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DariusLikewise
Oct 4, 2008

You wore that on Halloween?
I think PostMedia is supposed to run out of money in a little over a year, can't come soon enough, jesus.

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Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

https://twitter.com/iD4RO/status/998957974033874944

patonthebach
Aug 22, 2016

by R. Guyovich

A Typical Goon posted:

Not surprised our resident CF member is dumb as poo poo

Not even in the CF just not such an edgelord I am scared of wearing a poppy and piercing a nipple by accident.

Thanks though I guess. Hot take on calling the libs right wing though

patonthebach
Aug 22, 2016

by R. Guyovich
Did anyone else watch that corny debate? I thought Fry's opening remarks were good, but couldn't bother to listen to petersons terrible inflection.

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011

patonthebach posted:

Not even in the CF just not such an edgelord I am scared of wearing a poppy and piercing a nipple by accident.

Thanks though I guess. Hot take on calling the libs right wing though

Privatization is a right wing policy.

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

E-May decided the Dodge Viper was the best vehicle/float to represent the Green Party in the Victoria day parade.

Isizzlehorn
Feb 25, 2010

:lesnick::lesnick::lesnick::lesnick::lesnick::lesnick:

tekz posted:

Who privatized hydro again?

Harris?

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

DariusLikewise posted:

I think PostMedia is supposed to run out of money in a little over a year, can't come soon enough, jesus.
it'll just be bought out by an even richer tycoon with unlimited amounts of money to waste on propaganda, like Jeff Bezos

A Typical Goon
Feb 25, 2011

patonthebach posted:

Not even in the CF just not such an edgelord I am scared of wearing a poppy and piercing a nipple by accident.

Thanks though I guess. Hot take on calling the libs right wing though

*Sees party privatize tons of public services for a fraction of their worth so they can campaign on *balanced budgets’*

This is leftism to me :how:

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
The Liberals are the party of big business. Big business doesn't really care about your sexuality or your gender or your race, but hoo boy does it ever care about low taxes and privatization and corruption.

If your primary concerns are social and cultural, the Liberals appear left-wing because they do things like promote trans equality and sex ed. If your primary concerns are economic, the Liberals appear right-wing because they ruthlessly cut the size of the state. They're the perfect party for the dumbass centrist "fiscally conservative but socially liberal" Canadian, except they're so corrupt that most of the time they can't even get the fiscally conservative part right because they're so dedicated to selling profitable public assets at a loss to their friends on Bay Street.

patonthebach
Aug 22, 2016

by R. Guyovich

tekz posted:

Privatization is a right wing policy.

And the OLP are garbage. I'm not voting for wynne mostly because of the hydro one selloff.

The liberal party of canada is still left wing in the canadian political landscape.

A Typical Goon
Feb 25, 2011
Just because you say something enough times doesn’t make it true. The Liberals, like the democrats in the States are a centre-right party

resistentialism
Aug 13, 2007

vyelkin posted:

except they're so corrupt that most of the time they can't even get the fiscally conservative part right

This goes for just about any right wing party though (to the point where you'd think it's a structural failing of the whole idea)

smoke sumthin bitch
Dec 14, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
is taxing the population and transferring the wealth to private corporations left wing or right wing? it doesn't really matter when all our mainstream political parties are way up on the authoritarianism scale, horseshoe theory is very much true

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

OLP is campaigning right now on their desire to invoke back-to-work legislation on legally striking teachers. Doesn’t come much more leftist than that.

A Typical Goon
Feb 25, 2011

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

is taxing the population and transferring the wealth to private corporations left wing or right wing? it doesn't really matter when all our mainstream political parties are way up on the authoritarianism scale, horseshoe theory is very much true

libertarianism is very much right wing and very much retarded hth

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011

patonthebach posted:

And the OLP are garbage. I'm not voting for wynne mostly because of the hydro one selloff.

The liberal party of canada is still left wing in the canadian political landscape.

Words mean things my man.

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

A Typical Goon posted:

*Sees party privatize tons of public services for a fraction of their worth so they can campaign on *balanced budgets’*

This is leftism to me :how:
But but but they plagiarized like 3 ndp campaign promises and the ndp is radical far left so so that must make the libs centre left

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
Love that left wing strike breaking

https://twitter.com/OntLiberal/status/999309538338762752

smoke sumthin bitch
Dec 14, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

A Typical Goon posted:

libertarianism is very much right wing and very much retarded hth

LOL see thats what they want you to think. there are all kinds of libertarian marxists/socialists/syndicalists philosophies out there. youve never heard of noam chomsky?

PittTheElder
Feb 13, 2012

:geno: Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

Left-libertarianism exists, but it's such a totally different entity that I've never seen it references without it being pre-pended with 'left-'. Libertarianism absolutely means all the (generally American) hyper right wing taxation-is-theft monetary-policy-is-unforgivable Murray Rothbard types.

PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 19:14 on May 23, 2018

A Typical Goon
Feb 25, 2011

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

LOL see thats what they want you to think. there are all kinds of libertarian marxists/socialists/syndicalists philosophies out there. youve never heard of noam chomsky?

Ah yes, known hater of taxes, Noam Chomsky.

https://youtu.be/gsUJGwZcVVU

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

“Neoliberalism” “Libertarianism” “classical liberalism” “post-left anarchy” are all rebrandings of the same lumpen Thatcherite ideology everyone under 40 hates, unless they have rich parents and/or brain worm parasites

smoke sumthin bitch
Dec 14, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

A Typical Goon posted:

Ah yes, known hater of taxes, Noam Chomsky.

https://youtu.be/gsUJGwZcVVU

you can be libertarian and not be anti all forms of taxation and redistributions of wealth is what im tyring to say

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

“Libertarians” would have basically all wealth redistributed to the elite whether they realize it or not

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

THC posted:

“Libertarians” would have basically all wealth redistributed to the elite whether they realize it or not

The current elite are rich due to government interference in the economy, this is very bad. Oh no my system will have just as bad if not worse inequality, but the elites will now be "natural elites" which is a very good and just outcome.

Why yes I, a failed small business owner, would surely be a natural elite, why do you ask? It was only the dastardly government and their building code tyranny that stopped me from my rightful rise to riches.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


If it wasn't for the minimum wage we'd all be millionaire Tim Hortons franchise owners :argh:

A Typical Goon
Feb 25, 2011

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

you can be libertarian and not be anti all forms of taxation and redistributions of wealth is what im tyring to say

Then why did you post “horseshoe theory is very much real” implying that anarcho-syndicalists like Chomsky and American style FYGM Libertarians like Charles Koch share a similar ideology?

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

Trudeau: "we are phasing out subsidies to the fossil fuel industry"
also Trudeau: "yes, we are literally paying a fossil fuel company to build a fossil fuel project"

https://twitter.com/CBCPolitics/status/999358060614311936
https://twitter.com/CBCPolitics/status/999357740555350019

Juul-Whip fucked around with this message at 19:59 on May 23, 2018

Terror Sweat
Mar 15, 2009

zapplez posted:

Supposedly ol willie Clinton was a bad prez. Coulda fooled me

Luv to starve half a million children to death and to lock up every black person i see

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

Terror Sweat posted:

Luv to starve half a million children to death and to lock up every black person i see

my earliest memory of politics is Bill Clinton blowing up a medicine factory in Sudan and wiping out half of the country's medical supplies and nobody cared because he got his cock sucked by Lewinsky

A Typical Goon
Feb 25, 2011

Terror Sweat posted:

Luv to starve half a million children to death and to lock up every black person i see

Mandatory life sentences for drug offences and taking away prisoners rights to an education are actually extremely good things to white racists

smoke sumthin bitch
Dec 14, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

A Typical Goon posted:

Then why did you post “horseshoe theory is very much real” implying that anarcho-syndicalists like Chomsky and American style FYGM Libertarians like Charles Koch share a similar ideology?

you have to flip your horseshoe upside down like this

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

https://twitter.com/heerjeet/status/999104823394996225?s=21

Great work guys :downsbravo:

InfiniteZero
Sep 11, 2004

PINK GUITAR FIRE ROBOT

College Slice

THC posted:

my earliest memory of politics is Bill Clinton blowing up a medicine factory in Sudan and wiping out half of the country's medical supplies and nobody cared because he got his cock sucked by Lewinsky

One of my favourite Bill Clinton things was that Hunter S. Thompson was originally very excited by his progressive politics and ideals and then he had a sitdown with Clinton and within a few minutes he realized that his enthusiasm had been entirely misplaced (specifically I think it was over Clinton's stand on marijuana) and Hunter broodingly barely spoke as his dream of an actually progressive president died before his very eyes.

"Hunter was so offended, he gets up from the table, he came back in about 15 minutes with a tall drink, and he never asked another question. It was like, 'Interview was over for me — you showed me who you really are.'"

I think Thompson referred to Clinton as a "black hearted swine" afterwards.

This has been the template for my experience with every "progressive" leader too.

cowofwar
Jul 30, 2002

by Athanatos

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

you can be libertarian and not be anti all forms of taxation and redistributions of wealth is what im tyring to say
Libertarians are full on individualists so why would they support any form of taxes or wealth redistribution? I guess some are in favour of an army or something but that undermines their philosophy although all libertarians are retarded so I guess that’s unsurprising.

cowofwar
Jul 30, 2002

by Athanatos

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

you have to flip your horseshoe upside down like this

Those axes constrain a very small political space. Libertarianism vs authoritarianism what? Was the intention collectivism vs individualism? Because social democracies and republics can’t be described as authoritarian by definition and our political parties wouldn’t be on that plot at all.

cowofwar fucked around with this message at 21:10 on May 23, 2018

Helsing
Aug 23, 2003

DON'T POST IN THE ELECTION THREAD UNLESS YOU :love::love::love: JOE BIDEN

Reading some of these recent Sun articles on the existential danger posed by Muslims and how horrible it is that the NDP wants to provide dental care and ESL classes to refugees without demanding to see their documentation really makes me laugh at all the people who are concerned about Trumpism leaking into our politics. It's already here and it's been here for a long time.

It really shouldn't be lost on us that several of the most prominent alt-right figureheads right now are Canadians.

cowofwar posted:

Libertarians are full on individualists so why would they support any form of taxes or wealth redistribution? I guess some are in favour of an army or something but that undermines their philosophy although all libertarians are retarded so I guess that’s unsurprising.

They are such individualists that they almost invariably seem to turn into fascists the second they feel shook.

Arabian Jesus
Feb 15, 2008

We've got the American Jesus
Bolstering national faith

We've got the American Jesus
Overwhelming millions every day

Odd request but does anyone have those old photos of Wayne Gates on a skateboard in a halfpipe from back when he was elected?

e: nm, found it

Arabian Jesus fucked around with this message at 22:02 on May 23, 2018

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tagesschau
Sep 1, 2006

D&D: HASBARA SQUAD
THE SPEECH SUPPRESSOR


Remember: it's "antisemitic" to protest genocide as long as the targets are brown.

A Typical Goon posted:

Just because you say something enough times doesn’t make it true. The Liberals, like the democrats in the States are a centre-right party

:ironicat:

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