That’s interesting, thanks

1. this isn’t an image macro / meme template

2. this isn’t how the humor of a meme template works. This is the same joke, worse. This is just stealing a joke.

This is a butchered rip off of an actual joke.

There are other options. If the government operated a store where there were guaranteed prices on certain goods and they were available in sufficient quantities, it would effectively peg the price of those goods in the rest of the market as well. This could be a cooperative or something similar.

It always sucks. Ontario always elects the (closest equivalent to) opposition party. You want what we laughingly refer to here as a progressive government in Ontario? Well I hope you like PM PP.

The LPC is a conservative party. It’s entirely natural that you find them viable, you’re the audience.

The two things are only loosely connected. The unprecedented wealth and income disparity shows that there are no improvements in efficiency that cannot be clawed back and stolen from the public purse.

That is something that will be forgotten as soon as they have power because it undermines their stakeholder’s interests.

Tried to get covid tests yesterday. If you follow the Provincial guidance, you end up going to a bunch of private businesses and giving them all a shot to sell you bullshit, but you find that they are all out of stock. I suppose we are just supposed to guess, now.

I wish I had never read that

Then you should never watch Dominion because it will show you the truth about the consequences of your choices. But if you cannot even stand to look at it, how can you stand to do it. When Dominion came out, I knew I could not watch it, and on that day I stopped abusing animals. Several years later I did watch it as an act of “witnessing” and I will never get it out of my head.

You do this every day. It is just kept out of sight. There are 80 billion land animals currently suffering ast livestock. They will each experience atrocity on par with these kittens. The humans you pay to kill animals suffer inestimable psychological trauma, just because you like the taste of bacon and you are willing to exploit a human’s poverty to get it. Act with integrity and care about cows, pigs and chickens the same way you care about kittens and puppies. The animals we create are morally equivalent to our own children and are owed the exact same unconditional love and protection. The experiences of animals are real and matter. Their suffering is identical in nature to your own. It harms us when we take pleasure in cruelty and violence.

No, but it might be to charge a “missed appointment fee” if you don’t get there on time. That’s the fucking difference between punishment and consequences.

This is identical to “drug addicts choose to be drug addicts and so do not deserve medical care” except it’s closer to “blind people choose to be blind”

The argument isn’t that everyone should be allowed to come whenever they want, but rather we should assume good faith and not intentionally punish people for being late. The natural and social consequences are more than sufficient for whatever misguided purpose the punishment is meant to serve.

That’s just it. The sacrifices that a poor or disabled person has to make to be on time for their doctor’s appointment are much greater than the ones their typical patient has to make. We all have to make sacrifices for punctuality, but we’re not all asked to make the same degree of sacrifice.

in Canada we play Poleconomy.

If that is the implication you are drawing from this article, you are incorrect about the situation in Toronto. Very much so.

“Whaling supporters?”

Not me. I remember the 90s. Haven’t run a commercial OS on a PC in my home or the cloud since.

So, if the Internet didn’t exist, and you wanted to know about what was happening in the world without paying money, you’d go to the library and you’d spend a few hours reading dozens of recent periodicals for free.

You can still do this.

It’s interesting how empowering people and giving them easy access to information also makes them lose capacities that they’ve always had.

The driver was arrested and officers discovered he had a quantity of methamphetamine in his possession.

Oooohhhhh.

Whatever, Winnipeg stuff.

It reads like the guy intentionally got one star so he could see if he could lose the cops??

They could be forgiven for thinking that since fiat currency is magically made to appear out of nowhere. The government can create as much currency as it wants. The reason it doesn’t is because it devalues existing currency, and so it effectively serves as a tax on people who hoarde money. Boo hoo. My heart bleeds.

Yeah, the CBC video comment sections. b’dum-tss

Less glibly, couldn’t you look at this through a more positive lens? Can you not be grateful towards our sisters, mothers and daughters for their capacity to resist the fascist hatred that is washing over the planet? Like if we narrowly avoid slipping in to full on fascist governments, then yeah, it will be because of the women, not because of the men. And if we narrowly avoid saving ourselves from that fate, then yeah, it’ll be more the responsibility of the men of the world than the women. It’s a plain as day fact that you can see over the last ten years of polling. If that fact is hard for you to process, probably this public forum isn’t the best place for you to try to work it out.

What I am hearing is that you would like to tell us about your trauma. Well, please. Go ahead.

Police and courts exist to serve the state’s interests, not the interests of that state’s citizens. Those interests can diverge a great deal. Doesn’t change in a democracy, it’s just not about us.

Males worldwide are swinging hard to the right. It’s concerning.

He’s also inherited irrational hatred from his father. Many 40-50 year old grew up hearing their parents bash PET like it was their full time job and religion. It became part of their fucking IDENTITY. JT could be the second coming of Jesus and the right would still gleefully desecrate his crucified corpse.

Not saying that’s the only factor but it sure made it easier to whip up the moral panic we see among some people today.

Funny, because the majority of people at the shelters my partner works are addicts. They don’t necessarily arrive as addicts, but they usually leave that way. Maybe things are different here.

I mean you don’t sound like an ally.

Yes, won’t someone please think of the suffering people who have to be aware of addicts. It sucks that we have to pander to uneducated masses with a maimed sense of empathy to get healthcare when you belong to an unpopular class of people.

Rich pay their fair share?? That’s so backwards. Canada was created to transfer value from natural and human resources TO the wealthy and powerful. That’s what colonialism is. This isn’t some new thing, this is how it has been since the beginning, and it’s never ever ever changed. Canada exists to exploit the vulnerable.

They are fully capable of atrocities up to and including nuking any number of countries and still feel good and righteous. Like many occupiers of France did.

all I can hear right now is detachable detachable detachable penis

“pipsqueak1984” – guys I think I found Pierre.

When the USA goes full on fascism, we’re France.

you made a slight error in parsing. I asked you to tell me.

In a sense it’s not at all what is wrong with Canada, because it’s literally what Canada was created to be. This is Canada functioning as designed. Nothing has fundamentally changed since it was created to serve the Hudson Bay Company.