• CircaV@lemmy.ca
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    Appalling, craven, cowardly, and pathetic hubris on the part of PeePee and conservative sycophants. A deep shame on rural Alberta for being such uncritical lemmings.

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    IDK anything about Canadian politics.

    Didn’t this guy just preside over a pretty epic loss? Why does his party still want him?

    Similar thing just happened here in Australia. Leader of the party lost his seat. Even if he hadn’t he would probably resign in shame because he’s really made a mess of things.

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      We have experienced a very strange situation where the cons (unfortunately) fared far better than it ever did in its modern iteration while losing its momentous advantage, meaning that there is still somewhat of a reason for Poilièvre to stay in the race. He is also very arrogant, so he will not back down easily.

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    Shouldn’t there be some kind of election to fill the seat the politician resigned from? Otherwise, they could just have supermodels with masters degrees running for office, then resigning so a Nazi with a beer belly and a GED can take over.

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      20 hours ago

      There will be a by-election and I’m sure someone will run against him from another party, but it’s a very conservative riding, so he’ll probably win pretty easy. But it would be the funniest thing ever if somehow he did manage to loose.

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    You got to get rid of those nazis or they’ll be ruling the roost in an election cycle, trust me. –an american

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      Some of his ideas, like defunding CBC, are foolish.

      I don’t think Pierre Poilievre is a Nazi. Statements like that are unhelpful.

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        The dude is aligned with trump and is a fascist. I wouldn’t call them nazis just yet, but they are certainly very, very fascist.

        I work in a very conservative workplace in Alberta, and when I call trump a fascist I get zero pushback. In fact, they just nod in agreement. When I say that Peter rabbithait is aligned with trump, they don’t argue against that point either.

        The “good ones” know their support for him is short lived, and they will have to piss or get off the pot soon. I hope goodness prevails.

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        arguably worse, pp is a weasel who would play a nazi for a vote or stop for 2

        the guy stnds for whtever serves him best

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        I agree, it sucks when Americans try to project their issues onto us.

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        Oh ffs. Stop playing it down. Look at the riding he’s being given. Battle river. It’s conspiracy city. Far cry from Carleton… I know that part of Alberta well . I’m telling you right now: it ain’t good . He went from serving coffee to the convoy to living with them.

        Step off with the gaslighting. This is the type of exact crap the Americans just went through. Knock it the hell off.

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        He likes to dine with Nazis, and we all know the old adage about Nazis at a dinner table.

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        People said the same thing about MAGA/Trump.

        Conservatives are holding the door open for fascism, and if you can’t close it, it will come in.

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          “Progressives”/Liberals are straight up begging for authoritarian dictatorships.

          I missed when calling for smaller government, less regulations, less red tape, untouchable free speech, and less censorship suddenly became “fascism”.

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            PP was part of the Harper government which muzzled climate scientists, has made an enemy of the free press and implemented a racist snitch line to report religious minorities. Yeah, that’s the kind of “free speech” Poilievre believes in, the kind that shut the fuck up and doesn’t contradict the party line. So yeah, he’s a fucking fascist and you are a fucking idiot to think he is anything but a fucking fascist.

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            Yes, a government so small it fits in your rectum or vagina. Free speech unless you want to say gay people exist. No censorship unless your book or webpage says something they don’t like and less regulations lead to more corporate power. Corporate takeover of government and the means of production is pretty much what fascism is about.

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        Hey, just wanted to say you’re right. And these people here are bad faith commentators. They push things towards hyperbolic statements in the same way the right went nuts in their own way.

        Unfortunately I fear this is what we have to come to accept now until everything blows up.

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            Seriously consider what you’re saying here. That PP is a Nazi, he clearly is not, while telling me my head is up my ass

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              People running for high office that make campaign stops with white supremacists are 100% nazis, no exaggeration necessary.

              People that are not nazis don’t tolerate nazis.

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                No, what you’re doing is lazily leveraging the nazi context for your political benefit. PP is not a Nazi for having a photo op or being tangentially associated with some asshole. It’s as lazy as showing pictures of people with Epstein and calling them pedophiles because they were in a photo.

                It’s bullshit politics. The sad part is that you will never realize how it’s your credibility that is lost. And unfortunately since you associate with certain values, you lose credibility for the whole. There’s reason to shit on him for spending time with these people. But when you go hyperbolic and dramatically call him a Nazi, you lose the plot

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        PP is a populist conservative politician so he’s not actively fascist, but do you know what happens when your society has a fascism-shaped hole? Politicians like PP expand to fill that hole.

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          I wish people would stop calling him a populist. Doug Ford is a populist. PP is pretending to be a populist and is, at best an ideological populist but populists pivot. He doesn’t. We should be referring to him as an Opportunist because it all looks like an act to me.

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    If it was the other way around he’d never let Carney hear the end of it - “Carney, the guy who had to get someone else to quit in order to keep his seat”.

    Politicians gonna politics, no surprise there.

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      He already didn’t let Carney hear the end of it - “Carney, who was not elected…”

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        Man that seems so Twisted to me. How can you represent people you don’t spend any time around? How can you claim to know their needs if you don’t even live among them?

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          The system is designed in such a way that the residents get to make that decision. If they want to choose a non resident to represent them, they are allowed to do that.

          In theory, an informed population should vote against this behaviour, but this particular riding will vote conservative until it kills them (which it’s likely to do).

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          I’m not Canadian, but I’ve previously known that in the US you only have to live in the same state as the district you’re representing. An argument in favor of that concept (that I admittedly just made up) is that congressional boundaries get rewritten every decade. In theory, this could be used to push a rep out of Congress if someone really wanted to, if they were required to live in district. State boundaries are much more stable so this is pretty good immunity to that.

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      82% in favour of conservatives during the last election but Carney can wait 6 months to launch the by-election, that might be long enough to piss off some conservatives that might want to get rid of PP.

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        He says he won’t wait and will call the by-election right away.

        It’s bonkers, and certainly PP would never do such a thing in return, but not doing it would just lead to 6 months of "Carney is a coward who won’t let me in because I am always right and he hates that.

        This snowflake is going to get treated with kid gloves over and over, and he isn’t going to learn a thing, will never return the courtesy, and continue to drag Canada and Canadians down as he goes.

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      He’ll win, the only reason he’s coming to Alberta is because it’s a slam dunk.

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    Is it within parliamentary procedure to address him as the former member from Ottawa-Carleton?