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Arivia posted:what On the other hand, https://www.thestar.com/news/federal-election/2015/08/26/mulcairs-vow-of-balanced-budget-will-lead-to-austerity-measures-liberals-warn.html
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tagesschau posted:As opposed to roads, which are completely unsubsidized? As opposed to roads, which no one complains about massively subsidizing. E: Like, I personally believe public transit shouldn't have any user fees, but I'm not exactly in the mainstream there, and getting Johnny Swansea out in Brantford to cough up a few extra cents to run a train is like pulling teeth. infernal machines fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Apr 7, 2018 |
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What's the actual prognosis for the ontatrio election at this point?
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mik posted:What's the actual prognosis for the ontatrio election at this point? 
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mik posted:What's the actual prognosis for the ontatrio election at this point? https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/onvotes/poll-tracker/ lol
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If there's one thing I've learned, it's always trust media polls. 
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Reince Penis posted:If there's one thing I've learned, it's always trust media polls. Oh my god you learned exactly the wrong lessons from the 2016 election.
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THC posted:https://twitter.com/nationalpost/status/982414296016736256?s=21 Oh god he's retweeting Peterson
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tagesschau posted:You'd have a point if smokers actually kept back the required distance from apartment lobbies, restaurant patios, etc., and didn't just drop smoking-related litter on the ground whenever and wherever they feel like it. Fair point. I hate people who just drop their butts wherever. Like speed limits, it would be better to enforce the laws we have on a consistent basis, rather than recognizing that there's a huge problem with people not obeying the current laws and suggesting that the solution is to make the laws even more restrictive.
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Arivia posted:I'm interested. What's up? There was an anarchist riot in a bourgeoisie hood there. Afterward, there was a (not kidding) Nazi march in the same neighbourhood. The locals loved it. Reporters went to the (not kidding) Nazi march and complained about the anarchist counter-protest. Now the alleged ringleader of the anarchists has been arrested, and the media is deliberately misgendering her. In short, Hamilton is a (not kidding) Nazi hellmouth. https://www.thespec.com/news-story/8377333-hamilton-police-lay-charge-in-locke-street-vandalism/ xtal fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Apr 7, 2018 |
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PT6A posted:Lol the Calgary city council has banned public consumption of marijuana, because they're morons. My (good) councillor was one of the only people to point out how loving stupid it is, and how it basically fucks over renters and tourists and will inevitably be used to hassle minorities and other marginalized people. Druh Farrell and Nenshi, my arch-nemeses of municipal politics, both supported this stupid bylaw because they are stupid and bad. Who's your councillor? I got moved from Sutherland to Farrell with the ward redistricting... ugh.
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I'm happy that the only decent person on council is the one that represents me.
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THC posted:https://twitter.com/nationalpost/status/982414296016736256?s=21 I don't think there's a single Canadian left who doesn't loving loathe Conrad Black, across the political spectrum. His TV appearances on CTV and the like are absolutely hilarious because the other panelists can barely keep their contempt under wraps.
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Eox posted:I don't think there's a single Canadian left who doesn't loving loathe Conrad Black, across the political spectrum. His TV appearances on CTV and the like are absolutely hilarious because the other panelists can barely keep their contempt under wraps. He cleverly disguises the fact that he has absolutely nothing of any value to say, ever, by using unnecessarily obscure, long words, like a poo poo-tier college student trying to bullshit his way through a paper.
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So what did the bookstore, coffee shop, and junk store owners on Locke St do to warrant getting their poo poo trashed in the first place? It's been quite a few years since I've lived in Hamilton so I'm out of the loop.
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xtal posted:There was an anarchist riot in a bourgeoisie hood there. Afterward, there was a (not kidding) Nazi march in the same neighbourhood. The locals loved it. Reporters went to the (not kidding) Nazi march and complained about the anarchist counter-protest. Now the alleged ringleader of the anarchists has been arrested, and the media is deliberately misgendering her. In short, Hamilton is a (not kidding) Nazi hellmouth. Let’s be a bit more clear on this. The nazi March was small as hell and basically dispersed quickly in the face of a ton of resistance from local socialist, antifa and labour groups. As a neighbourhood local, I can tell you that most people here loving love the status quo and could care less about any group or individuals as long as hey don’t intrude on their upper class lifestyle. Needless to say they are not happy that anarchists hosed up some windows and it’s still some insane deal despite every business making money hand over fist afterward. It is really a bubble here, tons of Toronto expats who really don’t have connection to the city aside from the local neighbourhood. Hamilton is really hosed; gentrification is in a turbo charge and our civic leaders really are ignorant of it at best and actively promoting it through poor planning at worse. A while ago (almost a decade now) the local paper did an awesome investigation into the poor health outcomes of a number of neighbourhoods focusing on poverty and such. Really forward thinking and the city responded by putting a ton of resources into these places. Some of these are gorgeous neighbourhoods with old century homes converted into triplexes and such because there was no way you would have been able to sell it for anything and no one could afford rent on a whole place etc. These neighbourhoods predictably are gentrified as gently caress now, many multiple housing units (legal and illegal)are being converted back to SFH and rents are skyrocketing. Poverty is being pushed elsewhere in the city but those resources are not following. Our public services are being underfunded by a neolib municipal government which is making these issues more difficult to deal with. I could go on forever. The cops have protected the fash here repeatedly and they can operate right in the open. It’s insanely hosed. The media here is pretty reactionary and bad. Some of the anarchists are really great but the group has a bad reputation even amongst progressive people because in the past a lot of pretty well off young people used to associate with them and just acted like pricks. The vandalism kinda perpetuated that view, it was dumb as gently caress. This neighbourhood may be bougie af but a lot of people here are not. It was only a decade ago you could get a huge rear end century home for less than 200k and there are still a lot of healthcare and education people in the area. There has been a wild influx of Toronto money in the past few years though. You can really see the difference walking through the alleys. Massive additions to homes, lots of luxury cars, coach houses converted into apt/Airbnb etc. my morning jackass fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Apr 7, 2018 |
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EvilJoven posted:So what did the bookstore, coffee shop, and junk store owners on Locke St do to warrant getting their poo poo trashed in the first place? It's been quite a few years since I've lived in Hamilton so I'm out of the loop. Locke st kinda epitomizes the nouveau riche bougie lifestyle. 4 dollar gourmet donuts, a store dedicated to pet furniture that costs more than my human furniture, starbucks and so on. Some of the cars you see parked on the street probably cost more than what a house did in that neighbourhood 15 years ago. The antique stores of old are long gone. Moved to Ottawa street (which also got gentrified so some just shuttered or left the city) They didn’t do anything directly per say, it’s just what they represent. my morning jackass fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Apr 7, 2018 |
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Ya I'm looking at it on google street view and it looks a lot fancier than it used to be and lol at the army green Ferrari parked on the corner. Still loving stupid to go smash it up though. my morning jackass posted:the group has a bad reputation even amongst progressive people because in the past a lot of pretty well off young people used to associate with them and just acted like pricks. The vandalism kinda perpetuated that view, it was dumb as gently caress. 
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I bet their excuse is that it's three busses to get from downtown to Ancaster to go smash the windows of the actual rich in the city and gently caress that they may as well just break some shop windows in Locke and still have time to make it to some poetry slam at The Staircase afterwards. EDIT: Whoops meant to edit that last post but made a new one instead whatevs. Looking at google maps and holy poo poo is Hamilton ever expanding south. EvilJoven fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Apr 7, 2018 |
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Oh no, insurance covered businesses. I feel so bad.
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my morning jackass posted:Let’s be a bit more clear on this. The nazi March was small as hell and basically dispersed quickly in the face of a ton of resistance from local socialist, antifa and labour groups. As a neighbourhood local, I can tell you that most people here loving love the status quo and could care less about any group or individuals as long as hey don’t intrude on their upper class lifestyle. Needless to say they are not happy that anarchists hosed up some windows and it’s still some insane deal despite every business making money hand over fist afterward. It is really a bubble here, tons of Toronto expats who really don’t have connection to the city aside from the local neighbourhood. This pretty accurately describes every single GTA bedroom community. Barrie isnt quite that bad but the current city council sure seems hellbent on changing that. 
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EvilJoven posted:I bet their excuse is that it's three busses to get from downtown to Ancaster to go smash the windows of the actual rich in the city and gently caress that they may as well just break some shop windows in Locke and still have time to make it to some poetry slam at The Staircase afterwards. That was their excuse for not smashing the Starbucks
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flakeloaf posted:Oh is it time for this picture again From a few pages back but do you have a source for this?
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THC posted:https://twitter.com/nationalpost/status/982414296016736256?s=21 thanks national post for the best stock photo of canada's best mp: 
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"Oh Jesus, I knew those oysters tasted off!"
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Vintersorg posted:Oh no, insurance covered businesses. I feel so bad. Just because you sympathize with vandals doesn't make their actions legitimate. If a bunch of Nazis knocked out your windows I doubt you'd shrug it off with "oh well insurance will pay for it". People having their poo poo trashed and understanding they might have been personally harmed if they had been there are right to be upset.
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im all for militant vandalism but it's just dumb to target independant small retail businesses when there are so many other legitimate targets i mean theres a loving starbucks like 2 blocks away but no we're angry about brunch
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RBC posted:im all for militant vandalism but it's just dumb to target independant small retail businesses when there are so many other legitimate targets They explained that a bit in their little blog post quote:All my worst bosses have been small business owners — the problem isn’t the size of the business, it’s that the relationship is exploitative. When someone decides to be a capitalist, making money through their investments rather than through their labour, their position relative to changes in the city becomes fundamentally different. Gentrification, as an example: when rents go up, it means they make more money (rather than lose their home); when prices go up and rich people move in, it means a chance to sell luxury goods (while we work for minimum wage); when more police and surveillance come in, it secures your investment (while we get harassed and pushed out). They are getting rich because our lives are getting worse.
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And so they smash a few windows and then run away and the shop keepers and patrons turn away from collective socialist ideals and more towards fascism as a response. I'm not saying that their complaints against gentrification and the ownership class aren't legitimate, just that they're loving stupid if they expected any other response to their actions. Who the gently caress with any actual ability to influence society going to see a bunch of anarchist kids smashing windows and think 'their ideas have merit and I wish to subscribe to their newsletter and attend their next meeting.'
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