Hemingways_Shotgun @ Adderbox76 @lemmy.ca

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The mistake is attributing modern social norms onto people from thousands of years ago.

We are all products of the conventions of our times.

less than 100 years ago, certain people were grossed out by sharing a diner counter with an African American. 300 years before that, some people thought that bathing was the cause of disease since it unclogged your pores and made you susceptible.

Just because you (and I....let's be clear) think it's gross today, doesn't mean we would have back then.

Source?

I don't mean that in an "I don't believe you" way.

I literally mean that in an "I majored in Archaeology and would be interested in reading that since it's been more than 20 years since my knowledge was up to date."

if not for foreign interference

I guess that really depends on your definition of interference. Conservatives lost because Canadians took one look at the reality of Trump and decided "fuck that...we don't want a politician who acts like him, even in any small way."

Poppingfresh was leading only because the only person we were more sick off than him was Trudeau. Once Trudeau was out of the picture, voters basically said "Oh thank Christ...we don't have to vote for Maple Maga."

Trump being an ass doesn't count as interference. And it's ultimately Poppinfresh's fault that he refused to pivot away from Trump-style rhetoric and polemics when even his own advisors were telling him it was a losing strategy.

No...it doesn't point to a *deterioration in people's faith in institutions" like the article surmises.

It points to the fact that Right Wingers especially are so enshrined in the cult of Maple Maga that they've adopted the "Anything I don't agree with is rigged." Saying that it's about "faith in institutions" is disingenuous because they know damn well there was no rigging, but they learned from Trump that if you cry loud enough, people believe you.

I'm currently training a new employee who comes from the "My school handed out Chromebooks" generation, and hol...eee...shit... Its frustrating as hell.

Literally every single instruction gets followed up with "no...double click"

FML

Welcome to Canadian Parliamentary politics, where every good step forward has an equal and opposite step backwards.

While I still prefer it to the alternative system to the south; where it's all bad steps. I'd be lying if I said our own system was perfect by any means.

Those old beaters contain the best memories. Vehicles today are just kind of soulless. (IMO)

My first vehicles as an adult in the mid to late 90s. Objectively cheap used jalopies that I bought for a few hundred dollars but were loved because they were mine.

My first car was a 1981 Dodge Aries K-Car. The front bumper got ripped off by a guy running with no headlights while I was delivering pizzas and I literally just threw the bumper on the back seat and continued on with my deliveries, then went to my local pick-a-part and took a replacement off a different one and bolted it on myself. You just couldn't kill it.

I eventually replaced it with an 1984 Sentra that I bought at auction. I called it the "relationship killer" because the passenger door didn't open from the outside so there was no way to "open the door for your date to get in first", and half the time it didn't go into reverse, so since my dates didn't know how to drive standard transmissions, they were the one that had to push us out of parking spaces. It honked when turning left for some reason.

My point being, when things were wrong with them, they were cheap enough that you could just go to the local pick-a-part and get replacement parts. If it wasn't starting for some reason, you could stick a screw driver in the carburetor valve to give it more air. You could "own" and "tinker" on those things in ways that doing so in a new car would terrify us.

You'll invite him over for a better burger, no doubt. Because yeah, Big Macs suck.

But by the very definition of the word, a Big Mac IS a burger whether you want it to be or not. Actual facts don't generally give a shit about your opinion on the matter. A burger patty between two sides of a bun is a burger. Doesn't matter if the meat is half cardboard and the buns are reheated frozen pieces of shit, it's still very much the technical definition of a burger.

So please give the pretentious twat persona a rest, thanks.

Every single European country spent everything they had fighting each other in the first world war, and then every single country in Europe went to the United States for financial loans in order to keep fighting.

1914 to 1918 marked the single largest wealth transfer in human history. By the end of the war, America was holding much of Europe's wealth, which they used to build up their infrastructure and manufacturing base and become, frankly, an economic powerhouse far surpassing what anyone had seen before.

The rest is history.

Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

If you read you've probably heard about a little something called "Occam's razor".

What's the most probable answer, that a far right news host from a far right news channel is sporting his tattoos as a symbol of his love of history and the holy land, or that he's sporting them because he's a fucking nazi.

Nobody is denying your "history" of the symbol. We're all well aware of the "larger story". But it's irrelevant because there's an approximate 99.99999% probability that the guy who doesn't understand the wider history of the cross is the guy that's fucking wearing them.

You can write a thousand paragraphs "teaching people" all you want, but it's totally irrelevant in this situation and you are only doing it in order to obfuscate the issue with meaningless nonsense.

If conservatives don't figure out that he is 100% of the reason they lost, they're 'effin stupid and blind.

It's plainly obvious what the problem is when your party gains seats, but your leader loses his because the only person people hate more than him, resigned. (Trudeau)

When the public is sooo eager for any reason to no longer vote for you that you lose a super majority the moment the first opportunity presented itself, you are the problem.

Irrelevant. It's not about changing their mind. It's about making them afraid to spread their bullshit.

Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow hell.

Maybe Telus will hire him back. It's literally the only thing on his resume.

Looks like everything is in and it ended up with Liberals 169 seats, three short of a majority.

Although jeez, I can't imagine there isn't a recount in the riding where the difference was literally 12 votes out of 21,000. Crazy close.

Either way, I'm guessing the 7 NDP and 1 Green basically become de facto Liberals to create a pseudo majority since at least that way they'll have some influence and it wouldn't be in their best interest to topple the government and go through all this again.

Better chance of it, yeah. But I suspect Trump's antics against us meant that they guy who was one of the most respected financial minds in the world and led two countries through previous crises was always going to win.

They couldn't have scripted a better narrative than "Trump's a financial idiot and I'm one of the top financial minds on the planet."

Wasn't an option. Much like MAGA down south, Poppinfresh completely hijacked the conservative narrative; refusing to allow reporters to follow him on the campaign trail, forbidding Conservative MPs from talking to the media without his approval and only with his selected talking points.

Any divisive information from the Conservative party came by way of leaks and insiders. Poppinfresh in NO WAY wanted there to be any division shown in public. For him, like Trump, it was all hail the leader or he'll do what he can to get your career shit-canned.

In many way, I looked at this election not only as Left vs Right, but at least as much about the Conservatives battle to take back their party to a (slightly) more sane time when differences were largely about economic policies instead of cultural ones.

I'm just spit-balling here, but is it totally off the table to dig up Jack Layton and elect him in some kind of "Weekend at Bernie's" type shenanigan?