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  1. GDT? Temp GDT? Who will be the noble hero?

    1. luckylager

      luckylager

      Dooo iiiiit

    2. NewbieCanuckFan

      NewbieCanuckFan

      Because lucklager is the hero the Canucks deserves, but not the one it needs right now....

       

       

       

  2. Is privilege not a judgment apropos advantage? Explain what you mean.
  3. uhh... maybe we should negate Merritt...
  4. Topically: my understanding of 'privilege,' which is a definition a lot of people on here don't seem aware of or share, is that it is not exclusive to race but rather can be used to describe sexed/gendered advantages in one's culture/society, wealth growing up or status-by-birth in one's culture/society, things like height or attractiveness, physical ability versus disability, etc.. I do not do much reading on these topics and think most people who do tend to live within too narrow scopes to have good things to say on it either way... but as far as I know, the general belief among what has come to mean 'SJW' on this site is that /everyone/ has privileges and disprivileges, just in different ways and to disproportionate or incongruent and wrong effects for some people within all societies. I don't think this is ridiculous, honestly? People like enforcer are completely out of touch with what it is like to be a coloured and poor immigrant in the country, which is the only reason he could come to interpret polices meant to give these historically-marginalized groups fair representation within the forces that impose laws on them as somehow indicative that he must have, in reference to other ethnicities, a racial disprivilege--having lived in Canada as a white person since at least as long to have been able to apply to the RCMP in 1992. I have been well below the poverty line for most of my life at 23; I was on-and-off homeless for 4 years at one point. I looked awful and did sketchy things. I am not a privileged person. But I am not going to go around and claim I don't have a racial privilege for being white when throughout all that I was never rolled up to or stopped by a cop for drinking a monster energy drink, but that it was just a w/e common thing if one of my native friends were walking down the street and drinking one. I saw it happen to them and they just shrugged it off; but it seemed like very stupid profiling to me and made me realize where I lucked out in my non-character-indicative traits. Some people have /racial/ disprivileges, and it hurts the effort to rid our country and the globe of them when the attitude toward affirmative action within the scope of something so sacred as the application of law is to go into a CDC thread and make silly simplified jokes about it.
  5. just get lucky in on this venture imo
  6. If you don't understand why it's important for a federal police force to represent the demographics it enforces laws upon, it's probably a good thing they didn't hire you.
  7. yeah but you're probably not 5'1, 105lbs and ingesting for the 1st time
  8. 10mg is not a lot for /my/ tolerance and psychophysiology and past experience with thc, but there are people who would be quite knocked down by even that much in edibles, imo. I haven't had an edible in a long time, but I tend to go up to and over 300mg without a problem... but I am not going to tell you that this is something everyone can do and have a good time with--because that would be lying. :p Most seasoned stoners would consider 10mg nothing, sure--but that doesn't mean it can't have intense effects for some. The first time I smoked was comparable to a mushroom trip, and I don't recall having more than half a joint for it. I pay $20 for my 300mg chocolates in Vancouver, although I haven't looked for anywhere else that sells them and so wouldn't be able to tell you whether this is fair price.
  9. I've never heard of her but might check it out; I've a real interest in these types of things. I don't think most people who comment on these Westboro guys when they come up understand super well the 'mind control' and indoctrinating powers/relationships that can force a person into such a group/cult. It's a very sad thing, and I tend to see many of the people who are in similar organizations with a very sympathetic sorrow; I don't think all of them are devils, just people who fell into traps and bad thinking.
  10. Just that you once identified as a liberal/left person does not mean you ever were one. I think a prerequisite to calling oneself a liberal should be an understanding of set theory such that you don't conflate 'PC crap' and its proponents with the set of all liberals/liberalism itself. What do you mean 'taken over'? You're confusing the pop news and the world's social media 'highlights' with sociopolitical reality. There's nothing valuable in that. The reality is that, likewise conservatives, liberals hold,--as a group,--diverse and many opinions. I think you're making a mistake when you abandon describing yourself like that simply because some people you disagree with have taken to the same /general/ ideology and began describing themselves similarly. You approach understanding of this when you remark that the reasonable majority agrees on most issues; but then you fail when you go down to drawing such a direct line between the views/actions/'PC'ness of a small subset of people who call themselves liberals and the banner of liberalism itself. No definition I know of liberalism equates so much to 'political correctness' as it does 'freedom and tolerance.' Do you rather identify with the racists within our conservatives? Or do you just go around telling people you're politically agnostic now?
  11. including brogan and tram 1. Rathbone 2. Podkolzin 3. Madden 4. Hoglander 5. DiPietro 6. Rafferty 7. Tryamkin 8. Juolevi 9. Lind 10. Woo
  12. I will commit at least to spectating and maybe to playing.
  13. He must have had some sort of mystical experience amidst all the partying and tapped into deeper understanding. It can happen.
  14. If Jake plays at this level for 5 seasons, I am officially 'ok' with this pick. Anything more--in either quality of play/production or length of it--makes me ok+.
  15. ahh... now i see it: jim benning's cup vision. Madden - Pettersson - Boeser Pearson - Horvat - Podkolzin Hoglander - Miller - Virtanen Ferland - Gaudette - Roussel
  16. dungeons and dragons reference. sorry. you roll a 20-sided die to determine how well your character does in some circumstance; higher roles are conducive to better or successful outcomes.
  17. Do you think we'll transition him into a winger? He's projecting to be a top-9 player at worst and might be more valuable to us filling out the shoulders given that we have excellence in our 1/2 with Petey and Bo and that we've developed Gaudette as a centre himself. (Miller of course can also play C.) It feels like his talents might be wasted if he's forced into the centre role when he has a realistic chance of having weird chemistry with some of our stars--a la Burrows with the twins. (Like, it wouldn't surprise me to see a coach down the years decide that Miller-Petey-Madden; Pearson-Horvat-Podkolzin; Ferland-Gaudette-Boeser or something similar is the best way to spread the forward depth and align chemistry, even if Madden isn't a superstar or doesn't turn out to be a 1st-liner of himself.) I know it's easier to turn a C into a W than vice versa, but I'm sure this is something the team is going to look into when he makes the turn pro--having him practice on the wing now and again, test him there in game situations. It's not necessarily in the team's interests to move him away from playing centre right away as regards his development, but I'm curious what other people think Van should/will do here. And I'm not sure all of CDC realizes how very good Madden is even yet. He's better than Gaudette imo and, while it's a dice roll whether he hits this potential, he could be a genuine 1st line talent if the d20 lands 17-20.
  18. I'm expecting a Ryan Kesler-like development curve tbh.
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