A large percentage of your population approves of what is happening, while not requiring the propaganda to reach or hold that conclusion.

I agree with everything else here, but propaganda absolutely plays a role in the current fascist movement in the States. The Venn diagram of Trump supporters and people who watch Fox News is probably pretty close to a circle.

“New Brunswickise” 💀

Ça s’appelle le chiac, thank you very much.

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That I have a tendency towards addiction with drugs. I’ve been high (marijuana) more often than not for the past decade, with spurts of alcoholism peppered in throughout my adult life. I also had a phase for about a year where I did shrooms once or twice a week.

I still struggle with my consumption, but at least now I’m aware that it can easily get to the point where it affects my life too much and can cut back when I’m starting to feel like I’m getting sucked in. I think I’ll always be an addict of some form or another, though.

That’s well and true, but I think what the person you replied to is getting at is that the representation of an entire riding should not hinge on a single vote. Whether Terrebonne ends up Liberal or BQ, the entire representation of the riding hinging on a few votes is ridiculous, and proportional representation would avoid these issues.

Sriracha on pizza, you’re my kind of people.

I actually had somewhat of a dependency on sriracha at one point in my life. I was working at a summer camp, and the food being kinda bland I brought in a bottle of sriracha one day. Then a few others did the same. At the end of the summer, we were basically daring each other to douse our meals in unholy amounts of that rooster’s sauce.

It took me three weeks after the job ended to be able to taste anything that didn’t have sriracha on it.

With that attitude I don’t think we’d want you at Pride anyways :)

Lemmy.ca is run on a dedicated server in a datacentre in Vancouver, so this isn’t true (and really wouldn’t be relevant if it were). Think about it.

Sûrement il doit y avoir façon d’affirmer l’identité canadienne sans avoir recours à un homme qui n’a peu à voir avec le Canada (sauf être descendant des gens qui ont colonialisé ce pays).

Établir la souveraineté canadienne en invitant un monarque britannique* à notre parliament…

J’suis pas l’biggest fan du Bloc, étant francophone hors-Québec, mais ils ont raison que cette décision est étrange. Je ne comprends tellement pas l’obsession des Anglos avec la royauté.

*Avant que quelqu’un me “corrige”, je réalise que Charles est techniquement roi du Canada, mais on s’entend qu’il est avant tout roi de l’Angleterre?

It’s not like he cared about the constituents of Carleton, either.

I’m not blaming the NDP voters in this riding instead of the Liberal voters, I’m blaming them alongside the Lib voters.

Also, why the fuck would you vote NDP in a riding where the Greens actually have a chance (or vice versa)?

Their platforms have way more in common than they differ.

anarchists, tankies, fascists and authoritarians

Spot the odd one out!

I’ve definitely seen anarchists describe frustration with electoral politics, especially when people limit their political engagement to simply voting once every so many years. However, I’ve never seen one advocate against voting.

Anarchists are generally aware that, despite elections not being the thing that will overthrow the bourgeoisie, some parties result in less suffering for oppressed peoples than others.

As someone from Canada, I’d be so down for this. What a great deal for us.

Good news, CBC just called that he lost his seat. Good fucking riddance, bye-bye PP!

King of the Hill. I love the characters so much, especially the dynamic between Hank and Bobby.

I think what’s truly ridiculous is that we’re subsidizing fossil fuels so goddamn much that no one even knows or can estimate how much. Our habitat is dying and we’re using our tax dollars to kill it. We’re funding our own extinction and we can’t even keep track of how much money we pump into it.

I will never truly forgive the Libs for that. “2015 will be the last federal elections under first-past-the-post”, just to turn around mere weeks after being elected and saying “people just wanted electoral reform because they were tired of Harper, now that they have a government they’re satisfied with they no longer feel the need for reform” (this is essentially exactly what Trudeau said in an interview with Le Devoir in late 2015)

Trudeau was PM by then, though?