Gift_of_Gab (they/them) @ gift_of_gab @lemmy.world

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Great, you’re admitting what I said. It’s not available to everyone. Thanks, we’re done here.

K.

Not trying to bring down the party, but Ford is an absolute monster. This is definitely a 'broken clock' situation, and sadly will probably lead to him winning yet again.

Yes, and I’m showing that the action they were forced into was so small as to be essentially meaningless. So, that undermines their accomplishments, wouldn’t you say?

Not for the people who use it? You know, our poorest people?

All our lives? Again, is this dental plan open to everyone?

So just to be clear, no party has done anything ever because it didn't impact every single citizen? What the hell is this insane criterion?

This is the least Canadian response I've ever heard, where help is useless unless every person gets something. I don't care if it 'only' helped poor children, it was a massive achievement and worth doing.

Pharmacare? Has it arrived? Or is it something they’re still working on? As for dental added to healthcare, are you sure? Or was it just added for people with low-income?

That's on the Liberals, the NDP forced them into action.

This is like the fifth time the NDP has managed to change all our lives for the better while not even the official opposition, but they get called 'useless' either way.

And Jagmeet Singh has proven to be pretty useless.

Other than getting us pharmacare and dental added to our health care, sure.

To what would you assign their disturbing success?

I have to ask: What success? They did typical fascist bullshit: They had an economy so bad they had to invade new countries just to loot them to pay for their horrific economy. They picked fight after fight of the smallest kids in the neighbourhood they could find until they met those kids big brothers and sisters. They required fucking slave labour to try to meet their wartime goals because they grossly underestimated just about every single facet of running a country. They privatized state-owned industries, crippling longterm wealth for their people, they instituted tariffs (sound familiar?). Pay remained as bad as they it had been in the depression because while their wages were raised, they were forced to constantly work overtime for no additional pay. Their military was the majority of their economic spending, and they used deficit spending because they were going to literally plunder the countries around them to pay for it. Sound like solid long-term planning? They killed or jailed anyone in the trade unions, and due to their insane tariffs and you know, generally being the worst people in history, lacked incoming trade so things like poultry or clothing was in short supply for the average person.

Then it took thirty five days for the Nazi German army, along with the Serbian and Soviet armies, to conquer Poland. For every success in the early war they had embarrassing fumbles. They lost entirely because of how fascists work: they need to invade more countries to pay for their insane military spending, make bigger and bigger enemies, then get beat by those enemies, then later people claim they 'could have if...'

Yeah, they could have done just fine if they hadn't been fascist. All of their failings fall to being fascist.

And the first world war, are you kidding me? Are you seriously suggesting their insistence on investing in overseas colonies while fighting against the British was a brilliant plan? In both wars they were led by colossal morons who constantly underestimated their opponents, while in the second world war in particular having the worst spy agency of any nation. Their insistence on torturing, raping, and murdering everyone they came into contact with meant they just got the answers they wanted to hear, instead of the actual truth, and were constantly on the back foot. Their evil, cruel, and twisted nature was their own downfall; the insistence of their superiority, as you are doing now, is the very reason they failed.

and very nearly won.

What the actual fuck are you talking about?

Most of the guys i played with are dead now.

My friend, I am so, so sorry to hear this. I choked up reading it, I cannot imagine living it. If you want to share stories about them I would love to hear them.

I forget the term, but there's an ideological theory where you only follow laws you think are moral (it's not Moral Law, but close to that, it doesn't need divine/etc meanings behind it). So you don't kill people, because you feel murder is amoral, but you would 'jay walk', or steal from a mega-corporation. If fascists stop following laws, there's an argument that letting them be protected by laws is going to keep them motivated to keep not following them.

Can't remember what it's called, I'm sure someone here will know.

I blame women.

For not murdering enough. The streets would be safer if men had the same fear.

Delilah Bon agrees.

Oh you said it. I am still struggling with the fact Covid lockdown began six years ago. Or that my kids are almost the age I was when they were born.

The LANs I went to tended to be Rainbow Six, Unreal Tournament, and Quake 3, and then Aliens vs. Predator 2000. That fuckin' ping sound, before we all had headsets, coming out of three speakers at once, was wild.

"Ach, mein leben!"

I feel ancient that I was an adult when this was happening.

Golly-gee, I sure hope Elon doesn't get hit by a bullet-shaped object.

I’m not a vatnik, fuck the capitalist modern Russian government

Then why the fuck are you arguing against the reality that Trump is a manchurian candidate for Russia?! That Russia is spreading psyops online to agitate people in Canada, the US, Europe, etc, to vote Conservative? I'm not 'blaming' Russia, it's a fact that Russia is causing a lot of this to happen. No-where did I assuage the US of any guilt, I just pointed out that Russian-backed fascists: Trump, Elon, the entire Republican party, just took over. They are literally backed by Russia, this is not some conspiracy or hand-waving, it's reality. I didn't use any racists terms, I didn't shift focus to the middle east, I merely said, how fascism is happening in the US and blaming them for watching it happen. You're strawman-ing with the 'white taliban'/etc comments, you know damn well I didn't say that.

Stop fucking helping them by parroting them. I know there's an exhaustion in you, I have it too, but this isn't how we do what you want.

Fièrement pas tabarnak Américain, bien versé dans psyops Russes. Erreur facile à faire, vatnik.

She really was. The war changed her forever, though. On her death bed she disavowed her lifelong Roman Catholicism, saying "No God would allow what I have seen and lived."

Before that she was an absolute badass and had many dalliances with a man of the clergy, causing his expulsion from the order.

Don’t blame the Russian for what the US is doing

Я сделаю все, что захочу, товарищ.

When men talk about being victims of psychological violence, what happens then?

They are reminded that if they wanted to talk about that, they were more than welcome, but a thread about a woman who was talking about her sexual assault isn't the place to 'what about us.'

Also cool dodge of having your entire argument torn apart only to abandon it and switch to a different one.

I was a young man who was sexually assaulted, and by a woman, and I still know that doesn't mean that it's equal. It's people like you who de-legitimize what I went through by making it seem like a game of Brinkmanship with women, when in reality it was the women I spoke to who got me through it, and the men who asked if it was possible for me, as a man, to be raped, and then mocked me for it.

Concentration camps killed and tortured millions.

At this point, you’re very much still exaggerating.

This is exactly how it happened.

From its rise to power in 1933, the Nazi regime built a series of incarceration sites to imprison and eliminate real and perceived "enemies of the state." Most prisoners in the early concentration camps were political prisoners—German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats—as well as Roma (Gypsies), Jehovah's Witnesses, gay men and men accused of homosexuality, and persons accused of "asocial" or socially deviant behavior. Many of these sites were called concentration camps. **The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy. **

Explain to me how sending people to Guantanamo Bay, already infamous for torturing inmates, is somehow not exactly this?

I cannot BELIEVE people will hand wave stuff like this or Elon's Nazi salute so we have to wait until they've killed a million people before we're ALLOWED to say what we KNOW is happening.