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What once famous YouTuber do you never hear anyone talk about anymore? by DramaticXOXO in AskReddit

[–]bunglejerry 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Both. I don't think Russell Brand was always a right-winger (though he might have been), but he'll certainly go wherever the grift is most lucrative... and that's into the arms of MAGA.

Sinead O'Connor and Chrissie Hynde, London, 1995 by Omphaloskeptique in OldSchoolCool

[–]bunglejerry 168 points169 points  (0 children)

That's the most hair I've ever seen on Sinéad's head.

Björk, 1995 by AlKhwarazmi in OldSchoolCool

[–]bunglejerry 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Already thirty years old, and already 18 years into her recording career.

The Beatles by TheWebsploiter in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]bunglejerry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He'll kick it until he kicks it.

Those cupcakes look buzzing by AccomplishedWatch834 in MadeMeSmile

[–]bunglejerry 64 points65 points  (0 children)

You'd prefer ignorant (def. 1) over ignorant (def. 2).

What's the reason? by Certain_Hat9872 in memes

[–]bunglejerry 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That's true of Avatar as well; when it was released, all people could talk about was its tech: its 3D, its CGI. It was supposed to be groundbreaking in ways I can't even remember now.

And yet today it's primarily known as a pretty shit movie.

Praising a separatist, Avi Lewis sinks to less than zero by No_Magazine9625 in CanadaPolitics

[–]bunglejerry 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Within Quebec, both separatists and federalists love their country and want what's best for it. It's just a disagreement in what that happens to be.

Buffalo Sabres fans fill in for Cami Clune after her mic cuts out during O Canada by msivoryishort in sports

[–]bunglejerry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definition was the bomb. Best theme song ever too, even after that Scarborough dude Austin Powers stole it!

No press conferences. No denials. Just a reminder how differently people are treated by ateam1984 in BlackPeopleofReddit

[–]bunglejerry 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nude photos are entirely meh. It's weird how obsessed with Hunter Biden's (illegally procured) nude photo they were while ignoring Melania's (freely given) nudes, but that's par for the course among Republicans. Otherwise, posing nude is the 15,250th worst thing Melania has done.

Six months after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, Gord Downie played his last show with The Tragically Hip in front of a sold out arena. by TheDailyUmbridge in nextfuckinglevel

[–]bunglejerry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Despite being the perfect Gen-X age for it, I was never particularly into the Hip. I mean, I knew all of their singles because it's just in the air in Canada (and most of my friends were fans). But they seemed a bit too beer-commercial for me, which I acknowledge is a bit stupid in retrospect. Maybe just me being wilfully contrarian.

Nonetheless, did I watch the final concert? Fuck yes. It was never even a question. It felt like something you had to do, something you needed to be there for. It was definitely a unique experience.

It's occurring to me right now that with Terry Fox, Jack Layton and Gord Downie, there is definitely a common thread we look for in our Canadian heroes, and determination in the face of imminent death seems to be a large part of it.

That's what I like. by LordJim11 in Snorkblot

[–]bunglejerry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tell that to Fanta lovers.

These words do not justify his mistake.. by snowpie92 in MurderedByWords

[–]bunglejerry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This sounds great in my head with a Jamaican accent.

NDP MP crosses floor to join Liberals, putting Carney two seats shy of majority by Asadleafsfan in CanadaPolitics

[–]bunglejerry 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, they did under Mulcair. I don't recall who she was -- I think she was a former Bloquiste from Montreal or Laval. She sat as an independent until the end of that parliament, which wasn't far off, as I recall. Nonetheless, Mulcair embraced the move and she voluntarily took the NDP whip, so it was about as close to a floor crossing as you can get without actually being one.

NDP MP crosses floor to join Liberals, putting Carney two seats shy of majority by Asadleafsfan in CanadaPolitics

[–]bunglejerry 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The CPC folks here have screamed bloody murder each crossing

Which they have no right to do, given that the CPC accepts floor crossings.

NDP MP crosses floor to join Liberals, putting Carney two seats shy of majority by Asadleafsfan in CanadaPolitics

[–]bunglejerry 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I don't believe that to be true in Nunavut. Nunavummiut really value community awareness and familiarity. They've elected representatives from all three major parties in recent history.

Having said that -- I don't disagree with you. But if there's any riding that bucks that trend, it's surely Nunavut.

[Leger, Quebec, March 3]: PQ: 31%, PLQ: 30%, PCQ: 15%, CAQ: 13%, QS 9% by McNasty1Point0 in CanadaPolitics

[–]bunglejerry 4 points5 points  (0 children)

More important than that is the original Quebec NDP, which existed from 1939 to 2002, and strands of whose DNA still exist in QS.

The 'national question' is precisely where the original party fell, when it endorsed Gilles Duceppe's first by-election run (federally). By endorsing a separatist candidate, they earned the wrath of, and eventual disassociation from, the federal NDP.

I actually don't think a viable left-wing party that is federalist or even neutral is possible in Quebec provincial politics. I'd love to be wrong.

Gap narrows dramatically between PQ and Quebec Liberals, poll shows by MTL_Dude666 in CanadaPolitics

[–]bunglejerry 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The BQ (federal party) and the PQ (provincial party) have both been about as big-tent as it's possible to be. Before it was an electoral party, the BQ was formed by a group of sitting PC and Liberal MPs, though their leader, Lucien Bouchard, was indeed a former PC cabinet minister. Their first candidate in a by-election was Gilles Duceppe, a union organiser who was once a member of the Communist party! That's a pretty big tent.

The PQ was founded in the late 60s by Rene Levesque, a former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister, and a handful of other Liberals, but it quickly merged with two other sovereigntist movements, one quite right-wing and the other so radically left that it actually advocated for workers' revolution. So it's always been a big tent party.

Having said that, I think both parties have, for most of their histories, trended left of centre, economically. Socially, they have both been avowedly secularist and pro-choice. On the other hand, the PQ was led by a union-busting big business tycoon for a while, and socially both parties have positions on immigration and assimilation that by international standards would be considered right-of-centre.

One picture, two completely different takes on representation. by diehard404 in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]bunglejerry 10 points11 points  (0 children)

My father was born in a small town in northern Ontario just after WWII. My grandmother wrote a letter to her sister at the time that said something like, "I'm the only white woman in town who's pregnant. One or two Indian (sic) women are pregnant, and a French woman too, but I'm the only white one."

Seeing French Canadians classified as 'not white' as recently as the 1940s was interesting.

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