Canaconda

It’s Treatied land between the First Nations and CANADA; not Albertans.

Schindler’s List

The US always has been a shitty ally at best

They’re the defacto evil empire of the world. We just got preferential treatment as their evil little sidekick.

Yes that happens but ratios matter. Apply the 80:20 rule and you find that 80% of incidents are perpetrated by the top 20% of perpetrators.

Invert that and you find that 80% of incidents are perpetrated by people with a higher aptitude for intervention.

Than you also need to appreciate that there is an underlying, over arching, and penetrating, theme of “too little too late” in our welfare system.

Yup. Really this is all just a vain attempt to avoid the unavoidable. Either we house the homeless or we’re just paying more to put them up in prisons and psych wards.

I say “them,” but >50% of Canadians are living paycheque to paycheque and would be homeless within 3 months if they lost their jobs. So it’s us.

Either we guarentee housing for us all or we pay more today to throw ourselves in jail/nuthouse tomorrow.

I personally support decriminalization but given the greater context I completely understand why the public perception of this program was utter failure.

Right now a very small minority of repeat offenders are acting with impunity. The courts fail to deny these individuals bail, thus substantiating the accusations of “catch and release”.

The fact is that drugs damage peoples mind to the point that they will steal/do whatever they must in order to fund their addiction. And the courts just keep letting them walk free.

for the CPC*

Danielle defs wears bigger pants than PP right now.

for the CPC*

sorry I guess it’s bad faith of me to assume that the CPC is a force for evil.

Is there even a worse option for the CPC than PP right now?

TBF America is defacto the evil empire of the world rn and we’ve only had a nice ride cuz we’re their sidekick.

Lemmy is better without extortion apologia.

Regardless calling someone naive isn’t an ad hominim. It’s advice.

Read a history book.

Like I said. You are naive.

USA is threatening to occupy our airspace (under the guise of NORAD) if we don’t subsidize their F-35 program to the tune of 80 Billion USD.

You are naive.

Are you being obtuse on purpose?

There is simply no level of stupid that will surprise me from them anymore.

~70% of the lifetime revenue of the F-35 program would be the support costs on top of the purchase price. Even if Canada paid for every plane it ordered and grounded them the USA would be out 40Billion in revenue.

Meanwhile the planes cost 80-100 Million each to build. So if we refused to buy the remaining ~70 they’d be out 5.6Billion in production costs.

This new threat is a pathetically naked admission that the USA is hurting for revenue.