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While we did fuck them a lot, knowing us, I don't think that's what caused their extinction.

For me, it's the cruelty, violence and atrocity. But what they do to humans is bad, too.

Edit: Oh. This is about the bloodlust thing you are all doing. Have fun without me.

They are both posturing. Ford is an excellent politician (though poor at providing governance) and he's smarter than you. He knows tariffs are not Trump's end game. They both get to act tough and then Trump tries to renegotiate the trade agreement again.

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Thanks for visiting. Don't stay so long next time.

It's more of a condemnation of every previous government all the way back to Harris than it crediting this one.

It gives me no pleasure to say this but if you are on ODSP and the only information you have is the government services that has been offered to you under the last several governments, you might come to the conclusion that voting PC is in your material best interests. By doing far less than is needed, the Ford government has still managed to do more than any of the other governments. ODSP is a curse that condemns everyone on it to live in abject poverty that cannot be escaped without help from friends and family.

I think previous (also self-styled "progressive") governments were reluctant to do things like pegging to inflation because that is a tacit approval/acceptance of the situation, which is awful. They just didn't want to be associated with it at all. So the situation kept getting worse.

The Ford government is not afraid to wade into ODSP issues. One feared that it would be a re-emergence of Harris's "welfare queen" culture war bullshit, but to his credit, Ford has chosen not to fan that fire. He's willing to say, yep, situation sucks and we're okay with that forever. What someone on ODSP sees is that their cheque got bigger for the first time in many many years because of the PC government.

I am aware that Ford also cancelled the guaranteed income study for petty reasons and has done far more harm than he has helped, but it's understandable how someone who is watching homelessness get closer every month might not see anything more than a slightly higher income.

the real WTF is taking a photo of your monitor

There are ten livestock animals in captivity for every one human. You're still lucky to be born a human anywhere on earth, because we are the monsters.

I know you are being facetious but it struck a nerve because it's uncomfortably close to things my young partner in social services has actually said unironically. I'm horrified to learn they have internalized a lot of the bad faith arguments they heard from their idiot father growing up. It's like they've decided that unions are bad, strikes are wrong, and then work backwards from there. No sense of class solidarity or how they benefit from other unions doing well. I hope it doesn't reflect the common attitude of young people.