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losthighway wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 6:55 am

TylerDeadPine wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 12:24 am

losthighway wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 1:55 pm Anyone up North (or anyone anywhere else with more reading time than I have) have any thoughts on Trudeau's downfall and his potential replacements?

Canadian living in America here. Trudeau has to step down because of the disastrous performance of Team Canada at the IIHF World Juniors.
Change starts at the top. Just ask local idiot Don Cherry https://x.com/CoachsCornerDC/status/1875215709015568816

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Trudeau's leadership has been long in the tooth, he's been attacked by all parties and the LIberals haven't been able to get the carbon tax through to Joe P Canadian. He's getting the blame for a number of things that are on the provinces to handle, even though half the premieres are incompetent and unfit for office. He's been under attack by the same playbook as the american right, and probably actively by the american right. Jagmeet is blowing it as leader of the NDP.

Here's a hot take: I grew up in a union town, staunchly vote NDP yet this year will probably mail in a vote for the Liberals. Even though Mark Carney has little hope of winning, even though the party is in shambles, even though I don't love the Liberal party at all - he seems like the only serious candidate.
It's not helping his cause at all that he LOOKS like Michael Ignatieff, but I would bank on the fact that no one under 35 probably knows who that is.

There's a %99 chance Pierre Pollievre gets in, and it's a national embarrassment.

This sounds like echoes of what's gone on in the US. Sorry to hear it.

It seems Mexico is the only North American nation moving in a decent direction.

jfv wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:38 am

twelvepoint wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:35 am Whatever happened to libertarianism? Did that just get subsumed into MAGA?

A friend of mine who claims to be libertarian is still engaged in local/grassroots politics. At this point I think there might be four people attending their meetings. Your conclusion seems plausible.

twelvepoint wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:59 am

jfv wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:38 am

twelvepoint wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:35 am Whatever happened to libertarianism? Did that just get subsumed into MAGA?

A friend of mine who claims to be libertarian is still engaged in local/grassroots politics. At this point I think there might be four people attending their meetings. Your conclusion seems plausible.

I feel like libertarianism is about austerity and its horrible consequences for marginalized folks without, you know, saying the quiet part out loud. Or basically, republicans but without religion. I could be off base though.

TylerDeadPine wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:39 am

Gramsci wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 6:25 am

TylerDeadPine wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 12:24 am
There's a %99 chance Pierre Pollievre gets in, and it's a national embarrassment.

My so called leftist Canadian friend that works for a rightwing theocratic dictatorship’s news channel Press TV once made the statement “Pollievre is the only politician talking about working class people”. I had no idea who Pollievre was and assumed a niche leftist in a small party.

Diabolical. They aren’t wrong in the same way Trump was.

Jagmeet SHOULD have been. A military officer, who’s also Sikh, as head of the NDP?? I was signed the fuck up, and then he just had no policy except attacking the Liberals. He should have been dealing with the threat of the conservatives and he let them consolidate power within what could’ve been his voter base. Well, and also now Canada hates anyone brown.

twelvepoint wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:59 am
I feel like libertarianism is about austerity and its horrible consequences for marginalized folks without, you know, saying the quiet part out loud. Or basically, republicans but without religion. I could be off base though.

Krev wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 9:11 am Libertarians think they hit a home run, but started on third. I think I heard that in a movie. I'll agree that it's Republicans minus religion with more opposition to social welfare, infrastructure spending, etc.

Frankie99 wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 9:34 am

Krev wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 9:11 am Libertarians think they hit a home run, but started on third. I think I heard that in a movie. I'll agree that it's Republicans minus religion with more opposition to social welfare, infrastructure spending, etc.

Libertarians are just anarchists with the wrong books. If they can read and think, they can be saved, but I've also identified the largest roadblock to the plan.