[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

Welp, I wonder how long before the voters who think the Conservatives will fix the economy will take to realize that they've been lied to?

Amd how much of the province will be left when they do...

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago

As someone who never quite reached this level myself, I feel like it's when you start being able to think in the second language inside your head.

I only got to the point where I had flashes of this happen for specific topics that didn't translate well. For everything else I kept thinking in English, even if I then needed to convert it back mentally after.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Only kinda, that assumes enough people still buy the imports otherwise there's no money to transfer over.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

People are fucking stupid. They vote emotions, not policy.

Prices went up, it must be my provincial government doing that, despite it happening in every developed country in the world simultaneously. Replacing them with anyone else will improve it.

Idiots.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

It's from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, which should be mandatory reading in schools imho

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

That's just basic marketing at this point, hardly evil.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago

Why Nintendo?

If you're referring to the way they handle copyright, that's more of a problem with the Japanese legal system than Nintendo's fault.

I can't think of much else they do that's mean or evil.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca -5 points 5 days ago

Yes? I've never claimed they aren't bad. The US does it too, along with pretty much every country who goes to war because international law and the rules of war are bullshit.

There are no rules in war other than "win"

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

They're committing war crimes constantly. Attacking civilians and using human shields by building their bases in residential buildings.

They aren't fulfilling any sort of duty.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

To protect the US from rockets from... Canada?

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The title is a bit misleading and makes it sound like it's a one time payment. It's very different, he's promising to exempt up to $3000 a month towards your housing costs from income taxes. Starting at $1500 a month in 2026 and going up $500 a year for 3 more years. At the max, it would be a $36,000 a year tax deduction which is absolutely massive, that's half of the average family income.

Great idea? It's complicated, but probably not a good idea.

When you make something "cheaper" for everyone like this in a supply constrained market, all that does is drive up the prices of rents and housing sale prices since people can now use that freed up money to pay more for those.

Also, his plan to pay for this multi-billion dollar plan is:

“Obviously, we need to take a look at this reckless spending that David Eby has put in place in terms of how to sort of rein in some of that spending,” said Rustad.

So that's not really "fiscally conservative" at all.

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This asshole is literally a conspiracy theorist. He says it was about controlling the population, not stopping the spread of the virus.

Which countries (and even provinces) had the fewest covid deaths per capita? Oh.. the ones with the highest vaccination rates.

Everyone with a brain knows vaccines reduce illness, that's why we have the fucking things.

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Uber's reply to the new laws.

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Surprise surprise, a Conservative who's got a past full of hate.

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This is the true Canada, open to all ideas. Let's keep it this way.

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Personally, it seems stupid not to have a liaison in high schools. This is where teens establish "bad" patterns, and every single one they manage to save early is one less problem for decades in the future.

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Extremely unfortunate situation.

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Intent to injure?

Based on that call, any sort of pushing or shoving should be called.

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Unfortunately, it looks like he's going to elected in a couple years. I just hope people remember after a term of the Conservatives cutting important environmental policies like the carbon tax, that they will have failed to make like more affordable AND fucked up the environment more.

The conservative parties that won in the UK didn't manage to make things more affordable, the conservative party that won in Australia didn't manage it either, no party anywhere has managed it.

This crisis isn't caused by local government zoning policies, approval red tape, or anything else that the parties are talking about. It's caused by landowners (including people who own only one property) using a home as an investment.

You cannot have homes appreciate in value faster than inflation (investments) and also have affordable housing. It's impossible. That's literally just a pyramid scheme.

Until the government starts implementing policies that start reducing existing home prices, this will not be fixed. Building more units doesn't do this unless you build impossibly (literally impossible) large numbers.

So stop voting with your emotions and vote with your brain.

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In case anyone was wondering what happened at the grocery stores over the last couple days.

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