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one group is concerned a race of people are being wiped out, while another is upset a minority of voices within its community are getting air time, but perhaps the truth is in the middle
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:Trained wrong as a joke
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Isentropy posted:I'm not joking: defund CBCs news desk. Bring back HNIC and pay more art and theatre kids to do stuff. who do you think is going the actual work on the news desk. disaffected art and theatre kids who went to jschool.
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madmatt112 posted:Why are western leftists such poo poo at being leftists in power? Only leftists focused on the proper maintenance of the imperial project are allowed near power. Even that much is an uphill battle to prevent the capitalists from killing everything and themselves.
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I'd argue the opposite: the systems and institutions in place make it difficult to have a leftwing government in power that doesn't have to compromise in some fashion in order to stay in power. Individual or even individuals will can't overcome the very structures that shape politics as the distribution of resources of a society. If you think it's just a leftists-are-defficient problem then you will forever be disappointed because no one will be capable of delivering a comprehensive leftwing political platform that also has a shot at power through elections.
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Arc Hammer posted:https://www.cbc.ca/news/editorsblog/editor-blog-gaza-breach-1.7189987 quote:Complaints about coverage come from both sides Ah well, okay then. Carry on.
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May 18, 2024 22:28
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one side isn't allowed to say the g-word to correctly describe the plight of their people and the other side feels scared, attacked, and vulnerable if they hear reality described to them many sides, many sides
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May 18, 2024 22:40
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one side feels attacked by words, the other side feels attacked by bombs and starvation, as a very smart journalist I literally cannot tell the difference between them
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May 18, 2024 22:45
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At least it's not like it took us 155 years of genociding indigenous people before our leaders could stand up in the house and call the ongoing genocide by that name or something
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Re: BC unpaid taxes on real estate My mom works for the BC govt doing real estate assessment appeals and avoidance investigations, we discuss it a lot. She talks a lot about how almost every investigation reveals something major, and the schemes she comes across are so badly planned and executed that anyone can see it, but that they would need ten times the staff to actually make a dent. Furthermore, they get so bogged down with the paperwork generated by the sheer amount of easy cases that there are likely huge well organized avoidance schemes operating with total impunity. I have to imagine the government is fine with this on some level. She's very well paid, but generates 10s of millions of dollars of revenue for the province every year. The work she does pays for itself, even factoring in the cases that go to court. Why don't they hire like a hundred more people in that same position?
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Virtual Russian posted:Re: BC unpaid taxes on real estate because if they hire too many people the illegal stuff will actually stop and then they'll have all these employees with nothing to do who they probably can't fire
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imagine if the police actually lowerd crime rates, and then all these hired goons were collecting 100s of thousands of dollars to do nothing and you couldnt get rid of them theyd probably hope crime increases again
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madmatt112 posted:Why are western leftists such poo poo at being leftists in power? when they actually get in they view using the power as a moral failing
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https://twitter.com/KerryShima_RCMP/status/1791969810366288090?t=Zdri-kWbj-96X0KhRJam0g&s=19 How bad does the UCP have to be to get the RCMP on their rear end like this.
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xposting because I hate Canadian drivers and their trucks both:
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Arc Hammer posted:https://twitter.com/KerryShima_RCMP/status/1791969810366288090?t=Zdri-kWbj-96X0KhRJam0g&s=19 Lmao. And the comments are all defending it because "its a small town"
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Look, in a small town there aren't many options which is why you have to marry your 14 year old cousin
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ZShakespeare posted:Look, in a small town there aren't many options which is why you have to marry your 14 year old cousin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULPwkpCy_-8
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In non cousin loving news, I just read this really depressing article on how the rivers in the Northwest Territory are too low for the barges this summer, and the winter road season is shorter than ever because of climate change. So price problems are going to get worse and infrastructure (new houses, schools, arenas etc) are not going to be built this year. https://cabinradio.ca/183822/news/travel/will-there-be-any-barges-at-all-this-summer/
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mediaphage posted:when they actually get in they view using the power as a moral failing “Authoritarian” means literally using authority lmao western leftists are so dumb for falling for this poo poo
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Precambrian Video Games posted:xposting because I hate Canadian drivers and their trucks both: More proof of Yankeefication. Canadians used to have European preferences for hatchbacks, station wagons and manuals and all three are out the window as our Boomers got richer, fatter and lazier (so more American).
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:More proof of Yankeefication. Canadians used to have European preferences for hatchbacks, station wagons and manuals and all three are out the window as our Boomers got richer, fatter and lazier (so more American). Fortunately we can smugly blame Americans for starting it in large part with the insane CAFE standards and then building these hunks of poo poo here so that our economy is dependent on continuing to sell Child Mulcher XLTs.
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I want the F150's vestigial bed to fall off so everyone is driving around trucks that look like 6000lb smart cars.
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sleep with the vicious posted:In non cousin loving news, I just read this really depressing article on how the rivers in the Northwest Territory are too low for the barges this summer, and the winter road season is shorter than ever because of climate change. So price problems are going to get worse and infrastructure (new houses, schools, arenas etc) are not going to be built this year. Some of the photos coming out of how low the water levels are in Yellowknife Bay are really scary, too.
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It's depressing watching my hometown go through all this from a distance. The dumber part though is listening to my parents swear on their life, quite vociferously, that the ice road always took until January+, winter never started before November, and the water levels and fire encroachments totally happened in 96-06. It's just like, you fuckers lived there, we did things that counteract that. Jesus gently caress your brains refuse to ever countenance being wrong but only in this sort of thing.
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every vehicle should be taxed based on weight
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Today I learned that baby eels are called elvers, and that I could buy a luxury tr*ck with a Big Gulp cup's worth of them https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-ont-elver-seizure-1.7208615 quote:The baby eels are worth about $5,000 per kilogram — more than lobsters, scallops or salmon — making them the most valuable fish by weight in Canada.
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Yeah when DFO out here isn't focused on harassing or arresting Indigenous people exercising their Treaty rights they're trying to bust up the elver fishery
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:More proof of Yankeefication. Canadians used to have European preferences for hatchbacks, station wagons and manuals and all three are out the window as our Boomers got richer, fatter and lazier (so more American). This may partly be consumer preference, but most car companies have eliminated certain car models and replaced them with similar "crossover SUVs." They say they are responding to demand, but the fuel consumption guidelines are much weaker for crossovers and the margins are higher, so I'd bet this is another case of 
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It turns out that European eels are almost extinct, which is pretty terrifying but also funny because capitalism destroyed everything and yet these morons keep voting for the Tories even though you can't get jellied eels and pie anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaS0EIqESc4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-YrFHQ47RU
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Yeah the fact that a lot of companies don't bother making or exporting regular sedans to Canada def doesn't help. Also lol badass Spotify ad the other day for Jeep that was literally showing how driving big cars makes you feel badass and encourages dangerous things (when you drive a Jeep everything is dangerous, drive through the park in your Jeep-esque ad copy) but it's all presented as a positive
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StealthArcher posted:It's depressing watching my hometown go through all this from a distance. The nations up north are hosed but it's okay because we cannot, ever, under any circumstance, disrupt the flow of Treats to the landlord and aspiring-landlord class
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PhilippAchtel posted:This may partly be consumer preference, but most car companies have eliminated certain car models and replaced them with similar "crossover SUVs." That's my thinking too, since some of them use the same wheelbase. Hyundai and Nissan just put worse, boxy, CUVs on existing compact platforms. But it worked out for them because Kona, despite sucking, having body roll, feeling floaty, and being uglier than the Elantra station wagon, was the best selling car in Canada for years.
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I'm not sure I should consume a concentrated dose of Britannia this early on a Sunday morning THICK. GREEN. LIQUOR. PARSIMONIOUS PARSLEY PREPARED PUNCTUALLY FOR PEWED PATRONS 
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Karach posted:I'm not sure I should consume a concentrated dose of Britannia this early on a Sunday morning my brain is rejecting this like those hosed up midjourney images
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This is our national birthright as Canadians.  This is what they took from you
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infernal machines posted:my brain is rejecting this like those hosed up midjourney images  For 25p, Tubby will set you to rights. Step right up and nosh on some nutrimentical Neptunian nasties
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StealthArcher posted:It's depressing watching my hometown go through all this from a distance. Same thing with my Dad and climate change. We all lived in BC in the 90s, I can't remember the sun being blotted out and it snowing ash, but he swears this is normal and we need not worry. My mom is still sane at least, and still lives in BC, and says the only thing comparable was went Mt St Helens erupted in 1980.
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