Conservative Candidate Used a Secret Signal Group Chat With Freedom Convoy Leaders, Right-Wing Media and Far-Right Influencers
Conservative Candidate Used a Secret Signal Group Chat With Freedom Convoy Leaders, Right-Wing Media and Far-Right Influencers
Andrew Lawton was a member of the “clandestine” group chat used to coordinate convoy messaging on social media
Well, that's silly, all Signal chats are secret; it's not like group chats are public.
"The group's chat description identifies itself as a 'clandestine' group and new members are warned to 'remember the first rule of Fight Club.'"
... Well, then.
Must be hard simply being a fiscal conservative in the Conservative party right now seeing the social conservatives botching all the good publicity the party could possibly have had left.
There is no such thing as a "Fiscal Conservative". They all hold the same values, the smart ones just know not to say it out loud.
While there may be a nicer way to say it, I'm bothered by the downvotes you're getting. Fiscal conservatism is the motivated reasoning that bridges or abstracts values and logical steps people often cannot even consciously admit to themselves.
It's like how moralizing homelessness and feelings of disgust toward them protect oneself from the fear of becoming homeless, by manufacturing a distinction.
Nobody doesn't believe in spending money wisely and sustainably.
I classify myself as Fiscally Conservative.
However, I follow that up very quickly with the fact that investing in health, education, science, and affordable housing is net profit and any true fiscal conservative would want to direct as much of our money as needed into these programs, because penny for penny the returns on such investments are huge
A homeless person ending up in a hospital bed or dying costs us substantially more money than housing them, and once they get treated, fed, upskilled, and a roof over their head they very often proceed to turn into another taxpaying citizen which in turn converts red numbers into green numbers.
Anyone who just looks at the numbers can clearly see its basically just free money for taxpayers, you'd have to either be a complete idiot to not invest in it... or purposefully hateful and want people to suffer
I assume most "conservative" people are the latter, they genuinely cant wrap their head around the fact that making marginalized groups suffer costs taxpayers a lot of money
Police cost money, city cleanup costs money, hospitals and doctors cost money, handling corpses costs money, and of course you lose all the opportunity cost of -1 fellow taxpayer.
"Conservatives" tend to just not grok the fact that a large chunk of homeless people could easily be more taxpayers, but they just would rather demonize them and spend more money hurting them, thinking somehow that will magically make the issue go away, and ignore the fact it makes it worse, its so dumb.
Same goes for things like allowing abortion, at its core abortion rights inherently save such enormous magnitudes of money long term, and net profit. Forcing mothers to conceive doesnt fuckin help anyone and instead just costs us huge amounts of money, all just to inflict suffering on others. It's hateful and petty and extremely wasteful.
Same goes for trans rights, the most cost effective and safest way to treat trans folks is just provide them with medical intervention to align their body with their gender. It's by far the most cost effective solution, but for some fuckin reason "conservatives" would rather people suffer than save money
"Conservatives" straight up would rather spend billions of dollars hurting people than actually save money. Very stupid, and I hate how when I talk about actually being truly fiscally conservative, I get associated with such idiots.
It must be even harder pretending the CPC was ever about fiscal anything. The Overton window moves and dictates how much quiet part gets said out loud, but human nature does not change.
We're all going to have to grapple with the fact that in very unfortunate ways we are America-lite. A red wave might push social conservatism back in the closet, but we must not forget that a full 30% of us still went mask off after watching where those values lead -- twice. That's a problem that's going to require active collective leadership across Canada for the foreseeable future.
This is one reason we need to get rid of FPTP. It makes it harder for the extremes to gain a foothold. It would also lead to enough "teams" having a say that working together would be necessary to get anything done, which would be a novel state in North America.
It is no secret that PP was buddy buddy with the FrEeDuMb rally, so why should this be a surprise?
This just keeps getting better and better. Keep an eye out for attack ads against Carney, because it's likely they'll be projecting whatever other crimes and big no-nos they've been doing themselves.
I heard there was one about him being an advisor to Trudeau, so why would you trust him to make anything different happen?
Well, he was also in charge of the Bank of Canada for most of the time that Stephen Harper was the PM, and I have a suspicion the governor of the Bank of Canada did some advising to the PM during those years, so you'd think they would be okay with him, right?
he was also in charge of the Bank of Canada for most of the time that Stephen Harper was the PM
Harper also invited Carney to become minister of finance (which Carney declined).
The conservatives don't have a lot of honest ways to attack Carney
As an American, nip this shit quick you don't want to be the next country to suffer from conservative brain rot.
Fuck that shit eater Polievre.
This candidate will be the one in the Cabinet, if Poilievre becomes PM, who would accidentally text sensitive info to CBC's Ian Hanomansing accidentally.
Right wing media and far-right influencers should be hunted down like rabid feral pigs and dealt with. Find one near you!
For I moment I thought PP was involved in the group and I had a heart palpitation. I'll take a con candidate too!
Good thing none of them have security clearances so they can't leak names, addresses and locations of intelligence assets to their Facebook wall.