They really buried the lede with that one, huh.

When

Adorable.

Ah yes, an executive director of a church writing an opinion piece on why we need more fossil fuels burning the earth faster and filled with hyperbole on the way we’ve thrown open Canada’s doors to all the immigrants who are stealing our houses and health care. Such quality.

The Beaverton has more valid takes.

“Please be The Beaverton, please be The Beaverton, please be the Beave… FUCK!”

38% is in fact shockingly high.

As of this week, according to the latest MLS stats circulating on industry social media, there are now more than an astounding 32,000 active residential real estate listings in the GTA, not even counting never-lived-in units. This is the most in many years, perhaps ever, and has created the largest disparity the city has seen between supply and demand.

So then reduce the prices.

You can’t call it a collapse, complain about all the supply you have, refuse to reduce prices, and rally to the praises of free-market capitalism. The market has spoken. You have overvalued your property. Now give us houses and take your loss.

It’s almost like the political spectrum is a false dichotomy that only feeds into the us vs them narrative that is fueling conflicts all over the world.

The left is defined as putting the collective state first, while the right is defined by individualism before all else. The extreme right eventually advocates for leadership and control by the “superior” individuals that rise through that individualism, which is essentially the belief that it’s the strong’s right to rule, regardless of whether you define strength to be wealth, intelligence, social clout or otherwise. The extreme left eventually advocates for the total supremecy of the state, seeing any level of social deviancy as damaging to their collective society. These are tankies: the “states can do no wrong” crowd.

Unfortunately, both binaries of the political spectrum are prone to authoritarianism once you go far enough. It’s almost like the real issue is extreme ideals that leave no room for nuance and understanding.

I used to consider myself extremely radically left, before I stumbled across the absurdity of the Tankies that permeate certain areas of Lemmy. And I mean, as far as Western politics is concerned I am absurdly leftist. Just not that kind of leftist

A lot of people confuse wealth for intelligence.

Smart people who make good products that people want will have the invisible hand distribute them wealth. Dumb people who make bad products that no one wants will go backrupt. This is the core philosophy behind why capitalism “works.” It is a system that conflates wealth with virtue, by design.

You’re right to point out that it is incorrect logic, but no one is confusing anything. The entirety of our Western world is build around this idea and reinforces it to its people at every single opportunity. They’re making the judgements that they have been told are correct. Can we really say people are confused when they’re confidently acting exactly as they’ve been taught from birth?

She added the online survey for Albertans to share their ideas about school library collections doesn’t limit the number of times someone can take the survey which can skew the results.

Welp, hold on while I fill out a survey a couple of times.

It just makes me sad that you seem to believe the things you say.

C’mon man, we’ve been through this song and dance. You are perpetuating lies that have been fed to you by people who realized that it’s easier to stoke fear than build unity. Just because you believe it doesn’t mean it is anything but misinformation.

I know I tore into you earlier, but watching you continue to lick the boots of the people who are hurting you is just sad.

pride and propaganda and such makes it hard for people who don’t understand the sunk cost fallacy to change course.

I mean, I know conservatism is nothing but a series of projections, but this is just impressive. I really don’t think I could have said it better myself.

Sure, but if they said that aloud instead of continuing to deflect, they’d basically lose their whole identity.

Ruined the place for people like you, maybe. An act I can be quite proud of.

I just straight won’t engage with video-only news.

Of COURSE the Canada section is overwhelmingly Alberta.

God fucking dammit. I hope this is fake, but I’m afraid it is not.

As an aside, please tell me you passed forum access to law enforcement.

It isn’t about what they are. It’s about what’s good for her. I can’t recommend the article enough, tbh. It’s behind a subscription wall, which I can’t ever recommend anyone bypass using popular websites, but I am sure you can get the article none the less.

But regardless, that’s kind of aside the point, isn’t it? Disagree or not, I still feel this qualified as news.

Corporations should be allowed to lie and abuse people who aren’t knowledgeable or practiced enough to avoid it, because they deserve it?THAT’S your take?

You know, I knew I recognized that name from somewhere. You’re that one who was trolling around here pre-election spreading misinformation that I got into an argument about over your completely insane perspective on the Liberals destroying Canadian identity. I’m glad I get to share a message with you post election, so I can point, proudly, to the way Canada happily rallied together under a Liberal banner, sporting a national togetherness that we certainly haven’t seen since the selfish, Conservative nutjobs started doing their damnedest to sow division and tear us apart to their benefit before and through the Covid era. I’m not shocked that, in the brief 5 minutes I gave your account to figure out why I recall your name, I saw a majority of your posts filled with vitriol and hatred, while you continuously deny objective reality and dismiss everyone who disagrees with you as being intellectually stunted. Losing the election and watching Canadian’s rally together must really be shaking your world view, and since the only real responses are to adapt and grow, or lash out and blame the world, it really is no wonder you’re here, spreading hate.

Your completely ethically bankrupt and sociopathic take on the topic at hand here doesn’t even deserve a response, but I’m giving you one for the satisfaction of myself and everyone who works to make this world a better place while people with your perspective justify abusive practices and beliefs: fuck you. You should be embarrassed just thinking it, let alone typing it out. Get off social media, stop treating the people you interact with like garbage - if your posts here are any indication of how you speak to people, you are a truly reprehensible piece of shit - get out of your hate-filled bubble, and at least try to experience the world from a perspective other than the one that bred this abhorrent, inexcusable take. Or, just fuck off.

So “gullible and foolish people” deserve to be abused by corporate interests? We aren’t supposed to build a world that benefits everyone, regardless of how “gullible and foolish” they are?

So, the capitalist brainrot belief is that Adam Smith’s invisible hand is going to make sure that money only goes to the people who deserve it, because people obviously will buy the best product at the cheapest prices and everyone else deserves to be pushed out of the market unless they do better.

Except we have consistant evidence that that isn’t true. The raw existence of marketing and advertising completely undermines the core concept of what is supposed to make private business good. “We’ll just make sure we’re the name people know and appeal to their cultural wants” is a complete subversion of how businesses are supposed to function. And then there’s the reality that once businesses have reliabily built themselves into the cultural needs of people, they don’t need to care anymore: see the process of enshitification in the mass of new business concepts - streaming services, 2nd party food deliver apps, etc. - and this becomes obviously true.

On paper, providing a better service should result in higher income. In reality, there are a million manipulatable factors to undermine this concept, and as we continue to argue that wealth is an inherent virtue, we’ll continue to give perceived moral superiority to the private businesses that will pull the plug on your grandmother’s life support if it will save them a dollar. Fuck that. The more services we can keep our of the hands of greedy CEOs and venture capitalists, the closer we are to a genuinely just world.