Bizarre. So most of the dispute was over police presence inside schools. I don’t know what kind of life these parents who want police inside schools lived as kids, but almost all of my friends who had any sort of interaction with this kind of program say they got more trauma than any kind of meaningful assistance.

This is how you get kids to grow up thinking that addiction is a moral failure. How about we bring a priest into the mix too?

Fucking hell, I’m not excited for the the surprise front row seat for 21st century imperialism

Eh, I can’t help but be a little bit hopeful, but remember that whenever the Liberals pick their new leader, “Fuck Trudeau” will be updated into “This person is just Trudeau again but worse”. It’s just that this is not very effective until the actual person is chosen.

But as always, what we need to do doesn’t change. Get out and vote. Convince reasonable people to vote.

Very true, important correction!

Therapy has always been legalized, but the folks who need help the most will often not dare ask for it

Yes… of course

And yet, it’s not enough

I know people should know better but there should be a rule (or a bot that enforces this) about adding [SATIRE] before these kinds of posts

Lower your expectations. Best you can probably do by yourself is to get them to not vote by showing them that the conservatives suck.

Doing a 180 and going for the NDP is unrealistic unless you’re talking about a childhood friend or someone who owes you their life.

I would hope an economist would focus on the right incentives for the market to drive demand.

Herein lies an issue: the fact that he’s an economist doesn’t mean that he’s in for the economics of the greater good. And the fact that he himself has a few strong beliefs on what the economic solutions should be, doesn’t mean he’ll actually make them happen.

If I was a CBC editor, I would tone it down, yes. If that’s what you meant, then I agree that we don’t have to platform every little media bait he tweets. But here’s Lemmy, there’s no editorial.

Because he is taking the helm of the most dangerous country of the West

? Yes Switzerland and a few others have high gun ownership, but how does that help the thesis?

oh man, you two agree that the RCMP are assholes, why die on this hill

if the police don’t have guns, who can safely respond to gun crime?

Police, with non-lethal weapons. Though I agree this is a very unbalanced scenario, so of course the police should have some gun availability until gun crime becomes very rare.

If you do that, your government will never respect you

What does this even mean? Are countries with high gun ownership examples of societies high in “respect”? Like Japan, South Korea… no wait

angry at the idea of not drinking and catching the bus… lol damn these useless city people, subsidizing fuel for everyone

I claimed that legal gun owners rarely commit the crime, i made no claims on the origins of those guns.

The fact that you’re trying to bring legal ownership to this discussions means that you are claiming that the origin of guns is an important detail. But at this point we already know that reducing the presence of guns in this world is good, and we already know that making it harder and harder to acquire guns helps reducing the presence of guns. So while true that legality matters in crime statistics, the main point still stands: gun laws can and should be more strict. There’s never going to be a point in time where this sentence is not true, unless guns stop existing.

You can’t just ignore them and pretend they don’t exist.

That doesn’t seem what gp is suggesting, though

Hannam is my go-to, but for some stuff also sometimes Aria and T&T