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Honestly, I don't see it as particularly Albertan or conservative. What's everyone looking at that makes him seem like that?
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 18:20 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 07:26 |
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PT6A posted:Honestly, I don't see it as particularly Albertan or conservative. What's everyone looking at that makes him seem like that? I don't see it either
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 18:22 |
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A man wearing a jacket and a shirt? Well now I've seen everything...
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 18:25 |
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Yeah it's definitely the blue-on-blue shirt The Jagr haircut and no tie mark him as "not a tory" to me
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 18:26 |
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PT6A posted:A man wearing a jacket and a shirt? I want a man with a loooong shirt and a short jacket
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 18:30 |
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Huh, I thought it was the hair that made him look conservative. Guess I was wrong. In any case, the lack of asymmetric tie knot is a dead giveaway for non-conservative
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 18:31 |
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My home riding still has no NDP candidate, but I recently found out that a local progressive darling , with a tremendous amount of local support, experience and ground game, as well as being one of the best independent political reporters in Alberta, got in touch with the riding association to put his name in as candidate - and was largely told his views are too radical and he's too public about it. He mostly does stale number crunching and fact checking with a very neutral tone. He's running independent now, lol good job NDP.
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 18:39 |
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Rockstar Massacre posted:My home riding still has no NDP candidate, but I recently found out that a local progressive darling , with a tremendous amount of local support, experience and ground game, as well as being one of the best independent political reporters in Alberta, got in touch with the riding association to put his name in as candidate - and was largely told his views are too radical and he's too public about it. He mostly does stale number crunching and fact checking with a very neutral tone. NDP are incredibly picky about candidates but for all the wrong reasons. They're also terrified of actual leftists ever getting involved. Like not communists or socialists, just actual soc-dems is too radical for their attempts at marketing the party to middle class centrist canadian voters.
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 18:48 |
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Do riding associations get to decide how candidates are selected? In some ways the primary system in the US seems more democratic than what we have here for selecting candidates.
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 19:20 |
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eXXon posted:The FIRE sector (Finance, Insurance and Real Estate) is an absurdly large fraction of the economy in basically every province (and I'm going to assume territory too). Canada is truly innovative in that Canadians discovered how to have an economy by selling houses to each other Fed gov should promise to invest in bitcoin mines to make canada #1 producer in world: ensuring prosperity for our children and grandchildren Canadian economy can just become all about money laundering and money laundering associated activites
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 19:20 |
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Typo posted:Canadian economy can just become all about money laundering and money laundering associated activites Become?
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 19:28 |
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Normy posted:Do riding associations get to decide how candidates are selected? In some ways the primary system in the US seems more democratic than what we have here for selecting candidates. The last NDP candidate here was acclaimed by the riding association because she basically ran it, but my understanding is that the party leader can designate whomever the hell they want
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 19:29 |
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flakeloaf posted:The last NDP candidate here was acclaimed by the riding association because she basically ran it, but my understanding is that the party leader can designate whomever the hell they want We had somewhat of a primary to fill Libby Davies' seat here but I'm not sure what the barriers for entry were. Same with the Hedy Fry challenger last election. I guess some ridings are just more competitive and have more of a spotlight.
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 19:34 |
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We need to get the U of T campus to be like the Japanese imperial palace. In the sense that the palace was once valued to be worth more than the state of California. Once we get there we can just sell it and buy a real economy from another country.
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 19:39 |
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ZeeBoi posted:they'll change their tune once there is an alberta variant naw, they'll be proud of it rockin these bumper stickers
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 20:23 |
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Rockstar Massacre posted:My home riding still has no NDP candidate, but I recently found out that a local progressive darling , with a tremendous amount of local support, experience and ground game, as well as being one of the best independent political reporters in Alberta, got in touch with the riding association to put his name in as candidate - and was largely told his views are too radical and he's too public about it. He mostly does stale number crunching and fact checking with a very neutral tone. Can you source this? Not that I don't believe it, but I'd like to have harder evidence than hearsay to point to when arguing with peeps
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 21:18 |
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Blood Boils posted:Can you source this? Not that I don't believe it, but I'd like to have harder evidence than hearsay to point to when arguing with peeps
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 21:27 |
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Hi, my name is James Teitsma your Conservative fuckface and I believe these health mandates are equivalent to Japanese internment camps and residential schools. - image incase he deletes quote:THOUGHTS ON VACCINE MANDATES AND PASSPORTS Vintersorg fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Aug 27, 2021 |
# ? Aug 27, 2021 21:39 |
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quote:Would you rather be safe or free? Oh! Oh! Safe! Safe is good! quote:Freedom comes at a price. Are we willing to pay it? Amazing how this poo poo is only said when it's about people NOT wanting to do the right thing, and how it's their "freedom" to endanger the rest of us, and how we're the baddies for not respecting their fee fees.
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 21:48 |
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Vintersorg posted:image incase he deletes He won't delete it. The MB Conservatives are now in the process of attacking each other. Heather Stefanson is claiming that all along she was secretly not agreeing with Pallister too. I assume she did things like second Bill 64 as part of a brilliant scheme to bring down Pallister from within you see.
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 22:07 |
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Randalor posted:Amazing how this poo poo is only said when it's about people NOT wanting to do the right thing, and how it's their "freedom" to endanger the rest of us, and how we're the baddies for not respecting their fee fees.
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 22:22 |
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Blood Boils posted:Can you source this? Not that I don't believe it, but I'd like to have harder evidence than hearsay to point to when arguing with peeps Peaceful Anarchy posted:It's always going to be hearsay, I assume the source is the candidate himself and anyone who is arguing with you about it will say "there was probably another reason they're not mentioning." I really doubt the NDP sends rejected candidates an explicit reason for rejection, rather than a form letter. Reasons like "values fit" will always be spoken so that there's no proof. it's not a big community, they don't really have the means to hide their reasoning, but yeah it's absolutely going to be hearsay because it's not even in writing and it never will be. I know at least two people privy to the decision making process personally and I'm willing to bet the candidate in question knows more, he may even have been in the room himself. I'll ask him direct if I make it home before election time
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# ? Aug 27, 2021 22:56 |
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Powershift posted:naw, they'll be proud of it Change the heart to a nose
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 00:05 |
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Rockstar Massacre posted:it's not a big community, they don't really have the means to hide their reasoning, but yeah it's absolutely going to be hearsay because it's not even in writing and it never will be. I know at least two people privy to the decision making process personally and I'm willing to bet the candidate in question knows more, he may even have been in the room himself. I can see a riding association just dumpstering a candidate and stonewalling them and national not really having enough time to care unless it was a pickup seat. I thought vetting was a bit better and allowed in at least a few solid democratic socialists.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 00:23 |
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Rockstar Massacre posted:My home riding still has no NDP candidate, but I recently found out that a local progressive darling , with a tremendous amount of local support, experience and ground game, as well as being one of the best independent political reporters in Alberta, got in touch with the riding association to put his name in as candidate - and was largely told his views are too radical and he's too public about it. He mostly does stale number crunching and fact checking with a very neutral tone. My local NDP candidate is Heather MacKenzie (not to be confused with Heather McPherson who is the candidate for Edmonton Strathcona and is currently the only non-CPC MP in Alberta). MacKenzie at least makes affordable housing the primary issue in her blurb on the website, and I'll probably vote for her even though Edmonton Centre is a tossup between the CPC and the LPC. I did look further into my local Libertarian candidate Valerie Keefe and holy gently caress: Valerie Keefe posted:First Things First: An electoral coalition between all candidates of all parties who are pledged to withhold confidence from any government which does not immediately commence Crimes Against Humanity Prosecutions against the perpetrators of coercive mandates for dubious medical interventions, including, but not limited to: Masking, social distancing, lockdowns, and Spike-Protein-Generating-Injections frequently referred to as vaccines.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 00:23 |
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Albino Squirrel posted:
These are the kinds of people I wish would show up on my front step so I can tell them to get the gently caress off it. It’s always people looking for donations to cure illnesses or help people get guide dogs, never anything fun.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 03:01 |
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https://twitter.com/CP24/status/1431388855501000710 What a surprise
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 03:05 |
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flakeloaf posted:Local Dipper candidate status: Good but it doesn't matter because she's not winning. Oh cool, I've got a candidate now. That said, why's there always gotta be support for small business as part of the platform. gently caress small businesses, they're often the biggest bastards around. They're doing fine, they don't need any more support.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 14:11 |
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Would you prefer a small oligarchy of big businesses instead? As much as it would be nice to have the all companies in Canada be nothing but co-ops, that isn't going to happen, so the choices are support small local businesses trying to cut their niche in a marketplace that is getting increasingly crowded out by multinational conglomerates, or saying gently caress it go go full capitalist hellscape.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 17:07 |
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berenzen posted:Would you prefer a small oligarchy of big businesses instead? This is the neoliberal future and the NDP is a neoliberal party. "small business" is just the way they sell it to us. It'll happen just as readily under an NDP government as it will under a Liberal or Conservative government.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 17:25 |
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berenzen posted:Would you prefer a small oligarchy of big businesses instead ... gently caress it go go full capitalist hellscape. But this is basically the status quo?
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 17:27 |
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eXXon posted:But this is basically the status quo? At least right now I have the illusion of being able to support a local business than "Walmart presents: your friendly local game store."
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 17:32 |
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berenzen posted:Would you prefer a small oligarchy of big businesses instead? As a customer, who gives a poo poo, there's rarely an observable difference. As a government, who gives a poo poo, tax 'em all and enforce regulations. As a worker, I'm not sure whether guaranteed stone cold indifference is better or worse than a 40% chance of serving in a petty dictatorship.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 17:47 |
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berenzen posted:Would you prefer a small oligarchy of big businesses instead? Small business associations are currently heading the "Roll back min wage" movement while they are constantly handed some of the largest tax breaks of any group in the country right now while I am forced to work 2 jobs just to not be homeless so you will maybe forgive me when I say let them all go broke nothing of value is lost.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 17:59 |
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There really needs to be a movement for workers coops. No one knows about them, and it would be so wonderful to have an alternative to working in a capitalist enterprise. If NDP was both pro small business and actually pro coop, like proposing laws that would favour their creation and even hire coop formation specialists to train workers how to do it I would run to the polls to vote for them. Apparently in Italy, they have a law where if you and 9 laid off workers get together, you can choose to have your entire unemployment benefits paid off in one lump sum if you use it to start a cooperative business. Everyone I talk to is in favour of this idea, including conservatives if you don’t mention it’s actually Marxist principle.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 19:27 |
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Problem with coops is you need people to give a poo poo and have constant vigilance, otherwise they get looted by capital, as what happened to MEC (the board started demanding 10 years CEO experience, then refused to released the results of the latest election and then sold off the whole thing to a VC firm)
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 19:51 |
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Alctel posted:Problem with coops is you need people to give a poo poo and have constant vigilance, otherwise they get looted by capital, as what happened to MEC (the board started demanding 10 years CEO experience, then refused to released the results of the latest election and then sold off the whole thing to a VC firm) MEC was a consumer cooperative, not a workers co-op. Presumably that kind of thing would be less likely when workers have more control over how the business is run rather than customers who are primarily concerned with getting stuff cheaply and have no experience with the day-to-day operations and working conditions, if they even care at all.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 22:30 |
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Coxswain Balls posted:MEC was a consumer cooperative, not a workers co-op. Presumably that kind of thing would be less likely when workers have more control over how the business is run rather than customers who are primarily concerned with getting stuff cheaply and have no experience with the day-to-day operations and working conditions, if they even care at all. Thanks for this, I was thinking this was the case. Most people’s understanding of a co-op is like MEC or a grocery store where you need to pay a fee to have a membership and then get to vote on business decisions as a customer. A worker’s coop is quite different and most structures ask that people work as employees for several years before being allowed to buy in as an owner. Richard Wolff’s podcast Economic Update will often talk about worker’s coops, people should that out, as well as Democracy At Work’s YouTube channel if you’re interested.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 22:45 |
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saw this today, thought it was funny
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heehee posted:
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