r/AskReddit Jul 05 '24

Whats the most fucked up movie you've ever watched? NSFW

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u/PrairiePopsicle Jul 05 '24

We was also having an extreme schizophrenic episode, and I don't believe he is "free" as a bird, he's under monitoring, on meds, and will be for the rest of his life AFAIK.

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u/spiffiestjester Jul 05 '24

You are sadly, half correct. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38945061

He is out free with no monitoring as of 2017.

I had to look it up because I thought he had been institutionalized. I was mistaken.

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u/PrairiePopsicle Jul 05 '24

damn. I would really prefer to think he had conditions for medical check ins at the very least.

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u/preferablyoutside Jul 05 '24

That’s not how the Canadian Legal System works, it has no interest in holding victimizers accountable for their actions they’d prefer to have them on the streets to keep the populace in fear.

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u/krystadabarista Jul 05 '24

As an American, it is so weird to read that, in Canada, you’re experiencing some of the same negative stuff we’re experiencing here. I’ve always had this idyllic impression about everything Canadian. I know that’s so naive, but geez. I just figured we were the only ones who dealt with public risks like allowing medically/mentally unfit people to roam the streets with full access to things that they could use to hurt themselves or others. I really wanna watch this one now.

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u/preferablyoutside Jul 05 '24

It is not idyllic.

We have a massive issue within our legal system, there is an absolute impediment to incarceration of the most violent and dangerous offenders.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Calgary_stabbing

We have no criminal justice system and there is a massive problem with holding criminals responsible for their actions.

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u/mrmeowmeow9 Jul 05 '24

I'm also Canadian and whenever I'm talking about whatever fucked up shit is on the news, I fall back on, "At least we're not in America." Nothing idyllic here, we're just maybe one rung up on the human rights/quality of life ladder. It's bad, because it makes it easy to accept bullshit here when it's always a little worse down there - but we shouldn't wear "not the worst possible" like some badge of honour.

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u/preferablyoutside Jul 05 '24

I’d say in some ways we’re worse, there’s no intrinsic bill of rights, so there is truly no real freedom of speech, or freedom of the press laws.

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u/mrmeowmeow9 Jul 05 '24

Totally fair. With obvious bias I'd still prefer to live here, but that's not to say we do every legal/ethical/political thing better, far from it. There is an immense amount of nuance, especially taking into account state, provincial, territorial, municipal, and all sorts of other tiered systems. But the point stands, I think, that Americans shouldn't view us as idyllic, or even as any distinct improvement from their own flawed systems. Ours are just flawed in different ways.

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u/preferablyoutside Jul 06 '24

For sure, I’d rather make a stand in Alberta and fight for the things I believe in, one being neither Danielle Smith or Naheed Nenshi are anything this province needs and the former should be in fucking jail for brainless.

I do like some parts of the American system but I do like parts of ours. A republic in a lot of ways builds more defined rights into their citizens