Strategic voting is a huge mess. The NDP doesn’t even get the chance to really fail and when they do get to influence policy they do generally positive things like when their coalition was able to get the Liberals to behave.

Maybe they wouldn’t be able to hack it, but they at least have generally better goals for the country and we desperately need to threaten this cancer of an idea that there are only two parties. Right now the country is either far right or half-ass centerist and things just keep getting worse. We’ve tried the Liberals and we’ve tried the conservatives and they both don’t work that well so we really have nothing to lose and worst case scenario we would prove that we aren’t a two-party system in a cheap disguise.

The last election was dogshit awful for strategic voting because of just how bad PP is and Liberals still only barely made it. And Carney’s still gunna let that loser try again after being kicked out of the riding I’m from.

“I don’t see any escape routes” “really only two choices”

The NDP are right there. You can prattle on as long as you want but if you want to see change then you have to ask for it. He NDP has popular ideas and they were behind so much of the good stuff the Liberals put their name on but people act like voting for them just isn’t possible for some reason and then moan when people they did vote for don’t care after about them after the election.

The only thing that truly matters is your vote and if you don’t use it properly, while complaining that you’re getting what you ordered, there’s just no helping you.

I know a lot of stupid people who choose to be good as well. Stupid people who know to trust scientists and who want to share and all that good stuff. Then there are the violent, monkey-brained goons whose only method of communicating is unfiltered violence. The latter are pathetic in all senses and no amount of being stupid will be an adequate enough excuse for their actions.

It’s a shame that only a minority of Ontarians even fucking voted for the second time in a row. Maybe don’t let Conservatives walk into power and then complain about all the damage they do.

It’s not about who’s buying the end product, it’s about who is supporting the people and politicians who use that flawed reasoning to get support.

“The carbon tax will mean that your food price will double” is a massive lie, and should be a major factor is disqualifying whoever says it as being someone to take seriously. Unfortunately, people hear that gas will have an added $0.114/L and believe that that will mean immediate financial ruin for everyone across the country. Politicians that support controlling the rampant greed of companies aren’t getting support while the thieves are and that’s fucked up.

But also remember that the cost of energy is nowhere near 100% of the cost of making pretty much anything.

If you doubled the cost of something because the price of a fraction of it doubled you’re absolutely a thief. That’s what these companies are doing; bad math to steal from stupid people*.

*Anyone can be a stupid person, including those with advanced engineering degrees. Hell, it’s almost more likely for them.

US history programs are 95% propaganda so it’s not surprising.

Yea, because it is weird, you dolt. It’s literally just because it’s easier to say that it stuck, but it’s flatly useless. The country’s name is stupid, hard to deal with, and pretty much only the reality on the surface…much like the country itself.

I just say “US citizens”. It would probably be more accurate to say “citizens of the USA” buy my fucking god they aren’t worth that kind of effort.

Well, out of the three replies I’ve recieved in different conversations this morning you’re the first to admit that you aren’t a turbo super genius(and boy, were others obviously wrong about the topic) so despite not knowing stuff you’re still coming out way far ahead haha

And yet, if you look at my comment, I was specifically talking about how the last decade has been marked by people saying “no one could be that dumb” and then watching them all be that dumb and here you are, repeating history. So, job specific experience not required.

And aside from that I know people with decades of career experience who are dumber than rocks and barely squeak by simply because our society is a farce. I’ll say that’s probably not you, but it’s far from impossible.

Like others have said, $77k gets him into a used Cybertruck equivalent to what he had before. Insurance is systemically bad for so many reasons but it absolutely makes sense if it weren’t so morally corrupt and this is the part that makes sense. If I crashed my 2015 BRZ today I wouldn’t expect the full $25k I paid for it in 2018(although with the way used prices have been, I might actually get close to that, but that does not disagree with my point).

MAGA is 70+mil people in the US and intelligence is less of a steep climb after that and more of painful, barely perceptible slope toward eventual mediocrity. As for the E-Scooter, you’d be amazed how easy it is to damage a Cybertruck, and remember that total losses are connected more to repair costs than anything and these heaps of garbage can be very expensive to repair properly. Whether or not the guy challenges them on it I do not doubt that they easily could have declared it a total loss.

I feel like, at this point, if you say “no one could be that dumb” then you are using yourself to prove that they absolutely could be. It could even be fake in the end but you’re not right if you stumbled upon the correct answer using deeply flawed logic and got lucky.

Don’t forget to add: When it became clear how poorly designed the vehicle would be even in regards to incredibly simple, already solved problems. Like, the fucking thing can’t even do what their regular cars can and those are built exceedingly poorly by today’s standards.

Oh booo yea ok fuck ‘em.

That isn’t just voting for the leopard who will eat your face, that’s voting the leopard who has already eaten your face.

The whole thing, can’t risk it. Plus it’s way easier to avoid any attacks on being biased if no.

However, we should make Puerto Rico a province.

I want my taxes going to the poor! Society does better when we raise the floor, like how raising minimum wage also means that everyone else gets bumped up or how it’s cheaper to house the homeless and help them join a workforce as opposed to leaving them out on the streets.

But more specifically I want the ultra-rich to actually pay their fucking taxes! They have the money, they can pony and help a little.

China also has detained Canadian citizens several times in the past and it has been major issues trying to get them back here. That alone probably isn’t enough to warrant such extreme sanctions, but their disregard for many human rights is a problem we all face unless we’re shitty, selfish, nationalist assholes at which point that opinion ceases to hold much weight.

South Korea showed us that when someone in power tries to do a crazy thing the country as a wholw will actually do something to stop them. Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached and that whole thing is still ongoing, with the court to rule on that on Friday so I’m not sure why you think that’s a gotcha.

So we strengthen our connections with Europe, then, and ourselves. Yes, it will be harder than just flip-flopping between two bad options but that is literally the point I’m trying to make.

Look at our current setup: The Conservatives are garbage and the only good things the Liberals seem to do are things that the coalition with the NDP forced them to do. The NDP, however, is treated like they’re a non-starter option because they have fewer seats even though they got more than half of the Liberal or Conservative votes even with strategic voting being a thing. The Bloc got more seats while having slightly more than half the NDP votes.

We just keep bouncing between terrible options like stupid little reactionaries because it feels easier than doing anything that will genuinely help us.

Yea let’s not do what we always do by switching from one bad thing to the thing we know is worse because “change” while better solutions exist. China also threatens sovereignty, supplies Russia, and even works with North Korea. They have even worse labour issues than the US does, though oddly they seem to do alright with trans rights. The concentration camps for Uyghurs does offset that last bit, though.

I wish we had more brains than “frying pan hot, must jump into fire”.

If someone did a horrific thing and then told me they weren’t as guilty as their boss I’d be fairly confident saying that if their first priority was to justify their actions then they can also get absolutely fucked.