• LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    You can predict what likely happens next: more neoliberal policies and degradation of quality of life. In one of the next election the fascists take over Canada. They never learn.

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      2 minutes ago

      In one of the next election the fascists take over Canada. They never learn.

      At least we stopped Maple MAGA from taking over now… we learned this one trick from the Americans

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      5 hours ago

      This is my fear as well. Neoliberal policies are exactly what have made the extreme right so strong and powerful over the past decades. When people have no means to get forward in life, they resort to despotism, which is exactly why the poorest parts of the USA are so strongly in favor of Trump, while the wealthier parts are still clinging onto the liberal train.

      Like I said in other posts, this is a good day for the current term, but if the Liberals aren’t serious about making life better for real Canadians (not the super-wealthy ones), there’s a good chance that this is only exacerbating an inevitable collapse.

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        5 hours ago

        This is the part a lot of US liberals are missing. Those red states are shit holes now. Look bombed out and war torn because industry left and took the money with them, and they were thriving 40 years ago.

        A wiser human than me could probably find a way to incentivise companies moving headquarters out of high cost of living areas to more rural areas where rent isn’t half your paycheck.

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          The ‘rust belt’ is over 40 years old now. Places like Detroit have started to stabilize.

          The high cost of living is everywhere. Capital moves in the blink of an eye, setup a company in a small town and it’ll be bought up and rented out before lunch.

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          37 minutes ago

          It isn’t? Drive by Hamilton or any other GTA city, shits unreal how expensive housing is and homeless is more pronounced post-covid since they opened the flood gates and reduced CRS requirements so that anyone with a pulse could get in. They only back pedalled now on resuming policies they had pre-covid, but the damage is already done…

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            21 minutes ago

            They want 100m by the end of the century no? You don’t think we can build infrastructure to support that in 75 years? I wasn’t saying now

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          2 hours ago

          Immigrants = scary 🥺

          Cons seriously need to come up with new talking points, trying to paint Carney as some kind of WEF great replacement agent clearly wasn’t a winning strategy.