[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 months ago

"Blurs the line?"

Ok, let's try an experiment: "Hitler blurs the line on Jews, Romani and actual criminals ".

How does that read, Mr Journalist?

Fuck these false-objectivity, milquetoast, water-carrying fascist apologists.

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 months ago

Hear me out, but aren't these people supposed to be professional?

Wondering whether "happy" or "angry" variants of a person will show up should stop being a thing around sixteen to eighteen years of age.

Maybe thes story should read: "Trump grossly unfit for office and the Republican party is so badly broken that they can't manage to replace him"?

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 46 points 3 months ago

Let's re-write that in truthful language: Tim Hortons franchisees, who are multimillionaires, don't want to pay people a market wage and is looking to the government the bring in cheap labour to help them get richer.

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 43 points 4 months ago

The problem with the US (and Canada, and to a lesser degree the UK) is that the centrists would rather lose to the far right than legitimize actual leftism.

We’ve seen this in Canada several times, at all levels, where the Liberals would rather go down in flames in an election, knowing that they'll get another shot in a few years time, then share power with actual leftists in order to keep the right from doing more damage.

I'm really impressed with Macron. That's a level of long term holistic thinking that you don't normally see from neoliberal politicians.

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 44 points 4 months ago

However, former US cyclist Lance Armstrong seemed less than impressed. “Oh no, he’s straight up stopped,” said Armstrong in an Instagram story he posted. “Oh no, no, no.”

Yeah, I'll take someone showing affection to their life partner over the opinion of someone who dragged the image of the sport through the mud via rampant cheating and unbridled narcissism.

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 45 points 5 months ago

Do more for the poor.

It's really that simple. Do more for more people, and less for corporations. Deliver results.

That's why the Right is eating everyone's lunch: they're promising they'll make things better. They're lying, of course, and their path to making things better is just basic scapegoating of out- groups, but at least they're speaking to people's insecurities, where the neoliberal left is clinking glasses with billionaires.

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 46 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

“Neither party is willing to compromise”

What a load of faux-centrist bullshit. One party has been captured by a grifting demagogue and his protofascist enablers, while the other's run by milquetoast technocrats that have been Lucy-footballed since 2008.

But sure Joe, tell us again about "both sides".

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 43 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Marathon, via Aleph One, has been free for at least a two decades at this point, hasn't it? Bungie open sourced it before 2000 and Aleph has been a thing since at least 2004, I think.

Also, wow I'm old...

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 43 points 6 months ago

If they were members of the Panthers, I bet they'd be long gone.

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 47 points 10 months ago

And this is why the LPC will never pass electoral reform (except for ranked ballot, because they're more likely to be everyone's second choice) because under full PR they'd never, ever, get another majority government despite having tepid support among the voting population. For the record, the CPC wouldn't even support ranked ballots as they're almost never the second choice of anyone (because their policies--when they can be bothered to articulate them--are unpopular, believe it or not)

For the record, no Canadian political party has had >50% of the popular vote in half a century, and even before then it was exceedingly rare. FPtP allows the LPC or CPC to sneak a majority in, anyways.

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 44 points 11 months ago

It was the 1980s. Capitalism hadn't reached its end-stage yet.

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 year ago

Want to know the reason?

  • Finance people are wealthy
  • Finance people's money works for them, instead of the other way around, so they aren't constrained by 9-5 jobs
  • Finance people are on other boards, and know other board members and politicians, and have reciprocal arrangements--official and otherwise--with them
  • Between "having the free time" and the network effects of "all my friends are here",

The same applies to Law, frankly.

It's the same reason our political class is dominated by law and finance, and why labour of any kind if highly underrepresented: they're the professions of the idle rich. If you work a day job--even medicine!--good luck taking the time off to do something like running for office or working on multiple boards.

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