QuebecOverCanada

Just lower your standards, bro! Live in a pod, bro! It's fine, bro! It's just your expectations that are wrong, bro! Bro, come on, adapt to slum life, bro, it's just you that's the issue bro!

Look, if you want to live Mumbai-style, it's your choice, but it's not something Canadians want.

Lower housing costs would be a start. Same as better economic opportunities. My partner and I are in our late 20s and would love to have children, but we simply can't afford it right now. We're many in our friends circle who have the same issue. Many of us don't want to raise a family in a chicken hen. We want either a house or somewhere spacious, because we're not rats.

Hey, I just wanted to bump your thread, because I thought you asked for help. Hope you're alright bud, keep it up.

The Zucc would apologize to anyone or for anything if it warranted money for him. The 'but have you thought of the children?' point is ridiculous to say the least. All these things that you mentioned such as luring, sexual exploitation, suicide are possible without social media. Social media can also help expose those who partake in shady things as much as it helps those who perpetrate them. Parents are the ultimate line of defence for their children. Not a multinational corporation and a clearly corrupt government.

That was gold.

The measures taken and their results. He did not invest in Social Workers right here or integrated to society those he made arrested. El Salvador's State is now a force to be reckoned with a cartel activity that suddenly became much less flamboyant than it was before Bukele's presidency. The numbers are unprecedentedly low for this country which historically has 30+ murders/ 100 000 inhabitants a year. Clearly, this is a problem, he will become corrupt 100% over time. But a stable, corrupt society is better than an unsafe, corrupt society.

Hey man, follow the words of your prom Queen. Shake it off a bit. You're not all there at this moment.

She's made the headline news in one of Québec's most read information source, La Presse. The title of the article; Taylor Swift, the MVP rookie of the NFL. https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/chroniques/2024-01-30/taylor-swift-recrue-etoile-de-la-nfl.php

There is 99% chance that Hillary Clinton will win the election in 2016. Also... the polls look very good for Trump. https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls/election

Shake it off! Shake it off! off off!

Shhh I remember this thread. Hey, don't you worry, shake it off, buddy!

I understand your projection. Trump is projected to even win the popular vote comes election time. But maybe polls will flip if Queen Prom sings for Dementia Joe.

The candidate Biden is so bad at containing its poop smell despite all the diapers layers, and all you have is queen prom dating the football guy as replacement. This is extremely interesting, sociologically speaking.

That's right! She's the popular QUEEN dating a guy who plays FOOTBALL! She's a clear threat. Maybe she even will win prom!

The number 1 preoccupation of the Democrats; A pop singer who dates a guy who plays Football. Can't run with Joe Biden, let's be groupies for a 34 years old who couldn't even be a VP.

Not every billionaire. Just the billionaires the multi billionaires want to get rid of.

Will the US just stop after Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Sudan, Yemen? Should we then fund a movement in Mexico to liberate Texas, New Mexico and California?

Yeah ok, stupid Trudeau! We hate him! But can we stay on the topic please, lol.

I don't think Americans priorities are safety over freedom. A country like Japan practices capital punishment despite its very low murder rate. But a country with a lot of murders like El Salvador probably has more of a compatibility with this way of ruling that Bukele pushes forward. I find it fascinating sociologically speaking, how it came to the point where imprisoning tens of thousand of people was the solution taken, and how it was popular.

Yes, COVID was used by many authoritarians (not necessarily dictators but they are included in that bracket) such as Putin who still uses COVID to prevent demonstrations or strikes. Another example of a country which has stringent laws and punishment made crime virtually non existent compared to what was Russia post-USSR. For Bukele, it was a tool to get everyone at home and get the criminals in their nests.

Very good point. It might come at a surprise for us, because we don't need those laws necessarily, but it works. A country with very strict laws and that give great punishments like Singapur is very much safer than many other countries. Rwanda in Africa also follows that pattern. If you walk on grass you get a hefty fine (for their standards of living) or even get hit with a baton by the police officer who catches you. It's also called the Singapur of Africa for that reason and it is thriving much more than almost all of its neighbors, if not all of them.

The fact is, before the mass incarceration that truly began in the 1990s, there was more crime in the US. It's not a long term solution for many reasons you would give to be against, but if you have a crisis, it's prescribed in some instances. No, but I give it the most credit. What else do you think made El Salvador considerably safer?

El Salvador had a homicide rate of 36 murders for 100 000 inhabitants back in 2019. It has trended down to 7.8 in 2022. How did they achieve such a feat? By incarcerating criminals, fast. Nayib Bukele, elected in 2019 has made it clear that law and order was his first priority, building a huge prison for El Salvador's criminals swiftly. He increased the salaries of the country's troops and the police. He even unfortunately went so far as to have cause innocents to be jailed as trials were expedited, it has been denounced by numerous NGOs. Bukele has kind of an authoritarian approach to things, and will represent himself once again for El Salvador's next election. I found El Salvador's steps to be in line with the mentality in much poorer countries than Canada. What is happening there could be imitated by Ecuador which has many cartels trying to run the country. Is it better to run a developing country ridden with crime this way? I think we have the proof that might be the case that dread has its virtues when it comes to some social issues in some parts of the world. I also think that this kind of policies will run out of its logic at one point as the cost of imprisoning such a huge chunk of its population will lead to economical losses. What are your thoughts on the matter? Is it moral to bring down crime this way? Please move this to Rest of the World subsection of this forum.

Enjoy practising what you preach. I really wish you that for the war in Ukraine.