shawn1122 @ shawn1122 @lemm.ee

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I generally dislike approaching such problems with centrism but I think there are two perspectives here that have some truth to them.

1. The dude is undoubtedly a misogynist scam artist that manipulates women and is by no means a decent person. I don't really care how he manipulated these women, he's simply a piece of shit for doing it.
2. I can't remove accountability from these women for making the choice to marry guys like this in a relatively short time frame. It is, in a way, misogynistic and infantalizing to paint women as helpless victims without agency in this type of situation.

Ultimately, though we hope to live in a world where we can trust others, there are many circumstances where we cannot. Personal relationships and monetary transactions are situations where the threshold for alarm bells to go off have to be lower.

There is a touch of desperation in marrying someone within a few weeks in my opinion, whether you are a man or woman. Takes way more time than that to really know if you're compatible.

Not to say that there's a specific time everyone should wait but three weeks is almost certainly too fast if you take marriage at all seriously.

This is a generous take on current CBP practices.

Many have been detained without legitimate cause or due process.

Generally it's people of color who bear the brunt of injustice but I've heard stories of even white people facing challenges - being made to declare their love for the US or comment positively on the current US government for entry.

Its offputting enough to want to avoid the US unless absolutely necessary.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Plus_One

If America loses its purchasing power all it'll have left is its military. Beyond being the world's consumption epicenter and selling services, there's not much else to stand on.

I have a feeling the US won't be the country that makes the next legitimate AI breakthrough, even with Trump trying to remove all guardrails and onshore hardware production.

I'm guessing trumps spike on support by Latin American folk can be explained by religious zealots like her?

Understaffing is a major issue. Recently having an E. Coli outbreak from their food doesn't help either.

It used to be that the food was at least fast and hot. Now there are times where you'll wait 20 minutes, it will be cold and might make you sick.

Add to that the price going up while the food is either the same or worse since the 90s.

In short, they've gotten greedy and they assumed it wouldn't affect demand which is not how economics work but it's how the worst of capitalists want it to work.

CBC demonstrated that several Canadian subreddits (which are toxic cesspits rife with divisieness) are run by Russian bots so it's not just US influence.

Sadly I think this could be the beginning of the end for the NDP. They struggled to fill Jack Laytons shoes and though Jagmeet was a less well received leader, I feel they will struggle to fill his shoes too. The Americanization of Canada has already begun.

I'd say socially they are. Fiscally... only the NDP is consistently really left of center.

If I'm reading this correctly, the political right in Canada need the political left to split the vote under a FPTP system in order to succeed?

That would be hilarious but they're going to make sure it's a conservative stronghold. Sucks for whichever MP gets booted on his behalf but that's what you get for having a leader like PP.

An MP in a conservative stronghold has to resign and then he can run there in a byelection to get back into the House of Commons. The timing of the byelection is determined by Prime Minister Carney though, so he could very well be put until 2026.

Whoever the conservatives choose as parliamentary leader can defer it to him according to CBC, so he shouldn't have to move out.

I don't know thats its too high especially of it was going to be much more than that if not for Trump's threats, Trudeau's resignation and Carney's ascension.

Too close from whose perspective?

The liberals had no business winning this election. All metrics pointed to a conservwtive land slide until Trump got involved and Carney seemingly handled him better than Trudeau.

Carney is going to have to perform above average in his first term otherwise the liberals will be absolutely decimated in 4 years.

This is borrowed time. Even an average performance now will guarantee Poilievre a win in 4 years. The Liberals are going to have to get more done in 4 years than they have in the past 10 to prevent that.

I don't know if America is the right place to take advice on that at the moment. Whatever plan is being implemented there has clearly failed profoundly.

Unless you're saying Canada should learn from America's mistakes but the countries are very different so I doubt the lessons would be meaningful.

Certainly doesn't bode well. Carney is going to actually have to make a real impact in the next 4 years or the next election will be a landslide for the conservatives. This is borrowed time for the liberals.

I'm totally okay with taking a shot on someone who is actually educated and respected as opposed to a career politician.

Many Western nations are turning to political outsiders out of frustration with the status quo. Conservatives and the far right have more effectively tapped into that underlying desire and capitalized on it.

Here we have an outsider who isn't a dog whistling regressive populist. That's a huge win for Canada in my book.

Definitely makes Canada stand out relative to the US, where the choices are bad and apocalyptic bad.