swordgeek

Not really an import, this ha been the direction right-wing politics has been shifting since Harper. (And he's still pulling Poilievre's puppet strings.)

Two thousand was obvious.
Two thousand and one as well, thanks to Stanley Kubrick.
I made a determined effort somewhere around 2004 to go back to the previous century's naming, and call the first decade "aught," as in "twenty aught six."

Nobody followed me in that.

Even so, I now refer to all years except 2000 and maybe 2001 as "twenty (aught/oh) ." Good riddance to "two thousand seven" as a year.

"Five mistakes" were actually one point repeated over and over, for a ten minute video.

In other words, clickbait.

No, corporations backing Nazis did.

Sorry, not everyone who considers the party or their leader to be weak is a racist asshole. Singh has never been a strong leader. Trustworthy, definitely; and most likely a good guy. Policy-wise I agree with him and the NDP more than any other party (actually, the Greens under May but that ship has sunk), and he has been quite effective at forcing some good out of the past-their-due-date Liberals; but in all honesty, he has never had the strength of presence like Trudeau or Layton.

I'll likely be voting for them in the next election (not that it matters in fucking CPC-washed Alberta), but I've always wished he were a stronger leader.

No.

Don't normalize the spread of toxic tip culture.

Yeah, I can't say I'm surprised that a Nazi would dislike Trudeau.

Fuck off with your spam.

No, that's sadly not true anymore (if it ever was).

Alberta's government is just as fucking insane as any Republican. The rural areas and small towns are redneck Christian hives of intolerance. I got called a "hippie cock-slurper" in the parking lot of a Lethbridge store, presumably because I have long hair. (And ignoring the point that I was getting into the car with my wife and toddler.)

Edmonton is a mix of blue collar and academia, and is a bit of a hard city but I love it. They're reliably left-leaning. Calgary is very money-driven and tends to vote more conservatively (for lower corporate taxes), but hasn't been supporting the UCP that much.

Oh that's easy. They'll be destroyed by a party that can't lose an election.

The UCP just introduced the most extreme anti-trans legislation in North America. They have been methodically and relentlessly destroying public healthcare, and handing private contracts to their friends. Education has been revamped with a curriculum that explicitly promotes oil and gas production, denies the harm of residential schools, and encourages rote memorization over comprehension. Oh yes, and public charter schools. They've recently started to make inroads on ultimately banning abortion.

And they'll get reelected, over and over again.

Just leave reddit.

Really, the platform has gone straight to shit in the last 18 months. There are possibly more bots than humans at this point, and a huge number of the people who made it good back in the day are gone. Much of the interaction is now driven by algorithmic rage farming.

Its CEO is a small-minded vicious little fascist. Staying on reddit helps support the hard right.

Leave. Don't look back. If Lemmy and Mastodon don't seem as exciting, make them better by being active here.