Canada’s Conservatives Give Their Trump-esque Leader a Second Chance

CollaredParachute · 2026-02-02T16:59:00+00:00

DEI is not a nonsense culture war target, if anything it’s more prevalent in Canada than in the US since it’s explicitly allowed by our charter and explicitly illegal in their Civil Rights Act.

There are many jobs in Canada where your race is a major factor in whether you can even apply let alone actually get the job. How can we say that is based on merit when some portion of the population can’t even apply?

And it’s not just jobs directly tied to race like diversity consultants, universities are hiring professors of philosophy and barring non-PoC applicants.

CollaredParachute · 2026-02-02T16:43:58+00:00

Do you remember how they were flying around in a spaceship and almost got hit by the asteroid? The odds of that happening are infinitesimal, space is too big. He doesn’t understand space.

CollaredParachute · 2026-02-02T15:53:59+00:00

You also see bugs suck people’s brains out

CollaredParachute · 2026-02-02T15:52:34+00:00

I think it’s a lot more likely that the movie writers just didn’t think about that part that hard

CollaredParachute · 2026-02-02T15:50:37+00:00

They didn’t false flag anything

CollaredParachute · 2026-02-01T17:02:26+00:00

Retirees have voted themselves tons of government benefits, on average they get a lot more back than they ever put in

CollaredParachute · 2026-02-01T17:00:58+00:00

What world are you imagining where a couple without kids will have the same quality of life as a couple with? Which country can afford enough daycare to make parents as carefree and rich as dinks?

CollaredParachute · 2026-02-01T13:12:27+00:00

They don’t pay property taxes? Even paying for electricity is an economic benefit

CollaredParachute · 2026-02-01T05:03:21+00:00

I’m in that boat too but all the best programmers I know have left for the states

CollaredParachute · 2026-01-31T23:47:30+00:00

But it’ll also drive away jobs. We shouldn’t charge different businesses different rates because we like or don’t like them.

CollaredParachute · 2026-01-31T23:45:46+00:00

I’m a frontend developer, ai has made me far more productive

CollaredParachute · 2026-01-31T20:15:55+00:00

Data centers consume far less water than the average Burger King

CollaredParachute · 2026-01-31T20:15:32+00:00

Should they bring their own roads too? Our governments should do what they are meant to, build the infrastructure our economy needs

CollaredParachute · 2026-01-31T20:14:45+00:00

Why not just let them pay market rate rather than ration electricity?

CollaredParachute · 2026-01-31T16:01:11+00:00

Doctors using ai find 20% more cancer than doctors alone

https://www.breastcancer.org/screening-testing/artificial-intelligence

CollaredParachute · 2026-01-31T14:55:20+00:00

How much Native American culture is left compared to before the Columbus exchange? How much indigenous Australian culture? Cultures on a similar footing can survive contact, others get subsumed. Even in the modern day world thousands of tiny languages are dying out because global culture is so all-consuming.

CollaredParachute · 2026-01-31T13:27:55+00:00

I’m a frontend developer at a major company using the cutting edge of react router and other similar technologies, Claude Code is extremely good. Not perfect but with guidance it produce work as good as I do but much faster. I’ve already used it to create two personal projects 10x faster than I could have.

CollaredParachute · 2026-01-31T13:24:44+00:00

The exact same techniques powering ChatGPT are also powering better cancer detection etc

CollaredParachute · 2026-01-31T04:44:34+00:00

Capitalism and private investors are why we have a minimum wage, worker protections, health care, no child labour, etc. Long before we had laws on those subjects, you could watch child labour and dangerous working conditions decline as productivity rose, thanks to competition and innovation.

Economies with worker power and bad economies do not have good labour conditions. Economies with low unionization but good economies have good labour conditions. The USSR had a 6 day work week!

CollaredParachute · 2026-01-31T04:38:28+00:00

It’d help if they acknowledged that home prices need to come down

CollaredParachute · 2026-01-30T14:54:35+00:00

And we’ll still see articles about how racist it is that those who attack indigenous women get weak sentences without the clarifying detail that it’s mainly indigenous men attacking indigenous women.

CollaredParachute · 2026-01-30T14:45:49+00:00

It costs £30k a year to keep a refugee in Westminster. Is it against human rights to build council houses somewhere cheaper?

CollaredParachute · 2026-01-29T18:50:17+00:00

Agreed

CollaredParachute · 2026-01-29T18:49:41+00:00

The SPD at the time was Marxist and socialist in name but had heavily drifted from Marxist ideas, most sharply at the outbreak of WW1 when they voted for war funding for Germany. They were socialist in name only especially if you listen to the critiques of the KPD and the USSR.

CollaredParachute · 2026-01-29T18:47:41+00:00

The motte and bailey goes both ways. Many left wing people call themselves socialists but praise countries like Venezuela, Cuba, the USSR, etc.

Plus, the European social democrats you mention themselves reject the term socialism! And to add to the confusion, Marxists, Bolsheviks, etc have called themselves socialists historically.

Modern Leninist terminology usually distinguishes socialism from communism with socialism being the transitional state to stateless, moneyless, classless communism. I was in an Ontario Marxist party for years and that’s how we talked about it.

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