phorbin.bsky.social
I think therefore I think therefore I think some more. This is subject to change without notice. (Right now I think we're all in trouble.)
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www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
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I've occ. used 'a lot to answer for', for ancestors going right back to the chemical soup from whence all life came.
Where did your research take you?
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I agree. Predictable tactics. Budgets are confidence votes.
They're trying to name it first, lodge the negative in ppl's minds and justify voting against it.
Takes time. New gov't. New Cabinet. New budget. Revenue streams changing. Wording matters & takes time. Minorities must have partners.
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Found your post by accident.
It explains a lot.
I blame evolution.
Then I get into blaming a palette of exploitable traits that prevent us from understanding, stepping up, developing resistance mind, reasoning our collective way to effective strategy, resolve, organisation and mass mobilisation.
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If I'd used 'values' alone it wouldn't sound as important as it should.
exPM Trudeau demonstrated that the wearing of socks and reactions to the wearing of socks can indicate values, keep the libs in stitches & the oppos busy.
The item's 2014 but still relevant
george-lakoff.com/2017/07/01/t...
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George Lakoff's work gives some insight.
It's about core values.
The mixed values types, those who have both con and lib are the so-called undecideds and their vote can be moved by one side or the other depending on which can lock onto and into those values to shift the emphasis.
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FWIW I think 'inherently wrong' is too mild. The fallout can be far darker.
Masking makes it possible for any cosplay militia, racist cadre, ad hoc group of well armed militants & criminals, even serial killers to disappear anyone at any time, vanish into the crowd and ICE will be blamed.
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Canadian here.
FWIW I think we aren't dark enough to envision the full effect of this lawlessness.
In the chaos any militia, racist cadre, group of well armed cosplay militants or criminals, even serial killers can disappear anyone at any time, vanish into the crowd & ICE will be blamed.
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Gotta wonder if catching measles poses the same issues for adults as it does for kids.
www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/03/meas...
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A brief note—
Doug temporarily discontinued french lessons during Covid.
We don't know if he isn't functional in french or not.
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How many of the auditors were tasked with looking into Musk's affairs?
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leveraging DJT's attack on Canada in moves to exploit our outrage and position himself for federal conservative leadership.
I could go on with speculations about quid pro quo contracts etc. but the sum of this reply is to request you not give Doug any credit or coverage.
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The devil uses truth to diabolical effect.
Doug knows Trump, declared loyalty in 2016, was seen on the qt in 2017 at an NYC hotel where republicans were meeting, got access to MAGA campaign resources, is
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto...
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Sorry guv.
It doesn't matter how nice you are.
You don't control the border, your fascist in chief, ICE, etc.
Seems a no-brainer that you have to deal with those first.
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Vance is going to be in the room.
With Vance in the room I expect the same game as played on Zelensky.
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Tunnel=Pipe dream. (still waiting for ppl to see it)
Doug all but confesses to being a fraud, keeps getting away with it and ppl call *him dumb.
This'd be to keep ppl talking abt him (like buckabeer) and if there's buy in, get money to bury in a hole when the idea turns into smoke.
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That was removed during his scalp reduction.
www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
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I still think Doug's going to pull strings to run for CPC leadership.
Never underestimate a potato.
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While I agree, The concern about ppl of the calibre of Ford, Poilievre and Sith using it to force their agendas was brought up in the 80s.
A bad compromise and a hell of a loophole.
QED
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They'll go more into debt to MAGA, get sneakier and get worse.
They only have to win once.
We have to keep them out for at least a full generation and do interesting things like move political language to the left, get rid of the notwithstanding clause re courts and charter etc.
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Indeed… and the IDU and mapleMAGA, MAGA etc.
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looong pause.
Poilievre always makes me think of Priestley's take.
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Been noticing that for about a decade.
I do an image every once in awhile to keep my hand in.
This one's about 5 years old.
You know the reference.
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Little boxes.
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So, not enough coffee to knock out the panic neurons.
Have another.
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www.esquire.com/style/news/a...
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Does she have a visa to work in Canada?
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Been variants of, 'If you paint 'conservative' on a rock, conservatives will vote for it.' going around for 3+ decades.
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It's messaging to distance himself from the fascist convoy and give a nod and a wink to the fascists that he's a really a fascist who's just doing something political for votes.
That'd be the 'illegal protests' in public places slippery slope bit.
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No. It's not just you.
The whole constant complaining thing btw leverages the human brain's negative bias.
Until we work out how to use neuropsych insights to counter it, it'll never stop.
It's about the wetware and wiring.
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Well yeah.
This whole thing was started, funded, expanded, exported by the super-rich and has been going on since Barrry Goldwater lost to LBJ.
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and paternalist policy.
FWIW I look at all this through the 4 levels of war, 'policy, strategy, operations and tactics' and do my best to live up to the advice of Sun Tzu.
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targeting of ed and medicine over generations fuses greed and malice.
Guessing you mean 'trickle down economics' which at once declares a set of values and is a diabolically clever bit of marketing to leverage a range of conservative values and justify authoritarian, fascist
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Conservatives weaponise debt.
I think we're shooting at the same target from different angles.
I threw out the words dumb, stupid and incompetent years ago re: con policies, campaigns etc.. Their success at poisoning many wells told me they were none of those. Their strategy of vote suppression,
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The Harper sales tax cut was designed to put the government in deficit so the cons could cry poor and justify cutting services etc.
With the cons there's always a coordination between dexter and sinister.
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Could be—altho seems likely their strategists know that it's an easily exploited and as easily fulfilled wedge that cuts a swath across demographics
& Something utterly retrogressively useless that they can pretend is a success so they add it to the effin promise made promise kept campain dance.
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Eclectic blue is a wonderful colour.
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There has to be some means of sabotaging that kind of testing.
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My French teacher dedicated part of a class to explain swearing in French.
Dealt with all the words we'd have learned from our French classmate.
Spawned some invention in both languages.
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Poilievre looks more and more like a dissolute Tricky Dicky every day.