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06-25-2025, 08:14 AM
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#12401 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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Originally Posted by westopher  So what’s your plan, vote for policies that make it more like the US? That’s gonna fucking work for sure. | As opposed to.. the system we’ve had for the last decade which, not only has not improved the situation in the slightest, but actually made it substantially worse?
What’s the argument? Do you think any of these issues have improved over the last decade?
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06-25-2025, 08:19 AM
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Just because something has gotten worse, doesn’t mean it’s ALL the governments fault, nor does it mean it can’t get substantially worse by going to systems and governments that are proven to do worse at these issues. An actual left leaning government will enact these policies that places like Sweden and Finland benefit from, but we don’t have one with a chance of winning, because people aren’t willing to pay the taxes for it.
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06-25-2025, 08:24 AM
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i dont know why you gewilos argue about politics and shit
1) there are too many people who dont give a fuck and wont actively vote
2) all the parties are middle of the road and more or less the same
3) the bureaucracy is so entrenched that its next to impossible to get anything done without tripping over the numerous oversight committees, special interest groups, labor unions, etc that want their say in matters.
So it is what it is... Unless everyone votes in a total nutbag shit disturber like trump, our systems are very well established.
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06-25-2025, 08:25 AM
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#12404 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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Again, I think that’s more of a cultural thing than anything. People have no faith in the govt. either side.
Here everything is new, transit, ferries, infrastructure, it’s actually amazing. Where as in BC we are talking about cutting transit routes and eliminating handy dart.
Seeing how far apart countries like these are I legitimately think there is zero hope for Canada. Nothing is ever going to change. This trip really solidified even further my desire to move, but it’s harder than just saying it.
I will say, which I haven’t been clear about in the past. Canada, and BC/Vancouver in general, geographically there is nowhere nicer, probably on this planet. We just spend a few days going through the Norwegian Fjords and I kinda laughed because this area that’s renowned for its beauty that has people from all over the world come to, Pitt Lake, Indian Arm, hell even the Ferry from horseshoe bay to Gibsons is nicer. We/I definitely take it all for granted.
However, socially, we’re a shit hole. 
Look at me, I’m at the Oslo pride festival, im so progressive hehe
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06-25-2025, 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Hondaracer I’ve known these people for 30 years and hung out with them for 4/5 days, they brought it up themselves because they felt like Canada is circling the bowl. Not by any malicious means but genuinely curious about the state of the country. | Maybe… just maybe they been close friends for 30 years = they’re a lot like you?
Just ask them to help you move already bro, you got so many options now.. Portugal… Finland… Sweden… Norway…. stop being one of the feces and be the guy flushing maybe your “friends” don’t have to feel sorry for you and the millions of dollars you’re sitting on in Van anymore (sic)
Weird how ultra rich guys like the Sedins are literally Swedish and choose to stay here in this shithole after their careers are over? Naslund went back.. maybe we all just see places differently? You clearly see Vancouver and Canada negatively so fucking do something about it instead of bitching every day.
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06-25-2025, 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Badhobz Unless everyone votes in a total nutbag shit disturber like trump, our systems are very established. | Badhobz for mayor?
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06-25-2025, 08:28 AM
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#12407 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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can i execute people as a mayor? if so ill run. I got a huge hit list of idiots...
also id embezzle money for lawls. Gotta keep up the chinese tradition ya know.
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06-25-2025, 08:30 AM
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#12408 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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Originally Posted by 68style Maybe… just maybe they been close friends for 30 years = they’re a lot like you?
Just ask them to help you move already bro, you got so many options now.. Portugal… Finland… Sweden… Norway…. stop being one of the feces and be the guy flushing maybe your “friends” don’t have to feel sorry for you and the millions of dollars you’re sitting on in Van anymore (sic) | Not really close, I have no idea about their political leanings we’ve just been connected as family friends for 30+ years. They are all normal people, normal jobs, never discussed anything beyond Facebook posts.
It’s a bit harder than just moving. I don’t have the HEHE money.
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06-25-2025, 08:31 AM
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Badhobz for Mayor of Richmond. Can't possibly be worse than the current guy.
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06-25-2025, 08:31 AM
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#12410 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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HEHAW says he doesnt have HEHE money. But he's still grinding it out.
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06-25-2025, 08:33 AM
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06-25-2025, 08:33 AM
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haha ... it's a slow news day if they want to talk about that incident ... 'grabbed the camera', more like he turned it away.
If trips for Council to Europe is worst they can pin on him ...
Guy's been at that post for like 20 yrs!
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06-25-2025, 08:34 AM
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#12413 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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I dont know, i voted for that Communist Hong Guo last time for lawls. Too bad it didnt work. Im sure she didnt suck enough CCP cock to have them rig the local election.
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06-25-2025, 08:35 AM
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#12414 | | linguistic ninja
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How is it we got Allahusnakbars running the top Alpha cities of the world and ChingChongs in charge of the two top cities in Anglo-Canada, but we've got Whitey McBoomerson running Richmond for decades. Makes no sense to me.
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06-25-2025, 08:37 AM
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#12415 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Cuz dumb fuck ching chongs all think whiteys are better at politics *its true*
you look at a ching chong politician and the first thing you think of is grifting/embezzlement.... highly sus when they say they want to "help" people
Thats why if i ever run my platform would be blatantly corrupt for the so called betterment of ching chongs at the cost of other races and fuck the environment. Id run richmond like a mini Singapore. Ill cain your ass for putting up flowers around city hall. Thats money better used to fund my lavish whores/cocaine parties.
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06-25-2025, 08:42 AM
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#12416 | | linguistic ninja
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06-25-2025, 08:45 AM
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#12417 | | linguistic ninja
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lol ...also if you think Singapore isn't also a huge welfare state you might want to take a closer look at their housing policies.
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06-25-2025, 08:46 AM
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ive never been. I cant stand their accents. That Malay/Singlish is annoying as fuck. I just like their caning of people for stupid ass offenses.
Id offer a free beat your kids service, sponsored LaFarge and Norvo Nordisk.. you cant stomach beating your own shit headed kids? let the municipal government do it for you!
Also fuck all these aboriginal studies bullshit. reinstate bullying 101. Ill hire bullies of the highest caliber to degrade and toughen up your kids.
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06-25-2025, 08:46 AM
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#12419 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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Originally Posted by unit anecdotes upon anecdotes about the opinions of his friends... name something more typically hondaracer. | Well, when you’ve been somewhere I go, more lately than I’ve been, feel free to chime in.
I’ve now spent 5 months in Europe since sept 2022, what do I know.
I think when you guys read somthing I post here, it sounds way more profound that it actually was. The discussion about Canada was all of 3 minutes. It’s not like I’m sitting on a patio in a foreign country discussing politics like some fucking knob for an hour.
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06-25-2025, 08:52 AM
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#12420 | | linguistic ninja
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Originally Posted by Badhobz ive never been. I cant stand their accents. That Malay/Singlish is annoying as fuck. I just like their caning of people for stupid ass offenses.
Id offer a free beat your kids service, sponsored LaFarge and Norvo Nordisk.. you cant stomach beating your own shit headed kids? let the municipal government do it for you!
Also fuck all these aboriginal studies bullshit. reinstate bullying 101. Ill hire bullies of the highest caliber to degrade and toughen up your kids. | If you like eating it's paradise. It's expensive as fuck now though, back in the 90s it was cheap and great. Also if you don't like kumbaya affirmative action racial harmony shit? Yeah there's a ton of that there too to keep the Malays/Chinese/Indians from killing each other. Just go to Malaysia now.
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06-25-2025, 09:07 AM
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#12421 | | Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated
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Originally Posted by Hondaracer not improved the situation in the slightest | If you view Canada as a place where the rich are chill and living good, the "middle class" are your worker slave 9-5 class, and the poor are encouraged to do hard drugs and overdose to kill them to save long term money...
Then Canada is winning!
Sometimes I think conservative white guys are actually feeling the internal mental racial pressure to stand up against the brownification / loss of white influence over Canadian culture... but it's 20+ years too late to even begin to push back. It's already over. Canada is going to be majority non-white if it isn't already.
The thing is, if you're white and you want to be around other white people and white culture, you'll need to move to places like Kelowna and away from Ching-Chongy Vancouver, which are owned by the foreigners and are the hubs for eliminating poor misfit whites and natives.
Canada... is a human processing machine. It houses people from around the world, is a place where you can get rich if you focus on dealing with people, just don't try and change the politics because our political system is a complete fraud, a total farce, and The Crown gave us a potemkin village parliment where everything is controlled from the top-down but the people actually think their vote counts and the political parties are different. They're all the same and everything from our politics, to our art, and our media, our culture... everything is controlled opposition to enable everyone from around the world to come here and participate as a "Canadian", and it works surprisingly well if you don't pull back the onion layers like crime, corruption, people lining their pockets with public money, our fake art and media, our fake politics...
If you are rich, trust the government, and just live your life... Canada is fucking amazing still in 2025. You should see how good of a life my boomer in-laws have... fucking loooooooooooaded!
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06-25-2025, 09:16 AM
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#12422 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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And in reality, these systems here are not that different, they are just wayyyy better at being effective in their implementation.
| They also exert a MUCH higher tax burden on their population to fund their systems than we do. A major detail you seem to ignore. So are you willing to live under that same tax burden? (incoming bullshit reply claiming "efficiency and bloat" or some shit trying to justify how we shouldn't have to pay more but just get magically more for less) Quote: |
Remember when Eby and Carney said we’re gonna open up provincial trade barriers? Well that shit ain’t happening for 3+ months now (9 months and counting at that point)
| Bill C5 passed, which removed all federal interprovincial trade exceptions. Carney did as promised here. Now it's on the provinces.
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06-25-2025, 09:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Badhobz HEHAW says he doesnt have HEHE money. But he's still grinding it out. | that's just hehe's way of humblebragging every time. start the post with being relatable then drop all sorts of hints about being high class.
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06-25-2025, 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Great68 They also exert a MUCH higher tax burden on their population to fund their systems than we do. A major detail you seem to ignore. So are you willing to live under that same tax burden?
Bill C5 passed, which removed all federal interprovincial trade exceptions. Carney did as promised here. Now it's on the provinces. | Yeah, the amount of cognitive dissonance required to praise Europe's approach to homelessness and drug use and to then for him to say we need to vote Conservative is impressive.
As I've repeated ad nauseam, as voters we've chosen to not tackle the problem seriously so we get an approach that tries to sweep it under the rug b/c it's not funded to the level needed to deliver what Europe does. And, as others have noted, we're not prepared to go the other way like Singapore - with a practically authoritarian approach to civil society.
This is, of course, part for the course for Honda's politics.
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06-25-2025, 10:15 AM
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