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Helsing posted:Based on the Green party's actions in government I really don't see why we should want to give them a permanent place in the legislature honestly. I think progressives really fetishize proportional representation as some kind of panacea for our problems when the truth is most of the actions we need the government to be taking right now are likely to be deeply unpopular and will, if anything, be hindered by a more representative political system. Oh yah, Weaver is scum and an idiot, and I'm pissed Horgan was willing to delay minimum wage increase to appease him. At least it looks like they are fooling him on deregulation to help Uber, so far. I just wish Horgan would take more of a lesson from Dave Barrett and govern more desperately. They're not gonna be able to rely on Wilkinson being a total clown forever! I'm with you on UBI, it sounds like a nightmare, but I would like voting reform, just to see what it's be like. I don't think it solve anything by itself necessarily.
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Blood Boils posted:Oh yah, Weaver is scum and an idiot, and I'm pissed Horgan was willing to delay minimum wage increase to appease him. At least it looks like they are fooling him on deregulation to help Uber, so far. I just wish Horgan would take more of a lesson from Dave Barrett and govern more desperately. They're not gonna be able to rely on Wilkinson being a total clown forever! the thing about voting reform is it instantly solves like two problems that people love to gripe about, which are strategic voting and voters stuck in dead zones where they know their vote won't matter (socialists in Alberta, conservatives in downtown Toronto), but the parties would pretty obviously just change the way they operate and settle into a new status quo based on the new voting trends (for example, a permanent Liberal-Conservative unofficial coalition with them rotating who's prime minister based on whoever won the most votes last election) and there's no guarantee that status quo wouldn't suck just as much as the current one
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Helsing posted:As much as I hate the media bailout I will never forget how one of Jesse Brown's big complaints about the idea of bailing out newspapers was that as a small business owner he was looking forward to the chance to hire journalists for cheap when their current jobs exploded and he didn't appreciate the government making that harder with subsidies. It sucks that the only real media criticism we have in Canada is some libertarian jerkoff who spends half of every episode selling mattresses and Keurigs.
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incontinence 100 posted:I don't understand why anyone would waste time listening to a podcast about Canadian politics.
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vyelkin posted:the thing about voting reform is it instantly solves like two problems that people love to gripe about, which are strategic voting and voters stuck in dead zones where they know their vote won't matter (socialists in Alberta, conservatives in downtown Toronto), but the parties would pretty obviously just change the way they operate and settle into a new status quo based on the new voting trends (for example, a permanent Liberal-Conservative unofficial coalition with them rotating who's prime minister based on whoever won the most votes last election) and there's no guarantee that status quo wouldn't suck just as much as the current one Strategic voting is just so, so stupid, this said, I am strategically voting in October.
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Fashionable Jorts posted:Lol I didn't think I could dislike this little shitweasel more, but here we go. Every couple weeks I get some mail dropped off thats basically if a facebook meme your racist uncle shared was written by someone paid by the word. Great news! https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ashamed-cooper-suri-committee-chaos-1.5156624 quote:A parliamentary committee exploring online hate descended into chaos this week after a Conservative MP told a Muslim witness he should be "ashamed" after he drew a link between "conservative commentators" and the online history of mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette. He's an even bigger piece of poo poo than you could ever have imagined!
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he read the Christchurch terrorist's manifesto into the record. totally-not-a-nazi level: expert
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guys. guys. GUYS. Jon Kay still uses a Blackberry https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/1134523282286370816
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vyelkin posted:the thing about voting reform is it instantly solves like two problems that people love to gripe about, which are strategic voting and voters stuck in dead zones where they know their vote won't matter (socialists in Alberta, conservatives in downtown Toronto), but the parties would pretty obviously just change the way they operate and settle into a new status quo based on the new voting trends (for example, a permanent Liberal-Conservative unofficial coalition with them rotating who's prime minister based on whoever won the most votes last election) and there's no guarantee that status quo wouldn't suck just as much as the current one For sure, and that's probably my root motivation for supporting it: to convince peeps to just vote for the candidate they like the most out of their options (ideally for policy more than personality but w/e) instead of tricking themselves out it. Like your gonna be pissed off anyways, no need to add to it
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Rutibex posted:i agree, the rabble must be controlled. we should bring back the property qualifications to vote to further enhance the governments effectiveness. maybe even absolute monarchy. Given all the invisible constraints on our "democracy" and the pathetically low voter participation rates of the poor and the young who can say our election outcomes would even be that different if we had explicit property requirements for voting? It's not as though anyone in politics currently gives a poo poo about the 30% or so of the electorate who don't own their homes.
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49th Parahell is an alright canpol podcast, from what little I listened to. There was a good episode on the Quebec elections.
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bUt CaNaDa Is A cArBoN sInK https://twitter.com/jessejenkins/status/1134673872052260866?s=21
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cardon diocalypse
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vyelkin posted:forests are only a carbon sink as long as they aren't on fire And they soak the forests in weed killer to kill fire-retardant trees so they don't displace the timber industry's beloved conifers, which are highly flammable
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oh thank christ the winds shifted I could only see buildings like 3 blocks today, but I could see clear smoke in the hallways of my building, which attaches to a major trauma center. Sitting in my office, like a camp fire with no smores. Totally normal day and world
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Why do 'average Canadians' still trust that no, Conservatives don't get their walking orders from the 666 Super Rich?
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Amicus curiae posted:Why do 'average Canadians' still trust that no, Conservatives don't get their walking orders from the 666 Super Rich? they don't think about it
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vyelkin posted:they don't think about it They think about it, THEY DON'T CARE. Most of them are single-issue voters, be it pipelines, abortion, or owning the libs. "so if i vote for you, you're going to cut taxes, feign financial problems, and then destroy the medical system keeping me alive? well, that sucks, but at least you're gonna electrocute the gays away, right? you got my vote" There's also the incredible stupidity leaking over the border. I've talked to my dad once in ~4 years, and within 5 minutes he went straight into Hillary Clinton's evil deeds and how Trump will "save us". You can't imagine how stupid the average conservative voter is until you try to discuss anything with them without it turning into straight up conspiracy bullshit.
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The typical canadian is the guy in my classes from iran who wears a make canada great again hat, christian propaganda shirts, says trump is good for family values, and the libs are part of the post modern secular conspiracy He got kicked from the program for telling his female supervisors at the hospital that he couldnt take them seriously because they were women I'm looking forward to the tory majority
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theres a chud guy who hangs around in the public lobby of the building I work in. always wearing a MAGA hat, always with one headphone in his ear, listening to infowars (or at least just keeping the logo up on the screen prominently displayed, like holding the phone weird to make it easier for passerby's to see.) the first few days i saw the guy in 2016/7 it was kinda funny, this rear end in a top hat just trolling people by wearing it. figured he had a gopro set up somewhere to get reactions. But its 2019 now. Buddy's still there. same hat. Different shirt every few days, but basically always wearing the same redpill poo poo, doing the same thing, standing there in the middle of the lobby near the toronto financial district just... wearing a maga hat and making it very VERY clear this is INFOWARS not some snowflake podcast he's listening to
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ndp: we are going to do marginally more to address climate change than the liberals liberals: https://twitter.com/cathmckenna/status/1134514699536687105?s=21 DariusLikewise has issued a correction as of 22:56 on Jun 1, 2019 |
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corporate profits are the most sacred parts of nature
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If you don't vote for us it means the conservatives will win. is a helluva election strategy.
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Remember this nerd? https://twitter.com/CBCPolitics/status/1134235901901660166
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incontinence 100 posted:If you don't vote for us it means the conservatives will win. is a helluva election strategy. This was the message in Educational Rapper, Baba Brinkman's 2011 hit rap, Don't Vote For Mean People. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHl_Oi-u7rs
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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:Remember this nerd?
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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:Remember this nerd? 
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lmaoooo holy gently caress thats so good
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speaking of that squirrely gently caress https://twitter.com/andrewscheer/status/1134980226604306432?s=21 https://twitter.com/andrewscheer/status/1134980227480850440?s=21 surprised the melted wax candle leading the cpc did something about it
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Smart, trying to regain the conservative Muslim vote Harper pissed away with his barbarian phone line
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DariusLikewise posted:ndp: we are going to do marginally more to address climate change than the liberals you could say it's... a middle of the road approach to climate change
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I'm super glad the Libs and NDP are slinging poo poo at one another like monkeys at the zoo while the cons actually make an effort to appeal to the masses. Can't wait till I'm in a breadline wearing a respirator to protect from the perpetual fires and sipping river water after our 100 year old aqueduct finally collapses, at least I'll know the libs showed those idiots in the NDP who had a better do-nothing climate policy.
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Is this from Space Muntiny?
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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:This was the message in Educational Rapper, Baba Brinkman's 2011 hit rap, Don't Vote For Mean People. this guy is the son of the owner of the largest reforestation company in Canada who have deep, deep ties to the bc liberal party
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