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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Pierre Poilievre is the leader of the conservative party. That party has been in the grips of religious zealots since 2003, when Stockwell Day capitulated the existing Progressive Conservative party to the extremist Reform party.

When he(Pierre Poilievre) was a minister under Stephen Harper, they suppressed scientific research, abolished and ignored environmental laws, ran roughshod over first nations, tried to repeal same sex marriage and tied foreign aid to the passing of strict anti-abortion and anti-LGBT laws in the receiving countries. They also were riddled with scandals, including taking a significant portion of the security budget of a G7 conference in Toronto for various ministers pet projects in their own ridings. They also routinely capitulated to US interests, including destroying BC's forestry industry by allowing Canadian logs to be shipped directly to the US and not processed at all in Canada.

Also they cut so much from the budget and gave to their friends; as an example, they sold the building space for the control tower for Vancouver Harbour to friendly developers. They also sold the land for Vancouver's coast guard base to developers, changing their response time from 5-15 minutes to 45-60 minutes. One of the things that helped Trudeau get elected in 2015 was reversing that sale and reopening the base.

Poilievre and the CPC party have been caught at anti-vaxxer rallies, at anti-LGBT rallies, at the anti-vaxxer riots(both the truck border riot and the attempted coup in Ottawa) during Covid, and he has refused to get a security clearance so he and his party have not been willing to deal with known(according to CSIS) treasonous party members, nor have they done or said anything over Moti's(PM of India) inner circle officially attacking and murdering Canadian Citizens in Canada.

Current polls put his CPC party at getting roughly 60 seats over a majority, and the election has to happen next year.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I asked on here, but I'm Canadian. I know what is coming up here and it's worse than Trump.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (12 children)

Any advice on learning German? North America is lost.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago
  1. Its more that they're returning to the old ways. Unfortunately it was a brief, exclusively western concept that justice was universal.
  2. There is a solution to it. Western Europeans did it before, we can do it again.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Wc2: the Elven Archers would comment "that you don't touch the other elves way."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The .ml situation predates the whole reddit thing, no?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This thread is sad.

As a kid, my parents(read: mostly my mom) would see 400-500 kids over the night. Was really fun, you'd see everyone out having a great time.

In my last place it was mostly childless renters in the neighborhood but we'd still get a good ~100.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

This thread is sad.

As a kid, my parents(read: mostly my mom) would see 400-500 kids over the night. Was really fun, you'd see everyone out having a great time.

In my last place it was mostly childless renters in the neighborhood but we'd still get a good ~100.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago
  1. Harris wants to increase taxes on the rich. They stand to lose the most to that.
  2. Getting guaranteed government contracts is an insanely profitable gravy train to companies; particularly military spending.
  3. More so if you can actually insert your company into government logistics ( say, space flight, internet/communications and mail? )

Hypothetical crazy talk:

  1. Potentially they want to start being fully dystopian and being their own governments as a way to cement a "legacy".
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

It should be trivially easy to prove either way.

There will either be records on when it was changed or when it was discovered and fixed.

If there isnt, then it didnt fucking happen and Disney is lying.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

For everyone who thinks their vote won't count.

The anti-vaxxer BC Conservative Party, of whom more than half are functionally Qanon fuckwits, came within 18 votes of preventing an NDP(left wing) majority government in British Columbia.

18 votes, in an election of more than 2 million votes. Go and vote.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

Come now, modern day American Christianity has nothing in common with the Roman Catholic faith that spawned the Reformation in 1519, where the pope and his cardinals openly sold penances and salvation for money.

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