I don’t like homeless encampments, tent cities, favelas etc. They are unsafe, unclean and foster destructive behavior.

Let’s destroy them by building safe, permanent homes for people.

It’s so strange to me that “free market capitalism” lovers can’t see that encampments are a market response. There is a large supply of unenclosed space (parks, sidewalks, underpasses) and an unmet demand for shelter. They shouldn’t be surprised when market participants convert the former into the latter.

How effective do they think it will be to police every unenclosed space in the region vs building adequate shelter. Building shelter has all sorts of associated benefits too.

Yeah I agree that can’t keep him locked up, but could they jail him, because honestly that isn’t nothing. Obviously it’s career suicide for anyone involved but you know.

Could it be that it’s using less power as it charges? ie automatically shuts off power hungry features while charging?

Good data is so hard to get.

What I’d actually care about is how many minutes of usage does 30 minutes of charging get me in both standard and ekeing out as much life as I can mode.

This is the level of critical thinking that conservative pundits are exercising.

Shockingly close

The idea behind tariffs is to increase the prices of imports so that domestic production can compete. Higher prices are definitely the point, but the idea is that at least with domestic production the price increases get circulated back into the domestic economy as jobs/wages. But, if the domestic economy can increase production without increasing wage expenditure then the money from the higher prices just goes to the shareholders.

If it’s something for which there is no domestic production, it’s just a tax, and it should become a question of what does money from the tariffs get used for… probably taxcuts for the rich.

I support abolishing minimum wage… once every person has sufficient healthy food, safe shelter, and needs based access to healthcare and educational resources.

I agree that the problem is not with him being on the ballot, the problem is that it seems an enormous portion of the population of the USA are willing to vote for him.

It’s a bad look man

I asked:

Would a strategy of making life in Palestine so difficult that everyone either capitulates or becomes radicalized [and therefore a legitimate military target] be genocide?

You answered “no”. Can you elaborate on how you reconcile your answer with our understanding of genocide:

Genocide is the attempt to destroy a nation/ ethnicity.

Would a strategy of making life in Palestine so difficult that everyone either capitulates or becomes radicalized [and therefore a legitimate military target] be genocide?

What would that strategy look like?

Do you think Israel has an interest in there not being a Palestinian nation?

I’ve also gotten the sense of a major schism between Jesse and the employees. I don’t keep track of which employee has what views do in not really sure what you mean by Jan Wong’s red scare.

I don’t think Jesse was amplifying Israel’s bullshit, I think he was pushing back against it.

I don’t know if it’s drifting right or not.

I’m not the person you were replying to but thought I’d weigh in.

Canada attempted/committed (results varied) genocide of its first nations not by killing children (though they did do that) but by making continuation of indigenous ways of living/ culture untenable.

China is attempting genocide of its Uigher population in a similar way.

Russia’s denial of Ukrainian identity and treatment of orphaned Ukrainian children is also genocidal.

Genocide is the attempt to destroy a nation/ ethnicity. It doesn’t have to be murder factories to be genocide.

Do you agree?

Canadaland focuses on Canada, so Jesse tries to ask questions that are relevant to Canadians

journalism is supposed to be about distributing factual information

I have a friend in Canada that I know is trying to figure out if he should send his daughter to public school (eventually, she is still quite young) where she could face anti-Semitic treatment from peers/teachers, or Jewish day school where she could be murdered by extremists. (I think he was already more inclined towards public schools)

His concern is because of the increase in attacks on centers of Jewish community (eg schools & synagogues) in Canada. The increase in those attacks is because of Israel’s disproportionate response to the Oct 7th attacks.

The question of Israel’s accountability is probably quite relevant to him.

I agree it’s strange and possibly inappropriate that the fact check was a text document, not a podcast.

But I really don’t think he was acting as a mouthpiece the way you’re accusing him. He repeatedly asked about the head of the Israeli military characterizing events as Jewish terrorism.

I think it’s important to ask what responsibility Israel has for the safety of Jewish Canadians when hatecrimes rise as a result of Israeli military operations.

Do you mean that the ambassador lied so much that his views shouldn’t have been aired, or that the fact checking is unacceptably anti-Israel.

Or something else? I’m not sure how to interpret your statement.

Yeah, coverage of Israeli/Palestinian conflict is notoriously filled with half truths and misleading implications. I think having a fact check co-published is quite useful.

I don’t know what that guy’s problem is.

I think Jesse did a good job. I’m extremely skeptical of the ambassador’s explanation of the invitation to collaborate.

Seems pretty sexist to even ask.

When was the last time trump shot a gun?

Was that G7/8 kettling?