• IzyaKatzmann [he/him]
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    16 days ago

    CANADA IS ONE of the most successful countries in the history of the world. The evidence is too considerable to summarize, but from the UN Human Development Index, through the Global Peace Index’s measure of security, to Freedom House’s assessment of country-level liberty, and even the World Economic Forum Competitiveness Index, Canada ranks near the top of every comparative spreadsheet of good things humans could possibly hope to enjoy. We are, by most objective measures, one of the wealthiest, healthiest, safest, freest places on the planet.

    But, man, you would never know it.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      16 days ago

      objective

      That word's been so thoroughly contaminated by misuse by Randroids and other assholes that it's a reliable red flag in most contextual use that says "this person is bullshitting."

      • IzyaKatzmann [he/him]
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        16 days ago

        check out the authors credentials, i think they were a secretary to a prime minister and a premier

        oh yeah, here:

        Gerald Butts is vice chairman of Eurasia Group, a global geopolitical risk firm headquartered in New York. He was principal secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada and the Premier of Ontario