Cyborganism

It has begun. Trump unleashing the army against the population fighting against his gestapo.

Saved this post for later. Am also a sucker for cheap little indie games.

It won’t be hard. Liberals are already conservative lite.

Thinking of Jim Carrey in Liar Liar, when someone tells people to rise for the honourable judge and Jim goes “Honourable, PFF!” then signs the stenographer not to record that lol.

Bought it as a cartridge and haven’t opened it yet. I should get to it.

Look, we need to be independent from the US. That means selling our oil to other nations in Europe and Asia, ok?

If that means you need to breathe in more acrid smoke from the nation-wide wildfires the size of a small continent, then that’s a sacrifice you need to make for your country.

I mean, are you a true red blooded Canadian, or not? Where’s your patriotism?

(/S of course)

Personally, I just don’t see why would anybody vote for the Liberals in this election, other than “Trump bad” and “PP is just like Trump”, which is just simply not true and is just left-wing fear mongering.

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!

This is a joke right? Poilièvre has been parroting Trump almost word for word. People are right to call him Trump lite.

People are absolutely right to be afraid of Pierre. He’s going to implement similar policies to the US and isolate us on the world stage.

And if anything, the conservatives, just like the republicans, have run on nothing but lies and fear mongering thanks to the likes of conservative media like Ezra Levant’s and Conrad Black’s media companies. Publishing photoshopped and AI generated slop about Marc Carney being friends with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Haha wow! Good job Carney!

I answered on the negative in all their dumb ass questions and wrote this in the textbox:

I would tell him to stop following Trump’s and the Republican’s playbook. This will not work in Canada. Tax cuts is not what we need right now. We need funding for our social services. We need to increase taxes on the wealthiest Canadians, especially the multi millionaire and billionaire class. I don’t mind paying the taxes I pay as long as they provide for schools, medical services, prescription drugs, feeding and housing the needy. That’s how I want to support my community. You want to lock up dangerous criminals? How about locking up the businessmen who defraud middle class people of their hard earned money. These guys are wrecking lives way worse than any violent criminals. Our seniors are now the boomer generation - a generation that grew up in the most prosperous times and through non-stop growth. They have money and properties that their kids and grand kids will never achieve in their lifetime. Tax them. Cutting sales tax on new homes is only going to make it cheaper for the wealthiest who are the only ones who can afford a residential property right now. Even by cutting the tax, our generation still won’t be able to afford housing. And we need more socialized housing built by the government, like we used to build in the past. I do want a stronger military but that has nothing to do with warrior culture or woke culture. Canada is not a country of WaRrIoRs. We’re peacekeepers and we will defend ourselves appropriately when provoked. Nothing more. We’re not aggressors, that’s not a core Canadian value. And if you think I’m going to help you guys out or provide you with my contact information, you’re dreaming. Right now your party stands against every traditional core Canadian values and is following in the footsteps of the Republican party of the United-States, a party that turned fascist and authoritarian that eroded freedom and liberty, that has aligned itself with enemies of democracy and is causing chaos worldwide both on the political and economic stage. Shame on you.

You present real facts, yet people downvote you. Insane.

Electoral reform should be a priority. It’s what the majority of Canadians want. Like most Canadians, I’m sick and tired of always having to vote for the least worst party to avoid the worst one becoming a majority. I’m sick of having MPs and parties being elected into power by a minority of the population.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Good riddance!

I deeply appreciate that you took the response in the context it was meant. The medium of text is hard sometimes and when I see a rant emerging from my passion I worry that it can be misconstrued.

No problem. :)

This is a specific area of complaint that I have with Singh. Because this area is a no-brainer win for them but they played it so incredibly centrist.

Yeah, I don’t know if the majority of people are ready yet for their actual plans. So they’re trying to win over some votes from the center at least. Baby steps.

What we need from the food security issue — people not being able to afford food — is actual change. Trudeau and Singh were very happy to bring up the CEOs to lecture them on how mean they were, but this was a PR stunt not actual change.

In this case I believe there are two approaches that make sense. One would be to use a market-oriented approach and use competition laws to break up monopolists and prevent mergers and ensure that regulations do not stifle new entrants.

The other approach would be to have the government to use the grain that we grow in Canada and hire Canadians to bake that into bread and sell the bread at a break-even rate. And not just for bread, any type of essential food product that the market is failing to deliver. Like a national scale Farmers Market.

But the NDP doesn’t propose that they propose price caps. Price caps betray a fundamentally ignorant understanding of how markets work, and could cause real harm from food shortages.

However I am convinced from reading Carney’s book that he understands the market-oriented solution I outlined earlier. I have not seen specifics on his plan in this area but I am confident that he knows what a good market-oriented plan would be.

But this is why I say that I want the NDP (and hell even the CPC if I’m dreaming) to put out better alternatives. Because if Carney is elected and fails on this we need to jettison him and replace him wiry someone who can deliver results. Becuse results is what we need.

Food insecurity is a huge, HUGE issue for me. Absolutely nobody should go hungry in a country of plenty like Canada. I totally agree with your that when price gouging became too obvious, the government went way too soft on grocery chains, and especially Galen Weston and friends. (Like Éric Laflèche of Metro, who’s just as guilty.)

Canada has a supply management system that puts in quotas for things like dairy. I tried to look (quickly and briefly) if there was something similar for grains but I didn’t find anything. The thing about putting a price on grains to try to lower the price of bread or other derivatives won’t change anything. Even if the grain sells for less, companies, whose bottom line are profits for investors, are going to keep price gouging us to maximize profit. That’s just how capitalism works. (And it sucks) And I don’t know that a government bread would fix this issue.

I think the government just needs to put their fucking balls on the table and fine grocers huge amounts for what they did. Teach them a fucking lesson. And also incentivize people for creating grocery CO-OPs. This is the real solution to the grocery chain price gouging. A solid CO-OP can negotiate prices down to ensure they sell their merchandise at the lowest cost. And the members of that CO-OP all have a say in how the business is run. Think how condos are managed with general assemblies where everybody votes and representatives are elected to work in the best interest of the co-owners, except it’s a grocery store and every other CO-OPs work together in price negotiations. And the bottom line isn’t making a profit for investors, it’s being able to sell food at the lowest price possible to everybody.

They also would like to implement better tax laws so wealthy people pay their fair share.

Agreed. Specifically I believe a land value tax and other wealth tax, along with a crackdown on tax havens is absolutely needed. The NDP should begin and end every speech on this point and hell use it as a comma.

Fuckin’ A.

Yeah what you suggested is pretty darn radical. Seizing properties and things like that is too much. This will scare away any foreign business that wants to establish themselves here and chase away much needed jobs and investments.

This is a good point and you’re absolutely correct that we need to ensure that overly punitive measures don’t scare away new entrants either domestic or foreign.

So yeah seizing a company should not be the first resort but it should be on the table for cases of extreme and persistent corruption. And maybe that wouldn’t be the favourite on Bay Street but I can imagine the general public being on board for this.

Because people are genuinely sick of the status quo. I can’t prove this but in my head canon, if this election was Charlie Angus vs JT vs PP, I think the LPC would be wiped off the map and the NDP would have a real shot at winning. Maybe that’s a stupid thing to believe, I’m not a pollster but that’s the energy I get from talking with my friends and family and acquaintances.

Totes.

You made many other good points but I have to leave it at that for now. I appreciate your perspective.

No problem :) It’s a good intellectual exercise and I appreciate it.

Ok, there’s a lot to comment here.

I feel like this is willful misrepresentation of what I was saying here. Instead I am saying that Singh has not demonstrated the specific leadership skills that I believe are essential for success in the coming years, nor has the policy priorities indicated a good path forward. And that while he seems to be a genuine and kind man with good intentions, that he is not a good choice in the here and now – not in policy and not in personality.

I understand the part about the man not being a good fit right now. But about the policy priorities, I disagree with you. And I think if you took the time to read a bit about the NDP’s history in the past 20 years, their priorities are pretty much in line with everything else you mentioned. The only problem is they never got a majority and always had to work, at best, with a minority government where they had to make alliances to try and pass whatever they could.

The NDP is not my preferred political party, but a version of it might be. An NDP that didn’t play for the centre with half-measure solutions, but instead an NDP that was authentic and said fuck galen weston if he steals from us by price fixing bread we take his company and put it up for auction and let someone else try. And if that person can’t figure out how to sell bread than the government can hire some canadians to bake bread and sell it at cost from the ruined husk of HBC stores. And if no one can figure out how to unfuck the housing market than they can just step in and make homes themselves.

The NDP had to work with what they had. Having never had a majority, they couldn’t pass any of their bills. I can bet my top dollar that they would have done something about the bread price fixing, about the price gouging at the groceries, about minimum wage employees not getting any reward for working and keeping stores open for the public during a gobal pandemic. They also would like to implement better tax laws so wealthy people pay their fair share.

The NDP is also thinking outside the box when it comes to the housing crisis. The Liberals are giving tired old solutions that don’t work, or will still benefit the wealthy because they refuse to work outside the system. But the NDP is proposing something else. You should look it up.

The NDP are not playing centrist. Again, they’re trying to work with the Liberals to pass whatever bills they can. The Liberals will never allow some things like changing the income tax rules for wealthier people. They’ll also defend companies that lobby them. So what can you do when you’re not even the official opposition party? There isn’t much. We’re lucky we got the 10$ daycare that the NDP has been pushing for ages. We’re lucky we got the expansion of the dental care covered by our public insurance. And we’re lucky we got a bunch of other things, all thanks to the NDP. Even though the Liberals are taking the credit for it when the NPD has been fighting for these things for decades.

But that’s not the reality we have right now. The NDP of right now is playing at being centrist and in my opinion is doing a relatively lousy job of it. And maybe that’s because the things I suggested are too radical for Canadians? But I see the enthusiasm for the optimism of someone like Charlie Angus here or Bernie Sanders or AOC in the US and I have to think maybe we could fucking try? Because it was ever gonna work it’s got to be when Canadians feel like the system has beaten them down.

Yeah what you suggested is pretty darn radical. Seizing properties and things like that is too much. This will scare away any foreign business that wants to establish themselves here and chase away much needed jobs and investments.

And yes there’s an increase in enthusiasm for Charlie Angus here and the NDP but people are still voting Liberal because, with the first pas the post system, it’s the only vote that can definitely beat the Conservatives. Where as splitting it between the Liberals and the NDP could lead the Conservatives into becoming the winning party, even if it’s a minority. And even with a minority, nobody wants Poilievre as their prime minister. That’s the fundamental problem. We need to change our voting system.

Sorry if this seems too aggressive. My intended tone is inspirational, not a negative attack on your question. Because I think the core of what you’re saying is correct. I want those things and think Canada needs that energy, but also I don’t want the current version of what the NDP is offering.

No worries. It does sound like you’re very passionate about this but, we’re just debating. And we’re all friends here. ;) We just want what’s best for our country. ❤️

I do not believe that Jagmeet Singh is the ideal person to deal with these threats. Singh is a genuine and kindhearted man and I believe sincerely means well, but does not shown the strength that I believe is needed to handle this multifaceted crisis. He was outmaneuvered by Justin Trudeau when trying to push policy in the last government, and he was outmaneuvered by Pierre Poilievre when he was trying to collapse the last government. From the political choices he’s made in terms of policy priorities and more, I believe he is out of his depth to handle these times of crisis and opportunity. In other times, a leader with his personality traits might be a fine candidate but in my analysis these are not those times.

So what you’re saying is, the NDP is your preferred party, but you’re voting Liberal because you think Carney has better political clout than Jagmeet Singh.

And of course, Poilièvre isn’t even a valuable option at this point, unless you want to serve Canada on a silver 51st state platter to Trump.

It’s damn shame, I tell ya. We need the NDP now more than ever in Canada. we need their policies and we need their ideas to help the average middle class Canadian and a party who thinks outside the box instead of just trying to work with the broken system we have. But because of the fucking Americans, always fucking up democracy around the world, we have to choose the lesser of two evils, yet again.

In 4 years, if Trump finally leaves office (because there’s a chance he might not at the end of his mandate) and the U.S. finally elect a better more centrist candidate, I hope to god that we vote for the NDP in power to finally get the government and the services we deserve.

Yeah, but they’re making it sound like it’s the Democrat’s fault of course.

“hE tElLs It LiKe It Is!”

“HeS nOt AfRaId To SPeAk HiS mInD!”

-'murica

Then goes off saying democrats are using authoritarian tactics lol

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