M. Grégoire
And here's #PeterMacKay making a Coleridge reference!
Updated: After blistering critique, Peter MacKay denies he wants Andrew Scheer’s job | National Post
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/election-2019/mackay-blames-conservative-election-loss-on-scheers-social-conservatism
M. Grégoire
The most obvious reason to keep #AndrewScheer as leader is that the #Conservatives just had a leadership contest in 2017, and Mr. Scheer was the best canadidate. Does anyone really think it would be wise to replace him with the runner-up, #MaximeBernier?
As for #PeterMacKay, he has his strengths, but his deal with #DavidOrchard and the subsequent betrayal should preclude his becoming leader or Prime Minister.
M. Grégoire
"[S]ending Trudeau to Stornaway, if not political oblivion, would have been an extraordinary outcome for any leader in Scheer’s place... The degree to which Trudeau is reviled by partisan Conservatives might have clouded that reality."
Chris Selley: Conservatives, don’t ditch Scheer just yet | #NationalPost
https://nationalpost.com/news/chris-selley-conservatives-dont-ditch-scheer-just-yet
booklord 🇨🇦 🇬🇷 🇹🇼 🇭🇰
When asked about his Winnie the Pooh mask, a 36-year-old protester named Edward who works in marketing said: "Because everyone loves Winnie the Pooh. And because one person hates it very much,"
LOL
M. Grégoire
@keithzg @ink_slinger Are you sure this isn't a return to the status quo ante? I wouldn't be surprised if their produce was sold before.
M. Grégoire
When it comes to the proper role of the state, the fundamental question is not, "What would be good for others?" or "What do others deserve?" or "What duty do I owe to others?"
The fundamental question is "What am I justified in forcing a third person to do for others?"
The research fairy 😷 🧚♂️ 🌈
If you're not in favour of universal and unconditional:
🍍 Housing
🍍 Drinkable water
🍍 Food
🍍 Medical care
🍍 Income
If it's your considered belief that some people literally deserve to die of starvation or exposure or something because they aren't good enough at *making money*:
You're a monster, please un-follow me
M. Grégoire
@Douglewars In my neck of the woods, Hallowe'en has been postponed by the municipal government. Flooding risk, 80 km/hr winds...
Steven Hoefer🖋
Costume victory: One daughter is the Lunar Lander, one an astronaut. This makes me giddy. I hope their candy sample return containers overflow.
👻 Boo Brees
Depeche Mode implies the existence of a Depeche Median and a Depeche Mean
M. Grégoire
@ink_slinger In #NovaScotia, the beers were Schooner in the South, Keith's in the middle, and I think Moosehead in Cape Breton. (I invite @thurloat to correct me.) Here in Québec, Labatt 50 was surprisingly popular. In BC I remember Kokanee as being about as popular as Blue and Canadian.
M. Grégoire
@ink_slinger I miss the days when #LabattBlue and #MolsonCanadian were the dominant Canadian beers. My understanding is that Budweiser is now the top-seller, with Coors Light number 2. Not a step forward.
http://www.foodandbeverageunderground.com/top-selling-beers.html
M. Grégoire
I wonder what the preferred term is for advocates of private property, law and hierarchy?
Anarcha-Ecologist Catgirl (Em)
🌹Socialism advocates for the workers to control of the means of production
:comrade: Communism advocates for a stateless, classless, moneyless society in which resources are distributed from each according to their ability to each according to their need
⭐ Libertarianism advocates for the use of non-state and anti-authoritarian means as a way of bringing about a socialist or communist society.
:anarchism: Anarchism advocates for the identification and abolition of hierarchies, and their replacement with horizontally organized structures from the bottom-up
:ist: Libertarian Socialism advocates for the workers themselves to take direct control over the means of production, without using a state, political party or by appealing to authority
🍞 Libertarian Communism advocates for direct implementation of a stateless, classless, moneyless society, where resources are distributed based on individual need, without use of a state or authortarian means
The research fairy 😷 🧚♂️ 🌈
Imperial space station classes
1. Death Star
2. Serious-Injury Planet
3. Bruise Moon
4. Insult Asteroid
5. Make-You-Feel-Unwelcome-But-Don't-Actually-Do-Or-Say-Anything-Overtly-Hostile Micrometeorite
The research fairy 😷 🧚♂️ 🌈
✅ You got your PhD hooray!
✅ You got a postdoc hooray!
✅ You got a professorship hooray!
✅ You got tenure hooray!
✅ You were promoted to department chair hooray!
✅ You were promoted to dean of your faculty hooray!
✅ You were promoted to chancellor oh no now you spend your whole day talking and writing about your university's football team in order to bring in alumni donations; you lost by winning
M. Grégoire
I criticised #RevisionistHistory s04e06. Let me say then that s04e07 is very worthwhile.
Let us be careful about our preconceived notions, and attentive to the facts of the case at hand.
M. Grégoire
@ink_slinger
I've found that going away made me better appreciate the virtues of where I had been; as for my problems, I guess I carried them with me in my bags.
That being said, I don't regret my wandering, or where I am now, even if the local politics are not especially congenial to me.
OTOH, for raising children, I often wish that my own parents were closer.
M. Grégoire
@nigelsezyarr We had a big march in Montréal a couple of weeks ago — I thought about participating, but I was busy at work. Then a day or two later they blocked traffic on my way home.
Anyway, I subsequently did research about the Extinction Rebellion movement. No very specific actions demanded alas: https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/demands/
It's fun to march and chant and feel that you're doing your part to save the world; but I'd like to see people saying, "Double the price of my gas."
Oneesan succubus
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