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Isizzlehorn posted:Regardless of who would form government, 17 PPC members of parliament would be great entertainment. i'd rather not have our own marjorie taylor greens and lauren boeberts
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Arivia posted:i'd rather not have our own marjorie taylor greens and lauren boeberts say what you will about marjorie taylor green, she fights for her constituents a lot better than AOC or bernie sanders
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yellowcar posted:
But, that being said, in TYOOL 2021, I also think it's impossible to productively distinguish problems of capital from problems of specifically American capital and imperialism/foreign influence. yellowcar posted:our own supposed independent media peddles the same imperialist narratives from washington all on their own without foreign media influence or even directives from the yanks themselves because this is who we are. we are part of the imperial core. we're going along with it willingly because we want what the americans want. But there are still smaller and "more" independent media outside the mainstream that shouldn't be brushed aside. I think the new Passage is doing some pretty good stuff, such as this depressing collection of our media's election endorsements that was making the rounds on twitter again:  lol liberals in the 90's Smaller, but People's Voice is the communist party newspaper and it's obviously not going to peddle imperialist narratives. Its circulation is going to be fairly small, and obviously you're not going to get larger outlets doing much to criticize imperialism because capital ain't gonna spend a bunch of capital to criticize capital. But I also think it's wrong to act like decent, independent media doesn't exist, because that will create a self-fulfilling prophecy; they do exist, and they should be supported. As a side note, I'd add that I am kinda surprised just how openly conservative our media is. Like the liberals are also not going to do jack poo poo that'll actually hurt capital, and yet... you look at the image above, and even they are considered too "left" for Postmedia. And then you read stuff like this on wikipedia: quote:In October 2018, it was reported that CEO Andrew MacLeod had declared the company "insufficiently conservative." That resulted in Kevin Libin, who had played an active role in defeating a union drive at the paper earlier that year,[26] taking charge of all political reporting and analysis in Postmedia newspapers to ensure the newspapers became more “reliably conservative."[27] ____ * speaking figuratively. A few seconds on wikipedia tells me apparently one of the US firms is actually based in New Jersey? (lol)
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I'm surprised that with the media slobbering over the Tories, the Liberals domination of Canadian politics is as hegemonic as it is. Why is that? And also why would the Montreal Gazette back the Conservatives? I thought that Anglos in Montreal are the most hardcore of Liberal party supporters, and there's also the fact that the Conservatives in the 80s had Quebec Nationalists as a big party of their coalition.
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Rutibex posted:we should have virtual districts instead of geographical ones. then we don't need some dumb new system or formula. people can just pick the district they want. all the communists go to one virtual district and make it theirs so they get a seat and so on for each party Honestly, I would love if this was the case but it would mean that 80%+ of representatives come from Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver or Calgary. Rurals would not be happy with the underrepresentation and they'd have a point.
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vyelkin posted:if images could be thread titles put it in the OP at least. also the CanPol OP
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infernal machines posted:put it in the OP at least. i have no power in D&D but it is now the welcome mat this thread deserves
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Rutibex posted:say what you will about marjorie taylor green, she fights for her constituents a lot better than AOC or bernie sanders when your actual base is petty bourgeois car dealership owners and realtors, you're doing politics on easy mode
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vyelkin posted:i have no power in D&D but it is now the welcome mat this thread deserves o7 thank you for your service, vyelkin
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DariusLikewise posted:layton was a centrist sack of poo poo, bernie is still commie-god looking back on the first page and lmao.
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Lostconfused posted:looking back on the first page and lmao. show me the lie
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Bernie's the same, it's the supporters that changed (to hating him)
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Rutibex posted:say what you will about marjorie taylor green, she fights for her constituents a lot better than AOC or bernie sanders does she does she really what has she accomplished yes yes she's a big maga troll and if your point is that that's all they care about fine i guess but i think this is dumb
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mediaphage posted:does she she helped a violent mob get into the capitol building. its not her fault they had no follow through, she delivered 
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I hope people here of all places aren't lying awake at night thinking about how January 6 was a big scary revolution or whatever
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Is the Hitler Trudeau real because if it is lmao
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Colonel Cancer posted:Is the Hitler Trudeau real because if it is lmao It's a photoshop
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bunnyofdoom posted:It's a photoshop yeah he was actually dressed up like a world war i soldier i think
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https://www.macleans.ca/multimedia/photo/the-mr-dressup-prime-minister/ Seems to cover most of them.
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L loving mao
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https://twitter.com/CBCNews/status/1441567912721063938 our precious michaels are coming home!
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DariusLikewise posted:L loving mao that's a photoshop, right?
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yellowcar posted:https://twitter.com/CBCNews/status/1441567912721063938 i hope csis fires these guys for being such lovely spies
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Pamela Springstein posted:I know right. Libs and cons would take turns being PM in coalition governments. in ireland the two big centrist neolib parties which've been opposed since the civil war got together to keep sinn fein out of government in the recent election that said the ndp isn't nearly as threatening as sinn fein, they'd be more like the lib dems in the UK and cave to the liberals on most things so
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yellowcar posted:https://twitter.com/CBCNews/status/1441567912721063938 https://twitter.com/pirasathk/status/1441568225737646081 imagine giving a poo poo about either of these guys
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https://twitter.com/csiscanada/status/1441571942721593345 lmao
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DariusLikewise posted:L loving mao lmao
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