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set phasers for SOCIALISM  https://twitter.com/jjhorgan/status/1057812303846891520?s=21
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What's with the NDP and Star Trek?
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Nov 1, 2018 19:19
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I really, really don't want to know the answer to that question.
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EvidenceBasedQuack posted:What's with the NDP and Star Trek? Obsession with the thingamajig that just gives you whatever you ask it for, without you having to pay a cent.
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Nov 1, 2018 19:29
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EvidenceBasedQuack posted:What's with the NDP and Star Trek? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQQYbKT_rMg Star Trek (used to) posit a future where poverty and need no longer exist in human society because we've learned to stop loving each other over and grow from each other's differences, gee I can't imagine why there'd be fans of something like that in a nominally left wing political party
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Tighclops posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQQYbKT_rMg Also fwiw the Federation is completely egalitarian, unless you're gay or Maquis.
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Nov 1, 2018 19:41
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James Baud posted:Obsession with the thingamajig that just gives you whatever you ask it for, without ftfy
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Nov 1, 2018 19:43
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The Maquis were poo poo for brains space libertarians and I'm glad the Dominion burned most of them to death and turned the rest into refugees
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Nov 1, 2018 19:44
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tbf, Scheer is also a Trekker
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THC posted:tbf, Scheer is also a Trekker There are a lot of people whose only real fascination with it are the colour palette and the vaguely military trappings, everything else they either gloss over or openly complain about I suspect conservative trekkies are the human equivalent of a cat batting a ball of tin foil around
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Nov 1, 2018 19:48
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every right wing trekker i've encountered to date got extremely upset when I pointed out the contradiction
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Nov 1, 2018 20:05
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I think that the JJ Abrams Star Trek films are a pretty good indicator of what market research revealed to be the essence of Star Trek to nostalgic baby boomers and you won't find any hint whatsoever of utopian socialism, futurist speculation or people in poorly fitting jumpsuits and weird makeup talking about high culture.
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Nov 1, 2018 20:22
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https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1056693271127191552
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Nov 1, 2018 20:27
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I wonder how that kid would react if you told him that in the year 2018 he'd be eating an all-beef diet and getting in public fights with his antisemitic twitter followers.
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Nov 1, 2018 20:28
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quote:Peterson’s ample ego formed early. One of his first memories is watching Robert Kennedy’s funeral on TV and thinking, I’ll have a funeral like that one day. When he was 13, his school librarian was Sandy Notley, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s mother, and she introduced him to George Orwell, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Ayn Rand. He worked for the NDP throughout most of his teenage years. While he admired leaders like Ed Broadbent, he became disillusioned by the party’s peevish functionaries. He found Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier, which he read as an undergrad at Grand Prairie, enlightening: “Orwell did a political-psychological analysis of the motivations of the intellectual, tweed-wearing middle-class socialist and concluded that people like that didn’t like the poor; they just hated the rich,” he says. “I thought, Aha! That’s it: it’s resentment.” Anyone who set out to change the world by first changing other people was suspicious. So relatable.
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Nov 1, 2018 20:35
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Thanks thread!
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Nov 1, 2018 20:57
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that's not what The Road to Wigan Pier is about at all
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https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1058069927792402435?s=19 Okay
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Nov 1, 2018 22:03
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My Google feed is full of JBP-related articles. What is happening?
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we'd love to help solve climate change, but you commies are making us not want to because you're making it all political ugh
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Helsing posted:I think that the JJ Abrams Star Trek films are a pretty good indicator of what market research revealed to be the essence of Star Trek to nostalgic baby boomers and you won't find any hint whatsoever of utopian socialism, futurist speculation or people in poorly fitting jumpsuits and weird makeup talking about high culture. I'm printing this out and putting it on my loving wall
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A Typical Goon posted:that's not what The Road to Wigan Pier is about at all to quote the recent guardian article, he is the leader of the guardians of the galaxy brains
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Nov 2, 2018 01:02
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Wow can't wait to watch him blow Steve Bannon live on the South American Blood Money Debates
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Nov 2, 2018 06:29
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Eat David Frum
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Nov 2, 2018 16:07
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https://twitter.com/Mikeggibbs/status/1058369442382397440 I just don't understand how that got through the spitballing stage.
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Nov 2, 2018 16:19
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That sure is some fantastic kerning.
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Nov 2, 2018 16:23
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You really have to appreciate how absolutely everything these guys make looks like it was designed by someone's nephew who is "good with computers" and "a bit of an artist". Sloppy dogshit garbage is one hell of a brand identity, I tell you what
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Nov 2, 2018 16:28
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I mean I guess it makes sense for a populist party to brand themselves by making everything look like it was made with a 20 year old copy of Corel Draw that came free with a computer magazine. It's a distillation of every small business ad I've ever seen on rural diner placemats and community newsletters in southern Ontario.
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Nov 2, 2018 16:31
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From now on the official font of the government of Ontario will be Comic Sans because it reminds baby boomers of their last church basement pot luck
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Nov 2, 2018 16:43
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It's also a way of reaching out to the dyslexia lobby.
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Also this fits perfectly within my tripartite model of Canadian politics where the Liberals are the party of big businessmen, the Conservatives are the party of insane small business owners, and the NDP are the party of underemployed people with graduate degrees.
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vyelkin posted:From now on the official font of the government of Ontario will be Comic Sans because it reminds baby boomers of their last church basement pot luck There's a township down by kingston that has all their street signs and everything in comic sans
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Slotducks posted:https://twitter.com/Mikeggibbs/status/1058369442382397440 I'd bet my left nut this sign was printed by Deco, they overcharged and it was a single sourced contract
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Another Bill posted:I'd bet my left nut this sign was printed by Deco, they overcharged and it was a single sourced contract One way to find out.
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Nov 2, 2018 17:30
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Who do you even FOIA for that?
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infernal machines posted:Who do you even FOIA for that? Just send it to the premier's office, let it get bounced around from there.
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Subjunctive posted:Just send it to the premier's office, let it get
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Unfortunately, there isn't a FOI contact for that office https://www.ontario.ca/page/directory-institutions
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I asked Economic Development and Growth if it was them, because why not.
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