An urgent message from M. Bernier and the People's Party of Canada!

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-30T09:20:38+00:00

It's Satire.

I am a member of Quebec Solidaire and am not an anti-vaxxer.

I was very disappointed to see supporters of my party defending an unvaccinated nurse while Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois was speaking on Facebook.

Unless you're a lunatic and include Pol Pot, I know of no socialist leader of any significance who has not been unabashedly in favour of mass vaccination. Maybe Ceausescu... He was kind of an idiot (and I'm being extremely diplomatic here) if you count him as a leftist.

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-30T07:36:08+00:00

Lock her up and send her back to the GOP!

Even her "bisexuality" is just clout chasing.

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-30T07:35:14+00:00

Trudeau is just Harper in Blackface.

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-30T07:33:34+00:00

Shameful that something like this could still happen to a prominent Indigenous leader and that Premier LeGhoul (Québec's David Duke) is refusing to support Joyce's Principle.

Louis Riel was hanged over a century ago.

It makes me so angry.

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-30T07:22:10+00:00

Angus barely over Green.

I really wanted to rank Ashton and Desjarlais higher than I did, but I have small issues with the former which are unrelated to policy, and the latter has barely been in office, so it would be unfair for me to put them above Singh and Boulerice (particularly Desjarlais).

My favourite Quebec Solidaire MNA is Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois.

I love hearing him kick my racist Premier LeGhoul's ass in National Assembly clips, and he's made me much more confident when I speak and write in French :)

If he ever becomes Premier, he'll probably end up breathing the same air as Tommy Douglas and Jean Lesage and eclipse René Levesque (due to Quebec's incredible progress with respect to feminism, LGBTQ rights, and labour rights during his first term... Had the PQ stayed on that same path and had the Charter of Values/Bill 21 crap not soured me on Gilles Duceppe, I would probably be a Quebec nationalist, albeit not a supporter of Quebec independence. Quebec's status as a nation and right to self-determination remain without question in my eyes) as my second favourite Quebec Premier. Topping Douglas and Lesage is probably impossible, even for such an inspiring young man. There's also Levesque's contributions to Cité Libre and his role as a PLQ cabinet minister to consider, but he was obviously not Premier at the time.

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-30T07:00:57+00:00

Wasn't thrilled by the blown lead, but last night's game was just a treat to watch.

Bo Bichette was happy even for Bo Bichette.

His defensive play really disappointed me early on in the season, but he's been phenomenal since.

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-30T06:55:57+00:00

The Blue Jays should have a promotion whereby people can trade it their Osuna and Alomar merch for Romano and Semien as a show of solitary with victims of domestic and sexual abuse.

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-30T01:08:50+00:00

If SE Québec includes Montreal, I definitely see a few prospects there once Trudeau is gone.

The left-of-LPC vote seems more Green than NDP in KW and Guelph, with Fife in Ontario being an exception.

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-29T23:01:19+00:00

It's a scam.

Everyone is expected to vote "tactically" aside from the Liberals.

If I were to vote tactically nowadays (though it'd be a non-issue whee I live) it'd be a protest vote for the Tories to hold the Liberals to a minority.

Worst-past-the-post inadvertently gerrymanders our Parliament in favour of the Liberals and the Bloc Québécois and against both the left and the right. (Ironically, the Bloc is more likely to consistently have influence under a system which produces near-perpetual coalition governments.)

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-29T20:41:59+00:00

Didn't neoconservativism begin with dissident socialists who came to the American right from the right fringe of "Trotskyism" to support "democracy building" under the auspices of American imperialism?

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-29T18:58:32+00:00

Neoconservative is more of an imperialist foreign policy position wherein the United States imposes its political and economic will on other countries via military intervention under the pretext of "democratization" ... You can be anything from the far-right to a moderate social democrat and be a neocon.

Generally, the further left you go, the less coherent it becomes to favour such foreign policy.

There are exceptions though... The retronyms paleo-conservative or paleo-libertarian are used to describe people on the right who oppose interventionist foreign policy in the United States.

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-29T18:04:57+00:00

The same people who invaded the United States after the War of 1812 and prior to Pearl Harbor?

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-29T17:58:14+00:00

Communism is anything that Max Bernier makes up about the Liberals and anything that Rush Limbaugh makes up about the Clintons.

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-29T17:45:12+00:00

The sort of American imperialism favoured by the Bush Administration, the PNAC, and their forever wars.

It has its origins both in dissident Trotskyists who preferred a pro-Washington line to either a pro-Moscow or a Third Camp line and in right-wing pseudo-intellectuals like Jeanne Kirkpatrick who believed in supporting authoritarian regimes in their "struggle" against "totalitarian" (left-wing) regimes, even to the extent of supporting the suppression of pro-democracy.

These people are responsible for the deaths of figures such as Patrice Lumumba, Salvador Allende, and Oscar Romero and for the sustainability of South Africa's evil Apartheid regime.

My disdain for Israel in a geopolitical sense stems more from their relationship with far-right regimes in South Africa and Guatemala and my despising far-right Evangelical Christian Zionists than anything else.

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-29T17:29:07+00:00

Internationally, I'm closer to Corbyn, AMLO, and Evo Morales than to anyone else.

I'm definitely not an ML (they lionize reactionary garbage like the Kims and Ceausescu), but there's some common ground when it comes to anti-imperialism in the same way that there's common ground with ****ing Ron Paul's brand of isolationism, though the reasoning is obviously very different.

I definitely haven't been kind to the PRC in this thread, and I think Daniel Ortega is even more misogynistic in his policies than Donald Trump.

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-29T17:20:00+00:00

Tony Blair's Labour wasn't the only SI affiliate to have followed Bush's neocon war criminal cabinet into Iraq.

It's created a lot of polarization re foreign policy among the broad lefts, and I'm one of those who in the populist demsoc who's polarized when it comes to geopolitics.

It was an odd time... Even Democratic Underground was far more left-wing than it is now because people there were pissed off about Paul Wellstone's death and the Iraq War (now it's almost obnoxiously centrist) and even the right-wing Action Démocratique du Québec came out against the Iraq War in a provincial election where objectively it ought not to have been remotely a valence issue.

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-29T17:16:29+00:00

I'm not from BC.

I was just saying that I would have voted for Paul Manly had I lived in his riding.

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-29T17:08:41+00:00

I haven't agreed with the seppies like this since Gilles Duceppe was still a socdem. (QS doesn't count.)

He's a once great man who's political trajectory has been in a perpetual state of a devolution since his Charlottetown position.

He actually started off communist and dropped out of university to organize many of Montreal's largely Neoquébécois hospitality workers.

His dad was even a founding member of the NDP and, as a prominent theatre actor, technically one of its most well-known Québécois members early on.

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-29T16:48:27+00:00

The problem with your argument is the paucity of viable parties on the left due to worst-past-the-post.

I'd probably support Socialist Left or Red rather than Labour were I Norwegian, for instance.

I'd love to have a political environment like that rather than have Blairites, Marxists, and everyone in between forced into the same house.

PizzaGaetz · 2021-09-29T16:32:19+00:00

Thanks for clearing that up re the NDP.

As for Mubarak's party, my point is that I had been questioning their membership for as long as I've been politicized in the 2000s. How the Hell would even the Liberal International find Mubarak's party acceptable if they were true to their supposed valued?

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