and people scoffed when i said shit’s going to get worse worldwide because of trump…
And even now, I scoff! But, like, in a “no duh” agreeing kind of way.
The same immigrants who told me not to worry about Trump were the same ones telling me that their homeland was justified in punishing/purging x people because “it’s global politics” and that I’m “too American” to understand. The same people who told me that the US president can’t affect the rest of the world’s politics because “each country has their own independent government.”
I swear, if I told these people that I had cancer in my toe, they’d tell me to not get it treated because it’s not anywhere important.
I’m surprised by the backlash, this is Liberal’s only chance. I know it’s fun for the armchair political analysts to poke fun at the ones analyzing for money, but we can all see the same writing on the wall. Incumbents are fuckin losing, all around the world, to far-right challengers. The U.S. Democratic tried and utterly failed to change the optics on their party being responsible for corporations using a fucking pandemic as a smokescreen to tighten the clamps of late-stage capitalism with price hikes that will never come down. Liberal still has to find a way to sell change from the status quo if they want to stay in power, so they’re taking a gamble. Maybe the issue really was that Biden dropped out too late, or maybe Americans really are dumber than Canadians. Either way, it was take this gamble of have a guaranteed loss. It’ll be interesting to see who takes Trudeau’s place, and whether they can sell themselves as enough of a difference in the ~8 months they’ll have.
Proroguing Parliament for 2½ months to pick a new leader isn’t a good look for the Liberals on this one, but I can see why they went for it. That’s a lot of news cycles for things to cool off before a likely election.
I doubt it will be enough to keep the anti-trans bigot party from winning a majority government, sadly.
Are you Canadian?
Longest I’ve been out of Canada is a week.
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Oh snap elections?
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Good
found another dufus. the only people cheering are the “fuck Trudeau” camp who are too daft to realize that we’ll get much worse instead or who know this and want it.
the world slides further away from progress.
I’m not Canadian but fuck Trudeau and the liberal party for campaigning on replacing First-past-the-post voting and then shrugging his shoulders and doing jack shit when the election was over.
We really are more alike then we like to admit. Just the same humans in a different location.
Here is a video on the history of council housing in the UK. Seems like yall need to share it with each other up north der (us too, thanks).
Peace.
So the guy who wears blackface and encourages the poor to kill themselves was a good leader for Canada?