Friggin love this meme template. Why was that little boy so mad? What did he want to do that day instead of getting his pictures taken? I relate, little dude.
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It's the peak of privilege to celebrate "normalcy".
It's such a depressingly low bar to elect a gilded to the tits finance guy and pretend that's normal.
Carney bounced from Bank of Canada to Bank of England to UN Special Envoy focused on glad-handing petro-states in the fumbled effort to address climate change. He's a career bag man for big business. In the vast majority of other countries would be - at best - center right.
But in Canada, this is what passes for a normal liberal.
I was watching a video of an american that lives abroad saying he is trying to get a new nationality at the country he lives at, because he thinks the country, and other countries as well, may not want americans around for much longer. He said he's afraid things may escalate. I thought that was so crazy! how fast you can go from feeling safe and privileged to suddanly feeling like you are hated by everyone. 100 DAYS!
I'm partway through learning the language, but I moved my family over 2 years back when I felt which way the wind was blowing.
I'm less worried for myself, I can (and have) literally lived anywhere and will manage, but it feels so good to have them safe in what I consider the best country in the world right now.
Flying back feels like flying into a banana republic, or honestly China in the 10s.
Looking at quite a few reactions from other countries, a lot of them seem to want to brain drain the hell out of the US.
Please brain drain me, I hate this country, it is a fascist shithole doomed to repeat over and over again with endless bumper crops of naive but extremely confident libertarians and conservatives who shout down any kind of adult nuanced conversation and flip randomly between being manipulated by their own racism that they loudly and violently deny and reinventing basic things very badly while refusing to learn anything from previous people who tried the same thing.
Some people joke about Carney's lack of a "celebrity charisma", or being "too boring".
Tells you all you need to know about why the US is going through its current "historic chapter".
Better to have an economist learn how to be a politician, than a politician learn to be an economist. Too many countries allow themselves and their parliaments devolve into complete fish markets where the person talking the loudest, or getting the cheapest "gotcha" moment, are deemed to be "awesome".
Give me boring, please. "interesting times" are only good to learn about in history books, not as they happen.
May you live in interesting times is a curse, not a blessing.
I'm not gonna congratulate Canada on not completely shitting the bed. The Canadians were going to vote in a Trump-like conservative until Trump started banging on about Canada being the 51st state. If Trump kept his mouth shut, it would have been curtains for the Liberal party.
Canadians did not vote for the Liberals based on their record or policies, they voted to tell Trump to fuck off. The moment Trump is no longer a threat, the unity dies and everything swings back to the Conservatives, which isn't a good thing.
they voted to tell Trump to fuck off.
God, if only our voters did the same.
But no, let's talk about principles and genocide Joe, I'm sure that will help Gaza, that will really show them all!!!
Yeah, those guys are still pretty butthurt when you call them out. they just can't get over their righteous stupidity backfiring.
Better than starting a war to manufacture unity.
Yeah, as someone from the shit hole to the south, I was very relieved Canada didn't go in the populist, right wing, direction it was looking like. I am hoping the failure of the trump administration instigates a push back to the general trend right that has been going on in the west. My bigger, less likely hope, is that we can reflect on what happened and actually address the popularity of fascism.
I'm glad we can drop the fucking bravado and acknowledge this now. We need to in order to survive.
Yeah it was a close election. We absolutely did not reject Trump with any consensus. There's not as much to celebrate people think.
What people don't know is the Conservatives here have had a revolving door of leaders in search of a Trump-like candidate. The past several election cycles have been this way. The party has sold their soul to MAGA style politics a long time ago.
They just had the best showing ever in this election even though it was a loss. And this is with the best Trump wannabe candidate they've managed to field thus far. A belligerent authoritarian-like tyrant with zero shame. They are not going to stop this any more than the Republicans would to turn back from Trump. They may even keep the current guy even though he lost his own seat.
Canada will inevitably elect a conservative government. It's a defacto two party system. It will all go to hell. Especially if MAGA is still ruling America at the same time.
With any luck the Conservatives will split back into two parties. It's unlikely, but the splitting of the Conservatives would be a welcome surprise.
There the People Party of Canada that has been a home to those who think the Conservatives aren’t racists, transphobes and conspiracy nut jobs enough
The expressions are correct. It was waaay too close for comfort.
To be fair, we basically just elected a Biden-style neoliberal who is slightly to the right of Trudeau. As affordability continues to gradually decline, our Trump (Poilievre) or a similar guy will be even more empowered. We're basically a few years behind the USA right now and your right are actively trying to speed it up.
We also destroyed the other smaller parties. I feel like we're basically a two party system at this point.
That’s why the 2-party system is so flawed. I used to be so gullible to think that if everyone keeps voting for the left party then the parties overall would sway more left in their future policies, but that is impossible in the capitalistic hellhole we live in.
Good thing there were 5 parties in this election. We got another minority prime minister, which will need to work on the left of what they would.
I’m still a bit baffled it doesn’t work.
Like, the Left not doing enough SHOULD lead the right to decide “Dang, we need a message that appeals. Let’s blame the rich, and champion power over corporations!” But…instead they blame nonsensical things, promise nothing, and appeal to hatred, and get more than one vote.
That should just…never happen. That faction should be gonezo, making plenty of room for an independent party.
The right just blaims the problems created by the rich on minorities like migrants, trans and homosexuals. That makes them look like they actually care about the people being hurt by the system, however also allows them to gain support from the rich. The rich do onw a lot of the media, which has massive influence on the vote.
The left party also knows this, so they usually do some minor things, which do not change the system too much in the hopes on not being hurt by the rich.
Oh and both parties are deeply corrupt.
It's because of this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schismogenesis
It's like being on a see saw, trying to get higher, with both sides doing extreme polar opposite actions eventually. Momentum is part of it. The idea is complex and the wiki doesn't do it justice, but it's fine.
The effect causes two well-meaning individuals having a conversation to ramp up different styles, resulting in a disagreement that does not stem from actual difference of opinion.
This video explains it quite well:
Minority Rule: First Past the Post Voting by CP Grey.
The system isn’t designed to be a two-party system, but no matter how many parties there actually are are (in the US, there are actually more than a dozen active parties), FPTP voting inevitably results in only 2 being viable.
This will not change unless a different voting method is implemented.
The liberal party should pass the electoral reform they promised so more political parties can compete on who can beat conservatives the best.
Stopping the conservatives is the priority... right? The liberal party honors their promises... right?
Electoral Reform Videos
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems
did you forget the voting reform referendum the liberals already gave us?
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The really irritating thing to me is seeing the Trumpanzees mock Canada, talking like this is the end of Canada as a country.
No self-awareness, no realization that Trump's policies are the direct cause of this. They can't conceive of any way to advance their interests beyond people just abasing themselves before Trump.
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