Yeah, it’s dangerous to simplify it in that way. I’m 100% certain Carney doesn’t see it as a single population, and I know Canadians don’t either (even if just because neither think of the impact these policies have on indigenous peoples or First Nations in the same way they do “Canadians”). Carney is also a dangerous neolib because he typically isn’t a politician, he’s an exceptionally achieved economist and his policies as Governor of the Bank of Canada during the '08 recession is often credited as the reason Canada’s economy faired better than others in the G7; even putting Canadian banks in a better position than US and European banks by '09.

This isn’t just a shill business-major who writes policy to benefit his cronies, this is a person who wholeheartedly subscribes to the philosophy that neoliberal politics and economics is the more secure route to societal wellbeing, and he has made a career of maintaining these systems even under severe conditions. Which means it’s important to recognize that he definitely understands the consequences of promoting fossil fuels despite their environmental impact and economic unsustainability, and his central role in the Taskforce for Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets indicates that he also understood that this industry could be sustained by occluding its support with environmental rhetoric and policy-making; which is what the previous Liberal government did.

This is a guy who genuinely believes economic growth is the most crucial element in a secure society, which means he’s also the exact kind of person who can’t understand that the material limitations of reality requires harm to privileged classes in the Canada in order for this way of life to continue, even though it obviously should not continue due to those limitations. Using the narrative that he’s just “another dirty politician,” ignores the specificity of these conditions as well as the reasons why this system functions the way it does. That might be useful for blurbs online, but we can’t ignore that these reductive discourses also contributes to the continued political iliteracy of average Canadians who definitely wouldn’t respond well to the idea of giving up their luxuries for environmental sustainability.

Remember, Carney just dedicated billions of dollars to maintain the fossil fuel and mining industries for Canadian “sovereignty.”

“Elbows up.”

What do you mean when you ask for explanation on why a person who advocates for genocidal nationalism in support of an authoritarian, capitalist party should be classified as a fascist?

Look at this dorkass’ comment history, they’re one of them too.

Wait, are you suggesting I said objectivity is even real, let alone that I expect news to be “unbiased?”

I don’t care about that, my problem is them being a fascist lmao.

I mean, every community that gets large enough is going to attract those kinds of bots. But also, Lemmy is mostly populated by STEM men the same way Reddit was, and Canadians aren’t especially prone to anti-fascism, and Lemmy.ca is already pretty lib.

So like, I dunno, hope it stays about as small as it is save for an influx of lesbian Arts majors who read Stoler and Wolfe?

Which is why I’m fairly confident that the messaging and purposeful occlusion is intentional.

That checks out.

Annnnnd it’s got a huge touchscreen tablet on the dash, and you have to pay 2,000 dollars to get a parking distance warning, for a cargo van. I mean, I’m happy to see more reasonably priced (guess this is what counts for that now) and practically designed utility vehicles here, but fuck me I wish I could just get one without all this bullshit.

Yeah I mean, besides the fact that yes, this is one pole and the ways that we conduct poles has become increasingly incapable of predicting the actual outcomes of elections, Canadians were already trending toward the PC before the Trump business last year. The reason these parties resort to culture war, genocidal rhetoric is because it works in countries like the US and Canada where you can win elections with a minority vote by appealing to a sparse population primarily comprised of politically illiterate white settlers.

Go talk to blue collar workers outside of metro areas and, even if they understand that capitalism is bad, they’ll articulate their frustration in terms of a vague “elite” of especially greedy capitalists that are the real problem, and many of them are already primed to believe that this “elite” will betray the white nationality of this country to achieve their goals; i.e. “they’ll have too many immigrants and woke policies that hurt the economy.” Since Liberals (and liberals) are also neoliberal trash people, these blue collar workers will also correctly see that any talk of social justice or national improvement is merely disingenous advertising to mask the continued extraction of public wealth into the hands of property-owning classes. Carney’s admin won on anti-Trump rhetoric alone, and because most Canadians didn’t think that the imperialism could affect them, they were quick to associate the culture war shit with Republican talking points even though they did not fundamentally disagree with those values by any means. Now that Carney, neolib final boss that he is, is enacting the exact kind of policies he ran on and is funneling money into private corporations as capitalism goes off the rails, many of them will simply take the worse option that they wanted in the first place anyway since they appeal to their catharsis. Combine this with the continued nonsense of Liberal voters who insist on splitting votes in ridings that would have no chance of electing a PC MP anyway, and even the more secure urban NDP ridings have a worse chance at reelection (I saw two generational NDP ridings go Con for the first time in my entire life just because people were “strategically” voting in ridings that had gone decades without a Liberal or Con MP).

Anyone who is a target of the genocide rhetoric applied by the PC and Republican parties should remember that most Canadians were willing to sacrifice you to get rid of Trudeau’s admin just over a year ago. These people haven’t changed, and god knows they aren’t getting better information.

Sure, but the banner is in Farsi and the black banner appears to depict Ali Khamenei; hence the joke.

My comment didn’t really say much about the other ways that this admin has gotten unpopular, but the attack on Iran has actually produced the most immediate consequences to the people who are statistically more likely to support Trump. People mostly base their politics around their material interests, and the increase in commodity prices and gas has impacted Republican voters more than anything having to do with Epstein, regardless of how the vibes may appear online. Fascists rarely abandon their movements on the basis of moral values, they only respond to consequences, whether that be in the social backlash or material insecurity.

I mean, this whole Iran business has been the only thing that has really incited criticism from his base; they’re doin a pretty good job of it so far.

It’s genuinely unclear what you think you’re referencing, and I’m concerned by the number of upvotes this has.

What exactly is the comparison between a federal action threatening exportation of alcohol to Canada in retaliation of provincial Canadian restrictions on the importation of US alcohol, and revisionist historical narratives that white wash slavery and racism in the Confederate States? It is seriously confused comparison to make, and the additional “how’d that work out,” implies that the Civil War was actually about states’ rights (it was not) and we have historical consequences to point to and prove that it was wrong.

Then there’s the fact that this is about a federal US move in response to provincial policies that this article quotes the Prime Minister of Canada describing as an “irritant.” Are you saying that provinces shouldn’t have the right to regulate the importation of US alcohol in the same way that US states shouldn’t have had the right to maintain slavery (which you do seem to believe was the case)? Or are you saying that the federal government of either of these countries shouldn’t have the right to “impose laws on other states,” which in your understanding includes international trade policy. Seriously, what the fuck is this supposed to mean?

Even besides all of that, how fucking tasteless is it to talk about booze trade as though it is comparable to fucking chattel slavery? Like, seriously? Do none of you understand how fucking petulant it is to behave as though those are similar issues?

Awesome, please produce a reading list here to show how you came to this understanding.

Obviously, criticizing settler-colonialism is not even remotely related to “send settlers back,” and you know that, I know that, because you never see people demanding that. I don’t care if criticizing things makes you catastrophize, you people need to be told this shit because you never actually accept the implications. If you cared about practicality you wouldn’t spend so much time convoluting something like this and instead accept that criticisms of colonialism are a necessary element in whatever gradual measures you pretend to subscribe to.

What a waste of time. Won’t answer to anything but that reading list.

Yes. That is what all settler-colonial states ever are, extractive enterprises. Everyone please remember that when you celebrate So-Called Canada Day.

Again, I’ve never researched this before (especially so for Quebec), so I guess it is a little surprising that public spending like that wouldn’t have to disclose some specifics around the use of funds and who is involved for contracts.

And like, yeah, but what level of government is this? Was it a consequence of municipal decisions? Provincial funding? The general neoliberalism that has dominated Canadian politics and economics for the past four decades? There are a lot of factors to determine how much of a concern this actually is and how to realistically address it.

Okay, but you do understand that anyone can just say that though, right? Do yo have any public links that you’d be aware of from working in the govt that relates to information on this?

Yeah I think the size of the municipality is a great thing to keep in mind for this, as I’m sure a more rural, low population, and dispersed municipality would likely have less funding to update and maintain these systems. What I’m curious about is if this is a consequence of that neoliberalization – whether this was a result of reduced public funding and therefore the adoption of privatized, profit-driven solutions – or if it was simply a consequence of older infrastructure and poor discipline. Those are very different explanations that present their own risks for the rest of us to be concerned about and options for what we are able to do about it.

Why is that most likely? I’m having a hard time finding reliable information on how these water treatment systems are actually designed, but everyone feels very comfortable speculating.

I mean, SSH would create some barriers that makes this question even more relevant, if there was a weakness somewhere (even if just because remote access was available), it better have been a result of user error and not poor infrastructure design.

Nationalism (no, not “ultranationalism”) is fundamentally hateful in its arbitrary assignment of an idealized group of people with a natural right to land. Zionism has been oriented around Palestinian dispossession and erasure since its emergence in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, there is no “inward-focused” element here that somehow doesn’t make it an international ideological movement in Canada (which is also a genocidal, settler-colonial state with an interest in protecting Israel’s right to commit genocide). There aren’t any especially naughty Zionists that make the movement look bad, it is fundamentally a genocidal endeavour the same way every settler-colonial state is.

I really hope you have at least one reading on any of these topics to recommend since you’re making some pretty incredible claims here that defy most historical and decolonial scholarship on them.