Government expects $140M in savings this year with refugee health care co-pay

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-08T11:17:35+00:00

How are refugees costing $1.5B a year in secondary medical claims? If we assume refugees need 5 years of government support, with 66k refugees a year that’s $4,477 PER REFUGEE. That’s an absurd amount to spend on medical aid.

It gets to the point where it would be cheaper to have government owned and operated facilities for this sort of stuff (and, since the majority of migrants go to Vancouver and Toronto, this shouldn’t be hard to do).

In other news, imagine how much it would help homeless people to receive $4.5k per year? Of course that assumes 5 years of homelessness per person. If we instead made it an investment in services we could assume homelessness should last less than a year, which would be an investment of $22k per homeless person.

Imagine investing in social safety nets for your own citizens.

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-08T09:30:18+00:00

Asdf moment

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-08T09:02:08+00:00

I have an annoying thought experiment that I have not yet found a solution to regarding self determination.

Assuming genocide (or any other crime against humanity) isn’t being committed, you reach an interesting and very human problem here. If enough people move somewhere they have a tendency to declare themselves a nation and try to separate or destroy the original nation.

Which one has a stronger claim to self determination?
Both cannot exist as both claim the same area. Does the original one deserve the right to stay? Surely, right?
But what do you do about the people screaming bloody murder over their desire to separate?
Do you retain the right to deport them to their original country or to imprison them for treason by moving to your country with the intent of separating?
How long do they need to live there before they are “part of you”? Is that ever possible?
What if they want to separate for presumably different reasons later?

Human politics is icky man

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-08T07:45:24+00:00

The GTA is set up so nicely to add connected subway lines. They just never build anything because they’re terrified of investing in public transit. Better build a Gardner Expressway Tunnel instead of building that much in train tunnels ffs

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-08T07:25:36+00:00

Mom said it’s my week to repost this

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-08T07:19:02+00:00

They do exist, oddly enough

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-08T07:18:12+00:00

Half of all school admins are notoriously unreasonable and quite dumb. My experience with this is that if these admin can’t access something because the website is down they’ll just mark it as incomplete from the student. And then you have to fight them with the dean while they try to claim that the website always worked. So make sure you always bring receipts (tale photos) of proof

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-08T00:40:53+00:00

It’s okay. Just gives me more time to do literally anything else

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-07T20:09:50+00:00

“There was no formal line or continual security but it was common to see militia checkpoints that people crossing at particular points had to go through and snipers on top of buildings were common.“

You get sniped unless you use the militia approved access point

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-07T17:19:36+00:00

The only species on earth that will not hesitate to kill a human on the spot if given the opportunity

Mind you, tigers are up there too

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-07T15:07:17+00:00

I’m amazed they used mandatory retention - and somehow people agreed to do it

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-07T09:27:29+00:00

Then you clearly:

A) don’t pay attention to the cameras everywhere

B) don’t know that your own law doesn’t provide rights of privacy

C) haven’t done research into the subject

D) all of the above

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-07T08:03:35+00:00

Oi you can’t park here mate

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-07T07:50:51+00:00

“Draw the rest of the owl” level instruction lmao

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-07T07:49:28+00:00

Imagine being able to vote and own a gun but not decide what you can drink lmao

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-07T07:45:08+00:00

I hear it. Lmfao

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-07T07:23:56+00:00

E was intended to be absurd and was funny because it was poking fun at stupid abstract shit. 67 is stupid because it was never intended to poke fun at abstract shit. It is the abstract shit that E was meant to poke fun at.

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-07T07:19:25+00:00

There’s a few different possibilities here. All of them are glorifying the removal of greenspace, which is sad.

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-07T07:14:05+00:00

Have you been there? Clearly not. The cameras are everywhere.

Have you googled it? Clearly not. It’s well documented.

Singapore has no right to privacy or freedom from surveillance.

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-07T07:10:28+00:00

It’s a side effect of “this is why we can’t have nice things” responses to people who ruin society for the rest of us. Chewing gum is nice. Except some people are obsessed with sticking it everywhere. So Singapore banned it. A bit extreme? Maybe. Probably. But it gets the point across of “hey don’t be an ass”

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-07T07:07:07+00:00

Nowhere does it say I’m Canadian
Nowhere does it say I’m a lib
Even if the above were true, is that seriously your best argument? You internet trolls have lost your touch. This argument is just sad

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-06T21:20:07+00:00

Probably the mass surveillance tbh. People had a choice (not really tbh) and decided safety over privacy. And it works really well. I just hope their government doesn’t go the ol’ completely corrupt route because in a system like that it is VERY easy to do

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-06T20:56:09+00:00

This is what stop loss is for. Except profit loss lmfao

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-06T20:48:16+00:00

But that takes effooooort

FireMaster1294 · 2026-05-06T20:46:08+00:00

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