All to get to a job that is actually taking a hit by requiring employees to be there for more than 6hrs a day and to which you spend way too much time commuting. Not to mention that there’s a good chance we’re literally built to have varying sleep schedules, originally to watch for predators, so half the population is just getting completely fucked because the only people we consider valuable are those whose day starts earlier.

Opposite corners first, then the rest is easy. I do wish the standard would be for deeper mattresses, though.

Just type “helicopter hog hunting” into any search engine lol

The thing is is that voting is easy here. There’s pretty much no reason why the voter turnout in Ontario for Ford should have been ~41% and ~45% except for people being lazy.

Humans with guns and preferably a helicopter.

Conservatives, especially Dougie, are experts at spending a lot of money on things that don’t work because they never did any research at all. See: those stupid license plates.

“Northern Ontario” would imply that he gives a fuck about anything besides pretending that he’s the mayor of Toronto.

What I’m trying to say is that if you poll most Canadians they don’t want that shit. We have been told for so long that progressive ideas are only possible in dreamland and that things would be too expensive and then we just never question that. In reality, not investing in people and instead handing all our money to the ultra-rich just screws us over. There are people who would have said that Harper was too far right and yet will vote Liberal just because it’s in between two other parties(despite being barely left of the Conservatives).

The “destabilizing” also needs examples because a) yes, we are too deep into capitalism now so we have to make big moves and b) are they really, or are they just unfamiliar? And why are their moves “destabilizing” but Carney firing tens of thousands of people and continuing to drive us towards intense economic disaster just “normal”? We need to start thinking for ourselves or we are nothing.

We all know that, it just doesn’t really fit here.

People would still use Uber if it cost less. We’ve proven over and over that we will sellout pretty much anyone for a little convenience. I hope that changes, and I vote and act with that goal in mind, not the cynicism which seeks to wear me down, but man if I’m not regularly disappointed in everyone.

A lot of algorithms are built to punish posts that use it. It’s not the posters or users that hate it, it’s the companies behind the platforms.

Seriously? One of the most basic, fundamental aspects of a strong economy is one where small amounts of money change hands often. Instead, Carney has given huge tax breaks to the rich and is participating in trickle-down economics which was a term invented to make idiots think that giving all their money to rich people would somehow help them out. “Stimulating the economy” get outta here.

The NDP is not extreme. They are not asking for all private property to disappear, they are not asking for a 99% wealth tax, they are not asking for completely open borders, etc., you just consider them that way because we have three parties and you are not looking at platforms objectively, only in relation to one another. The Carney Liberals are conservatives but because the big C Conservatives are further right you believe them to be boring little centrists. Your view of our political landscape lacks any kind of nuance and you should really work on that because we are fucked otherwise.

You want the center so bad yet we’ve been crawling to the right every election for decades and you don’t see the problem. The center you’re imagining has become objectively right-wing and you aren’t noticing. They aren’t hiding it, please just pay attention.

A 45% voter turnout which followed a 41% turnout will do that. Here in Montréal we elected an ex-Liberal piece of shit mayor because the turnout was only 36%.

It is, quite frankly, our fault. This isn’t the US, we have good options readily available, so anyone who doesn’t vote but complains should be automatically signed up to get their fucking teeth kicked in.

That and also it’s just a collection of dumb ideologies for dumb people. “Socialism doesn’t work” falls apart the second you know anything and there are so many examples of it being better for everyone. They’re championing capitalism which has been shown time and again to not work for anyone but the ultra rich(those for whom it was designed).

Ok, but except for the fact that you think high taxes on the rich will scare them off everything else isn’t “fiscal conservatism” and you’ll get it by voting further left, not right. So far, Carney’s government has fired tens of thousands of employees during a highly dangerous time to be unemployed in, removed environmental protections to allow oil and gas companies to attack our land without review, cut funding all over the place, and still found $8.8bil to give to developers as development fee cuts that the consumer will never see the benefit of. There’s no responsibility there, he’s just giving away all our money to rich people and screwing everyone else in the process.

Everyone who thinks he’s doing even a remotely good job is a fool. This isn’t hidden stuff, it’s all headlining even the CBC but you can find it all over.

Ok?

I’m also not talking about absolutes, unless you’re participating in relativistic politics that only care about ideologies in reference to other ideologies and is a practice used by people too stupid to form their own opinions about platforms they’ve actually looked into.

The propaganda is lazy and obvious. I will not demand that many of them being hanged in the street but I will not sit here and act as though they aren’t immensely fucking stupid for falling for this crap. They can’t even be consistent enough in their own messaging to claim that the wool has been pulled over their eyes.

And that’s exactly the problem. “Fiscal conservatism”, which really just means slashing taxes on the most rich and leaving the rest of us out to dry, is incredibly irresponsible and has never worked. If anyone trusts Carney to run our economy then they should trust someone who is at least trying to give us progressive financial policies far more. Even if they fail, they aren’t the one actively chasing the option that is guaranteed to fall apart and that means there’s a far greater chance for success.

Besides, we throw around the word “trust” and “confidence a lot with almost zero evidence that the person we don’t trust isn’t capable of doing what they promise. Yes, I trust a grizzly bear to maul me to death if I voluntarily dress up in raw meat, but that’s precisely why I do not do that!

Exactly. Centrism, and the very idea that there is “moderation” to be sought between progressive ideals and back-assward conservatism, is a fucking plague. We all suffer because people don’t want to seem “extreme” and I’m fucking tired of it. We have to commit to being progressive and admit that all centrism has ever done is seek validation for and to normalize right-wing viewpoints long enough that we stop paying attention.

Or, as is the case with a lot of sex work, push people into more dangerous situations.