Fairly sure this was predicted months ago, with the triggering event being the recent elections that were swept by the dems. The prediction was basically that if it looked like they were going to lose control of any of the houses, there’d be a ton of people trying to put distance between themselves and the govt as there’s a higher likelihood they’ll get prosecuted for crimes. So the early resignations, and attempts to “apologize” are mostly just about trying to avoid accountability for their actions – rats fleeing a sinking ship.

I dunno, I can’t get quite as outraged over indirect deaths caused by essentially pulling back on charity to foreigners. It’s about one step off from accusing western nations of being responsible for all the deaths in North Korea, just cause the west didn’t directly intervene.

The general population of the USA is not that concerned with foreigners / international politics and issues. If the politics of the states is meant to reflect the will of the people, them opting to refocus their funding / efforts to domestic areas isn’t that surprising or off brand.

Yes, other people, especially the prior beneficiaries of that charity, will view it as ‘wrong’. But they’re hardly an unbiased stakeholder. Like yes, this likely diminishes the USA’s soft power globally… but the states doesn’t really care about that anymore anyhow. Having a ‘land’ buffer zone between them and other geopolitical powers was beneficial in yester-years war dynamic. Now it may be much less important for them to maintain – especially if the rest of those countries are so neutered that they can’t realistically defend their own sovereignty, be it militarily, culturally, or otherwise.

Oh, yeah, our housing situation is an absolute gong show. I’m “hopeful” that our current govs push for a kind of modular/prefab evolution will help, but it’s really not clear how that’ll pan out, or when – and most of their “major projects” that they’re pushing for, are still about building infrastructure for corporations to extract resources to foreign partners, not so much about building up Canada itself, so there’s good reason to be skeptical of it all. Like even the Small Nuclear reactors they’re promoting, are made by US companies and are reliant on US fuel sources, which is absurd.

But this is basically a thread responding to a commenter’s take on how immigration should be entirely dependant on job acquisition – get a job in Canada? Boom, you’re Canadian. Get a job in the US? Boom, you’re American. The point of my previous comment isn’t so much to highlight/critique “Canadian” or “Chinese” policies on housing and income tax, but rather to point out that there are differences that make the commenter’s take unfeasible in my view. I’m just familiar with the Canadian/Chinese variance as it’s been an issue that Canada’s failed to address adequately for years.

Issues with Chinese immigrants are well known and documented, literally with immigrant families openly exposing their own community’s rampant fraud methods to our supreme courts, because “that’s just how its done in Canada!”.

Paying a little bit of sales tax on modest purchases, is not sufficient to sustain social support programs. Taxes are paid in various ways, and yes, there’s a minimal contribution made by the non-earning people staying in Canada, but it’s not enough to offset the costs of providing social support services to the extended family.

I don’t think I mentioned the pension program specifically, that’s on you. When I 'm mentioning old age social supports, there’s more than just ‘old age pensions’ in Canada (heck, there’s CPP and OAS, so two direct payments in terms of ‘pensions’ even) – the universal healthcare system is another example. The cost of that system increases significantly for the older demographic, as people become more reliant on pills/medications. There’s a reason a bunch of seniors from the states, in the past at least, would buy prescription meds in Canada, for example – and that’s tied to us having a government funded approach to providing those medications (the US medi-tourists are basically leeching off us). The basic premise of the system is that, generally, working age adults who have less reliance on the healthcare system, fund it via taxes, with the expectation that it’ll be there when they need it (generally when they’re older).

We do have a problem with frauds and abuse, but the system can tolerate some fraud and abuse. If the ops approach were adopted, we’d have rampant fraud and abuse. The system can’t tolerate rampant fraud and abuse. I don’t think this sort of statement requires me to go into absurd detail to justify/demonstrate, frankly, and I’m not going to bother further.

Canadians who move abroad for a long time lose their insurance, but it’s not tied explicitly to the fact that they don’t pay a sales tax. They also tend not to report their income / pay income taxes to Canada if working outside of Canada (unlike in the states, where they expect taxes to be paid from every citizen no matter where they are in the world).

People who move to Canada, can currently get insurance coverage as part of immigrating to the country, which generally means staying in and working in Canada for an extended period as a PR to start. During that time they’re paying income taxes and sales taxes etc.

The ops comment implies that it should be like a light switch that is tied to your employment. There’s a reason there’s a process to immigration flows.

Or china has a property tax/income tax problem.

The variance is why the approach the op commenter hints at doesn’t make sense.

Yeah, but a bunch of legislation and conditions isn’t what the op guys comment was hinting at. He was basically saying, get a job? Congrats, you’ve immigrated and get all the citizenship perks of wherever you work.

Yeah, I don’t agree.

Here in Canada we pay a buncha tax to get things like universal healthcare and to fund various social programs, we also handle taxes differently than other jurisdictions.

Like even with the existing setup, one of the issues we have is that there’s been a fairly standard style of immigration where chinese citizens will buy property in Canada and have the kid and “stay at home mom” living in Canada, while their Dad/breadwinner stays in China. One reason its done this way is that Canada was considered to have better education opportunities and social supports for the non-income earning side of the family – and property taxes are fairly low in places like Vancouver, with income taxes being very high. However in China, it’s the opposite – high property taxes, low income taxes. So as a country/region, you end up with basically no tax income, but high social program costs, with ‘needy welfare’ people living in multimillion dollar properties.

And once the kid is through school, and entering the workforce… they often go back home to china to take over the family business from a retiring parent. That parent then comes to Canada, and enjoys the old age social security network.

If you remove all impediments to inter-country immigration, I reckon that sort of abuse would become so rampant that social programs would become essentially unsustainable.

Eh, having read some of the reddit posts from the old account etc, if I were in that area voting, I’d likely give him the benefit of the doubt. Especially compared to alternatives. There were quite a few posts that seemed like he genuinely thought the symbols extended beyond ‘just’ Nazism, often arguing in his posts that it was common to see that sort of imagery on ppl in the military.

hahhaha, wait, Canada, gov worker, missed cheques not a thing??? Have you heard of the phoenix payroll system??

I mean, the US is currently missing pay periods due to a conflict between their political leaders – but for us, our gov workers missed paycheques due to sheer incompetence. The people responsible for that shitshow weren’t even fired / held accountable for screwing it up. I don’t disagree that the US system has some issues, but I also don’t think we’re in that great a position to comment haha

I think the point is more that while you’re in the military, you’re likely restricted in what you can say publicly, even if it’s possible to resist illegal orders within the structure. The guys resigned and no longer beholden to that restriction, so he’s publicly urging others to take similar actions in resisting illegal orders.

Could be wrong, as I’m not that familiar with military requirements, but that’d be my guess.

But that’s the same thing, being a democrat / against Trump is a mental health disorder, TDS. /s

Well, that latest mass shooting in the media was done by a trans person, yea? And Trump’s busy deploying National Guard units to most blue states in an authoritarian/fascist push…

So I imagine, that the left may have a chance of getting gun control on the agenda this time. Though it may not look like how they want it to. It’d be gun control to deny lgbtq+ and blue voters guns.

Walk away, let him tariff whatever. Bring back the DST to make the tech companies whine. Only remove it if the US gets serious about getting something in place. zzz.

I disagree with it. Nothing wrong with having friends of whatever shape or size. But to act like you need those sorts of friends in order to learn basic human traits is utterly false.

Also, in terms of role models and gender stuff, it’s just weird to think how that’d come in to play for a younger person. You can look up to role models for any reason – typically for excelling in a field or pursuit that you’re also interested in pursuing. But it’s a personal relation imagined in your head between you and them. When gender enters into that relation, in terms of who you’re modelling your behaviour after, a straight guy modelling himself off a gay man doesn’t make sense. If you have an interest in the gender of your role model, as a guy, it’d be mostly in seeing the reaction they get from women, and wanting to emulate their success by dressing / behaving similarly. Like kids who saw rock stars gettin bras thrown at them, pursuing becoming a rock star because they wanted the same gender-oriented treatment.

Hell, you could argue that’s one reason the incel’s are so keen to model themselves after psuedo “alphas”, and shitheads like Trump – Trump’s a disgusting pile of yuck, but he’s rich, has a hot younger wife, a large family all living pretty well, and has tons of extra-marital affairs without any seeming repercussions (he’s likely to dodge even that Epstein stuff). It’s hard to argue that he hasn’t ‘succeeded’ at life. Same goes for all the tech bro fascists who’re fathering, literally, hundreds of kids. Meanwhile, Mr Too Much Empathy is going to internalize all the negativity about men from feminist sources, won’t be able to ask a woman out because of that internalized trauma, and will disappear from the gene pool.

Strange semi related old person story – back in highschool, one of our teachers had the class write essays on whether nationalism was good or bad. We were then given an option to either present our papers, or do a debate exercise with a kind of round robin pro or con. So you’d partner with 1 other person, debate if it was good or bad, then groups of 4 doing the same, until it was the whole class. In my paper and in my discussions, I had used a similar approach as this comic – basically just establishing what nationalism was vs patriotism, and drawing nazi’s in as an example too. No one in those discussions contested that Nazi’s were nationalists – but they still argued in favour of it.

By the end, I was the only person who thought nationalism was overall ‘bad’. The tide had turned in the groups of 8 stage. Because a hot girl had declared her support for nationalism. That’s all it took for people to like/excuse nazis, even back in the early 2000s. An excuse.

In this case, it makes sense though. The recent techbro crypto bank announcement, a bank created by the same tech billionaires that intentionally crashed/destroyed SVB, is basically a play to shift the American financial system into stablecoins / cryptocurrencies entirely, as it’s something that the tech bro class figures they can control for their own benefit.

That’s all moving ahead on schedule, and is in line with Curtis Yarvin’s whole techno fascist monarchy dream for how democracies need to die. They really only need to appease Trump for so long as it takes to get control of those purse strings. Egging on destruction / chaos for things like social services also feeds this pattern, it’s easier to convince someone they need to make drastic changes to their home, if that home is currently on fire.

Having a constant tech-fascist publicly whispering these sorts of things in Trump’s senile ears helps to keep up the facade within the maga-bubble that it’s a “broadly accepted” approach to benefit everyone, that’s been agreed upon by a bunch of “data driven” science types, when it’s absolutely not. It’s tech oligarchs looking to dismantle and own most western democracies.

Dude should license some Basil Poledouris theme music. Get some wizardy guy to do a new intro – maybe ask Bernie for a hand. “Let me tell you of a time of EQUIIITABLE treaatment!!”

A conservative literally went and shot a sitting democrat politician and her husband dead. It was a news story for about 10 seconds before being replaced by the latest Trump shenanigans. They’re literally assassinating / murdering democrats in their homes man, and no one in America seems to care all that much.

And you think something’ll happen if they deport a dude who is just… in the running for mayor?

Yeah, ok, sure.

Such a wimpy style of governance from the look of all these proceedings. Even if there are legitimate complaints, the person ‘getting grilled’ could practically sit there singing the alphabet, and the outcome would be the same.

It’s like those odd sport interviews where the person just responds “I’m just here to not get fined” to every question – ie. I’m forced to be here for pageantry/contract reasons, but there’s no real point to any of it. Both the questions, and the answers, are ultimately pretty meaningless.