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It depends how radical your lawmakers and how willing to bend the rules you are, really. So in Canada, it's impossible.
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Voted NDP in Manitoba back during the advance voting but Manitoba is horrible and will re-elect Pallister and I'm already in the acceptance stage of grief.
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Sep 11, 2019 01:55
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Sep 11, 2019 02:00
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Utgardaloki posted:It depends how radical your lawmakers and how willing to bend the rules you are, really. Yeah it basically boils down less to economics and more to political will. Like back in the cold war days when South America was dabbling with communism the stuff that tended to get the CIA feeling all coup-y was where they would just straight up seize foreign controlled assets for the nation. There's no reason that couldn't be done for domestic controlled industries either, but it would at the very least require a government willing to actually write legislation that says something along the lines of "electricity is in the common interest of the nation and cannot be owned by the private sector". If they're feeling nice they might offer to buy the assets at a reasonable price before the law goes into effect and they just seize it by default. Of course, nobody this radical in Canada has any hope of getting anywhere near enough power to actually make it happen, so it basically just boils down to the private entities running themselves into the ground and then making the public clean up the mess they created while the executives bail on huge golden parachutes. And even if Canadian politicians WERE this radical, there's still that issue mentioned above where our neighbour to the south might decide that it's time for a bit of regime change, "for our own good".
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Sep 11, 2019 02:04
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Coxswain Balls posted:It begins I’m out drinking as we speak. And uh, posting on a forum. Don’t think about that one too hard
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Sep 11, 2019 02:16
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The CBC man on the Manitoba election broadcast just said 64 is close to double 49 so hm.
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Sep 11, 2019 02:25
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Vintersorg posted:How hard is it to reverse privatization? Usually very, because unless the government is willing to just take the asset, they have to offer something like "market value", which is usually considerably more than they sold it off for in the first place. See: Ontario Hydro Pinterest Mom posted:The CBC man on the Manitoba election broadcast just said 64 is close to double 49 so hm. Grenier?
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Sep 11, 2019 03:07
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CBC calling a PC Majority. RIP Hydro, MPI and MLCC.
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Sep 11, 2019 03:11
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Chugging a beer for uh, my own sanity?
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Sep 11, 2019 03:13
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The only thing better than a terrible election night is waking up with a wicked hangover and a PC government, take it from me, an Ontarian.
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Sep 11, 2019 03:15
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infernal machines posted:The only thing better than a terrible election night is waking up with a wicked hangover and a PC government, take it from me, an Ontarian. I’ve got the morning off so I’m gonna have a good go at it here.
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Sep 11, 2019 03:16
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Good luck friend.
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Sep 11, 2019 03:17
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Well, no wonder everyone here is so bummed. I get it now. Hope is false. gently caress this province. It’s not worth giving a poo poo about any politics. I can’t wait for this world to end.
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Sep 11, 2019 03:18
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Welcome to your Canada years
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Sep 11, 2019 03:25
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Have you considered spending half the year in Costa Rica?
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Sep 11, 2019 03:26
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James Baud posted:Have you considered spending half the year in Costa Rica? The hard part is finding the half Pallister isn't there.
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Sep 11, 2019 03:28
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Looks like my riding flipped to the NDP so that's nice.
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Sep 11, 2019 03:32
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PCs will sell liquor stores over the next 3 years, they will retain the LC for import and taxing of liquor Pallister will retire in 3 years and join the board of directors of the newly privatized liquor stores Some ghoulish old white guy will become the new Premier
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Sep 11, 2019 03:34
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https://twitter.com/l_stone/status/1171577470782509056
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Sep 11, 2019 03:45
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I am so not looking forward to this month and a half of bullshit.
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Sep 11, 2019 03:51
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SHAQ4PREZ posted:Looks like my riding flipped to the NDP so that's nice. Same. Too bad about rural southern Manitoba though.
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Sep 11, 2019 03:59
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Wasn't aware election campaign songs were still a thing.
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Sep 11, 2019 04:01
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I’m not listening to it. I’m assuming it’s a remix of that song that one goon submitted for the Hockey Night In Canada contest that was just crying babies, cats meowing and automatic rifle fire.
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Sep 11, 2019 04:03
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nine-gear crow posted:I’m not listening to it. I’m assuming it’s a remix of that song that one goon submitted for the Hockey Night In Canada contest that was just crying babies, cats meowing and automatic rifle fire. im still pissed cbc removed that gem from the voting because it was getting 4chan boosted
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Sep 11, 2019 04:08
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DariusLikewise posted:PCs will sell liquor stores over the next 3 years, they will retain the LC for import and taxing of liquor You forgot that the old white guy who will become the new Premier will be NDP and over several terms the leadership will crumble and become corrupt and then Manitoba will elect Pallister's right hand (Goertzen I guess?) to be the Premier and he will slash and burn and privatize and join the board of directors of whatever he spearheaded the decimation of and then ... (REPEAT INFINITELY)
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Sep 11, 2019 04:12
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vyelkin posted:im loving the new green party platform of "vote for us and your candidate will do whatever, gently caress it, we have no idea" This is in stark contrast to the Liberal platform of "vote for us and every candidate will do whatever, gently caress it, we lied but what are you going to do, vote for Kodos?".
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Sep 11, 2019 04:13
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Fun seeing all the vote splitting on the left.
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Sep 11, 2019 04:21
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DynamicSloth posted:Wasn't aware election campaign songs were still a thing. The PQ and Bloc Québécois still have one nearly every election because they're never going to stop trying to relive 1976, and some fringe wackos like Max Bernier have their own personal song but yeah, I don't think it's a thing in the ROC much.
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Sep 11, 2019 04:22
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InfiniteZero posted:You forgot that the old white guy who will become the new Premier will be NDP and over several terms the leadership will crumble and become corrupt and then Manitoba will elect Pallister's right hand (Goertzen I guess?) to be the Premier and he will slash and burn and privatize and join the board of directors of whatever he spearheaded the decimation of and then ... (REPEAT INFINITELY) How long do you assume this planet can sustain our dumb species with this cycle?
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Sep 11, 2019 06:11
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1986 or so. LOL.
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Sep 11, 2019 12:59
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Oh you mean how long can we live not how long until we've sent it over the precipice. The world won't end until the last boomer takes their final breath.
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Sep 11, 2019 13:07
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Because the last boomer is liable to be PotUS and launch all the nukes out of spite for the survivors?
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Sep 11, 2019 13:08
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The boomers did a blood pact with Satan so that they would never have to face consequences for their actions but as soon as the last one dies the world can end.
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Sep 11, 2019 13:19
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Election song "to avoid legal trouble with other artists' music' Yeah because licensing is so hard and totally the driving factor here; not the artist coming out a minute later and saying "eugghhh no not that fuckin guy"
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Sep 11, 2019 13:44
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nine-gear crow posted:I’m not listening to it. I’m assuming it’s a remix of that song that one goon submitted for the Hockey Night In Canada contest that was just crying babies, cats meowing and automatic rifle fire. You leave Hockey Scores! out of this 
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Sep 11, 2019 14:19
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https://twitter.com/natnewswatch/status/1171748793995468800 Man, this is hillarious.
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Sep 11, 2019 15:11
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I think I'll be volunteering for the NDP this election. Time to look up how to do it lol.
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Arabian Jesus posted:You leave Hockey Scores! out of this Never forget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbZMnF1VNlE
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Sep 11, 2019 15:54
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Yeah, why would you assume Scheer had something that good?? Next you’ll think he has The Fireman on his side.
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Toalpaz posted:I think I'll be volunteering for the NDP this election. Time to look up how to do it lol. Hopefully, Trudeau's platform includes this but like 0% after 3 full years so boomers don't light him on fire. It combos so good with the new homebuyer incentive. https://twitter.com/BenRabidoux/status/1171567513341169664
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