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New Canadian Politics Thread

Wayward DP said:

View: https://x.com/VoiceOfFranky/status/1810301154212839672
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worth a read. and fucking terrifying.

For several minutes, in front of Elks Lodge, Poilievre fields questions about Bill Gates, the World Health Organization, and the World Economic Forum, all elements of the “Great Reset” conspiracy theory—the claim that elites are using the pandemic to collapse the world’s economy and install a tyrannical global government. In his exchanges, Poilievre parries and deflects. He explains away a 2015 photo with Gates (the Microsoft co-founder was just visiting Parliament, he says). He insists he opposes the WEF. His answers seem to satisfy the group. But his performance is notable for what he doesn’t do as much as for what he does. Just as he is careful to echo the crowd’s anger over vaccine mandates, Poilievre avoids saying anything that will contradict their false beliefs.
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[/quote]From September 13 to 16, just days after Poilievre became Conservative leader, Ekos conducted a poll, specifically for The Walrus, of 1,005 randomly selected Canadians. It measured levels of disinformation using four questions about COVID-19. Every respondent was assigned a score based on how strongly they believed the reported number of COVID-19 deaths was exaggerated, that vaccine-related deaths were being concealed, that vaccines alter DNA, and that they impact fertility—none of which is true. The higher the number of wrong answers, and the more convinced someone was about their wrong answer, the higher the score. Seventy percent of fully disinformed voters—those who scored high on all four questions—backed Poilievre.[/quote]

This is no longer the party that Harper led. Older mainstream Tories, motivated by a desire for low taxes and smaller government, have been joined by a younger and angrier set of voters. Radicalized into toxic views by vaccine mandates, they are far more economically insecure and display higher levels of institutional mistrust than other voters. Sixty-six percent of Conservatives, according to the Ekos poll, say they never trust the government to do the right thing, compared with 8 percent of New Democrats and 4 percent of Liberals. Their embrace of conspiracy theories reflects a much higher consumption of disinformation. This is a coalition deeply convinced shadowy forces orchestrated COVID-19. They are attracted to the idea of a strong leader who will get things done
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Researchers call this affective polarization: voters with opposing ideologies harden in their views and become less tolerant and respectful of one another. It means fewer points of compromise are possible, and debates become demonizing, resentment driven, conspiracy fuelled. A key component of authoritarian populism, this polarization is now central to our political life, and Poilievre is harnessing it.
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Health care system bursting at the fucking seams and we've got money to throw at a developer to generate a map to help us find booze easier. Something google maps would literally do for fucking free for any store owner who included those keywords in their google business profile.

Fuck off.
 
MindzEye said:
Health care system bursting at the fucking seams and we've got money to throw at a developer to generate a map to help us find booze easier. Something google maps would literally do for fucking free for any store owner who included those keywords in their google business profile.

Fuck off.
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"let them drink beer" has been DoFo's mantra for years
 
It's just one game, and just one summer league game. But Kel'el Ware went for 26/11 in tonight.

Edey at 12/10 with 2 blocks in the 4th of his debut.
 
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