Kindness is Punk

The problem is greed, ad infinitum.

Jarome Iginla was always my hero.

Absolutely heartbreaking

Fuck I thought Quebec had avoided the neoliberal plague, well that’s discouraging.

At least it looks nice, picking up a controller asap

Maybe but we have to work with what we have, believe me, we’re on the same side, just trying to avoid a conservative majority

Yes but I said realistic. NDP won’t happen with our current system, much better chance with election reform.

And exactly how do you get that in the current system we have without reform? I’m not saying he’s good I’m saying that if we try to keep doing this same song and dance without reform, we’re fools.

Okay, then what’s the realistic better option? To be clear I’m not saying he’s doing a good job, I’m just concerned that if you try to push people away from voting for the lesser of two evils you may just end up with the greater one as seen in the United States’ recent best hits.

Which is why I think election reform is our best bet at getting something better.

He is and is still our best option until we push for election reform to introduce ranked choice and proportional representation. Lest we get forever stuck with Neo-liberals tilting ever closer to Nuremberg rejects.

Nah I’m good dude, don’t have the energy, you can have this one.

Yeah that was one of the reasons I voted for him. Truly upsetting.

That part wasn’t a critique of the budget, it was a critique of your pitch for efficiency. You pivoted the discussion, I followed.

I dislike the increase in spending on military because the returns to the public are minimal, the US has proven that, decades running.

Yup, Neo-liberal or full blown Nuremberg. Easy choice but we’re still getting fucked. We need ranked choice voting and proportional representation but how do you get our parliament to vote through a resolution that endangers a lot of their safe seats.

Then give it to firefighters, climate scientists and forestry. The military is reactive not preventative.

Most of the money got reallocated to the military though.

The fundamental flaw is equating corporate efficiency with public effectiveness. A company’s goal is shareholder returns, so it serves profitable customers and abandons the rest. We see this taken to its extreme with certain venture capital and private equity firms: they can buy a company, burden it with the debt used for its own acquisition, extract massive fees and dividends, and leave it a hollowed out shell. When it collapses, the architects of that failure are shielded from the consequences.

A government’s mission is the opposite: to serve everyone, especially the vulnerable. Applying this profit extraction model to public service doesn’t eliminate costs it just shifts them, following the destructive maxim of ‘privatize the profits, socialize the costs.’ For a corporation, this might be a successful short-term play. But for a government it’s long-term ruin

Yup if we want real change we need ranked choice voting and proportional representation. It’s the only way get rid of their safe seats.