Thepotholeman

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[–] Thepotholeman@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I know the article mentions 30 yr olds, I'm almost 30 myself but I'm just talking about people 18-25. They are ALL talking about Pierre as if he's the guy to fix their problems and I believe it really is because they aren't able to simply look at history to show them what happened with shit that Pierre is proposing and how it Infact does not make their lives easier

[–] Thepotholeman@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It was wrong but I also understand it for the moment as something that should be cut to draw in capital investments. Not saying it should never go back up, but it is something that should stay lower to reward those who want to invest capital in Canada and reap rewards of that investment.

Plus is disengenuous to say this as if the conservatives aren't cutting it too, along with the entire carbon tax, the largest tax cut out of all the parties that will cost the government even more, and they will cut childcare, dental care and pharma care and the school food program.... Because, y'know... They voted against it everytime

[–] Thepotholeman@lemmy.ca 46 points 2 months ago (34 children)

I would say that any young person thinking that Pierre is going to make your life better is so fucking full of cope. Pierre won't make your life better. More and more young people have part time jobs, no benefits, and are struggling to find a home and if they do it's an old outdated piece of shit going for half a million.

Atleast the liberals and NDP have been giving them dental coverage, pharmacare coverage and affordable, quality childcare. The liberals and NDP are also proposing plans that will help FIRST time home buyers buy new, Pierre is suggesting to "axe the tax" on ALL new homes without limit of how many you can buy. (Rich people will buy them all).

The liberals plan to do as we did after ww2 is the proven method to do this, and for young people looking for a home or a career, this is how we do it. This housing program will generate hundreds of thousands of trades positions that we desperately need and they pay decently. Using new technologies and new methods while also cutting development fees.

Idk, just baffles me that young 20 somethings are talking about how Pierre is their guy because..... They say life has been harder then ever? When those 20 somethings have only just began to enter the work force enmasse? Like I'm sorry but these kids were in elementary school when Trudeau got elected and every day since their parents have been paying for less and less of their stuff. They are still under their parents insurance if they're in college or university and it's just wild to me that they would actually think this.

Maybe it's them scrolling social media endlessly and seeing random fucking people there repeating "lost liberal decade" or "things have never been worse" (when they have in fact been much much worse).

[–] Thepotholeman@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

It pisses me off to no end. The liberals ARE LITERALLY the best party for the job right now at this given moment. And the NDP needs to really work on their messaging and social outreach if they want more seats. For those voting conservative..... Honestly they need to go fuck themselves because this isn't a fucking hockey game, this is politics and it impacts everyone's lives. And determines what kind of country we want to be, one that's more like America? Or ones that maintains our values and independence and one that's closer to the EU

[–] Thepotholeman@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

Yeah, ok bud. It's not the fault of the liberals or the conservatives that the NDP hasn't been able to Run a successful election. The NDP sucks at being vocal during government and attacking the liberals when they should be attacking the conservatives.

[–] Thepotholeman@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Your argument is at the wrong party bud. The CONSERVATIVE VOTERS should be flocking to the NDP because every single fucking conservative I talk to just complains about "CorrUpT LibErAls" who are in the pockets of the big business. "The conservatives are for the working man" is what they say.

Fuck no. The NDP is. And imagine a world where the NDP had the amount of seats the conservatives do right now, and where the conservatives have the number of seats the NDP currently have. How does that look? Much much better

[–] Thepotholeman@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

I don't think the liberals imposing an emissions cap, doubling the carbon tax on industrial emmiters to pay for rebates on people's houses and vehicles, and building a national energy corridor that will allow us to transport critical minerals, hydrogen, clean electricity is far from changing course..... It's foolish for people to think that this decoupling from fossil fuels would be quick.

Our cars run on gas, our homes are heated by gas, our transport trucks run on diesel, construction equipment runs on diesel. Gas stations, fuel transport to remote areas, these are things that our country has been built on for over 150 years and it needs to change. Homes/apartments being ablebto charge vehicles, heat pumps in homes, electric stoves, power hungry grids for all the new technology that needs electricity and our rapidly growing population.... We need to BUILD it first. And for the last ten years.... The provinces have been DRAGGING their feet on this.

Our best bet for a self sustaining and low carbon future is Carney and the liberals

[–] Thepotholeman@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (7 children)

They can ignore those bylaws, sure. But giving the police more tools and means to curb those illegal guns coming in is a good thing no?

[–] Thepotholeman@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (13 children)

I understand that legal handgun owners are not the problem, but that it's the illegal ones coming over the border. The original bill the liberals wanted to pass did say that municipalities will be able to determine if they want to ban handgun ownership in their cities though if I'm not mistaken. I'm for any new laws that gives law enforcement more tools and regulations to curb illegal handgun smuggling into this country through.

Again, I understand that LEGAL handgun owners are not the problem, but municipalities should be able to make that call for themselves if handguns should be legal or not to own within their boundaries.

[–] Thepotholeman@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

You see, the conservatives believe that the government spending money during COVID to help the people of Canada out during a crisis was, "causing justinflation". When in reality, we didn't even spend the most during COVID and we had one of the more moderate cases of inflation during COVID compared to other g7 countries. And that every other country was experiencing inflation aswell due to supply line snags, worker shortages, people literally dying in the millions, the bird flu killing hundreds of millions of chickens etc.

[–] Thepotholeman@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

That was the biggest red flag to me when Pierre said that he would us the not withstanding clause to do that. Wtf. Anybody who believe in him using that clause to get what they want is no doubt the crowd that was crying out that Trudeau was another Vladimir Putin during COVID. Absolutely rediculous

[–] Thepotholeman@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (15 children)

I'm pretty sure the handbun ban is more of allowing municipalities to make that decision for themselves no? Large metropolitan cities are much different than smaller rural communities and should be able to ban the ownership, sale and possession of them don't you think?

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