Sorry?
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Closing cases is a lot harder than being glorified process servers. I think thatās what I meant. It was pretty unclear.
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I donāt know if this counts as the āNazificationā or the ā1984-icationā of the world:
It sounds better than āwe totally conquered your asses day.ā
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maybe vice should ask gavin mcinnes about that
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Mr VĆ©lez denies that the 1964 military ousting of democratically elected President JoĆ£o Goulart was a coup.
He also refers to the 21 years of military rule which followed as āa democratic regime by forceā.
The president himself caused outrage earlier this week when he echoed comments made by his Foreign Minister Ernesto AraĆŗjo, who described Nazism as a leftist movement.
He said that the name of the Nazi party was National Socialist Party of Germany, implying that it had a socialist ideology.
His statement contradicted the information inside the museum he had just visited, which says that Nazism arose from radical right-wing groups in Germany angered by the rise of communism.
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But cutting funding for liberal arts is a great idea (say American universities), who needs that claptrap! /s
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We need this in Canada stat.
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Yup. Among other things, we need to frame Fordās school cuts as what they are: a war on education.
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Yes! But funny.
The article reminded me of the Tell Vic Everything campaign, which was so fun and worked so well.
Something like that.
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Yes, but taking the piss out of His Nibs while letting everyone know in no uncertain terms that this is what he is waging. You need the edge of good satire, which is always based on truth.
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Hopefully literally
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This struck me:
Politics now, Kleiner believes, has moved far beyond the left-right divide, or even the progressive-conservative divide. āItās increasingly, actually, about constructive versus destructive
Itās also about good vs. evil, plain and simple.
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Regardless of what else heās done, heās likely to end up in a torture cell for doing the right thing this time:
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On the other hand, one of the women in Sweden has apparently requested that the case there be reopened.
Good. Fuck Assange for that.
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Traditional procedural rules can be broken, but never to unshittify. First war, then denazification, then ennui, then renazification.
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I always thought collapse fantasies sounded familiar.
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From the article:
Hanson is an unredeemable bigot and a monstrous shitheap of a person, so I have no doubt that she meant this character as a cautionary tale against the perils of progressive politics but Poona Li Hung sounds like exactly the kind of head of state that Australia desperately needsā¦
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In an event that surprised nobody, Settler Albertans elected the United Conservative Party - a party that put forward homophobic, racist, white supremacist candidates.
Albertans were presented with a choice: a choice between the authoritarians styling themselves as Canadaās GOP or the āhold the lineā New Democatic Party. When given a choice between open white supremacists who vowed to out gay kids and steal wages or a party that promised to invest in Albertaās infrastructure and health care, white albertans doubled down on white supremacism.
Iām not surprised. Iām angry. Iām tired.
You can lead a settler Canadian to water, but you canāt make 'em think. Societies prosper when theyāre inclusive. Workers and local economies thrive when wages are increased and when proper infrastructure is put in place. But no, Settler Alberta voted for white supremacists over their own prosperity.
The UCP party campaigned on reducing wages for youth, on reducing wages for service workers, on reducing health care, on outing youth members of Gay-Straight Alliances, and on scrapping Albertaās implementation of a carbon-reducing incentive program. UCP candidates made white supremacist statements, homophobic statements, and straight up conspiracy theories. (One conspiracy theory promulgated by the UCP was that Notley accepted bribes from american oil companies to stifle development in Albertaās oilfieldsā¦ which are owned by american companies. Donāt expect rational thought from white supremacists.)
This is an indicator of a widening divide in Canadian society. For years, Canadians prided themselves as being sane, fair, and justice-minded. But the ugly truth is that Canadians were never fair nor justice-minded. Settler Canadians have long grumbled about the hunting rights and federal payments made to First Nations folk. Settler Canadians have long grumbled that there were ātoo many foreignersā (read: people of colour) in Canada.
And now, theyāre in the Conservative Party. Conservatives are by and large the party of white supremacy. And if Canada isnāt careful, the white supremacists will wrest control of the federal government, not just provincial ones.
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