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  • Well I Iive in Canada but point taken. I'm still not sure I agree that it's on the voter to let the worse party win just to support a burgeoning better one. I'd say the responsibility is on that better party to secure their base and show a reasonable chance to win before asking voters to risk the worse party winning.

  • Voting for any person means you approve of their actions and you are complicit and responsible for them.

    I don't think it means that necessarily. It's just as valid to vote strategically against an even worse party if they have a chance of winning. It's not morally contentious to vote for the lesser of two evils.

  • There have obviously been tons of other improvements, but paid leave is not one of them. That's the only point of this post, but instead of just accepting it, you have to turn it into some narrative about the Communist Manifesto. It's just a meme about not getting vacation days.

  • Hell yeah, we've got a heat pump and we're in Canada where it can get to -40°C (which is coincidentally also -40°F) and that thing works like a beast. Fortunately we also have the cheapest electricity in North America so the decision was easy.

  • The first result on google for 'Australia gun ownership rates':

    https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2021/04/28/new-gun-ownership-figures-revealed-25-years-on-from-port-arthur.html

    -Australian civilians now own more than 3.5 million registered firearms, an average of four for each licensed gun owner.

    -The proportion of Australians who hold a gun licence has fallen by 48 percent since 1997.

    -The proportion of Australian households with a firearm has fallen by 75 percent in recent decades.

    -Data indicates that people who already own guns have bought more rather than an increase in new gun owners.

    And I don't know much about their mass shooting history, but here's an article explaining that homicides and suicides sharply declined after the ban:

    https://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9212725/australia-buyback

    What they found is a decline in both suicide and homicide rates after the NFA. The average firearm suicide rate in Australia in the seven years after the bill declined by 57 percent compared with the seven years prior. The average firearm homicide rate went down by about 42 percent.

  • Hmm... I'm not sure I agree with this completely despite politicians obviously being problematic. At least at its core, the rationale is that the significant majority of people aren't aware enough of all the contentious (or even mundane) issues in society, so we elect people we trust to make our decisions for us. I just checked Canada's recent bills in Parliament, and the voter turnout for something like this would be almost nothing:

    Bill C-16 - An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023

    Obviously our current system is very easily corruptible and that needs to be addressed, but getting rid of politicians altogether wouldn't necessarily fix our society, despite how terrible they're making it right now.

  • Meat is pretty much the most expensive protein source. You can get tofu for like 1/5 the price of meat. The other guy summed it up well (although with some sarcasm) that eating vegan is only expensive when you try to replicate the meat. Just eat tofu and you'll be healthier and richer :)