An amazing number of people think “I’m mad at Liberals” = “The cons must be better”

Yeah, not a valid excuse in my mind. It shows a disturbing lack of responsibility/accountability.

I mean, I’m probably voting Liberal (the NDP have had a strong showing in my riding in the past, so I’m not entirely decided), but I kind of believe this.

Carney is obviously the least comfortable out of the main candidates in speaking in French. I don’t believe the cost is a real factor. Maybe “afraid” isn’t the right word, but it does seem to be strategic in a way that avoids potential negative exposure for him. I have mixed feelings about it.

Carney declined to do a common/popular debate in Quebec.

Yep, this is where I am too.

I’m annoyed at having to vote Liberal, to be honest, but I hope this election makes it clear that cozying up to American populists is a losing strategy in Canada.

lol Were you just looking for a comment so you could flex about your property deals?

Personally, I’m a millennial and I’m okay – we recently sold our starter home and we got way more than we were expecting for it. But it didn’t make me feel “smart” it made me feel gross that the market seems so rigged.

I’m not talking about individuals, I’m talking about trends. The priority for housing should first and foremost be to house people.

Yeah, Boomers getting special protections is kind of annoying.

A generation of millenials were told to go to post secondary no matter the cost and then when we did and incurred a ton of debt but the good jobs that were promised to us weren’t there, the reaction was “oops, oh well, get fucked I guess”.

Maybe if we stopped funneling a billion dollars into “managing” our CPP plan into poorer performance and used that money to increase CPP payouts instead, boomers could afford more of a hit on their housing.

I do wonder if another large contributing factor is that most of our MPs have conflicts of interest when it comes to the real estate market.

Is there a practical component to your argument or are you just sticking with ideal hypotheticals.

Nice, thanks! I was wondering if I could get a Canadian replacement for my oral B heads.

I think the solution is having these agencies be accountable to the accountability metrics that they set up.

Normalizing mismanagement seems short-sighted to me and ultimately only supports the argument that government is “useless” or “broken”.

That extra billion going towards healthcare or education or even back into the pension fund could do a world of good.

In the video, the creator is very clear that this is not an argument to remove the pension fund and he specifically addresses those concerns (twice, at the beginning and end of the video).

Wanting good, responsible management of something most of us pay into is not a bad thing. This should not be a partisan issue (which the creator also says)

Big oof

We need tech regulation.

Here’s a great interview that explains why:

https://youtu.be/jsHoX9ZpA_M

In short, in order for democracy to work, we need shared trust. To have shared trust, we need a common basis of reality.

Our current unregulated informational landscape fragments reality and polarizes people because it is the most profitable thing to do, but it is death to a functioning society.

I also like Nellie for cleaning products. Their dishwashing powder is pretty good.

Yeah, they elected a rapist so…

I cancelled a Florida cruise with my parents and sister.

That was my immediate thought.

I don’t disagree about where social progress comes from, but until recently conservatives didn’t conceptualize themselves as being in some kind of culture war that required them to move the goalposts quite so aggressively and at all costs.

They just always conveniently thought that the progressiveness of their childhood was the “correct” amount of progressiveness. And I do think on the whole they thought they valued democracy.

But the intense cognitive dissonance of the current MAGA movement that pins “the left” as “the real racists” and “the real sexists” didn’t really exist. And they had some sense that completely making up BS lies was not desirable.

I guess my point is that it’s still helpful to see things as a continuity and that there might be different ways people think about themselves if they identify as being conservative.

Conservatism used to be about fiscal responsibility and political stability (don’t downvote me for explaining this, I’ve never voted conservative).

But yeah, it’s been hijacked by emotionally volitaile reactionists.

Sweet!