No one can change everything but everyone can change something.

Ach, totally fair.

I use Connect and tag users rather than block them. That way, I can still see stuff that’s posted but I have a hint as to whether or not they are someone with whom I want to interact.

If I get a scammer while I’m working from home, I always feel like every minute I can keep them on the phone is another they aren’t stealing from the elderly. Plus, when you get them swearing at the end it feels like a badge of achievement.

All of a sudden or suddenly. Leaning back on old camp counsellor story telling, I think all of a sudden would be better for building tension whereas a quick, staccato **suddenly! **acts like a verbal bang or jump start, if that makes any sense.

Ha, I had the same reaction but the opposite way: the sudden?

If that’s an actual opinion, it is a damning indictment of our education system and a demonstration of the consequences of provincial Conservative governments cutting too much from those budgets.

I’m more optimistic and lean troll. Have you tagged as such and don’t need to feed you anymore.

Wait, you know he’s racist, you don’t support him but you want to rally support using his slogan?

Are you that oblivious or just a really bad troll?

And by the end of Harper’s term, the dollar had fallen. Are you furious about that too ya silly Billy?

Everyone knows that every night Justin Trudeau sneaks into each sleeping Canadian’s room, spends four hours whispering Liberal messages into their ears in a long dead tongue. We don’t ask what deal he made with what Eldritch being for such dread power, we can only pray he uses it for the good of the nation.

A title like that, lazy troll. Unless you know zero Canadians, you should know that trump is anathema to good Canadians and Leafs fans.

“Even if the chances are one in a million” damn. Just think about that the other way! “Even if 999,999 families have to lose a loved one, that seems fair enough to me.”

The more useful framing might be someone like Ford.

I’d be hard pressed to argue Musk hasn’t had some sort of a hand in a couple significant technological movements (Tesla, SpaceX) but that doesn’t make his political positions worthy of respect.

Similarly, for all his flaws, Ford revolutionized the factory. That didn’t make his Brazilian city work, his shitty anti semetic views right or his “meh” attitudes on ww2 correct.

Musk’s successes don’t particularly quality him on everything.

I had no idea there was a dance, thanks for sharing! Gonna have to practice my booty shakin’!

I think so! There’s a pretty good shop for theatrical makeup so I should be able to get those hauntingly white eyebrows at an almost reasonable price.

Mr Clean. Easy and one of the handful of bald friendly costumes.

CBC (Canada’s BBC) article about this, non paywalled:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/john-rustad-fatal-overdose-1.7348135

I think it’s a rose by any other name. As a political name, I think you are right. As a policy, I think it is broadly popular.

Think of Obamacare. It is basically unchanged and now, fairly popular as more have experienced it instead of conservative misinformation. At the beginning, like the carbon tax, it was broadly popular in all but name.

Now, people will absolutely vote based on their misunderstanding of the situation. (This is a program wherein most Canadian citizens get money from the government but more than half of us don’t think we got it and of those who do understand they received it, a sizeable proportion has no idea it has to do with carbon rebates.)

If you took the exact same policy, branded the cheques “Poilievre’s Policies Payback to Canadians” or whatever, it would (minus the chicanery) be broadly popular.

So sure, the name of a thing is unpopular but the thing itself is popular. Your call which you think is more important I guess?

Okay but it does seem odd to claim it’s unpopular when the unpopularity is based on misunderstanding. (Also, would you say trump is unpopular despite his legions of rabid marks fans?)

Let’s go back to Obamacare, which when polled absent the name, was wildly popular. But Obamacare with the name was unpopular.

So, would you say Obamacare was popular, unpopular or complicated? And do you see how this applies to the Carbon Tax, which suffers from the same issue?

Ehhhhhh, I dunno. I mean, it’d be weird to argue donald trump isn’t popular, despite thr majority of folks having an unfavourable opinion of him.

I also think this is sort of like Obamacare which was famously incredibly popular with folks, including Republican voters, as long as you didn’t use the word Obamacare. If you loom at that abacus polling I linked earlier, you’ll note that most folks don’t even seem to realize the cheques they’ve received have anything to do with the carbon tax and many don’t understand they’re getting more than they pay in…