yeah, my head is just throbbing...i dunno....gonna eat...

so, how bad is it really?

it's gonna depend on a lot of things, obviously.

but, the 7/11 in my neighbourhood has actually had a problem with refugee kids stealing milk creamers, presumably because they couldn't afford to actually buy a carton of it.

well, you can't raise a family with ten kids on welfare. it's crazy.

as i've pointing out for a long time, what i'm interested in are the local consequences - the effects it's having on housing shortages, the increasing racist attitudes, the strains on food banks & etc.

i'm not sure that we needed to do this at all. the situation in the country is stabilizing. and, these people are probably better off back at home, in the long run.

but, if you're going to do it, you gotta fund it...

trump is a canadian liberal, and trudeau is an american democrat.

everything's fucking backwards.

it's just bizarre to me that the tory media in canada has this desire to push american value systems on to canadians.

if we're going to switch spots, can i get an american citizenship and move to california?

'cause i kind of like being a canadian, and don't really want to be an american.

sorry.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/canada-border-1.4774704

you know, i haven't had any serious headaches since i moved here, i don't think.

but, we've had some rain today, and one came in pretty quickly when i closed the windows.

i don't seem to like the inside air very much.

you're looking at two major cause of crime:

1) property rights (sometimes stated as 'poverty'....but the reason we have poverty is because of property rights). you can usually fix these things.
2) stupidity. stated bluntly. i mean, we can state this in different ways: mental illness, mental retardation, developmental disability, etc - but the broad, over-simplified way to grasp the issue is to state tersely that there are a great deal of stupid people on the planet, and they can't be fixed.

so, we have to separate the stupid from the poor, basically.

we can help the poor.

we can't help the stupid...

what we call jails should essentially be mental hospitals, and the only people in them should be people that doctors have declared incapable of rehabilitating properly.

the purpose of a jail should be to protect society from people that can't be reformed, not to punish people for breaking the law.

so, should repeat gun offenders be jailed? well, if the system was working properly, it would catch these people before they're repeat offenders - because it would diagnose them properly, rather than waiting for them to misbehave.

it shouldn't be a question of how many times you've broken the law, but a question of whether you're able to understand what you're doing, or not.

so, you've got a couple of conservatives taking advantage of the situation to push for more dumb-on-crime rules that prioritize retribution over resolution.

if we consider repeat gun offenders - which none of these mass shooters ever are - we need to ask the question as to why it is that this person has picked up a gun not once but twice or however many times, and there's really no answer, in the case of repeat offenders, besides mental illness.

so, what we need to figure out with repeat offenders is:

1) do they understand what they're doing?
2) are they capable of understanding what they're doing?

it's not an issue that we can solve with laws and rules and cops and brute force - it's an issue that we need to deploy science and reason towards. we need to get to the psychology of it.

the science is clear: punishing people simply doesn't work. so, we have to figure out who can be rehabilitated, and who can't - and then keep the people that are incapable of understanding their behaviour off of the street, while rehabilitating those who are capable of being rehabilitated.

https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2018/08/06/tory-asks-trudeau-to-end-bail-for-repeat-gun-offenders.html

it was an arabic word.

i don't remember what it was...
 
...but it was a word used specifically to refer to white slaves, which were common throughout the period of islamic dominance.

slavery, as we understand it, was not invented by capitalism - it was invented by islam.

again: i'm sure plenty of them are great kids.

but, i know that a large percentage of them are people i'd rather were not allowed into this country in the first place.

racist arabs are a pretty real problem.

it's a culture built on a religion that prioritizes it's own tribalism., and teaches that the rest of the world exists for it's enslavement.

our entire concept of slavery in the west is arab & muslim in origin.

and, we know that the way these kids are being raised is outrageous...

i got that kid in a lot of trouble, actually.

well, he was dumb enough to not just call me a slave, but to post it in the school's message board system. so, the evidence was crystal clear.

he ended up on probation for it - as he should have.

it's a good thing he didn't know my gender identity, right?

i had a saudi exchange student call me a slave and tell me to shut up, once.

i know better than to generalize.

but, i'm sure his attitudes weren't unique to him.

....and, while i'm sure that plenty of these kids are good people, i know from experience that plenty of them aren't, too.

i would rather have 20,000 students than 20,000 refugees, sure.

but, right now, anything that decreases net immigration is a net positive.

well, that should open up 20,000 more rental spaces, which should ease some of the housing pressures we're dealing with.

woo!

yeah!

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-saudi-arabia-to-withdraw-all-saudi-students-studying-at-canadian/

i actually don't care much about the arms deal; the idea that cancelling it would hurt us more than them is correct - they have unlimited supplies of cash, and could buy from anywhere.

a more co-ordinated arms embargo is a far better idea.

but, can we get our wheat board back?

that's food security. that's key.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4372778/saudi-canada-ambassador-feud-armoured-vehicles-justin-trudeau/

https://www.thestar.com/edmonton/2018/04/25/hate-crimes-in-canada-based-on-sexual-orientation-rose-25-per-cent-in-a-single-year-with-most-incidents-involving-violence.html

you thought we were cool and progressive because we had such open borders, even though we actually never did, at all, until recently.

and, now, the actual truth is that we're turning the clocks back up here in canada because of those newly opened borders.

way back.

when your liberal prime minister goes to the gay festival and starts talking about god out of fear of electoral consequences, you are in a period of severe social regression.

i mean, the guy shows up at the queer festival in bc and gives a fucking sermon, because he's more concerned about what muslims in toronto think, and doesn't want a bad sound bite.

this country is fucked.

we're on a one-way ticket to the fucking dark ages.