bobje
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All I see now is cheap-looking apartment buildings being thrown up in record time in my suburb. The completed ones are full of third world immigrants. Congestion is terrible, tons of new traffic lights making short drives take long and tedious.
Riley Donovan@valdombre
Saving up to buy a single-family home with a backyard in a leafy, semi-rural suburb is central to the Canadian way of life. If we don't stop mass immigration, our new way of life will be permanent renters stacked on top of each other.
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Part of the tedium of living alongside alien peoples is having to explain to them that there is a difference between holding a hamburger and shovelling slop into your mouth like a fucking animal.
Out of Context Human Race@NoContextHumans
Facts or nah?
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@SatlujAthabasca @bruce_barrett And you're a guest. What's your point?
I know you guys usually have no ability to self reflect, or fathom that Canadians don't like you for a justified reason, but are you totally incapable of understanding the reaction to one of yours doing laundry at the beach?
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@bruce_barrett These kind of videos are interesting. It shows Canadians are pretty lucky to deal with such trivial bullshit while being incredibly fragile and entitled. Grow up and be grateful you aren't dealing with real world problems.
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@JimmyLevendia I would love to see that age breakdown on that poll.
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One of the biggest category costs for Canadian taxpayers is handouts to Frist Nations.
We send billions upon billions every year for no particular reason and with zero transparency to how its being spent and somehow conditions on their lands don't improve.
Then on top of it, projects get stalled, and our properties are at risk because of ridiculous land claims.
Canada's prosperity is held back by less than 5% of the population and we are rewarding that with billions in handouts.
Interests aren't aligned. It makes no sense. It creates too much uncertainty for investors. It can't go on. We need solutions.
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@JimmyLevendia > 40 Under 40, Top 25 Women of Influence in Canada and 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada.
This seems so blatantly self congratulatory. What does this woman do, nag us to bring in more immigrants?
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@ChiefEgregore @ChristianHeiens But muh Microsoft "teams isn't working again" CEO
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@ChristianHeiens I am highly skeptical that region contains the world's top talent, but I am quite confident it contains the highest density of scammers, cheaters, fraudsters, IP thieves, state secret thieves, and modern slave labor that undercuts and immiserates free men.
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America cut itself off from this talent for roughly 358 years, and in that span of time she went from a triangular wood fort of 60 starving colonists in the swamps of southeast Virginia to a continental-spanning economic and scientific superpower that had given the world the lightbulb, the airplane, and the telephone…three things which much of this encircled area had not even adopted by the time the Hart-Cellar Act had passed in 1965.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
The bulk of the world's intellectual talent lies within this green oval. If America cuts ourselves off from that talent, we are part of the global periphery.
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@valdombre We should push all federal & provincial expenses down to the municipal level (health care, education, welfare), then put all the new arrivals in the GTA and the GVA.
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Airdrie's population is soaring. Crowded schools. Traffic rising. $50 million spent on wastewater capacity. Mass residential development.
Canadians have never been asked if they wanted mass immigration population growth.
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@RealDanJay @Howard__24 @SteveSaretsky Or we could just strip them of their personal assets and nationalize their companies.
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@Howard__24 @SteveSaretsky Howard, I saw this with all due respect, these developers should go bankrupt if they can't build homes Canadians will buy.
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@blondebobje This is what happens when you put a woman in charge of your company
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American automakers might have something to fear from the Japanese?
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Robbie Hendricks@robbiehendricks
Been living with the new Lexus GX550 since trading in our cursed Tahoe for a few months now. Takeaway: American automakers have a big problem on their hands. The Lexus is faster. Better looking. Smoother ride. More capable off-road. Better sound system. Better tech. Better service. Better warranty. Costs $8000 less. And Bonus: Hasn’t yet left my wife and children stuck on the side of the road after blowing two engines in 8 weeks. Really wanted to support Chevy, GM, and American manufacturing, but I’m not in the business of buying junk just to be a patriot. Long live Toyota.
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@danielfoch The virgin "sissify me Mr. Free Market" Foch, vs the gigachad "Free Market who?" Lee Kuan Yew
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@danielfoch Does it be like "yeah, my daughter is going to get into OF, because the market says her value is $1M/year"
It's possible to not be such a materialist and imagine that people aren't Homo Economicus and don't have to be subject to the Almighy Free Market as god.
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15-minute cities aren't about "telling people how to live." It's about acknowledging the market's direction. Policy serves the economy, and the economy is urbanizing. Seen this? #UrbanPlanning #Economics
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If you guys don’t chill out on the fetishization of the third world, I’m going to start reading first-hand accounts of early British explorers into Africa on air.
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@LibertyMatter77 @signulll Because the graph implies family the preconditions for stable family formation are attainable, and does follow.
The alternative, which people are increasingly aligned with is mass demoralization and opting out of the current order.
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@signulll I get plotting marriage rates over time. Or home ownership over time.
However, the conjunction of marriage and home ownership is a weird metric to plot.
Why not plot the number of married people and hot dogs consumed versus time?
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most ppl don’t realize is that there’s no climbing out of this. once it becomes cultural & baked into the collective psyche, it’s pretty much over.
reversing it would take an act of god or some once in a century black swan. otherwise it’s like trying to pull an aircraft out of a flat spin with 900 feet of altitude & no engines left.
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@OttawaHurrah @Sean_Speer This is a much more accurate assessment.
Comparing Trump's approach as closer to Naomi Kleins is absurd - if I had to guess, open border maxing is something her type would demand on a revenge and "punish the West for hurting mother Gaia" basis.
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When I came of age as a young conservative in the mid 1990s, the major political fault lines were over economic liberalization, fiscal retrenchment and a deference to markets more generally. It was an exciting time to be a young ideologue because notwithstanding left-wing opposition and protests, it felt like my side was winning the battle of ideas.
Fast forward to the present and it’s a jarring feeling to observe the biggest and most effective blows to the post-Cold War consensus in favour of free markets, free trade and globalization coming from a Republican Party.
If paradigmatic victories occur when one side’s ideas are adopted by the other, it’s hard not to see Trump’s dismantling of free trade and globalization as a major left-wing win. Donald Trump is more the political descendent of Naomi Klein than he is Milton Friedman. The radicals at Seattle, Genoa, and Toronto ultimately won the day.
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@ztisdale @Harry__Faulkner "These brave men, even knowing they were severely outnumbered, risked their lives to defend their homeland."
"Ackshully muh 51st state."
Please, shut up.
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@Harry__Faulkner Ok, but we're still going to become a State. 🤷♂️
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The Red Ensign still flies at the Battle of Crysler’s Farm National Historic Site.
In November of 1813, British, Canadian and Indigenous soldiers numbering roughly 800 to 1,200 repelled and defeated an invading American force that outnumbered them at least 3-1.
The victory at Crysler’s Farm ended the American campaign to take Montreal. It truly was the battle that saved Canada.
Remember Crysler’s Farm.
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@feedthedrummer @BenInRushcliffe Why, are you concerned these people have their priorities backwards, and are interfering in your politics?
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