Thedogdrinkscoffee

joined 1 month ago

sounds like a veiled threat.

No. I want you to go away, for precicely these irrational associations.

You cannot compare American gun juggling dipshit society, with Canadian licensing storage and usage regulations and a culture of general safety and collective cohesion.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Everything increases deaths in Canada. Cars, food, chemicals. Evidence based policy means you tailor the response to the problem. Legal firearms are a fart in a hurricane and doesn't warrant the disproportionate bans and buybacks while ignoring the real problems of smuggling and crime, especially repeat criminals.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago

Who cares? Reddit is American and I dumped it completely and forever as a consequence for their backstabbing.

If anyone still uses it, please post in the Canadian subs to come here. Fuck Reddit and Fuck the US.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 64 points 2 days ago (4 children)

While Air B&B has done irreperable harm to the housing market, I'm not 100% convinced it should be banned. I propose if a house operates as an enterprise, it be taxed according to commercial rates, not residential. It would go a long way to resolving the inequities.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Can they? I'm not convinced. They flaunt the rules based international order are engaged in the most cynical version of realpolitik imaginable. China gets pissy if you exercise your own law in your own country while simultaneously demanding you respect their sovereignty and foreign policy goals and operating illegal underground "police stations" in other countries. Seriously, fuck China.

The US lost their reliable partner status because they are trying to compete with China by becoming like China.

We can trade, but no deep partnerships can occur with either of them, and we can't free trade or we'll get swallowed by the realpolitiks of it all. E.g. dumping to destroy strategic domestic industries etc.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

US: Stabs friends in the eye.

Also US: Pwease hewlp fwiend.

Fuck off US.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Canadian goes down to selfishly support the economy of a country threatening annexation, who is famous for illegal and immoral detention, imprisonment and deportation to 3rd party country's prisons, may get pickedup by ICE themself.

"I never thought they would do this to me" fits pretty well. Visiting them to see a hockey game is a form of vote, and support.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

He wants to play to his base. Canadian licensed gun owners are overwhelmingly not the problem.

US border porosity is.

This is a wedge issue. Cons lock up the gun vote which is larger than you think, especially in rural areas.

The Libs lockup the antigun vote popular in urban areas and especially Québec.

Both parties have abandoned "good government" policies, with over and under reach respectively while ignoring the real issues.

If you want to tackle gun crime, that 2 billion Fentanyl Czar and Hellicopter patrol needs to be chasing drugs AND guns. It's the same people, using sthe same methods. We also need to build more prisons and jails so violent offenders don't get the "commit another crime while on bail from the last one".

Libs and Cons need to stop playing wedge politics and do their duty to grounded, evidence based legislation that doesn't flip flop and turn innocent gun owners into paper criminals or wastr money buying back legally acquired guns that were never used in crimes or by criminals.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago

Right. The entire GOP needs to be in prison.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 days ago (4 children)

No one will stick their neck out for the US. Trump must step down and return sanity to America. This doesn't fix relations, but it may signal the begining of a return to a healing position. Over a very long time, 50 years, the US may gradually recover some of that lost trust.

Hard to earn. Easy to lose. Even harder to win back. America, you played yourself.

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