What kills me about all this is how it feels like we're being assaulted on every front. Everybody is simultaneously trying to brainwash and addict our kids and and scam our parents and sell us illegal goods shipped direct from China and constantly harass us to try and con us out of our money and meanwhile the government can't even do automated enforcement on speed limits much less fraud and professional crime.

I have no visibility on what the cops do all day but I assume it's mostly reactive triage for people on the margins of society that are in crisis, with varying approaches of support vs punitive harassment. But I doubt that Ford's plan to expand cops and prisons will help.

Which leaves me wondering who's in charge of making sure kids can't buy weapons from Amazon, or stores can't them ferocious amounts of energy drinks.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

It is about control. One thing that I kinda had to give to it (begrudingly) to the pro-gun Canadians who adopt American style talking points about government overreach in every aspect of life 'starting with gun control' (note: it was never just gun control alone or first. They always passed things concurrently. More surveillance, less privacy, less everything, and more and more control for the few over everyone else), and while I am not going to say dumb shit like we need guns to overthrow our government or intimidate people on the streets like they do in the US, but I cannot help that everything IS part of a grander scheme to make sure that have neither the means nor the willingness to do anything. Basically destroying our ability to organize and communicate and getting rid of any potential leaders well before hand.