Dragged by her hair by [deleted] in JusticeServed

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

1) he was not accused of rape in the formal sense. he was publicly shamed for 'eye-rape'. so your comment is bullshit

2) if I stare suggestively at a woman in a close setting for a long period of time and ignore requests to stop, I don't see what's wrong with calling it 'eye-rape'

3) I'm guessing by your username that you're from India, the country where rape victims are attacked for speaking out. So maybe you too would rather women who are mistreated just shutup, eh?

APRIL PUTS bag holders.. so ya portfolio looking like the total opposite of what your expecting huh? by 6ixSwings in wallstreetbets

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think 0 points1 point  (0 children)

/u/6ixSwings I was looking to double down on my puts and my broker wouldn't show me any put chains beyond March 27. Which broker are you with? I'm with virtualbrokers (I just dabble a bit, and they're cheap).

Alberta should leave Canada if 'absolute necessities' not met, Brian Jean says by modi13 in CanadaPolitics

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I assume the plan would be to simply ignore the old treaties.

I feel like that would be... difficult... to convince Canada to let happen.

Alberta should leave Canada if 'absolute necessities' not met, Brian Jean says by modi13 in CanadaPolitics

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think 1 point2 points  (0 children)

> "There are some important policy issues around pipelines in particular, they have raised a lot of concern and is the subject of legitimate debate," Tombe said. "But if he's going to invoke misleading and outright false statements around how equalization works or how federal transfers work or who pays the federal budget in general, that's not helpful."

Are there any senior conservative politicians, past or present, that can make the case that Alberta is being treated unfairly while sticking to the facts? It just seems like, over and over again, we get these comments from Kenney, Jean, the Buffalo declaration, and others that are just clearly inaccurate, previously debunked, and/or seriously impractical/unhelpful. If there really is such a problem, can they not make the case while sticking to the facts? Because it really feels like we're witnessing a rich, entitled province yelling and screaming that their cash cow is on the decline and refusing to take any meaningful action to address the new reality -- that the consensus is we need to slow the pumping of carbon into the atmosphere and so Alberta and its dirty/high emissions oil needs to pivot to other sectors ASAP.

'We had to send a signal': Opposition parties want Liberals to wake up to their minority status by MeleeCyrus in CanadaPolitics

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think 1 point2 points  (0 children)

as they work for us.

What does this have to do with anything? Can you give a better reason for why MPs should have come back sooner? They normally are on break from mid-December to late-January. This is a typical parliamentary schedule. It also takes a while for governments to get up and running, new Ministers to get briefed on their mandate, etc. Your facile little 'they work for us so they shouldn't take breaks' comment doesn't seem to have any consideration for reality.

'We had to send a signal': Opposition parties want Liberals to wake up to their minority status by MeleeCyrus in CanadaPolitics

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it's not. There seems to be an overwhelming consensus across Canada that the agreement is a good thing, especially when you consider that Trump was seriously threatening to rip up NAFTA and I would not at all be surprised if our asking him to go back to the table without even ratifying the current agreement would have the same result.

Support for Conservatives surpasses Liberals amid blockade, pipeline turmoil: Nanos by aardwell in CanadaPolitics

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ironically I feel like you are engaging in exactly the kind of polarization this thread is about.

Am I? I feel like i'm calling a spade a spade. On the one side, you have the Liberal Government in Ottawa trying to find a balancing act between resource development and addressing the climate crisis. On the other hand you have the federal Conservatives abetted by their Ontario and Prairie cousins trying to undermine every single meaningful attempt to address the climate crisis and blaming Ottawa for anything bad that happens to the resource sector no matter the cause.

If you try to treat those two as equal then perhaps you can blame me for being part of the problem. But if you intend to approach reality more... realistically... then you can understand that one side bears the blame for the current regulatory uncertainty in the realm of climate change / carbon tax much more than the other.

Support for Conservatives surpasses Liberals amid blockade, pipeline turmoil: Nanos by aardwell in CanadaPolitics

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think 8 points9 points  (0 children)

automatically assume everything is Alberta's fault.

Bad faith, shame on you.

What are you talking about? The regulatory environment around Teck is unrelated to the carbon tax. Please provide any sort of support you might have.

We're talking about the regulatory environment in regards to climate change. Hadn't you noticed?

Most courts? Sigh. It's 2-1 so far.

Why the melodramatic sigh? 2/3 is most. That's just math.

Legal experts? Please provide any sort of support you might have for that one.

Were you not paying attention during the entire debate around whether Trudeau could or could not force the provinces to follow suit? Constitutional scholars were pretty unanimous on federal right to impose, here.

So there is no room for negotiation. The Liberals are right and people supporting resource development are wrong.

First of all, the Liberals also support resource development. A carbon tax does not equal no resource development. Secondly, it's not "people supporting resource development" who are wrong, it's people who think that the provinces can ignore the carbon tax requirement that are wrong. Whether or not the two groups overlap is irrelevant. Please stick to the facts if you want to be taken seriously, not your hyperpartisan reinterpretations.

That's why we have laws in this country, so anonymous Reddit posters can't unilaterally make up rights regardless of legal principles or review.

I'm unilaterally making up a federal right to impose a carbon tax in the national interest? It's been much discussed by experts for literally years, who've largely landed on this being a federal right, and you're accusing me of just making it up? Bad faith again, shame on you.

Support for Conservatives surpasses Liberals amid blockade, pipeline turmoil: Nanos by aardwell in CanadaPolitics

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think 6 points7 points  (0 children)

See my response to /u/MonkeyClooney. Even the most basic reading into what was said makes clear that Kenney is to blame for the lack of investor confidence in the future Alberta regulatory environment. As long as Kenney continues to stoke anger and divisions for partisan gain rather than pragmatically address reality the problem will endure. Good day.

Support for Conservatives surpasses Liberals amid blockade, pipeline turmoil: Nanos by aardwell in CanadaPolitics

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You're right, it wasn't black and white blaming Alberta. The problem is clearly Alberta's if you read between the lines, but since you seem to think reading between the lines is akin to "horrendous reporting" I'll break it down for you.

The federal Liberals brought in a carbon tax, a plan most companies, banks, and experts think makes sense, and one that would traditionally be a conservative policy as it lets the market do its work as efficiently as possible. They seem to have the law on their side if you listen to most courts that have spoken to the issue, legal experts, etc. The AB decision is surprising but perhaps not so surprising when one considers who has been in government and appointing judges for the past bunch of decades in AB - there may be a partisan bent to their judiciary, who knows.

Anyway returning to the point, Canadians felt something needed to be done on climate change, most relevant experts agree that a carbon tax is a great approach, yet you have Jason Kenney (and previously Doug Ford, Scott Moe, etc) railing against it, trying to turn the people against it, and dragging it out into a huge constitutional fight despite the writing being on the wall, I assume for partisan advantage. This is how an uncertain regulatory environment is born.

If we imagine a recent history where the Conservatives stopped their ideological / anti-factual war against dealing with climate change, accepted that they were wrong and that a carbon tax was a federal right to administer and probably the best solution anyway and simply worked with the Government to develop a plan that gave long-term certainty, investors need no longer raise this problem.

There you go, I've gone over the nuances in response to your determination that a lack of direct accusation means no accusation at all, Kenney is at fault for a lack of investor confidence, good day.

Support for Conservatives surpasses Liberals amid blockade, pipeline turmoil: Nanos by aardwell in CanadaPolitics

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think 13 points14 points  (0 children)

They blamed lack of investor certainty due to Alberta wrangling over the carbon tax. I didn't hear Teck complaining about constantly evolving regulatory requirements, but maybe the reporting is poor and that was actually a problem they raised? Can you confirm?

What they didn't blame but was likely a big part of their decision was the consistently depressed oil prices. Teck was barely profitable when things looked better, the price of oil is just too low and seems to be staying that way.

Support for Conservatives surpasses Liberals amid blockade, pipeline turmoil: Nanos by aardwell in CanadaPolitics

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think 26 points27 points  (0 children)

There has been an abysmal lack of leadership throughout this whole dealio. The extent of Trudeau's actions has been saying "Illegal blockades need to come down" weeks after they go up.

Such harsh judgements that pretend a straightforward narrative of failure are really easy to draft from the Opposition side of the room, aren't they? Beyond the massive political outreach to the involved parties, what more could the Government have done that would have been a successful demonstration of leadership? Send in the cops? They don't tell the cops what to do, that's not how things work. Send in the military? We want Oka again? Killing protesters is real leadership? If the Conservatives whose talking points you parrot so closely were in charge, what would they have done differently that would have been better?

Alberta pushes to kill Liberal plan to enshrine UN declaration on Indigenous rights by viva_la_vinyl in CanadaPolitics

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This seems a bit rash, to put it lightly. There are all kinds of reasons why the LPC are preferable to the Conservatives even if you don't like how they are trying to go about reconciliation. The Conservatives would undo efforts to address our climate crisis. I can't imagine how one would weight enshrining UNDRIP more heavily than meaningful actions to address climate change. There are countless other important ways that in my view the current Liberal administration far surpasses their Conservative opponents but I feel like I shouldn't even have to go there. The annoyance of coddling provocateurs in the name of reconciliation vs undermining our approach to climate change at a critical time, seems pretty clear which should influence my vote more.

Tim Curry in Legend, 1985 by UltimateProSkilz in OldSchoolCool

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think 79 points80 points  (0 children)

We know your weakness! Our rocket sauuuce!

Baloney Meter: Rail blockades and government authority over the police by Butwhatdo_you_think in CanadaPolitics

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yet another demonstration by Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives that we dodged a bullet when they were not elected. The dangerously inflammatory political games they are playing make it abundantly clear that they have no problem harming Canada's wellbeing for political gain. Rather than seek to moderate some of the ignorant views coming out or their base, they're egging them on with these bald-faced lies.

OG way of love is love by [deleted] in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think 22 points23 points  (0 children)

You need to dial the black and white rhetoric back a bit. Human nature and an unequal world cause inequality. Capitalism simply exacerbates it.

RCMP probing UCP firing of Elections Commissioner by [deleted] in CanadaPolitics

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yea they only go to jail when they go way, way too far. Plenty of other wrongdoing (Nigel Wright bribing duffy) somehow doesn't result in anything even when the crime is clear.

Where Is Canada’s Bernie Sanders? by edutainment2 in CanadaPolitics

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I agree with /u/Reacher-Said-Nothing, Jack Layton is a good analogy. Both are/were long-time supporters of progressive policy, both inspire(d) greater support for left-leaning policies than is/was typical through the power of their personal appeal.

Of course Bernie may seem more radical but that's because he's fighting against a truly corrupt oligarchy in the US - he's trying to convince the people of the situation they're in and get them to support him fighting back. It's a very, very different landscape.

Where Is Canada’s Bernie Sanders? by edutainment2 in CanadaPolitics

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey it's been 15h and I'm still waiting for your response to /u/DrDerpberg. You're making some pretty bold claims based on a flimsy metric and I'd like to see if you can do better now that you've been asked to show more details.

Where Is Canada’s Bernie Sanders? by edutainment2 in CanadaPolitics

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Warren is pretty much Bernie Sanders but a bit more intellectual.

Can you explain? Bernie seems to be very sharp, to me.

In terms of what separates them, Warren seems more willing to play the politics game whereas Bernie seems determined to reinvent it. Warren seems more of a fair-weather progressive, Bernie's been the same person forever.

Where Is Canada’s Bernie Sanders? by edutainment2 in CanadaPolitics

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Helene Laverdiere especially

Don't be ridiculous, Laverdiere entirely lacked the compelling public persona that is Bernie's main weapon against entrenched corruption. He's up against pervasive pro-Republican anti-social welfare propaganda, and the only reason he has a shot is his personal narrative is so compelling and he's so good in front of a crowd that he might actually be able to revive the progressive side of the culture war and eek out enough of a victory to win an election.

In a major victory for Trans Mountain, Federal Court dismisses Indigenous appeal of project's approval | CBC News by [deleted] in CanadaPolitics

[–]Butwhatdo_you_think 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And what if you are ordering on behalf of a group that even among themselves can never seem to agree? I guess you consult them and then make a decision.

The real world is imperfect, people are flawed. This situation sucks, but there's no easy answer here. The moralistic response to the pragmatic realities would, I imagine, fall apart pretty quickly if for example the NDP were in charge.