[-] grte@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago

Alongside banners commemorating missing and murdered Indigenous women and the victims of Canada’s residential school system, Confederate flags flap gently in the wind.

Wow, I hate everything about that.

With a little research these culture vultures could have used an actual local "rebel" flag, this one:

Picture of the Metis Flag

Red River Resistance

But of course they appropriate a white supremacist flag from American history.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You are putting the responsibility for those murders entirely on Hamas rather than the government currently perpetrating them, thus justifying that government's actions. You could have just as easily made your opening comment, "Man, if only Israel cared about international law." Please stop insulting my intelligence.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You are literally justifying their actions. Justifying the murder of well over 30 thousand.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 39 points 3 weeks ago

"Mr. President, the terrorists have taken hostages. What should we do?" "Bomb the building." -A psychopath

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 46 points 3 weeks ago

Strange take. Presumably if Israel was replaced with a non-ethnostate, Jewish citizens of that state would get the same rights and treatment as every other citizen.

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[-] grte@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Emphasis on the sometimes. If you regularly put 80+ hours a week in even doing something you enjoy, eventually you will burn yourself out and there's a good chance you won't enjoy the thing anymore on the other side of that. Not for a long while, at any rate. Burnout is no joke.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

18+ mosquitoes sucking my blood is pretty awful even without a phobia.

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[-] grte@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, all that housing in Vienna appeared from nowhere.

But sure, you have a great day as well.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, of course. Banning short term rentals for example is a regulation that would put downward pressure on housing prices. Banning investment companies such as Blackrock, Blackstone, etc from purchasing single family homes, duplexes, 4-plexes and the like would do the same. Whereas the lack of regulation around these things has contributed to home price inflation. The idea that people are unable to afford homes because there is too much regulation holds water like a sieve.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Our current economic situation is the product of decades of regulation cutting supply side (aka neoclassical) economics championed by the likes of Thatcher and Reagan, which still dominates today. You know where housing is not unaffordable? Vienna, Austria. A place where better than half the residents live in social housing. The product of a strong government and regulation.

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