Swordgeek @ swordgeek @lemmy.ca

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Step one: tax the rich.

Tax. The. Rich.

Tax them until we eliminate working poverty. Tax them until we can move away from destroying the environment. Tax them until we eliminate billionaires entirely.

That'd be nice, except that the fringe extremists ARE the party.

This is really to justify to the 'moderate' conservatives why she's pandering to the extremists, and isn't one herself. (Which is a lie.)

Swap Catholic for almost any Abrahamic religion here, and it would still hold true.

This is identical to what my relatives in the Dutch Reform church accept. It's not Catholic dating culture.

They have to choose an interim leader who isn't going to make Poilievre bad by comparison. Scheer is perfect for that role.

We're working on it.

Can you imagine?

"We just had 338 team members face a tough challenge. 144 of them, including the boss, failed. You did the VERY BEST out of alk of them, and now we're firing you so the boss doesn't get in trouble."

I find that idea fascinating, because I don't think Harper is going to ley him stick around.

Holy shit, what a disingenuous puff piece!

It portrays Ford - one of the most self-interested, power-hungry, and amoral politicians in Canadian history - as Captain Canada, the gracious and intelligent saviour of Canada. It taljs about Hoyston's ambitions to lead the party but doesn't mention that it's likely going to come down to a two-horse race between Ford and Kenney.

I'm disgusted. That was pure campaign material.

Nope.

For context, I'm in my late 50s and always want to know the right answer, and share it with everyone.

Buy sometimes, you need to let it go. You might be in a situation where someone is confidently stating something you know to be wrong. Correcting them can - depending on context - come across as insulting and know-it-all; and if it's not important, maybe stay silent this time.

Now if you're in a situation where the truth IS important, or where everyone is more interested in the truth (or even debate) than something cool but false, your knowledge will be appreciated.

You don't have to always have the last word, even if it's right.

"Canada's left" is a long way from where the NDP stand.

The Liberal party is absolutely the Progressive Conservatives of 1980. The NDP are a mostly-ineffectual version of the Liberals of the same era. The Green Party needs to get their leadership shit in order to take on the coherent left role.

The CPC is now in the same category as the PPC or Christian Heritage party - racist nutbars who deserve to be forgotten except as a historical footnote.

Let's not worry about 'fixing' the NDP as a left party, accept who they are, and filling the hole they left when they slid right.

Wow, that is really terrible!

Oh, but he HAS said what it means.

• “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) and “environmental, social and governance” (ESG) ideologies are garbage
• Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday he is only aware of two genders — male and female
• [when] asked whether he would ask the U.S. to recognize the gender-neutral “X” marker available on Canadian passports, Poilievre pivoted to talking about the cost of living instead
• Poilievre vows to repeal environmental assessment law to fast-track resource projects
• Poilievre told his supporters that the Liberal government had driven investment away from Canada by pursuing an agenda of "radical net-zero environmental extremism."
• Poilievre promised to use the notwithstanding clause to impose consecutive life sentences on multiple murderers. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 2022 that imposing consecutive life sentences violates an offender's Charter rights
• Introduced bill Defined marriage as a union between ‘one man and one women to the exclusion of all others'
• Said Indigenous Peoples needed to learn the value of hard work more than they needed compensation for residential schools
• Said wearing a niqab at a citizenship ceremony is "not in line with Canadian values."

And his actions since day one have backed this up.

I mean, Trudeau is newly single and still a pretty solid dish.

Carney though, looks like me. Don't understand that one.

Every election seems to break a new advance voting record. I think that the only thing really happening is that advance voting is becoming more mainstream. When I was a kid, it was something done by people about to go on holidays or being impossibly unavailable on election day. Now, it's pretty common among the general populace, even if they can make it out on election day.

Trump.

I am the milkman. My milk is fresh and cold.

A picture's worth a thousand words.

A picture of LaGrange and Smith answers the question quite well.

Yep. Fat fingers typing on a phone while on a bus on the highway = one more typo than I caught. :-)

I've got a playlist for that. Two that come to mind are Gliry Box and Fade Into You.

I caan't imagine where in the world you are that this could possibly be an appropriate comment for the prof to make.

It's not his place to tell you what to weat. This is no more acceptabke than if he told a female student that her skirt was too short, or for that matter, too long.

Wear what you want.