Mark “Elbows Up” Carney became Mark “Knees Down” Carney so damn quick after getting elected. Really just immediately cowed to every single US demand, at best was just a normal negotiater but hasn’t actually been able to put his foot down over much of anything of consequence.
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Stone? Whatever their hearts are, it’s something capable of being rotten. I just don’t understand why we thought electing the party that cancelled electoral reform, specifically because they’d lose if we had a real say, would actually give a shit about us. People get real aggressive with their speculation on what the NDP is and isn’t capable of but the Liberals keep showing us who they are those same people keep voting for them.
Embarrassing.
What some people mentioned really makes the point: Sanctioning Iran makes sense, but if we’re truly doing it to be good people then there should be sanctions on Israel and Saudi Arabia and other places as well. It’s not Iran being the target that’s the problem, it’s all the people that aren’t targets. The US is literally a violent neighbour who has expressly stated that they want to hurt us and who is doing so many blatantly evil things to not only its own citizens and immigrants but even to our people who are there and Carney’s on his knees for them.
I think the only particularly wrong thing to do is go “I’ve already heard this.” and try to kill the conversation. After that, filling stuff in but as questions has worked for me. You can even say “I think I’ve heard this one before but go on, I forget some stuff” and that might change how they tell it but not make them feel like you don’t want to hear something they wanted to tell you about.
Most people are shit storytellers, not my fault that I tried to revive their crappy-ass bullshit and then finally resorted to a hostile takeover because they couldn’t even make fighting a dragon sound interesting.
“One time, I saw a beaver.”
“That’s cool, what were you doing at the time? What was it doing?”
“Just walking. I dunno.”
……
“That reminds me of when I saw some beavers in the park nearby. They were chewing up sone logs by the water and making noises you would not expect, and the whole time we’re just there trying to quietly point them out to strangers who were also walking by and—“
“Oh my god, you only talk about yourself.”
Right, except you’re looking me in face and telling that you think that Carney is better for the job than Singh? Carney has only done awful things, only hurt people. What’s he better at? Sucking Trump’s dick? Destroying our environment? Obliterating jobs and not not taxing the rich? Intimidating striking workers? Immediately telling the whole world that we would, and I quote, unconditionally support the US’s attacks on Iran?
If that’s what success looks like to you then I have no idea what more to say to you, you’re just a broken monster cosplaying as a good person.
“We need you” shut your coward little mouth, you stupid little weasel. You are the wrong side of history, and you can shape up or shut up. Embarrassing.
“I never supported them and they never have a chance, and I have no ability to see how those two things are related!”
“Singh wasn’t perfection so instead I elected a goblin-ass banker who’s essentially a Harper era conservative, in a time when we desperately need progressive politics!”
You’re a fucking joke, bud. You didn’t vote against the Conservatives, you voted for a very conservative party and against progressive politics. You need to come to terms with that.
It wasn’t, though. Look at where “strategic” voting has gotten us: A descent into a situation where the lesser of the two evils is almost completely indistinguishable from the greater of the two of them AND WE HAD THE NDP. THERE WERE AT LEAST THREE OPTIONS, DUMBASS.
Anyone who thinks the NDP would have been worse than the Liberals despite all of what’s happening now being fully unsurprising is deeply unserious as a person and their opinions on the matter are beyond worthless. You didn’t vote against PP, you voted against progressive ideology and I will NOT pity you for your stupid, short-sighted nonsense about “lesser of two evils”.
We didn’t avoid ANY-FUCKING-THING and all we did was reinforce the idea that progressive politics aren’t popular in this country. Everything wrong with this god-forsaken place can be directed right back at the gutless, snivelling cowards who either vote center or don’t even fucking show up at all. I am SICK AND TIRED of trying to make you idiots feel comfortable, figure it out or get out of the fucking way.
Asians, especially Chinese/Japanese/Korean people, have an interesting standing in many places outside of asia. They still experience a tonne of racism, but for some reason they don’t get nearly the violent hate that other people of colour get.
Racism will say that Black people are criminals, latinos are lazy, and Middle Easteners are terrorists but most of what asian people seem to get are comments about weird food, good grades, and racist caricatures. They’re treated as this white-adjacent group. It won’t save them, but it does sorta explain why that kid is there.
Now, the black and hispanic people who are part of ICE can get absolute rat-fucked a million ways to Sunday because they’re there for the love of the game at that point. Everyone in ICE is a bare-minimum terrible but holy shit, the fuck do they think they’re doing?
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How much money you think we’re saving by cutting diplomatic jobs and leaving those people jobless versus taxing the rich even just a little bit more aggressively?
This government would rather shutdown a children’s hospital than make a rich person even a dollar poorer and it’s insane that we’re putting up with it.