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Pakistan to respond ‘forcefully’ to India’s ‘act of war’, says prime minister after attack – live

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  • On the bright side a hot war between two nuclear powers likely means you won’t have to worry about the next four years.

    • Pierre Poilievre says there is no need to reduce plastic packaging

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  • Bamboo straws I like as well.

    Like… I get that paper straws kind of suck. But my god. We’re a week away from the election and this is what he’s talking about. These people are so childish. It feels like he’s running for class president instead of PM.

    • Most Canadians feel as safe or safer than 10 years ago, Nanos poll finds. Conservative voters are another story

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  • Oh that’s interesting, I didn’t realize that. Thanks for the info.

    • Post-leaders’ debate scrums cancelled due to security concerns

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  • I haven’t seen it and I’m trying not to be biased but was there any missing context?

    • Canadian Video Game Developers

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  • Lost Records: Bloom and Rage is made by Don’t Nod Montreal.

    • Most Canadians feel as safe or safer than 10 years ago, Nanos poll finds. Conservative voters are another story

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  • I’m not a Conservative and think that the conservative obsession with crime is overblown and borders on hysterical but it’s incorrect to say that Canadians are as safe as they were 10 years ago. Violent crime has been on the rise every year since 2014 after a sustained period of reduction. We’re now at roughly the same crime rate we were in 2002.

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/525173/canada-violent-crime-rate/

    Feelings are fine. But facts are facts.

    • Poilievre unveils ‘three strikes and you’re out’ crime plan. Will it work?

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  • Agreed. But there are better ways of dealing with this than making laws that will inevitably be struck down by the Supreme Court.

    • Poilievre unveils ‘three strikes and you’re out’ crime plan. Will it work?

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  • Apart from the fact that this obviously is against the charter - how does this work? Is it three separate convictions at different times? What if you’re charge with multiple serious offenses during a single crime?

    • Rally attendance claims differ from reality for both major parties

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  • I am actively political and have been my entire life. I go to protests, I’ve campaigned for candidates, I’ve been a member of political parties, voted in leadership contests and do so at every level of government.

    I’ve never once attended a political rally. They just strike me as creepy and weird.

    • A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

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    • Hustle grindset bro invents "having friends"

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  • I don’t know how you all feel about ChatGPT but I was curious if the robots would understand how silly this post was. It delivered.

    • The best thing you can do for the fediverse is just be kind

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  • Yeah. So much of our social media is structured to reinforce being combative. Even the upvote/downvote feature of Reddit/Lemmy etc has this effect of rewarding performativity over substance. People start competing for points and start to interpret high point totals as the equivalent of winning an argument or saying something of substance.

    Since it’s a lot easier to get upvotes if you’re pithy or snarky or unserious the whole mechanism that underpins this tech tilts people toward simplistic and aggressive rhetoric.

    I don’t want to get too “the medium is the message” here and complexity in political discussions (or any discussions really) have been decreasing generation over generation - so it’s not just a social media problem. But social media seems to have broken so many of the traditional guardrails we’ve had against demagoguery. It’s going to take a lot to unwind it.