I read some of it but couldn’t stomach much more. The amount of thinly veiled racism was not the vibe for me. Also, I grew up in BC and am in the “young Canadian” age and we were most definitely taught Canadian history and the concept of manifest destiny. Guy just seems mad that they’re teaching the ugly parts of Canadian history now too.

There’s definitely an issue of how so many young Canadians are favouring fascist bullshit, but this ain’t it.

Did you know that Maslow’s hierarchy of needs was actually based off of the Blackfoot indigenous culture, but he essentially flipped the ‘pyramid’ on its head? Originally, it was meant to be more of a cyclical view (where you take care of society, society takes care of you, all needs are met). He was actually very inspired by this view, but unfortunately adapted it to fit more into the individualist views of the colonizers that continue to exist in most of the western world today. He also never actually put his theories into the pyramid shape we know them to be.

Really interesting to read up on, if you’re into that sort of thing. There’s a few different articles on it, but I thought this one explained it pretty well.

The funniest part to me about all of this is that Nanaimo’s not even the nicest city on the island. I mean, most of the island is gorgeous because BC, but there are so many other places they could’ve visited.

Tod Maffin is an awesome journalist though and this legit seems like a very wholesome thing to have happened (and I’m sure great for local businesses).

Not even just the states though, there’s been opposition of women’s healthcare through the UK (where abortions may still be criminalized and aren’t as accessible as other parts of the world) and even voiced by the dbag that’s trying to become our next prime minister in Canada (most recently in his alignment with outspoken forced birther Jordan Peterson and voting against accessible birth control).

Generally idgaf about the monarchy but I’ve been waiting for them to speak up on it. Our so-called king should give a shit when other countries threaten parts of his Commonwealth.

Seems mad to me that in some “developed” parts of the world this is a radical take. There’s literally years of evidence supporting it.

My riding has no chance according to the polls but I walked on over anyway to give it my best shot. Nice to hear from the staff there how busy it had been in the morning.

Same here! So at least 4 :)

The big stick of “we own most of your natural resources and energy so you probably shouldn’t fuck around”?

Me but with Don’t Starve. Klei is awesome.

As someone else mentioned, he was probably trying to say the word ‘gagged’ and he talks weird.

This guy is weird enough that he can’t even have media around unless he is scripted, so it doesn’t surprise me.

Oh man, I was for LNG but that’s pretty gay tho. Gotta have to cancel.

PP is gay, make it known to his shitty conservative voters pls.

Plugging !fairvote@lemmy.ca for anyone who cares about election reform

My dad is 69 this year and has voted for the NDP every single vote he’s been eligible for. It’s not as much of a generational game as you’d think.

Now I just have to convince him to vote strategically this year unfortunately.

I’m not 100% that I understand/agree with what they’re saying but on a personal level, I don’t feel comfortable with the “purchase Loblaws” instead of “purchase Walmart” since both are capitalist companies and neither care about human rights (“culture war”) regardless of their country of origin.

I say buy local/small business to support the economy and fuck capitalist pigs like the Waltons or the Westons (recognizing that comes from a privileged pov of being able to afford to boycott those companies.)

These have been around since before though. I always used to see a similar one but with beef burgers. They show off about how Canadian their product is when the truth is legally they have to use egg/milk and I guess beef products in Canada because we have different (better) standards than American counterparts.

What got me about it, having watched more of the clip now, is how after he ‘misheard’ and said “I’m aware”, so much of the crowd started chanting his name. Like how are they not seeing this is what left-minded voters want.

I’ve always been an NDP voter and it sucks to feel like I have to vote liberal this time but it would feel so much better if they could just fucking come out and say it. Enough is enough.

I will take the American doctors please. But not their healthcare system.

Also anyone who is cool and not a narcissistic sociopath is invited too. The rest can be left out of the deal.

This has pretty much always been the case. Americans have been sticking Canadian shit on their luggage forever cause they know we are better welcomed generally.