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odiv posted:Too many people are hyper-focused on public transit (and other services) being self-sustaining. It's a public good that benefits the community it doesn't need to be profitable! one of many reasons public-private partnerships are dumb poo poo for hosers. if you attach a profit motive to the public good, it eventually turns to poo poo. free housing free bussing free job placement. let's loving do it.
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GRT strike killing me. Cost me over $40 to get to and from a minimum wage job today. still support the strikers though.
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Yet another reason why nazis suck:
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https://medicinehatnews.com/commentary/opinions/2020/01/25/laying-it-out-cant-change-minds-then-change-the-system/ Medicine Hat Ops have been loving decent lately. quote:I’ve spent a lot of time this week thinking about local mom Kym Porter, who has been extremely active in her advocacy for people who use drugs ever since her son died of an accidental opioid overdose. I had mentioned to her a few weeks ago that I was planning to write about addiction at some point soon, and I was going to use the need for supervised consumption sites as the foundation of my piece.
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Virtual Russian posted:GRT strike killing me. Cost me over $40 to get to and from a minimum wage job today. Where are you travelling to and from?
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https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5440122 Private public partnership works!
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MonsieurChoc posted:https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5440122 City looking for new operator, says putting recyclables in landfills is '"not an option', and yet, we all know that's exactly where it's going.
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EvilJoven posted:City looking for new operator, says putting recyclables in landfills is '"not an option', and yet, we all know that's exactly where it's going. They're going to try shipping it to the Philippines, and Duterte tells Canada to get hosed again?
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But it's okay,w e're gonna get the Pink like of the metro! (Putting aside that more public transit would be amazing, I just don't believe it's gonne happen)
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bad news everyone we are currently living through the backstory to a very strange cancon postapocalyptic film where a virus wipes out all of humanity except st. john's, newfoundland, because they had so much snow that no one with the virus could arrive in the city, and then the movie is newfies repopulating the earth
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so basically the mckenzie bros. home movie from the opening of strange brew, but with worse accents
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'great tunderin' jaysoos, we're kings, my son, kings!'
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vyelkin posted:bad news everyone we are currently living through the backstory to a very strange cancon postapocalyptic film where a virus wipes out all of humanity except st. john's, newfoundland, because they had so much snow that no one with the virus could arrive in the city, and then the movie is newfies repopulating the earth could be worse, we get more bearded mermen then https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/01/merby-merman-calendar-history-masculinity.html
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Saalkin posted:Where are you travelling to and from? Up and down a large section of Westmount. I'm not working less than a 9 hour shift for that job until the strikes over, so at least I make some money. It still sucks a lot. Fortunately my other jobs pay significantly better, I really just hang onto the crappy one because it is reliable.
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While all true this is very racist towards newfoundland culture and people do better canpol cspam
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James Baud posted:Yet another reason why nazis suck: Ah yes, the notoriously stagnant period between the late 40s and the late 70s, a very dark time in our economic history.
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Saalkin posted:Where are you travelling to and from? Going across town in a cab/uber can be 20 bucks pretty easily, so then times that by two for getting to and from work. The GRT strike is a little weird in that if you live along the train line you can mostly pretend it doesn't exist but if you don't it can be crippling. I've been lucky in that my commute is either a bike ride or a train ride, generallly. But then yesterday I was going to visit a friend who lives off in the boonies of Laurelwood and it was like, oh, yeah, guess it's time to beg for a ride or throw out 25 bucks on a cab.
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Virtual Russian posted:I've got a nine hour shift tomorrow, just dreading working all day for next to nothing. It makes a crappy job excruciating. I'm sorry you're hurting. It's sad when the wrong people get hurt by job action. Hopefully, it doesn't go on much longer. PhilippAchtel has issued a correction as of 21:49 on Jan 27, 2020 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1221500635511689216 gently caress you justin
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canadas chief export is lovely conservatism https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1221827357276807169?s=20
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Ah yes, a former George W. Bush speech warning you about how Bernie Sanders is dangerously blase about transphobia, published in one of the magazines that did the most heavy lifting in the 1990s to try and make scientific racism palatable to Clinton era liberals who might feel squeamish about the Democratic party adopting Reaganite welfare policies.
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Thinking about all the times the modern US army crushed insurgent militias and won a war.
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Dreylad posted:Thinking about all the times the modern US army crushed insurgent militias and won a war. No kidding. These imbeciles have zero self-awareness.
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So are we hijacking the Green Party to be the standard barer of the progressive movement? I know it was presented as "one weird trick" no one was supposed to take seriously, but I have a few neurons that won't let that idea go. No joke, if we started organizing, I'd be down.
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Dreylad posted:Thinking about all the times the modern US army crushed insurgent militias and won a war. Not to mention the fact that the founding of their country was based on wars fought with militias against the British empire, but hey, it’s David Frum
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Helsing posted:Ah yes, a former George W. Bush speech warning you about how Bernie Sanders is dangerously blase about transphobia, published in one of the magazines that did the most heavy lifting in the 1990s to try and make scientific racism palatable to Clinton era liberals who might feel squeamish about the Democratic party adopting Reaganite welfare policies. Also Frum wrote a near identical series of articles 4 years ago about how Trump would never win the nomination, then the election.
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longtime friend of trans people and the LGBTQ movement, David Frum. I remember how he was there for us, through thick and thin
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Its funny how Frum describes Sanders as "a Marxist of the old school of dialectical materialism, from the land that time forgot. Class relations are foundational; everything else is epiphenomenal." It is presented as though this were a critique and Frum contrasts Sanders approach to that of Warren. This is presented as a sneering critique but then we're told that actually Sanders appeal is not "accident or name recognition". No, we're told that Sanders is "being carried by something big and real" and that it is "a testament to the power of the Sanders approach to politics that it has elevated as irascible and negligible a person as Bernie Sanders to the top of the Democratic pack" and that the Democrats will have to copy Sanders theme of "the practical over the theoretical, the universal over the particular". So beneath all the layers of smug concern trolling it would appear that Frum just praised Marxist class politics as practical and substantially appealing to voters.
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Also this is one of the funniest single sentences from a political "expert" that I've read in a long, long time.quote:If Sanders wins the Democratic nomination, you will hear Clinton’s negative assessment of him repeated so often by pro-Trump talkers that you will almost think Clinton is Trump’s running mate. This is definitely a guy who "gets" American politics.
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a primate posted:Not to mention the fact that the founding of their country was based on wars fought with militias against the British empire, but hey, it’s David Frum Canada always sends its best and brightest. Helsing posted:So beneath all the layers of smug concern trolling it would appear that Frum just praised Marxist class politics as practical and substantially appealing to voters. It seems to me that at least some fraction of the American establishment/political class understands the value of material politics and class interest, even if it's not the ones in the media writing 100% accurate predictions like this crap. Dreylad has issued a correction as of 00:16 on Jan 28, 2020 |
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Helsing posted:Also this is one of the funniest single sentences from a political "expert" that I've read in a long, long time. Frum posted:The members of the team around Sanders ... have been the Minutemen fighting the Redcoats, picking off the other side’s regulars from behind trees and fences. Now they are about to experience what happens when a militia faces off on an open field against a ruthless modern army with cluster bombs and napalm. They will be shredded and torched. Juul-Whip has issued a correction as of 00:28 on Jan 28, 2020 |
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half cocaine posted:at least Frankie's weather reports will live on after the pandemic he’s from cape breton
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Juul-Whip posted:hey, at least he still has all that credibility he built up as a military historian and strategist love too change metaphors in the middle of a thought
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my morning jackass posted:he’s from cape breton i have some bad news for your wrt the knowledge of atlantic geography outside of the maritimes/nfld
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vyelkin posted:love too change metaphors in the middle of a thought
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