There are few better signs of out-of-touch elitism than the sentiment that poverty *forces* people into crime.
Most people who have actually experienced poverty can decisively report that thieves are lazy, garbage people who disproportionately target the poor.
This article is beyond parody. Tent cities across Canada are a painful example of the desperate situation Liberal policies have put many people in, but CBC goes full Liberal agitprop and makes it seem like this desperation is something to be celebrated.
https://t.co/p49TFA2l8R
1. Irrefutable evidence emerges that a government policy is doing the exact opposite of what it's supposed to.
2. Government spends six months denying evidence and accusing anyone who repeats it of being liars.
3. Government retracts policy with no explanation.
In their epic quest to ignore a cartoonishly unaffordable country where people are getting stabbed all the time, the Liberals have found another completely unbroken thing to fix.
Chanting "Kill the Boer" but complaining that they feel very traumatised and unsafe when they see the old South African flag displayed anywhere, then complaining when Boers build their own towns far away from all this. Demanding to be included in all Boer towns for "equity".
Some people have never been on public transit with a terrifying/dangerous/insane person and it shows. Suggesting people must accept harm because the perpetrator is marginalized is sick. This discourse reeks of privilege.
There's a story about an American tourist visiting Oriel College, Oxford. He asks the porter, "Is this college pre or post-war?" And the porter replies, "My dear fellow, this college is pre-America."
Redditor warns people in the NYC subway to "stay away from the Michael Jackson impersonator" because he was "becoming a maniac."
The MTA crew at the time didn't even try to stop him from erupting on someone.
The post was made 9 years ago.
Redditor writes a comprehensive list of every clinic that will perform gender reassignment procedures without a letter from a therapist.
I was explicitly told this never happens.
This fairly well captures my view of France as well. Place has a ton going for it, and yet folks act like it's a failed state. Or about to fail any second now. I don't get it.
It's incredibly Guardian to write a whole article about "attempts to portray him...as violent" and not get around to mentioning that he had a warrant out for his arrest after allegedly hitting an old woman. You don't have to excuse his death to be honest. https://t.co/BEKeGNAC1G