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Economist John Kenneth Galbraith most vividly described it as the “horse and sparrow” theory: “If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.”

RCMP officers mocked people being arrested at Wet'suwet'en blockade as 'orcs' and 'ogre' in c/canada@lemmy.ca

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"That big f--king ogre looking dude that is in those videos he is actually like autistic," an officer says in the clip.

"Then the f--king guys just beat the shit out of him and then he started crying. I felt bad for him, apparently the sergeant grabbed his balls and twisted, I guess. He was on the ground and everyone was just grabbing limbs. He didn't have a limb to grab so he just like grabs his balls like 'You done now? You done resisting?"

The RCMP needs to be disbanded. You cannot reform this racist paramilitary garbage.

RCMP officers mocked people being arrested at Wet'suwet'en blockade as 'orcs' and 'ogre' in c/britishcolumbia@lemmy.ca

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"That big f--king ogre looking dude that is in those videos he is actually like autistic," an officer says in the clip.

"Then the f--king guys just beat the shit out of him and then he started crying. I felt bad for him, apparently the sergeant grabbed his balls and twisted, I guess. He was on the ground and everyone was just grabbing limbs. He didn't have a limb to grab so he just like grabs his balls like 'You done now? You done resisting?'"

RCMP needs to be disbanded. You can't reform garbage like this.

Vancouver mayor's budget task force proposes 'potentially divesting' some city assets in c/britishcolumbia@lemmy.ca

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Ken Sim is Chip Wilson's finger puppet. Every policy ABC puts forward first has to benefit its éminence grise. And the éminence grise is a billionaire libertarian POS.

The Deadly Myths about Drug Recovery | The Tyee in c/canada@lemmy.ca

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

A new study indicates that abstinence-based inpatient addiction treatment fails to reduce drug poisoning risk.

Even worse: abstinence-oriented treatment may be associated with higher rates of opioid poisoning than no treatment at all.

Lululemon founder’s remarks have some DEI experts calling for boycotts to combat ‘regressive values’ in c/britishcolumbia@lemmy.ca

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Wilson founded Lululemon in 1998 and stepped down as CEO in 2013, but still owns the majority of the company’s shares, which are valued at $4 billion, according to Forbes."

They are boycotting the man that owns the majority of shares.

VPD officers not expected to turn body cams on for every interaction in c/vancouver@lemmy.ca

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

(https://www.propublica.org/article/how-police-undermined-promise-body-cameras) there is a great deal of evidence pointing to the police disabling the body cams when possible and with holding the footage if they found it to be self incriminating.