• cheeseburger@lemmy.ca
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    He’s trying to be disruptive in the same way as politicians in the Trump regime, and there’s probably a reason for that. Maybe the same reason he won’t get his security clearance?

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    9 hours ago

    It seems that Beaver Trump wants to invoke the tired, old “But socialism in ‘national socialism!’” trick. Surely, the same logic applies to Deutsche Demokratische Republik. I remember coming across Poilievre during the WE Charity scandal. I’m not Canadian but I really like their Fifth Estate documentaries and their coverage on the aforementioned scandal caught my eye. In a separate video, Poilievre grills the two heads of the operation. This seemly obscure Canadian PM suddenly become Canada’s favorite favourite politician and possibly the next prime minister. But it soon become clear that Poilievre was just another right-wing, Trump-esque populist.

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    He’s a piece of shit. Got voted out last election and then made another politician resign so he could run a “safe” conservative riding in Alberta. He is a garbage person with zero redeeming qualities who has never passed a piece of legislation despite being a lifelong politician never having any other job. He’s a grifter who has sucked off the taxpayer tit his entire career. He lives in taxpayer subsidized housing . He will never be Canadas Prime Minister. We call him PeePee, or Millhouse or just “massive douchebag”.

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      He got voted out AND lost his riding.

      For those in the US, it’s the equivalent of a governor with presidential aspirations blowing a 30 point lead to lose the election, then immediately getting voted out of his governorship, only to then ask Greg Abbott to step down so he can run for governor of Texas while living in DC.

  • Soleos@lemmy.world
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    So if socialism is bad because it’s in the name of Nazis, then democratic republics for the people must be pretty horrible too, going by the DPRK.

    While we’re cherry-picking, the Kingdom of Norway is consistently one of the best countries to live in across several metrics. So clearly we should go back to kingdoms, because it’s in the name. Sometimes the old ways are best XD

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    He has to be the worst candidate they have put forward in a long time, carney is pissing me off but this guy is dangerous. As soon as he came back he started in in immigrants and his supporters started up their racist protests

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    18 hours ago

    “A Canadian politician”

    Isn’t this guy the head of their conservative party?

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      16 hours ago

      After he lost in the election,

      Some rando step aside and give him his conservative seat.

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      Yes, the leaders of the parties are, in fact, politicians. I’m not seeing what point you’re trying to make, he’s even cited as “the leader of Canada’s official opposition party” farther down the page.

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        I’m discussing the headline, and yes I’m aware they’re politicians, headlines conventionally refer to people by the most notable thing about them if they can’t get away with directly naming them and people knowing who they’re talking about.

        “A Canadian politician” implies some borderline rando rather than the leader of a major opposition party, which is more concerning than the headline implies

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          You’re reaching, the headline is hardly doing that, and the article certainly isn’t. Even someone unfamiliar with Canadian political parties and their members couldn’t possibly come away with the impression that Poilievre is a “borderline rando” unless they failed to spend 30 seconds reading that 1/4 essay of a blurb.

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            The headline is doing exactly that. My first reaction was “of course some asshole is, probably a conservative.” And then I clued into the photo and recognized the buffoon. If I wasn’t a Canadian, or didn’t have the picture, or maybe wasn’t good with faces, I would have scrolled by not realizing the idiot in question iis the leader of the Conservative Party.

            A responsible headline would have said that. It might as well have said “A random white guy from Canada is openly spreading propaganda.” I mean it’s a true headline right? Not misleading at all.

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            Again I’m talking about the headline in isolation, not the rest of the article.

            The reason it’s important is that if people do read “borderline rando” rather than “leader of a significant party”, there’s a much greater chance they don’t click and get the extra context

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    He’s a f–king dumbass. Lot’s of us Canadians refer to him as “Piss Pants” or “Pee Pee”.

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    Ah yes, gloss past the fact that they were nationalists before they were socialists, even if you take their name at face value.

    Fucking Polievere. Every time I think he can’t get any more unlikable.

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      It’s already far deeper than him… he’s just what bubbled to the surface in that pot.

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        Canada being a racist country pretending to be progressive is its biggest flaw, I grew up hearing about how perfect Canada is, and then I got older and learned about residential schools and genocide and how they have historically treated people like me. Now im old and I see a country that doesn’t care that its citizens can’t afford food or rent or a future. It was all a lie.

        Having said that, pp represents the people who caused all the misery and hate for centuries

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      It’s not going to take that long. there are a lot of people that really love them

      but yes I do hope that we can sort our shit out and not end up like you. and if we do, please everybody else treat us like shit

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      And in a way that’s fine because he will never appeal to swing (liberal-conservative) voters with his extremism which means his party will never win with him as leader. Which is fine by me. It’s been a decade since Harper left and no one from that shit party has won since Harper. They need a moderate like Erin O’Toole or Peter McKay to actually win. But the CP party has been taken over by reform alliance douchebags, so they won’t win.