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BCBoy911@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Liberals’ lead shrinks as Canadian mood plummets to historic lows5·12 hours agoThere are no Canadian-made panels because we don’t tariff the panels coming in from the US and other Asian countries. Only China is singled out because Canada is playing second fiddle on the US’s new cold war strategy against China - sucks that we aren’t a sovereign country that can make our own policies and forge relationships with whatever country we want, but it is what it is. 51st state, baby!
BCBoy911@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Why is Canada quiet on the International Criminal Court while recognizing Palestine?8·12 hours agoIt costs our politicians nothing to say the truth - that this is the modern day Holocaust and that Israel should be boycotted, isolated and sanctioned. Your comment just makes excuses for cowardice and sells it as pragmatism.
BCBoy911@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Liberals’ lead shrinks as Canadian mood plummets to historic lows12·12 hours agoCounter-tariffs just raise prices here. They were a terrible idea to start with, just like tariffs are in general
No they aren’t, blanket tariffs the way Trump is doing it is stupid, but counter-tariffs on American products that can be replaced with made-in-Canada products works and helps keep jobs in Canada.
The digital services tax was on its way out even before Trump was elected
This is also wrong… the Digital Services tax was introduced as a Liberal priority all the way back in 2020 and passed in 2024. It probably would have been repealed by Pollievre if he won, but Liberals repealing their own years-in-the-making policy, a day before going into effect as an act of appeasement to Donald Trump was definitely not inevitable.
China likes kicking people when they’re down so we got restrictions on ag products just to twist the knife.
Their tariffs on us are counter-tariffs in response to us imposing a 100% tax on Chinese-made solar panels.
The ultimate irony here is that Brianna Wu is a fascist, zionist genocide supporter. So you should really listen to none of the people in this image.
BCBoy911@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Liberals’ lead shrinks as Canadian mood plummets to historic lows6·14 hours agoTrue, it’s like a hostage situation. Conservatives threaten to harm trans kids, or immigrants or whatever, and Liberals say “you’ll have the vote for us if you want $(minority group) to live, but don’t worry, you can vote your conscience next election”, then never do anything to actually protect those minority groups in law, so the cycle repeats next election.
Liberals will never give real protection to vulnerable people because they want them to be constantly under threat of the Conservatives to keep the left from voting for the actual left-wing parties that WOULD give those groups protection that isn’t subject to the whims of whatever party is in charge. Diabolical.
BCBoy911@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Almost 500 anti-genocide activists arrested as Starmer government moves to ban protests outrightEnglish342·15 hours agoLiberals will ALWAYS end up siding with the Fascists to try to suppress the Left. Happened in Germany in the 1930s, and the dumbass liberals eventually ended up lined up against the same walls the communists and socialists were lined up against. If you’re a liberal today and defending this fascist suppression against Palestine Action: you’re next.
BCBoy911@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Almost 500 anti-genocide activists arrested as Starmer government moves to ban protests outrightEnglish421·15 hours agoSo? I support Palestine Action and all actions they’ve taken to stop the UK’s complicity in genocide. It’s illegal to say this in the UK.
BCBoy911@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•How China waged an infowar against U.S. interests in the PhilippinesEnglish31·16 hours agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChinaAngVirus_disinformation_campaign ??? America did that. I’ve heard no reports of Chinese vaccine misinfo in the Philippines until now. Makes me wonder if this is a “no u” post-reveal ass covering now that Trump is back in office.
BCBoy911@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•French President Macron appoints new government, led by Prime Minister Sébastien LecornuEnglish2·16 hours agoThe longer Macron desperately clings to power through anti-democratic means the more and more likely it gets that the National Rally’s candidate will be the next president.
BCBoy911@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Liberals’ lead shrinks as Canadian mood plummets to historic lows4·16 hours agoPlease do not turn our multi-party democracy into an America-style duopoly with your “strategic voting”. All it’s done is turn our elections into another Red-vs-Blue nightmare where both parties have the same policies and are only differentiated by culture wars.
BCBoy911@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Liberals’ lead shrinks as Canadian mood plummets to historic lows92·16 hours agoPollievre will do tax cuts, deregulation and austerity while keeping us distracted with 24/7 idiotic conservative culture wars. Carney is doing tax cuts, deregulation and austerity while keeping us distracted with the promise of “nation building projects” that will never materialize. Either way it’s tax cuts, deregulation and austerity. The only difference is the type lies they’re telling to distract us. :-)
BCBoy911@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Liberals’ lead shrinks as Canadian mood plummets to historic lows21·16 hours agoIs that what the poster said? This isn’t America, we have 3rd and even 4th and 5th parties to choose from. There’s no reason to vote for the zionist if you want a principled anti-Zionist party like the NDP.
BCBoy911@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Liberals’ lead shrinks as Canadian mood plummets to historic lows194·13 hours agoLiberals got elected on a platform of divorcing the Canadian economy from the Americans and rejuvenating the Canadian economy through nation-building megaprojects from coast to coast built with Canadian natural resources. What do we have so far?
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No announcements on any megaprojects
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No homes built, instead just a big tax giveaway to developers
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all counter-tariffs on the US dropped to appease trump
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digital services tax repealed to appease trump
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despite appeasement, no end in sight to US trade war
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Also started a trade war with China for no reason, so we’re getting spitroasted by tariffs from both superpowers
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austerity programs at Canada Post leading to the 2nd strike in a year
Unfortunately I don’t think the NDP or BQ have the balls to topple the government this early, but Carney came into office looking like a MVP and he’s a big fat bust.
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BCBoy911@lemmy.caOPto World News@lemmy.world•Hamas says it agrees to release all Israeli hostages under Trump Gaza planEnglish144·3 days agoThe Nepali student is very likely dead and buried in an Israeli mass grave or under rubble unfortunately. All of the foreign workers were released in January.
BCBoy911@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Anti-foreigner sentiments are on the rise as Japan faces a population crisisEnglish13·3 days agoA better question is if you can name a country that isn’t “anti-foreigner” or don’t have a significant % of the population that’s anti-foreigner. This is a widespread problem everywhere you go, even supposedly “woke” European countries (especially those countries, really).
BCBoy911@lemmy.caOPto World News@lemmy.world•Hamas says it agrees to release all Israeli hostages under Trump Gaza planEnglish238·3 days agoA few facts to keep in mind in the coming weeks regarding this deal:
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All of the “hostages” are really prisoners of war, everyone currently in Hamas captivity was an active duty IDF soldier captured from military bases in Israel or taken captive while in Gaza as they were committing genocide.
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Hamas has offered to release all the hostages in exchange for a full ceasefire since October 11, 2023
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Israel is an illegal genocidal apartheid regime that’s committed to annexing and ethnically cleansing all Palestinian land, and as such will likely try to scuttle this peace deal and blame Hamas.
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BCBoy911@lemmy.cato Buy Canadian@lemmy.ca•Ask Prime Minister Mark Carney to Switch to Mastodon5·4 days agoI don’t care about what social media Corpo Carney uses to dickride billionaires and Israel, but we for sure need our federal government to stop using closed-source, centralized and American services like Xitter for communications.
BCBoy911@lemmy.caOPto Technology@lemmy.world•In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of InformationEnglish8·4 days ago
Calling Japan a full democracy is a stretch. They’ve been ruled by one party for over half a century, and definitely not b/c they’re good at their jobs.