I’m curious what Con voters will tell themselves after we lose this. And then whatever they take after that. What do they think, internally? Is it enough for them that people they’ve never met suffer, or do they require it to be specific people?

Good luck everyone, I am starting to feel a very real fear.

Too bad the voters won’t hold her to account for it.

I mean, yeah, basically.

And one country being invaded by what was previously thought to be the 2nd best military in the world.

I think it’s likely that we’re just so used to being catered to, that as soon as we aren’t, we start to throw tantrums and demand to be the centre of attention again. Like these numbers aren’t just bad, they’re terminal: Boomers are less conservative than men 35 and under.

We’re fucked if we stay on this path. Why would the Cons care to actually do what they promised to if half of all men will vote for them no-matter what they do?

We didn’t say they were stupid, we said wilfully ignorant, which they are quite literally being. Women aren’t doing the same thing, so it’s clear there are ways around it that men aren’t using.

But we’re not in the correct-information-only age. There’s a lot of noise to filter out, and most people aren’t trained well enough to do that (i.e. critical thinking).

I think my point is it’s not ‘most people’ being untrained, because apparently women are not falling for the same thing. So we clearly already have the tools, just men (by and large) aren’t using them.

Anyone who doesn’t see the warning signs is either historically or wilfully ignorant.

Which is why it’s so embarrassing – we live in the information age and these people are still falling for tricks from hundreds of years ago, despite being told specifically this would happen.

But if you had any intention of voting Trudeau, wouldn’t your protest vote go to the NDP?

It’s a MASSIVE right-wing stretch from ‘Trudeau Sucks’ to ‘So let’s elect Pierre Poilievre.’

I know she’s not exactly progressive like AOC is, but I’m still baffled as to why the Liberals aren’t running Crystia Freeland.

While there she attracted the attention of the KGB, which tagged her with the code name “Frida”, and Soviet newspapers, who attacked her as a foreigner meddling in their internal affairs over her contacts with Ukrainian activists. The KGB surveilled Freeland and tapped her phone calls, and documented the young Canadian activist delivering money, video and audio recording equipment, and a personal computer to contacts in Ukraine. She used a diplomat at the Embassy of Canada in Moscow to send material abroad in a secret diplomatic pouch, worked with foreign journalists on stories about life in the Soviet Union, and organized marches and rallies to attract attention and support from Western countries. On her return from a trip to London in March 1989, Freeland was denied re-entry to the Soviet Union. By the time her activism within Ukraine came to an end, Freeland had become the subject of a high-level case study from the KGB on how much damage a single determined individual could inflict on the Soviet Union; a 2021 Globe and Mail article quoted the report by a former officer of the KGB, which had described Freeland as “a remarkable individual”, “erudite, sociable, persistent, and inventive in achieving her goals.”

Nenshi for the NDP would be excellent, but I doubt Alberta will let him go.

EDIT: And ladies, I am so, so sorry about the gender gap there. Jesus Christ.

Just to be clear, your argument was Checks notes “Too bad that modern capitalism produces wealth like no other system” had the proof “the supposed resurgence of fascism never happened despite EU running capitalism for 79 years since the World War 2.” was truly a masterclass.

It’s like you had this well thought out idea, and really just made sure everyone understood that yo-

sorry, hahahahhahaha i just cant, every time I read it I laugh again, hahahahah thank you so much this made my day.

Enjoy being ratio’d though, the view is incredible from up here.

the supposed resurgence of fascism never happened

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Fascist regimes generally came into existence in times of crisis, when economic elites, landowners and business owners feared that a revolution or uprising was imminent. Fascists allied themselves with the economic elites, promising to protect their social status and to suppress any potential socialist revolution.. Then Fascists allied themselves with the economic elites, promising to protect their social status and to suppress any potential socialist revolution. There’s more specifics here if you want them.

Too bad, you’ll have to donate in your own name. ;)

Allez Imane!

(EDIT: Just wanted to add I have donated 10 dollars for each current downvote (7) to women’s rights charities in Algeria. Thanks for supporting Algerian women’s rights!) (EDIT 2: Fuck it, I added another 10 for the late downvote. Thanks for supporting Algerian women’s rights!)

Again, I think spreading lies on the internet is an appalling thing to do, but I just wanted to share my disbelief that someone could be arrested for it.

How is it really different from starting a white supremacy group and calling to ‘expel immigrants’ in posters around a city? The only difference from any other racist/terrorist action is that it was placed online. Do we really need to allow that to be okay?

For reference, the Russian army during the siege of Mariupol killed approximately 8 civilians for each Ukrainian soldier, despite the fact that those Ukrainian soldiers were in uniform and did not deliberately hide among civilians.

Are you seriously trying to compare Russia with the US? Like congratulations, your My Lai past is fully behind you.

but the American military fought those wars while inflicting remarkably few civilian casualties given the scale of the conflict.

Well, not exactly.

"But from the outset, she said, she did not feel welcome. In her witness statement she detailed how colleagues “took it in turns to shout out ‘watermelooooon!’ anytime I walked into the room. Every time they did this the others would laugh,” she said, adding that she “felt humiliated and mocked”.

She heard colleagues talking about her “getting lynched” and being “tarred and feathered”. One said he would put her in a “hot box” – a reference to a scene in the film Django Unchained in which a black female slave is tortured by being locked inside a wooden coffin-type box.

In her statement, Knight said the Tarantino film “was regularly played by my colleagues – seemingly on repeat”.

Over several years, Knight tried to raise complaints about the racism and misogyny, informally at first and then formally, through Service Complaints, the grievance scheme for members of the armed forces. She backed up her complaints with evidence, including WhatsApp screenshots and audio recordings.

However, after submitting a service complaint about her treatment at AFC Harrogate she was removed from her role training junior soldiers, on the basis that her “mental or emotional state [was] sufficiently at risk of deterioration that she should not be in a [junior soldier-]facing role at this time”.

“I think when it got to that stage, that’s when I just realised that the army is institutionally racist,” Knight said. “And they would go above and beyond in order to discredit me as an individual, in order to protect the army image, to portray that racism doesn’t exist, even though it was there in black and white.”

What the actual fuck?