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  • I wish he was even considering changing FPTP though. According to the article, the changes they’re exploring are pretty lackluster.

    I wish they’d see the writing on the wall and just throw together a ranked ballot system before we end up with Premier PP. The last thing we need is that fucking capital-fascist in charge. I’d still be pissed that it took being directly in Trudeau’s interest before he finally followed through, but I’d still rather it done than not.











  • I think you grossly misunderstood me. To be fair, I can see how, and should have been more clear.

    I was attempting to insinuate that defunding the CBC is our route to corporate sponsered misinformation taking it’s place in entirety.

    This is perhaps the issue with taking a paragraph and breaking it into its smaller parts, addressing each one in a vaccum. Taken as a whole, it’s pretty clear if I am defending the CBC and therefore, it’s likely that I do not think this article, specifically, is misinformation. I am simply adding to the headline that all of Canada is in trouble, not just rural Canada. Yes, this is a fact which is stated in the article, and I never disputed otherwise. I just wanted to emphasize that point as people have a tendency to read headlines and move on.



  • A total of 1,518 Canadians participated in the web survey from Oct. 6 to Oct. 9. It cannot be assigned a margin of error because online polls are not considered truly.

    Call me suspicious of the validity of an online poll. Aside from the fact that it doesn’t share it’s collection location or methods, online polls are substantially more vulnerable to brigading, astroturfing, or any other form of manipulation.

    Global News should be fucking ashamed of itself. Imagine calling this cash-in of ad revenue on this hot topic issue, “journalism”.


  • Our country is a community. To some capacity, every single one of us gives up a level of freedom to be a part of that community and help it prosper.

    Positioning and simplifying “parental rights” as “what I say vs what the government says” is exactly the problem. It’s not about you versus the government. If this was actually a matter of parental rights, and not another thinly veiled “fuck Trudeau”, alt-right, anti-human rights conspiracy, this would be about your freedom to instill values that are important to you, your family and your community in your children first abd foremost, even when “simplified”. Being decidedly anti-government would be so far down the list that it should never make the short-hand version.

    You do not have a right to teach your children to hate others, and fear expressing themselves, and fuck you for ever suggesting you should.


  • It’s surprisingly hard to moderate a conversation between not being particularly happy with Trudeau’s decisions, and not believing he’s a Communist Chinese plant out to destroy democracy, Canadian values and freedom of speech. The levels with which people treat politics like a sports team is almost as fucking insane as the shit people happily consume and regurgitate solely to justify their fear and hatred.

    I’d like to believe that we can do better than Trudeau. But we can sure do a fuck load worse.





  • Glide@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.caHate speech has consequences
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    Musk over here trying to conflate gender-affirming hormone medication being taken by 16-17 year olds with the mutilation of children’s genitalia.

    This is thinly veiled hate speech. They are straw-manning those they see as “other”, for the purpose of placing themselves in a morally superior position. It is arguably defensible lies (I didn’t mean, I just meant…), functioning as a dogwhistle to manufacture outrage over imagined extremes that aren’t actually happening, all to stir hatred in the public against LGBTQ+ people and ideologies. And they cap it off with a call to action.

    This is painfully similar to how hate speech against the Jewish people started.