10mo ago

Budget Astroturfing in Full Effect

Crazy how the only one of these airing criticism that says the budget isn't doing enough is the publicly owned one.

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While Trudeau has had his run as Prime Minister and should be replaced as the leader of the Liberals for good reason, and the liberals need to wake the fuck up. These chuckle fucks in the media are driving people to Bitcoin Milhouse as if that stain on his parent's mattress actually would do good things for the country instead of dragging us backwards like his voting history tells us he WILL.
Edit: seems like everyone is just glossing over the fact that there are pictures of him in black face. That shit wasn't cool.
- It's almost as if the people that run corporate media gain to lose something from the capital gains increase and are going all rapid dog over it.
  Not even a lot. Just... something. They're totally unwilling to give up anything at all.
  
  Well, they did get theirs
- These chuckle fucks in the media are driving people to Bitcoin Milhouse
  That's the point. The majority of our news media outlets lean that way.
- Rich people support Pierre because they believe he can achieve what Republicans have
  Poor people support Pierre because they believe he can achieve what Republicans have
  
  ⚰️☠️
- What exactly has Trudeau done wrong? I keep seeing comments like this but I can't recall anything.
  
  Nothing worse than most other administrations in Canadian history (some scandals, some corruption, nothing that I would consider unusual or extreme). Some people are salty because, like most politicians, Trudeau didn't deliver on all of his campaign promises.
  The thing is, Prime Ministers (and Premiers) seldom stay in power for more than two consecutive terms in Canada. That's when voters seem to insist on going to look for a new magic wand to fix things (never mind that it's never worked in the past).
  In the end, it's all a popularity and media manipulation contest.
  
  Beyond his backtracking on election reform when early results indicated it'd be a long, tough battle to actually change and re-educate people?
  He ran on transparency, and while he has been faaaar more transparent than Harper, thats a low bar, and I expect better.
  Hes had his share of scandals, which isn't good (SNC, ArriveCan, off the top of my head)
  He supported the transpacific pipeline, which I personally am against.
  The Liberal party drastically increased immigration rates beyond what the systems to help get them started (think transferring education credits, language barriers, community programs, etc) could handle. The current housing crisis is at least in part due to that.
  All in all, not a terrible PM by my judge, but I tend to lean further left than him, so it's not like I'd vote for PP no matter what Trudeau did.
  
  The better question may be, what has he done right?
  That's not to say it's a right/wrong binary, but rather: What has he made better? How has he improved the lives of people living here?
  His biggest accomplishment has really been not being Stephen Harper, Andrew Scheer, or Erin O'Toole. And the biggest reason to vote Liberal in the next election is him not being Pierre Poilievre.
- that there are pictures of him in black face. That shit wasn’t cool.
  In stage productions, actors wear make-up. It's not always hate.
  You must hate mimes and clowns.
  
  And why was black face used in a show? It has always been a racist practice. Where 2 of the other known times weren't preformances.
  Mimes aren't a negative portrayal of a ethinc group. Neither are clowns.

These headlines are just the wrost.
- Likely the worst in decades.
  
  Likely the ~~worst~~ wrost in decades.

Similar to the "pro-business" account @booja@booja.ca that has been spamming this muni with conservative news outlets and their awful headlines.
- That's not the only thing that booja posts. Don't they also post things with affiliate links?
  
  You got me curious, so I inspected their links on their bio a bit more. And yes, it appears to be the account for some kind of sketchy looking startup that is based around getting people to use its Amazon affiliate link.
  We really should just defederate that whole instance. There's only one account on it and that account has been posting in a way that definitely implies some kind of agenda. It feels extremely slimy and sketchy, and I don't like how many articles with conservative headlines I've had to suffer through since it started posting.
  @booja@booja.ca, care to defend yourself? Of course not, because you never contribute to discussions at all. You just post your neoliberal opinion pieces and then scuttle back to your lair.

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