Polievre - We’ve got a plan you guys! And it’s better than thise damn Libs! And it’s great and will definitely benefit everyone! Well…no we haven’t published it. Well…no, you can’t see it beforehand. We just need you to blindly vote us in and then we’ll definitely not immediately stab you plebs, I mean middle class voters, in the back.

This would genuinely be an incredible change for a jurisdiction in Canada to move to some form of PR.

In before the PR naysayers start arguing about which system is best; they’re ALL better than FPTP, people

Good. Hold every one of these public officials accountable to the most stringent interpretation of the law. That’s what Canadians deserve.

Oh that looks great, thank you!

Finally my Radeon works better out of the box than Nvidia? Amazing.

Glad to hear Mint is the way to go! That’s the one I already have some very basic experience with.

Is Steam necessary? I also use GOG because I prefer no DRM, but maybe that’s not possible in the same way? I’ll Google this one too.

Thank you for your help! And for the confidence boost to think this might be more intuitive than I fear…

Can you suggest a good write-up / walkthrough for how to shift to gaming on Linux? I’ve installed and run it before so I understand the basics, but that was basically just to keep an old laptop alive to watch YouTube.

Fucking Windows…just purchasing one big DIY spyware package these days.

Typical CPC behaviour since the party merger / Harper era:

1. Blame the other guy and get into power based on outrage instead of actually having any policy;
2. Make life worse for the poors by cutting public services;
3. Lower taxes for corporations and the wealthy;
4. Steal as much as possible via hiring all your buddies as “consultants” for shit that doesn’t need any consulting or have any consequences;
5. Get fired because the same fucking chuds who voted you in are finally wising up;
6. Start blaming the other guys about all the problems you just created;
7. Repeat ad nauseum.

Unions standing up for the people again. Fucking awesome. Solidarity.

Family history of drunkards?

Double dog dare you no take-backsies!

Do you recognize how immature you sound? Or are you oblivious to that part of reality too?

David Rosenberg preaching doom? Well we should definitely listen, because he’s accurately predicted 912 of the last 3 recessions.

This dude is the ultimate broken record.

Whaaaaaat. The CPC is taking their talking points from billionaires and corporate lobbyists and lying to Canadians either directly or indirectly in order to manipulate voter support?

SURELY this has never been done by the CPC before!

LOL, they’re not going to reduce your taxes, silly plebe

Just like they fixed it for us the last time, yep!

It would be really nice if the PostMedia group would get a little bit more subtle about the fact Corporate Canada is balls-deep in their ass on the regular.

“Billionaire Nepo Baby Sitting on Massive Unrealized Capital Gain Windfall Upset He Will Pay Fair Taxes”

There, I fixed it for you.

End the capital-gains exemption for principal residences. It’s even more untouchable than OAS. It’s also more economically harmful and inequitable.

It pumps up housing prices and pushes more and more national wealth into housing. It’s dumb economics, plus the tax break only goes to the two-thirds of families who own a home. And the richer you are, and the more home you own, the bigger the tax break. It adds up to a hyper-regressive policy to make Canada less productive.

Eh, I’m going to punt this one because it’s an asset that most people want to own, but housing is a necessity as well.*

I’m going to counter with:

• no non-human ownership of single family homes, no trusts, no corps, no foundations, etc.
• no interest cost deductions against rental income for landlords
• 50% of rental payments can be deducted against income for renters

That way one perk of personal, principal home ownership is still there, but at the same time fucking landlords can piss right off, and renters get a major tax-reducing benefit to boost net income for what are usually lower income earners too.

As policy it’s incomplete, but I think as ideas it at least will level the playing field a little bit.

*Edit: Okay how about this: a lifetime principal residence capital gains exemption of…I dunno, $500k? Just thinking about the regressive comment where wealthier folks own bigger and more expensive homes, and this would target those hogs and leave the vast majority of normal Canadians untouched. And maybe incentivize people to not own a goddamn ugly-ass cookie-cutter McMansion, leading to a teensy bit more densification. Or at least leave more greenspace on a standard lot.

Fuck yes

More absolutely shit, unnecessarily argumentative policy from an absolutely shit, unnecessarily argumentative asshole of a premier.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:

The most provable cause of inflation is the increase in talking about expectations of inflation.

In simpler language: Once we / the media starts talking about how we should expect inflation, corporations take that as permission to raise prices.