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MA-Horus posted:Fuckin lmbo it's not gonna matter but What am I missing here? Doesn't seem like anything particularly suspicious or interesting.
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pokeyman posted:What am I missing here? Doesn't seem like anything particularly suspicious or interesting. last ditch attempt to get a headline associations of "ford + russia = bad stuff obviously"
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The Archdiocese of St. John’s is selling off churches and properties to pay court-ordered compensation to residential school survivors. Not terribly noteworthy, but this piece of poetic justice made me chuckle.quote:The archdiocese doesn’t have the money. The Vatican isn’t stepping in to help. That means thousands of parishioners could soon lose the churches they thought they owned. Yeah, can't imagine what swooping in and taking someone's land could possibly feel like.
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Jun 1, 2022 20:11
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My brother was riding his bike a couple weeks ago and was jumped by two men who thought he was someone that had smashed a window the night prior. They punched him, kicked him on the ground, and then stomped his front wheel for good measure, bending it. This is the second time in his life he's been assaulted by someone who mistook him for someone else that had done property damage (or theft). The first time was when he was a teenager and a grown man hit him in the back with a metal pipe, permanently injuring his back. gently caress anyone advocating for vigilante justice.
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Jun 1, 2022 20:52
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I was briefly amused by this article on how Doug Ford broke the Star's fact checker (a storied Ford tradition going back to Daniel Dale), not by telling that many lies, but by simply not speaking and rarely making verifiable statements when he did. Horwath and Del Duca have apparently been considerably more communicative, not that anyone is likely to care about any of this.quote:“Content-free elections” is how Tim Abray puts it. A Queen’s University doctoral candidate studying the effects of political communication on electoral behaviour, Abray says he hasn’t seen anything quite like it, and he finds it “alarming.” It's more of a Dollarama of ideas than a marketplace, Tim.
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Jun 1, 2022 23:15
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Every time I heard campaign updates on CBC radio it was along the lines of "Doug Ford of the Progressive Conservatives will be stopping at X and Y today and tomorrow, but will not be taking questions from the media at either event."
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Jun 1, 2022 23:30
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They learned to do that years ago and it hasn't hurt them yet. No one voting PCPO gives a gently caress what their policy positions are or if they even have policy or positions. That is not part of their vote calculus and the party knows it.
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Jun 1, 2022 23:38
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one weird trick to winning elections and the participants are all "ah we'll get him next time"
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flakeloaf posted:PCPO T-Shirt: "We are definitely privatizing health care"
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Jun 2, 2022 00:49
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So there's an election tomorrow. Anecdotal I know, both my parents voted Trudeau last federal election. Visited them and they said it's pretty obvious who to vote for this time, I said yeah and then was surprised when they said Ford. Don't think my mom has ever voted conservative. "Don't trust that slimy De Luca guy" something like that. Which is good because I haven't been paying attention enough to form any opinion of him. I'm going NDP this time around, not that it really matters in renfrew county.
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There's an election tomorrow? Has anyone told the ONDP? But seriously, did your mom express why she feels Ford is the obvious choice over say an ONDP candidate, assuming one exists in her riding?
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Jun 2, 2022 01:01
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in before "he tells it like it is"
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e: ^^^ I really cannot explain it but the population at large is somehow drawn to vote for obvious morons. Even unrelatable ones like Kenney and Ford.infernal machines posted:There's an election tomorrow? Has anyone told the ONDP? He has been invisible and silent for the last 4 months which is more than enough time for Ontario's goldfish brained population to forget literally everything he has done and still plans to do. Furnaceface fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Jun 2, 2022 |
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infernal machines posted:There's an election tomorrow? Has anyone told the ONDP? yeah the ONDP knows they've been blowing up my phone every six hours to confirm i'm voting
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Jun 2, 2022 01:08
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Sometimes the vote just kinda swings and you can't tell why. I still don't really know how we ended up with the Tories in NS. The Owls Head Park thing was the only big bump I saw. And yeah that was shady but I didn't expect a Tory majority all the same. I guess there was also that stupid labour bill but the Tories have already gone back on their explicit campaign promise to throw it so lmao Edit: Only thing aside from general Liberal sucking that is, obviously
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Albino Squirrel posted:Man, what the HELL. I'm a family doc but I order AST all the drat time - it actually makes a significant difference in hepatitis C and cirrhosis prognosis. Granted I have a lot more liver disease in my practice than a lot of doctors but I can't imagine having to refer to GI or ID - and waiting like 6 months for the consult - to get this blood test covered. Fun story. Two weeks my family doctor requisitioned a blood test. Today I received an invoice from LifeLabs asking for $140 while also stating that the test is covered by OHIP. Had to spend 30 minutes on phone to provide my HC#. Hope they cleared it! Wonder if they’re double dipping. How is this NOT violating the Canada Health Act lol
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Ah poo poo wtf where am i
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infernal machines posted:But seriously, did your mom express why she feels Ford is the obvious choice over say an ONDP candidate, assuming one exists in her riding? Leftists coopting accelerationism?
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https://twitter.com/jkenney/status/1532025392340430848?s=20&t=ajV9BwgWRcnIRWLw2A4lAw LOL gently caress off and die.
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infernal machines posted:There's an election tomorrow? Has anyone told the ONDP? rae days, I didn't even try to debate, it's hard to find the motivation to waste breath mounting a compelling argument for horwath. Just doesn't seem to be that important these days
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Postess with the Mostest posted:rae days, I didn't even try to debate, it's hard to find the motivation to waste breath mounting a compelling argument for horwath. Just doesn't seem to be that important these days Fair enough, that's entirely understandable. Arivia posted:yeah the ONDP knows they've been blowing up my phone every six hours to confirm i'm voting TBH, this is why I'm not on any ONDP lists. Furnaceface posted:He has been invisible and silent for the last 4 months which is more than enough time for Ontario's goldfish brained population to forget literally everything he has done and still plans to do. Yeah, it's a bit galling really. Even for people otherwise not paying attention to the poo poo they pulled in 2018 and 2019, the last two years have managed to piss everyone off in some way, but somehow none of that seems to have stuck to Ford, at least if you believe polls. infernal machines fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Jun 2, 2022 |
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McGavin posted:Every time I heard campaign updates on CBC radio it was along the lines of "Doug Ford of the Progressive Conservatives will be stopping at X and Y today and tomorrow, but will not be taking questions from the media at either event."
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Every single article I read either the PCs weren't answering questions or failed to respond to a request for a position or wasn't going to debate. The very idea that they can get a majority doing this poo poo is nauseating.
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OPCs asking journalists to submit written questions in advance knowing full well Doug Ford can't read.
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Syfe posted:Every single article I read either the PCs weren't answering questions or failed to respond to a request for a position or wasn't going to debate.
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If that's the first bar you need to clear, then yes, the NDP and Liberals already have a problem
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Mr. Apollo posted:CTV had a “person on the street” segment tonight where they were asking people who they were voting for and why. Several people voting PC said they were voting Ford due to “name recognition”. *sees name of guy in the news for constantly loving up pandemic response and economy and everything else that passes his desk* "At least he's getting coverage! Unlike the people not in charge of all the mistakes!" gently caress me we're doomed
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flakeloaf posted:If that's the first bar you need to clear, then yes, the NDP and Liberals already have a problem If this is your Leader's fourth provincial election, and no one knows who they are, you might have found your problem.
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Why have rae days stuck in people's heads so much? I wasn't around in Canada when that was a thing but reading about them they didn't seem super catastrophic or anything Edit: hopefully horworth finally fucks off afterwards
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Because the media is dominated by conservatives.
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Alctel posted:Why have rae days stuck in people's heads so much? It was the "backstabbing" of a party (ndp) that was pro-union/worker going "oops, we can't afford to pay you/your contract" and legislated people to take unpaid days off by shutting down the government down on those days. To make it more fun, Bob Rae then proceeded to become a liberal later on and basically saying the ndp policies are unsustainable.
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Albino Squirrel posted:https://twitter.com/jkenney/status/1532025392340430848?s=20&t=ajV9BwgWRcnIRWLw2A4lAw I love it when politicians try to convince us that there are people are anxiously waiting to become heroin junkies just as soon as a law is passed saying that's OK.
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:The Archdiocese of St. John’s is selling off churches and properties to pay court-ordered compensation to residential school survivors. Not terribly noteworthy, but this piece of poetic justice made me chuckle. Yeah, I think a lot of people don't understand how church organizations work. My parents are religious and their church is going through some kind of major fight with their parent conference because they wanted to discuss the possibility of maybe voting on their policies about openly welcoming LGBTQ people to the church. The church was built, funded, and maintained through money given by the congregation but they have no legal attachment to the building or land. The specific congregation is itself not a legal entity and doesn't own or have claim to anything, it's all owned by the parent denominational conference. This is a very common setup and most people don't know that their church could be shut down and sold off from under them and it's completely legal. Apparently the idea of incorporating the congregation came up at some point but people voted against it because they didn't see the benefit. Well lol. infernal machines posted:There's an election tomorrow? Has anyone told the ONDP? Nothing makes sense to me anymore. I can't recall the poll but the 18-34-ish age range was actually more in favour of the PC than the next age cohort up. How does this happen. Every left-winger has dreamed of some utopia when the boomers die off and stop voting conservative but I think it's clear that they are being replaced by even worse idiots in the same age group as me.
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Fidelitious posted:Nothing makes sense to me anymore. I can't recall the poll but the 18-34-ish age range was actually more in favour of the PC than the next age cohort up. How does this happen.
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I’ve had a few people in their early to mid twenties tell me that the NDP would be a trainwreck because we can’t tax ourselves out of trouble, and it’s incredibly depressing. The messaging that we Can’t Tax The Rich seems like it’s developed real deep roots.
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John Lorinc on effective politics, and the highway that wins elections
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Syfe posted:Every single article I read either the PCs weren't answering questions or failed to respond to a request for a position or wasn't going to debate. The OPCP is headed for a crushing win, and I don't blame voters. The Liberals seemed to realize they needed to get peoples attention, and they held some stunts that got covered. Except, they had absolutely nothing to say. It was, literally: "Did you know the PCs appointed conservative to politically appointed positions, instead of Liberals?!!!!" and "Did you know certain OPCP MPs spent riding association money in the same way as the Liberal leader, without themselves being Liberal?!!!!" Bonus points to the Toronto Star for then running an article about how the Liberals needed to go negative. They went negative. They got as far as, "conservatives do for themselves what we would do for ourselves were we in power". The NDP has policy positions which are incremental at best, and then they get bogged down in explaining why they won't promise to do more. So they message is a) diluted, b) convoluted and c) not really that different from what the other parties propose. The OPCP has announced one, very clear plan. To build a highway. It will be useful to some people. They've ignored everything that doesn't contribute to the message they want to send out. They did little, but made sure what they did was understandable. It's been a terrible campaign, I agree, but they've been an order of magnitude less terrible than their opposition so we get four more years of Ford.
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Just got back from my polling station, less than 15 minutes door to door. Ain't no one voting right now in south Davenport. Somehow I have the feeling that's the same in a lot of other places.
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Voted, 10 minutes. It always shocks my husband how fast voting is in Canada, he said the last time he voted in the US it was 2 hours.
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