The NDP would generally not win a federal election even if they dominated in Quebec as they did in 2011. In theory if the NDP had enough support in the rest of Canada to form a minority government it would probably be relatively easy for them to get the support of BQ to maintain that government (assuming the BQ itself was popular enough to win significant seats in Quebec during the same election), but such a situation would basically need them to take over the Liberal electorate of 2015-today (i.e. large swaths of Vancouver, major urban areas in Ontario particularly Toronto including its suburbs, and the Maritimes)
They're Trotskyists fwiw, I have no direct experience and thus no first hand positive or negative thoughts but it sounds as though they may come with some baggage in addition to cringe (from an ML perspective) views on foreign policy and some current and former socialist states that naturally comes with being a Trot organization.
Stav's crowd work is top tier and he seems like a generally good dude who's leftist but also conscious enough of his own ignorance to not really be arrogant about shit he has no idea about. His comedy comes across as quite empathetic to me too, even though it can be quite dark and focus in on cringy shit that he often relates to.
From what I can tell as someone who could never get in to cumtown, it seems like Nick was definitely the biggest asshole and the one most prone to vaguely racist, sexist comedy (but also the biggest creative force behind the podcast).
Class war is a matter of fact in the societies we all live in whether you want to acknowledge it or not. That can be attested to by people who have died from homelessness and hunger as a result of the exclusion of housing by people who have more money than them (landlords), by Indians who died in famines perpetrated by the capitalist British, by Indonesian communists who were murdered en masse by the authoritarian capitalist regime in that country supported by the United States (or in Korea, Vietnam, Latin America...), etc. etc. and over cases from centuries ago during the Atlantic slave trade up to exploitation and war under today's neoliberalism.
When the interests of capitalists and landlords uphold a system that privileges them and murders countless people whom it exploits and excludes from even what they need to survive, that system is already violent against people that you implicitly don't care about, regardless of whether it makes you uncomfortable to be aware of that violence.
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To add on, this way of comparing "death tolls" under communism and Nazism is a classic tactic of neo-Nazi apologia and soft holocaust denial whether you intend it that way or are credulously repeating it. If you follow this line of thinking you end up at a point where, as one of the main goals of the Nazis was the eradication of communism and the Soviet Union (along with Jewish people and other groups), they really weren't all that bad since they were trying to stop a greater evil (and indeed, you are explicitly minimizing Nazism next to communism in your post). I encourage anyone interested to read more about The Black Book of Communism that you cite and academic criticisms of it, since it deliberately exaggerates and imagines deaths under communist states in order to reach its figure of one hundred million and support this sort of comparison.
it looks like they got pooled between "doesn't exist" and "no" to "are oil and gas companies responsible?". "global warming doesn't exist and if it does it isn't their (our) fault"
lmao I know this is 3 months old but if you see this I want some more contemporary French and UK hip hop recs
irrespective of any other empirical claims you're making in this thread, you must see how ridiculous it is to claim that news from massive private and state owned corporations is little influenced by money because low level journalists aren't paid well (if you reflect on it for a moment). it'd be like imagining that Wal Mart's corporate policies are decided by cashiers and store shelvers
yeah not saying Duolingo is even particularly good (there's plenty wrong with it) but I'd say the biggest obstacle to starting to learn a language isn't choosing the wrong course, it's inertia, inconsistency and not putting in the work - you need to choose something and grind away at it to get the basics whether it's Duolingo or a paid course or whatever. Duolingo is the biggest thing in the game so criticism of it gets engagement and I think gets maybe overemphasized relative to its actual issues
once you've got the basics of grammar and vocab it helps much more to have real interactions (e.g. consuming media in the language you're learning, being able to consistently try talking or writing with an actual human being who speaks natively and can correct you, etc.) and any app or website or course is going to be in addition to that
UAPs
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It feels really remarkable how quickly in the late 2010s that top level people in the US government (as well as the media and society generally) pivoted to using annihilationist rhetoric as though China is some sort of anime arch-enemy they have to power up to defeat. I guess this is probably what the red scare years after 1945 felt like when the US and USSR quickly shifted from allies to rivals