CaractacusPotts

joined 10 months ago
[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 months ago

🤦‍♂️

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There is a significant Muslim population in Michigan that is paying attention. Michigan is a swing state, if Biden loses it he probably loses the election.

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago

Was he right about Trump in 2016 or not?

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Filmmaker and Michigan native Michael Moore agreed that Biden’s stance on the ongoing slaughter in Gaza could easily cost him the state, and in turn, the entire election. In a recent interview with CNN’s Abby Phillip, Moore said “I’ve been saying this month that he’s going to cost himself the election. …If Trump has any chance, it’s the decision that [Biden’s] made to embrace slaughter, carpet bombing, babies in incubators dead because they cut off the electricity, on and on and on.”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/28/uncommitted-vote-in-michigan-highlights-bidens-extremely-precarious-candidacy/

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago (90 children)

But you won't blame the Biden administration for disregarding the wishes of their constituents?

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

People who say that confuse liberals with the left.

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

The majority of Canadian provinces have conservative governments. Why do people vote against their own class interests?

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.” ― Edward Bernays, Propaganda

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

That would be odd, since the national observer is a centre left publication. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/national-observer-canada/

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

It's probably an editors is fuck up.

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I find your hand-wringing over water and sanitation issues to be disingenuous. Obviously the city can provide freshwater and Porta potty's so that's not really an issue.

They are not "hoarding", they are gathering together for survival. You are confusing the poorest and most vulnerable people in our society with corporations and the wealthy who are hoarding housing. They are in communal space because that's all they have, they have no where else, they have to exist in communal space. If the tent communities are smashed the people don't suddenly disappear, they simply disperse into the neighbourhoods making them even more more vulnerable.

What's this nonsense about building shacks in the woods? Do they have support systems there? Where is the food supposed to come from, what about medical care?

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Vote strategically, this con man should never be allowed to govern.

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