• Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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    6 hours ago

    Why the fuck is our supposedly liberal government giving standard ovations to conservative pundits? What do they hope to accomplish by pushing this rhetoric? Right wingers will never see this and think “wow maybe I’ll vote liberal next election” you fucking idiots. I hate everything.

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      14 minutes ago

      NO!!!

      Kirk wasn’t a ‘conservative pundit,’ he was a bigot, a homophobe, a white supremacist, a sexist piece of shit who cheered on the deaths of others.

      Make it clear: he was a source of hatred and violence.

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      6 hours ago

      That’s cause our liberals have been moving further right. Carney himself is pretty much an old school conservative.

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        15-20 years ago, Carney’s platform would be PC, and Polieverre’s failed platform would have been a joke.

      • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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        5 hours ago

        Liberalism is inherently a right wing political ideology. It uses socially progressive issues for the working class to promote financial and commercial policies that benefit the ruling class.

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          The benefit also being increasing their power over the rest of society by means of exercising control over their assets and public institutions staffed by likeminded people. For example by buying news media and shifting focus away from those same issues that provide those benefits.

          E: Saw headlines about a couple of rumors - David Ellison buying CNN and Larry Ellison buying TikTok. The first is the same Ellison who bought CBS via Paramount and is planning to install Bari Weiss as head of news. The second is his dad, Oracle owner and a top 3 richest person in the world.