I’m just wondering why they don’t just move there. If you hate being Canadian so much start the process of emigration …

I get it, immigration takes time and some of them may not have the skills or the means to do it, or to do it quickly…HOWEVER, in the meantime, if they have no allegiance to this country, they should show some dignity by refraining from voting and refraining from doing everything they can to screw up the country for the people who actually DO care about it.

Are you assuming I’m ok with Democrats?

Can you name me one policy that is left of Democrats? I can name quite a few that are not - obsession with woke nonsense and culture war bullshit, disdain for the media, anti-intellectualism, climate change, disdain for government, dismantling the public service - without even getting into right to abortion, which is where a not insignificant proportion of the party wants to go, as evidenced by the thinly veiled and thankfully ham fisted attempts to push through bills to undermine it.

It’s hard for Poilievre to distance himself from Trump when he borrows Trump politics. I mean, really, if you’re trying to sound less like Trump, maybe don’t bring up plastic straws. That’s really the most important issue? I thought Poilievre had some political instincts, so I thought he would wisely avoid dumb statements like that…but I think now he wants to look like Trump because a) is all he knows and he clearly cannot pivot, and b) he calculates that his base doesn’t care, and it seems he’s right…which makes him and them profoundly unaware of the new reality, and profoundly unprepared for what we must do to meet it.

Not really clear where your position is, but I will make my position clear: We all see where right wing populism ends up just by looking south of us. It’s a disaster. Copying that in this moment is outright idiocy. Picking the right wing populist who has never been on the right side of an issue and who mimics the exact policy beats of the Republicans is a surefire way to go down the same path. We need to tell the Conservatives to drop their culture war crazies, stop fighting against experts, stop trying to remove rights from people, and focus on real solutions to real problems.

Yeah this is the thing that really makes me hope for the demise of the current crop of Conservatives. I want a party that can offer an alternative vision to the Liberals, who can offer hope for the working class or those falling through the cracks of Liberal policies (to the extent that Conservatives do that, which is another matter). But I wish they didn’t have to give a bunch of people hope at the cost of removing rights from others, or dismantling government protections for all of us. It makes the people they’re helping feel like hating on minorities is just the price they need to pay for government support. The Conservatives are taking advantage of the poor situation of these people, and their desperation, to ram through regressive social policy. It’s devious and dangerous, and I hope they get permanently removed from the political discussion.

Yeah fuck these treasonous Yank sympathizers.

Note to all these people: If you are staying in this country but you don’t have any allegiance to it, at least have some fucking dignity and don’t vote to fuck it all up for the rest of us.

Why ask this question to anyone younger than 30? Of course an 18yo will feel less safe now than 10 years ago…when they were fucking EIGHT and playing Nintendo 3DS in their parents basement.

I feel like the age ranges need to be different for this question, and to do otherwise is almost trying to further the narrative of conservative youth.

The reason I asked is because I feel that you are blaming social democracy and I think you are painting with too broad a brush. Capital should serve the state, the people, not the other way around. Social democracy is in part about strong regulations on capital. We need to stand by that and support it. Throwing it away cedes power to capital.

The framework that is built from the oppression of women, and the challenges that arise from that, does not represent the lived experiences, challenges, or values of men. All too often it diminishes these. To move forward in a spirit of mutual understanding requires a recognition of what matters to men; i.e., what provides purpose and value.

I feel that you may be misunderstanding me. This is exactly about tolerance and acceptance - including acceptance that men and women have different lived experiences that are founded on different fundamental principles of what is important and what provides purpose. Is it really so difficult to accept that men might find purpose or value that differs from women? I don’t believe there is harm in acknowledging that, and respecting a healthy understanding of that difference.

What do you believe is the most important issue facing Canada, and how do you feel that Jordan Peterson and people like him are helping conservatives to address this issue?

Peterson is the godfather of woke and DEI obsession. Every time Poilievre says woke, he cements the demise of the CPC. Explain to me just why the fuck any of you care about this nonsense. What does it matter? It has nothing to do with you. If you don’t want to change genders, don’t do it. The more these stupid issues are brought to the fore, the more the CPC looks like the party of Trump.

The right wing needs to drop these types of people from their team. This is a cancer on conservatism that will only destroy them and everything they claim to protect. As we can see right now in the US.

We desperately need reasonable conservatives.

The problem is that something is missing and it’s being filled by angry reactionaries and right wing grifters who prey on the particular insecurities of young men, specifically insecurities around masculine values.

What’s missing is a foundational framework for understanding the male experience as distinct yet coequal to feminist theory. A framework that seeks to promote a balanced, respectful dialogue by articulating unique structures, values, and challenges faced by men, in order to offer a lens through which male identity, struggle, and transformation can be understood on their own terms, while upholding - acknowledging - the progress and insights of feminism.

These men feel like they don’t have purpose or identity. They need a framework, but unfortunately efforts to define and build such a framework are often hijacked by extremists that just hate women and minorities. Like we see now.

How did social democracy let everyone down?

I hope you find the strength to Luigi yourself in a ketamine crash you boiled frog Nazi shitheel.

The US has never celebrated any anniversary of any military branch with a public Soviet-era parade like this. And I assume there will be no marines and no aircraft, since their anniversary does not overlap with the army.

Let’s not sanewash this.

I’m pretty sure they dropped their anti-nuclear stance.

But this election is about Canadian sovereignty. Unfortunately, smaller parties will be pushed out for now so that sovereignty can be protected. Once we keep the country and take steps to diversify away from the US, and the CPC kicks out the crazies, we can boot the Liberals and maybe the other small parties (left and right) will be inclined to work together on something groundbreaking, like electoral reform.

You are coming from a genuine place, so I’m going to assume we’re discussing in good faith.

With respect, I think you should be less apologetic and perhaps a bit more angry. I say this because this situation goes rather beyond just advocating for a single industry to the detriment of the electorate, as blatantly corrupt as that itself is. This is about a Premier who is illegally representing Canada to a state actor who is currently in borderline hostile and unprecedented negotiations with us, and to whom the Premier is collaborating on hostile economic action for the purposes of partisan political gain. And this ignores the threats to national sovereignty from a hostile state actor, and the very clear and repeated actions by the Premier, her party and her supporters to make it clear that they support separatist sentiments, up to and including threatening a national unity crisis if their ridiculous self serving demands are not met. A list of demands, I might add, that was forced on the PM of Canada, without any equivalent list of demands given to the hostile state actor, where it rightfully should have been.

She didn’t even ask for no tariffs. She said pause them until after the election, so the guy she wants to win can get in and “align with their directions”.

This is out and out treason, or at least illegal under the elections act and/or criminal code and people need to stop making excuses about it and treat it as what it is. Refusing to prosecute this will bring us down the same road as the Americans when they refused to prosecute Trump for his blatant insurrection and attempts to subvert democracy.

What Smith is doing cannot be allowed to be precedent.

This makes me unreasonably angry.

Any assumption of good faith discussions with her or her supporters should be abandoned. In my mind this cements them as outright traitors. We need to kick American oil interests out of our country, immediately. This is what they have wrought. I don’t give a dry fuck what Smith, the UCP and all the other Alberta separatists think of this proposal. They should be considered criminals and treated accordingly.

Frankly the Conservatives had better come out strong against this, or they will forever be the party of treason to their country. This is inexcusable. I don’t care what you think about policy…if you believe this is okay, you can shut the fuck up about what you think is good for the country because you have no interest in the country itself.

I assume this is a rhetorical question.

I get your sentiment, but I rather think the comedy above arises from the rhetorical flourishes.

It’s ok, I don’t actually believe this.

Twist ending: Trump comes out as the ultimate leftist neoglobalist. His entire life has been dedicated to cultivating the most unabashed narcissistic piss baby entitled con man personality, as a front, just so he can convince America to share its wealth and power, collapse American hegemony, and permanently destroy conservatism. He’s the only one that has the special Yank whisperer powers to convince an entire nation of dumbfucks to act against their own self interest.

At this point nothing would surprise me.