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Steph 🦋

@stephamac14.bsky.social

ON, 🇨🇦 | GTA-based elder millenial | More of a lurker than a poster, but like to stay informed with more intelligent and respectful content.

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Albert Koehl@albertkoehl.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"The Ontario Skills Development Fund— one of Ford’s signature programs and now perhaps the biggest scandal to hit his government since the Greenbelt — is rotten to the core." www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Star Editorial Board: Doug Ford’s skills training slush fund is a disgrace. It’s also a sign of a much deeper rot in his government

It suggests Ford has established a system where public money is being handed out not based on need or merit but on who you know or who you pay

thestar.com

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Chris Glover NDP- My office just uncovered that buried in the Fall Economic Statement Ford’s Cons are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place. They’re bringing in legislation to let him override prov & municipal laws including heritage protections, environmental safeguards & labour laws #cdnpoli

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 10mo ago

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 11mo ago

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
Rob Berg@robwillb.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.

Neil Before Zod@waytowichneil.bsky.social · 2y ago

In all my encounters with conservatives, they are never able to provide me with a logical reason for why they support the conservative party. It’s always based on feelings. No one can ever point out any past experience or accomplishments that would make Poilievre a successful Prime Minister.

Meg Elison@megelison.bsky.social · 2y ago

My fiancé and I both worked retail for a long time, so creating a Christmas playlist that doesn't abruptly fill one or both of us with murderjuice is a complicated undertaking.

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · 2y ago

⤵️🚨 After 2 years of Poilievre as their leader, many CPC MPs say they are much less free now than they were before his arrival. The man who promised during his leadership run to make Canada "the freest country in the world" maintains tight control over the /1 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Poilievre's office maintains tight control over what Conservative MPs say and do in public | CBC News

Pierre Poilievre rules his caucus with iron discipline and control. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how the leader keeps members of Parliament in line.

cbc.ca