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Did they use it as a targeting reticle in 1938?

I don't agree with this, but I do find it idiotic and tone-deaf for pro-Palestinians to co-opt Hamas imagery and a symbol of violence as a show of support. It suggests they either explicitly support Hamas, or are too stupid to understand what they are displaying.

I just love these "confidently incorrect" moments. Did you read the article?

Just to be clear, these are donors acting individually rather than a coordinated effort by any Democratic party.

But negotiations mean that both sides need to give something. So NATO and the U.S. should agree to pull back heavy weapons and missiles away from the Russian border and recognize in public what NATO has long acknowledged privately: that Ukraine will not be joining the military alliance in any foreseeable future.

This is absolutely playing into Russia's hands, and is essentially imperialist. What right do Russia's government (and American veterans) have to decide what Ukrainians get to do with their own country?

No, because Belgium isn't a real country — it's parts of two other countries pretending to be their own thing. We all just let them enjoy their little game.

Read the link posted by OP as a reply to me.

I suggest you re-read the first link you posted. It may as well be posted on RT. What exactly is the diplomatic solution here? Russia needs to GTFO of Ukraine. Any equivocation plays into the Russian agenda.

Diplomacy Not War - Peace in Ukraine!

“We demand urgent, good faith diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine, not more U.S. weapons, advisors, and endless war. And certainly not a nuclear war. We want those billions of dollars going for climate correction, jobs, healthcare and housing, not for the profiteers who manufacture weapons for death and destruction. “As veterans who have experienced the carnage of war, we feel great empathy for the young soldiers on both sides of this bloody war, who are being killed and injured in the tens of thousands. We know all too well that the survivors of armed conflict will be traumatized and scarred for life.”

VFP also advocates for countries to stop arming Ukraine, and for Ukraine to essentially bend over and accede to Russian demands.

I wish more non native people would take the initiative instead and acknowledge commemorations like this. It normalizes things like this and makes it more significant for us native people

Something I'd like to see is the addition of regional FN languages to the school curriculum for each province. I'm a languages nerd so I'm biased, but I think that would help (not to mention also help preserve the language of those particular nations)

As a non-FN person, I never really know what to do on this day. Remembrance Day for example has the usual ceremonies around 11am.

The fact that the entire condo market is built with investor sized units would suggest otherwise (or suggest that builders build what the market demands and if the market is all investors they will build investor focused units).

That's still fundamentally a supply (and by extension pricing) issue. Prices are high, therefore small units are the only thing people can realistically afford, therefore that's what developers build.

I agree, not sure where you saw that. Was it where I said that green belt policies are “very necessary”?

Here: "When we had urban sprawl, you could still buy cheap land on the outskirts and build your own house if investors stopped building new developments, but with (very necessary) greenbelt policies, it eliminates that release valve, putting the housing market basically entirely in control of investors who’ll keep it inflated to profit themselves."

The point is that policies that combat urban sprawl have also increased financialization of the housing market

How do you define "financialization" here, especially in the context of non-rental units? If we're talking about REITs, sure, but rentals are only a small part of the picture.

both my making housing a more limited commodity (which incentivizes investors to buy)

It also incentivizes builders to build, so as long as that isn't impeded, prices should stabilize. Unfortunately building is severely impeded, which is what I mentioned in my earlier post.

and by making it impossible to build a house unless you’re a large corporation that can afford to build a multi-tenant building.

Again, this is a land value issue, not one of construction costs. Of course land is going to be expensive in an urban centre, as it should be! It's a very limited resource. it makes much more sense to have two hundred people living on a building lot rather than four. Hence my confusion about your desire to reduce supply even further in order to reduce the price of housing.