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Yeah good point. Local news too; Vancouver's local news are all US-owned private, same with radio

This is such a teachable "leopards ate my face" moment for all Canadians.

Be Canada

Want to save money on healthcare

Agree to sell private firm to Americans

Get worse healthcare

Independence is reduced

Americans turn on you

Same thing is happening with the CBC right now, but nobody understands what's at stake!!

Be Canada

Want to save some money by not funding CBC, private media

Almost all conservative newspapers already owned by Americans

Agree to shut CBC down/defund/whatever

Americans start absolutely hammering us with propaganda

Have not a single way to defend ourselves

Not a single source of journalistic integrity left in Canada

I wish CSIS had an office in Vancouver... Not everyone in Canada lives on the east coast...

I think it's unlikely you can donate without any conversions...

Yeah haha I didn't write this well. What I'm trying to say is that where you have socialized healthcare people are way less likely to agree with the idea that you're free to not wear a helmet. I just worded that poorly.

But what about the reverse argument?

The elders know much more than the young generation, shouldn't they have a larger say?

Basically, Japan is the most developed nation on earth. Not because of technology, or culture, or anything of the sort. But they were the first developed nation to have their birth rate drop and pyramid start shrinking. In that sense, their policies are ahead of every country on earth that still keeps admitting massive amounts of immigrants to keep their populations up.

I've always thought that regular expressions are just specifications for state machines. They aren't that difficult.

Hot take! 👨‍🚒

I feel like the problem with this argument is that it's consequentialist. You can never be 100% certain which parents will raise their children well. There's no metric that will conclusively tell you.