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/libpol/

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anonopen
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/libpol/

「Canadian politics」

anonopen
So carney just won, looks like the ndp lost most of their seats, jagmeet lost his riding and has stepped down, greens lost one of the seats but Elisabeth may kept her riding on the gulf islands… ontario lost all its ndp ridings, including some that were ndp for over 20 years…

Some surprises…

The political landscape looks pretty stupid.

anon
>>359517
i think this is a very common position
anon
>>359517
well i guess it's less common if you want north korea and iran to have them too
anon
>>359517
>cuban missile crisis
if you roll those dice enough times eventually it'll come up on snake eyes

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「ICE is continuing to escalate. Trump is now deporting American citizens.」

anonopen
2016-02-27-1456595959-4038664-trumphitlertimefaux1-thumb-3984966878.jpg
Specifically children with cancer.
They didn't even wait for the birthright citizenship law, just went ahead and did it illegally.
I am worried what these means for other "undesirable" American citizens in addition to all American Hispanics. Not sure what to make of the implications for future illegal policies though.
Discuss.
https://www.thedailystar.net/news/world/usa/news/us-deports-3-american-children-including-cancer-patient-rights-groups-3881066

anon
>>309432
>The left: a pesky and persecuted minority, always trying to invert the settled way of doing things, and usually making things difficult for everyone else.
He's just admitting he likes the current right wing.
anon
>>309432
kind of agreed and then it went off the rails into schizo territory. I do think woke 2 is coming but NEW IS ALWAYS BETTER
anon
as someone who has worked in an ultra orthodox jewish community I cant imagine this person spent much time in such a community

anon
I was going to add a serious reply, and then I realized this thread was actually made 2 months ago.
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>>335787
this site's been around for a while but you can still reply to stuff.... ideas don't expire anon.....

anon
>>314179
I used to, now I'm bored of it
anon
>>240772
>How does liberal theorycrafting (and praxiscrafting for that matter) work?
the closest thing to a serious theoretical attempt at justifying modern liberalism is probably rawls (specifically A Theory of Justice)
the tl;dr is that you're supposed to imagine laying out the principles of societal organization while not knowing which position within that society you'll occupy, and he thinks if you do that the rule you'll end up following is trying to maximize how good the worst-off people in that society have it in absolute material terms, and concluding that it's fine if large inequalities exist so long as the worst-off are better off materially than they would be in the counterfactual where you didn't allow those inequalities
i'm not that familiar with leftist critiques of rawls, though i'm sure they must exist. nozick had some interesting criticisms from the (economic) right.

anon
>>280367
the whole reason America exists is cuz a bunch of businessmen didn’t like mercantilism and wanted more $$$, all the theory came after
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>>40592
yea same, america IS a business, what are they talking about?

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「How to fix the large uptick in far-right/right wing populism」

anonopen
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Pic related, but also if you were to look at recent polling (especially out of South Korea), you can see a gender divide where younger men seem to be more attracted to far right/right wing populist parties.
While stories as extreme as picrel aren't terribly common, whenever anyone brings this problem up, the answers are almost always censorship or "they need to be raised better."
Maybe that will work with children, but as the polling shows, many adults are like this too, and all censorship will do for them is make them feel even more vindicated.
Thoughts on this?
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or rather
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leverage benefits of dop let students focus on hitting the books and the dop can take care of the sex part for them
anon
Instantly men wud respect women more. chud wud think not all wmen are bad,” miss rodriguez let me fuck her that one time, she was a nice lady”

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>>280338
>to some extent
to very little extent, most people choose a party that they dont agree on 95% of things with because the alternative is a party they dont agree on 96% of things with, not really a good representation of society at all
anon
>>25449
Cost of raising people is more than early screening and testing. It also stabilizes the system.

anon
>>285774
well this is libpol at least
anon
center left
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>>236959
I am... we are truly the most oppressed group

anon
>>24740
nope, but considering hegseth is more than likely gonna enforce the insurrection act come three days from now he seems to be the right man for the job

even if he's an incompetent moron he can still be a fascist, there aren't many qualifications to be a fascist
>>235261
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>>235242
fascism is so 20th century you need to get with the times and read some nick land
it's all about accelerationism and the dynamics of markets and capital and technology

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test?
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test @all
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brb

anon
fuck no. Dogs are fas
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fascists*
anon
I think they’re monarchists

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「Feeling really jaded from politics.」

anonopen
Like why do people just put up with a system that produces such objectively bad results. We are given such a bad choice of candidates and parties… in America there is the two party system, whats going to happen when it becomes a one party system? Things always get split if theres more.
Its like no one really fucking knows whats going on- in politics, in their community, in their lives, theres a special kind of apathy and ignorance. And some if those people still vote. And thats the only way they will ever engage with politics.
anon
there doesn’t seem to be a realistic way out, things are good enough, people done care enough about others, and you might get attacked and lose a lot and be hated for trying