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Most people can hide it better than Peterson…he seems always on the edge of tears. I almost feel sorry for him. Almost.

He’s always been like this.

Peterson is different. JP has genuine psychological issues stemming from god knows what…but part of his mental illness is continuously trying to get revenge because he was rejected by who he thinks are his peers in the academic community.

Like…he always seems like he’s on the verge of tears or even a nervous breakdown. As a knee jerk I always feel sorry for him when I hear him speak…until I snap out of it and remember how destructive he is.

It’s not a secret that transphobia is a top wedge issue for conservatives. The IDU is absolutely focus grouping the rhetoric into easily digestible talking points.

We already know there’s an online eco system that floats all of the talking points…the IDU consolidates the information and disseminates what tests well to the various groups, like the IDWU or IDYU (women, youth) who then translate it into a language their demographic will respond to and take out ads, meet with podcasters, etc

As far as I’m aware he’s presently the chair.

It’s not some make-work think tank…it’s a deeply influential policy control apparatus that makes most media guilty of gross malpractice for not keeping tabs on. It’s an umbrella that has groups across the full demographic spectrum.

Conservative parties across the globe are sharing information about what propaganda/outright lies works and what doesn’t. Liberal and progressive parties have no such apparatus that keeps them in messaging lockstep.

It’s exactly what conservatives conspiracy theorize that the WEF and other “globalist” entities do for “liberals”.

It’s kinda fascinating.

I live in an area with a few packs of coyotes (in Ontario, Canada), and I learned from a ministry woman that they lack the resources to eradicate them, so they recommend “hounding” them…but only with the goal of eliminating entire packs.

If a local gets really stubborn about killing them, what happens is they typically kill them only on their own property…which doesn’t kill a pack…but rather splits it up and forces the survivors to create new packs and the overall populating can grow. So what she recommended was that the locals hire an expert with hounds and get the permission/cooperation from as many surrounding landowners as possible…so everybody can come up with a plan to control the population in a meaningful way. The major obstacle being that there are more cottages in my area than properties with livestock, so it’s difficult to get the permission of people who are around infrequently and/or don’t understand the issue.

I think we’re more complicit than that…conservative parties from around the world meet to coordinate policy in a group chaired by Stephen Harper: the perversely named IDU. A truly terrifying group that rank and file conservatives haven’t heard of or will downplay as soon as they hear about it. All while they pretend the WEF is a progressive construct and not a conservative one.

“Liberals” have rebranded what used to be conservatism as “abundance”.

The NDP have been running as centrists, and the Conservatives are Nazis.

This all happened so quickly.

Chances are it will bolster the bill he passed in the summer so he can do the abundance thing and build shit like the pipeline and housing without consultation. By “he” I obviously mean the private sector.

Worse. He’s acting like he’s running a dynasty and doesn’t seem to be aware that when he loses the next election he’s done Pollievre a huge favour…not just because all the legislation he’s passing is right out of the last Conservative platform.

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If you believe culture war spin defines policy…there’s your issue.

Harpers’ culture war posturing wasn’t policy. He was bad, but no worse than Justin - who’s trade and corporate policy was to the right of Harper. Justin, of course, was a culture war liberal with his gender equal cabinet etc

Oh? Not McKenzie King who brought in UI and the Baby Bonus? Not Diefenbaker who mass-funded hospitals? Not Pierre that brought in the Charter of Righrs on Freedoms? EtcEtc. Justin governed right of centre…a boiler plate neoliberal just like Harper was. Pardon me, but you don’t have any idea what you’re talking about.

You’re arguing that the conservatives are worse…I agree with that.

I’m arguing that the Liberals acting like conservatives makes the conservatives tack even further to the right, and we slide and slide into late stage capitalist hell.

Trudeau was to the right of Mulroney and on-par with Harper…you’re just cold-trippin’. He’s not even in the too 10 most-leftist. Now it sounds like I’m listening to conservative propaganda. Totally nuts. Conservative Icon Diefenbaker was more socialist than Trudeau Jr…as was Trudeau Sr, and Pearson, and MacKenzie King, etcetcetc

Dental care was an NDP policy…let’s not rewrite history and forget we literally had a snap election because Trudeau initially didn’t want to pass it.

I don’t agree at all that the electorate moved right. Elections are about voter suppression, voter activation, and holding your nose before you vote. This election happened to feature a giant swath of socialist voters abandoning the NDP for the LPC or being suppressed entirely: they didn’t “move right”, they were just swayed by the allure of strategic voting - or turned off entirely.

Then there’s other factors like the chunk of traditional non-voters who were activated by the pandemic…the poor right…maple MAGA. Then there’s the traditional conservative voters (a small group) that stayed home because Pollivre is a bridge too far. Then there’s the armchair liberals that got of their asses and voted for once. On and on. Mash all that together and you have like 70% of Canadians voting…very high, but not great in context. My point is that the same people don’t vote in every election.

Well, there is a large difference between running national economies and running actual banks.

…but what you said is an apt criticism because Carney is a Stephen Harper era conservative banker…and his interim job was working in the ultra capitalist banking system. His economic policy, very broadly speaking, is designed to promote the private banking system…rather than increase social health…like a Yanis Veroufakis type economist from the same era.

I’m not sure what you mean by “just public servants”. I mean…that’s not true…but, yes, austerity governments tend to salivate when they look at salaries as a line-item, and cut labour…because it’s the biggest and bluntest instrument you can show cuts with. But less people means less services - as well as less citizens making a decent wage means a lower bar for the industry. Just take housing…promises promises on units…but actual cuts to the ministry of housing…and his plan, by all appearance, is to infuse the private sector with tax dollars, offload services to the private sector, and provide bubble protection to its investors: when these government jobs are transferred to the private sector, they will come with wage reductions, reduced labour protections, much less transparency and accountability, less customer service, and more AI & automation. With additional cuts to veterans affairs and the CRA (all seeing the same effect as staff cuts do Canadian labour health)…this budget would be indistinguishable from a conservative budget…if it weren’t for the deep 10-15% cuts (I predict those will expand as they get drunk on how it makes their budgets look), which sets it “above” (below!) conservative budgets.

When I said you were speaking like a liberal it was in response to “tricking” Alberta into increasing the carbon tax. The only time I’ve seen the lead buried that deeply is in LPC press material and from its surrogates. Because, as we’ve seen in conservative projects, the perversely named “Build Canada Act” is an “abundance” act that removes environmental/indigenous consultation and regional sovereignty….all while privatizing the project. Yes, there’s lip service and no concrete plan to share royalties with the indigenous lands they pillage - an excellent way to drive a wedge between the IA councils and hereditary councils. There’s always been a form of taxation on tar sands exports…so describing the deal that they worked out (what amounts to an updated royalties deal - it’s dubious the math will math into an increase for Canada) as “tricking” Alberta is just incorrect. Canada is paying for a gift to Alberta and the private sector, for very little return…is the accurate headline.

Trudeau, for as much of a neoliberal as he was, traded boutique service expansions off with his private-public partnerships. Trudeau wanted to increase the capital gains tax and nationalize a pipeline. Trudeau had pet projects like equity and safe drinking water. Trudeau was still nudging Canada right, at large - but at least it wasn’t a disaster. Describing Carney as moving Canada toward the centre is absurd, considering what he’s actually doing. All of Trudeaus trade-offs and pet projects are gone…and it’s all austerity and cynicism now. If these are our supposed liberals…wait til we see how the party in waiting has to reposition themselves to the right of them: yea, what Pollievre is currently virtue signalling to his Rebel News subscribers is absolutely terrifying…but it’s only possible because Carney made many of his previous election promises come true.

“Hasn’t cut much?” He’s cut everything. Of course the conservatives have been forced to promise deeper cuts than the Liberals because the Liberals occupied all their policy positions.

No, cancelling taxes, cutting government across the board, putting the private sector in charge of housing and privatizing pipelines isn’t “moving to the centre”.

Guessing you’re a Liberal…because you’re repeating their PR.

You kidding?

Buddy was elected to “save” us from Polieve’s conservatism and MAGA…and has been the single most destructive force to the fabric of Canada in modern history. He’s cutting deeper than any conservative could ever hope to, as is he privatizing and outsourcing profits.

Just because our (small L) liberals went back to sleep after they think they averted a disaster doesn’t mean it’s not happening.

The worst part is conservatives have no idea how good they have it and they’re treating him like he’s Chairman Mao. It’s Paul Martin all over again.

Our PM is a feckless neoliberal stooge…Banker. He’s basically a northern Democrat…or a bit to the right.