nurture your inner child!!! play games, explore, run through a field, laugh loudly and joyfully, make art just for the fun of it, try new hobbies not as a new side gig but as something to make you smile and calm you down; you’re not too old you’re never too old to start learning how to skateboard or ride a bike or go ice skating or eat a giant ice cream cone or play hide and seek or color in coloring books or watch cartoons or make silly faces or sing at the top of your lungs and dance badly. there is so much in this world that can cause pain so embrace JOY when it moves you, don’t be afraid
The idea that Canada’s economic inequality problem isn’t as bad as the U.S.’s is a “convenient fiction,” says a new report calling for a wealth tax on multi-millionaires.
Canada’s richest one per cent have seen their share of the country’s wealth grow while all other groups have seen theirs shrink, said the report from Canadians for Tax Fairness, released Thursday.
It found that the number of billionaires in Canada, and the wealth they hold, doubled between 2010 and 2019.
Citing several previously published studies, the CTF report found that Canada’s 100 richest people hold as much wealth as the 12 million poorest.
The top one per cent have seen their share of income rise to 26 per cent, from 17.9 per cent a decade ago, while the poorest half of Canadians have seen their share of income shrink to 4.7 per cent in that time, from 5.9 per cent.
“There’s a convenient fiction perpetuated that Canada hasn’t experienced the great extreme inequalities of wealth at the top end that the United States has,” the report said.
“It’s true that our wealthiest don’t have fortunes at the same level as Jeff Bezos or Warren Buffett, but the number of Canadian billionaires has increased at a far faster rate than the number of American billionaires and their total wealth has also increased at a much faster rate.”
Friendly reminder that Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party of Canada and Erin O’Toole and the Conservative Party of Canada KNEW THIS and then they VOTED AGAINST this proposal by the NDP to help fix this income inequality problem:
I want to emphasize to all of you that the Conservatives and the Liberals allow this kind of thing fully on purpose.
The Liberals are not being naive or misguided, it is not productive to appeal to them to “do the right thing”.
They hate poor people and minorities (and loooove being kept in power by corporate influence) just as much as the Cons do — they’ve just figured out how to tell better, more progressive-sounding lies about it.
The ruling parties do not care about you or your loved ones. Do not make excuses for them.
If you find the military has left out pamphlets, you take them all and throw them away.
did this at a local comic book store once! Fuck that comic book store, it’s a creepy and bad place
this goes for if you see anything promoting the Shen Yun dance troup. That is a recruiting point for a cult called Falun Gong.
same goes for if you see anything promoting Mormonism or Scientology, although I haven’t seen materials for those things personally, I’m sure they exist
If you are invited to a Christian group that “doesn’t have a name”, something that holds meeting for outsiders in rec centers, “special meetings”- that’s a cult that is know to members only as “The Truth”, but is on Wikipedia as “two by twos”. Please reach out to me if you or anyone you love has been contacted by this group.
Institutions of abuse are everywhere. Do everything within your power to stop them whenever you see an opportunity. If you see a sign in your rec center that’s some sort of open call to a Christian church meeting but doesn’t have any real info on the church, maybe let me know. Don’t call the number, I can call the number. If you feel the need to do research on your own, all you need to check is whether they refuse to give you a straight answer about the name.
oh yeah, if you want context for “The Truth” being something I’m talking about that you have certainly never heard of, where I’m getting this information- the source is that I was raised in this cult. I know it sounds, almost fake or something, but it isn’t.
just want to say it’s decent as fuck of y’all to reblog this. it’s hard for me to talk about this stuff and harder if I feel like no one is listening. Thank you all for making me feel like someone hears this stuff sometimes.
