You have to be careful what you wish for given that you are only president for so long.

He’s been in “challenge accepted” for four months by now. He’s not going anywhere unless physically removed.

I’m pretty sure that was after 2006. Leading up to the 2006 elections Hamas highlighted the success of violent resistance in ejecting Israel from Gaza compared to the abject failure of peaceful resistance by Fatah. My point here is that despite their many flaws, they actually get things done, and their getting things done is a large part of why the Palestinian cause has gotten as far as it has.

Literally. Hamas has done basically nothing to help the people.

Not directly, but it’s no coincidence that the Palestine solidarity movement only expands after Israel uses Hamas as an excuse to slaughter Gazans. Since at least 2006 Hamas has been a very important catalyst for the advancement of the Palestinian cause (which isn’t mutually exclusive with them being massive pricks, that’s also true).

They also wouldn’t need to, because the West wouldn’t give a shit about Gaza without Hamas activities to put Palestine in the news. There’s a reason Hamas won that election in 2006.

It’s like Palantir is actively trying to top the tech company bad karma leaderboard.

Don’t get me wrong I wasn’t trying to defend the liberals; I was just saying that cutting immigration isn’t the solution it’s being sold as. As with everything else, both liberals and conservatives are trying to dupe you, just in different ways.

I don’t think the NDP had enough leverage in the government to override the NIMBY vote, but maybe you’re right I don’t know.

Conservatives at least had a plan to tie immigration to housing completions and force municipals to rezone

I want to note that, as slimy as liberals are, there’s a reason they don’t just stop or drastically slow down immigration and satisfy everyone. Countries like Canada need immigrants to bolster their declining birth rates, so there’s a limit to how much the government can realistically reduce immigration before economic stagnation hits or social services “have to” be cut due to reduced tax revenue. Japan and Korea are probably the best examples of this, so you can look up how stubbornly rejecting migration has damaged their standards of living. The difference between liberals and conservatives on migration is the same as their difference on everything else: Conservatives do things that sound good to their base and make everything worse and liberals take symbolic action because they’re too far down the pockets of the rich to actually solve the problem.

Yeah fair enough.

Liberals aren’t leftists; they’re somewhere between center and center-left depending on the time of day. The leftist response to this would be “then fix the housing shortage,” which would require reducing house prices almost by definition. Neither liberals nor conservatives want to do that, so you end up with the half-assed response you’re talking about. Lack of housing is a solved problem and there’s frankly no excuse for a first world country to not be able to provide its people with affordable housing, immigration or not. In other words your politicians are actively, intentionally screwing you over by doing nothing to make housing more affordable.

Unless youre talking about their support of mass immigration, to depress salaries and raise stock and asset values.

I’ll assure you that leftists want immigrants to have the same protections as citizens so they’re not exploited in the way you’re talking about.

What are you doing for the cause lol I love how it’s so easy to talk big on the Internet. Are you burning down courthouses and shooting cops?

Watching this shit go down from a safe distance and taking notes, why do you ask?

I know it’s fun to be a doomerist online but we’re not at boiling point yet.

At this rate when you reach boiling point it’ll be too late.

until that happens at large most people are unbothered.

First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me

-A dude from Nazi Germany.

Because to them settling down means having “made it”. It’s the last checkpoint before you stop being their baby boy/girl and become a full-fledged adult.

The weird part is that they’re not; NYT does a lot of good journalism, sometimes even on Palestine, but then they go around and pull shit like this.

That’s probably coming with a whole spider nest’s worth of strings attached.

Yeah fair enough.

Concessions from what is likely to be a rapidly growing economy over the upcoming decade? They’re trying to diversify economically so they’re likely looking to capture the Syrian market before Turkey does.

Wow, that’s low even for Zionists.

Boycott, Divest, Sanction.

Nah those Greek twats had it coming.

That’s true, but it’s still up to them whether they want to get arrested over social media comments somebody else made.