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The media presents an extremely "both sides" narrative which is shockingly the dominant view most Canadians have. But even then, most Canadians that think "well both sides are bad" can see the massive power imbalance and that's only increasing. Our politicians are lagging way behind on this issue, but politicians rarely follow popular opinion. There needs to be groups of very well organized pro-Palestinian special interest groups with proven voting reliability before our political class will take a risk on anything.
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Jun 10, 2021 18:48
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When capitalism profits off basic human needs we actually need to deny people those basic needs until capitalism is destroyed. No more house construction until there's no more greedy profit-seeking developers, no food production until big agricultural corporations are destroyed. Oh me? Well I've already secured a food source through intergenerational wealth, but I care deeply about the ethics of our food supply so I'm going to block any expansion of food production. Yes, I am extremely left wing and care deeply about people's material needs.
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Jun 14, 2021 17:38
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DariusLikewise posted:Why does the Green Party even exist? Do you think capitalism and the status quo is actually incredibly good but wish, as an upper middle class to rich person you got even more handouts and tax breaks from the government? Well boy do I have a party for you. Everything will stay exactly the same but the government will give you huge rebates on luxury "green" purchases like your new electric SUV or the solar system you installed on your 5 br vacation cabin. Don't worry, they won't blow your taxes on any of that lefty green poo poo like transit or bike lanes, your consumption and lifestyle can remain exactly the same but you can feel so so green and good.
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Jun 15, 2021 19:36
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Its a good thing the greens elected their current leader instead of the eco-socialist she narrowly edged out.
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Jun 17, 2021 00:58
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If someone you know is talking about toxxing please call the barbaric cultural practice hotline.
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Jul 5, 2021 21:14
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I got my invitation for my 2nd dose but the only available dates are during my birthday week and I'm going to a cabin during that week so I'm going to delay until after I get back in case I'm feeling horrible. But it gives me such anxiety because I want to be fully dosed so so bad.
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Jul 11, 2021 04:09
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I work downtown and would walk to work every morning and home every evening through some of the "worst" parts of Victoria. I guess I'm lucky because other than really depressing and sad sights of extremely visible homelessness, (and even then they would mostly tuck themselves in corners out of sight) I never really saw anything dangerous. But there's always some suburban dad on reddit posting daily poo poo like: "Tried to go downtown today but while I was looking for parking a homeless person attacked our car and smashed the window" "Had to go downtown to deal with the insurance claim from the last time I was downtown and a gang of homeless people set my car on fire. I tried to file a police report but the desk sergeant told me confidentially that due to Mayor Lisa Helps they basically can't prosecute any homeless person for any crimes" "Hopefully the last time I'll ever have to go downtown, I was minding my own business when a group of homeless people start shooting at me with zip guns made from stolen bike frames. When a reporter asked me about the weapons and I said they were made from stolen bike parts I was SHAMED for assuming the parts were stolen just because they were made by houseless people" and then there will be 20 replies of similar people all agreeing such things happen to them almost every time they go downtown and how every business owner they know is trying to sell and leave Victoria because between bike lanes and homeless people business is dead.
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Jul 22, 2021 02:29
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Was on several full ferries this weekend in BC. They still have signs "recommending" masks inside the ships but maybe 5% of people were wearing masks, absolutely abysmal rates when its not an enforced rule. Most of the people I saw with masks were 20-somethings that don't have their 2nd dose yet. But for the boomers, everything's absolutely back to normal in their minds.
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Aug 4, 2021 01:35
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I just don't get what the NDP's angle is, like why be pointlessly evil about covid? Why purposefully cause deaths? Is bonnie just still that upset she was proven wrong that just washing your hands isn't enough to defeat covid and that yes, it is airborn and yes masks work?
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Aug 6, 2021 23:01
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The main arena here in Victoria has a huge banner advertising "MASKS NO LONGER MANDATORY" like its an exciting selling point. god we're so hosed
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Aug 9, 2021 18:52
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Empty the prisons of non violent offenders and political prisoners, fill them with anti-vaxers. Start at the top of their disinformation networks and just keep going until the prisons are full or the movements lose steam.
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Aug 11, 2021 00:46
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American conservatives are way too outright white supremacist to realize a ton of immigrants have come from places where communism and thus anything "left" is associated with brutal oppression, and or they've come from a country with extremely conservative social/religious norms. Canadian conservatives have that poo poo unfortunately figured out.
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Aug 11, 2021 18:23
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ToxicAcne posted:I get that I really do, but surely the solution isn't what we're doing right now right? And alot of people really do mean abolish the police, straight up. Nobody has any thought out political programme that can get people to work towards something. In fact the idea of having a programme or even demands is seen as as authoritarian or racist or whatever. We get these massive uprisings now every few years that end up nowhere because ultimately they are about nothing. I'd stay stop basing your summary of the entire left and its strategy on twitter posts.
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Aug 13, 2021 03:17
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Sounds like Interior Health in BC is totally overwhelmed by their antivaxer patients and will be sending the overflow to Victoria. It's really getting hosed out there. I'm fine with them building little remote anti-vaxxer hospital camps where they can enjoy their choice of murder/suicide away from the rest of us.
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Aug 13, 2021 17:38
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Its amazing, the amount of money and blood the west spent on trying to nation-build or whatever we call it these days totally undone nearly instantly the moment we pull out. The country will probably be more united than ever under the new government too after nearly a generation of violence and war crimes. Great work Canada, really joined the right side of history on this one.
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Aug 13, 2021 18:55
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Not everyone who participated in the holocaust were anti-semites, some were simply greedy small business owners hoping to expand through the redistribution of the victim's wealth and businesses. Think about the small business owners next time you blanket demonize the holocaust.
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Aug 13, 2021 19:48
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My friend was just over in Ukraine for a year as part of the canadian military training the ukrainian military. he absolutely encountered a nazi problem. Also some of the ukrianian solders also were nazi leaning too.
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Aug 14, 2021 22:44
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I've never in my life seen vehicles with pro-oil and gas bumper stickers in Victoria, but with the fires and albertan tourists I'm seeing them now. Something ironic and infuriating about people who deny climate change fleeing to a "leftist" city to escape the symptoms climate change.
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Aug 16, 2021 20:30
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RuBisCO posted:Love to be reactive instead of proactive in the face of a pandemic what could go wrong Since the start of the pandemic I've always said the policy of our governments has been seemingly based around a ideology that it's incredibly irresponsible to close the barn door until an independent body has totally verified that yes, all the horses have run away. Closing barn doors before all the horses are totally confirmed as gone is jumping the gun and putting potentially unnecessary wear and tear on our provinces barn doors.
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Aug 18, 2021 17:46
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Arc Hammer posted:Ctv ran a story on eastern Ontario restaurants struggling with labour shortages and I really can't bring myself to give a crap. The restaurant industry pushed itself into the slimmest profit margins and now they're feeling the sting because workers don't want to take lower wages and crap jobs that rely on tips to make ends meet. There's such an extreme double standard in our society with how government policy, media, just about everything deals with this sort of thing. Small businesses struggling for any reason? Roll out more subsidies and grants and tax breaks, loosen labour laws, temporary foreign workers, legal child labour, whatever it takes to help these struggling businesses pay their rent and keep the lights on. Normal worker in the same situation? gently caress em, they should move or learn to code or get a 2nd job. More protections for renters? No way, landlords are small business owners who need our protections. Think of the struggling small landlord. Small businesses always fail because taxes were too high, wages are too high, too much red tape. It's never ever ever the fault of the business owner, they're always the victim, they're always people the community and government failed to correctly support.
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Aug 20, 2021 01:56
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Seeing how the BC Ministry of health and its management class handled covid in their offices gave me zero confidence in how they'd deal with it for the public. They seemed much more concerned over "preserving office culture" and "supporting downtown small business" than keeping anyone safe.
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Aug 20, 2021 23:48
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mila kunis posted:I don't think so. I've seen my quality of life degrade massively under the liberals. Rents being jacked up to the point where I've had to move 4 times in 5 years, one of which was a renoviction. Being able to buy and not have to deal with landlords completely out of reach despite holding down a steady job. They don't give a gently caress about anyone not already on the property ladder, as shown by how much they've funneled towards keeping asset prices up, and I will never vote for them. Luckily they don't need my vote, since the majority of canadians aren't renters. An increasingly large percentage of the population trapped in a forever-renting nightmare of nomadic apartment living might seem bad to you, but think of how many landlords you're helping pay mortgages they'd otherwise not be able to afford.
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Aug 21, 2021 08:04
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Jesus I very well might not vote this election
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Aug 22, 2021 21:18
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NDP are the party that small lgbtqia2s+ landlords and landlords of colour, struggling low-income landlords can count on for support. Liberals are here for your solid upper middle class landlord that really don't mind renting to people of any colour so long as they pay on time and in full. Conservatives are the party for landlords of all sizes from the basement suite mortgage helper to the huge property management firm that really need a tax break and more freedom to kick out the wrong sort of tenants. So we've got a whole spectrum of choices in Canada! You might ask "but what if you're not a landlord?" well that's a fair question, but the government doesn't really have a mandate to represent your interests in the slightest.
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Aug 22, 2021 23:23
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https://readpassage.com/politician-landlords/ Find out if your representative is a landlord.
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Aug 23, 2021 17:58
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infernal machines posted:What is everyone's obsession with killing kids? Not killing kids means workers have to stay home to look after their kids instead of making their boss money.
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Aug 24, 2021 20:00
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infernal machines posted:No, I get that, but vaccinations and masks, at least. You can require vaccination for in-person learning from any cohort eligible for vaccination. It'll be fine. Bonnie just hates masks. After following this poo poo intently since it started its my only take away for BC's policies. She constantly gets extremely concerned that in places with mask mandates people with "valid reasons" for not wearing a mask might feel shamed or bullied and that's a price too high. She also thinks masks make people overconfident. She's an idiot.
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Aug 24, 2021 20:15
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Its infuriating how no one actually wants to make housing cheaper. Lower prices? Lower rents? Not at all on the table. Its always convoluted plans to let people get into more debt, or some sort of subsidy, or a way for already rich people to save on taxes. I mean know why it is, but it's so stupid. We've had a couple generations of people feeling the highest and most sacred rights of canadians is to see real-estate appreciate far faster than inflation and a government that's absolutely based policy around making sure this is the case. Your retirement plan is almost entirely based on your house equity, or if you're even more fancy, the "passive income" from the few rental units you own. Cheaper housing is an attack on vulnerable seniors. We can't possibly just fund pensions properly, because that wouldn't be fair to the people who got 5 quasi-legal private loans to buy a house they've been putting 75% of their income towards each month and will only come out ahead in 15 years of current-rate price increases.
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Aug 27, 2021 16:28
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Rockstar Massacre posted:My home riding still has no NDP candidate, but I recently found out that a local progressive darling , with a tremendous amount of local support, experience and ground game, as well as being one of the best independent political reporters in Alberta, got in touch with the riding association to put his name in as candidate - and was largely told his views are too radical and he's too public about it. He mostly does stale number crunching and fact checking with a very neutral tone. NDP are incredibly picky about candidates but for all the wrong reasons. They're also terrified of actual leftists ever getting involved. Like not communists or socialists, just actual soc-dems is too radical for their attempts at marketing the party to middle class centrist canadian voters.
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Aug 27, 2021 18:48
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The healthcare field doesn't have a great history of treating women well, but there's a massive predatory alt-med industry designed to prey on these valid issues and take people down a deep dark rabbit hole. Combine MLMs (that generally target women) that sell alt-med snake oil poo poo and you get a horrible combination.
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Aug 30, 2021 06:55
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Glad the cops are around to crack skulls and pepper spray every protest group except these.
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Sep 3, 2021 00:31
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My friends were going to Edmonton this weekend to visit family they haven't seen in a couple years, they ended up canceling due to the explosion of covid cases. Now their albertan family is shaming and bullying them and calling them cowards...
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Sep 8, 2021 17:05
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Mad Hamish posted:Hey there's a rally for the unvaccinated gathering in front of my office building in downtown Hamilton, that's just......great. Got any piss balloons ??
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Sep 10, 2021 18:32
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My wife's been living in Canada for 10 years and she only recently realized that there are such things a monolingual french speakers. She thought french in canada was like Welsh in england or something, a niche language a tiny group was trying to keep alive and no one spoke as a first language. She had some meetings with people in quebec and got mad after saying "Why do some people from quebec put on a heavy french accent?? You're canadian, just speak normal english!" she thought it was entirely an affected thing. She was blown away at the idea that there's big parts of Quebec where you simply could not get by if you only spoke english and yes there's entirely towns and families where people don't speak a lick of english or only learn it in high school and thus have a heavy and real accent. It's extremely easy in BC to totally forget french exists in Canada.
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Oct 18, 2021 19:33
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Horgan just doesn't care. People die in a heatwave? Eh, its normal for people to die. People die in a flood? Eh, that's normal too. What's the fuss, people die in disasters.
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Nov 15, 2021 22:40
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The cons are such piss babies. Even right leaning centrists I interact with are cringing at that whole thing. "It's just a bike"
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Dec 1, 2021 02:45
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I think there's a critical mass of people who think covid is over, or at least they're done caring or worrying about it. I'm not talking anti-vaxxers or conspiracy folks, just people who have their 2 or 3 jabs and are going back to normal after 2 years of this poo poo. They'll mostly mask up if told they have to, but otherwise expect to return to normal pre-covid life and are not willing to deal with any more lockdowns or canceled activities.
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Dec 14, 2021 01:13
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Kraftwerk posted:Viruses generally mutate to be less deadly so they can persist. If too many people die, the virus doesn’t spread and reproduce well enough and it quickly dies with the people it kills. If things worked the way you said, the Spanish flu would’ve persisted until it turned into a globe spanning airborne bubonic plague. Sorry this contradicts the scientific outbreak simulator "plague inc". Viruses level up by infecting more people and persisting in order to unlock more advanced and deadly abilities with the goal being human extinction.
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Dec 23, 2021 21:05
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I love how BC is keeping its numbers down by pulling a Chernobyl and only measuring with a tool that's already maxed out. Just don't count rapid tests and allow your testing centers to be over capacity. Imagine the money cities could save by only buying thermometers that can't measure temps below 0c. We wouldn't need to salt the roads or plow because the evidence wouldn't be there to justify such drastic action.
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Dec 30, 2021 17:51
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I strongly believe minors should not have their healthcare needs dictated by parents. It should come down to blanket standards from the government that all children have to follow until they're of age. It's insane that you can have important lifesaving medical treatment denied just because you were popped out of some cultist womb. Your kid is getting vaccinated or taken away. Your kid is getting a blood transfusion or taken away. You do not have the right to endanger your child's health. Do what you want as an adult, but minors need protection from their own parents.
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Jan 6, 2022 23:45
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