Hopefully Germany learns from what has happened elsewhere and deals with this aggressively

Are plastic teabags an American thing? Most Canadian and british tea come in paper bags… wish there was more information in this article its so vague.

they will complain about any female face that isnt ‘girlish’ enough or any female costume that doesnt show off enough boob

You are correct about this, Im not disagreeing.

Im just saying it would be nice to have the choice between the traditional oath and a non-royal version for whatever personal reason. “I promise to be loyal, steadfast, and obey the laws of Canada” (etc). Seems like that wouldnt negate the technical role of the monarchy, I dont know.

Even acknowledging that he plays a legal role in how Canada operates (technically) its still ridiculous that anyone would have to do this, or get in trouble for refusing. An oath to obey the laws of a country, sure, but swearing loyalty to an unelected monarch seems like it should be optional at the least.

I wasnt suggesting “burying my head in the sand” or ignoring politics generally. I just half assedly read the article and thought it was more about a big corporation throttling the project, but I clearly missed the point entirely. Youre right.

it sounds more like business people dicking each other over. why bring politics into it?

a lot of people were, but its hard to be heard over all the right wing messaging

We think google sucks times infinity no touchbacks! said Russia in an official statement

yeah agreed on this point, I dont think most people do this (unless replaying for the nth time)

I definitely think some of this is the case here with these stories. But the main takeaway should be how important it is to keep Trump the hell out of office again.

Fuck this evil bullshit

thank you, that was what i saw. I was fully expecting to find articles that would back it up, (why else would you make such a claim?) but nope. I couldnt find anything to support it.

Im a big fan of the BBC edition, but its odd thats on CNN - anyone tried watching it yet?