Canadian politics thread

[Manic!]

Originally Posted by Jason00S2000

Who... who actually thinks Canada is better now than 10 years ago? 20 years ago?

Everything is pretty much worse off.

At least when I get my USA passport and move to Gnawleens, I can OPEN CARRY a S&W .500!

Are you that big of a pussy?

[bcrdukes]

I'm not a gun enthusiast, but is that gun mounted on the wrong side?

[Jason00S2000]

Originally Posted by unit

maybe you need a history lesson on reddit

>cracks knuckles<

Fuck, I didn't want to do this...



A history lesson?

Kid, I was there before the karma mines, when Digg collapsed like a dying star and every sweaty-palmed refugee crawled into Reddit like it was the promised land... I was laughing at tipped fedoras in the /r/atheism meltdown while anti-God folk were "owning the cons" by putting bananas up their own asses on livestreams. It didn't take long to figure out that Reddit was just another cup of e-poison with orange updoots.

You ever taste that early sweet, sweet raw data cooked in paranoia and served on a CDN run by Conde Nast’s bastard nephew while Tencent whispers Mandarin lullabies into your feed?
No? Then don’t talk to me about history.

You ever post something that vanished before you hit refresh? Ever see your words silently rewritten by spez himself... Reddit’s soft-faced little Big Brother with smooth hands and a god complex?
You ever watch an entire community get lobotomized overnight because a hedge fund got cold feet and a press intern flagged the vibes as "unmonetizable"?

I remember when /u/maxwell_hill ran r/worldnews like a puppet dictator on Adderall gaining front page traffic every day for a decade, until the exact moment Epstein’s madam hit cuffs... and then? Gone. Like a ghost. Like a drug dealer's burner phone thrown off the Cambie street bridge.

And Aaron Swartz? That wasn’t a suicide.
That was bureaucratic euthanasia.
He tried to liberate the library of humanity, believing information should be free, and his balls got stomped by men in suits with sealed indictments and 3-letter acronyms. Reddit stood by and let the scaffolding rot. Then they monetized his martyrdom and slapped a rainbow on the logo for Pride Month and everyone moved on.

But lets talk recent history, since you like lessons so much.

2024
Researchers from the University of Zurich secretly ran an AI psy-op on Reddit. No warning. No disclosure.
They deployed bots disguised as survivors of abuse, trauma counselors, and friendly community voices. Over 1,800 AI-written comments. 10,000+ karma.
Reddit found out after the fact, banned them, and made vague threats of legal action.
But it’s already too late, because now we know:
Reddit is a sandbox for social manipulation experiments. And you’re the variable.

This isn’t a forum. It’s a simulation testbed, a social-engineering laboratory with a smiley alien on top.

Let me tell you something else, kid. Reddit isn’t a niche site anymore.
It’s one of the top 10 most-visited websites in the world.
Over 1.7 billion monthly visits.
That’s more reach than CNN, MSNBC, the BBC, combined.

And unlike them, Reddit’s content is ranked by invisible hands. An unelected shadowy gang of anonymous mods and faceless admins who determine what the world sees and what it never will.

These mods aren’t journalists. They aren’t accountable. They’re not even paid.
They’re Reddit's priesthood / gatekeepers of narrative, acting with opaque authority over a digital empire that shapes opinions, builds consensus, and kills truth with karma inflation.

So no... I don’t need a history lesson.
I lived through Reddits puberty, Digg’s death rattle, Swartz’s crucifixion, and the slow, gleaming rot of a site that pretends to be the voice of the people while quietly serving advertisers, foreign investors, and God knows who or what else.

[Hondaracer]

Originally Posted by Manic!

Are you that big of a pussy?

Gonna honour our bet?

[JDMDreams]

So are we done? 169 seats so they basically only need like 3 bitches to pass anything?

[Jason00S2000]

Originally Posted by Manic!

Are you that big of a pussy?

Hmmm... you're right.

I need a BIGGER gun!

[unit]

ok a lot of rambling and tangents in your post, but if you agree that reddit is the way it is because any other way is bad for business, then you understand why woke is the opposite of broke, and thats why it is the way it is today.

[Harvey Specter]

As I inch closer to 50, I’ve come to realize that 99% of politicians are full of shit. The big change so many of us hope for? It’s a mirage. Doesn’t matter who you vote for. There’s never going to be affordable housing, crime won’t disappear, and we’re not getting rid of drug addicts. The list goes on.

The bottom line is, every party and leader answers to the elites, who use social issues to distract and divide the masses while quietly consolidating more power. That said, giving up completely only hands them the win. Change isn’t impossible. It just rarely starts at the top. It begins small, local, and usually outside the spotlight.

[Hondaracer]

Originally Posted by Harvey Specter

As I inch closer to 50, I’ve come to realise that 99% of politicians are full of shit. The big change so many of us hope for? It’s a mirage. Doesn’t matter who you vote for. There’s never going to be affordable housing, crime won’t disappear, and we’re not getting rid of drug addicts. The list goes on.

The bottom line is, every party and leader answers to the elites, who use social issues to distract and divide the masses while quietly consolidating more power. That said, giving up completely only hands them the win. Change isn’t impossible. It just rarely starts at the top. It begins small, local, and usually outside the spotlight.

Would never dream of voting NDP or Green in its current form (although I have voted green as a throw away vote in my riding) however, the dissolution of the NDP as a legitimate party and even the Bloc losing seats to the liberals moves us closer to the states and this 2 party system infinitely closer.

Liberals are just as good at sowing division than any other party.

[Manic!]

Originally Posted by Hondaracer

Gonna honour our bet?

What bet? seriously I forgot.

What do I owe?

Edit:
Was it to do with Jagmeet?

Send me your paypal.

[Manic!]

[Hondaracer]

Originally Posted by Manic!

What bet? seriously I forgot.

What do I owe?

Edit:
Was it to do with Jagmeet?

Send me your paypal.

Donate it to one of the Philippine tragedy go fund me’s

Donate as Revscene so we can see it actually happened

[mikemhg]

Originally Posted by Harvey Specter

As I inch closer to 50, I’ve come to realize that 99% of politicians are full of shit. The big change so many of us hope for? It’s a mirage. Doesn’t matter who you vote for. There’s never going to be affordable housing, crime won’t disappear, and we’re not getting rid of drug addicts. The list goes on.

The bottom line is, every party and leader answers to the elites, who use social issues to distract and divide the masses while quietly consolidating more power. That said, giving up completely only hands them the win. Change isn’t impossible. It just rarely starts at the top. It begins small, local, and usually outside the spotlight.

I slightly agree with this, but not entirely.

There are some very fundamental differences between the Cons and Liberals.

My primary policy perspective is avoiding the privatization of public good and services, something the Cons fundamentally stand for, the Liberals do not. I've seen what privatization does, and rarely if ever are there any positive outcomes.

A more extreme example is how Texas just recently rammed through their student voucher system, effectively defunding public schools, and syphoning tax dollars towards private education, notably Christian-focused institutions.

While the Canadian Conservatives aren't nearly as radical, some of their agenda items fly too close to the sun for my comfort -- notably what Danielle Smith and her party is attempting in Alberta with healthcare.

[yray]

this is interesting

https://studentvote.ca/canada/the-results/

Students elected a Conservative minority government, with the Liberal Party forming the official opposition.

The Conservative Party won 162 seats and 36.4% of the popular vote, forming a minority government. Pierre Poilievre won in the riding of Carleton, ON.
The Liberal Party won 149 seats and 31.8% of the popular vote, forming the official opposition. Mark Carney won in the riding of Nepean, ON.
The Bloc Québecois won 17 seats and 2.2% of the popular vote. Yves-François Blanchet won in the riding of Beloeil—Chambly, QC.
The NDP won 13 seats and 14.5% of the popular vote. Jagmeet Singh lost in the riding of Burnaby South, BC.
The Green Party won 2 seats and 7.4% of the popular vote. Jonathan Pedneault lost in the riding of Outremont, QC, and Elizabeth May won in Saanich—Gulf Islands.

[Hondaracer]

Originally Posted by mikemhg

I slightly agree with this, but not entirely.

There are some very fundamental differences between the Cons and Liberals.

My primary policy perspective is avoiding the privatization of public good and services, something the Cons fundamentally stand for, the Liberals do not. I've seen what privatization does, and rarely if ever are there any positive outcomes.

A more extreme example is how Texas just recently rammed through their student voucher system, effectively defunding public schools, and syphoning tax dollars towards private education, notably Christian-focused institutions.

While the Canadian Conservatives aren't nearly as radical, some of their agenda items fly too close to the sun for my comfort -- notably what Danielle Smith and her party is attempting in Alberta with healthcare.

Honestly I really don’t care to go and spend a bunch of time digging into the private side again but I think you’re way too hung up on the American model of privatization.

When the guys from Sweden and I believe Norway or Denmark were on the radio one day touting their mixture of private/public healthcare literally every metric compared to Canada’s was better. Better waits better outcomes, longer life spans, etc.

Would the cons be able to mimic that system? We’ll never know but I don’t think it should ever be this closed book on looking at that option given the state of healthcare in this country.

[Manic!]

Originally Posted by Hondaracer

Donate it to one of the Philippine tragedy go fund me’s

Donate as Revscene so we can see it actually happened

Done.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-supp...after-a-tragic

[mikemhg]

I hate it when people compare Canada to Scandinavian countries, it's like apples to donuts.

Check out the effective tax rates by country, tell me something you notice:

https://wealthmanagementcanada.com/b...s-by-tax-rate/

Denmark/Sweden/Finland always fall in the Top 10 in terms of rates. There is a reason they have nice things and Americans don't.

You should follow what Danielle Smith is doing with hospitals in Alberta, you would realize there's a reason I compare her methodology to the American model, and why I fear the Cons doing the same nationwide.

[bcrdukes]

Are you referring to a 3P model? (Oops, my question was to Hondaracer.)

Ditto on Scandinavian countries. Their rate of taxation is higher and they generally have a different take on politics, culture, and society compared to North America.

[westopher]

You can't say I want to be Sweden and I want lower taxes in the same thread.
It's like eating all the fully loaded nachos when you are sharing. It's against the rules.

[Hondaracer]

I’ve always said, if you can actually fix it, I’ll pay whatever.

Why can’t we look at better models to base our own off rather than just be like well.. the states doesn’t work so why try anything new.

I think the model of privatization and paying more to access it while also using the same private infrastructure to improve access on the public side does have merit.

[underscore]

I thought Scandinavians have private options in addition to their public healthcare. Canadian Conservatives want to gut public healthcare and replace it with private. That's entirely different.

[Hondaracer]

Originally Posted by Manic!

Done.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-supp...after-a-tragic

Thanks, I’ve had scum balls fuck me on online bets before on other forums, appreciate the gesture

[Jason00S2000]

Fixing healthcare will be done, or should I say, could be done with AI and robot doctors in the next decade. Just like with housing, the problem could be fixed, but the scarcity is part of the system's design.

[SkinnyPupp]

What was the bet?

[Hondaracer]

That Jagmeet would lose his riding