We were packing people eight to ten to a SFH house in GTA suburbs, turning a blind eye to LMIA and TFW fraud across the country, and allowed many (most?) colleges (and a few universities) to start up strip-mall branches in Brampton to exploit immigrants for tuition in lieu of funding them adequately
The "south Asia" part refers to how the feds and provinces essentially allowed a four-ish-year-long period of very high levels of immigration as a way to juice the GDP and avoid spending on infrastructure
Sorry, was being sarcastic: Canada has a housing crisis, true, but a significant part of that housing crisis is using real estate to launder money.
They know that the post-1980 consensus is on very thin ice, and scapegoating immigration is their trying to short-circuit left-wing populism.
Can you please tell the person who writes your headlines to give classes to, eg, their counterparts at the NYT?
BlueSky is good (for a social media site, at least) at both calling bad-faith trolls, like OpEd writers and heterodox thinkers, and allowing users to block said trolls and limit their reach. That's why Silver and the like don't like it here.
Political discourse on Twitter: "Republicans/Democracts suck" Political discourse on BlueSky: "Hey, you, NYT OpEd writer who wrote this shit piece, you suck and here's why."
It's the Skinner Broken Window meme in action.
It doesn't upset you, but for people who have a lot of emotional investment in Team Blue, ita really hard to a) understand that there's millions of people who are okay with Trump, and worse b) that the Democrats are really bad at inspiring people. Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug
It's amazing how Canada will shovel cash at industries and companies that don't add value, but fail to help those who do. But I guess when you'readdicted to GDP growth based on trading houses, laundering money and strip-mining south Asians…
Nelvana, one of Canada’s most biggest animation studios has reportedly shut down after 54 years. (1974-2025). Workers are saying the studio has closed down its doors last Friday.
In any other marketing, communications or advertising campaign, blaming your audience is not something you do, but I've gotten earfuls from Democratic supporters who blame the loss on not having a better of voter, which is insane. By that metric, voter fraud is another flavour of copium.
Having had this debate, it's because analyzing why they lost to Trump is really hard for the Blue No Matter Who crowd. It's either voting machines, or Muslims in Dearborn, or Russia, or whatever allows them to let their side off the hook for being completely feckless and uninspiring.
The swelling arrangement of "Dance into the Fire" when Bond carries the heroine out of the burning building and down the ladder is worth the money. As is everything Grace Jones does on-screen.
Trump did what Chretien couldn't: killed Québec separatism stone dead. (of course, now we have Alberta trying the same,schtick, but the Wexiteers are just so goddamn lame...)
The UK would probably benefit from Scotland or Wales pulling the ripcord and forcing Labour to grow a pair as a result.
Roger Moore is Gen X's Bond.
Moonraker is the best James Bond movie.** Yeah, you can keep your 60s style, or your 2000s grimdark. I want gondola chases, men in tinfoil space suits, Richard Kiel, re-entry jokes and pew-pew lasers. ** Goldeneye and View to a Kill tie for second.
Today I discovered this isn't a Chronicles of Riddick quote.
This is the kind of answer you give when the truth would get you audited, fired, deported and/or curbstomped.
The result is a kind of neoliberal inbreeding program that's resulted in the most ineffectual, poll-driven, avoidant leaders possible: generation after generation of cutting down any proverbial tall poppies has led to this.
Don't prosecute Reagan's or Bush2's flunkies? Get elected again! Don't do anything about abortion or housing or gun control or income inequality? Get elected again! There's been no meaningful consequences for being spineless milquetoast wimps, in fact quite the opposite.
The power of positive reinforcement. Kicking the can down the road and avoiding doing necessary but difficult things has been the centrist MO since 1992, and they've been (sorta) rewarded for it.
I mean, there was a scene about exactly this in Inglorious Basterds
Oddly, most of the people I've met who are Pro-Subway-Wanking drive to work.
Scotland could do the funniest thing right now...
I've seen this personally when I've advocated for raising local property taxes and/or densification. Actual leftists with actual "I support the CBC" get really twitchy about paying for them.
That's because criticisms about Biden or Clinton's health wouldn't have resulted in the IRS auditing you, ICE deporting you, and/or Trumpist goons killing you and your family. The "elites" are scared of Trump, far more than they commonly let on.
Maybe if y'all at TorStar hadn't spent the last provincial election boosting Doug Ford's disingenuous anti-Trump theatre while forgetting that Marit Stiles exists (she's always "NDP Leader", if she's mentioned at all) we wouldn't be here.
I'd imagine something like Fujinet that doesn't do much on its own and looks to a server running elsewhere to serve up images. Fujinet just seems to stop at 8bit machines, though.
I was going to make a Riddle of Steel joke, but you got there first. But in Labour's case, Rexor is Thulsa Doom's PR consultant.
And you couldn't use individual CD-ROM drives, either. It had to be a specific CD *changer*, which was the most finicky, unreliable mechanism I've used. Bosch's reason, when I asked, was basically "Fuck you".
And it's not like this is new. I recall fighting with Bosch's catalogue software in 1997. It came on several CDs, and you couldn't load it onto a hard drive or LAN share. You couldn't even load it onto partitions. It had to be CDs.
It's been like this forever. It's rare to hit an "enterprise" company that doesn't pull this shit.* * I think the last one was the pre-Oracle Sun Microsystems, or pre-Dell Equallogic
When I hear this, I'm glad, in a way, that the toxicity of private workplaces also exists in government. Misery loves company and all that. "Terrified of displeasing the boss" always results in organizational failures. Always.
"Enterprise" grade is great, isn't it?
A great question. #nyc #nyclife #newyorkcity
Note the way it goes on the other side: When things are calm and going well, under Obama and Biden, Republicans act like things are radical. They shout about Fast and Furious and MS-13 and the border and Benghazi. They know that vibes matter. Enormously.
I am absolutely a broken record but: Trumpers are well on their way of convincing a majority of the public that everything is normal and fine. And that is because @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social are not out in public shouting about the occupations of DC and LA.
If only there was a legislative body that had the power to fire members of the executive branch...
In m pretty sure these are sometimes “add some stuff to try to recover from a mis-mixed batch”.
I mean, most towns and cities in the American South put up bigger numbers than these, but *curiously* no ones talking about invading Memphis..
As good as that is, this is better: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfmr...
I didn't think "And the Children Shall Lead" was that bad, honestly. Weird, but not bad. I'd have put "Up the Long Ladder" (because the Irish colony bit is just so stupid and offensive) and "Stardust City Rag" (because it's just *gross*). Shades of Gray sucks, too, but it's a banal suckage.
I actually think it’s way more likely that he looks better dead than he’s ever looked alive. Morticians are really really good at makeup, and he won’t be able to get in his own way for once.
Side note: I live in the riding that was formerly held by the MP that Trudeau put I charge of electoral reform in 2015. She's a perfectly nice person and a great community organizer, but she was the youngest cabinet minister and giving her that portfolio was a sign that the reform promise was DOA.
Rae and Notley did, but both tried to be Sensible and Serious™ and flubbed the opportunity.
Any NDP government that doesn't ram through PR on day two is slitting it's own throat.
That whole end scene is a great who's-who of metal at the time.
"Why isn't Andrew in prison?" is probably one of the better ones.
I think the real risk is the all-out war between Montreal and NYC about who makes the best bagels (it's Montreal, by the way...)
The nice thing about Canada is it's actually possible to change this without the herculean efforts that changing it in the US would require.
I mean, you're most of the way there already. Your state's name is already French, just a quick "s'il vous plait?" to Quebec and you're good!
Happy Skynet Becomes Self-Aware Day!
is…is the senate minority leader who spent the weekend before the hhs secretary confirmation vote—after choosing not to deny unanimous consent—in a grocery store howling at the elderly about oncoming tomato price hikes telling one of *us* to fire rfk‽
See, that fits in 240 characters! 🙃
It's actually not too bad if you use the little + button to split up posts. It's a fair trade-off to avoid Threads' algorithm and, well, Zuckerberg and all its awfulness.
Did the GOP complain? No, then they weren't scandals. They were bipartisan efforts..
This should tell you that the falling out between Musk and Trump is probably kayfabe.
She has neither warmth nor depth. (To reuse and old line)
If the media covered the Greens like the slobber over Reform, this wouldn't be an issue.
Call for Kennedy's impeachment.
And why was she ousted? Hmm? Maybe that should be in the headline?
I’ve seen a lot of explanations for this but I think the stupidest, pettiest one is correct - college kids being rude really has been the most pressing problem facing the opinion column set turning “someone protested me” into a national crisis because it’s the only time they experience negativity
Cool site about emulation handhelds
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Republicans get this, and why it seems insane the MTG or the like are screaming about the Biden Crimes and such, what normies see is that both sides are bad and that it's all kayfabe anyways.
This is why it's so important to see actual consequences, and why the collective failure to hold Reagan, Bush 2 and Trump admins accountable sends the wrong message.
It gets worse when you see Biden having a nice fireside chat with Trump, or when he gets invites to dinners and treated like a normal person.
He's not in jail To normal voters, what they're seeing is that he suffered no meaningful consequences and is back in office, therefore it's not "real" and he didn't do anything wrong You and I know different, but the perception among voters is that there were no consequences and nothing happened
Trump and co are depending on the media and the Democrats normalizing what he's doing and, well, they're normalizing what he's doing.
We look at, say, South Korea and see opposition members scaling barricades to vote, but in America we see Democrats going home early for the weekend. That sends a message, and not a good one. That tells voters that all the stuff about Trump is kayfabe at best, or a "witch hunt" at worst.
This came out in a lot of interviews, and it's a fair question: if Trump and Republicans are that bad, why didn't the media say so? Why did Biden have a nice fireside chat with Trump? Why was Obama yukking it up with Trump? Why did Democrats vote for many of his cabinet?
To be fair to a lot of people: if he's a rapist, felon or crook, why isn't the media saying that, why aren't Democrats seen to be saying it, and why isn't he in jail? Low-info citizens are getting terrible mixed messages, mostly from the media but also from the Democratic Party themselves.
Many (especially North American) cities have this same problem, and it's sad that the wealthy are flexing on people instead of realizing that pricing workers out of living where they work was a bad thing, and maybe they could make due with tens of millions of dollars instead of tens of billions
Serfs didn't want to return to commuting for hours and spending money they didn't need to spend, while rich people who grew fat on ZIRP financing and stocks were really upset to learn that the economy works when poor people make and buy stuff.
One of the reason businesses freaked out and self-radicalized during COVID is a) that workers clawed back some rights, and b) rich people found out that they really do depend on poor people spending money.
RELEASE THE ZEIST CUT!
I think he might be too old, but he was my first thought, too.
I'd be scared of giant, gun-packing robot lesbians. Mind you, I'd be scared of the "giant, gun-packing robot" part, not the "lesbian" part.
I mean, why? The Democrats are utterly fucking spineless; the Democratic *base* hates them because they're so spineless. Schumer and Jeffries would go to the gas chambers saying "this is a distraction from the price of eggs", they're so fucking useless.
17 democratic senators voted to confirm this woman as labor secretary
If Steve Jobs were alive today... ...well, he would be alive today, if he hadn't listened to people like this.
You're talking about a person who had a psychotic break in adolescence because he heard conversational Spanish spoken regularly. It'd be like him saying he's scared to go into the woods, but what frightens him is the smell of of leaf-mould.
I've typed it so often in the past few months that autocomplete suggests "Sturmabteilung" after "American" when typing. (For the record, "Canadian" is followed by "Tire" or "Bacon")
I can tell how bad things are getting at any time based on the number of people who dm me saying they saw this post floating around their discord servers
And this wasn't a leftist thing, either. Even conservatives used to build shit and enforce regulations.
It's really weird to look around and realize that government mostly gave up in the last 30-40 years and very little has been built since then, and what has was done via bribes to the private sector.
It's more that there's a lot of people, and especially young people, who don't remember an era of effective government policy and regulation. All they know is the post-92 neoliberal consensus, and the idea that government can and did take action, effectively and at scale, sounds pants-on-head crazy
A Sultan's wife is genuinely called a Sultana although she is sometimes also known as his currant wife.
Share buybacks should be illegal again. Full stop. They're a non-productive use of capital that doesn't add value and serves only to enrich the already wealthy.
People who make commissions on running up the price, who have access to listings, who themselves scoop up any cheap house and rent it out, who exclude anything outside of their captive market, who are incented to keep the party going.. ..they add no value and are a symptom of a broken system.
Real estate agency, as a profession, should be illegal. House inspectors? Lawyers and escrow agents? Sure. Agents? Hell, no.
It's amazing how one of the most hustle-y professions, that attracts the worst kind of opportunistic because it offer huge returns for so very little effort, suffered this kind of scam. I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
An appreciable amount of the drug crisis is also a housing problem, in addition to a healthcare problem. And a lot of the housing problem it is because we made retirement savings into a housing problem, when it should have been either a social welfare problem, a labour problem, or a tax problem.
