… you may not believe this but I disagree with some of your viewpoints as well!

Such as? I didn’t give any.

If you think a court deciding that it’s not necessary for a train company to know your gender is ‘extreme left wing progressive’ talk, good luck in your delusional pocket of brave little right-wing cis bois. I applaud you for being such a coward that you delete your own comments rather than face criticism.

I wish you the best of luck being part of a belief system that requires that it devour itself. Just remember that when your friends will come for you after they come for us. You’ll never be on the inside crowd that you want to be, and one day you’ll be on the outside looking in.

I wanted to see if you were the same name I remember posting similar eye-roll inducing things in the past but, you know:

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No worries, if you do find the specific links keep them, I regret not bookmarking them.

Good luck in the coming fasc-y times.

So there’s no one-study, one-link, etc, for this. North America has a rise in people joining (and creating) fascist groups - in addition if you look at any Conservative parties voters, they’re predominantly male. Here in Canada we have this problem

A lot of this is via Russia, see this fun set of numbers.

Also with the ‘Convoy’ which our incoming Conservative Prime Minister marched with.

Worldwide if you look at anywhere that is moving very openly towards fascism, (France, Germany, etc) you’ll find the voters of said parties trend male, and young. I haven’t saved any links, but someone here might have saved some.

If you don’t mind my postulating; the why is that men have been taught for ages now that they’re the top, they’re the default. Room temperature is what a (middle aged, white) man finds comfortable; drugs weren’t tested for women for quite some time; the main ‘character’ is media is statistically almost always male:

So then we add in that men are shown that they are more violent towards their partners than women are, and they see people of colour, or women, having programs that help them try to equal out numbers vs. their white/male counterparts, yet their lives were often set to fail by end-stage capitalisms myriad issues such as lack of affordable housing, worsening job conditions, and sociopathic CEO’s who will literally get people killed just to make line go up. Then they hear that they actually have it the easiest of all sets of people. So they are trying to match in their head how these two things can both be true; how are they suffering all this negativity and the best-off? They need something to talk about, how they are also discriminated against, so they find anything they can and use it as a wedge issue. Men commit suicide more? Must be because of women. And which ideology says that men are the be-all-, end-all, strongest and best? Fascism. Which promises easy answers to difficult problems? Fascism. Who lets you belong to the in-group, and punishes the out-group? Fascism. So for young men who are never shown other options, and the fact that youtube/social media literally guides young men towards these things (because it causes engagement to go up, you see), means they are more likely to ascribe to them. Socialism requires sacrifice and working as a team, something men have been taught to avoid; it’s all about being the rugged individual, the maverick, the solo whatever (at least in my experience and understanding of recent history).

To sum, fascism offers easy answers and the ability to be the in-crowd, while giving you an enemy that is both weak (and thus beatable), but strong (so you don’t look like a pussy.)

It’s amazing how much damage one man can do in a decade.

You said it; took Corporate income tax from 22% down to 15% tax; the worst expansion of GDP since the great depression; slowest export growth in post WW2 history; prevented more government employees of speaking out than any other government; massive voter suppression; pled guilty to exceeding national election advertising limits; foreign affairs minister resigned after it was revealed that he had left classified NATO documents at his girlfriends house; constantly closing regional veterans affairs offices; when he refused to release documents on the issue of torture of enemy combatants, and prorogued Parliament in December, 2009, then shutting down the parliamentary committee that was probing the abuse allegations; threatened the supreme court when they wouldn’t ratify his choice for a new justice; allowed a senior cabinet minister to personally direct a $50-million “legacy” fund, funnel millions in infrastructure to his Muskoka riding - Municipalities far from the actual summit site were given hundreds of thousands of dollars for sidewalk improvements, parks, and most infamously, a gazebo. A subsequent investigation by the auditor general showed funds were doled out with no bureaucratic oversight or paper trails. The cabinet minister was later promoted to president of the Treasury Board, the department that oversees government spending; ruled in contempt of parliament twice - first when the international aid minister lied about the defunding of charitable organization KAIROS, and second with the cabinet’s refusal to reveal the costs of corporate tax cuts, criminal justice measures, and the beleaguered F-35 fighter jet program.

That’s intentional. And it’s precisely so Harper couldn’t fuck it up when he wasn’t signing away our rights to our own land. His people can only fuck over a province at a time while we can potentially show off better outcomes from places he hasn’t wrecked yet.

The issue is people (particularly men) are falling for it, and once PP is our PM you can bet we’re going to get more of it. People aren’t seeing the worsening of it and changing their minds – Alberta voted the UCP in again after Smith had already been in charge. The BC NDP nearly lost to John Rustad. I’d love it if these bad examples worked, but they don’t seem to be.

That said, myself and those in my care have spent a lot of time in hospital over the last few years and we haven’t paid a cent for any of that. My partner gave birth to Twins, it was a “complex pregnancy”, all fit and well in the end but we spent 3 months in another city to be near a specialist hospital. Govt paid for a nice apartment for us for the whole time, absolutely gold standard care from the miracle workers at that hospital, just amazing honestly.

That sounds absolutely incredible, absolutely fight with every breath you have to keep that. The right-wing is coming for it, and I’m worried too many of us are complacent and refuse to stand up to it. Good luck, and Love from Canada.

It wasn’t so bad when we had Liberals and less neo-Liberals. We’ve also had Liberal governments that don’t fix as many of the Con failures of the past as they used to.

Also our medical is mostly provincial so as they flip Con we are losing more and more Universal healthcare. If you can believe it, we’re actually going towards more of the American model each election.

I hope your progressives turn it around a little, because it looks like young males all around the world are leaning fascist.

Trudeau is poison to the Liberal brand. In Canada we don’t vote parties in, we vote parties (and leaders) out. Trudeau has been PM for just over 9 years, the 7th longest serving PM.

What will happen is we’ll vote the Cons in, they’ll make hilariously huge mistakes like they always do, get 1-2 terms, then get voted out in favour of another Liberal government. If you go back throughout our history we have almost exactly 2-1 Lib - Con governments by time in office.

Poilievre is an anti-abortion career politician who is going to try to ape what Trump did, only every time he speaks he loses votes. He has a whiny voice and is widely referred to as ‘Milhouse’ because, well, he looks like Milhouse. He’s not a strong-man and his public speaking is embarrassing. He’ll brown nose Trump as much as he can and absolutely eat it when Trumps policies fuck our economy.

They don’t really have anything to gain by delaying until October

They gain more money, because they are the only major political party that has virtually zero dollars in donations from companies. The NDP absolutely struggle when there are frequent elections, because they’re funded almost entirely by the (barely remaining) middle class, and the poor. After Harper removed the cap/guaranteed money for each party to have per election, the NDP have been so far behind the funding of the other parties it’s very sad.

🎵 Dear Goth, it’s been 666 days since my last confession… 🎵

“Mr. Gideon, you’re not paying attention.”

Is that gasoline I smell?

If you shout “I have inside me blood of Kings!” is a store worker required to shout “Yeah!” back?

… Heeeeeeeeeere we are!

Just look at religion for answers to that puzzle. The entire schtick is a manual for giving yourself and your friends easy outs from your constant and consistent bad behaviour

I guess that could be why; up here in Canada it’s political suicide to be openly religious (though I think the Cons will change their tune on that next election.)

As a non-American (Canadian), it’s baffling to me. Our Conservatives have been quite horrific in many decisions (like refusing to admit climate change exists, for example), but I do actually think they would turn on one of their own who was a pedophile. Maybe not in a year or so, but for now, I do believe they would. To see people celebrate these monstrous things in their leaders is terrifying.

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I wish you the best, I’m looking outside software in general. I used to offer to help people find employment in games but now I just can’t. I’ve seen too many people broken by it.

I do hope you find something, anything, so you can continue to survive.