LostWon

I don't know how old you are now, but do you find you've developed impairments or cognitive difficulties of any kind since then? (Reportedly, even pot is apparently supposed to have lasting effects if the brain is still developing during use.)

Given how invested they are in apologia, owners hearing that are liable to somehow take it to mean the thing's better at avoiding pedestrians because of said "targeting." I might start referring to it as "pedestrian execution mode" to drive the point home.

Or a bottle of water.

I heard about this elsewhere. The gist I got was that Trump wants the US to pay the lowest price any developed country pays for prescription meds, most likely targeting places in Europe, but with the potential to affect everywhere else too as the drug companies seek to recoup their costs. Thing is, it's apparently unlikely to go anywhere. Big pharma sued to prevent this a while back during a similar attempt by a past administration (I can't remember which president).

I do think there's a benefit to using a term to distinguish between the denialist side of Zionism that many diaspora Jews subscribe to (knowingly or unknowingly), and the explicitly, gleefully racist Jewish supremacy-movement that's prominent in Israeli political thought. You might encourage people to use the term Kahanist instead. Same shit as nazism, different übermensch. So it's more accurate and gets to the heart of the issue.

I'm just an outside observer myself but yes, it's clear there's absolutely propaganda for folks at the bottom. In the spirit of the topic though, I was talking about the perspective of the oil companies Danielle Smith answers to. Dividing people within AB doesn't seem to be in their immediate interest. I welcome other insights anyone might have, but right now it seems to me the only way they'd want this is if they're doing a long-term gamble on increasing the likelihood of joining the US.

Interesting. Thanks for the update!

Neither am I, but I don't see how an independent Alberta would even remotely benefit the all-powerful oil companies unless their actual end goal is to have AB join the US.

The only way this wouldn't be supremely disappointing would be if they were keeping all staff and only introducing this for lower-importance sequences to reduce the famously insane workload. But yeah, I know I'm only kidding myself to even entertain that idea.

It sucks, but it costs the same to pay the staff no matter who is or isn't there. What costs us more is to move his family out and then move them back in again when he likely wins in a by-election. I just learned they have a non-verbal autistic daughter. An unnecessary double-move would be not only costly to us but extremely cruel to that child. We should just be demanding he reimburse the costs of his stay until he's legitimately living there again. If he loses out in a leadership review or in the expected by-election, then we pay for the move as they're forced to adjust to leaving for good (and he should still pay for the overstay, as far as I'm concerned).

The two matters aren't mutually exclusive and ultimately their motives don't matter as much as the effect. Getting riled up and indignant about some people's racism is useless and even counterproductive-- especially compared to focusing on the source.

Racism being systemic means there are barriers to overcome at every income level. Everyone has already bought into it at varying levels, so you can't just go "See, look, they're racist!" Outside of a few like-minded people, the typical response would range from shoulder shrugs to annoyance at best. Many will even perceive the accuser as acting superior.

If we're talking about racism on a systemic level, exposing that there IS someone who benefits is necessary to get people invested in societal healing. Most people are constantly tired and from their perspective, don't have the energy to care about what they perceive as other people's problems. Make it their problem too, and maybe something will change.

Campaigns and general influence by wealthy people who want poorer folks attacking their fellow poor folks and not them. Same as racism in general.