That counts as genocide apologism???

It’s a bit much. This kind of moderation doesn’t even give any chance for discussions. The comment didn’t get down voted in the negative and other users have made other comments to talk about it and made really good points.

I understand you don’t want any genocide apologists in your community, which is good, but c’mon. Let people have some doubts.

Everybody laying off people everywhere.

Osti qu’on passe pour une belle gang de racistes quand même…

The air is still going to be much easier to breathe after people switch to ebikes. The smell of the scooters and motorcycles is pretty intense.

I simply highlighted what AOC said, as OP highlighted himself in their post. Might as well delete the post in that case. Sheesh.

And go take a look at my post/comment history. You’ll soon find out that I staunchly support Gaza and Palestine and am very critical of Israel.

You know what? I totally share your feelings towards Canadian politics. It’s god damn disheartening. For decades now I feel like our voices are not really heard. Parties make promises during election time and fuck us over as soon as they’re in power. The only time we’ve ever gained anything is when the NDP actually had some leverage in a minority government. And we don’t give the Greens enough support.

But this time, if your MP is not liberal, you should still call your MP and even call Carney’s. Let them know that what’s happening in Gaza is unacceptable and that we can’t just stand aside and let it happen.

As bleak as it all is, let’s just try this one time. It’s 5 minutes. It’s not that big an effort.

Yeah, I agree. Not having any defensive capabilities against nations that they attacked first is a good deterrent against them attacking everyone around them.

Also, why was my comment removed? I thought it was a good discussion point.

Removed by mod

Instead of being so pessimistic, give them a call anyway.

Otherwise we’re not going to get anything done with that attitude. In fact, it’s exactly because of that attitude that we’re in the state we’re in. Because of lack of public participation in politics.

What’s BDS?

Anywhere else, homes DO cost more. WAY more.

My parents bought their house, brand new, on paper, in a suburban part of Montreal for 60k which was about the same amount as their yearly gross pay combined working as financial advisors in a local financial institution.

The same house today actually costs between 450-500k. The pay for that same position? 40k/person for the same amount of experience they had back then. That would make it about 80k/year. So the same house costs nearly 6 times the combined wages for that same position. SIX TIMES! And it’s not even is a nice place. It’s far from everything, has little public transportation options, and is surrounded by oil refineries.

I don’t know what small town you bought your house in, but it doesn’t reflect the reality that the vast majority of Canadians face.

Because there isn’t a shortage of cars, and cars aren’t necessary to live. However, housing is. Having a shelter to live in is a basic human need. It shouldn’t be hoarded by rich elite few who own so much they basically control the whole fucking market.

If housing is limited and is a living necessity, it should totally be regulated.

Capitalism is an inhumane system that glorifies profit and undervalues human life and human rights. In order for capitalism to succeed, it needs cheap labour, it needs wage slaves, or even better, actual slaves. If capitalism had any provisions for social justice, equality, equity, respect of human rights and human life, it wouldn’t even be viable.

At least you had one. It’s probably worth half a mil today and out of most people’s reach.

Homeless shelters are at full capacity, and food banks can’t keep up. You have a twisted perspective through your conservative brainwashed religious head.

What a twisted view of the world. You’re completely mental.

Sorry it took some time for me to reply to your comment.

The TFW program was initially meant to bring in hard to find specialists to help local enterprises. This system was corrupted under Harper to exploit unskilled foreign workers for jobs in Tim Horton’s and other low-wage positions. Companies couldn’t hire anybody anymore with their shitty low wages so they found a workaround to keep wages cheap.

Later, as boomers started to retire, they increased the amount of immigrant workers that could enter the country to fill the missing positions. But they literally flooded the market with these workers to keep wages low. There were so many in fact that there wasn’t enough positions for all of them. Many ended up doing Skip and Uber deliveries instead, living 5 people in a 1 bedroom apartment to make ends meet. This completely cut off any chances for local talent to access these new positions or even access entry level positions. That’s why we still have entry level software engineer positions at 50-60k/year here in Montreal for example. (I was paid that when I graduated in 2008 btw, so adjusted for inflation, they are paid a LOT less than they should during a time where living expenses have never been so high.)

This caused all kinds of pressures in Canada. On the job market, on rental housing, financial support programs, food banks, etc. Canadian citizens in need suddenly had all these other people to line up with for all these things and that’s unfair.

Sure we need immigration to cover lack of workers. But the rate at which they were let in was way too high.

Let me reply again to you comment.

The same cannot be said of flatpaks. AUR stands for Arch User Repo, which is a user-driven unofficial package source. Flatpak on the other hand has some official channels for certain software applications like Firefox for example.

Now I’ve never used Arch or AUR, so correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think AUR has official software channels like flatpak does. Right?

If I’m right, flatpak definitely is a lot safer than AUR. As long as you don’t download your flatpaks from unofficial channels. This is actually a good advantage for Snaps which are thoroughly checked by Canonical.

LoL! What a load of BS.

~~Absolutely. ~~

Actually, no. On second thought, let me reply again so you can see my new answer.

That’s a good point.