The First Nations never had our concept of owning land. The land owns us. So we should respect it - or it will all end up looking like a strip mine eventually.

YES YES YES. Use LVT to replace one of the awful taxes Canadians gripe about (maybe GST, maybe income tax?)

Most people (I would say 90%) are not what we would call ‘political junkies’.

The only time they seriously think about anything political is when it effects them directly.

I probably devote more time than the average schmuck to politics because I operate my own business and I can set my own hours (plus, fall-winter is quiet in my line of work).

But for most people who work 12 months of the year, they are too tired at the end of the workday to care about whether or not fascism is slowly taking over, because the kids need to get to karate class, dinner needs to be made, and they need to sit down and forget about the horrible incident at work today. So I get why most people only really pay attention to politics when it is dressed up as entertainment.

It is a sad indictment of society that life is this way for so many of us, because it just allows the powers that be to keep their boots firmly on our collective necks.

Crossposting to r/fuckcars…lol

Sadly, yes

What. The. Fuck?

Just the blue states, please. We’ll give them Alberta and Saskatchewan as a trade. (joking, of course. We need the potash, and probably the oil as well).

At this point, I think a better term for both the US and Canada would be ‘post-industrialized’, rather than ‘highly developed’. Honestly, we are both sliding backwards in terms of human development.

Ku Klux Kanucks double down. More at 11.

What’s the official punishment for treason again? Used to be summary execution way back when, but I believe we eliminated the death penalty in 1976.

Edit: Just looked it up. 25 years. Ehh, better than nothing if it could stick.

Very succinct comment.

Conservatives seem to think one of two things:

There are public services that should benefit them and them only. These should be free. (Roads seem to be the most important among conservatives in my neck of the woods)

Public services that don’t serve them specifically should be done away with. (Public healthcare, education, transport)

Anything else seems to them to be a waste of “my money”.

They are the most selfish, ignorant buffoons imaginable. They say they just want to be left alone, yet they barge into public forums and bitch all the time.

It’s like “well fine, why are you even here to begin with if you don’t want to interact with other people? Just fuck off and live your own life far away from the rest of us. We have a society to run here.”

They don’t already?