ljlee.bsky.social
I don't identify as left or right, I assess every policy and decision and decide if I agree with it, or disagree with it. In short: I don't let someone else tell me what my views are based on what color shirt I wear.
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He's required to get cooperation from the house of commons, which results in incessent bickering and deliberation, it can take years to pass laws.
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While its not impossible to corrupt a Canadian election or someone running for leadership, our Prime Minister does have significantly more limited power than your president does.
Executive orders for example just don't exist, the PM can't wave his hand and "let it be done."
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Interesting picture of Musks human shield.
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And what are they gonna do when he doesn't comply (he has no intention of complying).
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Even if I wanted to visit the US rn, I sure as hell wouldn't fly there.
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Theres photos and videos dipshit, what you got? Catch phrases and 4 word (or less) slogans?
Maybe thats the issue, you're too lazy to read anything that isn't a 4 word slogan or watch anything that isn't a 30 second sound bite?
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Well the Native Americans WERE the first people here, of that theres no doubt.
But for clarity they also came from somewhere else.
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The right doesn't just catch phrases and slogans because they're catchy, THEY WORK.
Memetics is an entire field of study with billions in research behind it, the LPC refuses to look at it or aknowledge its relevence, and if they don't get on top of it they're going to lose this year.
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The second however is reachable, but we have to stop trying to bring them to us, we have to reach them.
These are people who don't frequent the internet, people who simply aren't aware of just how much bad press is out there.
Thats the target audience and we need to find a way to get to them.
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Theres 2 factors at work.
The crowd that doesn't listen because they refuse to listen.
And the crowd that doesn't listen because they don't know how.
The first is probably unreachable, these are people who can't be convinced no matter how hard you try.
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PP has millions of dollars (last estimate was 25 million) that he wont provide any proof of its source, his parents were teachers and the man has only ever held public office.
He also refuses to get security clearance background checks done.
It should be law that he gets a background check.
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Yeah, starlink should have been seized by the US government a long time ago, there is no world that Musk having unfettered access to the data transmitted over it is a good thing.
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Next up:
Trump abolishes all hunting regulations in the US.
Canada builds a fence to keep the US from wiping out its wildlife.
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Most of the world tries to resolves its dirty laundry in house before going outside.
The US just puts its shit stained britches on display for the whole neighborhood to see and its embarassing, the neighbors are pissed and someone threatened to call the cops.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm on the "separate from the US" bandwagon right now.
They've proven to be unreliable at best, but perhaps even treacherous.
Still, I don't know if booing the US national anthem is a proportionate response.
We are humble by nature not loud.
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We don't need a social policy maker right now, we need a ruthless economic tactician, we're getting that on March 9th.
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That is unfortunately the problem with polarized people though "if you're not with me, you're against me" which is so unbelievably far from the true state of things, there are more than 2 political ideologies in the world, and they struggled with that idea.
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Yeah, I was maybe a bit harsh sorry for that, the other person commenting here spent its entire time accusing me of being a shill for big oil, insisted I was a climate hoaxist, called me a Nazi, hard not to drift into more inflammatory language when thats how a person "converses".
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And just a heads up, the other person called me a Nazi (with absolutely no rationale for it) and then blocked.
The state of "conversation" folks.
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And now you're calling me a Nazi with literally nothing to indicate thats accurate. You literally have no arguments that can stick here.
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1. Canada doesn't need MORE pipelines, it needs to REPLACE pipelines that go south with ones that go East to West.
2. I guarantee no matter who disagrees with you, you claim they're on the take.
3. Poor countries aren't to blame, I never said they were, you're strawmanning again.
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And again you change the subject.
Strawman argument 3 has failed, got anything else?
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30% of our emissions come DIRECTLY from the procurement of O&G that we sell to the states.
But keep laughing like a maniac so you don't cry from frustration.
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You keep picking at strands because your arguments keep collapsing. Again its bad faith, you're not here to work things out or find a path forward you're here to silence anyone who disagrees with you.
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Climate change isn't a hoax, its genuinely real, but guess which 100 countries don't have any climate policies in place? The 100 poorest.
30% of your federal budget comes from oil & gas.
I'm starting to think you're actually an American plant here to sew division.
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The dude your replying to has fabricated pumishments for laws and spent his entire time arguing in bad faith but, yes, the guy that tried to get people to actually discuss things with each other instead of slinging feces is the bad guy here.
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"The punishment for treason in Canada is life imprisonment without parole for 25 years. This is the maximum sentence in Canada."
But go ahead, keep making shit up because you have no valid on topic argument.
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Who said anything about killing anyone? Lol thats a strawman if I ever saw one.
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Ah old bug eyes medvedev, the mouthpiece the jremlin uses to threat people with nuclearn annihilation every time something doesn't go their way.
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www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Except first nations were on board.
This happened during Trumps first term while he was threatening Canada with tariffs then.
Given the amount of lies he's told to justify the tariffs it would come as no surprise that funding protests was part of his gambit to keep Canada reliant on the US.
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Yes, Alberta has tried a few times to expand oil export capacities East and West, protestors locked up the expansion projects for 2 years.
Protestors who turned out to be paid by American corporations.... that SHOULD be treason imho.
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As opposed to the MAGA echochamber X?
Notice how literally every social media platform is a liberal echo chamber, but X is apparently the source of all free speech? What a crock.
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The DEA said that of the 10,000 kgs of fentanyl that entered the US in 2023 that *checks notes* 20kgs came from Canada.
It was a BS casus belli to justify the tariffs.
The 10,000 Mexican troops on the border? They were there last year. The deal Trudeau made? Was made Dec 17th.
Nothings changed.
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And the plan Trudeau put into place? Was the plan from December 17th. Nothing has actually changed, Trump just needed an offramp that didn't make him look bad.
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Cognitive dissonance is very difficult to cope with.
People have to come to grips with being wrong first, which most vehemetly reject.
Thats why compassion and helping people be okay with being wrong is a far better approach than telling them they're wrong and expecting them to accept it.
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The MAGA movement wont die in a blaze of passion, it'll fade away quietly after a bunch of people admit to themselves they've been duped.
The aftermath wont be a civil war, it'll be 77 million red hats being secretly burned in barrels in backyards.
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I'm surprised you guys are doing nothing about this at all. Just letting it happen.
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Yeah, Alberta has the hoghest opinion of Trump with 19% in favor of him.
Being viewed as "Trumps buddy" is a great way to lose the next Canadian election.
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Yeah, he's basically a walking master class in economic crisis management.
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For sure, he was appointed by Harper as well.
Moderate conservatives like him, liberals like him, I genuinely do not think the CPC have any solution that'll work here.
MAYBE if they replace Poilierve with someone with some credentials, but I doubt it'll happen this late in the game.
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Poilierves entire personality is how anti-Trudeau he is, now Trudeaus going away and he has no idea how to rebrand himself.
He's tried to switching to "tough talk" re: Trump now that he's seen that even Alberta only favors Trump 19%, but people remember than just last month he was very pro-Trump.
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Indeed, also a former CPC voter. For me its Poilierves total lack of qualifications, the mans ridden a desk in public office since University.
Carney meanwhile ran the Bank of Canada during the 2008 financial collapse, and Canada made it through that with barely a scratch.
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Louder, but also weaker.
The leader of the opposition was a pro-Trump bandwagoner up until sometime in January, now I think he's seen the polls showing far lower support than he expected for Trump.
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Miss Vickies should be on this list under Canadian potato chip brands.
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At least he employs Canadians.
Store brand stuff is far more likely to be Canadian in general, so if you really don't want to feed him but still want to support Canadian goods buy at a non-PC store.
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If you want to help you can take your vacations in Canada, there are historic sights in the East, and beautiful natural wilderness in the West.
The US dollar goes a long ways in Canada right now and it'll send some coin to the sectors that usually hurt the most.
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Thats a valid point, and while it might not be the actual system you wanted (universal healthcare), it's a solution that seems much more realistic in the short term.
You're definitely not getting any decent government healthcare option before 2029.
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Can't force businesses to do that anymore than we can force citizens to, we can only make it cost prohibitive for businesses to buy American products.
This isn't the route we wanted to go, but Trump fabricated that fentanyl nonsense and then started hammering our economy.