Eh, so does Western Liberalism and basically every other government for the last hundreds of years, I’d argue that they are even authoritarian to very similar degrees but about different things.

The Atlantic provinces and Quebec are probably the biggest reason we won’t see PR actually take affect. They currently have massive over representation constitutionally guaranteed and I highly doubt they are gonna give that up without a massive fight.

The closest we will ever get is a different way to count votes within the current riding system, which is still not PR at the end of the day.

(And aside from the fact that PR doesn’t solve the issue of more populace regions fucking over less populace ones without regard)

Not a bad lisy actually, although I heavily disagree with the military and police budgets line… Authoritarian left regimes are known for very high police and military budgets even with heavily states controlled economies.

Edit: police and military spending tends to relate more to the libertarian-authoritarian spectrum rather than the socioeconomic left-right spectrum

The the majority of large, brutal facist and authoritarian regimes of the last hundred or two years were secular: Nazi Germany (paid Christianity lip service near the beginning but that fell off as some churches opposed and loyalty to the state became more important), the USSR, Mao’s China, and other smaller non-USSR communist regimes that committed massive atrocities (such as the Khmer Rouge)

We don’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. We don’t need more taxes. We could tax away the entirety of the wealth of our richest citizens and it’d only cover our federal+provincial deficits for 2-3 decades at most.

Something structural with our spending needs to change.

name me a Canadian subreddit that ISN’T run by mods that staunchly control the narrative

Not just limited to Canadian subreddits, it’s all local subreddits and basically all that are over 10k people. Niche hobby subreddits are basically all that’s left that’s still ok for actually discussion.

And quite honestly, Lemmy kinda sucks too mostly because the userbase isn’t that large and politically leans significantly left of the average IRL (Reddit, other than some select (mostly American-based) subreddits also leans left of average, but not as far as Lemmy) so it’s very much an echo chamber.

Doesn’t matter, just explain it with actual examples of policies

I’m not American so I’m not all that familiar with that frame of reference

Mind describing to us what you consider a right, but not far right, political stance is? Examples of both economic and social policies would be welcome.

Sorry your cousin is a fucking moron, but I think it’s fucking absurd to curtial the freedoms of everyone because of the lowest common denominator of people.

Perhaps consider there’s a lot of space between draconian government restrictions and acting like a complete buffoon.

“Trying to protect the public” aka limiting what people can and can’t do. We’re adults, we can protect ourselves.

Last time I checked almost the entirety of that was better than the current Liberals. Lower housing prices, lower cost of living, lower immigration, lower homelessness, lower drug deaths, less crime, higher per capita GDP

Trudeau isn’t fear mongering about the CPC, they’ll be every bit as bad and worse than the Liberals say.

Could you also use that crystal ball to tell me next week’s lottery numbers?

I felt far more under seige by the federal and provincial mandates than by any of the related protests.

I mean, Minecraft is one of the most popular games in the world… Maybe the kids are trying to tell us something

Between all the progressive ideals that have been forced down our throats over the past few decades and it becoming socially unacceptable to do things like smoke and drink at work, I’d say we work in some of least toxic work cultures to date.

I also worked for the Parks and Rec department of the city where I grew up throughout the school year, startinf when I was 14 or 15… So yes?

I am extremely critical of Trudeau but he did the right thing

If you read the federal court ruling, they list several reasons why he didn’t; largely summarised as:

(1) The invocation of the EA being overly broad (it temporarily outlaws protests on any topic anywhere in the country, which is a Charter violation of anyone not involved in the protest),

(2) Invocation was unnecessary (provinces and cities were capable of clearing out other protests without it), and

(3) It resulted in unreasonable search and seizure of those alleged to be involved in the protest (another Charter violation, with no due process to boot).

I can definitely understand disagree on point 2, but not 1 or 3. There’s no reason someone in Moosejaw should be stopped from protesting croc shoes while this was going on (not saying this happened but it could have with the way the EA was invoked), nor was there any process or accountablility with selecting who’s bank accounts got hit.

Work is a practical teacher of the value of money, how to work together with people, and how to deal with an actual meaningful authority structure.

School has no way to teach the first, does not realistically teach the second, and makes any lessons with respect to the third meaningless between “no kid left behind”, the countless second chance opportunities given for breaking rules, and the fact that there’s no effective punishments offered for breaking rules.

I think many issues with young people (including my age and a little older) is that a lot of them don’t work until after highschool and have massive struggles with the transition of both having to work and being treated as an adult at the same time.

I was working summer jobs doing farm labour since before I was a teenager (and I’m not that old), so I’m gonna say that it’s fine that 13 year olds are working.