First off, that response looks like you did not read or understand my comment at all.
Secondly, to be charitable and respond anyway, there just aren’t that many intelligent people in the world. They vote and participate in the system because it’s the right thing to do. What the fuck else are they supposed to, bud? They can’t just separate from the system.
Something you need to understand is that a high paying job and a degree do not inherently mean intelligence, especially not in the US and Canada where education is largely for the generationally wealthy and school is designed for memorization and brute-force solutions over learning how to be clever.
Anyone who’s truly intelligent understands that “line goes up” is a ideology what’s dead on arrival. Every single layer of it is a new layer of stupidity, it’s a staggering lack of intelligence.
If you think anything they’re doing is clever and not the incredibly obvious bullshit that it is, I have news for you. We can see everything they’re doing, they only get away with it because we do next to nothing to stop them and because there are a lot of stupid people in the world willing to back them up.
Don’t worry, in Canada our “centrist” party(read: at the moment, incredibly conservative) was elected in 2015 on that promise…and they immediately gave up on it when they learned they’d probably never win again. And then we let them get away with three other times, if I remember correctly!
Hurray!
US history sounds even worse than our Canadian history classes. Just complete garbage. And then you see what people are learning in other countries and you have to wonder why we act like 10-12 years isn’t enough time to fit in any reasonable amount of our, honestly, very short history.
No profit, and in my time on this earth it’s also very true that most people have next to non-existent interpersonal skills. They have no idea how to treat a stranger like real person.
You know what they say, if you’re gunna kill someone, you should do it in a car. In this guy’s case, being white and the victims being not white also helps.
I hope he uses his license to accidentally run over the people who let him keep it, and I hope it causes him to get lauched off a bridge.
Anybody who believed his speech was anything more than PR was/is a fool. It was after he tried to trample the rights of a union fighting to not be heavily exploited and after he happily fucked over major environmental protections for the benefit of energy companies, many of whom aren’t even Canadian(as if that matters).
I read it and laughed. It didn’t laugh, I’d cry. It was so fucking insulting.
“Was it Pearl Harbour?” Tonnes of countries were involved already, it was already WW2 for a while. The blitz of London was started and ended by the time the US was attacked at the very end of 1941. They were plenty happy to let everyone else fight it out and then when they got attacked suddenly they were the altruistic heroes of man.
Apparently they fixed their incredibly undemocratic primary process, but this Canadian never noticed because they went 100% undemocratic and forced Harris onto everyone without any primary. Wild.
It’s bad, especially in the US and Canada, but not voting isn’t going to fix anything. Ultimately there are not hard-coded rules saying a progressive vote is worth less than a conservative one, even if the systems are set up to look that way. Voting is always worth it.
The two party system but also the fact that, around the world, we act like 51% is anything more statistical noise. That’s not a majority. We need to start seeing the bar as being 60-70%, 50% is way too low and results in, functionally, less than half the country being represented.
Exactly. I said they weren’t intelligent, and then you said “so if there are all these intelligent people…”
Like, which intelligent people? Who are you talking about?