I think just a card and cash is appropriate for someone you don’t really know, and probably less than $100 unless you’re both rich.

were you able to free the raviolis

I don’t think either major party will offer much better really. The Conservatives get to ride on being the opposition and the viable supposed alternative to what’s been happening recently.

I have doubts about a pursuit of whiteness and model minority stereotyping. No matter what immigrants or their children do, they’ll always be hyphenated-Canadians at best, facing discrimination, suspicion, and hatred from “real” Canadians, conservative or not.

Instead the factors are much more tangible-the current government has overseen the relationships with both countries degrade severely, with severe impact to these groups. When you’re trying to care for a sick grandparent abroad or whatever else, the last thing you want is a two-faced political approach that risks having you stranded away from home.

And then what role did the government have in building up the current levels of hate towards immigrants with their policies? For decades academia has been allowed to turn international students into cash cows with zero regard for their quality of life. Businesses whining about wages getting too high after the pandemic meant that immigrants were brought in with no place to live and no livable income. And then scapegoated for cost of living increases spawned by decades of bad policy, by the governments who brought them in.

Immigrants are expected to put in to a system that’ll have them work twice as hard to get half as much, if that, and hate them for it. It’s not “I got mine, fuck you”, it’s “you’ll never give me mine, I’m just an exploitable tax base to you, we’re not going to pretend anymore”.

It’s pretty much everybody but go off I guess

https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory.pdf

He’s going to start crying again isn’t he

In the first place I think a better way to establish “is life in this given place good”, would be to address to good vs bad in that place, as opposed to the good in that place vs the bad everywhere else.

If you must make the point through comparisons, using the weakest possible arguments while standing in for the opposing side makes it seem you’ve either want to misrepresent it, or don’t feel secure enough in your position.

I could get into the factual claims that could be challenged but maybe that was the AI. There’s absolutely an argument that Western media and cultures create intense, xenophobic biases, but there are more compelling ways to make it.

Using a one-sided narrative to counter a one-sided narrative comes off as disingenuous to me. Despite Marx’s urging, the US turns out to be the place where a worker can strike with his union and own a gun.

It feels like they turned an article about this weird rape game into a Netflix ad.

We’ve already seen it happen in Canada under Harper, there’s no doubt that it could happen again.

The supreme court would ultimately strike it down, and I only see it as a ploy to bring in private prisons, but at the same time there’s a genuine problem in this country with sentencing habitual, dangerous offenders. I can think of at least three women in my province murdered by people who just kept getting in and out of jail for violent crimes their whole lives. One was even on day leave from the prison, which seems like insanity.

The biggest, wealthiest, most advanced polling firms in the US couldn’t get it right either, horrendously so in recent memory. I don’t think that’s down to conspiracy, but how to weight your samples when so many people don’t want to answer a phone call from an unusual number.

https://youtu.be/ygr5AHufBN4

Starting to think a ban from there should be considered a rite of passage.

Yes

Depends on the extent of how much you’d do and if you’d get noticed, really. Leverage being applied against you or your parents could occur, particularly to or via relatives in China, but only if you’re deemed worth the effort. I wouldn’t take that risk, personally, but that’s a very specific, individual decision.

The US is another matter. Sure you’ll go on a list but everyone’s on a list of one kind or another, we’re both on one for using Lemmy most likely.

Would there be any validity in your parents thinking your concerns about this are getting in the way of improving your own life?

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Russia could demand that every country with a foreign volunteer for Ukraine answer for them, they’d rightly get the same brush-off.

Two guys (who knows, maybe even three) who are Chinese nationals serving in the Russian Army and not PLA soldiers doesn’t mean “Chinese troops”, it’s Russian troops.

he looks very determined

This seems completely uncritical of Carney and Canada for that matter. The future isn’t going to be lead without force because a middle power elects a prime minister with some good ideas about markets.

We don’t need to rely on wars? We rely on exploitation even without it- ask any country where our mining firms operate with lax regulation. Hell, we’ve participated in “coalitions of the willing” in invasions and aerial bombings for corporate giants too. Most of this country is content to think the first Nations just decided to give us the land.

I’m happy to vote for more years of basically Trudeau lite and I have no illusions about it.