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I don’t doubt for one second that he believes this.

I am not saying that Israel and the IDF have not used human shields. They absolutely do and you’re 100% correct to condemn this. And I join you in this condemnation.

What am also saying is that people should stop lying in order to defend Hamas. Because you can condemn the govt of Israel without doing that. And the condemnation is more compelling when it’s not accompanied with lies of convenience.

Your comment here being a good example of how that’s done properly. Everything you said is true and it paints a damning picture that is impossible to argue against.

Agreed, it’s a lone voice in independent journalism. Which is why the CPC wants to crush it.

For sure! We all live in these same bubbles to various extents.

I believe that the 51st state threats were a wake up call to many Canadians to the reality of what’s going on. That we couldn’t just coast in our bubbles and hope everything would be okay.

This is what happens when people live in bubbles.

The maple maga don’t interact with any Liberals because their toxicity has pushed them away. They don’t get news or media from any sources that don’t tell them what they want to hear.

In the bubble they have created, they don’t hear many voices opposing their worldview and the few that do get through are shut down cold.

Time will tell if PP will stoke those flames after the election like his American president and hero did.

There is sufficient evidence to decisively conclude that no, it won’t work. It will result it severe crowding of jails based on inconsequential crimes. Period.

We need a story to handle repeat offenders. They aren’t wrong to say that the current approach isn’t working great. But they are massively wrong about the solution, and are again showing the dangers of having an incompetent populist run a major party.

This is bad policy.

You’re correct that approval voting still has some mechanisms of strategic voting.

The point I was trying to make there is that the objective of “strategic voting” is to accomplish a least-objectionable outcome. And approval voting enables the same objective in a simple and straightforward way.

However you’re correct that it’s absolutely not the only way to accomplish this. And it’s not even the best way to accomplish this objective; as you suggest STV handles this aspect better.

I don’t believe you can assign that quote to me. Because you’re correct, MMR retains this.

My point wasn’t that PR sucks or is worse in every way, but that it’s one reason I prefer approval voting over systems which don’t have that. I prefer MMR and STV with local representation over implementations of PR that didn’t.

It’s hard to get nuance across in text sometimes. The point I was trying to make is that Approval voting fits my preferences best, but I’d happily support most any system that delivers a replacement to FPTP. Because getting A solution is more important than getting *my favourite solution *

There was a nascent calexit movement when I lived there but it had the stink of a Russian psyops campaign. This stifled a lot of interest in the issue of any existed in the first place.

I agree with your analysis 100%

Even if the absence of a strong “buy Canadian” mindset I think people would reward an alternative to the retail landscape of today.

People over-focus on Costco’s pricing and under-focus on how they provide a good customer experience. They don’t play the retail games of boosting prices and then cutting them for a “sale”. They promote generic otc medication instead of only pushing expensive brands. They have good quality products, not cheap crap that looks good but doesn’t or doesn’t last.

So yeah it could be a great outlet for quality Canadian products but I also still want quality imports from our allies in Europe and Mexico and Asia and beyond. HBC could be that, if I had a billion dollars that’s what I would do.