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Entropic posted:I'm seeing that crap on facebook, entirely from guys who moved to Alberta for tar sands jobs.
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jm20 posted:Facebook CPC crazies quote:Canadian media bias makes Fox News look balanced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_Canadian_federal_election,_2015 
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FB posted:People keep saying the Liberals ran a great campaign. The reality is that till about a month ago the NDP was ahead of them. The media made the difference. They scared the crap out of people about Harper, the NDP "faithful" ran helter skelter to the Liberals by the millions and a lot of centrists who voted for Harper got scared off or were convinced that if they voted for him again they were Nazis or racists. That was all that was needed for Trudeau. He was more surprised than anyone else that he won. And of course there is his last name. Funny, for a culture which says that we are beyond the days of kings and queens praises our new leader because of who his daddy was. There is no  large enough for thisPleads posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_Canadian_federal_election,_2015 I posted the endorsement Gif's from pg 239 or so. quote:As Mr. Coyne reminded us earlier this week, official endorsements are not the be all and end all of opinion that is disseminated through media outlets. Also, your chart omits the biggest media outlet in this country, the CBC. jm20 posted:Who did the CBC endorse? I don't recall them ever endorsing a party No response, time for a new thread for more hug box cpc tears
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Most of those all sound like pretty good reasons to vote for him, so I don't get his point.
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Trudeau tells Obama he's pulling Canadian fighter jets back from Iraq and Syria: https://twitter.com/AFP/status/656585825132650497
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Trudeau says he's naming his cabinet on Nov 4, also that it will have equal gender balance. Also Bill Blair's name is being thrown around as a candidate for defence minister 
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jm20 posted:
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bunnyofdoom posted:Guys as much as I wanna make non stop this is the only person to toxx successfully for PM
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posts I can't. Yes this is an incredible victory and the culmination of three years of my life. I would have liked to see more ndp seats sure, and Skippy lose. But most of it was amazing.
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Ralp posted:this is the only person to toxx successfully for PM daaaaamn a whole lotta bans coming up then?
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jm20 posted:Facebook CPC crazies Alberta conservatives who lose their minds when I call Harper a racist dictator are my new favorite toy, and I don't care how bad the hubris will smell tomorrow.
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I mean they are probably right in that the media will loving jizz their pants for Trudeau. How could they not when he actually deigns to take their questions after 10 years of Harper? The conservatives brought this on themselves, antagonizing the press and then demanding why the press so antagonistic.
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flakeloaf posted:Alberta conservatives who lose their minds when I call Harper a racist dictator are my new favorite toy, and I don't care how bad the hubris will smell tomorrow. HDS: Hairdo Derangement Syndrome
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colonel_korn posted:Trudeau says he's naming his cabinet on Nov 4, also that it will have equal gender balance. Either the VA or the defense minister has to be the thuggiest shitlord in cabinet. It's tradition. Apparently.
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flakeloaf posted:The defense minister has to be the thuggiest shitlord in cabinet. It's tradition. Apparently. MacKay was beta AF though
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THC posted:MacKay was beta AF though A good point. Met him and he said thank you like it was a question.
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Excelzior posted:daaaaamn a whole lotta bans coming up then? keep your pants on
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Helsing posted:There's this interesting book from about a decade back called "Rescuing Canada's Right" where two conservative operatives outlined a game plan for taking over the country and pushing it in a conservative direction. It's worth reading in terms of how it outlines conservative perspectives and it's surprisingly blunt in it's assessment of what needs to be done (one of the few occasions where I've seen a conservative acknowledge the existence of the Powell memorandum, never mind saying it should be a roadmap for going forward). Can I get a synapses? I've seen books like Blue Shift and Harperland on the shelves, but I haven't been able to piece together what the Tories want and how they've gone about chasing that for the past 10 years. How do they hate Canada and Canadians? e: The bitching and moaning at work today was incredible. All the salty career NCOs were predicting another decade of darkness, when military spending is the lowest its ever been and the Tories gutted Veteran's Affairs.  The Tories positioning themselves as the champions of the military was pretty brilliant, since so far all they've done for me is change what my rank is called. They also made pretty much every officer in the military get their uniforms changed at the tailor shop for the Navy's curls, Army's pips, and RCAF new silver insignia. That tradition stuff is pretty rich since I remember Harper saying turbans would destroy the military or some such thing. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 23:21 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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The Duggler posted:is weed legal yet? I hope he waits on that a little bit, just to push it through on April 20th.
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Frosted Flake posted:How do they hate Canada and Canadians?
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ColdBlooded posted:Goodale is a slam dunk. For Manitoba, Jim Carr, Maryann Mihychuk and Robert Falcon-Ouelette will probably get some consideration. RFO going from losing the Winnipeg mayoral race to Cabinet Minister would be loving hilarious as Brian Bowman would still be stuck in one of the shittiest jobs in Canada.
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Frosted Flake posted:Can I get a synapses? I've seen books like Blue Shift and Harperland on the shelves, but I haven't been able to piece together what the Tories want and how they've gone about chasing that for the past 10 years. muzzling scientists. defunding the ones who manage to speak out. hiding a procurement process worth billions on war planes we do not need and which cannot do the job we are buying them for. Being straight up racist in regard to the niquab issue as well as not even pretending to give a gently caress about disproportionately murdered aboriginal women. and his daughter threw a party at his home where a few kids got alcohol poisoning and he made it all go away with his connections even though as a tough on drugs piece of poo poo somebody(the adult homeowner) should have received some sort of charge. Guess he just meant tough on crime for not his family. bring back old gbs has issued a correction as of 23:23 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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Frosted Flake posted:Can I get a synapses? I've seen books like Blue Shift and Harperland on the shelves, but I haven't been able to piece together what the Tories want and how they've gone about chasing that for the past 10 years. Stephen Harper posted:From a speech to the Council for National Policy, a conservative American lobby group, June 1997, as reported by the CBC
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colonel_korn posted:This man was our prime minister for almost ten years. tories are just US republicans in disguise
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colonel_korn posted:This man was our prime minister for almost ten years. That's terrifying. I always thought that the Conservatives were old-school Tories that wanted to maintain the status quo, I didn't think they wanted to fundamentally change the country. How could you look at America and think "Hey, let's be more like that."? Nostalgia for Britain and the Commonwealth, sure. I get it. They also have Universal Healthcare, social services, and promote multiculturalism.
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etalian posted:tories are just US republicans in disguise More like ill disguised republican-lite
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Frosted Flake posted:Can I get a synapses? I've seen books like Blue Shift and Harperland on the shelves, but I haven't been able to piece together what the Tories want and how they've gone about chasing that for the past 10 years. I can make a more detailed post later if people are interested but the short version would be that many conservatives (and this is echoed in the book) that Canada is not a "real" country. Instead it's a "political abstraction" cobbled together through government spending and the creation of various collectivist (as opposed to individual) rights via the Charter and the courts. Government spending and court enforced charter rights in turn creates a series of captive constituencies who are dependent on the Liberal party for the continuation of their special privileges. These special privileges are paid for by taxing hardworking regular folks who aren't politically mobilized or engaged enough to fight back. Or, if the conservative is being honest enough, they may simply say that Canadians are such rear end in a top hat losers that they would prefer government benefits to true and manly freedom and self reliance. Harper himself once explained Canada to a group of American conservatives by saying that "Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it." Or, to quote Harper again: Stephen Harper, circa 2000 posted:[I]t was Mr. Trudeau himself who laced so many federal policies, including the Constitution itself, with the special claims of identity politics... Mr. Trudeaus goal was no doubt to genuinely promote a just society of individual equality. But only a liberal intellectual could believe the assignment of benefits and rights would not become an arbitrary, This is basically just a Canadian version of the American conservative movement's critique of the New Deal and Great Society. Arguably its written right into the DNA of neoliberalism itself: a widespread sense that the expansion of the welfare state and the growing power of various identity politics movements had created a new kind of politician who got continually re-elected by promising every more generous benefits to "special interests" and paying for this with taxes and deficits. It's part of why conservatives are so opposed, on principle, to expansions of the welfare state, even in the cases where it arguably would save tax payer money (i.e. simply giving homeless people houses would often cost less than refusing to help them until they show up in an emergency room). Because they think any expansion of government benefits can trigger an irreversible cycle of spending and deficits, backed up by a voting population too stupid to recognize that small government is the best government. In America movement conservatism mostly formed as a reaction to Roosevelt (and it crystalized after the Democrats became the party of desegregation). In Canada much of the contemporary conservative movement comes directly out of opposition to Trudeau the Elder. They think the creation of a modern welfare state and the implementation of the charter were basically illegitimate moves intended to secure indefinite Liberal rule and to make sure that even when the Liberals are out of power their opponents aren't able to change the direction of the country. This makes them incredibly bitter and leads them to sometimes complain about how stupid Canadians must be. Like I said, imagine Cultural Imperial's attitudes toward Canada but slightly less nihilistic and you've pretty much got a feel for how a lot of conservatives feel deep down. And like Cultural Imperial they're not so much factually wrong as they are unhinged sociopaths.
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is everyone forgetting that Stevo said that we wouldn't recognize Canada when he was done with it  Also, all joking aside, what is Trudeau's plan for students? If he's taking away TFSAs then there goes next semester's tuition for me (yes I know he isn't taking the money IN them)
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Good burn on CKNW: Trudeau is the ultimate millennial - he's moving back into his parent's house.
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Aces High posted:is everyone forgetting that Stevo said that we wouldn't recognize Canada when he was done with it
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"Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion," said Harper, who was at the time constitutional affairs critic for Reform. "What matters and should matter to politicians and people who believe in the kind of values that I believe the National Citizens' Coalition share and the Reform Party share is not whether the Canadian state prospers, but whether the Canadian people and the land we call Canada prosper." Added Harper: "Whether Canada ends up with one national government or two governments or 10 governments, the Canadian people will require less government no matter what the constitutional status or arrangement of any future country may be."
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rawrr posted:More like ill disguised republican-lite This FDR speech could easily be applied to tories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3RHnKYNvx8
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Helsing posted:Canada is not a "real" country. Instead it's a "political abstraction" Are you paraphrasing or is this what they actually believe? Because I don't understand how you can distinguish between a "real country" and a "political abstraction" without some arbitrary cutoff or an appeal to nationalism/racialism. Or did I just answer my own question.
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