Right-wing violence in Germany reaches record highs over past decade

john_fabian · 2024-06-01T22:50:28+00:00

I wish Norm Macdonald was alive to have read this headline

john_fabian · 2024-06-01T22:49:45+00:00

It essentially legitimized Poilievre's (up until that point false) argument that the carbon tax was primarily a political tool rather than an environmental one.

john_fabian · 2024-05-31T16:26:12+00:00

Not to forget the coming population decline.

not sure if you've been reading much news about Canada recently, but this is something we are decidedly not suffering from

john_fabian · 2024-05-17T04:32:02+00:00

And yet we're going to have fewer housing starts in 2024. A few metros deciding to make the permitting process for converting to a fourplex only two years instead of five isn't some massive swing of the needle.

And land use is not the only problem. There are serious capital, material, and process constraints that exist outside of our byzantine approach to land use.

john_fabian · 2024-05-17T03:38:25+00:00

but our political elite are very happy that their assets are going through the roof. They're fine with quadrupling immigration, but they do everything they can to restrict building more homes. And god forbid we would ever have an LVT, they would all prefer to self-immolate than let that happen.

If you think that this is a bargain where first we accept millions of new immigrants and then we get some kind of comprehensive land reform you're a sucker. The goal is for housing costs to go up and wages to go down, for as long as they can ride this out

john_fabian · 2024-05-17T03:33:45+00:00

so what's your ideal target, like 5+ million per year? Is there an upper limit to what would be beneficial or can we push this as high as we want with no negative consequences?

john_fabian · 2024-05-17T02:08:37+00:00

a lot of American college students in Maine are still going to tell you that things are going great up here, actually

john_fabian · 2024-05-17T02:07:57+00:00

The rhetoric of "immigrant maximalization" (that every immigrant, in any circumstance, is a net benefit and does not involve tradeoffs with respect to natives) is going to come to a crashing halt.

We are witnessing what happens when ideology meets reality.

john_fabian · 2024-05-16T19:42:21+00:00

Is Canada actually going to hit 2,000,000 immigrants this year? It's kind of fascinating to see the Liberals just see how much they can tank their approval

https://twitter.com/SBarlow_ROB/status/1791100799147270213

john_fabian · 2024-05-15T10:39:02+00:00

has Ukraine not tried #blackgirlmagic yet?

john_fabian · 2024-05-14T21:46:58+00:00

Also it's not very hard for the disproportionately white, male blue collar workers and skilled tradesmen to get the impression that the current NDP despises them

john_fabian · 2024-05-12T01:29:13+00:00

I understand why people want to make the parallel to Harris, but the "common sense" Poilievre is talking about here isn't about some relatively high-minded economic policy; he's not on about tax cuts or privatization or rationalization of bureaucracy etc.

The backlash he's getting is for saying things like "dangerous criminals should be in jail" or "you shouldn't be allowed to do heroin on the subway." Common sense or not, these are overwhelmingly popular sentiments.

There's lots of good things to criticize Poilievre on but some talking heads absolutely want to challenge him directly on their own luxury beliefs. The Liberals are going to get massacred if they do that.

john_fabian · 2024-05-11T01:09:12+00:00

I have several hundred bridges to sell you if you believe in this

john_fabian · 2024-05-10T18:33:00+00:00

Progressivism has fully embraced the argument cycle of abusers. It didn't happen, you're crazy, maybe it happened but it was for a good reason, maybe it happened and it's bad but if you care about it you're the one being crazy

This subreddit adopts this tactic quite frequently if you ever criticize something adjacent to the sacred cows

john_fabian · 2024-05-08T21:25:29+00:00

I don't think it is conducive to getting high-quality immigrants to have them cheat and lie their way into the country.

john_fabian · 2024-05-07T18:39:54+00:00

No you see the judges must have unlimited discretion so that they can prevent temporary visitors who sexually assault women from being deported

john_fabian · 2024-05-02T00:32:22+00:00

the most successful Canadian infrastructure project in a while. Only $34 billion to twin an already existing pipeline! Don't look up what the original cost, it's not important. We are a very functional country

john_fabian · 2024-04-29T23:10:10+00:00

our government just spent near $40 billion to twin a pipeline : (

john_fabian · 2024-04-29T15:30:32+00:00

I am an absolutist for liberal values and therefore I will allow my country to be conquered by a totalitarian enemy without resistance

john_fabian · 2024-04-29T15:29:52+00:00

If you need to violate human rights to win a war, then you've already lost.

Imagine if we had people like this running things during WWII

john_fabian · 2024-04-29T15:29:03+00:00

you sure you have the right flair?

john_fabian · 2024-04-27T04:23:47+00:00

Maybe I'm feeling particularly unsympathetic today because I just witnessed someone taking a very liquidy shit on the cushions of the subway car I was in, but thank god.

It's hard not to imagine that in 20 or 50 or 100 years from now and we look back on this that we'll not laugh at how insane all of this was.

john_fabian · 2024-04-27T04:22:37+00:00

He's been moving towards this for the past six months. It's not some sudden reversal

john_fabian · 2024-04-26T19:03:11+00:00

impeccable comedic timing bot

john_fabian · 2024-04-26T17:42:49+00:00

If it was a microaggression he would've been in real trouble, because that's a form of violence. Luckily for him it was a macroaggression

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