It’s a conservative government, OF COURSE something corrupt is going on.

And PP would have done better? Please. Fuck off with this shit.

You vote because there are vulnerable people who have their rights removed or WORSE under conservative and fascist leadership. You vote in solidarity with them.

Voting doesn’t mean you support someone or believe in them. It’s a 1 hour activity you do because you have a duty to those directly harmed by fascism.

For those directly harmed by neoliberalism and settler colonialism there was never a candidate for that. That’s what the other 8765 hours in the year are for. That and surviving our late stage capitalist society. This is true whether or not you vote.

You’re right, but that gel is FDA regulated. It’s OTC because they did the work to bring it to the other side of the counter.

Most of the rollers are just nothing, or homeopathic.

Placebo is a powerful misunderstood effect!

For these products they LITERALLY have to have no effect on the body to be sold over the counter. Any meaningful absorption through the skin into the body means they will be regulated and sold behind the counter, usually with prescription.

If they do more than moisturise, dry, clean, or add a scent they’re regulated.

A human position on Palestine wasn’t on the ballot. We have to take that to the streets, to BDS and any other avenue. That’s true voting or not.

What was on the ballot is women’s rights, lgbt+ rights and many more things we take for granted that the Cons try to take away.

You can’t vote for a change in economic systems.

I love to see it. Although if we wait for people to accept the truth before doing reconciliation we’ll never get there. This needs a “if those people could read they’d be very upset” meme!

In modern times, with the huge focus on 1-4, I think #5 is the real nugget of gold. Sometimes it’s more important to actually show kids the elements of a good life than anything else. Plus if you live a good life you’ll be a better person/father to be around.

Certainly you can go too far. But if you’re not being an absentee father then don’t neglect the importance of showing how to live a good life by example rather than through instruction alone.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/president-obama-signs-indefinite-detention-bill-law

The Carney liberal government is passing the exact laws that the fascists need to start their tyranny. It’s what Obama and Biden did in the US. Anyone remember how instead of vetoing bills which have the US broad powers to infinitely detain without trial anyone they accuse of terrorism he just issued a “signing statement” that he “wouldn’t use the powers”

We’re seeing Carney do a speedrun here.

https://theccf.ca/bill-c-22-explainer/

In case anyone prefers reading and article to the podcast.

You just have a romantic view of electoral politics. The things both parties agree on (like gutting the public sector and arming Israel for their genocide) you can’t vote for at the ballot box. When you say they’re both the same we agree on this front. It’s not one of the choices offered at the election and we have to act outside of the political system (protests, unions, strikes, arson, whatever…) to get those done.

However that doesn’t mean that nothing is at stake during the election. We have to think of everyone in Canadian society and vote for the practical option which will have the best outcome for the most people in solidarity with the most vulnerable. Just because liberals and conservatives are both pieces of shit doesn’t mean there aren’t differences between them. And just because you take an hour to vote every 4 years doesn’t mean you can’t pursue whatever leftists, anarchist, revolutionary or other political goals you would like to act on the rest of the time.

You’re not compromising your values when you vote you’re just acting in good solidarity with the marginalised people for whom there is a difference between parties.

Here is pp on trans rights https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/01/27/Poilievre-Scored-Political-Points-Trans-Rights/

He’s also routinely seen with far right, white supremacist, and nationalist organisations such as diagolon and their leaders.

You’d be surprised to find out that most people here mostly agree with you. Your just very abrasive so you get bad interactions.

Also this Carney=PP is very privileged of you. If you were a woman, a minority, LGBT especially T you’d have a very different opinion on that last part. Sure they’re both economic neoliberals, but only one would repeal abortion rights or ban Muslims or implement anti trans legislation.

Trump’s an idiot. Last time he blocked Bombardier sales he caught the C-Series at a critical time with first sales getting confirmed and the beginning of positive cashflow. When that happened it completely destroyed the program and forced us to give it to Airbus for free so we could do the final assembly in the US and avoid tariffs.

This time it barely means anything. These business jets get sold to millionaires and billionaires who likely register them offshore anyways to avoid taxes. You can just fly that jet in the US regardless of where it’s owned or registered.

He’s just doing his old trick again but doesn’t even understand why it worked in the first place.

Or close up anus and balls slapping

That’s the dream! But right now we have a two party system where one wants to get rid of the CBC immediately, and the other wants to suffocate it slowly and watch the light fade from its eyes.

That’s a red herring.

Housing prices went up because since COVID most companies have been making record profits. These all went to shareholders/hedge funds who are flush with cash and bought up all the properties. They’re doing it because “it’s good to own land”. In Ottawa, in most neighborhoods, the cost of the empty lot is the same whether or not there is a house on it.

This is combined with the inflation and layoffs that affected the regular people who aren’t shareholders. Politicians have been freezing or cutting municipal taxes rather than keeping them tied to inflation to “try to help the little guy”. Unfortunately that benefits the rich more than anyone else.

Without strong tax revenues our cities have been cutting back on public transit, amenities, and even road maintenance.

This happened regardless of immigration.

The only way to fix our material base is to tax the rich and reinvest in cities, and public housing to drop housing prices. But the middle class sees housing as “an investment” instead of “a place to live” and would rather their 3br townhouse be worth a million bucks than have their kids and grandkids be able to afford a house. So anytime the government talks about public housing they lose the election.

Immigrants would be a huge asset if we wanted to fix the problem because they’re significantly overrepresented in the trades we need to build our way out of this if we find the political will to do so.

Think about it from a different point of view. If you had a big piece of land and a bunch of construction workers asked to live on it with you, wouldn’t say “we can’t invite you in until we build you a house first” you’d say “here’s some lumber, get cracking”. We haven’t fixed the base capacity problem because we (the rich and to some extent middle class boomers) don’t want to.

No way, our bigots hate Asians and brown/middle east people! Their bigotry is truly multicultural.

That doesn’t even make sense. Once you’re immigrated to Canada you can just change provinces.

What if Newfoundland said “fuck it, we need people, everyone in” then they’re just Canadian immigrants who can live anywhere in Canada completely undermining more restrictive provinces and making a mockery of the system. Unless you’re suggesting immigrants should be second class citizens bound to their province of arrival like medieval serfs?!?!?

And provinces do have power to shape immigration programs, like Quebec has a special fast pass for French speakers. But nothing keeps you there.

Hegseth was 100% jerking it to young army kids and got turned so off when he saw women that he crashed out publicly about it.

I’m not saying the criticism isn’t valid. I just don’t understand the purpose of spreading it when if we really wanted media independent of American interference we should target the rules that allow Americans to own our media in the first place.

It’s like attacking immigrants for crime. Sure, it happens, but immigrants commit crimes at a fraction of the rate of Canadians so if someone cared about reducing crime, statistically they should logically want more immigrants not fewer.