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EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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Also accepting those who want to join the Middle Class

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EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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OTOH the investigation for dodgy liberal fundraising has been dropped 🤔

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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How about we strap on lasers on a flock of Canada Geese?

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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Tochiazuma posted:

They would turn on us in a second

They're already waging a bombing campaign of poo poo

Can't we mind control them with chemtrails, GMOs, or wifi signal? Ask EMay

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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DariusLikewise posted:

Electronic voting is a bad idea right? Like I feel like everyone around me thinks it's the greatest poo poo ever, but any situation I can dream up doesn't allow for someone to vote in secret without some ridiculous skype session with a volunteer or some other stupid poo poo.

Having been scrutineer in a federal byelection last year I can say paper ballots are easy to manage and hard to mess with for fraudulent purposes. My candidate lost but we're confident nobody hacked or interfered with the ballots.

Compare with the uncertainty of electronic systems and reports of shenanigans...

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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DariusLikewise posted:

it's apparently incredibly easy to stuff a ballot box

Depends how hard it is to have a fraudulent voter identification card and corresponding ID in the database... which i suppose is difficult. And would affect electronic voting equally.

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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When Philpot was Minister of Health there was at least some openness to review the Portuguese experience with decriminalization across the board.

Ironic, given that harm reduction and stigma are such big things in the current mandate letter...

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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pfizerman posted:

the argument is literally "we are decriminalizing weed because it's not like other drugs" - which is an argument that has been accepted by the likes of our parents

moment he starts to waver on that message it's open season on accusations of ideological decriminalization

That's an interesting take. I've long wondered about the dual messaging.

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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You make a good point

How can people afford these ridiculous houses and eat :stare:

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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DariusLikewise posted:

parliament spent 350 million on the keg last year and everyone got new cars on 40 year leases

But how much did we spend on candles?

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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infernal machines posted:

I'm sure Ron realizes that as a co-op MEC is directly responsible to its members. So if they voted to drop the products, MEC is dropping the products.

Maybe Ron should've voted.

Ron likely isn't a member.

I liked MEC better when they didn't cater to suburban lifestyle people. I loved the super cheap yet reliable no name gear.

Ottawa store doesn't typically carry any useful parts for my commuter bike so I've been purchasing a lot more from Amazon

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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namaste friends posted:

Susan Crockford bullshit

That made me super angry

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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Step 1- Aggressively maintain the status quo and find efficiencies.

Step 2- Jobs will start pouring once they take anal sex out of the curriculum.

Step 3- Reopening the abortion debate will stimulate the economy.

Edit: What would be steps 4 and 5?

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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This popped up in my google feed:

https://www.thestar.com/amp/news/in...ge-journey.html

Light on discriminatory claims. Heavy on wacky wacky quotes.

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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Can someone do the is this a pigeon meme with Mary Poppins and Doug Ford asking is this daycare? tyvm

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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Liberals privatizing welfare
:(

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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Try American milk. Try it.

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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My point was Canadian milk and cheese are tasty while the US products are disgusting. I'm not looking supermarkets being flooded with cheaper lower quality products because lower prices.

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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Arivia posted:

I guess he got it from eating the cats because I can't imagine harper taking care of pets

PMSH was very fond of cats. It is known.

Google "Stephen Harper cats"

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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Dinosaurtrain posted:

ontario literally elected a loving idiot for dollar beers?

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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THC posted:

i love all the loving ontarian resistance accounts on Twitter applauding beer companies who refuse to cut prices because they claim it would impact product quality (bullshit)

What's wrong with beer that doesn't taste like lightly flavored tap water?

edit: so far I've only about from local (Ottawa) brewers

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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That's a fine example of FYGM (human rights)

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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Lame comedy website, but they make a very succinct counterargument to "Hitler was a socialist"

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ridiculously-implausible-things-alt-right-afraid-of/

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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I like my milk to come from very far away so I can save a few cents

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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Postess with the Mostest posted:

Why do you keep saying this? It's like "gosh if only that darn wynne had said hey everybody do NOT vote for Liberals, you know what let's just pull all our candidates to be safe, we will cease being a political entity so that infernal machines' party can win this election". I declare that may be the most ridiculous thing to blame wynne for that's ever been posted on these forums. Say like "had the ndp not horwathed again" or something, take some responsibility.

So what was Horwath's last minute fumble again?

Or is it last minute Ford brilliance?

If it isn't those things, what could have possibly happened?

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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Postess with the Mostest posted:

The real bad guy here is first past the post I guess but that was there from the start. PCs had enough support to win from the start and nothing changed it. PCs need less support to win than the NDPs because of efficient voter distribution so they were certainly the underdogs. Charitably, the NDP failed to communicate their platform or make it appealing. Realistically, most people did understand the ndp platform, messaging and core values and still just voted PC or Lib because they aren't interested in that kind of thing and just want to afford a bit more groceries or porsches or grolsches every week. I guess they're kind of political scabs? I think it's day dreaming to think that this election was the ndp's to win if only the libs hadn't X, you're giving too much non existent progressive credit to the people who showed up to vote. NDP were never going to win.

I agree that FPTP is the bad guy. My point was that within the current system the Liberals purposely ensured the then high-polling NDP would receive much fewer votes from typical liberal voters. Former liberal insider Warren Kinsella said so early in the campaign. And it wasn't long before the Liberals started fear mongering about a potential NDP government.

Now, given the limitations of polling, it's hard to tell how that affected the election results, especially riding by riding. PCPO got 40.5%, ONDP 33.6%, OLP %19.6, and Greens 4.6%. It's not much of a stretch to conclude the Liberals last minute hail Mary has contributed to Doug Ford's majority.

I'm probably giving too much progressive credit to Ontario voters. You're right. That means no matter how hard the NDP campaigned, they would have plateaued anyway. So we can't really say it's the NDP's fault we have Ford in power?

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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vyelkin posted:

it's ontarians' fault we have doug ford in power because ontarians, like all canadians, are horrible garbage people

You guys are depressing when you're right

e: so what's the most realistic way to counter the tide of stupidity? I think prop rep would help but won't do any good if better policies don't reach voters

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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vyelkin posted:

a massive and consistent investment in education from pre-K to post-secondary, lasting across multiple generations without being cut by incoming governments

also coinciding with a shift in education focus away from stem and working through assigned tasks to focus on critical analytical skills and problem solving

also a dramatic shift away from the idea that job market success is the only way to measure educational achievement, since that's a great way to end up with a population that's dumb as poo poo when it comes to civic life but really good at being worker drones for multinational corporations

:agreed:

And thanks for your response

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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Handcuffs belong in government, not in bedrooms

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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MonsieurChoc posted:

At least QS went up by a lot, so there'S hope for next elections.

Hahaha, who am I kidding, there's no hope.

This.

It's just an interlude before the next Liberal Dynasty.

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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http://www.patheos.com/blogs/leavingfundamentalism/2012/04/19/what-is-accelerated-christian-education/

The ACE curriculum sounds amazing where do I enroll my children

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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The student is a right-wing conservative high school male and takes notes with a pink pilot pen?

Why yes that sounds completely believable. I'm loving the whiteout over the answers. That totally happened.

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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Racist people upset they're being called racist

Oh the humanity

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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DariusLikewise posted:

just the editor of my the newspaper my fiancee works for being a normal dude online



Is he also unfriending those who specifically point out his individual white male privilege?

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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I'm the grade 10 right-wing conservative

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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At least Canadians wouldn't be so stupid to elect someone like Trump... Or, say, Doug Ford. Legault. ...

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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https://twitter.com/BobRae48/status/1049632794123489281?s=19

Liberals centrists are such spineless rear end-kissers

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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Breaking: CPC leader living in lavish government house while The Right Honorable Justin Trudeau shares a rundown shack with a women and three young children.

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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https://twitter.com/journo_dale/status/1052257399807959040?s=19

He's ticking all the right boxes :shepface:

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EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

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VS




:thunk:


e: beaten

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