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Postess with the Mostest posted:https://pressprogress.ca/here-are-pc-candidate-andrew-lawtons-worst-moments-so-far/ flakeloaf posted:The party in his head was more like a hate rally. Apparently December 6 is just a fake holiday forced on us by "feminazis", the Europeans are actually responsible for improving the state of Indigenous people, etc etc. Jesus christ
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Reince Penis posted:Fake news pieces, fake supporters, no deep details on a platform. It's going to work too. I've gotta say, watching Doug's campaign people toss Meredith Cartwright under the bus the second the story broke was great. It feels like there some strong loyalty within the PCPO these days. Really a cohesive political organization that's ready to come together for the benefit of Ontarians.
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DariusLikewise posted:https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/manitobas-trucking-industry-tears-provinces-carbon-tax-plan-as-lip-service-481983943.html I want to say I kinda agree with him. The tax should be used towards helping move towards more green products.
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Vintersorg posted:I want to say I kinda agree with him. The tax should be used towards helping move towards more green products. Yeah, he's right. If you want to defeat the idea that carbon taxes are a cash grab, maybe don't use the cash you're grabbing for things other than making the environment suck less?
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Vintersorg posted:I want to say I kinda agree with him. The tax should be used towards helping move towards more green products. I agree as well, I should have made that clear. As I said before Manitoba's "Carbon Tax" is really just an increased Fuel Tax that is being used to cut PST 1%(Which doesn't apply to fuel)
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quote:The precise mechanics of the algorithm remain a company secret. So far as anyone can tell, every like, dislike, comment or share counts as "engagement," as does clicking on a post or watching a video for more than a few seconds, and each boosts the odds that the same or related content will turn up in other feeds. Sounds like a PAC to me.
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flakeloaf posted:Sounds like a PAC to me. Interesting tidbit about the guy saying he's making normal stuff like memes about the weather or sports and it leads them to their page. I've noticed something similar with a page called "National Conservative News Network Canada" on Facebook. They make stupid but innocent stuff like the below so people share/like them and follow their page, but the actual page itself seems to be run by Candice Malcom and Faith Goldy and has some the most racist, transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic and anti-Liberal poo poo I've ever seen. Social Media is a loving disease.  
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flakeloaf posted:Sounds like a PAC to me. *As a third party advertiser, Ontario Proud is regulated by Ontario’s Election Finances Act. Donations to our Advertising Fund above $100 are reported to Elections Ontario per these requirements. Donors to this fund must be residents of Ontario.
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Postess with the Mostest posted:*As a third party advertiser, Ontario Proud is regulated by Ontario’s Election Finances Act. Donations to our Advertising Fund above $100 are reported to Elections Ontario per these requirements. Donors to this fund must be residents of Ontario. Oh, so it literally is a PAC; I'd just presumed. Bad me. Still not unblocking them on facebook, cause the only other way i'll not see them is to have the "racist grandma" talk with mom and that's just not worth it.
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Walked by Wab Kinew on my lunch with a couple coworkers - didn't realize it was him until someone pointed it out. He was just in some tshirt and jeans strolling around. I would have said hi and that I am voting for him otherwise. Hope he didn't think we were a bunch of white conservatives looking like nerds. 
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bunnyofdoom posted:So the MP who started the Weir investigation with an open email is herself suspended and under investigation for sexual misconduct  Honestly reading the allegations against her I was sort of like "heh whatever", then I realized how bad it would be if the genders were swapped. I guess don't throw people under the bus for being "creepy" when you are a rapist yourself. Edit: Jesus loving Christ this thread is hostile. "then I realized how bad it would be if the genders were swapped." That's me recognizing my initial response to the news was inappropriate, and acknowledging it's not a "heh whatever" story. Calm down Math You fucked around with this message at 22:29 on May 8, 2018 |
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"Let Faith Goldy espouse the virtues of a white ethnostate or else I'm pulling provincial funding from your university."
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Math You posted:Honestly reading the allegations against her I was sort of like "heh whatever", then I realized how bad it would be if the genders were swapped. There was a power imbalance. That's all that is required: genders don't even matter. You can't sit on the committee of somebody testifying during the day who you then gently caress (or try to gently caress) at night. InfiniteZero fucked around with this message at 21:38 on May 8, 2018 |
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You think rape of a disabled war vet who was plied with alcohol when they were on heavy painkillers, by a person of authority, is "heh whatever"? Jesus. Really puts the other NDP guy getting fired for being a creepy autist close talker, who never touched anyone, into perspective.
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patonthebach posted:You think rape of a disabled war vet who was plied with alcohol when they were on heavy painkillers, by a person of authority, is "heh whatever"? If you weren't tripping over yourself to get offended you might have seen I was identifying my own initial reaction as inappropriate. She's a rapist.
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Math You posted:If you weren't tripping over yourself to get offended you might have seen I was identifying my own initial reaction as inappropriate. She's a rapist. This post is rape.
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Reality Loser posted:Are we still arming the saudis for their war in Since we still haven't normalized relations with Iran, I am assuming we have increased exports.
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Uhh doesnt matter if the genders were swapped ? Its still immensely hosed up
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Femtosecond posted:Hector Bremner the supply side candidate backed by Mark Matissen and Vancouver Abundant Housing activists was denied his ability to run for the NPA even though he had signed up the most new members because the board was taken over by another candidate for Mayor, anti-everything, pro-viaduct Glen Chernan. If we end up with four or five viable parties with roughly equal support and roughly equal funding due to the new campaign finance laws, the next Vancouver municipal election is going to be very weird and very interesting.
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A brief update on the Erin Weir saga from someone adjacent to people adjacent to it all. According to the investigator's report, 15 women have entered complaints against Weir. The investigator has determined that 4 of them are serious enough to be considered harassment/sexual harassment. These occurred often and generally in the workplace or with work colleagues, where dynamics of power obviously come into play and makes actions/events more serious. One of the incidents - allegedly, this is all rumour mill - has him calling a woman "disgusting" (I don't know if this is one of the cases that is now being investigated or not). He also apparently doesn't understand "no" very well, with women having to push him from their personal space to get rid of him. It is important to note here that this isn't in sexually explicit situations with an immediately imminent threat of sexual assault/worse. More so that dude just has no loving clue when to stop "flirting" (again, not sure whether this is being formally investigated or not). As an aside, having met/seen/interacted with the dude a few times, I cringe to think what his attempts at flirtation looks like. Dude lives at the bottom of uncanny valley in terms of behaviour. For me, the above examples simply aren't the kind of language or behaviour I expect or want from MLAs/MPs. Going on television and providing enough information for listeners "in the know" to be able to ID an accuser is also pretty suspect behaviour. Which again also seems to breach acceptable behaviour of elected representatives. However, despite the running theme of "ew", it seems that Weir's reaction to the accusations is key here; if Weir had just owned up to it all initially, taken responsibility, and accepted the NDP's request for rehabilitative/restorative justice, he would still be part of party caucus and would be on the path back to acceptance. But he didn't, choosing instead to double down. Rejecting your party's internal attempts to solve the issue isn't exactly conducive to remaining part of that party. Generally speaking, there has to be a way back for people who have genuinely reformed/display a genuine desire to reform. Weir did not display that.
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Sounds like aspergers, not that it excuses anything. Did any of the 15 complainants ever tell him directly he was being inappropriate? Did any of this managers have verbal or written warnings to him? It sounds like it was immense amount of instances where he was inappropriate, but I wonder if he was even aware he was about to get canned.
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Yeah, there are lots of people publicly diagnosing (which is always pretty dangerous, even if it is hard to resist) him as being somewhere on the spectrum. I admit I wonder it myself. But, like you say, that doesn't change anything. But also yes - my understanding (again, secondhand account of secondhand accounts here) is that plenty of women have told him through the years that he is gross/uncomfortable/creepy/inappropriate/whatever. I don't know if those were specifically among the 15 registered complaints, but the dude had been made aware - sometimes with hostility - of the problems with his interactions with women.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:If we end up with four or five viable parties with roughly equal support and roughly equal funding due to the new campaign finance laws, the next Vancouver municipal election is going to be very weird and very interesting. Agreed! I'm loving done with Vision (respect for making the bike lanes happen though) at this point. NPA is Vision but worse in every way, Greens are just a loving useless rich boomer NIMBY joke party. Some sort of mixed up coalition between non lovely people from these parties (RIP Bremner) and independents (I like that Swanson lady) could be exactly what we need to really shake things up. Will be an interesting one for sure. As long as it doesn't end up being a NPA majority and nobody ends up loving with the bike infrastructure, I'll be happy for a big change.
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Tsyni posted:All MPs should be eunuchs. Without lust to drive and distract them they would just focus even more energy and time into increasingly sneaky and convoluted plots to increase their own wealth and power. Probably not a good idea. Every hour your MP spends trying to get into the pants of their interns is another hour they aren't picking your pocket. 
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The Butcher posted:Agreed! I'm loving done with Vision (respect for making the bike lanes happen though) at this point. NPA is Vision but worse in every way, Greens are just a loving useless rich boomer NIMBY joke party. Vision under Robertson made some significant mistakes (eg. too slow to enact Airbnb regulations, Robertson saying Andy Yan was racist) but amongst all the various municipal parties their policies have the best balance between demand and supply solutions to the housing crisis and I think that if they had had a more willing partner than the BC Liberals during the last four years, they would have been more effective. For example the party supports building more built purpose built rental, but without funding or powers to zone for rental tenure their only ability to do this was to give density bonuses to developers that built rental or below market rental instead of condos (which could be bought by speculators). Obviously it would have been a lot better if they had the revenue to simply build city owned rental (as they're doing now) or zone for rental (as the BCNDP have now allowed) but at least they got some rental built. Meanwhile in Burnaby their government let affordable rental get bulldozed for luxury condos. Next election will be pretty interesting, especially now that Bremner can't use the NPA as a vehicle. I expect that he and his Abundant Housing supporters will create a new party. If NDP MP Kennedy Stewart decides to be the Vision nominee for Mayor it'll be interesting to see whether he can reboot the party and whether voters will be willing to disassociate the various mistakes Gregor Robertson made from Vision. Anti-poverty activist Jean Swanson seems like a good voice to have on council to round out things, but will COPE get any traction beyond that? In the past they've shot themselves in the foot by adopting some real bad policies (eg. opposition to Broadway skytrain). Femtosecond fucked around with this message at 03:23 on May 9, 2018 |
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The Butcher posted:Without lust to drive and distract them they would just focus even more energy and time into increasingly sneaky and convoluted plots to increase their own wealth and power. Not just eunuchs then, but full on monks. Not allowed to own property.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Not just eunuchs then, but full on monks. Not allowed to own property. barred from any private work for 8 years after sitting in office, paid a living wage during that time
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Femtosecond posted:If we're keeping count there's now two NPA candidates that have bailed due to Hector Bremner not being allowed to run for mayor. I'd be shocked if the one remaining Abundant Housing guy doesn't bail too. That's good then. Actually my one fear is that the left ends up split between COPE, OneCity and Vision (like happened in the special election), leaving the NPA with a majority.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:That's good then. Actually my one fear is that the left ends up split between COPE, OneCity and Vision (like happened in the special election), leaving the NPA with a majority. Left being split and right being split and the result being a diverse set of councillors on council would be not so bad imo. The only person I'm really strongly against is Glen Chernan and Melissa De Genova. Carr is pretty lousy too.
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