Bothered Boy

The Supreme Court is younger than Canada, and its relevance is new...

Canada's constitutional history is over 250 years long. Let's talk about it...

I wish more people knew how our system works and how to exploit it...

Several of Latin America's most serious problems have their roots in the early days of colonization by Spain and Portugal. Wealth inequality, concentration of power, corruption, and authoritarian rule all have their roots in the horrors of the latifundium, hacienda system, and encomienda system.

Leif Erikson discovered the New World. Columbus colonized it...

What's up with alien races and planets being monolithic?

Babylon 5 clip about 'Earth's dominant religion': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hg_TRynRIs

It's not that no one wants to work, it's that they don't want to be exploited.

It's an unconscionable amount of wealth and hoarding.

Source: https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releas...

Yup, having to move during a pandemic sucks.

Once again it's time for the Sunday Sum Up and my god, it's a doozy...There's the rising return of fascism in Italy and Spain (two countries who should know better), the Tokyo Olympics banning all Black Lives Matter apparel and permanently banning any player kneeling during an anthem, Loblaws cutting pandemic pay early in the pandemic while raking in $400M in profit, internet companies throttling service for emergency responders, Angela Merkel pushing back on loosening IP restrictions, pandemic errors making the Canadian COVID-19 outbreak far worse than it needed to be, a motorcycle airbag vest that would stop working if you didn't pay a subscription, The Trump Justice Department secretly obtaining Washington Post journalists’ phone records and trying to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months of the Trump administration on Russia’s role in the 2016 election, a team of Toronto cops conspiring to lie in court under oath, and the harrowing COVID-19 crisis in India.

Sources: 

https://twitter.com/FabianEberhard/status/1389491281232113664?s=20 

https://twitter.com/mymixtapez/status/1390192060158730242 

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/retail-marketing/union-slams-loblaw-over-pandemic-pay-as-company-reports-nearly-400m-profit/

https://twitter.com/Salem4Congress/status/1390409941626798084 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-06/merkel-pushes-back-on-vaccine-patent-waiver-in-clash-with-biden 

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-pandemic-errors-made-canadian-covid-19-outbreak-far-worse-than-it/ 

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/371421 

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1390789903412338694 

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/05/06/team-of-toronto-cops-conspired-to-lie-in-court-under-oath-judge-finds.html 

https://twitter.com/shahidtantray/status/1385621135245512709