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I find it deeply disturbing that the great tradition of civil disobedience, both non-violent and violent, established and nurtured by some of the lions of civilization around the world, seems to be increasingly descending into performative assholes shrieking (and arsonizing) over fake issues...

Not sure I take your point here. Are you saying "Meh, there'll always be bullies, and we shouldn't try to stop it?" Or are you saying "Kids get bullied for a lot more than alphabet issues, and we need to crack down on bullying and support the victims regardless of the ostensible reason for the...

I read a book that claimed the NWMP's first remit was "stop the Yanks selling whiskey to the FNs." Hard to argue with that. I wish they'd been more successful (obviously it was impossible to do more'n make a rather small dent in the trade).

Lots of people and organizations have my data. I don't feel stiflingly controlled.

Does it need to be a government problem? Maybe one of those "creative solutions" folk talk about is to make upgrading the water supply and quality part of the compensation to the nation.

To be clear, I honestly didn't mean to state or imply that you were assuming or concluding that. Just that I hear it a lot. But I would suggest it does, indeed "go that way." Otherwise Canada would still be nothing but a handful of colonial families living in log cabins and pecking away at a...

It was, and remains, a huge issue in the military. Despite the availability of a large variety of counseling options, there's a huge bias in favor of "toughing it out." Which makes about as much sense as "toughing out" a case of VD.

You can do both at the same time. Some particularly creative soul might could even suggest tying 'em together.

Yeah. Long way from trading or gifting beads and feathers, ain't it?

Everybody else manages to "make progress" in the midst of bitter failures to get along with each other. It's called "politics." To assume or conclude that Natives (generic term including Canadian FNs) can't or shouldn't is simply racism. Even when it's the Indians doing the assuming or...

I actually agree with Boomer (mark your calendar). Letting kids know that counselling is available and de-stigmatizing it is a very important aspect of this.

A climber found a trove of gems in the Alps amid a 47-year-old plane wreck. He gets to keep half. By Jonathan Edwards The Air India passenger jet from Mumbai prepared to land in Geneva on Jan. 24, 1966, but never made it. The Boeing 707 crashed near the summit of Mont Blanc in the French Alps...

Probably. So what?

To conflate hunting and home defense with this kind of inability to tell your dick from your gun garbage is just throwing dust. The laws of most states allow kids to possess firearms under supervision. And most of them have hunting exceptions.

In a democracy, ya get the government ya deserve. That's kinda sad and pretty scary.

Yep, a pretty standard parliamentary system. The main players are the Social Democratic Party (SPD, center-left) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU, center-right), with all the usual horse-trading to getting parties with a few seats to come on board to get a majority. Merkel was unique in...

Thanks, Mo! Seems to me the only way to deal with it is to deal with the "modern" tribal government (I don't use "modern" as any kind of a value judgement, I mean the elected government). The proper role of the traditional structure is to convince its members to vote for Candidate A, B, or C...

I'm willing to accept that it may be a necessary limitation. But thank you for that bit about Germany, I'll look it up. I'm apparently in the minority on this board in that I don't regard Germany as a "socialist shithole." It stuns me how often I see people here fly in the face of their...

Why would they bother?

So. . . you don't believe in the right of property owners to do as they please with their property if the State is of the opinion that it could be put to a better use? That's a "reasonable limit?" There is an eminent domain process the government could use. . . maybe they could seize all...