• don@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    US🤝UK: we are fascism

    Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, guess you’re up next.

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      4 days ago

      well at least in the US we can still share a facebook post supporting a non-violent protest group…
      but yeah, still fascist….

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        They’re just specializing in different aspects of fascism right now. Also, the US has a less cohesive government with the way states are set up. It’s why some of them have the porn restrictions thing like the UK, but it’s not nationwide.

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        I fear we’re underestimating the conservative base of a lot of regions in this country, and how shitty the electoral system is. The LPC wins because it the least evil of all the other choices. They’re still liberals, in the “corporations and money first” sense. It’s not a good place to be for a democracy.

        Plus, the provincial governments of the two most populous are both currently conservative. Even if the CAQ is not named that way. And there’s Alberta.

        My family and their friends in the countryside are “against Trump” but kind of admire the policies. They defend themselves and say they think Trump is stupid, but they are still misinformed about immigration, the economy, social issues, and spew the same general lines than Republicans or Conservatives. They’re not! But you know, those immigrants and those pronouns these day. And those protesters should find a job! Oh and of you have nothing to hide anyway.

        I fear we’re on thin ice.

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          We are indeed on thin ice, and your revelations about the electoral system are sound. Although I’m not hot-to-trot about the Liberal party, their tendency to favour “business and corporations” sometimes results in a better outcome simply because of their humanist streak IMO - whatever quantity it represents within their part & voter base is often enough. The healthcare system is best representative of this, as I’ve seen/heard several times their assertion that cuts to it produce worse (and more expensive) outcomes down the road. In a kind of fortuitous way, their determined efforts to manage federal/provincial resources without stripping out the floor in budget cuts winds up producing a much more personally manageable situation for the electorate by furnishing critical public services unheard of in the United States.

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        You keep doing that vile anti-human lib shit, you’ll get worse than pp in a couple years. Problems festering with no solution is not sustainable, and if you oppress the actuql left while brandinf yoyrself as keft; people will break right when the time comes.

        Sincerely: some one whose ruling parties fucked around, and are a couple years ahead of yours.

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          The Liberal Party may be shit, but it’s sure as Hell not “anti-human”, that’s a quality that I’d tack onto the Conservatives. Neither of them is supportive of Leftist policies, but the damage done by Poilievre won’t so much let problems fester as accelerate them to disastrous ends, that SOB will never find a supporter in me.

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            libs not anti human

            No thats what libs are. Just because there are worse ggouls doesn’t make them good. Carney is the festering wound.

            I notice youre talking like an american shitlib already. Framing things in terms of bad/notbad. Insteas of bad/verybad’, as if just ‘bad’ is ‘good’ because there’s something worse.

            Yes pp is worse faster, but mc is not good. Mc is still anti human. If you do not choose ‘good’ and ‘actually solving problems’ while you have major problems eating at ypu, which you do, what the worse option is gets much worse much faster these days. You already sound like you have severe symptoms of the disease.

            It is easier for canadians to choose slightly good over lesser evil. And you are a few years behind us. So theres hope if you actually fucking do something about it. But you personally sound like you’d eather be part of the problem-you sound like an american shitlib; the people who made donald trump.