Pup Biru @ pupbiru @aussie.zone

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perhaps, or perhaps it could be replaced by something worse. there are no guarantees

revolution is easy to say on the internet but at the end of the day a lot of people die

it’s a long road with a lot more steps but simply “destroying” the notion that democrats are the good guys simply gets you republicans and that’s gotta be the worst way to shift left ever

hopefully people will see through it and it’ll backfire and just reinforce people staying strong

the world is not going back. we waited 4 years last time, sighed with relief, and said “thank fuck that’s enough of that”

… and here we are

the trust is lost; there are no more chances

ooooh maaaaan nobody knew about this specific thing around all the other sea of known fascist, transphobic, racist, xenophobic nazi shit! that makes it alllllll better

"inflationary pressures" that are causing things like after school programs to be cut, are the union's negotiated salary increases.

if you can’t afford to pay people a fair wage to deliver a service, that service is too expensive… this isn’t the fault of people asking for fair compensation

The wage increases that they negotiate, are also way higher than most of the increases I've seen / heard of in the private sector.

okay but that is an argument that the private sector should be unionised though

union workers still get their 20% increase over 3-4 years or whatnot.

that 20% is pretty peanuts since it covers the last however many years of unmet CPI increases, as well as the next 3-4 years and probably accounts for another 5 years or more of unmet CPI increases after that

CPI is on average around 2%ish, so that’s 10 years of CPI adjustment total - that leaves 6-7 years, so really only 3 years before and after the time… strikes don’t happen right away - people have been unhappy about their wages for years before

This creates animosity towards what's essentially a privileged worker class

perhaps, but the capitalist class has done a great marketing job then: it’s not unions that’s the problem, it’s the capitalists that aren’t paying people!

(australian, so i’m sure there are canadian specifics with this case but the general concepts don’t differ at all)

without cannons, how will they fight?!?

right?! gawwwwwwd we’re so fucking captured

i’d say it’s less that people “get very uppity about it” and more that it’s not something that’s particularly relevant. we have no evidence for or against, and the outcome doesn’t really change how we interact with the world

likewise the universe could be entirely chaos and everything that exists in this instant: your memories and understanding of the universe and everything to back it up could just be the current arrangement of things and will be torn apart in the very next instant

but it’s not really a useful position to form conjectures from: if it is, it doesn’t matter what you do; if it isn’t, then you should act as if the universe will be here and that your memories are valid

there’s actually a bunch of these, but healthcare tends to fall prey to “too much money, too many consultants, fancy brochures”

spending money in the USA is like buying american products: supporting the country economy supports the government. there is no way to travel to the US and keep your money from ending up supporting trump right now

the most impact foreigners can have is to vote with our wallet - something americans often tell us to do - and simply go elsewhere until the right people feel enough economic pain to push the right buttons

(not canadian) i’m 100% in the same boat… i have commitments to some international events throat i have to fulfil, but im pulling any support from “international” things in the US after they’re done

i can’t in good conscience come and spend money in that economy, and i certainly can’t support events that draw other people into doing the same - especially when a lot of it is US-centrist-reinforcing the idea of what “international” is by providing only token nods to other cultures

in this 1 specific case it probably is - their interests are aligned with canada doing well

i mean, we hunt them with guns now so i’m not sure a pointy stick will change their point of view :p

coming from australia, this is super real… we have such a unique set of animals and plants that it’s all just so normal to us, but then you travel overseas and everything is like what you see on tv and in movies

i’m mid 30s, and last year i saw snow falling for the first time in chicago… snow falling is beautiful, and to most of the world it’s just normal - to australians, it just never happens

i imagine that it’s only the UI - they’d have to implement all the profiling etc themselves… but it does mean they have a framework to build the tools into, and not having to build the UI rather than starting from scratch which is a huge help

linking wikipedia is providing an enormous list of sources and summaries

at this point, the uighur issue is the bullshit asymmetry principal: it’s been proven time and time again and anyone asking for “sources” isn’t arguing in good faith: they’re relying on the fact that asking for sources takes thousands of times less energy than countering

so that’s what you get: a massive list of pre-prepared sources

*edit: and if you’d have actually read the article you posted, the UNHRC didn’t vote against the motion because they thought there was nothing to investigate: they voted against it to “avoid alienating china”

absolutely… and in those hands they can still be a damaging weapon, but they’ll never be as powerful as someone who knows how to wield them correctly. brains can win, or at least provide a formidable fight… but no matter what, both sides will feel pain

(not canadian, or american; take that as you will)

not acting like him: acting in retaliation with measures that hurt the US more than canada… things like IP and copyright protections, digital services, etc

his blanket measures don’t take into account trade that’s largely beneficial to US companies - they’re stupid blunt instrument crap because thought is too hard… trump hurt himself in his confusion

retaliating in precise ways can extract value from the US without harming the canadian economy nearly as much