It says in a functional society. That adjective is very important. Our society is not one that works, as I said. Until we can have a world where the vast majority of people are safe and cared for we’re just bumbling along and staying alive because of pure numbers.
You’re gunna have to elaborate. Our society persisting does not mean it’s actually working.
Hey so what is it with us in the US and Canada and constantly knee-capping every opinion we have. “I don’t think we need a firm progressive leader, but someone who will be firm about the law applying to everyone equally” like, my guy, that is going to be a firm, progressive leader. You don’t jump on the center-to-right train because you believe in equality first, and you certainly don’t become a high-ranking politician.
Just say it with your chest. It’ll feel good, I promise.
Where are you getting this information that the only thing the NDP wants to do is flood our country with immigrants(and to what end? A racist dogwhistle?)?
They’ve used what power they’ve had to force things like maintaining CERB benefits during the height of COVID, pushing through the dental plan(which the LPC is taking credit for), and generally apply a progressive pressure to a right-wing government. Avi Lewis right now is talking about grocery prices, building affordable housing(in a way that isn’t just handing money to developpers), and instituting a wealth tax.
You need to get your news from better places, your are being led around on a leash.
Yea, land of the brave and home of the free needs to get to it. If your movement can be shutdown by a lack of mass-media coverage then it wasn’t a fuckin’ movement, it was a little day out in the sun.
And yes, you’re right that without consequences nothing will happen. My biggest frustration these days is simply things like why we started this conversation, which was that with no prompting the classic “but at least one is slightly less horrid than the other!” crap came up again. We are so fucking scared to have vaguely strong feelings on a subject, to the point where our entirely culture is built on shutting someone down for yelling when someone else hits them.
I’m sick of it, and we need to start saying “great, and that’s nowhere near good enough” instead of the usual “hurray, we corrected 1% of the damage and get to feel good about ourselves so let’s stop there.”
I’m not saying that the solution is to stick your head in the sand, I’m saying there’s no real tenacity between the two of us. Neither country actually fights for anything. The US had nothing but the limpest possible protests against the most insane shit and, like I said, up here we literally have a third party that Canadians refuse to vote for despite them being super available.
We’re not trapped in an abusive relationship, we’re here voluntarily. The good news is that that means we still have some level of control but the bad news is that it also means way too many of us are full-fucking-stupid.
Honestly, as someone who hates the “both sides” argument, watching the US and us here in Canada still hold onto the “both bad but one worse” bit while other countries are aggressively protesting is kinda saddening. The original commentor did, with the sponge-text, accept that they are not equally bad but they’re very right in saying that establishment Democrats, or the LPC here, are also actively trying to harm the working class. As a Canadian it’s actually worse because we literally have a well-known party, the NDP, who is always fighting for us even when they’re massively outnumbered and we just pretend they’re not there.
We’ve accepted the lesser of two evils for too long. It’s about time we start fighting for something that’s actually good for us.
No amount of someone telling me to hate minorities would make me vote against them, it would just make me more pissed at the disgusting people saying those things.
I wouldn’t go looking for evil where it’s pretty clear a good intention is being made. I’m incredibly cynical and frustrated at the world and even I am not going to go digging for ill-intent like that.
I don’t know, but she is Krafty.
MAGA people: “Wait but I thought he’d stay and fight with us…?” or, more likely “Yes he has to get away from the evil leftists!”
It’s not really matching his success, it’s matching his pay. Very different things, especially as we know that people today are vastly more productive than in years past.
Just because someone is stealing your work doesn’t mean you didn’t succeed at it(and deserve fair pay).
It is, though. A platform at it’s core is a signal of your values and a general set of promises. You born yesterday or something?
“Hey guys, I’m not going to tell you what I plan to do with power once I get it because Shartgargle says it’s the best option. Vote for me, though.”
It’s called having a platform. Saying what you’re gunna do if you win is the whole point of campaigning.
As the others have said…who’s gunna put them in prison? If people actually get out there and vote progressive then MAYBE, but as it stands the GOP is just chasing power for the power, that’s all.
Trump is literally guilty of dozens of felonies and a judge said “yea but he wants to hold the highest office in the land so I’m gunna let him go.”
God, this dude is embarrassing. A genuinely decent-seeming approach on the one hand that on the other is completely fucked by him making damn sure you know that he’s definitely got the bad intentions.
I get what you mean, the idea I think is that this should be planner(job) not planner(needs a plan). If the latter, I totally get you, though sometimes it’s still healthy to be surprised every so often.
That’s not what they mean. They mean the friend who’s always making all the plans sometimes needs other people in the group to take some initiative.
Are you actively trying not to understand? There are clear commonalities between all of those things and their mechanisms and while it’s not spelled out for you it’s only a small distance away to get to that.
Right, so not a functioning society.