Sunshine (she/her) @ Sunshine @piefed.ca

Canada must meet the EU’s pre-requisites:

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I don't get the fascination with creating more labels

Ummm because you need words to differentiate how people eat.

It means a low meat diet.

Switch to a credit union instead!

Likely will be canceled by a conservative government woops!

Time for !linuxphones@lemmy.ca

We’re very envious of Quebec as here in BC the contributions limits are set at $1.4K, no wonder why struggling families are often being ignored in our politics.

I did not state that.

That is thanks to having fairer rules in their democracy. Did you know Quebec caps political donations to $50 a year.

that there can't be any perfect voting scheme (with more than 2 parties).

I agree that no electoral system is perfect however there are countries functioning fine with 10 parties in their parliaments like Denmark and they tend to perform better on issues than we do.

Labour is god awful.

First-past-the-post fails to protect marginalized communities as bigoted minority governments in terms of vote share can get all the power with only 39% of the vote. Look at Modi for example.

Smith acting like a bigot like usual.

The disgusting companies:

Groundbreaking for the project is scheduled for 2029.

It remains unclear when passengers will actually be able to board the first high-speed train. Sources suggest each segment could take seven to eight years to build.

Just another liberal scam that will be canceled by first-past-the-post. Won’t be the last time Mark Carney lies.

The yearly contribution limits need to be well below $1k

Kast is a nazi dirtbag.

Kast, a 55-year-old lawyer and former congressman, has openly opposed marriage equality and adoption rights for same-sex couples. When in office, he consistently voted against LGBTQ rights and refers to “gender ideology”, a conspiratorial term used to negate transgender people and their rights.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/7/historic-day-chile-passes-marriage-equality-legislation

Ask the same question to other Chileans and they’ll recount an opposite reality: A shorter workweek, higher minimum wage and more generous pension system made one of Latin America’s most unequal countries more livable, they say. The homicide rate declined in the last two years, official figures show. A defiant foreign policy — outspoken against Venezuela’s autocratic President Nicolas Maduro, U.S. President Donald Trump’s denial of climate change and Israeli actions against Palestinians — made Chile a regional champion of democracy.

Jeannette Jara, 51, they argue, can save Chile from the wave of far-right populism that has upended politics across the world. Jara’s rival is their worst fear: The son of a Nazi party member with a fondness for Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship.

“We need to go forward,” said Lucía Poblete, a 32-year-old engineer at Jara’s rally late Wednesday. “Kast will erase all the progress we’ve made for women, for labor rights, for civil freedoms.”

The chasm between Chilean perspectives on the status quo underscores not only the depth of Chile’s divisions but also the stakes of Sunday’s showdown, which Kast is expected to win after 70% of voters backed right-leaning parties in the first round.

Kast’s family ties to the Nazi party sparked an uproar at the time — as did his apparent nostalgia for Gen. Pinochet (who he said “would vote for me if he were alive”) and his fierce opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion without exception.

This time, Kast has dodged questions about his social views, pivoting to the more politically palatable issues of insecurity and mass migration that have ginned up voter anxiety and boosted the right from Washington to Paris.

Taking a page from Trump’s playbook, Kast vows mass deportations of the estimated 337,000 migrants in Chile without legal status — mostly Venezuelans who arrived from their crisis-stricken country in the last seven years.

Studying the crime-fighting tactics of El Salvador’s popular autocratic president, Nayib Bukele, Kast proposes boosting the power of police and expanding maximum-security prison capacity.

Borrowing from Argentina’s radical libertarian President Javier Milei, Kast aims to slash red tape, shrink the public payroll and cut state spending by $6 billion within just 18 months of taking office.

His economic team on Thursday pushed back against widespread criticism that such a budget cut was unrealistic. But it acknowledged to The Associated Press that it might be “preferable to allow for an adjustment over a longer period.”

At any other moment, Jara would have a lot going for her. She engineered Boric’s most significant welfare measures as his minister of labor. Her humble origins selling hot dogs and toilet paper to get through school makes for a compelling up-from-nothing story so rare in Chile’s elite circles of power. She has a strong record of negotiating with rivals to get things done.

But experts say it’ll take a miracle for her to pry a victory from Kast.

“The math doesn’t add up,” said Robert Funk, associate professor of political science at the University of Chile. “There are just too many things stacked against her.”

The most glaring: Her identity as a communist. Although her proposals to improve living standards, boost foreign investment and promote fiscal restraint hardly smack of communism, analysts say her membership in the party since age 14 undercuts efforts to lure moderate conservatives.

“Just the name ‘Communist Party scares people,” said Lucía Dammert, a sociologist and Boric’s first chief of staff.

Then there’s the challenge of representing a government with a 30% approval rating in a country where citizens have voted out incumbent leaders at every election since 2005. Add to that the difficulty of appearing tough on crime next to Kast.

“This campaign is among the most difficult I’ve ever run, by far,” Ricardo Solari, Jara’s campaign strategist and a former minister, told the AP. What keeps Jara in the game, he insisted, is her appeal as a bulwark against Kast’s radicalism.

“The right exaggerates insecurity to convince people that the only possible response is extreme force,” Solari said. “But we’ve seen elsewhere in Latin America that when that happens, ultimately what gets imprisoned is democracy itself.”

The MAGA brain rot is still in.

Watch RFK JR the biohazard demand to be let into the country.