Pedantic, gentle, and friendly clarification for the comment section: "Turtle is the flip-flip; tortoise is the clop-clop." (from Hannah Gadsby).
Pedantic, gentle, and friendly clarification for the comment section: "Turtle is the flip-flip; tortoise is the clop-clop." (from Hannah Gadsby).
I was going to say, the little peanut appears to be trembling. 😕
I think you're referring to the wrong party leader there.
I have an unpopular opinion. I love my OneDrive. I actually really like all of the cool things I can do with O365. It's working for some of us. 🤷♂️
Come on, Naheed! Alberta needs you! Canada needs you.
Proof he's never been in a grocery store: 1. Apples in fridges. 2. People actually walking anything back to where it came from in the store is a fanciful dream. How many times have you found meat on a shelf because someone didn't want it anymore.
I've been saying this. Don't fall for the narrative from the right-wing hegemony. They are just trying to convince the people to entrench power systems. Don't do it.
Fun fact, that's a bunch of Canadian soldiers doing a Ruck March.
The point is that he thinks there should be more taxation. It's not his fault if the US gov't doesn't agree, so he does a bunch of philanthropy. Like, don't be mad that he doesn't make the rules. Be mad at the system not the players. For the record, he actually does pay taxes. So, not zero.
Trump's gov't certainly won't. He'll give them a tax break instead. Smdh
Yes, more than zero. On 5 Sep 24, in The Independent, Gates said he's in favour of progressive taxation. "If I designed the tax system, I would be tens of billion dollars poorer than I am" www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
They think they need to tell Swifties that? 😂 As if they don't already know. My wife will wake up in an hour to watch the live stream of the show.
Gates has said there should be higher taxes on the rich. He is very involved in philanthropy. I think Buffet is also. I have no issue with the wealthy so long as the pay the right share, support their workers, and try to make the world better.
As in, "well, I guess she's busy today"? Is Travis missing the game? That would be appropriate.
I don't know Lindsay. I missed it. ☹️ Guess I'm just really used to people criticising her. Bit of a knee jerk on my part. Who made the comment about torch and pitchfork? Let every town welcome the influx of positive vibes and friendship bracelets.
Oh?! That's interesting. Nuance really doesn't translate in writing, I guess.
Cuz haters gonna hate, hate, hate... 😉 I think ppl can't stand it when a woman succeeds. Taylor has been called a one-woman stimulus package. Her shows generate a lot of positives for a city. And the fans are pretty great. Police in T.O. said they are the least problematic concert goers.
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Might have been asked, but have you gone at them for being biased?
What if you have a great Rep in Congress who is doing good work and people like them? Otherwise, term limits for SCOTUS, stopping gerrymandering, and ending the electoral college seem like good ideas for the US. Maybe look at how other countries firm gov't
Lol pardon a crime before it's known. That's some clairvoyant shit right there. I can't understand the logic of the US right wingers.
However, if you want to believe everyone here is lovely, avoid any news feed about the US health insurance guy who was shot. Ppl are not very empathetic about a murder, even if the victim was profiting off people's misery, disease, and death.
The key is being able to control your feed. Choosing things that are not toxic and not being force-fed the divisiveness.
Classic failing upward.
The actual richest man in the world is in a weird partnership with the GOP and DT, but go ahead and complain about democrats being establishment dems. It isn't great, but it's not a deal between two devils like DT and Musk.
Well, I don't need an ereader. Mine is fine. But other things I buy from Amazon. Similarly in Canada we want to deny Loblaws but I struggle bc I find their products are the best and they often have the best sales & price match. So how do I leave? The competition isn't any better.
That's very nice of you. But does that mean you're safe if the floor falls out? Does that mean if you can no longer earn an income, you don't have to worry? (I am not familiar with st Jude's)
I haven't given up on middle ground. I don't think anyone has. But that's around things that have a middle. Women's rights, civil rights, queer and trans rights are not negotiable. They are about human dignity and that isn't a topic for the middle. My right to exist isn't a debate.
I think I bought my kindle in 2010 (kindle keyboard). So it's 14y old. I don't want to support Bezos, but the alternative to his online retail seems to be Temu. I don't trust that at all.
A Canadian YouTuber named Scott Boots says centrist is a belief in nothing. And the reality is the there is, as you say, no middle ground between harmful and not harmful beliefs. I think when people say centrist they mean Dems and Liberals on 2000-2016
But it's in everyone's best interest to help. If everyone chips in a little, it adds up. There really aren't that many scamming the system. It's mostly the huge corporations taking advantage of you by paying employees as little as possible and avoiding taxes.
But too bad for you because my family's more important than yours & the pittance of tax off my pay to help you is not in MY best interest. Except it is. Because the floor can fall out from under anyone. The right wing has convinced everyone it's a zero-sum game & helping others means zero for you.
I mean, that's true of most people, but it's not so small scale as that. What would happen if you were injured and couldn't work? Suppose you don't have benefits through work? Or your employer goes bankrupt and you don't have access to a pension? You'd find yourself in need of assistance.
That's the rugged individualism that's driving humanity apart
I think it's fair to say some abuse the system. But I'd rather support ppl abusing it to ensure those who aren't still have support than deny everyone because of a few. Corporations abuse laws and loopholes. That's who needs wrangling
It's been both sides. Truthfully. We've been watching. The right is claiming everything is the fault of minorities. The left says everything has gone to hell. But in this case there's no middle where the truth is. Those narratives don't overlap
I'm happy to help my fellow humans live well. What I earn is because I am able. I want my family to have support. I want yours to have it also. Sometimes that means we share our wealth. Nothing gets better from hoarding. Individualism is not helping the US. Ppl need community.
But that's also not how social welfare works. The right has made ppl believe that recipients are lazy and disinterested in working. It ignores the needs of those with physical or mental challenges who can't work, or the elderly who are trying to get by on very little. It ignores systemic oppression
Honestly, I'm watching the dumpster fire from Canada and just hoping we don't make the same mistakes here (though I am not confident our own maple maga won't wreck things here). Most Canadians claim to be very centrist.
Capitalism isn't the same as it was when Marx was opposing it. We need to look at now and decide a way forward from here.
I'm going to school to be an adult educator. We very much criticise capitalism. It has been the cause of much oppression. And it is underpinned by meritocracy, a myth in its own right.
But I don't know personally where this works. The point I'm making is that ppl decry communism & socialism without knowing what they are or aren't. A social democracy seems to be best. Take care of people and everything else works out.
No. Communism isn't a dictatorship. It's the idea of everyone working together for each other. Theoretically, everyone gives according to ability and gets according to need. The gov't is supposed to be of the people and charged with managing the distribution.
Everything relies on other things and the economy does better when women's rights and health are supported, when people have health care and don't worry about medical bills, when education is supported and they feel they have a chance, supporting unions & workers. That's what fixes the economy.
It was a pretty big issue for people dealing with infertility. The problem in the US is calling everything to do with stopping pregnancy for any reason an abortion. Technically true but lacks nuance and information. But everyone fails to connect the dots. The economy can't be fixed alone.
That's also not true. She talked about a lot more than that. And the tricky thing was that, as VP, she couldn't criticise Biden. It's not professional or united. There wasn't time to pick a new candidate. Biden like have backed out sooner.
No, it's because there's a diversity of opinion on it. Biden is catholic, as I understand it. And it's not that it gives them something to run on. It's the balance of losing because a swath of voters are not pro-choice. Politics on the left anyway is always walking a tightrope.
Then vote for someone who believes that. Psst. It wasn't Trump
Pandering to Christian theocrats who think critical gender and race theory are evil is against queer people. As a queer woman, I disagree he hasn't made those policies.
Ummm, you sure about that? Bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade is a policy against women. Taking a stand that it's up to the states to determine, knowing full well many states are against women, is against women.
That's awful. I'm sorry she said that. She's not a representative of us all. I don't want to debate vaccines bc that's a slippery slope.
Capitalism hasn't really helped us all though, has it? Trickle down economics doesn't work. The richest people are just getting richer. Blame the ones who aren't committed to turning wealth into useful innovation (like solving disease and hunger--colonising Mars isn't going to save us).
No one really knows what communism is. They think it's what we've seen from China and Russia, but that's not how Marx envisioned it. And he was talking about rising against a capitalism that doesn't exist now. Read some Jürgen Habermas. Real communism isn't a dictatorship. Socialism ≠ communism
I guess you haven't paid attention to the awful things the magas say. The vile things they say about immigrants, and women, and the queer communities. Women and people in the 2SLGBTQI+ communities are legit scared right now. That's not because the right is being so kind and tolerant either.
Perhaps. I think the reasons are basically people who lack understanding of government and economics and sociology. Around the world, people are directing their anger at capitalism and the über-wealthy at whomever is in power. It's not where that anger belongs but there it is.
I've met a lot of people who are like you. They claim to be socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I think that's what people who are centre-right believe they stand for. Remember that a lot of Twitter is also bots and troll farms playing both sides off each other.
Can you blame that reasoning? The figurehead the right voted for is all those things. There's this saying that if you have 10 ppl and a Nazi joins the group but no one calls them out or opposes, you have 11 Nazis. It's complicity. Guilt by association. It's not always accurate but...
There was a time when conservative people were reasonable. If you're talking to reasonable people now, they are not extreme to either side. But the centre isn't leaning right. The centre is more progressive.
I'm not intolerant of differing views on how best to get to a good place. I am intolerant of an entire political position that thinks climate change is a hoax, that women's bodies are theirs to regulate, that authoritarian and theocratic leaders are people to admire.
Yes, it's awful when people disagree with solving climate change, stopping wars, and ensuring people have food and security. How dare the left be so intolerant of people disagreeing with that.
How do I make that happen? 🏳️🌈
What would happen if we made access to post-secondary education free and accessible? Let's imagine that utopia, eh?
It's annoying when a business one likes is owned by businesspeople with bad ethics. Amazon, Loblaws. What do you turn to when the product you like is supporting someone you don't?
I got a kindle before they were even available in Canada. It's still alive and doing great. I won't replace it anytime soon.
Ottawa Charge!
Yep. We do everything the US does. Why is beyond me. But the Canadian version of GOP bs has crossed the border. I hope we won't, but I'm nervous.
Margaret Atwood thought she was writing a warning. Someone decided it was a manual.