Em Adespoton @ adespoton @lemmy.ca

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Indeed; that’s exactly the type of thing Trump took advantage of in the US — getting away with behaviour because nobody had ever considered someone might decide that since it wasn’t illegal, why not do it?

But if we’re changing the rules to prevent ass hattery like PP’s, we need to ensure that it protects against the other extreme too… because otherwise someone will eventually take advantage of THAT, to equal detriment of the Canadian public.

Well, any game has at least two endings….

This is important. Learning involves change based on a balance of positive and negative feedback. Be comfortable making mistakes and learning not to repeat them in other contexts. Also learn how to use mistakes to improve on methods that didn’t seem like mistakes at the time.

This speedrun is 100% tool assisted.

“Oh yes, officer! This is my washer and dryer from home… I just felt like they needed a bit of fresh air!”

Well, you could argue that China already has the structure being described here. How does it work out there?

I was assuming a union system similar to what is currently used in the US. If it’s not democratic, you’re going to have other issues.

Of course, ranked choice could mitigate some of the issues, but you can’t get away from the power imbalance problem.

I agree, but that gets tricky, as the PM is appointed to the position by their elected peers.

So essentially, anyone appointed to a cabinet position should be required to already have security clearance. But then that means that people could be excluded from those positions if they didn’t get clearance, even if the reason they didn’t get clearance was that others refused to give it to them (eg, the people elected them, parliament elected them to cabinet, but the government itself was hostile).

Yup.

Seems obvious to me what anyone who’s anti-woke wants: a pliable, uniform, sleepy constituate that will fall in line and not question leadership. In other words, anti-woke is just a friendlier term for fascist.

More likely that he’s taken hidden foreign money (most likely from India) to run his campaigns.

But we’ll never know for sure, since he refuses to get clearance.

How does that work if he becomes PM? Look no further than the current US or HU governments.

Those unions would have elected union reps. They’d gain an immense amount of power, and anyone on the edge of society not in a union would lose their voice — stay at home parents, small business owners, etc.

Eventually the unions would gravitate to a party system, those parties would become bipolar, and world governments would become figureheads. Unions would begin to clash, eventually forming new political bodies along union lines. Union members would question why non-union members don’t have to pay dues, and a requirement would come about that when old enough to work, it would be mandatory for everyone to pick a union.

You can see where this is going.

The only reason unions work is that they pit the power of production against the power of military strength and control. Give the unions too much power, and their leadership becomes the thing they’ve fought to resist.

I would really like a country where the two parties are NDP and Green, and then they cooperate to get rid of FTTP once and for all.

Can’t see a route to that yet, so holding the line is what we’ve got this time around.

I’m in a riding that has been staunch CPC for a very long time, however, each election, a bunch of us get out and vote, and now this is the first time that a different candidate may win. Why? Because this time, enough people polled that way that the numbers show there may be a chance. And as a result, advance voting numbers have been through the roof.

The only way there’s ever going to be a chance in your riding is if enough people get out there to make a statement in the previous election.

Make this your “previous election.” We can work on eradicating FTTP in parallel.

Charlie’s always known how to string words together in accurate but powerful ways.

On Reddit I have thousands of comments, over 240,000 karma, and I haven’t logged in in around two years.

But then, like with Lemmy, I picked my subreddits carefully and left when it seemed like they were being overrun with bots.

That’s because the Overton window has shifted.

In most of the Western world, mainstream Democrats (neoliberals etc) align with the far right political groups.

Generalized prejudice is a minor subset of that group, except where it spans the political landscape.

Essentially, accessibility, education, healthcare and social acceptance means people in Canada are on average behaving in a more empowered and responsible way around reproductive health. Less reason for abortions, and those that happen are happening at the correct time for the correct reasons to maximize the healthiest outcomes for everyone involved.

Yeah; in most of the places where there are housing issues, the problem isn’t skilled labour to build houses or a lack of building materials (although those can become issues) — it’s the cost and availability and accessibility of land. There’s no “on site” to assemble them on.

Can a dead person be deported or go to jail? Can they commit a crime?

Pseudo, because we don’t actually find it to be of the people at all.