How does the Tienanmen Square massacre fit into Marxism-Leninism ideology?

And who wrote about this “stage” of Marxist-Leninism that makes capitalism is legal and labour unions are illegal? Would that be the ruling party that’s dominated by billionaires?

Splitting hairs is what tankies do when they get called out for their bullshit. Also giving bullet point lists that are thinly veiled propaganda and are exhausting to debunk.

I think it’s a tail wagging the dog situation, really. They don’t care about the Pirates movies, they’re just using it as an opportunity to push their weirdo narratives.

They want to get views and monetization monies so they will latch onto anything they see as popular and inject their narrative onto it. Talking about popular things expands the number of people the algorithm will recommend their stuff to. The narrative is there to capture the audience and keep them coming back.

Once you have a group of weirdos together they will start trying to one-up each other with their weirdness. Eventually a few will cross the line and start making death threats, swatting people, and sometimes even mass killings can occur. It isn’t about the Pirates, it’s about proving to the rest of the group how devoted to the weirdo “cause” they are.

The Democrats have no power in the US now. They still hold a few governorships, but the GOP has complete control of the US federal government and that’s all that matters on the international scene.

It’s a distinctly American thing to blame the Democrats for anything the government does even when they don’t control the government. Then they wonder why the Democrats struggle to win elections even against insane GOP candidates like Trump.

In what other country is the opposition party blamed for what the governing party is doing? Only in America.

Things are the way they are in the US because people voted for it. The Democrats aren’t doing anything because anything they do now would be purely performative and have no effect. They’re a political party, not a revolutionary movement. They aren’t doing anything until the next election (if there is one!) because that’s how it works with political parties in a democracy.

It would be the same in Canada. If Pollievre got a majority and brought in Elon Musk to kill the government there would be nothing the Liberals, NDP, or any other party could do. That’s why it’s important to vote and vote wisely.

The polling suggests that the CPC is capturing young, angry, and terminally online voters same as Trump did. So that’s a bit concerning.

I’m from the east, but have some in-laws from Alberta. Not farmers though, people with family in the oil industry. They seem to 100% support Pollievre and went from Trudeau is evil to Carney is evil before they knew anything about him. So the CPC will probably still do ok in Alberta.

There’s also people who’ve read the newspaper every day of their lives and now that newspaper is owned by postmedia. They tend to hate every prominent Liberal, wonder why?

But yeah Pollievre lost a lot of support in the eastern part of the country. Hearing about the security clearance stuff from family members unprompted, and people are very suspicious of a guy that doesn’t want to even look at the intel about who in his party may be a foreign asset.

Given all of the factors of American oil industry influence, American postmedia influence and American social media influence, I think it will be close.

People in China accept having Xi as a dictator for life because they feel like a strong man is needed to run the economy and protect them from evil foreigners. Also he keeps the billionaires in China wealthy by oppressing the workers, so they support him.

Does any of this sound familiar? The US is already becoming China, no annexation needed.

Sorry Tankies, we aren’t going to run to China, Russia, and NK just because the US is starting act more like them.

Proportional representation only looks good on a spreadsheet. It’s terrible when you consider power dynamics, which you should when thinking about political systems.

I voted NDP last time around, but Singh is an idiot, and no one respects an idiot. Why did he want to vote no confidence to have an early election which would result in a CPC majority? He got too caught up in political bullshit, and I can’t respect him.

The priority now is to prevent Poilievre from getting into power. Singh isn’t the guy to do that, Carney is.

I think everyone is thinking the same way. I think the probability of the US invading is low, but there is a probability.

Even if the US never uses their military against us, there’s a very real chance they withhold parts for military equipment as leverage in a negotiation. They are already withholding military aid from Ukraine as leverage after all. That alone makes it imperative we end Canada’s dependency on the US defense industry.