This is kind of funny to read after spending nearly 2 years listening to snowbirds talk about how hard they're not gonna snowbird anymore now that the US is meaner to them. I wonder if the booze ban will be the real last straw.

I'm honestly concerned by the amount of comments in this short comment section that suggests many of you do not actually know what Canada Post is. The reason they value profit imperatives is that, as a crown corporation, Canada Post is a neoliberal response to the success and increasing costs of public services in the mid- to late-twentieth century. Even though it is state owned and operated, it is fundamentally founded on the notion that business-based decision making is a more "efficient" and therefore less costly way to organize a system. This is wrong, obviously, but the consequence of that is we are forced to protect Canada Post as it does actually exist as the only publicly-owned postal service in Canada and is therefore crucial to protecting vulnerable communities from exploitatively expensive access to a basic need like the mail is. They talk about cost-saving measures as they ultimately view this as a revenue stream that has effectively appropriated what ought to be a public service in the way that healthcare and education is (I'm sure you can all relate this to the trajectory that those public services have also taken in the past fifty years).

Basic sources that you should read if you're uninformed on this:

https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/crown-corporation

https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canada-post-corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Post

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purolator_Inc. (Purolator is also known to have worse labour conditions than Canada Post, and handles much of their package delivery traffic)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast (not directly related to Canada Post, but rather the overall privatization of public services and works)

Klein, Naomi. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007).

Jones, Gareth Stedman. The Political Theory of Neoliberalism. (2013).

This is an ironically anti-intellectual way to engage with it. Magic isnt real, but knowledge on the natural world and medicine has been maintained through cultural practices like "witchcraft" in the past. Even beyond that, there's knowledge gained for young women in a patriarchal society when they develop relationships with other women and identify with a group that is explicitly counter-cultural on the basis of women empowerment.

Knowledge isn't just facts, it's skills and introspection. Belief in something "bullshit" is often necessary to learn something that is not "bullshit." We teach kids scientifically inaccurate information when they are young because they dont have a basis of knowledge that would enable more nuanced and accurate understandings. They "believe" in something like three states of matter and two genders/sexes because we judge that as a necessary belief to foster the skills that will enable them to learn the reality of these things later.

If they gained self - understanding and empowerment through this phase, then it isn't bullshit. You should challenge this doomerism.

Fascists fundamentally cannot value human connection as they foster a worldview that is dependent on violent dehumanization to exist, so more of them have nothing to lose and are starved of any passion other than violence. There's a real chance she'll get Kirked.

Yes, that is what that means. Consent is revocable, ongoing, and more complex than, "you were kinda into it before and said yes at first so now I can do whatever I want to you. No takesie backsies." If you ever have sex, yes, that person can change their mind and it is rape if you don't stop. That's right, saying yes to doggystyle doesn't mean they consented to reverse cowgirl and it takes a full two seconds to check in on them throughout sex, y'know, like they're a person. You don't sound like you're talking about common sense like you think you do, you just sound like a fucking rapist who is pissed that consent language is more well known than it used to be.

Unironically, some douche named "LoveCanada" spewing rapist gaslighting talking points is just perfect, could even be a character bit.

Right now, we actually have a huge issue with psychology language being conflated with emotional intelligence or sensitivity. We really value the ability to identify and communicate our emotions, good, but that isn't necessarily the same thing as willingness to process or manage them. When I run into someone who's really up on terms for neuroses and disorders to the point that they see it everywhere, I can safely assume that they think they have a better handle on themselves than what they do.

Nuclear families are intentionally isolating because it makes women and children more vulnerable.

The fact that so many of you think this is about the cars your drive is a great indicator of how successful neoliberal propaganda has been in framing climate change to liberals. Industrial carbon emissions are not only multiples times higher than whatever we're all doing with our cars, it has also increased according to Canada's own report. Private jets from one rich asshole outpaces us all. This is not a community issue about the use of electric vehicles, it is us versus the wealthiest people who don't even have to fucking drive themselves places.

Ableism. What a funny joke dude. Could you explain what specifically they're referring to about missing chromosomes that would make someone a fascist?

He was about to say that again before he was cut off.

Well deserved. This will absolutely terrify these guys, their entire careers are based on being safe in public and one of their own was offed in a crowd of people with three different security forces on site. Queer folks stay safe, they will not respond calmly.