Just leave reddit.

Really, the platform has gone straight to shit in the last 18 months. There are possibly more bots than humans at this point, and a huge number of the people who made it good back in the day are gone. Much of the interaction is now driven by algorithmic rage farming.

Its CEO is a small-minded vicious little fascist. Staying on reddit helps support the hard right.

Leave. Don’t look back. If Lemmy and Mastodon don’t seem as exciting, make them better by being active here.

Nope.

This is going to shift Canadian politics to the right, and embolden the fascists. This just significantly increased Poilievre’s chances of winning.

In a word…

FUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!

Yes.

Yes it is.

This is the most aggressively anti-trans bill enacted in Canada. It is a desparate attemot to keep David Parker from trying to get her ousted, in favour of someone even more extreme,

Honestly, these policies are 100% successful, if you consider their goal.

Forced treatment isn’t intended to help people get clean. Nor is it intended to even keep them off the street.

The goal of forced treatment is to PUNISH people for using drugs. It is intended to hurt them, and drive them farther from a support network.

And at this, it is incredibly good.

Could actually be MCA - Make Canada America.

I’m with you on this, but don’t forget that most polling companies are run by conservative sympathizers. Angus Reid was reposting anti-Trudeau posts on twitter only a week ago. Quito Maggi, head of Mainstreet Research, was actively trying to sabotage Naheed Nenshi’s re-election campaign a few years ago.

And the media…well, pretty much all of the print media is owned by Postmedia which in turn is owned by a MAGA-loving US hedge fund.

Don’t despair - fight.

My thought process:

"Hah! The Beaverton really went beyond silly this time.

Oh, fuck…"

I would agree, except that it may be legally prohibited. At present, I believe JT would be violating national security laws by revealing the names.

Meanwhile, PP would much rather falsely scream “LIAR!” than admit that BS like that is exactly why he refuses to get a security clearance.

Hockey parents are the absolute worst.

You run into shitty parents in any sport, but hockey attracts the frustrated assholes living vicariously through their poor kids. How many stories per year do we see about brawls or assaults at kids’ games? Too damned many.

Gymnastics isn’t as violent, but the parents are almost as bad. Usually the actual abuse is directed at their own kids.

Most ‘fringe’ sports have a strong, supportive community. It’s possible, but the culture of hockey is rooted in toxicity.

And late-stage capitalism claims another victim.

Fuck 'em. They are parasites on the artistic world.

They also warned that the conflict in the Middle East could lead Iran to interfere in the next federal election.

But Israel keeps their interference out in the open, so it’s OK.

There absolutely will not be.

The intent is to be able to go out, round up the homeless in vans, and toss them into a ‘treatment’ centre. Taking street drugs is inherently dangerous, and so if you’re using, you’re eligible. If it turns out that you’re clean but have untreated mental health issues, then you’ll get held against your will for the safety of those around you.

I mean, they might as well start tracking these people by tattooing them - maybe with a bar code on their wrist.

I’m only guessing here, but I assume the comments on Residential schools are there to establish the bigotry of the board.

The actual flag ban is typically done to prevent pride flags from being on display.

I like 'em, but I’m not convinced.

a massive swing away from corporate smell along with popular pro-labor rhetoric and actions

Corporations - which are already pretty damned conservative - will back the CPC with ten times the money if this happens. It would be lovely, but would guarantee a Poilievre win.

electoral reform without stepping down

That will prevent the CPC (or anyone else) from securing a majority in the next election, but I don’t think it’ll win the election for him.

Jagmeet introducing electoral reform in the current parliament, Trudeau supporting it

Ah, now that’s interesting! I like this one quite a bit.

At the end of the day, I honestly don’t believe Trudeau can win another election under any reasonable circumstances. The best he can do is stack the deck in the party’s favour, and then step down.

Come on BC, pitting us against you is exactly the way they accumulate more power.

John Rustad doesn’t believe that COVID is a serious disease, regrets his COVID vaccine (sorry, “so-called vaccine”), supports anti-LGBTQ2+ agendas, doesn’t believe in climate change, and…has a good shot of being your next premier.

You’re in the same boat as us - christofascists controlling the narrative, then controlling the government, then the media, then our bodies and our lives. By lashing out at “stupid redneck Albertans” you’re wasting effort that should be spent taking down the people pushing this narrative. Meanwhile, we’re wasting effort defending ourselves (and counterattacking), instead of … that’s right - taking down the people pushing this narrative.

BC and Alberta together. And Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, the other four provinces and three territories - we need to STAND TOGETHER AGAINST FASCISM, and not let them drive wedges between us.

Solidarity.

Ted Byfield isn’t “controversial.”

He’s a hate-monger, pure and simple.

It’s time to start using the right language with these assholes. No quarter given, no excuses accepted.

I wish!

Ted Byfield is far worse than Palpatine - and his son, Link (really!), is an order of magnitude beyond that.