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Helsing posted:How the hell did the NDP get stuck with orange of all colours? Its not wonder we have trouble being taken seriously by the national media. I think orange is "the social-democrat color", like softer than red, socialism/communism.
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Red communists would just set people off.
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Oct 25, 2013 23:45
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NDP orange is, at least, a step up from CCF brown.
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Helsing posted:How the hell did the NDP get stuck with orange of all colours? Its not wonder we have trouble being taken seriously by the national media. One color per party, and blue, red and green were taken. That leaves yellow, orange, violet and indigo, and I guess orange is marginally better than the others.
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Helsing posted:How the hell did the NDP get stuck with orange of all colours? Its not wonder we have trouble being taken seriously by the national media. Orange is an awesome colour. I have no idea what people have against it.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Its tough to wear and not look like an idiot.
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The Orange Revolution in Ukraine was awesome, the NDP should do that. It's a way better name than 'Orange Crush', what a terrible thing to call the NDP's best-ever federal election performance.
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Oct 26, 2013 00:23
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In Quebec it was called "la vague orange" (the orange wave).
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Oct 26, 2013 00:27
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You stopped paying attention to Ukrainian politics after Yushchenko was elected didn't you.
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No I'm writing a paper about Ukrainian politics right now. Just because Yanukovych's a terrible Putin-clone doesn't mean the Orange Revolution itself wasn't great. e: Yanukovych, not Yushchenko vyelkin fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Oct 26, 2013 |
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Oct 26, 2013 00:29
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Unfortunately for Jack Layton, orange was not a colour of uniform they wore in Star Trek.
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My Harper costume is near completion. I just need a giant stupid flag to staple to my jacket.
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Dreylad posted:Unfortunately for Jack Layton, orange was not a colour of uniform they wore in Star Trek. Should have gone with gold. Nothing inspires confidence like Command Gold.
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Gold would be cool.
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No it should just be turbo-red for full-communism. That liberal red? That's your domestic sedan level red, underpowered and unreliable.
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Blood red, to symbolize the spilled blood of the bourgeoisie.
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THC posted:Well, I guess it's a step above "stand against the savage hordes"
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Oct 26, 2013 03:32
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All parties must use the same colour and font in all materials, from websites to flyers. What colour and font? Well, the most unappealing ones possible, why not.
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Christie Blatchford has a piece up on the Duffy/Wallin/Brazeau fiasco (they should shut up and stop embarrassing Stephen Harper) It also contains her erotic recollections of prior sexual affairs 
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Oct 26, 2013 04:46
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Someone with more money than me should troll by also buying ad space and putting maps of various empires and their decline over the centuries on them.
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Funkdreamer posted:Christie Blatchford has a piece up on the Duffy/Wallin/Brazeau fiasco (they should shut up and stop embarrassing Stephen Harper) Was Mike Duffy one of them?
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HookShot posted:Someone with more money than me should troll by also buying ad space and putting maps of various empires and their decline over the centuries on them. I was thinking it would be pretty cool if someone would paste a pair of cute palestinian children between the canadian/israeli ones because a) we have a national collective hard-on for being conciliators and peace-makers and b) any group demanding that they be taken down would just come off as cartoonishly evil ("so you are literally saying you don't want canadian children to get along with palestinian children?")
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Mr. Wynand posted:I was thinking it would be pretty cool if someone would paste a pair of cute palestinian children between the canadian/israeli ones because a) we have a national collective hard-on for being conciliators and peace-makers and b) any group demanding that they be taken down would just come off as cartoonishly evil ("so you are literally saying you don't want canadian children to get along with palestinian children?") You know, it's a sad day when I read such completely honest naivete and have to shake my head. Of course they would say that, because they can. The Israel rabid base is unabashedly and cartoonishly evil, and the media would give them a fair hearing.
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Kafka Esq. posted:You know, it's a sad day when I read such completely honest naivete and have to shake my head. Of course they would say that, because they can. The Israel rabid base is unabashedly and cartoonishly evil, and the media would give them a fair hearing. I'm not saying they wouldn't, but it would be an obviously unambiguously cartoonishly evil thing to do for anyone watching that isn't already heavily vested in one side or the other. I really think most people's view of Israel's policy is more ignorant then anything else but that could easily be just be my adorable boyish naivete.
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I'm not so sure support for Israel amongst Canadian is as strong as you guys say. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news.../article554580/ (Title is somewhat misleading, the main point that stuck out to me was the Palestinian support as opposed to... the opposition to.)
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Daynab posted:I'm not so sure support for Israel amongst Canadian is as strong as you guys say. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news.../article554580/ 35% of Canadians favour recognizing a Palestinian state. 35% is a majority in Canada, isn't it?
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Hexigrammus posted:35% of Canadians favour recognizing a Palestinian state. 35% is a majority in Canada, isn't it? A stable and strong one or so I hear.
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Hexigrammus posted:35% of Canadians favour recognizing a Palestinian state. 35% is a majority in Canada, isn't it? The quote to put this in context: "Its survey of 1,500 adult Canadians, between Nov. 21 and Dec. 14, showed that three times as many Canadians (35 per cent) support the Palestinian bid as oppose it (11 per cent). Notably, more than half of Canadians surveyed (53 per cent) say they have no opinion on the matter."
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One of the few things I miss about living in Europe is that barely anyone gives a poo poo about i/p. It's reported in the news but you don't see nearly the same amount of activism.
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Cultural Imperial posted:One of the few things I miss about living in Europe is that barely anyone gives a poo poo about i/p. It's reported in the news but you don't see nearly the same amount of activism. The guy who stands at Avenue and Bloor with a big sandwich board proclaiming that U of T is anti-Israel, that Israeli apartheid isn't real, and that we are ignoring 'creeping Jihad' in favour of blaming Israel totally counts as activism, he's just also a crazy person.
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The PQ is backing off and won't be calling an election this fall. Which means I get a byelection in my riding, Outremont.  Will the PLQ candidate win with 40% of the vote or 50%? Will the PQ or Québec Solidaire come in second? Stay tuned! vyelkin posted:No I'm writing a paper about Ukrainian politics right now. Just because Yanukovych's a terrible Putin-clone doesn't mean the Orange Revolution itself wasn't great. The part where the Orange Coalition imploded into a flurry of infighting and mutual finger-pointing isn't something you want to remind people of. Pinterest Mom fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Oct 26, 2013 |
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Cultural Imperial posted:One of the few things I miss about living in Europe is that barely anyone gives a poo poo about i/p. It's reported in the news but you don't see nearly the same amount of activism. I live in Canada, and no one really gives a poo poo about i/p around here either (St. John's). It's on the news, but there's no activism around here at all. We're probably the demographic that's part of the 53% with no opinion.
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Oct 26, 2013 18:44
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There's a pro-PQ charter manif in Montréal today, but it's raining. 
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That's different because those ladies aren't shoving Shariah law down everyone's throats.
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Sovy Kurosei posted:The quote to put this in context: "Its survey of 1,500 adult Canadians, between Nov. 21 and Dec. 14, showed that three times as many Canadians (35 per cent) support the Palestinian bid as oppose it (11 per cent). Notably, more than half of Canadians surveyed (53 per cent) say they have no opinion on the matter." I'll thank you not to be injecting my Canadian Majority(tm) opinion with facts, objectivity, balance, or, worst of all, mathematics. Lame humour aside, it would be interesting to know what's behind that 53%. How much is apathy versus an understanding that that part of the world has some very complex problems going back thousands of years.
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Sassafras posted:Outside of a few hotbeds like Concordia University, nobody cares here either. (Mind you, I'm also out in BC where we similarly don't care about things like French language issues & Quebec) God, really? I spent six years in Vancouver and that fight was everywhere, with Israel overwhelmingly demonized.
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I'm pretty sure whatever counts as a Vancouverite demonizing Israel is far kinder than telling the objective truth about what they've been doing.
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Poor, scrappy little Israel. They just want to build their settlements in peace.
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