pipsqueak1984 @ northmaple1984 @lemmy.ca

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Who says I haven't already gotten enough exercise today?

You're aware of the concept of overworking your body, right?

Perfect, let's just get rid of public healthcare then

Doesn't this riding have a higher Jewish population, who were already on the fence about the Liberals because of their handling of the war?

Fuck, talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory NDP. This is the level of stupid that Conservatives normally do.

At this point I hope the rising goes BQ.

Edit: I guess according to 338Canada NDP really never stood a chance. Still a dumb move by the NDP.

If your buddy who likes gambling with green lights was convicted of a traffic offence as part of that accident he should have been on the hook for his own healthcare and the healthcare of anyone else he hurt.

I attempted to address this but perhaps I wasn't clear:

Yes, some activities are risky then others, however many of them have absolutely 0 negative impact on you unless something major happens all at once. In fact, many of them have major health benefits for the vast, vast majority of participants.

Contrast the above to overeating, chronically eating stuff that's not good for you (ex. excessive sugar, salt), drinking too much, doing lots of drugs, smoking... that kind of behaviour will basically screw up everyone who partakes given enough time and has no positive health benefits at all.

You talk about a loss of freedom... I've already lost freedom by paying for a bunch of people who purposely fuck themselves up for no tangible benefit to themselves. There is stuff that would be good for me that I literally can't afford because of the amount of taxes I pay.

Here's an idea for your route of encouraging healthy lifestyle rather than removing freedom: include a physician form in my taxes where my doctor attests that I am generally in good shape (given my age) and he has no reason to believe I am doing anything that is a risk factor for chronic cardiovascular or lung diseases, diabetes or related chronic illnesses, and give me a significant tax break for doing so.

I'd have supported her paying out of pocket to use the live donor that was willing, but not to use my tax money when it's pretty fucking clear she has no intention of changing.

It's the same reason I'm largely against the Liberal's diabetes funding - ~90% of diabetics are Type 2 (I'm willing to help Type 1's out because it's not their fault) and the vast, vast majority of those are from unhealthy lifestyle even if they are genetically predisposed.

If were going to have a public health system, people should be required to take care of themselves. And no, I'm not talking about the one-off accidents from riskier activities (although I do think people should bear the cost of their own healthcare if it's the result of criminal activities), I'm taking the problems that occur as a result of abusing your body for years or decades.

Yeah, it's unfortunate that a lot of things not-made-in-China simply don't exist here.

You missed the point of my post, which was why call out Galen Weston specifically when probably the majority of people, included many middle class people, are invested in REITs one way or another? Like, is it somehow bad that Galen Weston does it but not bad that my best friend ans I do it?

How is this Canadian news? It's about France.

Literally every media outlet curates which stories it publishes, this is not unique to this website.

This and the Chinese government subsidises their postal service.

Another example of the Chinese undercutting the true cost of products in order to destroy markets abroad, just like they are trying with EVs.

Why bring Galeb Weston into this, lots of middle class people are invested into REITs. My best friend talks about his investment in them all the time. Hell, there's a half decent chance my RRSP and my kids RESPs are invested in REITs as part of the broader fund they are part of.

Yes, the "modern Nazis" that despise actual Nazis.

It's never too late to prosecute war criminals. There will never be a good reason to keep their identities secret.

If you are siding with the actual Nazis of the 1940s in trying to keep their identities secret, there's a good chance you are also a Nazi.

As much as both you and Poilievre would welcome a carbon tax election (for opposite reasons), neither of you are gonna actually get it until people can house and feed themselves reasonably.

Yeah, Harper definitely fucked us on that one.

Our overreliance on Chinese manufacturing is absolutely obliterating us on several fronts, not just EVs.

The question shouldn't be "Why aren't we allowing shitty Chinese EVs?", it should be "Why are we allowing shitty Chinese everything instead of relying on domestic production or production from states with half decent standards and practices?"

Isn't it funny how the average person was more prosperous decades ago when we accomplished a lot more domestically?

Fuck China

So what exactly is your argument about legally being allowed to possess the means to properly defend ourselves?

Considering that the US has less murders per gun than Canada does, I'm not sure issue is the guns.

I mean, the US does it better than any other western nation, we could at least be on par with them