So “Yogi Adityanath, the hardline Hindu monk who is the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh” wants to enact racist policies in UP, but can’t seem to find his way to force men to stop raping/murdering women and children.

Hindu monk my ass.

If someone misunderstands what you’ve said, the fault lies with you.

Good communicators know this and take the time to make sure their comments are conveyed accordingly.

Found one for Employment Insurance in Canada … works out to less than 1% for 2017-18.

Public accounts documents released this month list more than 104,000 incidents of fraudulent EI claims totalling almost $177 million in the 2017-18 fiscal year.

EI spending between April 2017 and March 2018 topped $19.7 billion. The value of fraudulent claims amounted to less than one per cent of total spending.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/employment-insurance-ei-fraud-1.4876688

Sorry, I can’t even remember what kind of program it was for. My ADHD just picked up on the number and logged it into my brain without a reference point.

Gimme a bit and I’ll see if I can find it.

Yup. Afaik those numbers run across the board, although I have seen an insanely low number for one Ontario social program a few years back (like 0.68% found to be scamming).

I probably should be as well, but I just don’t have the fight left in me anymore.

Maybe someone can explain to me why it’s easier to fight for someone else vs ourselves, 'cause it’s gd annoying as hell.

Problem is the rules aren’t enforced on everyone. Just us peons face the full extent of them.

So a bit more info on this … if you look up the average of the demographic that tries to game a system it usually sits somewhere between 2-5%. Unfortunately the powers that be have decided that even tho 95-98% of people follow the rules, everyone has to be vetted (and often denied) so the ‘bad’ ones can be filtered out.

Untold b/trillions are spent doing this, far surpassing what it would cost to just have basic vetting where people in need would be able to access funds/services within 30 days.

Edit to add – This is ONLY good for individuals. All corporate entities should be held to a minimum wait of 6 months to be completely vetted.

Yup. There is little difference in Canada (except for universal healthcare, which is decimated across the board rn).

But him knowing that and continuing to fight until his last breath is fucking amazing.

I’m pretty sure I couldn’t do the same.

Israel is the spoiled brat of the Middle East.

The Beirut explosion was due to ammonium nitrate “having been confiscated by Lebanese authorities from the abandoned ship MV Rhosus” - then stashed in a warehouse for 6 years without safety measures.

On August 2, 2020 a fire broke out at the warehouse, which also housed a stash of fireworks.

Cue explosion. Source

60 Minutes is on CBS, not CNN.

Lol. The orange asshole wouldn’t get within a mile of 60 Minutes because he knows he’d be shredded to bits.

Israel’s right wing nationalists are leading the charge.

… and the more Russians flee, the more they have to do to get labor and troops.

Well technically they don’t ‘have’ to do that, ie: if Putin put his dick back in his pants and shut down the war, Russian citizens wouldn’t be leaving en masse.

Capitalism only does the right then when it doesn’t cost them. As soon as there’s a real cost, doing the right thing goes down the drain.

Why would Kamala be the worst candidate?

“Interestingly enough, they really didn’t address us with anything they wanted changed,” Sorensen said of the protesters.

So in other words the protesters didn’t know what they were protesting or why it was important, but ran with it anyway.

The dumbing down of America apparently.

Another potential pathway that Trump allies have discussed opened up Friday when investors approved a merger that made the former president’s media enterprise, Trump Media and Technology Group, a public company. Trump’s holdings in the new company would, on their face, net him billions in stock.

But the availability of that cash from the parent company of Truth Social would be subject to a six month “lockup” period that would hamstring Trump’s ability to sell any shares or use them as collateral. The billions Trump stands to gain exist only on paper – and would be subject to the price fluctuations of the stock when it starts to trade.

Seems orange man continues to sink into the quagmire of his own making. It warms my heart to see him sliding into bankruptcy.