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Idiocracy

Meanwhile in Canada
https://twitter.com/queencitypolice/status/1270235868121440258
And then what happened?
https://twitter.com/queencitypolice/status/1270895282448789506
Seems like the institution only knows the language of punitive deterrence.
 
Georgia was brought up yesterday... I just read a story that said a QAnon conspiracy theorist is pretty likely to win a seat in the House this November from there:

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-supporting-qanon-conspiracist-georgia-may-win-congressional-race-2020-6 said:
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican congressional candidate who promoted the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory, dominated Georgia's 14th congressional district GOP primary on Tuesday and is poised to win an August primary runoff and the House seat in November.

Greene, a construction company owner who has largely self-financed her run for office, is an outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump and has built her political brand over the last few years on anti-immigrant, Islamophobic, and anti-trans positions. She's also trafficked in a host of alt-right conspiracies.

...

QAnon centers around an anonymous online individual known as "Q," who claims to have top-secret security clearance. The Daily Beast reported that "Q" first surfaced in October 2017 on the fringe website 4chan, before moving over to 8chan.

Broadly, the conspiracy theory claims that the world is run by a Satanic cabal of elites intent on bringing down the Trump presidency.
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https://twitter.com/FinkMark1/status/1271091592217190400
 
https://twitter.com/mdslock/status/1271113571401900033

He wrote that his decision to kneel ?goes against every principle and value I stand for.?

?I spent the first part of my career thriving to build a reputation of a good cop,? he said. ?I threw that all in the garbage in Sunday.?

Since Cattani took a knee, he said, he?s struggled to eat and sleep and even considered leaving the department.

?I could not imagine the idea of ever coming back to work and putting on the uniform I so wrongly shamed,? he wrote.
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A part of me really wants to think that the NY Post is getting trolled here, but I mean...
 
https://twitter.com/dhancock110/status/1271224023616233474

We focus on how he's a bigoted white supremacist a lot, but let's never forget that he's also very, very, very dumb.
 
So as part of the recent movement to no longer commemorate people who contributed to the misery of slavery it looks like Toronto will be looking into changing the name of Dundas Street.

Finally, my petitions for Wendel Clark Avenue will be heard.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
https://twitter.com/dhancock110/status/1271224023616233474

We focus on how he's a bigoted white supremacist a lot, but let's never forget that he's also very, very, very dumb.
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As the board's resident wrestling mark, I remember this story, and I remembered why it was dropped 2 weeks later.  It was...not good. :/

Nik said:
Finally, my petitions for Wendel Clark Avenue will be heard.
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I like the way you think!
 
Nik said:
So as part of the recent movement to no longer commemorate people who contributed to the misery of slavery it looks like Toronto will be looking into changing the name of Dundas Street.

Finally, my petitions for Wendel Clark Avenue will be heard.
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Strange, I never new that Dundas St. was named after a racist.  How many other T.O. streets are going to have to be changed? 
I remember when they changed Dorchester St. to Rene Levesque Blvd in Montreal (I lived there at the time),  I believe the changeover costs where in the neighbourhood of 50 million dollars when it was all done.  There is a lot to consider in a change of name.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/should-canada-change-the-names-of-streets-and-monuments-that-honour-contentious-figures-1.4049368
 
Highlander said:
Strange, I never new that Dundas St. was named after a racist. 
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It's not just being racist, it's that Henry Dundas was specifically involved in the slave trade and personally fought against abolition.
 
Just for those who aren't aware:

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/who-was-henry-dundas-and-why-do-two-cities-no-longer-want-to-honour-his-memory said:
He came to be known as ?the great tyrant,? particularly for delaying the abolition of slavery in the British empire by 15 years.

The slave trade in the empire ended in 1807, but if it were not for Dundas? obstruction, it would have ended in 1792.

A year earlier, Dundas became the last person to be impeached in the United Kingdom for mishandling public funds. He was acquitted but never returned to public office.

By delaying the abolition of slavery, Dundas caused 630,000 people to wait more than a decade for their relative freedom.
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Nik said:
Highlander said:
Strange, I never new that Dundas St. was named after a racist. 
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It's not just being racist, it's that Henry Dundas was specifically involved in the slave trade and personally fought against abolition.
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no one told me that, so thanks, but we didn't support slavery in Canada, however just read something about him and was not a good dude, so change the name, I like Gilmour Way or Sundin Drive.
What does concern me is he was friends with John Grave Simcoe, so we may have to change the name of the Lake. 
 
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