He’s going to start crying again isn’t he

In the first place I think a better way to establish “is life in this given place good”, would be to address to good vs bad in that place, as opposed to the good in that place vs the bad everywhere else.

If you must make the point through comparisons, using the weakest possible arguments while standing in for the opposing side makes it seem you’ve either want to misrepresent it, or don’t feel secure enough in your position.

I could get into the factual claims that could be challenged but maybe that was the AI. There’s absolutely an argument that Western media and cultures create intense, xenophobic biases, but there are more compelling ways to make it.

Using a one-sided narrative to counter a one-sided narrative comes off as disingenuous to me. Despite Marx’s urging, the US turns out to be the place where a worker can strike with his union and own a gun.

We’ve already seen it happen in Canada under Harper, there’s no doubt that it could happen again.

The supreme court would ultimately strike it down, and I only see it as a ploy to bring in private prisons, but at the same time there’s a genuine problem in this country with sentencing habitual, dangerous offenders. I can think of at least three women in my province murdered by people who just kept getting in and out of jail for violent crimes their whole lives. One was even on day leave from the prison, which seems like insanity.

The biggest, wealthiest, most advanced polling firms in the US couldn’t get it right either, horrendously so in recent memory. I don’t think that’s down to conspiracy, but how to weight your samples when so many people don’t want to answer a phone call from an unusual number.

This seems completely uncritical of Carney and Canada for that matter. The future isn’t going to be lead without force because a middle power elects a prime minister with some good ideas about markets.

We don’t need to rely on wars? We rely on exploitation even without it- ask any country where our mining firms operate with lax regulation. Hell, we’ve participated in “coalitions of the willing” in invasions and aerial bombings for corporate giants too. Most of this country is content to think the first Nations just decided to give us the land.

I’m happy to vote for more years of basically Trudeau lite and I have no illusions about it.

Superpower? Alright no need to chug the Kool aid this hard, let’s wait until you find a chapter where he wants to develop a nuclear triad.

He’s a traditional liberal which means not all that progressive beyond what’s popular socially. Good for the wealthy fiscally, and maintained decline for everyone else. If you want to see what it’ll be, look at the UK while he was heading up BoE. Or any Canadian Liberal government through the 90s-00s.

Despite all this he and his party obviously remain the superior choice to PP, but let’s not kid ourselves. He’s not going to neolib us into utopia.

I wish there was a way out of this points hell being everywhere you go. Every item gets more expensive to pay for it whether you like it or not, so don’t lose out, collect today! Such a pain in the ass.

I’ll take the parking lot of Crappy Tire and a 17mm wrench over a Canadian quick lube place. Shoddy work and shady upsells is the nature of that kind of business.

Changing your own oil isn’t an option for everyone, but don’t risk an engine at these places either. It’s not even cheaper than grabbing your own oil and filter retail and telling an independent shop to do it.

More and more of these types every day

It looks like a vigorous potato, I hope you can find a place to put him outside

The markup on Amazon for the exact same cheap crap goods is insane. Recently got an hdd enclosure and some torx bits for 5-10% of the Amazon offer.

Are people throwing down $500 on a luxury item really going to balk at $575 for a jersey? That’s less than the price of a ticket to one game.

Harsh but true. When you take away those that actively supports the regime, then those that are apathetic, that’s well over half the population. A present day Boston tea party would mostly result in mass anger over sweet tea availability.

Then those few that remain may not want to risk getting their skulls cracked, legally run over and declared terrorists by the institutions they’re asking to change. It simply doesn’t leave the critical mass necessary to have thousands in the streets.

Could have just written “supply management” and been done with it.

I’m not buying that older Canadians are any more informed about history, but putting that aside, maybe it’s young Canadians self-interest. The article doesn’t actually examine why they would want to join the US, but guesses at it being the consequence of “woke” policy. The pieces just aren’t connected.

They may feel they have less to lose and more to potentially gain than older Canadians, who built up wealth and pensions in an economy that no longer exists. If they expect the country to offer worse pay, lifestyle, and services, disloyalty is not unreasonable. If a life in Canada means no home ownership, no healthcare or pensions in a few years, and that they won’t be able to retire, that sounds a lot like the offer from the US. They’re reasonably not sold on dying for Canadian oligarchs over American ones.

Use your words, if you can.

I’m interested to hear from someone that will disprove this, surely there are good examples given the voting on this.