If that’s an actual opinion, it is a damning indictment of our education system and a demonstration of the consequences of provincial Conservative governments cutting too much from those budgets.

I’m more optimistic and lean troll. Have you tagged as such and don’t need to feed you anymore.

Wait, you know he’s racist, you don’t support him but you want to rally support using his slogan?

Are you that oblivious or just a really bad troll?

And by the end of Harper’s term, the dollar had fallen. Are you furious about that too ya silly Billy?

Everyone knows that every night Justin Trudeau sneaks into each sleeping Canadian’s room, spends four hours whispering Liberal messages into their ears in a long dead tongue. We don’t ask what deal he made with what Eldritch being for such dread power, we can only pray he uses it for the good of the nation.

A title like that, lazy troll. Unless you know zero Canadians, you should know that trump is anathema to good Canadians and Leafs fans.

Yeah, you might want to look into current Catholic doctrine:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_homosexuality#:~:text=The Church teaches that same,%2C compassion%2C and sensitivity".

Youngling, she’s a hard Catholic. If you can’t imagine why a lifestyle would offend a hard Catholic, well, that’s on you.

Afd just won a third of the vote.

You would like control of some industry ti maybe just go the far right?

Okay, would you rather the Germans who voted AFD? Or the rise of the French National Party? Or Fidesz in Hungary? Or PPV in Denmark?

Shit, you’d better tell that to my aunt who told me how my lifestyle hurts her.

Half of America wants to vote for trump and you want to trust in random people? That seems like a wild leap of faith.

In theory, democracy produces satisfactory outcomes…

Or, as has happened in capitalism, people will find ways to bend the system to benefit themselves. Except this time without boards so much as bribable officials and whatnot.

But it’s not like companies or business entities won’t have folks in charge of them under communism… Someone has to run the whatevers…

This is what I always find amusing about the Communist argument.

Like, the elected politicians and bureaucracy can’t be trusted enough to regulate industry under capitalism so we’ll centralize things and then trust them to regulate industry under Communism?

Edit: whoof, should’ve thought about human nature when I dared to criticize communism. Almost lime there is another lesson somehwere there.

so, it’s the goddamn weekend. How does everyone have so much free time this late on a Saturday? I’ll do my best to get back to y’all on a dirty capitalist’s time slot.

I think I watched that 8 or ten times, thank you.

I live here! Could use more vans. And Vans, for style.

MerXNT Dad, I’m a MerXNT!

It seems you are fundamentally misunderstanding. I’ll try in a few bullet points, that might make it easier for you.

1. Social justice on social media is now the primary target for multiple successful right wing politicians. Earlier moments, like gay marriage, tended to be suplementary issues whereas now they are more or less the entire focus.

2. In America at least, an overwhelming majority of people support climate change action, gun control, universal healthcare etc.

3. Despite that broad support on most progressive issues, left wing politicians are losing winnable elections.

4. The right wing policies that come about as a result of their successful anti woke campaigns have disastrous climate effects.

5. Climate change will disproportionately affect the most vulnerable people on Earth.

I hope that helps make things a bit more clear for you!

Edit: Actually, your car comparison, while pretty unrelated to any point I’m making is kind of useful here. Much like cars, social justice comes with a cost. Insisting that there is no cost is just as silly as when climate change deniers argue that cars don’t have an impact or that we all need them anyway so what are we going to do etc. Social justice, while fun (who doesn’t love a chance to be snarky on the internet in defense of the oppressed without any work or sacrifice?!?) is coming at a cost which we refuse to acknowledge.

Instead of leaping to what aboutism, look at what I wrote and tell me what part is incorrect!

Republicans don’t run on issues, they run and WIN on being anti woke. As are many other leaders who have reprehensible and deeply unpopular views, Bolsonaro, Mielei, la Pen, trump and all the would be Republicans etc.

Like I said, I don’t have a solution but the fact is that the ones destroying the world are doing so by running in opposition to social justice despite having massively unpopular positions on issues. It’s upsetting but also the truth.

But, if you really want to compare, okay. I’m imperfect but do my best; my device is refurbished, my furniture is almost all second hand (except a chair and my mattress), my clothes are almost all second hand or sweat free (I couldn’t find ethical jersies for my team or camping fleece), I haven’t had a microwave for almost a month because I’ve been trying to find one second hand, while I do eat meat it’s almost never beef and despite working out and eating a boatload of protein try to make as many veggie meals as I can. Despite making an upper middle class living for most of the last decade I’ve been car free until last year (I didn’t want to get covid on the ski bus with a bunch of kids again.) Hell, even my cat is second hand. My biggest sins (I think) are probably my tv and speaker as I haven’t found ethical/second hand versions. How about you?

Edit: Oh right, I also take a significant pay cut to work at a non profit so that more marginalized youth can go to University as so believe that’s the best anti poverty engine around.