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Billionaires putting up the "PLEASE DONT EAT US" sign....
americans can't afford to buy homes, but canadians are FUCKED
canada plays the progressive moral high ground to whitewash their broken capital flow magnet scheme.
It is not that hard to look good on the outside when your neighbour is the US
I had such a rosy view of Canada before I lived there (just the usual ignorant American idealism about how its a land of free healthcare and better environmental stewardship and better relations with indigenous people....). The US is not a paragon of indigenous relations by any means but holy shit the way that First Nations people are treated in the field I work in as far as "government to government" relations go is absurdly racist and paternalistic compared to how it works in the US (again, not that murica is a model for this in any way).
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I've become suspicious of the words "disinformation" and "misinformation" ever since I heard that it was the top concern of Davos attendees, above climate change or war. I fear it's becoming a dogwhistle to mean leftist politics.
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It's really funny that a country with as much timber and land as Canada is going to let it's whole economy get devoured by housing shortages.
that's Capitalism for you.
The vast majority of the population lives within 100 miles of the US border.
It's bloody cold up there.
Source: self (who has visited many times) and all my mums family who live in Canada.
Also, Canada has become something of a US vassal state. As much as the general population may complain about Americans (and they do) their politics has become a fun house mirror image of the US. They're neo-liberaling just as hard, if not harder than us. The only real difference is, some guy managed to get universal health care passed in the 50s, or they'd frankly be much worse off than they are now.
The US The American Dream of owning a home was to put mortgages on the backs of Americans to fight the Red Scare of the 1920s.
Because people with mortgages don't go on strike or protest.
Drink deep, Canada.
the first time I was told this it changed the way I think about everything, I felt like such a sucker buying into it
Debt has a crazy strong influence on people. David Graeber's book on debt talks about how it has been a major influence on just about every event in history
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the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
Post it again in allcaps for the people in the back
In a more extreme example, there was the Chinese Land Reform Movement. In both cases, the extraction pushed people to a point where they had little to lose—and people with no vested interest in an economy tend to become liabilities.
Huh interesting, I wonder how that worked out for them
The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry.
The rcmp doesn’t really need to be afraid of that. The Canadian population will just blame immigration like every western countries with a housing crisis.
yeah, Canadians are mostly just going to roll over and take it. But I guess the RCMP still want to be able to contain and control what little violence comes about from it.
It's going to be mask off fascism though, won't it? 
It'll be mask off fascists followed by riots in the cities and armed indigenous protests.
Chrystia Freeland, the deputy pm of Kkklanada, is like a third or fourth generation Ukrainian Nazi. Stays pretty quite about it, but she's slipped up from time to time and let us glimpse behind the mask.
Why don't they just adapt Socialism???
Are they stupid?
Canadians are fucking morons, yes. We have like 3 media monopolies that dominate all political thought for 99.9% of the population.
We have like 3 media monopolies that dominate all political thought
Is there more Canadians disproportionately in Hexbear than I thought? Nothing wrong with that....
We're everywhere 👁
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Ok. That's good though. It's good that Canadians represent a major threat to the status quo of Canada. Ffs they even say in the article that wealth disparity is completely fucked thinking it's bad that there's a threat to that system is completely incoherent.
I'm not Canadian, but I cannot stress enough to any Canadians to start organizing and talking to regular people. If you don't, the fascists will and they already have a head start.
communists in the west need to actually read some Mao, internalise it, and start engaging with the masses and learning from them instead of just putting stickers up around university campuses and worshipping white labour-aristocrats. Chapter 11 of Quotations and also Oppose Book Worship.
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The funniest version of this take I've ever seen is Jordan Peterson saying that wealth inequality causes societies to collapse without fail, and when asked what should be done about it he just says "I don't know". Like, hmm, we could literally take the money from the rich and give it to the poor to level out the wealth gap but no that isn't what lobsters would do so I guess we better just have society collapse.
He can’t say it because he lives in toronto, especially a gentrified area of the cities that used to be a spot for artists and students. It is also the place where they shot the Scott Pilgrim live action.
It would be against his personal interests. Also, his fanbase already made their mind on who to blame for those crisis (it is not economical or systemic)
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What this means, Amerikkkans, the Canadians are coming for your homes... Cannibalistic hordes of canucks crossing the border in droves
I for one welcome my Quebecois overlords. What are they gonna do? Build some much-needed hydropower?
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Let me guess, this is how it goes:
: "Well I suppose that's a risk I'll have to take! Just tell them the browns and the Jews did it, works every time!"
Sometimes makes me want to move to 
as a burger, and then every time you hear them blame immigrants. I point out "but I'm an immigrant and you're fine with me!".
Trust me, most Klanadians aren't gonna get caught in that trap
When they blame immigrants it will be with some of the most mask off racism you've ever heard. Only country I know where people have racial slur nicknames for half the cities in the province
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I’ve already seen reactionaries on social media spread the notion that undocumented workers are the reason house prices in the US are so high (because of course, the most marginalized and vulnerable people are the ones who just get boatloads of handouts from the government…)
This is always so crazy to me as someone who knows immigrants in the US. These people live anywhere from 2-4 families in a single house just to pay the rent. They are not balling by any means.
Have Canadian police been reading about degrading material conditions leading to revolution?
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