Ever heard of Universalism? There is a whole church of them. They hang out with the Unitarians.

I like the bikelane analogy, actually.

It shows clearly that (a) yes you do need activism (like Critical Mass) and a few crazy ones that will bike regardless of the adverse conditions, (b) political will to shift towards bikelanes, (c ) wider adoption but also sustained activism to build better bikelanes (not painted gutters on the side of stroads, but protected lanes, connected with transit).

We definitely do not lack (a), but (c ) FOLLOWS (b). If you want to go from “just the crazies” to “everyone and their 5 year old”, systemic change needs to be backed by very concrete top-down action.

Without very meaningful (b), telling people to change their eating habits while stuff is otherwise the same is like telling people to take their kids to school on bikes next to crazy SUV traffic: it’s not happening.

They will be beautiful tariffs, everyone says so.

Which is why I think it’s better to start with some kind of populist attack on the excesses of the super rich. How many beef burgers was Katy Perry’s publicity stunt in low orbit?

I don’t like these kinds of articles because they always have an undertone of making it a matter of personal consumer choice as opposed to systemic change.

My understanding is we already have sensibly restrictive gun laws but a problem with illegal guns coming in from the States.

Unironically, yes. Fuck cars.

Question unclear. Are you asking if I’m painting all Americans with the same brush? Or are you asking whether my rejection of “justified” is representative of the morals of all Americans?

Interesting choice of words there with “justified”. Not “legal” or “expected” but “justified”. Meanwhile, every American ever thinks they can move wherever the fuck they want but let’s pretend that other people thinking that is somehow “unjustified”.

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Now somebody needs to kidnap Jude Law and keep him in a basement until after the white smoke.

Two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents, dressed in plain clothes, had shown up and instructed the staff to stage a fake meeting in the basement so they could apprehend him, according to Gad. Hospital staff were distraught but felt forced to comply.

STOP COMPLYING YOU FUCK HEADS

That’s because they keep trying to build houses whose primary objective is to be profitable for developers and/or investors. They keep building either suburban subdivisions or isolated condo towers. We need to be building to house people, not to create profit, i.e, we need to be building off market housing. And to make it work, we need to be building housing in transit oriented, mixed use walkable neighborhoods, not in car centric suburban sprawls.

Yes, there is a massive labour shortage in sectors such as healthcare and the skilled trades: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/transparency/committees/cimm-nov-25-2024/labour-shortages.html

Youth unemployment has to do with the particularities of students looking for temporary jobs in the services sector and the lack of training opportunities https://lmic-cimt.ca/the-state-of-youth-employment-in-canada/ https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/november-2024/youth-employment-opportunities/

That’s silly. Canada needs more people, and we will probably be forced to take in people from down south soon enough, if they have a hot/violent summer. We need to build up out of the current crises, not pretend we libe on the moon.

Build up:

• More walkable, transit oriented mixed use, dense and off market housing.
• Fast track recognition of credentials of newly arrived professionals
• Invest in interprovincial infrastructure: trains, renewables, smart grid, fast internet
• A civil defence corps to prepare for climate resilience and emergencies
• A civil service corps to rebuild and revitalize rural and indigenous communities

That’s cute!

It’s called Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism, you wouldn’t like it anyway.

I missed a comma before “algorithms” it seems.

The kind of “extreme authoritarianism” you’re pearl clutching about is literally the age ratings system that was in place in the late 90s. Get a grip.

I like the way you think.

Being the menshevik that I am, I would think that it’s OK to let little small time capitalists play with their sand toys, let them set up little lemonade stands and juice carts and little tavernas and what have you, so long as they’re not anywhere near society’s critical path. Low tech, low impact stuff is OK.

At this point, the guy could be a rabid neonazi pedophile for all I care: he should still not have been deported without a trial. People are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court. Do your fucking job.