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  • Phil_in_heretoCanadaPolitics•A Liberal minority is best for Canada
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    2 days ago

    We need to drop the American idea of “the opposition”. It’s incredibly fucked up to think that about half the government is there simply to stop the other half.

    3 “major” parties is the bare minimum to keep is out of what’s happening down there. The Left and Right. The Good and the Bad. Us versus the Enemy.

    We need 7 or 8 major parties with at least 5% of the seats whose goals are to earn enough seats to influence Canadian policy on behalf of Canadians, not 2 major parties whose goal is to control the government. That goal always leaves Canada second (or third, when corporate interest buys it’s way in).

  • Phil_in_heretoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    6 days ago

    I don’t like the idea of polyamory. It feels wrong to me. But when it’s consenting adults (or parties of mutual age in teens), there’s no argument against it.

    That’s a big problem with people: not being able to reconcile their feelings with rationality. My feelings are irrelevant to how other people conduct their lives when it doesn’t affect anyone else. I think that’s a key component in having an open mind: to challenge your own feelings, to say, “I don’t like it, and that feeling is objectively wrong. I need to actively check my behavior so I don’t impose that feeling on others.”

    It’s fine to have those feelings and good to acknowledge them, but you still have to think it all the way through.

  • Phil_in_heretoCanada•Get F***** Danielle
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    6 days ago

    The Conservatives need to step up and oust her yesterday.

    Seriously, they want to win so hard they’re willing to sell our country out, but they refuse to acknowledge that denouncing this would show actual leadership and win back a bunch of the shift toward the Liberals.

    I mean, in the grand scheme it’s better for Canada for the Conservatives to fuck up and lose, but it’s still not clear enough that will happen. Somehow, there’s still enough Canadians who support these fuckups.