adespoton

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

…with even less of a personal voice on the global stage.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

That’s great! However, if you move to Canada, that’s one less voice to resist a US slide into fascism.

Think about what happened to France when Germany took a turn for the worse.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Well, how has it been done successfully in other countries?

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

We’ve seen how that works out with marijuana legalization.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Canada currently has over a million vacant homes. The housing crisis isn’t a lack of homes or even jobs… it’s purely a matter of inflated value vs income.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

As someone outside the US who’s reasonably centrist from a global perspective…

The Democrats have been inching further right for decades. Every four years, the party picks one or two “progressive” topics, dials them back a bit, and campaigns on change, while supporting a general platform that is similar to conservative platforms in most countries.

That said, the population seems to be shifting along with them, so campaigning on a centrist platform would get them branded as pinko commie socialists and result in the majority of the population abandoning them.

The problem is, they’re the “not Republicans” party, which covers a huge swathe of political opinions that usually aren’t in agreement with each other.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 week ago

People are buying these books while they’re still allowed to.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The NDP are really what I think most people want right now, many just don’t know them well enough to realize it. However, some will vote Conservative to keep the Liberals from gaining control, and others will vote Liberal to keep Conservatives from gaining control, and the NDP will continue to be a “third party”.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Glad someone got to interview the Regina tourist!

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It won’t be gone. How else will they make good on their threat of shutting down media companies that say things they don’t like?

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 week ago (3 children)

“And you know, I’m not somebody that says, 'No, you can’t come in.' We want people to come in."

“We just want them to leave again unless they think and act and look just like us.”

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

That’s the point; the different groups are just as likely to fight each other as the far right, which now has an entire party to itself.

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