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"A Canadian thread that can talk about politics when there's something political to talk about" seems reasonably serviceable, and the derails usually don't survive the arrival of relevant topics.
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3847177 Friendly reminder that we have a cspam canpol thread for all things helsing cracks down on 
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May 7, 2019 02:05
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I like when people post something local to them that hasn’t yet hit national media. I like when people get wonky about things like above-100% marginal tax rates. I’ve picked up a couple good book recommendations here and would totally attempt to engage in some kind of book-of-the-two-months thing. Could be history, politics, social justice, media, entertainment; national, provincial, local. Maybe try to pick things where there’s a thread expert on the topic who can answer some dumber questions and point to further reading? I don’t understand what the debt bubble thread is for. But its existence seems to cause me no harm. I appreciate bits like Better Know an Alberta Electoral District or les memes Quebecois no matter how thorough or complete. Overall I think the mods are doing well. Being reasonably but not infinitely patient with off-topic chat seems to go ok. Kicking out unrepentant racists is good. Many days a week I learn something from this thread that I wouldn’t otherwise, and as dorky as it sounds that’s really cool.
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May 7, 2019 02:20
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I think some regular chat should be allowed. There are the LAN threads but they're not all very active on day to day local news.
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May 7, 2019 02:23
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Canpol: Don't be a dick.
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May 7, 2019 02:24
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Pharaoh, set my posters free.
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May 7, 2019 02:25
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May 7, 2019 02:29
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A vote for less politics
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May 7, 2019 02:32
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First of all: Helsing, thank you for accepting this thankless task and trying to improve our community here.flakeloaf posted:"A Canadian thread that can talk about politics when there's something political to talk about" seems reasonably serviceable, and the derails usually don't survive the arrival of relevant topics. Agreed. If something seems to be seriously loving up the thread then by all means Helsing should deal with that, but it has to be something beyond "it's not strictly about Canadian politics." Furnaceface posted:Trying to balance good and bad news seems like a fools errand and anyone that posts here at all is going to see through any attempts to try and change the tone of our hellish new political landscape. This does not seem like a helpful attitude. Like, maybe just instead of focusing exclusively on the bad poo poo that's going on, we could try focusing on some of the work that people are doing to stop it? Alberta had student walkouts last week in response to Kenney's GSA bullshit, for example, and I didn't see anyone here mentioning it. We don't need to simply accept that poo poo is going to go from bad to worse and there's nothing anyone can do in response. TGRS had/has a rule where you can't post unrelentingly negative poo poo except in a quarantine thread, because relevant or not, it's not good to be exposed to the constant deluge of terrible poo poo that occurs in our world without respite. So, you know, maybe our political landscape is hosed right now. But there are still good things happening in this country, and even if they aren't, strictly speaking, of great importance, maybe we should talk about them anyway and celebrate them and derive pleasure from them, if for no other reason than to help us deal with the bad poo poo.
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May 7, 2019 02:32
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Franks Happy Place posted:Clapping for a landing is at least somewhat justifiable by the fact that the pilot is right there. It's like thanking your bus driver as you get off, I guess? People could just thank the pilot/crew as they get off the plane. I can't remember a single flight I have taken where the pilot/copilot wasn't right by the door when I got off.
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May 7, 2019 02:36
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flakeloaf posted:The people who sincerely clap in time with a song can gently caress off. The people who sincerely clap in time with a song, but on odd-numbered beats, can gently caress off twice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD3iaURppQw
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May 7, 2019 03:07
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EvidenceBasedQuack posted:Have you guys signed the GND Pact yet? Thanks, I signed it. That said, I am disappointed that Canada seems really behind on a Green New Deal movement. The sunrise movement is offering weekly training sessions for anyone wanting to organize and the Canadian Leap people have a section for “Get Involved” which is just signing a couple of petitions.
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May 7, 2019 03:20
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It’s a cynical space, but there nevertheless is a lot of knowledge in this thread. Maybe I’ve just Stockholmed myself after 8 years or whatever, but I like the cross-section of posters this thread/CanPol C-SPAM brings in. I will always be in favour of trying to encourage more high-effortish/good-faith posting, but I don’t have any original suggestions about how to make that happen. All that said I admit I suddenly feel the urge to figure out what it takes to earn a helsing sixer.
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May 7, 2019 05:01
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Something between this and this  with some (more) coy, liberal vagaries attached.
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May 7, 2019 05:14
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Nothing but images of Michael Ignatieff and Preston Manning
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May 7, 2019 05:32
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Looks like the Greens might take the Nanaimo Ladysmith riding helped in part by the Liberals dropping from 2nd place, to 4th and a NDP decline as well.
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May 7, 2019 05:35
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Femtosecond posted:Looks like the Greens might take the Nanaimo Ladysmith riding helped in part by the Liberals dropping from 2nd place, to 4th and a NDP decline as well. Looks like a pretty sure thing at this point.
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May 7, 2019 05:47
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On the other hand, turnout is cratering because less people give a gently caress about an election when they just have to vote again in another six months.
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May 7, 2019 06:01
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Big green vote partly because the greens absolutely cratered in the provincial by-election and the people who really wanted to vote green there but went NDP strategically (because government was on the line) are making up for it now that the pressure is off. Greens are gonna have a good election in the fall in BC and perhaps nationwide, boosted by a lot of Liberals holding their nose. Kinda like how they did provincially.
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May 7, 2019 06:05
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Personally I don't mind that this thread is sometimes a chat thread when there's a lull between political news stories. It's always seemed to me to be not just the place to talk about Canadian politics, but also the place where Canadian politics junkies hang out and talk about other stuff, and I think that's fine. I think on the whole we usually strike a good balance between talking about the news, talking about random stuff, and occasional effortposts and more in-depth discussion, even if it's sometimes a bit weird when two of those posting genres are happening at the same time.
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May 7, 2019 06:07
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I could go for a Nanaimo-Ladysmith right about now. That sounds tasty. e: for thread improvements, I think maybe a bit more positivity could help when and where it's warranted. I'll try and be some of that change when I can, I suppose. I mostly just find poo poo in the news or on Twitter and bring it out for people to laugh or get angry at because my own analytical skills are not amazing. HackensackBackpack fucked around with this message at 07:26 on May 7, 2019 |
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May 7, 2019 07:18
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Tighclops posted:nationalize all posts In celebration of us taking control of our local fates, a meme just for Helsing.  (RIP the briefly progressive past of the Quebec Liberal party)
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May 7, 2019 07:31
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infernal machines posted:Nothing but images of Michael Ignatieff and Preston Manning I will never stop posting Stockwell Day on his jetski.  
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May 7, 2019 07:42
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Helsing posted:Yeah, upon reflection, I think Michael Ignatieff was our Jeb! Please Rise Up infernal machines posted:Nothing but images of Michael Ignatieff and Preston Manning A mission to collect the various images of himself that Harper used to replace pictures of past Prime Ministers.
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May 7, 2019 08:55
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IMO the "debt bubble" is starting to pop, which makes the topic something that is likely to become explicitly political and therefore relevant to the main thread. On the other hand the debt thread is about making fun of dumb Canadian debtlords which is good and cool but also pretty negative in tone so if you want this thread to be more positive that may not be a good move Ok thanks for listening
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May 7, 2019 09:25
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Femtosecond posted:Looks like the Greens might take the Nanaimo Ladysmith riding helped in part by the Liberals dropping from 2nd place, to 4th and a NDP decline as well. NDP coming in third in a seat they held four months ago is the bigger embarrassment. With those margins Greens can also walk to reelection there in the fall. I half expect the party leadership to use this as an excuse to pull back on the Green New Deal talk as well.
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May 7, 2019 13:00
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DynamicSloth posted:NDP coming in third in a seat they held four months ago is the bigger embarrassment. With those margins Greens can also walk to reelection there in the fall. "We lost to the Liberals, better talk more like the Liberals to attract their voters." "We lost to the Greens, better avoid talking about the environment to attract their voters". Sounds like the NDP to me.
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May 7, 2019 14:21
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"A thing happened... move to the right" is basically the modern NDP. The only negative things I hear about the BCNDP, even among non-lefts, is that they "haven't done anything" and "keep waiting around" regarding housing and money laundering. People want to see cansino managers being frog-marched out, people want to see $3 million dollar student penthouses bought with literal bags of money laundered the same day through a casino seized, people want to see... anything, something. People voted the BCNDP in on a wave of anger about housing and the financial corruption and crimes related to it and were really expecting to see some heads roll.
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May 7, 2019 15:06
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Helsing posted:Current issues I would love to hear people's thoughts on: Longtime lurker/infrequent poster here. Take my input with a grain of salt.. Debt thread: I'm echoing earlier comments about not increasing the amount of negativity and/or cynicism ITT Mental health: positivity is great, but there's a lot to be angry about. I think how that anger is channeled makes a great difference. Ideas and constructive criticism go a long way vs. snide remarks. OTOH I realize this is a comedy website. I appreciate you taking the time to ask these questions  Politics chat vs. beer/keg/food: I don't mind some of it because it amuses me, but keeping the thread about politics is good. I think we've been doing better but maybe it's just me not paying attention.
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May 7, 2019 15:15
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On local radio this morning there's been a bit of chat about the by-election results but most of the coverage so far has been about Canada Post's loving up the image of a Nanaimo Bar on their latest stamp. Which they did, admittedly. We have our priorities.
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May 7, 2019 15:18
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That custard to crust ratio is a national travesty. I will say the general lack of federal politics kinda sucks, in favour of a revolving door of onpol and bertapol, but that could just be seasonal. I wasn't around for the last federal election. How bad was it?  Will also echo wrt mental health stuff: The world can be a gently caress, be excellent to eachother.
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May 7, 2019 15:50
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How do you gently caress up a nanaimo bar?
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May 7, 2019 15:54
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That's a very good question. Like 5 seconds on google image search comes up with entirely consistent depictions of how it should look. I think it honestly comes down to WESTERN ALIENATION. Independant Vancouver Island colony until we get the respect we deserve from Ottawa.
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May 7, 2019 16:03
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Aces High posted:How do you gently caress up a nanaimo bar? In a brawl with a bunch of drunken hicks?
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May 7, 2019 16:19
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Stickarts posted:
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May 7, 2019 16:23
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Baronjutter posted:That's a very good question. Like 5 seconds on google image search comes up with entirely consistent depictions of how it should look. I think it honestly comes down to WESTERN ALIENATION. Google is showing me a lot of variation, some similar to that stamp in fact, but that is indeed way too much custard compared to the other layers.
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May 7, 2019 16:27
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Helsing posted:I'm as curious as you are. Well we have to make sure the button works. You know, for science.
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May 7, 2019 16:40
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Someone make an effort OP and gently caress the guy with the Australian avatar who did otherwise
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May 7, 2019 16:47
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My wife was in Toronto late last week and she said she ran across protesters who were being yelled at by Bikers in MAGA hats
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DariusLikewise posted:Someone make an effort OP and gently caress the guy with the Australian avatar who did otherwise lol I was going to make one when the last thread got closed but ended up losing all motivation when this one already existed. This one's fine for now imo, I'll make a new one when we're actually close to the federal election.
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