You speak on that like the Liberals are the default. We all need to fucking stop with that crap, it’s pretty much the only reason they ever get elected at all. In 2021 the NDP well over half the votes the Liberals did and that’s with “strategic” voting. We can stop this at any point.
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Of course they wouldn’t have wanted proportional representation, look at how badly they would have gotten their asses handed to them if they did that. The country would finally have to admit that the NDP were getting votes, just not seats to match, and if that were the case then why bother voting for the Liberals?
They do not like democracy because they know how unpopular they are. In 2021 the only ads I saw from them were of Trudeau begging everyone to “unite”(strategic vote) because that’s literally the only thing they have going for them.
This government is giving breaks to the rich and firing tens of thousands of federal workers in a time when everyone is already desperate. How much stability is there for Canadians when we have a high unemployment rate and the government isn’t even trying to help?
Oh, and they’re cutting development fees in Ontario in half to the tune of $8.8bil dollars, which will just get paid by the taxpayer now, so it really doesn’t seem like saving regular people money is much on their mind. Remember, the most basic rule of having a strong economy is small amounts changing hands often so almost everything the Liberals are doing is weakening the economy, not reinforcing it.
“Thank you Justin Trudeau for running finally giving us a more fair and democratic voting sustem and then tossing that entire promise aside when you realized that you’d never win again if people actually felt safe to vote for what truly represented them.”
Like most centrists, at best he was vaguely tolerable. Of course, all that did was allow the party to inch further right to give us the Harper Conservatives but with red ties.
Yea, thank god we instead have a conservative who’s first reaction to the US/Israel attacks was “Canada will unconditionally support the US” and who only bery slowly afterwards changed his stance.
The only thing good about this is the floor crossing to be able to point to the Liberals next elections and say to all the “strategic” voters that they’re literally voting for conservatives and/or a party which was attractive to Conservatives. We shouldn’t need that, because oh my god, but whatever, I guess.
Man, one of my biggest dreams is that people actually learn what capitalism really is. It’s an -ism that focuses on capital. Socialism is an -ism that focuses on society. Capitalism sucks rocks because its focus means that money has the priority, and it really doesn’t even matter where it came from. Exploited a bunch of people and used legal loopholes the owner class essentially paid for to do it? Yea, that’s totally fine in capitalism because your grotesque bank account is more important than the lives of the people you hurt.
Ok you’re missing the part where all the previous comments are the other guy desperately trying to act like there are no people involved. Please read the context and consider that when reading my responses.
You haven’t really given any sources at all for that being the extent of their power, and you also seem to have very little understanding of the fact that a group picked out by the guy who commands the military is not easily ignored. You also talk about the Ayatollah like it’s a pope position yet he’s the guy who keeps showing up to foreign affairs stuff.
Even in your own, un-sourced description you look kinda dumb.
Who runs the institutions, banks, and funds? Yes, they are stupid and short-sighted and greedy but ultimately that does not mean they get to hide behind a company. You talk about them having a pretty singular interest and then say it’s all averaged out, but the average between a pool of nearly the exact same opinions isn’t particularly important or nuanced.
Companies do not get opinions. If the people who run them want to share their voice they can vote like everyone else, and if they don’t like democracy they can drown themselves in their pools.
Shareholders are people, you dolt.
https://mumbai.mfa.gov.ir/en/generalcategoryservices/16250/government-of-iran
So…the very first page here talks about part of it but leaves out the Guardian Council thing and its influence.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-presidential-election-process-2024-06-25/
The Reuters article shows more about the Guardian Council.
Since pretty much every single thing I’m finding is talking about it and showing real people and reporting on news about it, about you tell the class why you think it’s all fake?
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And that’s exactly the problem. “Fiscal conservatism”, which really just means slashing taxes on the most rich and leaving the rest of us out to dry, is incredibly irresponsible and has never worked. If anyone trusts Carney to run our economy then they should trust someone who is at least trying to give us progressive financial policies far more. Even if they fail, they aren’t the one actively chasing the option that is guaranteed to fall apart and that means there’s a far greater chance for success.
Besides, we throw around the word “trust” and “confidence a lot with almost zero evidence that the person we don’t trust isn’t capable of doing what they promise. Yes, I trust a grizzly bear to maul me to death if I voluntarily dress up in raw meat, but that’s precisely why I do not do that!