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ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose!
The GG should communicate their wishes only by an elaborate and ritualized interpretive dance.

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ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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I once saw a doc where they were testing wastewater in London (England) and could tell, in general, what the popular drugs were at the time, so there might be a grain of truth to it.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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We should get the fish addicted to coffee and cigarettes so they can make useful contributions.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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ARACHTION posted:

Honestly, the BCNDP are competent and seemingly non-corrupt neoliberal managers. If people were expecting a revolutionary outcome, they were going to be disappointed.

I for one can no longer stand how they treat Indigenous people and the environment. But shamefully for me, the nail in the coffin for Horgan was when he blamed the youth for Covid with no proof.

I’m not a green fan, but Firstenau seems like a good protest vote and if the local candidate isn’t an anti-wifi nimby Tesla homeopathic loser, they get my vote.

Does anyone know why the Ecosocialists didn’t field a single candidate? Did their poo poo implode?

Better be careful with that or you'll end up with an av like mine ;)

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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PT6A posted:

Another question I've had for some time now, considering the law is much more clear about bicycles and how they should be operated in traffic. They also have the capability to (safely) go much faster, as far as I can tell, and there exist variants which are more accessible.

The answer, as best as I can figure, is that they aren't "cool" and "new."

Pretty much the same thing for every "revolutionary" traffic solving idea that isn't "more trains".

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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Step through bikes and e-bikes don't exist.

I've never understood the sweat issue either. For some reason cyclists think they have to be racing the Gran Fondue or some poo poo. Pedal bikes don't have to be any more sweaty than a light stroll.

e: scooters are fine, whatever, but bikes are nice too. All much better than the pickup trucks that most people seem to love.

ZShakespeare fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Aug 2, 2021

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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Wistful of Dollars posted:

Oh god, we might actually reach Ligma variant at this rate.

What's Ligma?

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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Gros Tarla posted:

https://www.thestar.com/politics/fe...in-toronto.html

Looks like the Greens are gonna fumble this all the way to the end. Is being wiped entirely from the electoral map their objective? Probably.

This is good though since goons think that every green vote would go to the NDP.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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pokeyman posted:

When did the thread that calls Greens "Tesla Tories" decide that their voters will flock to the NDP?

I'll leave aside the blatant denial of any sort of objective reality, but it was around the same time a goon bought me this av.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose!
You should draw a cauliflower penis on your ballot.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose!
Free market neoliberal policies consistently harm minorities more than other groups, fortunately you have the choice between the red neoliberals who know how to speak the language of social progress and the blue neoliberals who don't.

lol if you think the orange neoliberals will ever hold power.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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HackensackBackpack posted:

Hahahahaha holy poo poo. How did this person get nominated by the NDP?

The NDP is mostly Liberals with a marginally more progressive tax policy?

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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So when will people realize that the only enforcement the vaccine mandate will get is the police showing up 5 hours later and taking a report about someone named "Karen" making a scene?

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose!

berenzen posted:

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.

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.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose!
As a staunch conservative I believe we should handle this like they did in the bible. Making the unvaccinated live in their own colony.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose!

GonadTheBallbarian posted:

Thanks for the genuine answers folks, I've reached out and got a completely useless response.

These particular bitter shut-ins have been known to have clever ideas from time to time and I figured it was worth the effort to see if anyone has a brilliant suggestion.

Especially when, and here's the important bit: the people you want me to ask are hopelessly incompetent.

I volunteered with the NDP for a couple of years, showing up to farmers markets and talking to people. All you have to do is show up. They didn't have any ideas to put my computer touching skills to use.

I honestly think that independent organizing and pushing for specific policies is a better way to go than donating time to a party that will never have any power and wouldn't know what to do with it if they did.

That being said I'm not aware of any organizations that operate in that space, have good politics, and can utilize computer touchers ( maybe because computer touchers seem to mostly be libertarian poo poo heads?)

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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Making wild accusations based on tenuous evidence like that only works when you are accusing leftists of being anti Semitic.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose!

Poodlebear posted:

Wish I could vote for the NDP, unfortunately Singh is a racist

this is a good bit.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose!
My MP is Terry Beech and I have this fantasy where he's giving a TV interview and I ride past on my bike and yell "MORE LIKE TERRY BITCH".

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose!

mila kunis posted:

3 centre parties and not a single left wing socialist one is going to approach PPC numbers.

This is not a problem that you can solve via facebook arguments lol. There's ongoing problems in society that our leaders have no interest in addressing, this is going to lead to people being radicalized, and since this country is full of small-c conservatives that radicalization is going to be to the right.

There's also billions of dollars being poured into right radicalization by oligarchs across the world (but primarily america), the left doesn't have that kind of money or any institutions remaining to make their case.

This one gets it.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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Mr. Mercury posted:

They really, really don't.

We aren't going to get any left wing policy passed until we actually have a left wing party. Until that point you might get some minor fiddling with the tax code or a means tested tax rebate for small business owners who operate in a marginalized neighbourhood for 3 years and source 10% of their inputs from domestic sources.

The only actual political force that is offering an alternative to shitheaded neoliberalism is the loving fash, and no amount of posting is going to change that.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose!

Blood Boils posted:

We have 3-4 "major" ones, the succdem NDP, the marixist-leninists, and :canada:'s 3rd oldest political party the Communists! And while the greens suck the lefties have a large growing presence within, iirc Lascaris came in 2nd behind Paul for leadership

In terms of ideology there's probably a couple of others, there's literally 20+ political parties https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=pol&dir=par&document=index&lang=e

No doubt these don't count for a variety of reasons, but waiting for a rapturous future day (that from the pov of most ppl, has already occurred multiple times) when a truly pure leftist party arrives is a recipe for inaction and failure imo

If only one of them actually ran candidates and articulated popular leftist policies. They even have a handful of those people in the states.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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Blood Boils posted:

Lol ok doomer

Thats a weird thing to call someone who doesn't think that the NDP is magically going to win and are crypto leftists, but ok.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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Kraftwerk posted:

Ever thought that maybe the political centrists who don’t want to change anything are fomenting right wing parties as a way of suppressing the resurgent interest in left wing policy that we’re seeing from younger generations? That way the hardcore centrists like the Libs can position themselves as the sane alternative to the bigger threat of the PPC.

Thank you for re-stating the problem.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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This is dumb

ZShakespeare fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Sep 18, 2021

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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Arivia posted:

i genuinely want to know what you meant by cryptoleftist, no foolin

If they got elected and instead of enacting their current neoliberal socdem platform, they enacted a secret socialist platform. Secret => Crypto, Socialist => Leftist.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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So will we be in the #diefenbunker Monday night? I promise to behave myself.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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McGavin posted:

He is a hardcore evangelical Christian, so his money is on his church.

Fixed

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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Trudeau must think Canadians are really stupid. He's gonna get a majority.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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I really hope Terry Beech loses.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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lol if u think the law is around to protect us from them.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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Fart Amplifier posted:

Unless the population decreases or we build more homes, prices will increase

Or we get a government with the spine to stop this neoliberal bullshit

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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Fidelitious posted:

Let's not be silly, there is no circumstance where the government could literally physically force a needle into someone's arm and I would definitely not want them to even try. That's not optimistic, that's authoritarian.

I agree that we shouldn't be forcing a needle into their arms when there I perfectly good deserted islands that we can be sending them to.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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Koos Group posted:

Seemed like they were just expressing their personal feeling more than adding something that was interesting or could be discussed.

New here?

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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That's hilarious

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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I’m feeling extremely validated in my choice to not have children or deal with any of this.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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Way I see it is schools gonna be half empty because no one wants to get sick or because no one isn’t sick. Their choice.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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I don’t know why we bother restricting anything if we’re just going to let the kids all get together and bring it home with them. Might as well just go back to normal stop tormenting ourselves if we’ve resigned ourselves to it.

ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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Pt6a was right

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ZShakespeare
Jul 20, 2003

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I need a dna analysis just to be sure.

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