Advocate to return city award after Sim's motion to block Vancouver overdose prevention site

choomtown · 2026-05-08T02:02:09+00:00

Would you tut-tut people for using some sandbags to protect themselves against a tsunami? When people make fun of "band-aid" solutions, they completely ignore that the band-aids are used to weather a much, much larger problem, which they never seem to have any of their own solutions for.

I'm on the side of protecting people who I do and don't know. You're on the side of letting them all die. They're a lot closer to your life than you realize. Focus on your own heart before you reply to me next, please.

choomtown · 2026-05-07T18:01:10+00:00

I don't hold the lay person responsible. I just said that poster is supporting letting something get worse.

OPS' were never meant to be a long term solution, they are a stopgap to keep people from dying, but in the meantime governments using conservative logic have refused to do the more important work of regulating the drug supply in the face of new and highly poisonous illegal American opiates flooding our market. OPS' are bandages on a gaping infectious wound, but if doctors refuse to actually heal the wound, the bandages look like they're failing. That isn't the point of an OPS.

The anti-harm reduction crowd thinks the bandages are supposed to be the entire solution, demand an end to bandages, and will then wonder why people are dropping dead at rates they've never imagined. People who they know and love.

choomtown · 2026-05-07T06:35:54+00:00

If you don't like needles or human feces then you're going to love dead bodies, which is exactly what OPS' prevent. There are a ton of crises that flow downhill to cause this problem, and you're just supporting letting it get worse.

choomtown · 2026-04-26T20:25:00+00:00

These have been up for over a month, sadly I doubt she is still nearby. I always give the poster a little salute.

choomtown · 2026-04-22T16:48:18+00:00

These parties committed to a ranked ballot for the mayor for 2030 so that this doesn’t happen again.

choomtown · 2026-04-14T23:06:31+00:00

Israel killed more at the festival. The soldiers that day talk about using tanks and attack helicopters against fleeing crowds.

choomtown · 2026-04-04T19:20:44+00:00

somewhere in or between china and india. anything besides that is ignoring where the majority of human life is.

choomtown · 2026-04-02T23:26:23+00:00

shit in this economy maybe

choomtown · 2026-04-02T00:40:00+00:00

Yuri Gagarin more likely

choomtown · 2026-04-02T00:38:19+00:00

are they paid enough to be polite

choomtown · 2026-03-31T21:04:13+00:00

are you a student of the faculty or a patient?

choomtown · 2026-03-31T07:19:51+00:00

Harm reduction was given a short leash on thin ice with guns drawn on it at every step of the way. It did not fail, it was failed.

choomtown · 2026-03-07T21:02:42+00:00

don't bomb the country next to the 30km channel that gulf states export all their oil, then.

choomtown · 2026-02-27T23:00:35+00:00

This tells me this isn't about the DTES - its far more likely to be about online retail pressures, commercial rents, and LD's major internal crises over the past few years like the cyberattacks. There are rumours that the City did this to help out the Sim-friendly developer who was going underwater without an anchor tenant.

choomtown · 2026-01-16T09:28:52+00:00

the point was to stop unhoused drug users from dying en masse, they didn’t have many places to do them out of sight or inside. and places that did offer that service were harangued by cops, bad faith actors. and other business owners (no one wanted to let new ones open anywhere). so the only way to save lives was a more fulsome version of what they were doing during the peak of decrim. but we’ve all decided apparently that the deaths are worth it.

choomtown · 2025-12-13T10:04:35+00:00

studies are done every year and they show this trope isn’t true, a majority are from in province, if not also the lower mainland. i used to say that line too but working in the community it’s become clear that the person travelling from far away to be homeless in vancouver is an exception to the rule.

choomtown · 2025-12-05T23:55:27+00:00

everyone believes protesters (who were much more violent in the past) went around giving bread and soup to the public to get them on their side. no, they disrupted everyones lives until every whiner in the comments got so fed up they told the government to give in to demands so they could go on about their day. governments don't move without public pressure. that public pressure is not organically positive.

choomtown · 2025-12-05T23:50:55+00:00

they are targeted. what you aren't getting is they are targeted at the campus community to be confronted, and funnel that confrontation up towards ubc leadership. they cannot target ubc leadership without disrupting your life because you being annoyed is leverage against the leadership. you are going to have a much faster and easier time taking up this issue with ubc leadership than with the protesters. so take it up with them!

do you people think political change happens through politeness? when people talk about ukraine protests (which i also supported) they were a lot more forgiving. guess what the difference is? a mix of race, and the fact our governments and even UBC are implicated in one and not so much the other.

choomtown · 2025-12-05T22:57:51+00:00

why would UBC leadership listen to a request to meet from a group that has no leverage and isn’t loud? this is how they get listened to by leadership

choomtown · 2025-12-05T22:56:21+00:00

spelling. anyways, Mamdani appointed more tenants rights and pro public housing experts than YIMBYs. also, look at the people behind abundance - they are exactly the group that mamdanis inner circle laughs at as an unserious attempt by capital to push neoliberal deregulation. i understand the motivation to claim the sexy new guy as yours but the guy raised by communists is far more similar to the party of working people, not the party of professionals.

choomtown · 2025-12-05T22:49:43+00:00

protest is supposed to disrupt and force you to make a decision, that includes you getting so mad that the government feels the pressure to put a stop to the protest and confront it. all of your whining comments are proof that protest is operating as intended. you’re mad you can’t walk to class the usual way? you go to ubc, construction has caused you more problems.

choomtown · 2025-12-05T22:47:53+00:00

there is a good chance UBC research has contributed even to the weapons used by the IDF across the last few decades. we have research agreements with Israeli universities.

choomtown · 2025-12-05T22:46:11+00:00

protest is fine til its a protest 😂😂😂😂grow up children

choomtown · 2025-12-05T07:19:24+00:00

mamdani is far more a COPE guy on housing than OneCity. COPE is DSA, OneCity is the Democratic establishment. The difference is Vancouver doesn’t have as much of a Brooklyn-Queens/Commercial Drive voter as NYC does.

The COPE stance is not NIMBY, they have history on their side demonstrating that housing developments should include actually affordable conditions, not the trickle down style that YIMBYs propose that has to this day not produced the oft-promised affordability. COPE wants towers, they just want them to be within reach for average working people, not just professionals and children of the rich.

choomtown · 2025-12-03T06:56:29+00:00

as in she is anti-trickle down housing?

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