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Ooooh, do Ontario next! (Yes, I know who is in power… A man can dream.)

Unfortunately, due to the FPTP system, forming a coalition between the Liberals and the NDP is just not feasible because the Liberals don’t want to cooperate unless they absolutely have to, which is rare because they are de facto in power about 50% of the time (usually a majority government, so there’s no reason to cooperate).

The remaining “third party” options are either a) ideologically dissimilar to the NDP and would be unlikely to form a coalition with them, or b) have such a low chance of forming government that a coalition with them would not be politically advantageous.

For example, forming a coalition with the Greens or Bloc Quebecois would likely lead to a lot of concessions on the environment and on Francophone language rights that are simply not popular with NDP leadership, who are overwhelmingly swinging centrist (who knows why, really, it’s extremely weird to see them campaign on worker protections one day while advocating for corporations the next).

The closest they’ve gotten to a coalition recently is a “supply and confidence agreement” with the minority Liberal government, which turned out to be pretty toothless and ended when the Liberals just… didn’t really do anything the NDP wanted, lol.

While I don’t disagree, the ONDP and the federal NDP are a lot closer in ideology IMO than, say, the BCNDP and the federal NDP.

Since I live in Ontario and there’s an election coming up provincially as well as federally, their constant failures are at the forefront of my mind and I think the provincial strategy is relevant to mention here since it ultimately shares a lot in common with the federal one. The federal NDP has been shockingly silent on Palestine for many years, well predating the most recent stage of the conflict.

All of this is just my opinion, though. If you want to keep them separate that’s your business.

We have one. Actually, we have more than one if you want to get technical. What we need is a viable third party that knows what they’re doing and won’t capitulate at the first sign of inconvenience while continuing to lie to constituents about their real goals and the current political situation. Also, the so-called progressive NDP needs to stop kicking people out for taking a stance against the Israeli genocide of Palestinians (yes, that happened; look up Sarah Jama’s unceremonious ousting, among others).

Nothing will change without electoral reform that does away with first-past-the-post (FPTP). I personally like single transferable vote (STV) or mixed member proportional (MMPR) voting systems, but even a ranked ballot would be better than what we have now.

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At least a few years. I switched to Linux a year ago and that was a huge consideration for me when choosing Debian over Ubuntu.

Notice how I didn’t say murder, I said killed. That can easily happen in detention facilities due to neglect and lack of medical care, especially as it gets crammed full of too many people. I’m not saying there’s no possibility that there will be murders, but I definitively did not say murder in my last comment because no, it is not my belief that Trump is planning to exterminate migrants at this current point in time. The labour and torture is probably imminent though, Guantanamo is pretty famous for it.

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Apparently, it runs perfectly. Great news.

The unwritten implication is that they will be used for slave labour, tortured, and/or killed. It really depends on how fascist and violent Trump wants it to get. Guantanamo Bay is not outfitted for mass detention, so you connect the dots.

It may not have initially been chosen for its meaning, but on their website they do say this:

What Does “Kagi” Mean? The word “kagi” means “key” in Japanese.

You pronounce kagi in Japanese as ka-gi with a hard G. (Source: Wiktionary)

If it’s a Japanese romanization (which it looks like, but idk for sure), it’s almost certainly a hard G as in gator.

So much for “never again,” eh? More like “whenever we feel like it” if trends in global hegemony are any indication.

I used to, when I had fun neighbours my age that I made through an online Buy Nothing group. If you just start indulging in social groups related to your interests, you’re bound to meet people. It’s up to you if you want to socialize more with those people.

Unfortunately, no one will force you to hang out with them (except red flag weirdos), so a lot of the effort needs to come from you. If you get flaked on/deprioritized/ignored/ghosted more than once or twice, that’s the cue to move on and try someone else so you don’t get your hopes up.

People not eating vegetables or not drinking an optimal amount of water doesn’t kill them. You know what kills people? Racialized violence that’s normalized by society.

He’s a fan of China, just not right now. A trade war is more important to him. Not to mention Chinese AI just tanked the DOW a short while ago to the point that there’s a bill trying to ban downloading DeepSeek R1.

This argument is so shitty because you’re not paying for others’ healthcare. You’re paying for your own, and the money goes into a pool with a bunch of other people’s, where it goes a lot farther because it turns out that negotiating inventory/prices on a large scale, like the whole state/country, gets you a better deal.

If they raise the price, it’s not coming down. That’ll just be the new price. If it’s a temporary surcharge specifically due to the avian flu that’s currently ravaging US chicken farms, then it could be rescinded and prices could return to normal later on. I don’t know about you, but I would rather pay more temporarily than indefinitely.

To your point, if you want the advertised price to be the final price, you should call your congressperson and discuss getting rid of tipping statewide and using the total price (including tax) on menu items instead of subtotals. That has nothing to do with Waffle House, though.

I know people that use Starlink because they have nothing else except Xplore (formerly Xplornet), which sucks ass. I like that they have the choice to avoid Xplore. That said, I would love to see Dougie shoot himself in the foot and go through with something like this so that he loses the rural vote.

on a scale that would put Capitalism’s to shame

You say that like capitalism isn’t ongoing massacres and abuse in various forms all day, every day. As if the t-shirt you’re probably wearing wasn’t made by someone who’s exploited in Bangladesh so that minimum wage Americans can still afford to buy it without forgoing food because they’re purposely underpaid by service industry corporations. As though you’re not also talking about some sort of aspirational capitalism where the “free market” actually exists and doesn’t inevitably lead to corruption and tyranny…

Meanwhile, the richest man in the world is about to secure control over US government agencies because he gave the most money to the current president.

Stop trying to make connections and just listen.

I’m trying to understand the things you are telling me because they don’t make sense and contradict. In the end, I was correct and you’re just weird and have trouble communicating and reading.