Or people checked your comment history and saw that your first ever comment was to vote against defederation, and you haven’t done anything besides drop pseud-posts whenever people expressed their desire not to federate with Threads. That does not look like good faith engagement to me.

It turns out sending in a human instead of a vegetable might work out. That said, many complaints about her past as a “law and order” piece of shit are very valid.

This is a strange angle because the UK does not have notably higher levels of knife ownership but has a disproportionately high level of stabbings.

I think the idea that the cause of gun violence is guns is just flawed. People need a reason to commit violence, they don’t just do it for fun.

Huh I wasn’t expecting to get such a bombshell comment disproving the claim but damn you knocked it out of the park.

AR15 weapons have been used (and continue to be used damn near weekly) in mass shootings that has killed hundreds of children.

Calling this out because I do not believe the evidence supports this. Please provide evidence for this claim.

Canada and Sweden still have a lot of guns but considerably lower rates of violence in general, and gun violence in particular.

Did America not just lose a forever war against a bunch of dudes in the desert with AKs and homemade bombs?

The worst part about the politics here in Canada is that the Liberals always spend years setting up the layup that the Conservatives use to dunk on Canadians. This round is going to feature a whole host of anti-competitive business, bad trade deals, media favouritism, privatization, waves of attacks on worker’s rights… all this and more thanks to the moves set up by the Liberals doing things like refusing to stop the Rogers/Shaw purchase, the failure to make deals with other countries, setting up media and “CanCon” subsidies that favour big media companies, and the intentional attacks on the efficiency and effectiveness of public services.

We are so fucked.

Yeah and you’re getting renovicted so they can split all the bedrooms up and double the occupancy (and rent)

What the polling likely isn’t capturing is how many people will ultimately choose not to vote out of despair, and that was the real threat the whole time.

Trump’s still in control of his (meager) faculties and that’s the issue. They’re going to have to put someone else in against Trump or admit that the past few years have been Weekend at Biden’s

I’m just wondering if I need to call the police or the ambulance

Both? One of these guys is a convicted felon turned robber baron and the other is a retirement home escapee who has lost the light in their eyes.

All countries should be slowly reducing their population if we are to have any hope of surviving long-term.

I was going to say, I could have sworn someone else had done this before.

Still this just makes me wonder what we could accomplish if we could get everyone the quality of education private schools offer, but as a public system. Finland banned schools from charging fees, meaning they have the same solid level of education for everyone, and it clearly has benefitted them and decreased inequality.

So much wasted potential in our nations, it hurts to see it.

lol that’s even worse

Hold on let me just slip a note that says “you agree to give up your rights” in to the computers my clients buy, that means I’m covered right?

the virgin EULA worshipper vs the chad consumer rights advocate

On the Canada/Trudeau front, you’re ultimately correct but it’s a bit worse when you examine the details:

Trudeau Liberals put together a committee to examine the options and recommend what would work best as a new electoral system. The Liberals recommended ranked voting: as the Liberals are the default first or second option for nearly everyone, this benefitted them the most. The Conservatives, New Democrats, and most independent actors favoured Mixed-Member Proportional, which is a variant of proportional representation with locally elected Members of Parliament and additional seats in the House of Commons to balance the total number of MPs and votes for each party. This system was expected to allow for more smaller parties to operate and would end the forever Liberal/Conservative control of Canada.

The Liberals put out a poll which used intentionally misleading questions and answers to try to guide responses towards ranked ballots. This effort failed due to a series of information campaigns from just about everyone with an interest in electoral reform, and ultimately the Mixed-Member Proportional system came out as the leading choice.

The Trudeau Liberals deemed the whole process and failure and completely dropped it, refusing to discuss it ever again.

No pretty sure most of them mean “ban guns”. I’ve seen too many “no one wants to take your guns” posts that followed with a “but…”

“The government has been captured by capitalists and does their bidding.”
“Only the government should have guns.”

This has always fascinated me.