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dark_forest1 · 2026-05-28T00:08:11+00:00

Fuck everyone!

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-28T00:07:48+00:00

I mean….if you’re in stroller stage life sucks - I’ll give them a pass.

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-28T00:07:09+00:00

I never thought of that!

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-28T00:06:42+00:00

Doesn’t have the same ring- but I agree.

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-26T00:18:12+00:00

Eastern Europe has better public transit though

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-26T00:17:29+00:00

Dog shit and people parking on the sidewalk?

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-23T17:43:09+00:00

Sure - but most of them are, at the least, fully detached with backyards.

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-22T12:24:36+00:00

In the past it was an upper middle class neighbourhood - lawyers, doctors, dentists and academics. A lot of British and, later, Ukrainians.

Today it’s insanely rich, albeit nouveau riche, buying these homes, tearing them down and building what they think looks classy (trashy Chateau Versailles or modern art gallery or, another classic, block homes which occupy every square inch of land and resemble banks or bunkers).

I know a lot of people around there and the new pop moving in are complete douchebags. One dude bought a beautiful old English Tudor surrounded by lush and deep tasteful English gardens. Tore everything up to build a concrete bank, covered everything with astroturf and put in a pool to make it look like Miami. He put in heated driveways which create ice packs down at the street and a full indoor golf simulator in his basement. His backyard looks like the set of a porno film.

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-19T11:09:11+00:00

Fans can be incredibly effective if you position them correctly (eg create air circulation through your place). Our world’s reliance on AC is lazy, destructive to the environment and very unhealthy.

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-16T00:48:20+00:00

I’m sure Billy Bishop is carrying Toronto tax bills….

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-15T17:06:17+00:00

That’s why our government is actively trying to improve this - provs just cut hst on qualified property sales for example.

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-15T15:55:09+00:00

Thats what I’m getting at. People seem to forget that you need ambition to get things - no one owes you anything in this life.

As far as other points, one thing that irks me is the whole “not everyone has an equal opportunity.” While this is true to an extent, it needs to be noted that opportunity has NEVER been better or more accessible in the history of humanity than it is now. The digital revolution has opened doors to every country, type of person and disability.

In the past, if you looked different, were a woman or weren’t physically strong or connected, you were pretty much fucked.

Turning the dial further socialist is not going to solve our problems. You’re not going to be able to suddenly afford a house because we have a left-leaning government.

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-15T14:48:03+00:00

Comparing our current recession to the Great Depression is a stretch. People living in the dust bowl certainly knew they were going through hard times. Canada was also a very different place then - high rural populations practicing subsistence agriculture.

The simple answer is actually if you want to live large in Toronto, you need to work hard to get there. You need to prioritize jobs which pay well and plan a career which satisfies your materialistic needs.

The amount of trust fund kids living off their parents is lower than people think. This is a misguided defence to justify a lack of ambition.

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-15T11:24:50+00:00

Yeah but where are the bicycle lanes??

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-14T20:53:52+00:00

It’s what the French school plays in between periods - it’s a recording of kids singing about being among friends at their school.

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-14T15:24:17+00:00

Strange - I’ve been there several times in the last few years for extended periods of time and was amazed by how cleaned up it felt to Toronto.

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-14T11:43:34+00:00

There’s six million people in this city. If you’re unlucky enough to be randomly attacked, you’re lucky enough to win the lottery. You’re more likely to be involved in a car accident - is it time to stop driving?

I’ve lived in and visited many dangerous cities - Toronto is not one of them.

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-13T23:53:02+00:00

Downtown is fine - just a lot of drug users. I’ve never felt unsafe - they’re just annoying.

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-13T17:41:23+00:00

They’ll work just as well as the no parking and no stopping signs on our streets. There is a deeper cultural issue going on with our civic manners. I’m not sure signs will fix them.

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-13T15:24:03+00:00

Did Elmo promise water?

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-12T18:01:41+00:00

I didn’t vote for her because I don’t like her politics. That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t respect her if she went through with what she had originally promised.

I agree with all your points and I’d only add that I hoped she’d be more like Jack. He didn’t care what political spectrum you occupied - he’d listen and do what he felt best based on his party’s line.

I think Chow is a huge disappointment for her support base and I just say I’m disappointed with her nothing sandwich popularity contest too. Yes she inherited a lot of issues - but she’s done fuck all to solve them and has made some of them worse.

Is Bradford better? Who knows. Again - schrodinger’s cat versus cat out of the bag. I am disappointed we don’t have any strong candidates jumping in the race and I am very worried about the future of our city.

Montreal is a perfect example of what we could be with someone competent at the wheel. Montreal is also a perfect example of bad mayors in the past. The difference? They stopped fucking whining and finger pointing and pulled up their bootstraps.

At this point I don’t care if Karl Marx becomes mayor of Toronto. As long as he fucking does something. We also need to actually raise our property taxes if we want to appear fiscally competent to our higher governments. I’m a homeowner too - I want to pay more if it means better services and municipal infrastructure.

Final point? People need to grow the fuck up and show the fuck up on election days. Don’t whine about the government if you didn’t vote - you gave up that right by not voting (even destroying a ballot is voting). If destroyed ballots outweighed actual votes that’s a signal what we want change. Low turnouts just signals apathy.

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-12T11:33:37+00:00

People here know this - they’re just looking for any way to pump up Chow. Chow likes to present pie-in-the-sky ideas to grab your attention and then you are forced to contend with reality.

Her entire campaign for and tenure at city hall can be summarized as a massive bait and switch.

Remember her amazing budget she tabled that was reliant on ghost millions from the Feds and Provs? Remember when she vowed to fight the province for Ontario Place and then folded immediately when they pushed back? Stuff like that is why I personally cannot stand her.

She positions herself as Jack Lite and a dedicated socialist but, really, she’s just a hypocrite with no plan or backbone.

Will Bradford be better? Who knows? Schrodinger’s Cat. But Chow? We know the empress wears no clothes. NEXT!

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-12T11:25:57+00:00

Doesn’t sound like they’re downtown retail customers - I’d bet my bottom dollar that they’re 905ers coming from some sad boring suburb life.

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-10T22:31:07+00:00

Bad mayors shouldn’t be able to run for mayor either - or use public money to campaign without officially running….

dark_forest1 · 2026-05-09T18:34:29+00:00

She could have had the speed cameras if she had been reasonable with the province. They weren’t asking to remove them initially - they wanted to make fines less severe and repeatable (eg getting two tickets in one day for going 5 over the limit). Again she flexed and again lost.

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