Phil_in_here

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Removing the carbon tax won't appreciably lower the price of anything for any amount of time. It won't make life easier for average Canadians because the average Canadian gets that money back. We'll have the same prices, the same unachievable cost of living, but with fewer social supports.

The free market has never once chosen morality over profit. Year after year we've proven we can suffer through it, so there is no motivation to change.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Okay, sure, so that defines that there was overall voter apathy. So Harris lost 85% of the voters who didn't bother showing up. That's even more damning.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Second hand fascism

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The Liberals are admittedly a stale 3 day old cheap deli sandwich. People want something warm, fresh, and organic. Conservatives check all of those boxes.

Too bad it's horseshit.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's close to that. Another metric is 15 million fewer people voted Kamala than Biden last election. Trumps numbers stayed the same.

15 million people just fucking gave up.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"We won it last time! Why change now? Besides, proportion representation only leads to more parties and that'd mean we'd have to... cooperate."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

Let's just file that plan under "anything but reducing consumption "

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's not it at all. Literally, my children told me, "I don't want to go up, I just want to go to the houses with bowls". But it's not a lazy thing, it's a social anxiety thing. We don't chat with strangers, we don't make small talk with people we don't know, we don't ask people things we can find out without asking people things. We're socially awkward parents and we have socially awkward children.

Millennials, the ones who would much rather text than call on the phone their dearest friends and closest relatives, are 35-40 years old. They're the ones with halloweening children and those kids are just ask averse to face to face interactions with neighborhood residents as we are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Seems excessive. Loads of people have spent many many years in as little as 18 Sq. Ft. Why can't people just be happy with that?

/s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't collective punishment against the Geneva Convention?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

I forgot all about instruments! Saxophone too

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How about the -phones? Like Persephone, Telephone, and Megaphone?

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