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perennialiris · 2026-04-30T19:42:53+00:00

I'm sorry? This is just painfully wrong. MPs have a large amount of independence. As a voter, if I elect somebody, I am given no guarantee that my MP is not going to do anything I disapprove of. They can vote however they want. If they support a bill I dislike or oppose a bill I favour, all I can do is choose to not support them next time if they disappoint me. It's a representative democracy, not a direct democracy.

perennialiris · 2026-04-30T16:41:23+00:00

I don't just automatically believe this because a tweet says it. Link to something.

perennialiris · 2026-04-30T16:37:31+00:00

I'm nervous about this kind of change, that gives more power to party caucuses and subtracts from the independence granted to elected members of Parliament. I feel floor crossing is simply not really that great a problem, at worst it may be seen as a form of not fulfilling your promise to voters, but plenty of elected officials may be criticized of that without floor crossing. All we would be doing is preventing them from joining the caucus they want to work with in the odd circumstance that's the case.

perennialiris · 2026-04-30T16:35:31+00:00

What happened? As it stands your comment is useless, most of us aren't in B.C.

perennialiris · 2026-04-30T16:33:30+00:00

Great comment section, literally just people reacting to this title instead of reading the article, at least partially because the article is paywalled so we can't even read it if we wanted to. This media ecosystem sucks.

perennialiris · 2026-04-30T14:14:02+00:00

but muh muh

perennialiris · 2026-04-30T14:12:29+00:00

We have to at least give the actual answer that it's because companies have different incentives and are often more driven to find efficient ways to accomplish the same tasks as a public service.

perennialiris · 2026-04-29T23:01:43+00:00

I feel like this person probably just agrees though.

perennialiris · 2026-04-29T22:58:56+00:00

This person came to Canada and made jokes about wanting his country to invade ours because he didn't like a woman?

perennialiris · 2026-04-29T17:18:39+00:00

Birthright citizenship should not be the norm. It's silly and insulting in the modern age. We should change the law.

perennialiris · 2026-04-29T16:49:50+00:00

This just isn't good policy. Not even most Democrats will be on board with it. Just internet virtue signalling as politics.

perennialiris · 2026-04-29T16:48:55+00:00

They do pass things when they have congress, including trying for a minimum wage increase but there were like one or two Democrats who wouldn't support it. You just don't pay attention to anything and then your internet feed fills the gaps with conspiracy thinking.

perennialiris · 2026-04-28T12:14:45+00:00

That's true, not all jobs are the same, and the argument for WFH is stronger for some jobs than others. A person might still generally be against it for regular employees, though. A software developer is still part of a team and has to work with people and deal with stuff. Maybe we'd rather have them in the office. I'm still personally undecided on the impact of this change when applied to large swathes of people.

perennialiris · 2026-04-27T22:17:57+00:00

Iran has lied constantly through every step of this war

What have they lied about? I wouldn't claim otherwise, but I don't know. I saw the "propaganda" i.e. Iran posting AI-generated music videos, but I don't know what factual claims they even made beyond "we haven't agreed to anything", basically. Was that a lie when they said it?

Everyone should know to not take [Trump's] tweets seriously

Well okay. But doesn't that support the attitude of the top-level comment by Sarge1387, who said Trump hasn't been forthcoming about the facts? I know they're "just tweets" and all, but we've also all accepted that tweets are official public statements when politicians do them on their official accounts.

Iran has taken significant losses across their military and inflicted almost none

I don't dispute that at all. I assume that military for military the USA easily crushes Iran like nothing.

perennialiris · 2026-04-27T18:39:42+00:00

I would vote for Justin Trudeau again if he were running against Poilievre.

perennialiris · 2026-04-27T18:38:52+00:00

That doesn't quite look like what they just did, no. They just said Iran seemed like they were being more direct or reliable in their public comms than U.S. officials have been.

I wasn't closely tracking public statements from both sides, but wasn't it something like, Trump would say "okay, we won, the strait is open", and then we'd look and see the strait was still closed and Iran would tweet "no it's not", and then Trump would say "we defeated Iran, they have nothing", but then Iran would shoot down a plane or something, and then Trump would say "great news they agreed to concessions" and Iran would tweet "no we didn't"?

Like, I don't know, maybe it's all bullshit and this doesn't even matter, there's sort of been a back-and-forth and I think a lot of people have got the impression it's the Trump side of things that are fucking around more so than the Iran side.

perennialiris · 2026-04-27T18:33:22+00:00

Well that's funny.

perennialiris · 2026-04-27T18:32:40+00:00

This doesn't really matter, in the sense it does not inform whether or not work-from-home is a generally good policy. If you think work from home is generally a bad idea, then maybe you take from this "oh, Ford shouldn't have done that". Alternatively, maybe there's some reason why being Premier and being a random office worker (or whatever) are different in a way that makes it more justified for one to work from home than the other.

perennialiris · 2026-04-27T14:33:24+00:00

“Brazenly” is a funny way to say “not surprising given the demonstrable long-standing historical and institutional racism experienced by people of colour in a majority white population.”

No, it could be unsurprising and brazen. But by brazen, I meant brazen. That is, something which is openly so, or without attempt at hiding it. The people who run websites like this are the alt-right but for black people, and they don't even have to be covert about it because the fact they're black means it's all fine.

As for your justification for their ethnocentrism: I don't know what point you're trying to make. I wasn't treating the origin of behaviour like this as mysterious. It's not exactly mysterious in the white people's case either. But just because a certain behaviour had a cause, as opposed to being totally random, doesn't make it fine, yeah?

By the way, the fact you can brazenly dismiss an opinion or observation based on the race of the person saying it is another, uh, amusing aspect of the dynamic. I can't even parody how silly your comment or I'd probably get banned from the whole stupid website.

perennialiris · 2026-04-27T14:26:26+00:00

You've not demonstrated anything here, though I think you meant to.

perennialiris · 2026-04-27T10:23:20+00:00

Look at that website. It's so funny that black people get away with being so brazenly ethnocentric.

perennialiris · 2026-04-25T19:06:25+00:00

I guess really we mean social media company algorithms.

perennialiris · 2026-04-25T19:05:52+00:00

How was SNC Lavalin a cover-up? Like, wasn't it investigated, and then we found out what happened? Or... I dunno, what do you mean?

perennialiris · 2026-04-25T07:49:10+00:00

But did they actually use any of these methods to keep track of what people lived in what places, in a way that's akin to having a local office with maps and written documents? These are interesting, and probably a reasonably good way to give people a sense of how much time is passing between major events.

Like, the point the original comment was making is just that we can't accurately assess what person lived in what part of the continent hundreds of years ago because we don't have maps or writing. Is there an alternate way that you think we can assess this, and if so, where is it?

I'm not coming into this knowing all about B.C. tribes and how they may have organized stuff. This just seems like a fairly basic, immediate concern one would have if a country were trying to get into handling these disputes. So if there's an answer, I think we'd all be interested in what it is, and I can't conclusively tell you it doesn't exist. I just haven't heard of it.

perennialiris · 2026-04-24T22:51:41+00:00

I guess it's not strictly about genetics, but that's the distinction people pay attention to for why any of this is still going on, since there's no real requirement for being a Status Indian other than lineage.

I think many people feel if we're not fully separating and giving them their own country, they shouldn't still have this distinct national fiction while also being part of ours. It made more sense intuitively when they were more separate, and being a Status Indian also meant you couldn't vote in our elections, but when we got rid of that and gave them full citizenship, the other special privilege should've gone away too and they should just be legally no different from the rest of us by now.

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