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  • Yes, yes, ban all cars, cars bad, drivers bad, noxious exhaust bad, aggressive drivers bad, and so on and so on, ad infinitum. See y’all in December-March at -400C on your electric scooter that is totally non-polluting (what? is electricity totally non-polluting?) trying to navigate uncleared, dilapidated, pot-holed. roads to get anywhere.

    Or better still, let’s spend billions beginning with car-friendly infrastructure destruction; neglect regular road, bridge, and tunnel maintenance; and create nodes of community: 15-min walking cities. (*walking times vary by mobility, weather, and your health).

    Well, villages.

    Well, enclaves.

    Well, compounds.

    Do car-haters ever think farther than the end of their noses? Do they know what cause and effect is? Do they understand that 15-min walking cities make NIMBY communities? New mental health facility? NIMBY. New correctional facility? NIMBY. New addictions treatment center? NIMBY. Who gets them? The Untermensch who cannot afford to resist their placement.

    All in the name of regressing away from cars and making tribal enclaves of like-minded, equally righteous, and (perhaps, most importantly) fiscally advantaged homogeneity.

    Hating on cars is the tissue paper veneer of classism and, by extension, racism.

    You really want to fight climate change? Too late: you have missed that during your fixation on one aspect (exactly as the petro-industry wanted) of the fight. Now start looking at how you’re going to survive it’s effects. Cause while you were raging against cars, we have passed the PNR on climate devastation.

    And if your scooter doesn’t have A/C, it’s pretty useless in the April-November +400C period as well. Because that’s what climate change is: extremes.








  • This is the point. L’il pp gets to keep his fancier Ottawa address that Canadians fund. Cause it has the patina of fiscal prudence for his troll and troglodite cultists.

    But it’d be L’il pp having fits of unthinkable pearl clutching and calling to fetch the fainting couch if any other political loser tried to freeload any amount of time in Stornoway.

    And Scheer’s lickspittle response is disingenuous at best, more likely calculated to garner him a bigger prize for his fealty and supposed sacrifice.

    Hypocrisy and fraud are the only true goals of L’il pp’s populist kleptocracy. Not fairness. Not governance. Just what’s in it for me.

    As for the diversionary whataboutism posted by bot accounts - thanks for showing up and revealing how your shallow your opinions really are. Lib = bad. L’il pp = good. Should vote NDP to split the left.

    We get it. Divide and conquer. Just like the gop and the orange baboon’s ass did in 'Murica.

    Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Enjoy your retirement funded by Canadians while book-burning in Floriduh!! !

    L’il pp making new friends with domestic terrorists.







  • pubquiz@lemmy.worldOPtoCanada@lemmy.caCan We Tax Commercials?
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    3 months ago

    Well… yes.

    It’s the profit trail this’d address. Make the measurable cost of sales too high so these carpetbaggers fuck off back to selling to already obese consumers (Muricans).

    Give CDN industry a chance to flourish in the daylight rather thsn the shadow of economically dominant US competitors. Let’s level the playing field.








  • pubquiz@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 months ago

    Leasing unused facilites to Rhinemetal (an actual tank manufacturer) barely qualifies as getting into the arms industry. Opportunistic? Greedy? Amoral? Yes, yes, and yes.

    VW is still the conglomerate that designed a cheat into its TDI diesel motors in order to boost sales. Dishonest? Abso-fucking-lutly. But an arms manufacturer? Does Mike Waltz understands opsec?

    Best call VW “arms adjacent wannabees”.