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I sorta get what you’re saying but you seriously need to change your angle, and yesterday. It’s not immigration that caused this, it was poor planning. We need immigration for a lot of reasons but governments being incredibly lazy about affordable housing projects, attacking workers’ rights, and allowing foreign companies like US-based energy companies to rat-fuck our environment just to siphon away our assets on the cheap are all way bigger issues making us poor.

The Liberal government is a conservative one, only margainally better than the Conservatives. They even tried to break the Air Canada strike and we are all lucky that those workers held their ground. They are allowing energy companies to rip out our resources without any environmental reviews for five years and they will, as usual, do nothing to punish them when they inevitably do awful, damaging shit in the process. They fired 40,000 people in time where getting a job is a hard enough when al’ they really needed to do was tax wealthy people and corporations. They won’t even let us have fair elections despite their promise from 2015 which they threw out upon learning that they’d probably never win again if we had real choice and they couldn’t bank on scare tactics anymore.

We have lots of empty housing which goes unfilled because it doesn’t help drive prices up if everyone has a place to live and there’s less competition. Weak or non-existent affordable housing programs also allow private developers to take money and land and do nothing truly valuable with it. The same thing works with jobs as companies would rather overwork who they have than risk taking on someone for higher wages and setting that precedent. This is what capitalism is, a society where capital is the goal, not the betterment of the society itself.

You’re mad, and you’ve got a big stick but for the love of god please stop hitting yourself with it.

Who’s gunna stop them, another sub-50% voter turnout because the Canadian electorate ranges from insane conservative morons to completely uninformed “moderates” with only a small amount of progressives who often get easily scared into letting the center and right get away with shit like this?

The funny thing is that that actually makes you very good for the job, or at least it’s major part of it. A leader of anything from a company to a small work team needs to be the kind of person who can assemble teams of experts and give them the resources they need to succeed.

And? Right now it’s basically what’s happening, except it also includes schools and infrastructure and hospitals. You’re saying they should just sit down and take it? The US has this problem with not understanding what a consequence is and it might be time they learned.

Do you think Iran cares? That girls school didn’t commit heinous crimes against Iranians but got obliterated all the same. The US has show quite clearly that it doesn’t matter, so why should their victims be held to a higher standard? Besides, the targets would be US tech which is a valid target.

That would involve actually doing something, and 90% of them are utterly useless.

What point are you trying to make? That rural areas which were once built as spots of closeness were eventually turned into sprawling towns? Or trying to saying things aren’t so different despite the fact that we can literally see, with our own eyes, how the differences are pretty bad? He’s not asserting anything in the sense that he’s not just talking out his ass, it’s video proof.

I agree with everything but the first paragraph, which unfortunately taints the rest. Communism can’t really be considered a failed system if it’s only ever existed in its infancy. Capitalism is a failed ideology specifically because it was given every possible advantage and has still completely and utterly failed to address the needs of any kind of remotely fair and just society. Any attempts to make the switch toward communism in this world are incredibly difficult undertakings because of how it is the antithesis of the existing structure, while capitalism only needed to make one easy step away from the feudalism is was created to replace. History is pretty clear on this if you look beyond the very surface level propaganda, to the point where you don’t even to “just google it bro” but can actually just see it all woth your own eyes.

I’m not a full-blown tankie communist, but I’m absolutely a socialist. My aims are toward the next step or two, not much further but certainly not so close as can be easily hand-waved by those with too much power.

Edit: For those getting here and seeing a removed comment, buddy here basically complained that I was mad about capitalism being imperfect and said that I was pulling a “no true Scotsman” fallacy. They completely blew past any nuance in my comment, especially the point where I indicated that the survival of capitalism is largely due to it’s proximity to the system before it and, I should add at this time, the amount of brutal violence it uses to keep itself around. They were going off about how they want to be objective in their telling of history but seem wholly uninterested in actually learning anything that challenges their worldview, even when it does so very gently.

Stay in school, kids, literacy is important.

Or coercion, or a bunch of other closely related things. All across history there have been “incentives” for women to lower their standards and to gaslight themselves into believing that their shitty situations were normal.

I had been paying for it a while ago since, to be fair, the service is free otherwise and often times it pays the creator more. Then Youtube decided to give about $45mil or so worth of energy toward making pro-Israel content and suddenly I didn’t mind the ads so much anymore. Now they’re making it a lot worse and my solution is going to need to be an adblocker.

I’m kinda jealous of GenZ in some ways. They never expected things to work out ever, but us 30+ folks had a hope that was taken away from us. And so many of us deserve it because we’re chasing “stability” in systems where stability means more of the same crap that took our hope away to begin with.

But they’re very correct that so many things aren’t needed. I mean, gender on a driver license? Really?

Yea, at least China puts on a front. The rest of us use the US as the butt of our jokes when we want to drive home the point about some system or other being purposefully cruel to those it claims to have been designed for.

Right? If I don’t otherwise pay for the service then sure, some ads are fine. Problem is that at this point I’m seeing ads every few minutes, and if the video restarts in a weird spot and reloads funny after I reopen my laptop I might even get the same ads looping after literally two seconds of video.

Also, I was paying for the service and then they gave a fuckload of support to Israel to spread propaganda so I stopped.

They also spent a REALLY long time fighting EV and public transit development. They really have no idea how anything works or how to plan further than a few months but society will still act like they’re so smart they deserve billions.

Republicans like “Noooo don’t deadname my special thing! Nooooo!!”

The anti-pronoun party once again fully understanding the concepts and yet showing us once again that the point is the cruelty, not consistency.

Those are “manly” emotions! But also don’t forget that we are better for running countries because we’re so calm and cool.

Do hallucinating LLMs, that have done such things as convince a child to commit suicide before, really count as “information machines”? The Mayo clinic website might take a single whole other braincell to read through but at least it’ll be written properly.

I mean, the fact that you consider these programs to have enough credibility to be called “information machines” is exactly why they’re so potentially dangerous.

It’s a kind thing to hate MAGA. “Living and letting live” these people is only possible if you simply have the privilege to ignore what they are doing to those who don’t have that ability. That complacency completely strips any option of being a nice person away.

The hate you have for them is not the same hate they have for you. They hate as a basic instinct because they are afraid of anything they don’t understand and they refuse to ever learn anything new. You and I hate them because they’re taking that hate and literally killing innocent people over it before our eyes. Not hating them would be an awful thing.