Yeah. Best case scenario I've felt would be that Trudeau resigns, the liberals bring in someone more popular that will effectively block Pierre Poppinfresh and hold onto a minority government.
Keeping PP from power isn't quite as imperative as Trump down south, but it's close. He's more Ron DeSantis than Trump.
I literally couldn't tell. Which is why I just Homered back into the bush rather than attempting to even reply. If it's satire, it's master class.
apoplectic
Legitimately one of my favourite words.
I used the phrase "tilting at windmills" when discussing current politics and got looked at like an insane person.
No one reads anymore, apparently.
In my experience there's never been any such thing as the "silent majority". It's just something desperately unpopular public figures cling to to convince themselves they (or their policies) are popular.
A largely forgotten show from the late 90s called "Seven Days".
How have we arrived in a world where a grandpa can't tell a corny grandpa joke anymore.
Next you're going to term me that pretending to take your kids nose is akin to threatening torture under the Geneva convention...
Josie and the Pussycats was lampooning our current celebrity obsessed, "influencer" obsessed, consumer lifestyle 20 years ago. Yes, there was certainly celebrity worship back then. But the way the movie portrayed it and the consumer greed that seeks to profit from it feels even more relevant today.
Why did the first notes from The Lion King just burst into my head?
Eight decades later, and all those lessons have been forgotten. Self-interested and shortsighted leaders have risen to the tops of many nations, and nationalistic rhetoric is gaining popularity again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory
In some ways, I'm a believer in the "80 year cycle, theory". But to me, it's a much simpler cause. 80 years is going to be roughly four generations removed from whatever the last chaos was (in this case, Hitler and Fascism and the Holocaust).
The generation that lived through it is long dead. They taught their children (My parents) to never forget. They in turn taught their children (Me...Gex X) to still remember what was fought for. And then the current generation (my kids if I had any) have a far less fundamental grasp on that history. We're so far removed from that event that it's been forgotten just long enough that it all makes an appearance again for the very same reasons. Because it's an easy trap to fall into; blaming someone else for your problems.
All this has happened before and it will happen again. It's as simple as "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it".
Plasma:
"Here's literally all the things... You sort it out, if you want. If not...whatever."
This is a relatively new issue, although I don't recall any recent updates that would have caused it.
When I plug in a USB stick or other device, the disk and device manager pops up twice; one is the normal one away from the edge of the screen, it goes away after about five seconds (like it should)
The second, behind it, is tucked up right against the edge of the screen and does not go away until I trigger and then minimize my application launcher.
Any ideas? I'm running Wayland because of the Maalit keyboard. Haven't tried to see if it duplicates it with X11.
Best case scenario...yes. But likely...not very.
The only thing that the bankers and CEOs that keep the Liberal coffer's full, and the Oil & Gas Companies (and now Russia apparently) that keep the Cons coffer's full, is a mutual hatred for the working man and for unions.
It would take a herculean effort, and a charismatic leader that we haven't seen since Layton, to bring the NDP into Official Opposition range, let alone leading it all.
I agree that that would be the best possible version of Canada. But greed will never allow it to happen.