It’s causing colleges to close, as they relied on foreign students to inflate their budgets. International program tuition fees being double or triple that of domestic fees, naturally the boards saw dollar signs, and now their greed and overextension/lack of foresight is literally killing opportunities for domestic students in the process, though some larger institutions are picking up some of the slack.

Source: School I applied for back in January is closing down due to “lack of funding” by end of 2026 pretty much right after I was accepted.

Bodes well for the billions Carney wants to spend on military efforts in the north…

I’m sure it will all go where it needs to go once it’s been ripped out of the hands of working Canadians.

https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/about-us

If China (or a private “ngo” from China) was doing this in the West, there’d be an uproar.

That action is almost always better than reaction

It’s not in Canada. It happened in Ontario, California

Speaking well-worded truth. Fiery facts. Intensely informed verbiage. Purposefully powerful prose.

Graduating from “leftist” Reddit, I’m afraid.

Gonna glaze the 'grad specifically - on the whole it’s done wonders for my revolutionary optimism and mental health, which in turn has lead to me actually doing some organizing irl.

Finding places full of people who actually know their shit and aren’t swept up into the lies of neoliberalism and capitalism is a major step up from feeling utterly alone and helpless in the imperial core surrounded by people who at times feel utterly alien and unreachable.

Basically just using this space to say thanks for existing, as well as thanks to such incredibly consistent and well-informed posters like yogthos, cfgaussian, cowbee, rainpizza and others for their constant analysis and discussions that have definitely patched up a lot of holes in my own understandings of leftist history and thought.

I barely use social media at all besides lemmy and the level of smarmy belligerence you’ve used throughout this thread makes me wanna download signal out of spite.

Maybe take a day off mang.

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“…In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back…”

Fucker deserves weeks of torture and a shallow, unmarked grave.

I’m talking of bulk raw beef/chicken/pork products. People can easily get away with taking a few packs out of the store without much harassment atm. Security guards are instructed not to touch people.

The main issue is that store management is starting to collude with local police - pigs straight up wait outside to catch people walking out with backpacks. Take care, but I’m simply saying employees shouldn’t give a rat fuck.

So many boomers Ive worked with that get so personally offended on behalf of the company they slave for. It’s annoying and I constantly asked them wtf the company did for them to make them so uptight.

I have always appreciated their personal analysis as opposed to the rote application of other youtube scp channels. The difference between ideas and “ideas”.

Having worked at a grocery store, it really is just that easy. At least in the short term, this is fucking awesome and should happen more often and be more organized.

I talked to my coworkers often about how eventually meat products (the highest theft items generally besides toiletries) will probably be locked behind glass pay counters like electronics.

Those who work at grocery stores rn: a great form of protest while keeping your job is letting thieves steal whatever they want. Do not sick the loss prevention on them and do not confront them. 99% of them need it way more than the corporation you work for does, and it is at zero cost to you.

If you don’t mind unsettling/horror/sci fi stuff, I recommend Exploring Series on YouTube. I find their voice just that right level of interesting enough to listen to the actual info if I want to, but calm enough to fall asleep to as well.

They have a few Lovecraft book readings as well, but I usually just binge the SCP Foundation recordings, haha.

Can’t wait for the other person to never respond again lol.

Keep up the good work comrade.

Fentanyl-laced-urine-spraying quadcopter drones… FOR EVERYOOOONE!!!

The article is a decently short look at the grocery monopolies in Canada.

The author describes themselves as a Canadian nationalist which is… funny.

I agree mostly, but I think there is something to be said about the detachedness of it all though. Having you and your entire livelihood and ability to sustain your family/empire utterly insulated from the destruction your decisions cause, and in this day and age, even informationally insulated by simply either staying in bubbles or literally paying others to confront the criticism or negative effects you’d be hearing about.

When you willfully destroy any frame of reference that portrays what you’re doing as evil and destructive, or when the system you’re apart of is designed to facilitate that sort of mindset… I realize you mentioned similar points in your comment but I couldn’t help coming from a different direction.

I think that level of pure power and wealth does breed a type of ignorant sociopathy akin to a very young child picking the wings off of a butterfly, on a societal level (a simplification of course).

All this to say that while we don’t live in a fantasy land where money and power are cursed artifacts, I think it’s not helpful to cover for the effects such tools can have when a human being acquires both in nigh-untouchable quantities.

Edit: Not trying to cover for the horrible decisions these people make, and it’s true some people can just be cruel - just trying to float that they were and are human beings born into these systems just like everyone else.

Edit2: Goddamn it I typed all this out just to realize it’s a .world account and therefore they can’t see this. Neat. 😅

I think they’re experiencing a significant gravitas shortfall.