SkepticalButOpenMinded

OK, those distinctions exist, but I’m not seeing anything that suggests this situation has anything to do with a “savior complex” or “inferiority complex”. I don’t get any sense that this woman was a “self-righteous asshole” or that her support was hated or rejected. The idea that being strongly supportive of human rights is pointless or just serves one’s own “self-satisfaction”, as OP suggested, sounds a lot like when the right dismisses everything as “virtue signaling”.

I think she’s just swept up in a war zone. Hamas obviously didn’t attack this settlement to specifically target people like her.

If this were true, then there would have been no point in supporting emancipation or civil rights as a white person. No point supporting women’s suffrage, even though that was passed democratically with the help of voting men. LGBTQ people do not hate allies, they hate people who actively oppose their right to exist.

I think this pop psychoanalysis doesn’t apply to questions of social justice. What Palestinians need is not just “a sense of self worth”, as if this is just a question of having the right attitude. They need rights.

Why didn’t anyone sue when this ridiculous reclassification happened under Pai? If there was a lawsuit and it failed, I should hope this sane reclassification prevails. But we don’t have a very partisan court system right now.

Especially ridiculous since police funding is not strongly correlated with crime reduction. Sure, they may help in super crowded areas like during a parade, but police don’t generally stop crimes from happening. You call them after the crime has occurred.

What is strongly correlated with lower crime is good social services, safety nets, economic equality, etc. Which is why crime in Canada is so much lower than in the US.

Your daily reminder that the main cause of homelessness is housing affordability. It is not inevitable. It’s a choice we as a society make.

Canada has one of the highest homelessness rates in the developed world, but it’s not like Canadians have more mental illness, use more drugs, or have less work ethic than Americans or French people.

That’s a shitty thing he said, but that’s not what gaslighting means. Gaslighting is when you psychologically manipulate someone with false information, in order to make them question reality. It’s not merely making fun of someone.

Canada spends about as much on public services as European countries and we get a lot less. Public private partnerships are a lot of the problem. Take the Mobi Shaw bike share in Vancouver. It's much more expensive than equivalent bike shares across Europe, many of which are free for residents. There is no market force keeping it competitive because it's basically a monopoly, so I don't understand why, even in theory, anyone would expect privatization to be helpful in this case.

I think the only advantage is that governments can save money in the short term by allowing companies to front the investment. But then the private companies make it up later in profit. This is like a privatized toll bridge. Governments can cook their books, "lower taxes", but we lose in the long run.

Sounds like Ken Sim was embarrassed by his position and was hoping he could keep it private. So he retaliated against Boyle. Very scummy.

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Yes and those rules produce fewer emissions per capita than places like the US. Do you not understand what “per capita” means?

Meanwhile, in Europe and Asia they have publicly run bike shares and they work. We should do the same. That way we can invest in a single bigger network that doesn’t try to nickel and dime us. I don’t understand why we waste so much money on privatization or public-private partnerships even when it makes no economic sense.

Should’ve never happened, of course, but this is a misleading headline because it implies it happened again recently. “He had another outburst” implies an additional one after the last one, not one from decades ago.

Not per capita. The US, Canada, Australia, and Saudi Arabia are by far much much worse. Pretend each Chinese province is its own country if it makes you feel better. The earth doesn’t care about political boundaries.