Les Paul Atreides 🇨🇦
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Runner, dog person, hipster senility, connoisseur of all things punk, rock and roll, and heavy metal. Doctor (of Philosphy). War studies and literature. He/him/bro.
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It also highlights the basic proposition that the F-35, with its proprietary software and need for updating prior to every mission, represents: deeper US integration, when Canada needs to disentangle our military from the United States’. Ignoring the software elides this difficult reality.
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It also highlights the basic proposition that the F-35, with its proprietary software and need for updating prior to every mission, represents: deeper US integration, when Canada needs to disentangle our military from the United States’. Ignoring the software elides this difficult reality.
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I realize he is a horrible monster but Trump constantly repeating the phrase "Transgender for Everybody" like it's a trademarked slogan is so funny
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I realize he is a horrible monster but Trump constantly repeating the phrase "Transgender for Everybody" like it's a trademarked slogan is so funny
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every day I have to log on and see Takes
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
every day I have to log on and see Takes
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Earlier this year a group of government and CAF officials, plus health care leaders, gathered for only the second war games involving Canada’s health care system since 1939. It was more urgent, and less hypothetical. And it became a question about national resolve. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Can Canada’s health system survive if we find ourselves at war?
The country at war would be more than just the logistics of hospitals and ambulances and doctors and nurses. It could become something Canada has rarely faced: a true test
www.thestar.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Earlier this year a group of government and CAF officials, plus health care leaders, gathered for only the second war games involving Canada’s health care system since 1939. It was more urgent, and less hypothetical. And it became a question about national resolve. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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November 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Noam Chomsky was always bad and if you’re surprised you should feel bad.
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Noam Chomsky was always bad and if you’re surprised you should feel bad.
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It becomes a national prosperity issue when you calculate the impact of Toronto on Canada’s GNP.
If living close to opportunity is a luxury item, Canada is hosed from a productivity perspective.
If living close to opportunity is a luxury item, Canada is hosed from a productivity perspective.
November 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It becomes a national prosperity issue when you calculate the impact of Toronto on Canada’s GNP.
If living close to opportunity is a luxury item, Canada is hosed from a productivity perspective.
If living close to opportunity is a luxury item, Canada is hosed from a productivity perspective.
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downwardly mobile educated alienated elite-adjacents clearly are a large part of the contemporary american left's constituency, but it's such a stupid thing to have a complex about or considering particularly damming. read like any history book ever about who starts political movements.
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
downwardly mobile educated alienated elite-adjacents clearly are a large part of the contemporary american left's constituency, but it's such a stupid thing to have a complex about or considering particularly damming. read like any history book ever about who starts political movements.
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look when has collapsing a government increased the power criminal elements hold over a region either in fiction or in reality
November 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
look when has collapsing a government increased the power criminal elements hold over a region either in fiction or in reality
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I think regime collapse is possible, but then the million dollar question is 'what comes next?'
as much as the USG might hate Maduro, it's not hard to imagine a word where paramilitary and narco-capital end up growing stronger as a result of this
as much as the USG might hate Maduro, it's not hard to imagine a word where paramilitary and narco-capital end up growing stronger as a result of this
I think people on here are huffing hopium if they think the Venezuelan operation ends in Vietnam II or is a complete debacle.
We’re likely to see a very competent air campaign, that does have the potential of decapitating the Maduro regime.
I’m skeptical massive ground operation is in the works.
We’re likely to see a very competent air campaign, that does have the potential of decapitating the Maduro regime.
I’m skeptical massive ground operation is in the works.
November 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I think regime collapse is possible, but then the million dollar question is 'what comes next?'
as much as the USG might hate Maduro, it's not hard to imagine a word where paramilitary and narco-capital end up growing stronger as a result of this
as much as the USG might hate Maduro, it's not hard to imagine a word where paramilitary and narco-capital end up growing stronger as a result of this
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Anti NATO is really one of the world's most premiere luxury beliefs
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Anti NATO is really one of the world's most premiere luxury beliefs
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Irish antimilitarism is funny because the core premise is that Ireland‘s history of British exploitation is exactly why defense of Ireland‘s airspace and sea lanes should be mostly outsourced to the United Kingdom.
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Irish antimilitarism is funny because the core premise is that Ireland‘s history of British exploitation is exactly why defense of Ireland‘s airspace and sea lanes should be mostly outsourced to the United Kingdom.
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The lion does not concern himself with the diminishing returns of nicotine
November 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The lion does not concern himself with the diminishing returns of nicotine
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Imagine spending your career as a special operator doing bad ass shit and then your command is nixed cuz the Secretary of War is mad women can do awesome things he can't.
The first woman to serve with the elite SEAL Team Six as a troop commander has had her orders revoked just days before she was supposed to take over a new command.
Pentagon Pete Accused of Ousting Hero Who Was First Female in SEAL Team Six
The Navy captain’s orders were revoked just days before she was supposed to take over a new command.
trib.al
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Imagine spending your career as a special operator doing bad ass shit and then your command is nixed cuz the Secretary of War is mad women can do awesome things he can't.
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you'll note that the countries Russia has invaded have been the ones that *aren't* in NATO
If Nato exists to maintain peace and protect Europe from Russian aggression, then I would not say it has done a wonderful job.
November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
you'll note that the countries Russia has invaded have been the ones that *aren't* in NATO
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Max Scherzer’s wife, Erica May-Scherzer, posted this about their time in Toronto.
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Max Scherzer’s wife, Erica May-Scherzer, posted this about their time in Toronto.
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“My own views exist outside of epistemology” is a surprisingly popular belief
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
“My own views exist outside of epistemology” is a surprisingly popular belief
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my personal pet idea is a canada infrastructure transfer directly to cities. to get the transfer you need to eliminate DCs and CACs with yearly audits conducted against an objective standard. valued at ~1% of the GST collected within the city's borders
November 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
my personal pet idea is a canada infrastructure transfer directly to cities. to get the transfer you need to eliminate DCs and CACs with yearly audits conducted against an objective standard. valued at ~1% of the GST collected within the city's borders
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November 2, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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It's genuinely impressive how Pete cannot see his job as anything other than Toxic Terminal O-4 behavior with Fox Anchor Characteristics
November 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It's genuinely impressive how Pete cannot see his job as anything other than Toxic Terminal O-4 behavior with Fox Anchor Characteristics
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I remember thinking “A Lids at Union Station? Who thought thst was good idea…”
Well apparently it was lol. As time goes on the retail at Union is really doing a lot to add more life to the station. It’s a wild contrast to the dankness of late 00’s Union (though I still miss the sketchy Mmmuffins)
Well apparently it was lol. As time goes on the retail at Union is really doing a lot to add more life to the station. It’s a wild contrast to the dankness of late 00’s Union (though I still miss the sketchy Mmmuffins)
30 minutes till 8pm and there's still people lining up the Lids @ Union Station for #BlueJays merch.
#WANTITALL
#WANTITALL
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I remember thinking “A Lids at Union Station? Who thought thst was good idea…”
Well apparently it was lol. As time goes on the retail at Union is really doing a lot to add more life to the station. It’s a wild contrast to the dankness of late 00’s Union (though I still miss the sketchy Mmmuffins)
Well apparently it was lol. As time goes on the retail at Union is really doing a lot to add more life to the station. It’s a wild contrast to the dankness of late 00’s Union (though I still miss the sketchy Mmmuffins)