I really hope you're just meming.
I agree, but neither does Don Cherry.
Neither does anyone. Get rid of the office, oh and the Senate along with it.
Personally I think all organized religions are stupid. Individual spirituality isn't, but letting someone who has no more knowledge or insight than you do on the great mysteries of life do your thinking for you is, in my opinion, a crutch for people who can't admit they don't know where we all came from or what happens when we die.
People like Amy here aren't the real left, they're neoliberal pieces of shit who aren't loyal to any causes but their own pocketbooks and ego. She'll say whatever stupid shit she needs to to get clicks and fame and to have the uninformed drones follow her.
She's a grifter, just like Tim Pool on the right.
If there was a viable alternative I'd have been gone a long time ago. There is an antitrust lawsuit being pursued against Google. Let's hope Twitter and Facebook are next.
As someone who considers himself a progressive I don't support Antifa. The idea of being anti fascism is of course a great one and I don't think anyone here would disagree with that; but their methods don't match that idea. IMO the only time violence should be used is in self-defense.
That said I'm as against their being purged from social media as I was when it happened to President Trump and other Conservatives. If they're advocating violence, fair enough, but even then it should be determined by a court. Not by some unaccountable Silicon Valley billionaires.
You beat bad speech with good speech, you beat lies with the truth.
Yeah, we should just get rid of the GG. I imagine we'd have to change the Constitution to do that though, and Quebec would throw a fit.
One CBC reporter took down a toxic piece of shit Governor General.
You guys may hate the CBC, but they did a good deed this day.
TL;DR : The left and right have a common enemy: Those at the top trying to divide us. Let's fight them together!
So, the reason I'm posting this is because as the time has gone by in my life I've seen the division and toxicity between the left and the right increase dramatically.
When I saw this video I instantly thought how much I agree with this message. Do I have different ideas than most of you guys about how things should be? Sure. The left and the right have always had different ideas about how things should be. But why are we so much more polarized now?
My belief is that it's the sociopaths at the top of everything, who are doing all they can to try to divide us so they can keep us fighting each other instead of them. That's one of the reasons as a leftie that I came here. To have a dialogue with my fellow citizens and see if you all were really as horrible as the powers that be would have you believe. For my part I hope that the few of you who have interacted with me have seen that not every leftie is a cuck.
I'm old enough to remember a time when the left and the right could have disagreements without attacking each other personally. I miss those times. There was a time when the left and the right were able to work together on the things that we agreed with. For example I'm not a big fan of Libertarianism on fiscal matters, but we agree on freedom of speech, not sticking our nose into other countries' business, drug policy, etc. Back in the day we could work together on those things.
I don't know if there's a particular community on reddit or wherever that this community sees as its opposite. OnGuardForThee perhaps? But whatever it is let me know and I'll post this video with a similar sentiment on there. Because I feel like we can work together against our real, common enemy. And once we beat them we can go back to fighting each other. ?
I'm not a fan of Trudeau, I voted for him in 2015 before my mind was freed from the Corporate media bubble...
I wasn't aware he was making changes to Elections Canada. You wouldn't happen to have any news articles or anything you could hook me up with about that? I'd like to dive deeper into it.
I honestly don't know how mail in ballots are treated in Canada. I voted by mail in 2019 but I'd like to learn more about how they are counted. I'll look into that more too.
I personally don't think Biden stole the election. I know most of you disagree and that's fine, I fully support any and all election transparency. My issue as I said above is Americans can't have faith in the integrity of their elections because of the issues I mentioned.
I personally don't believe this election was stolen from the President, though I fully support his right to contest the results by every legal means necessary.
To me, the MUCH bigger issue in the U.S. is how terribly broken and corrupt their election system is.
1 Federal elections should be run by a federal agency, not by the states.
2 NO election should be run by partisan people. In the U.S. elections are run by the Secretaries of State of the various states, all of whom are partisan politicians elected by the people. Even if they're the most honest person on the planet even the APPEARANCE of bias is enough to cast doubt among the electorate.
3 Gerrymandering. Need I say more?
I imagine you guys probably hate Elections Canada because they're part of the "Guv'ment" but I've worked an election as a Deputy Returning Officer and I can tell you first hand we have a completely fair electoral system.
*Here's my experience as to what happened when the polls closed.
All of us workers got together at a big table and took the ballot boxes and placed them on the table. Scrutineers for each candidate were allowed to view the counting if they wanted (No one did in my case, but they could have if they wanted.)
One by one I took a ballot out of the box, I then read it and announced what I believe it said. I then held it up for everyone at the table to see and asked if they agreed with me. When everyone did I put the ballot in an envelope and continued the process.
Once all the ballots were counted and recorded the envelope was sealed in front of everyone with a tamper proof seal, so that if anyone opened it to tamper with them later it would be obvious.
I then took the ballots and the voting equipment (the ballot box, etc) to the returning office in my car and presented them to the office.
I've never been involved in a recount but I know we have judicial recounts in canada, so if there's any dispute it's done with all parties involved by a judge.*
If any of you doubt any of this I suggest you work as an election worker next election, you get paid too so it's not even a volunteer thing.
The downfall of the news is one of the greatest frustrations of my life. I wish we could have a media that informed us.
I know that Conservatives are all about free market, but ever since the Telecommunications act of 1996 the free market is what we've had in the U.S. media and this is what it has brought us. A media that cares more about making money than it does about the facts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
Why do you think the New York Times mentions racism so much? It's because they know their readers will react to it, they'll buy that newspaper or click that link and the morality of what they're doing be damned. People will click because it feels good to hate on your enemies, to hate the other side instead of trying to have a dialogue with them. Of course the Times have an agenda as well, but hey if they can make money AND push their agenda so much the better for them. Same with MSNBC, same with Fox News, and, yes, same with my beloved CBC.
The only place you can find good, actual news anymore is in the small independent media, and even then finding ones that aren't just telling you what you want to hear is like finding a few needles in a massive haystack. Which is why I'm such a huge fan of Jimmy Dore. You may hate what Jimmy stands for, but he gives it to both sides when they deserve it.
I think that this scene from The Newsroom perfectly encapsulates what we're up against.
Yeah, nothing bad ever happens at hospitals in the states. ?
I'm a Progressive and I want these fuckers broken up yesterday. Google, Twitter, and Facebook should be done AT&T style.
Yeah, I mean I'm not a fan of the Conservative party as some of you know, but this seems to me like O'Toole jumping on a chance to get rid of Sloan.
I've volunteered for political campaigns before, but I was never involved with donations so I don't know if donations are vetted routinely or what.
On one hand I'd have to imagine with so many donations from so many different people how could a candidate possibly know everyone who donated to them?
On the other hand, if I was Sloan, knowing O'Toole hated me and wanted me gone I'd have had these donations vetted more thoroughly, but that's 20/20 hindsight there.
I remember in 2019 when Bernie Sanders got a donation from the wife of a billionaire his campaign didn't know until they were told by the media, after which he pledged to return the donation.
This oversight would lead not only to the end of Khan’s CBC career, but to a sordid in-house melodrama that’s now been documented in an arbitrator’s ruling upholding Khan’s union grievance.
I'm glad to see you guys supporting union workers. ?
There are some on the left, myself included, who recognize just how wrong and dangerous it is to censor people on the right. Jimmy is one of us.
2006 2008 2011 2015...
Stephen Harper? ?
Oh OK AOC, you want to 'rein in' the media? Why don't we start by punishing all the news outlets that pushed an evidence free conspiracy theory about the Russians making Donald Trump President?
I'm sure that's not who you mean though...
WTF is it about Pelosi that she can take Progressives and turn them into Fascists?
I thought it was a good speech, also today I watched the entire speech he gave before the riot happened at the Capitol, and at no time did he encourage violence, he even specifically said to go peacefully.
And people wonder why you Conservatives don't trust the media.
I've seen some things that the Proud Boys have done that I think got WAY overblown, like the ones who went to that protest in Halifax and confronted the indigenous guy. All they did was express their opinion and they got treated like Nazis.
But then you have their founder, that moron Gavin McInnis saying everywhere that he likes to punch people in the face, and inciting violence and I get why people don't like them.
But, at the same time why do we need them designated as a terrorist group? What some of them do, inciting and participating in violence, is already illegal. Go after them and charge them. If there are people in the group helping them well accessory to a crime is a crime, right?
As a Progressive IDGAF whether you accept these issues or not. My problem becomes when people advocate for governments to change laws based on their beliefs.
Advocate for beliefs at the top of your lungs, do all you can to convince people who disagree with you that your views are right. Don't have the laws changed so that people who don't believe what you believe can't make their own choices. (I know you said you don't. I mean in general)
If a Conservative doesn't like the CBC he tries to get it shut down instead of changing the channel.
If a Conservative doesn't like abortions, she tries to make it so no one can get an abortion instead of just not having one themselves.
Conservatives believe in freedom of religion, as long as that religion is Christianity.
Look, there are plenty of people on both sides of the political spectrum who can't help sticking their noses in other people's business. There are plenty of Liberals who do it and plenty of Conservatives who do it. Me personally I try to stay out of other people's business to the point where it becomes a "Your right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose" issue.
Take guns for example. If you want to go to a gun range our out in the middle of the woods or something go nuts, why do I care? But if you want to carry a loaded AR-15 to the local McDonalds I'm also going to be at that's where we have a problem.
As far as social programs go I believe that there is a level below which we as a society shouldn't let anyone fall. That's how I feel in my soul, that everyone should have a roof over their head, and enough food and water to live. If that means some people are lazy and don't contribute to society so be it.
"I don't like the people on OmegaCanada because they're a bunch of bigots, so I'll call them a faggot because I'm not a bigot!" -This idiot.