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Rick Jemmett

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πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ retired clinician-researcher. The First Principles of liberal democracy could save everything: Human rights for all, always; Rule of law; Separation of church & state; Freedom of expression; Evidence based policy. Fuck America.

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Thanks but I think I’ll walk.

08.10.2025 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Brilliant strategy. We’re trying to avoid being taken over by an adversary orders of magnitude more powerful than us, economically & militarily, and currently run by a sadistic dementia riddled psychopath. So ya, let’s do everything possible to piss them off. Shall we bring up his rape history too?

08.10.2025 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. β€” This should shake everyone to their core.

07.10.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 27959    πŸ” 7631    πŸ’¬ 2141    πŸ“Œ 604

before Canadians, most of the world in fact, ever trust you clowns again.

Whether or not you voted for this shitshow, your fed gov is threatening to annex Canada. We see this as a declaration of war. Very few of you seem to appreciate this.

08.10.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

You still don’t understand this. Project 2025 & DFT are the culmination of a 45 yr effort by your libertarian class to proxy the GOP. Y’all missed it bc y’all were too busy being impressed with your alleged β€˜exceptionalism’. So yeah, every πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ over the age of 30 owns this. It’ll be a long time…

08.10.2025 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Very interesting comments from DFT. Easily interpreted as pushing back at any criticism PP would put forward re Carney’s performance thus far…

07.10.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good luck not crying! πŸ˜‚

07.10.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Highly therapeutic:)

07.10.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In his first OO meeting with DFT, Carney managed to get only a single β€˜trans’ in. Today was a multi-trans day. Well done sir.

07.10.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

BS. They are home grown terrorists who sought to bring down the government. Garbage decision.

07.10.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Swap out Miller for Rubio & Vought for RFK Jr and I’m in…

06.10.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Harm Principle is the foundation of civil society & is antithetical to the libertarian drift we’re witnessing as our sociopolitics shift to something resembling a survival of the fittest, law of the jungle dystopia. This is the unraveling of civilization.

06.10.2025 10:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you. It’s great to be able to consider the American data alongside Tara Moriarty’s projections for Canada.

06.10.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Attaboy. Duck responsibility for your own decisions. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ has faced similar political interference from the same countries - we didn’t bite. The situation πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ finds itself in has been developing in plain sight for 45 yrs. Y’all were too busy being enthralled with your own β€˜exceptionalism’ to notice.

05.10.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

concern to me is what this means for my country. The β€˜Harm Principle’ underpins virtually all laws & norms of civil society. As per this principle America has the right to choose its own destiny; it has no right to dictate the destiny of other sovereign nations.

05.10.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, much of Canada is v aware of what’s happening in America. As we usually are. I feel sick with what’s happening to the US, but I also understand that the events that have led to this were happening in plain sight for 45 yrs. Ultimately Americans have brought this hell on themselves. Of greater …

05.10.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

He has openly declared his intention to annex Canada, answering a reporter’s question in early January’25 by saying he would use military force to take Greenland, & economic force to take Canada. He continues his β€˜51st state’ BS this week in his moronic yammering at 800 military leaders.

05.10.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Watched this last night, it was brilliant:)

05.10.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

during COVID. They don’t give a shit about these birds, it’s just another opportunity to paint science-based government regulation as another unacceptable infringement on liberty.

05.10.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The article argues that the right-wing attention being paid to the ostrich-H5N1 story is more about ideology than animal rights, without defining the ideology. This is libertarian ideology, the idea that gov overreach has become intolerable. The same clowns who drove public health into the ditch…

05.10.2025 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€˜Famous Last Words with Dr Jane Goodall’.

Netflix, incredible.

05.10.2025 02:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ditto. I was getting prepared to navigate the various challenges climate change was going to bring about. Now we’re having to figure out how to share a 9000 km undefended border with the most powerful fascist dictatorship in history, one that wants to annex us.

04.10.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have absolutely no concerns whatsoever about DFT being deceased.

04.10.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kamala Harris warned us that Trump would turn the military against civilians. She warned us that he would pursue Project 2025. The media mocked her, but she was dead right about both.

03.10.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 7201    πŸ” 1524    πŸ’¬ 210    πŸ“Œ 55
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I am just so fucking proud of her.

03.10.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 14539    πŸ” 3493    πŸ’¬ 216    πŸ“Œ 280

I’m old enough to remember a fully analog world. Turns out, it was much better.

03.10.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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With the passing of Jane Goodall today, we lost one of the most consequential voices in environmental science and animal behavior. In 2002, she said, β€œWe have found that…there isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom.”
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01.10.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2345    πŸ” 509    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 19

Fight β€˜em β€˜till you can’t. Along the way take as many of them out as you can. This is my new ideology for my final 20.

30.09.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

learning & his concern for making the system better, is only in relation to his own experience, both this recent one, & any serious future contact he might have with health care in Ontario. Conservatives don’t possess broad empathy, their only concern is for their own welfare & maybe their family’s.

30.09.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There’s no empathy here at all. He’s only learned an appreciation for health care professionals & the shit state of the HC system bc he himself had the experience he did. Given his deep connections to the provincial cons, if he had empathy he’d have known how deep the rot went years earlier. His…

30.09.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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