Canadian Federal Politics Thread v5

[Doctorfever]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Oh I can assure you I was most definitely not disingenuous in those posts.

I meant every one of them.

Good for you. Thank you for your contributions.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Doctorfever

Good for you. Thank you for your contributions.

I wish I could say the same about you

[Doctorfever]

Originally Posted by GordonBlue

kind of a dick comment, dude.

good for you, but there are many of us who don't have an income income that can outpaces inflation, that are not ok with it.

sometimes it's not possible to simply pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and get more money.

It’s not the first time he has made this comment to you specifically.

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Boots have straps for a reason.

I’m sure it was disingenuous the first time as well.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Doctorfever

It’s not the first time he has made this comment to you specifically.



I’m sure it was disingenuous the first time as well.

I don’t think a guy known on the board for his weird obsession with kid’s genitals should play the “dig up old posts” game.

[The Fonz]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

I don’t think a guy known on the board for his weird obsession with kid’s genitals should play the “dig up old posts” game.

Drink!

[The Fonz]

Not even 9am and Pepsi's Law has already been invoked. Doesn't bode well for the rest of the day.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by The Fonz

Not even 9am and Pepsi's Law has already been invoked. Doesn't bode well for the rest of the day.

Which terminally online neo-Nazi account are you going to share with us today?

[Doctorfever]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Which terminally online neo-Nazi account are you going to share with us today?

Drink!

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Doctorfever

Drink!

Weren’t you pretending to be against bullying the other day? Don’t know if I’d immediately start parroting an antisemite if you want to keep that ruse up for a few more days but up to you.

[GordonBlue]

Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates

I read that as an unserious response to the unserious poster they were responding to.
But maybe I'm wrong and it was an actual dick comment.

sometimes I find it's hard to tell with people. I notice a lot of people seem decent but then occasionally say what they really think.

hopefully I just misunderstood.

[Winsor_Pilates]

Originally Posted by GordonBlue

sometimes I find it's hard to tell with people. I notice a lot of people seem decent but then occasionally say what they really think.

hopefully I just misunderstood.

Agreed, I find it difficult too.
Unless they're the posters who are non stop spamming the threads, they make it pretty obvious.

[woob]

I'm just trying to figure out if calgarygeo actually cares about CBC funding, or if he's just cosplaying as someone who cares. I presumed he would align more with others who think CBC should get less funding, which could be a misread on my part.

[opendoor]

Originally Posted by Doctorfever

Regardless, clearly Canada has performed very poorly. We are at the bottom, or close to the bottom when compared to our peers.

What is your basis for that statement? You clearly don't actually know anything about worldwide food inflation if you're relying in Google AI summaries to tell you what to think.

Again, I'm not going to go through every single country's inflation. But just looking at OECD data since 2020, among the 35 OECD nations with full data, here's Canada's ranking in food inflation by year (lower is better):

2025: 16th
2024: 19th
2023: 30th
2022: 23rd
2021: 13th
2020: 18th

So an average ranking of 20th out of 35 nations in food inflation, so it has clearly been lower than the average peer countries. And as I mentioned before, it has been lower than most of the G7 nations as well.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Izzle

As a millennial, I love this quote cos it could equally apply to boomers and Gen z wrt computers.

I tried to leave it up to interpretation so as to not be too insulting. But as a stereotypical Gen X’er, I would exercise scepticism and pretty sure my ilk wouldn’t rely on a single-sourced AI result. Of course, if what they’re going for is subterfuge with a dose of “woe is me, AI said this so am I supposed to not believe it”, then who knows?

I guess being deceptive is better than just plain dumb.