Canada

wellp, time for guillotines, i suppose.

Absolute monarchies tend to come to a very sticky end, as happened in England in the 17th century and France in the 18th.

"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."

~ attributed to Denis Diderot

I'm no monarchist but in Canada we have an actual king and the idea that HRH would busy himself with such petty quibbles as ...tolls is laughable.

I was reading or watching some news story once and it was about these two blokes getting arrested for fucking farm animals. And it started a train of thought. How do two strangers meet who are into fucking farm animals? It isn't like it is socially acceptable. Its probably not on their dating profile. I get that if you are part of a comparatively common group experiencing social repression you learn ways to communicate. Even pedos. But animal fuckers? Are they that common?

Now call me autistic if you like but suddenly I realized some of the edgy race jokes I had laughed at when I was younger and dumber might have been actual racists looking to connect with other racists. The sexist and homophobic jokes might have been actual bigots. And the guys joking about fucking animals. Well most of those are just jokes because obviously nobody does that. But perhaps some of them are looking for a special friend because how else does that convo even get started without the plausible deniability of "a joke".

So now when I see a fascist dog fucker "joking" about their not meant to be serious fascist memes and symbols the illusion is broken for me. And when I see Presidents joking about being Kings or invading neighbors, it isn't my type of humor any more I guess.

I guess Arthur was wrong, you do vote for kings!

…holy fuck - that’s a real tweet.

It is going very poorly here folks. There isn't any other way to say it, except to say it more accurately, which is that it is going about as badly as it has ever gone and seems on a trajectory for going as badly as it is possible to go.

Nothing good is allowed to happen ever again.

Benjamin...get the musket.

To be fair in this case I don't think we have much right to make fun of them until tolls get placed on the DVP.

The government is too big, why are we paying for healthcare, school, welfare and whatever else? It is unfair to those who don't use those services.

...oh, except roads and the military, everyone must pay for those.

It's amazing how many of these policies are posed as a simple fair rule (people should pay for what they want, not have the government decide where spending goes) but in actuality is just a convenient excuse for dismantling institutions that they personally don't like.

Very REPUBLICAN, that traitor.

America needs a 1918.

Any man who must say, 'I am the king' is no true king