Swordgeek @ swordgeek @lemmy.ca

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Almost all of them are being created by an activist group, so they'll universally be Liberal-party-hating left-leaning ideologues.

I disagree with this tactic. As much as it may hurt Poilievre (I doubt it, really), it will hurt Critchley at least as much.

The idea is to show the failings in our electoral system, but I don't see how it does that - and it plays into the hands of authoritarians who want to tightly vet the candidates appearing on a ballot.

If we had MMP voting, how would that stop enormous ballots from happening - other than encouraging the groups doing this to retire?

While I don't want to see the number of signatures to get on a ballot increased, I don't see a problem with requiring people to only sign on for one candidate.

Well, he's still going to win.

I think he'll get vastly reduced numbers compared to Kurek's 83%, and then blame it all on the long ballot, conveniently ignoring the fact that Bonnie Critchley was the real threat; and that you could take 95 candidates off of the ballot with no material difference.

If he gets below 70% of the vote, I'm not sure the party will support his leadership this fall. Unfortunately, the prime replacement candidate will be fucking Jason Kenney.

Tim Houston is a Conservative. He can't act any other way.

Except that it is becoming that way.

Ford is fighting the courts to destroy bike lanes and public healthcare. Smith is imposing every fascist ideal possible on her province. Poilievre said he'd use the NWC to get his way if he becomes PM.

Modern conservatives worldwide are behaving dictatorially. They are - to a person - small-minded, self-interested, fearful, hate-filled, loathsome authoritarians, who frequently wrap their abuse in religion.

Or entire political system is based on the idea that even corrupt politicians will mostly try to serve the people, to some degree. We now have politicians and supporters around the world who are willing to murder people and burn the world down for their own short-term gain.

The sooner we understand that, the sooner we can fight them.

Utterly not.

...the check cheque just keep coming in.

Go to a female stylist. Problem solved.

Stop giving credence to the indulgent rants of self-interested billionaire fascists.

Sorry to say, I don't believe a word of it.

Punitive damages can be awarded for bad-faith bargaining, which definitely seems to be the case here.

It's a stretch perhaps, but that's what I think would be reasonable.

Probably not really feasible - it will require constant connection to a back-end server to play or some bullshit like that.

But even if you can, that's not the answer. The proper action is to deny them entirely. Don't play the game, don't play PUBG, don't do anything that expands their reach, money or not.

They need to suffer with NOBODY playing this game. They need to suffer by people deleting their Battlegrounds accounts. Software piracy is what makes games legendary.

Oooh, there's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

$250M PLUS legal costs PLUS $250M in punitive fees. That should hurt them a bit.

We have a plan to deal with this.

Step #1 is to let one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gasses destroy itself in a civil war.

Gen X weighing in. That'll only last you so long, then your body starts to rebel no matter what.

It depends on who "we" are.

If you're in the US, then bad news buttercup - you're already under the thumb of a ruthless insane dictator, and the economy is the last of your worries.

I guess I’ve just given up and assume everyone would just cut us off. I’ve really only seen negativity twords the US, so that colors my view. There’s also my buddy from Japan who advised me to say I was Canadian when traveling internationally due to the negativity he’s seen directed at the US when he’s traveling Asia and Europe.

Speaking as a Canadian, your friend from Japan can fuck right off.

Even the good people from the US (and there absolutely are some - some of my dearest friends are from SoCal) are not Canadian, and either (a) can't pull it off, or (b) skew the rest of the world's view of Canadians.

So please don't.

Oh, there are two simple answers to this:

1. He will NEVER accept accountability for his actions. If he feels like it, he'll eat a live baby on TV and walk away untroubled.
2. He will be held accountable when (and ONLY when) the people hold him accountable.

He will never stop until he is in jail or dead. And the same is true for most of his sycophant followers.

Even republicans don’t want fascism.

Um, sorry but have you been paying attention for the last eight years?

The people left in the GOP are driving at full speed towards a fascist dictatorship. It's not Trump, it's the entire cadre of sycophants and Nazis he's set up to protect him.

Laura Loomer's "Alligator lives matter" didn't suggest that? Nor the fact that she was celebrating the creation of a new concentration camp to round up and possibly murder ALL Latinos in the US? (And selling merch to go with it!)

What about Kristi Noem filming propaganda in front of cages full of prisoners in El Salvador?

The six SCOTUS judges who are eagerly giving Trump every immunity and power he wants?

Ron DeSantis creating a second one-stop deportation centre?

The US Republican Party ARE fascists, and are ecstatic over how things are turning out.

If you call yourself a Republican and are against this, you're either a hypocrite, or a liar.

That's true, but some of your dystopian ideas require the entire planet to fall into collapse and ruin. Eventually the odds are pretty good that the rest of the world (assuming we're in decent shape ourselves) will start to provide humanitarian aide to the US.

And stating that "most of the world hates the U.S." is definitely a sign that you don't quite understand how we feel about the US.