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Apparently in some parts of that state, prices have dropped by half already. The same is happening in Texas, and a few other states, though admittedly the trend had started last year. Hard to imagine how bad it is right now after Trump.

I'm not arguing against the idea that shelters should be gender specific, or that most shelters should cater to women. Statistically, 80% of all DV reports are made by women, though studies suggest that only 50% of DV cases the woman is the victim.

But even ignoring that, it's major problem that there are zero shelters for men in the entire country. 20% of all reported cases have no system in place to protect the victim of DV. That's insane. It's like a city having a boil water advisory, but bottled water not being available because all the shipments were diverted to another larger city.

No amount of equipment or expertize matters when there's no money to do work. Evergrand was billions in the hole and many of its employees hadn't been paid in months before going bankrupt. Not only that, but there are hundreds, if not thousands of condos that are unfinished due to the bankruptcy, and that means that tens or hundreds of thousands of people who are more than a million in the hole with nothing to show for it. Their entire life savings, along with their retirement plan is gone, along with thousands instantly out of work.

This is the sort of things that major recessions are built from, and has repeatedly in the west. Unless if you can pinpoint a specific reason why China is immune to such disruptions, it is only willful blindness that can explain China as not being in a recession because of it.

And as for the factories, they're not being built, they're being abandoned. For example, Foxconn city (forget its actual name) shut down and moved to India. A city of close to a million people disappeared and was abandoned because the only employer moved out of the country.

You're the one blindly following propaganda if you're ignoring such obvious signs of an economic downturn, because "the government said things were good", like how Trump's been saying that the "tariffs will make everything better".

Well, capitalism itself is an incentive structure. Profits over everything else, and all that.

But because capitalism fundamentally doesn't incentivizing making life better (in fact, it's so short sighted that it benefits more from misery than happiness), you need external forces to force incentives that align with benefiting humankind. To maximize happiness rather than misery is part of the role of government, as governments are beholden to its population, and its population is most incentivized to strive for happiness.

This is why things fall apart and become dystopic when governments stop fearing its population and instead fear the corporations that line the pockets of politicians.

Argue all those points. Each one hits a different group, so cater your message to the group you're talking to. Parents to the withdrawal of public school and daycare funding, climate change to young voters, the privatization of healthcare and how private healthcare is several times more expensive wherever public healthcare doesn't exist to older people and those with illnesses like diabetes, the fact that they hate non-standard heteros for LGBT.

The Cons only exist for hypercapitalists, so simply tell people the thing that they're worried about the most and how the Cons will actively hurt their greatest interest. They even hate resource workers, because despite Alberta being the richest province in the country, the people are some of the poorest because all the money gets taken away from the workers and put into the pockets of billionaires due to having some of the lowest tax rates in the country.

Seriously, why are news outlets even allowed to push political ads during an election? This should count against the party's donations, not be considered "volunteering".

To be honest, it's all about incentives. If you shift regulations to make the most incentivized system to be based around the greatest amount of pleasant housing, they would do that. But they didn't in the early days, and now the strongest forces to prevent such regulations from being implemented are property owners that fear anything that'll devalue their property that they expect to double in value every ten years, many of whom are betting their entire retirement fund on that outcome.

If regions did something like, say, give a tax break for every housing unit built in every project, you'd get a city with nothing but 50 story studio apartments/condos. Not like this is good, but the theory itself is sound.

The US and the Canadian economy. The gas prices going down over here is because our own industries are starving, so they're using less gas (especially trucks and delivery vehicles). Businesses use less gas? Gas becomes cheaper.

Carney has nothing to do with it, but it's funny people credit him for it. And if it helps prevent PP from getting voted in, the better.

It was, but that was also, what, 20 years ago? Sentiment has changed massively and now the numbers are closer to 30%. The Bloc doesn't even talk about separation issues anymore because it tends to reduce support whenever they do. Though it is still part of their mandate last I heard.

Turns out that it was a shelter for domestic violence, not sexual assault.

Looks like I was a bit off. Looking it up again, it was a men's shelter for domestic violence. The only one in the entire country was shut down due to a lack of funds over a decade ago. I do remember reading that there was pressure from some feminist groups to shut it down and helped to pull funding, but I can't find articles that mention that, so either I'm remembering wrong, or the article was pulled.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/privately-run-shelter-for-male-victims-of-domestic-abuse-forced-to-close-its-doors-due-to-lack-of-funding

While I agree that 400mil is really pushing it, the arguments for it is less than unconvincing. The issue is that most pre-COVID estimates (from Japanese, to Russian, even several inner Chinese ones) hover around 800-900mil. And it's a well known fact that for that the entire time they did the Zero COVID stuff, the crematories were running at eight times normal, burning 24/7 spewing black smoke from their chimnies the entire time with countless witness reports, the numbers actually add up that their population halved in those short years. It's hard to discount math, but...frankly as someone who trusts numbers to tell things as they are, even I find it difficult to believe.

But the economic numbers? They're shit. Anything that says otherwise is 99% government propaganda. You can tell from all the pictures of defunct economic activities being actively scrubbed from the internet that there's truth to it. Hong Kong is practically a ghost town nowadays. A decade ago, people were practically shoulder to shoulder on every major street during the day, but now, a few natives walking down the biggest streets without a single foreign-born in sight. No cars, no open businesses. Nothing.

There is no evidence to support that the Chinese economy is doing well on any measure. Many of the biggest Chinese companies have either left, or went bankrupt. Tencent and a few other tech giants are basically the only ones left, and that's because they make most of their money from foreign customers. Big businesses that rely exclusively on local customers are gone or have downsized massively. Tell me, what happened to Evergrand, one of the three biggest companies in China, and one of the top 20 in the world?

And I don't see why you are so argumentative on US's current weaknesses. I agreed there, and yet you can't help but attack me on that point despite completely agreeing on it? Seriously? Pick your battles and bring some data to back it up if you think I'm wrong.