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WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
Yeah, that shit will go down real well in places where people outnumber cows. How fucking dumb is this guy? He's currying favor among mouth-breathing inbreds who were going to vote for him anyway.
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He can’t help himself. I don’t think Poilievre genuinely believes in much, but I do think that this affection for far-right convoy nutjobs is genuine.

He was also the biggest supporter of the Ottawa convoy in parliament when that whole mess was going down.
 
This proposed legislation is overtly racist. Both Edmonton and Calgary have visible minority mayors who are diametrically opposed to the UCP politically so naturally Smith wants to punish them because that's what fascists do.
 
The time series results for the leader approval ratings and theoretical ceiling for the popular vote are really interesting. The CPC is basically static. The others are wild.
 
Jews have eyes

People can see with their own eyes that this sort of bigotry clearly has a place here. And they can hear with their own ears as choruses of people – not just one or two outliers – sing about sending Jews “back to Europe.” It happened during pro-Palestinian protests in Ottawa on April 15, in Toronto on March 8 and April 13, and just days ago, in Montreal, at the encampment set up at McGill University.

At different times, in different cities across Canada, crowds have openly celebrated the slaughter of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7. They cheered in Ottawa on April 20, when a speaker proclaimed “October 7 is proof that we are almost free.” They cheered in Vancouver on April 26, when another speaker exclaimed, “Long live October 7!” Some in the crowd echoed that in reply.

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Of course there are participants at these pro-Palestinian marches who simply want to bring awareness to the horrible suffering Gazans are currently enduring, and who want to demonstrate against Israel and the actions of its allies. That is perfectly legitimate. But after more than six months of regular “aberrations” involving antisemitism, praise for terrorist groups and glorification of Oct. 7, it’s ridiculous to try to profess that hateful rhetoric isn’t an integrated part of these demonstrations. People aren’t stupid; they can see what’s plainly in front of their faces.

This is not a commentary on the war in Gaza, but an observation about what is now tolerable on the streets of Canadian cities. No other minority group would be expected to endure such open displays of bigotry, and no other group would be told that what they’re consistently seeing is just deviant, one-off behaviour – certainly not when the current social-justice orthodoxy is all about understanding how systemic, institutional forms of prejudice manifest and are maintained. Jews are particularly sensitive to the normalization of antisemitism, for obvious reasons, and they instinctively understand what is now happening.
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