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Well, time to get some very inflamiatory deepfakes of Elon out there, then

You understand that this is an admission that the US is just flat out a fascist country, right? A fascist democracy is still a fascist country.

I wonder when we’ll finally revoke that license.

The PPC is just Bernier’s hissy fit after he lost the CPC leadership race. It looks very similar because Bernier was a core party member. The biggest difference between them is the quality of candidate the party can attract, and the amount of money it has. Because Bernier has trashed his reputation, he’s only been able to attract real wackos to run under his banner. But these are the same kind of wackos that have always found a less public-facing home in the CPC/Reform party.

They only seem to go to to one of the extremes in any sufficient number

Wasn’t this their first gambit, too?

Could not imagine that we’d get a Liberal party leader who thinks in terms of market realism but not blind worship of the free market, who is both an insider who understands how the world economy works but also how it has failed people. Someone who is focused on results and not process, someone thoughtful and intelligent. Someone who has said the things that I’ve been screaming into the void for a decade — but saying it better.

This is all really important for political insiders to understand. Carney resonates, at least in part, because he’s actually telling us it as it is: Market economies have hurt us, but market economies are our current reality.

Personally, even as someone who does not believe markets are good tools for most things, I cannot avoid the reality that we cannot unplug ourselves from the global markets. We cannot engage economically with Europe, the United States (blech), South America, Asia, or anywhere else without playing the market game.

We are currently trapped.

We have to play the game. If we want to get out of it, we need to carefully position ourselves within it first, and then make reforms internally. And for those who don’t want to get out of it, we should still be doing whatever we can to limit the damage those with market power can do.

This is where the NDP has fallen flat: they make proposals that ignore market realities, knowing that they will never see the light of day, while their meaningful moves clearly acknowledge that we’re beholden to the markets. It makes them look both stupid, and weak. It makes people discouraged and distrustful.

Carney knows what he’s doing. Some of us may not like that he won’t do more than what the leader of a second tier world power is capable of given the current nature of the global economy. Some of us may not like that he may not want to change the nature of the global economy. But even if he did want to, he can’t on his own.

But where he can punch above the weight of the nation is in restructuring our place in the global economy, moving us closer to countries we should probably very much want to be more like, and away from ones we’ve been far too comfortable with for far too long.

When Liberals promised that 2015 would be “the last election under first-past-the-post”, they weren’t just offering another policy

I mean, they weren’t offering a policy at all. They had no plan, no specifics. They said they would take away one thing, but never gave details about what they would replace it with, and “nothing” was never an option.

They offered no policy.

This is policy. This has specifics. There is a plan attached to this.

Moreover, you can’t truly hold Carney accountable for Trudeau’s lack of action. He wasn’t there, he wasn’t involved. You may as well hold the NDP accountable for not getting it done while Trudeau was beholden to their support agreement.

Or hold the NDP accountable for all of the provinces they’ve made government in and never changed the electoral system. Who’s actually worth trusting on this?

It’s a shame that there are 0 parties in the country who, when they’ve come to power in any jurisdiction, have implemented it.

Even the ones who claim to have it as party policy.

The court of public opinion just sees fascism as “Jews in ovens”, so maybe that court shouldn’t be considered.

If yiu break down the 14 points in Ur-Fascism, you can map most of them onto the United States on a good day. Possibly all of them if you dig into the sociology of the country. This really points to the US as just being a fascist state, and it being a fascist country culturally.

America is what fascism looks like when it’s not at ear, and when it doesn’t have a dictator at its head. That’s why the moment someone who fancies themselves a dictator comes to power, the whole place is recognizably fascist.

My understanding, though, as a Canadian, is that refusing to sell Jack Daniel’s is over-stepping, and that they have the unalienable right to be on whatever privately owned shelves and sold in whatever privately owned facilities they wish, regardless of threats made to autonomy or safety.

No, they mostly succeasfully bullied him into giving away their mineral rights, and then when he showed up and said “this will guarantee peace, right?” they started screaming at him like enraged babboons on live television.

The whole thing was a setup, designed to catch Zelensky on TV being ungrateful and uncooperative, but he played them like fiddles and absolutely destroyed any standing the administration may have had left with Europe.

Oh, as if people will remember shit. A lot of voters apparently forgot that they’d already had Trump for president. The shocked-Pikachu faces have been beyond bizarre this time around.

It’s exactly the sort of words I would use, given what the words mean. Statistical significance is a technical term, meaning that the results are likely to be representative of the true value in the population, and not some editorial flair meant to undercut the shift in polls.

The margin of error is larger than the polling advantage measured in the survey, which means the reported lead is statistically insignificant, and that they were just as likely to find that the CPC held a narrow lead if they were to have shuffled their call list during the survey period.

Do people believe conservatism will fix those problems? Or are people feeling scared and angry, and the Cons fo a good job of validating those feelings?

Because the attitude I’m seeing is far more “fuck the guys in charge” than it is “the right will fix things”. It seems way more about picking a team, and feeling a sense of accomplishment and catharsis for getting a win by proxy, and getting to say “fuck you” to someone, than it does about believing things will get better.

The showrooms are still standing, so I don’t think the Yankees are protesting hard enough.

They should call the French.

The thing is, ActivityPub had a real - if small - chance of becoming mainstream over the long term, Mastodon or not Mastodon. CBC.ca could integrate the protocal and push stuff out seamlessly. And that might happen some day.

CBC has a strong history of supporting new and not mainstream vectors as it tries to fulfill its mandate of reaching every Canadian. And platforms like Twitter and BlueSky don’t fulfill that mandate due to their closed nature.

He creates shareholder value. That’s all that publically trades companies do. It’s their goal.

Everything else is just ways they attempt to do that, and someone like Elon does it with hype, since the agencies that are supposed to prevent such nonsense abandoned their responsibilities a long time ago.

Tesla stocks are now a ponzi scheme. At some point, someone’ll be left holding the bag.

It makes perfect sense if you’ve spent any time examining what’s being fed to people on YouTube and TikTok

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