away in re-education centres designed not even to give the tools of modern society, but to reduce Indigenous kids to "hewers of wood and drawers of water" for the exploitation of colonists and their descendants.

So yeah, I mean, not great.
 
As far as racism goes and how things are messed up with that, sadly I think one of the reasons nothing ever seems to improve as much as it should is because of the money made with how things currently are. That's a huge reason they won't change how prisons are run.
 
Where privately run prisons are concerned, yes, that's all about money. Where racism is concerned, that's driven by people singling out and using minorities and as a punchbag because humans haven't evolved much beyond living in small family groups and aren't listening to better ways of handling being part of bigger societies.
 
I mean, the entire justice system, in Canada, provides measurably worse outcomes for BIPOC folk, and that's without private prisons.
 
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