duncank.bsky.social
Tradesman, unionized, grampa.
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I've had the pleasure. Some great work.
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Great mod. I've really been enjoying it.
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We got a kinder, gentler, machine gun, hand.
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Fight!
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More of what? Compassion? Love?
I do keep those for the living, but the price is still grief.
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Just talked to a guy yesterday who was still blaming Notley,
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Your service is appreciated. Salutes forthcoming.
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I like the 'transitional gap' to minimize the 2 millennia that Christ has failed to return in.
Maybe the UFO is to explain it away as time lost due to relativistic effects during Jesus' FTL taxi ride?
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The Tru-Anon crowd switched right over to being CarniVals. Cult of personality credulity is a curse on mankind.
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A performative progressive where it does not directly affect elite 'centrist' power.
This was literally the most punk politicking I had the pleasure to see last year.
The chiefs reaction to Alberta's bill 54 is not dissimilar.
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All work must be submitted written by hand with a pen.
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So, the person that wants to run Canada is running in the riding that most wants to separate from Canada.
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Can't beat cheap snacks.
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Arrest them.
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Well maybe it's time for 'said minority' to read the room! (Note: 'read the room' is centrists polite terminology for 'shut the fuck up')
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JFC. 7 years ago and it's still winding through the courts! Fuck them all and the system they are hiding behind.
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"Oh no. The economy is tanking. But we are getting all the bigotry we wanted so..."
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I haven't paid any attention to pro sports for years so I never even heard this was happening. What a terrible ordeal for her.
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I understand. Conservatives are the worst offenders. Liberals, to be centrists, also must cater to the right wing, free market minded portion of their party, and have done so, many time to the absolute detriment of unions and the public socialist good.
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I didn't say that, did I?
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Who thinks is so important to state that the Cons are worse than the Libs that they are completely missing the point of my original comment and have nothing to add to the actual discussion.
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Should be inviting Claudia Sheinbaum up from Mexico. Maybe we can give Trump an aneurysm.
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Because the Liberals have spent decades fighting the neo-liberal, free trade, market rules all, ideology right? Carney especially. Labour minister McKinnon let the unions strike every time right? Libs never sold crown corps, right? There's plenty of blame to go around. Libs don't get a pass.
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Is America ready for reciprocal tariffs on media? Culture has been the biggest US export for a century. What happens when the rest of the world doesn't want it anymore?
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50 years of Neo-liberalism has depressed wages and increased the cost of living to the point that a good union job can't support a family. So, every union member has a side gig, hoping it will free them. You are one of them. They've been forced into conservative capitalism. It's the Libs fault...
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LibAnon. For the party leader worshippers.
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Even Jason Kenney would be more moderate.
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Unlikely. What's left of the NDP party is the hard-core union left.
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Absolutely. And the con leader might be even more fascist in 2030. Really hoping they manage to put money in the workers pockets.
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Exactly. If we went PR now, what would the political landscape look like in a decade?
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It's the 50 years of neo-liberlism. Even union members now believe the BS that everyone must have a side gig or fall behind. That means conservative tax slogans resonate. To fight that, the cost of living must go down, and wages must meet needs.
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I love her, but she would drag the NDP even further to the center. I think the NDP needs to refocus on their basics. Let the Libs be the center and refocus on progressive, working class, socialism.
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Why would they? Up until 3 months ago, the Cons had the election locked up. Now, there is major infighting within the party. But you also can't ignore the fiscal cons that went to the Libs in the last decade. It's what has moved that party to the right. They would be better off with their own home.
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The call for strategic voting was for the Libs only. ABC strategies were strangely quiet.
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That's if we started PR last week. If PR had come in 2016 we would have different parties. The reform/magamaple would be split from the Tory cons and the Libs fiscal right would likely join them leaving the center split off from the left. It's why Trudeau walked away from it. No more majorities.
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Getting in bed with the Libs is what cost the NDP the left. If your vote is going centrist anyway, why not skip the middle man?
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The west, right and left, has felt alienated by the Libs for decades. A lot of working class people that would vote NDP otherwise, don't have progressive culture war views that take precedent over the perceived East/West divide.
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Looks like he's full on committed to grfting right wing outrage. What a shock.
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Lower wages, higher rent, and replace people with robots.
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It isn't a mystery. Free healthcare, pregnancy and parental leave, and cheap daycare, all go a long way towards family planning. They won't approve any of it though, because some of the people they don't like, might use it.
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It was written 177 years ago. Consider that the capitalists change their language continuously. Maybe its time for an Orwellian update? If communism is the big evil then maybe it's time for cooperative market solutions and a transformation of the common consumer.
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The fox is in charge of the hen-house.
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This is just Reagan's Star Wars program on repeat. It has always been unfeasible and just a massive transfer of money from the taxpayer to 'defense' corporations. If DOGE is about cutting waste, this should be number one on their list.