I agree with this sentiment, governments do not represent the citizens but the capital of those nations. Which often times devolves to simply, what can you do for me?

Unless the goal wasn’t to win the war but sabotage that transit point while dropping sanctions on a certain nation so it could re-fill its war chest?

Tinfoil time…

To distance themselves would mean a metaphorical decapitation, which would severely limit their political power, and thats just not something they’re willing to do. Kids grow up witnessing who gets away with it, so when those same kids get older and want to get away with it, they become cops, Republicans or priests, because they know those groups will protect them from accountability when/if they get caught. This issue has been compounding for multiple generations culminating in the running joke we see playing out today.

Fits in perfectly with the UCP.

After all this is the party that took advantage of misinformation flooding into the country during the pandemic, misinformation designed to have covid-19 kill as many Canadians as possible, they used that misinformation to leverage themselves into a political cult based around the same MAGA Christian nationalists principles.

Then they piggy back on the Christian communities collective narcissism to run a kleptocracy, funnelling off taxpayer money to themselves through various schemes and offices. Heck, we’re paying the same group that runs Canada Proud to run ads in Ontario, and the Alberta taxpayers have been paying this group to run multiple campaigns with no bidding process for people in other provinces. I remember reading Postmedia outlets attacking Notely for spending 1.9 million dollars on ads in 2019, but I have not heard them even mention once that Smith has exploded that to more than 80 million dollars, and thats not even including the 60 million we give to the war room, that turns around and pays the same company to run even more ads.

Kinda drives me nuts that whenever a conservative government takes power in Canada they all start giving huge sums of money to the same media groups that Harper used for his Action Plan ads when he was PM. We paid for taxpayer funded TV ads against marijuana use that the Doctors Association of Canada had to come out and debunk.

Now this same company is running social media account across the country that are breaking election laws on a regular basis and using all this money to create new media groups like Juno and TruNorth, which they teamed up with Rebel to disrupt our federal debates during the last election. I have no idea how this shit is possibly legal, and that without diving into the work of one Ezra Levant.

Politicians in Alberta are the most opportunistic, greedy, unscrupulous business people I’ve ever met.

The ability to enforce double standards based on political affiliation is a big feature of fascist governments.

I don’t like hearing our PM parrot US propaganda, and going directly against his speech in Davos.

I realize there might be political reasons for what he is doing, but the cynical side of me assumes this is more due to Israel lobbying our government for support.

There is a power vacuum on the right, since both of Canada’s right wing parties have abandoned right wing principles to chase Trumps tail. Which means the LPC can drift right, and there is no alternative for those on the left to vote for, while the CPC’s media machine can gaslight enough moderates that if the LPC drifts left, they can make the CPC seem like good old fashioned common sense conservatives of 20 years ago.

It sucks.

Predators protect predators.

“So, I’m just calling because I’m obligated to for this investigation. I’ll just need you to swing by my office and sign a form saying I questioned you. We can grab a few beers too, write it off as business expense.”

Cops that are willing to hold other cops accountable don’t end up having much upward mobility within the ranks. You don’t get to a position where you are investigating the police, but being good at investigating the police.

These are the kind of cops that end up having long careers with multiple promotions.

Roast chickens are loss leaders and are often the cheapest chicken you can find in a regular grocery store.

It’s wild to me how police will say they don’t have the authority to break up Nazi rallies until they “do something illegal”. University students, homeless people or visible minorities on the other hand are never an issue.

This isn’t unique to Toronto. Most police unions in this country have cultivated this culture of partisanship, ideological adherence, and a complete lack of personal accountability. Police see themselves as above the law, and the communities they serve as enemy combatants in an ideological battle. Cops willing to hold other cops accountable for their actions will always be to first to be pressured off the force. Police unions will regularly endorse political parties, then police protests along those same partisan lines. Police in Ottawa let the convoy terrorize the city for weeks so right wing media could paint it as a federal problem, then claim tyranny when forced to take action. Do you think it’s a coincidence that every single right wing outlet that reported on the unauthorized use of the Emergencies act never mentioned the judges comments on the lack of enforcement?

These organizations are rotting from the top, the idea that it’s just a few bad apples is laughable.

Wouldn’t it be nice if Canadian politicians used a Canadian platform with Canadian moderators and Canadian algorithms?

If the platform is designed to get voters engaged in local policy then even better.

They need to create outrage because the truth is just not outrageous enough to scare people into handing over a blank cheque to run the government. They want their base cowering in fear that any and all opposition to the party is this amorphous evil group think out to oppress them.

Think lots of people who grew up around sexual predators understands this, they see the victims as vindictive and ungrateful, in their minds they did nothing wrong. They always twist their actions to be the fault of the victim, so releasing information to hurt the victims is 100% predictable.

the goose is also golden.

I also came from Reddit, I’ve spoken highly of Lemmy in a few subs, canadianidiots, and ehbuddyhoser.

Might just be best trying a DM, but Reddit is definitely been going downhill for a while, they keep making it easier for people to engage in bad faith, and post misinformation under the guise of driving more engagement.

Postmedia will help her out by bringing attention to each scary sounding criminal who ends up falling through the cracks thanks to this lack of funding, and they’ll try to misrepresent the situation as current judges being soft on crime.

It’s depressing that it will work on a good portion of Albertans, just like when UCP cut municipal funding to Calgary and Edmonton, then Postmedia ran a campaign smearing the councils for not being good fiscal managers, leaving out the important detail of the UCP withholding funding and interfering in city projects costing cities millions of dollars.

deleted by creator