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[–] L_N@piefed.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

The bourgeoisie...

[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fuck those MPs. Grow the fuck up. You get thrown an uncomfortable dilemma and instead of handling and considering it, you would, instead get mad at the person who raised the dilemma, and engage in essentially classroom bullying?

MP Dawson, you aren't betraying the Cons if you leave them. They don't care about you or your morals, and there's no trust and / or honour between yourselves. Cutting such a relationship does not constitute betrayal; what is there for you to betray?

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He did it purely as a PR stunt.

[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 14 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

PR stunt or not, it sure did bring up the ugly sides of the Cons. Not that we didn't already have enough evidence of that.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 5 points 23 hours ago

Which makes it even better.

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago

When you have no values to speak of, someone showing theirs is a threat.

[–] excursion22@piefed.ca 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I don't really watch parliamentary or legislative sessions, but the occasional one I do see often looks like a middle school debate with a substitute teacher trying to wrangle students into some kind of order. Many of these MPs and MLAs act like children every day. It shouldn't surprising in this case either.

[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Not surprising, but still worth calling them out for it, and worth reminding people what sort of people are we putting into parliament and making decisions for us all. This sort of behaviour should never be normalized or accepted as normal.

[–] excursion22@piefed.ca 3 points 17 hours ago

Definitely agreed.

[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

What a bunch of clowns.

If he wanted to actually help someone it would be dead simple to just donate the 10k to a local food bank or something. Or hell, donate 100k to a local food bank, 120k is still a pretty comfy salary. But noooooo, instead he pulls this publicity stunt and ends up making his party look even worse than they already do. Nice work.