Canada is a failed state

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Outer Space Traveller said:
Even worse, you had the baby boomer talking tough about Trump invading Canada - few pages ago.

As much as I like to keep generational bashing to a minimum, I can't say some people sometimes fucking deserve what is coming to them.
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Trump isn't the best solution either.

If you look at what he's doing down south, with the golden visa, with kowtowing to musk and letting in millions of Indians,

Dismantling the US government to basically loot it, etc- we shouldn't applaud the dude.

I actually wanted him to drain the swamp and it deserves to be drained, but he's literally also draining it into the pockets of billionaires. I've yet to see how this is going to turn out in the end, and there is some schadenfreude in watching the deep state literally squirm while Trump gives his tech bro buddies tax breaks;

But in another sense, I don't see much option for Canada other than Trump. The same way the American deep state was corrupt, our Laurentian elites are as well.

I'd like to see the monopolized Canadian market actually open up to competition, and for our business-politics cartels to die off. Thatd be a step forward in my opinion, and the only way that's happening is with economic integration with the US. Imo, an EU like organizations that still gives us sovereignity.

For Canadians protesting that, they have no right. If US companies are willing to drill for oil up north, I'd rather they do it than the Chinese. If Canadians wants to move or work south, we have an entire generation that can't get jobs because of Indians. Keep your healthcare, your governor if you want, but give people choice and beef up the economy while you're at it.

There are problems like the Indians, and I think it will be unpopular, but we're going to have to live with it for awhile now. Maybe said population would diffuse better into a population 10x our size. What you can do in the meantime is to insulate yourself, try to avoid living in neighbourhoods or cities full of them (Brampton) etc.

Conservative or Liberal matters less to me because they've bought into the status quo and embraced Indian voters. I think acceleration for the liberals may unironically be the way to go if the conservatives refuse to address immigration, but who knows. I'm a rando on the internet.

Regardless, the one thing that I would take a stand on is the US. On that, it's unequivocally stupid, asinine, and self destructive of Canadians to not want to link up, let alone constantly shitting on the US.

Want to spend 4 years shitting on Trump and calling him a fascist? Congrats Trudeau, trump hates you and doesn't want to negotiate with a two faced pansy. Want to boo the American anthem at a hockey game? Kudos, you're poking a bear to the south than can literally end your economy on a whim.

We're moving in the opposite direction that we need to be moving in, culturally, and Canadians always remain stupid.

If Americans ever actually give enough of a shit about Canada to be pissed at how nasty we are to their nation on a regular basis (who remembers the convoy and how our biggest insult was 'these terrorists truckers are, gasp, americans'), we will have earned it.
 
Mordecai 3 Finger Brown said:
I know the pics are either from Poland or Hungary.

But I like that the last one is like an AI image of The Diary of Anne Frank meets The Untouchables.
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The top one is the Spanish Civil War, the middle is the American Bonus Army, and the bottom one is the Hungarian Revolution. I didn't pick them for any ideological reasons. I just searched DDG images for the first events of civil unrest that came to mind.

It's an interesting picture, and you describe it succinctly. I had to run out for a bit after I posted so I left the page open in my browser to check if it describes what's going on the picture. The page describes it as "Two female Hungarian patriots take aim with their submachine guns in the window of a house."
I'm gonna take a guess that its after the Hungarians looted the armory of the (((secret police))).
BeetleBug242 said:
Do you still believe there’s even a 1% chance that votes mean anything? Genuinely?
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The reason I disagreed with that sentiment is because I believe that voting makes it harder for them to fudge the numbers and cheat. If there was a widespread sentiment that voting was worthless, and the engagement numbers were very low, like 10-20%, then I could see the point in making a stand. In that case, abstaining from voting would in essence be a vote against the system, as has been the case in other countries. Most Canadians aren't quite there yet. So my argument is that it doesn't take much to go down and draw an X, and it might throw a wrench into the works, that makes it worthwhile to me.

I think in the bigger cities, where it matters more than places like mine, they probably have the cheating down pat. As it sits, they need more than cheating to win.

If your argument is that they're all the same, I would say even a protest vote is better than just abstaining. In this past Ontario election, an independent candidate whom Doug Ford swore would be out of politics this election, had a sweeping win. Even as some polls were showing a loss.
 
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Trudeau billed taxpayers $1,515 a week for groceries, records reveal​

OTTAWA — Grocery expenses for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau topped an average of $1,515 per week billed to taxpayers, according to newly released documents.
That works out to $157,642 in household food expenses over a two-year period — $76,214 in 2021-22 and $81,428 in 2022-23, the most recent years in which records were available from the Privy Council Office.
“It’s one thing for the prime minister to bill taxpayers for government business, but taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook for a single cent of the prime minister’s personal groceries,” said Franco Terrazzano, of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, who uncovered the documents.
“The current policy needs to change, the government needs to improve transparency on this spending, and anyone who wants to be the next prime minister needs to commit to not billing taxpayers for their personal groceries.”
The records state those totals also include events hosted at both residences, but provided no details on what those events were and when they took place.
The records state $188,864.45 was spent on household groceries at the PM’s two main residences — Rideau Cottage and Harrington Lake — over those two years, but that Trudeau reimbursed $31,221.57 of that cost.
After reimbursements, 2021-22 saw $76,214.76 spent on groceries, and $81,428.12 spent in 2022-23.
“As per a longstanding practice since 1985, the prime minister reimburses amounts related to food based on Statistics Canada data on household spending, which is adjusted using the consumer price index to account for inflation,” a note on the records release states.
Dalhousie University’s 2023 Food Price Report suggests Canadian households spent $288 weekly on groceries in 2022 and 2023 — five times less than what the PM expensed taxpayers.
Based on a 44-hour work week, the average Canadian wage in 2022 was $73,147.36, according to Statistics Canada.
In comparison, the prime minister earns $406,200 annually.
Previous reporting on the topic revealed that Trudeau’s grocery bills from 2015 to March 2022 cost $345,230, an average of $57,538 annually.
Those same records show former PM Stephen Harper billed taxpayers $417,745 between 2007 and 2015, an average of $52,218 a year,
Household expenses weren’t kept by the Privy Council Office prior to 2006.
The prime minister’s family meals are prepared at off-site kitchens by his personal chef and delivered to Rideau Cottage.
The PM’s meals were prepared at the kitchens at 24 Sussex Dr. until the dilapidated official residence was condemned in 2022 due to hazardous conditions.
The National Capital Commission refuses to disclose where the prime minister’s kitchens were moved to.
“The fact that Trudeau spent more on food than what the average Canadian worker makes in an entire year is outrageous,” Terrazzano said.
“Here’s a crazy idea: How about the prime minister pays for their own groceries like everyone else.”
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Even his kitchen cabinet is corrupt bullshit
But I'm sure that gay performative accelerationism will fix this!
 
Legalize Asbestos said:
Canadians have learned nothing. Hate the Anti-Vaxxers. Hate the Russians. Love Ukraine. Buy Canadian. Hate Trump. Love Biden. Hate Trump.

The dynamic has not changed at all. Start converting your currency.
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We did learn something about Canadians though. Through Gaza. Say whatever you want about Trudeau but he is Israels least loyal soldier. Probably more because of his narcissism. But going as far as threatening to arrest Netanyahu and stopping arms shipments to Israel.

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And thats probably why Trumps barking in our direction. 51st state and all.
 
Brutality said:
Enjoy a permanent liberal government if that's what you want.

Also lol at the 2nd Ontario liberal leader in a row losing her seat. If people weren't retarded then the federal party would be next
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She lost her seat because she attempted to rebrand her party as another OCP lite in hopes to collect PC voters. That never works. Conservative voters already have the OCP and aren't interested in a knock off. And she alienated liberal voters. She absolutely deserved to lose her own riding.

As for the other guy there years ago that lost his riding? Who's gonna vote for a turtle?
 
Apex Otter said:
I had an interesting encounter while I was out grabbing some groceries yesterday. Some old crone literally put her hands out to stop me as I was walking, and then proceeded to confront me about my choices—specifically the non-Canadian items I picked out. I'm a reasonable person, so I didn't just push her out of the way or escalate things, but I really should have. This pathetic woman told me that I shouldn't be buying American products, and should consider only purchasing things from Canada; I was so completely stunned that someone halted me, that I thought it was a joke at first. Is this "buy Canadian" fad actually still a thing? I honestly thought the hivemind would've moved onto the next hot topic, whatever that is now. The funniest thing about this situation—it was all about some instant noodles; this woman literally lambasted me over some stupid noodles. I doubt the irony of me purchasing instant noodles because they're so cheap, and not having everything I purchase be Canadian-made because it's too expensive, ever crossed her mind. I do not make a lot of money, and every day I drive through one of the rich neighbourhoods to reach my job; I rarely see flags in the low-income area, but I sure see a lot of them on the houses of the "upper class".
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If that mentally retarded harridan tried anything like that in say, literally anywhere else outside of the Five Eyes cucked nations, she would've been reduced to a pile of blood and organs.

Canada in particular seems to always have this really strange phenomena of middle-aged, coked up hags running buckwild and badgering everyone. It's not even just in big cities, but literally everywhere, and it's been like that long before Castro Jr came around. Is there something in Lake Ontario and downstream into the St Lawrence river that makes those creatures just suddenly snap out of nowhere?
 
I was watching a hockey game last night and saw a Canadian Heritage Moment ad about the residential school system. It felt like a literal fucking communist struggle session.
 
Maker's Mark said:
I was watching a hockey game last night and saw a Canadian Heritage Moment ad about the residential school system. It felt like a literal fucking communist struggle session.
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Nothing says nationalism more than tearing down the whites who built this country. If it wasn't for us the gas huffers would still be sacrificing every 3rd child to the Buffalo
 
Winters here in Toronto are a bad thing, not just because of the cold, but because the homeless seek shelter inside the places you visit (e.g. shopping centres, subway stations) to protect themselves from the cold.

A few weeks ago, I was walking through a local centre i normally go down to access a connected shopping centre. In my 8 or so years of using this exact path, I haven't seen a single crazy person there. That was, until that time a few weeks ago, where I was forced to walk past a disturbed lanky person talking aggressively (to no one), who probably would've swung at me if I bumped into his shoulder or looked at him the wrong way. This was during a particularly cold afternoon.

Once I accessed the shopping centre, I saw several old homeless people on the public seats, with numerous full bags scattered around them.

Moreover, during the past year, the subway stations in my area have been in a state of decay I haven't experienced before. Mentally ill bums that I can smell from 15 metres away roam around, young delinquents intimidate people passing by, beggars with bad teeth sit near the PRESTO machine, addicts lay lifeless on stretchers, and so forth.

Considering that my area has remained fairly insulated from most of the homeless and drug-related mayhem, this is quite disappointing. It seems like these problems may entrench themselves everywhere, depending on whether Poilievre's future administration does anything or not.
 
naffatune said:
Moreover, during the past year, the subway stations in my area have been in a state of decay I haven't experienced before. Mentally ill bums that I can smell from 15 metres away roam around, young delinquents intimidate people passing by, beggars with bad teeth sit near the PRESTO machine, addicts lay lifeless on stretchers, and so forth.

Considering that my area has remained fairly insulated from most of the homeless and drug-related mayhem, this is quite disappointing. It seems like these problems may entrench themselves everywhere, depending on whether Poilievre's future administration does anything or not
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At least your city hasn't busted a drug ring in their transit system after refusing to admit there was a drug problem for months and months
 
Maker's Mark said:
I was watching a hockey game last night and saw a Canadian Heritage Moment ad about the residential school system. It felt like a literal fucking communist struggle session.
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Hockey is in a really weird place both because of demographics, lack of investment in development of players or promotion of the game, and the type of engagement is really shallow even compared to other sports.
 
I just read this on X and it provides why there's annexation talk from Trump. The TL;DR version is that it's because Canada is a serious security liability because of Chinese influence and the government's lackadaisical response to it. America will not wait for us to clean up our mess and we have no one but ourselves to blame. Brace for impact, lads!
 
naffatune said:
Winters here in Toronto are a bad thing, not just because of the cold, but because the homeless seek shelter inside the places you visit (e.g. shopping centres, subway stations) to protect themselves from the cold.

A few weeks ago, I was walking through a local centre i normally go down to access a connected shopping centre. In my 8 or so years of using this exact path, I haven't seen a single crazy person there. That was, until that time a few weeks ago, where I was forced to walk past a disturbed lanky person talking aggressively (to no one), who probably would've swung at me if I bumped into his shoulder or looked at him the wrong way. This was during a particularly cold afternoon.

Once I accessed the shopping centre, I saw several old homeless people on the public seats, with numerous full bags scattered around them.

Moreover, during the past year, the subway stations in my area have been in a state of decay I haven't experienced before. Mentally ill bums that I can smell from 15 metres away roam around, young delinquents intimidate people passing by, beggars with bad teeth sit near the PRESTO machine, addicts lay lifeless on stretchers, and so forth.

Considering that my area has remained fairly insulated from most of the homeless and drug-related mayhem, this is quite disappointing. It seems like these problems may entrench themselves everywhere, depending on whether Poilievre's future administration does anything or not.
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This is where I have a bleeding heart and feel bad for many of them.

Before people judge as this is the internet-

no, that does not mean that people should be allowed to shoot up heroin on the streets, throw poo at strangers (unless theyre Indian I guess), or be a public disturbance.

I do think we need the law enforced and public disturbance laws or public intoxication laws need to be enforced (why they aren't, is a big problem)- but we also have a separate thread for homeless hate.

A chunk of these people are dying deaths of despair, and under good circumstances probably shouldn't be homeless. My own family in Canada, everyone has financial issues and are a few bad paychecks away from the street, and living in debt.

I hate that this nation has come to this, fundamentally. That the homeless are getting this predominant
 
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