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TechNickL t1_iy520hb wrote

Reply to comment by DJWGibson in A conversation on a bathroom wall by Pcolocoful

I don't think most people would say that author speaks for them, even most people who were saying to defund the police in 2020. Yes we'd all love to live in a post crime society where there are no criminals to arrest but the realistic path to that is definitely not to start by eliminating all police.

I remember at the time seeing posts about how "defund the police" actually meant "reduce the militarization of the police and redirect excess funds to social services to decrease crime at the source", radicals like that author were never the driving force, they just took the momentum and tried to run with it and they got their opinions disproportionately boosted because the headline "Abolish all law enforcement" gets clicks.

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Sopixil t1_iy50qhd wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Canadian brand No Name locking prices despite inflation by LuxAlpha

And then just when you think you've found another store to go to that isn't owned by Loblaws, you find yourself giving money to Empire (fitting name), who owns:

Sobeys

Safeway

Farm Boy

FreshCo

Foodland

Lawton's

Thrifty Foods

Longos

As far as I'm aware, FoodBasics is the only store left as long as you don't have anything against Metro (yet).

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jfl_cmmnts t1_iy4yrjg wrote

Reply to Canadian brand No Name locking prices despite inflation by LuxAlpha

More bullshit from Roblaws I'm afraid. They're just past getting wrist-slapped for a price-fixing scandal over bread that ripped all of us off for a decade, and are ALWAYS slurping down government money that would be better spent elsewhere but gets wasted on supporting the business owned by billionaire heirs. Trust them like you'd trust Rogers, or Bell, or one of our Big 5 banks. That is, do not trust them at all

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