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Far-right leaders are winning across the globe. Blaming ‘the economy’ or ‘the left-behinds’ won’t cut it
  • Ring wing "populism" isn't really populist, it's masking politics beneficial to the wealthy elite in a way that is palatable to enough people just long enough to gain power and put into effect laws that are highly unfavourable to your average person. The antidote to that is making changes that are actually favourable to your average person. Placing those two different concepts under the singular label "populism" is, frankly, disingenuous.

  • Can Trump pardon himself even though he did criminal stuff outside of office?
  • You need to stop thinking laws are inviolable writ handed down from God. We're all playing a game of shared make believe where the rules are only strong as the collective will to enforce them. That will doesn't appear to be sufficient so he can likely do what he wants.

  • Never read the book oops - Dune review
  • Whenever a movie starts with a Part One in it's title, I get a hesitation. And Dune's only covering one half of the FIRST book. This was going to be slow, this was going to have a lot of filler, this was going to have information and scenes that are not at any point integral to the main story and it won't be very pretty because they would save most of the budget for the second film.

    The thing about that is that there was a very good chance Dune part 2 never got made if the first didn't do well enough, so there was a lot of motivation to make it as good as it could be. Dune was kind of a redemption attempt after Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 (unfairly, imo) flopped.

  • B.C. Conservative candidate uses racist slur to describe Indigenous Peoples on election night
  • B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad said in an emailed statement Friday he was “appalled and deeply saddened” by Sapozhnikov’s comments. He said her “remarks do not reflect the values of our party or the vision we have for a united British Columbia, and we are taking this matter seriously.”

    But Rustad made no indication he was considering her removal from the party.

    I don't think you're taking it that seriously, Rustad. If you won't remove her from the party then it's hard to see how her views don't mesh just fine with your values.

    Marina Sapozhnikov, who finished only 23 votes behind the NDP’s Dana Lajeunesse in Juan de Fuca-Malahat, said that before Europeans came to North America, First Nations Peoples “didn’t have any sophisticated laws. They were savages. They fought each other all the time.”

    Right, that notably peace loving continent, Europe. You are Ukrainian, Marina. Your birthplace is literally under invasion from another European state, today.

  • Woman who died in bakery oven at Halifax Walmart found by her mother, organization says | Globalnews.ca
  • I don’t know how they aren’t like walk ins with an emergency release.

    I can't imagine it would pass OH&S muster to not have an internal release on a walk in oven. I suspect poorly maintained equipment where the release was broken. Something similar happened to an Arby's manager last year.

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    Does anyone else think Trudeau bring millions of people from Ukraine and bringing so many international students was a bad idea?
  • Canada's immigration is controlled. You can't literally just walk in and live here. You are against the current immigration targets that Canada has (well, had, recent news has the governing Liberals cutting those targets by 25%). I contend that your ire should be directed towards your provincial and the federal government's housing strategy. It's no secret that Doug Ford is in bed with exactly the private developers I have mentioned are not serving our society well. Why are we not adopting the Vienna housing model nationwide? The affordability issue is a solved problem where we are refusing to apply the solution because lining someone's pockets is the first order of business for leadership.

    Adding workers adds value to our society. Our problem is that most of the value created is going to a select few at the top. Such problems as people like to complain about with regard to immigration would disappear if we did a better job redistributing that value back to the people who create it.

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    Does anyone else think Trudeau bring millions of people from Ukraine and bringing so many international students was a bad idea?
  • No. Being anti-immigration is misunderstanding how growth and economics work. "Jobs" are not a non-renewable resource that can be consumed and used up. Humans do consume economic activity, it's true, but they also are the source of it. More people = more needs = more jobs. This is obvious if you think about it for two seconds. It's why cities don't collapse under their own weight after crossing some population threshold. It's why there is far more economic activity and available jobs in cities than in podunk towns where that imagined non-renewable economic activity hasn't been used up yet.

    Where there are issues in relation to population growth, ie housing, they are political issues related to how we develop infrastructure and housing. That is to say, our reliance on private developers and public private partnerships where things don't get built unless someone gets to profit from it has not served us well. What we need is planning. Canada has plenty of space, no other country on Earth is as well suited as we are to bring in plenty of people. We could be building entirely new cities if we wanted, we have the room. What's more, doing so could help us develop an internal economy that allows us to free ourselves from dependence on the American market, a dependence that has allowed them to turn us into what is essentially a resource colony.

    You should acquaint yourself with the Labour Theory of Value.

  • Anyone have any fingernails left?
  • I do, because I knew this race was going to be close and I went to sleep as I didn't want worrying over this election to interfere with that sleep. Now upon waking I find out my sleep gets to be interfered with until those mail in ballots are settled. My lord, this is way too close for comfort.

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