I don’t deny that China has made, and continues to makd, many impressive advances that have really helped its people. I acknowledge that it achieves many things capitalist countries don’t even try to achieve. But its government is also harsh towards its critics, and that can be expected to have an effect on surveys.

I don’t think PP is very moderate. But who knows. All he does is pal around with fascist lowlifes and make lame attack ads. He doesn’t actually propose anything positive.

Right, but there’s another obvious reason why Chinese people might say positive things about their government in a survey. I bet the North Koreans are very positive too.

Huh? The countries listed are all dictatorships. The point was about dictatorships.

At that point, MacDonald said, she was asked: “Which do you prefer? Canada or America?”

They want Canadians to beg to be annexed.

Yep, I usually visit friends there once a year but I’m regretfully going to have to change that.

Because of, not despite.

Jesus. They had to promise to promote white supremacism and defend fascists, or the new Nazi regime would have crushed them out of existence for their impermissible assistance to democratic forces. And we all know that “countering antisemitism” would be great if it meant what it says, but it doesn’t mean what it says.

Also, there goes AP again with the blandest headline ever for a shocking story.

It’s characteristic of right-wingers that they refuse to learn from experience, to reflect on it and change their attitudes, and generally to grow as people. They cling tightly to the prejudices they start our with, and by which they define themselves, and demand that the world stop changing. It’s a losing strategy, but they grow ever more bitter, angry and dangerous as reality continues to frustrate them.

If they’re so determined to protect their Nazi captain, perhaps they deserve to lose the ship.

Yes, Lemmy wouldn’t let me upload that gif either. I doubt it’s because of the content - seems more likely to be a bug.

It’s not ambiguous.

Right now it’s a bit of an emergency and we can’t be too picky. The priority is to keep the Conservatives away from power, or our country could go the way the USA is, our minorities and immigrants will be persecuted, our economy will suffer, and it will become impossible to achieve anything positive politically. You can’t make an alliance with the Conservatives while they are in thrall to MAGAism.

Russia has long threatened Canada from the north, but Canada’s alliance with the USA deterred it from attacking. Now the USA is considering stealing Canada’s resources and gaining access to strategic Arctic waters, Russia will also know that Canada is vulnerable because the USA will no longer defend it. So now these two predators are circling Canada and may even be coordinating plans with one another.

Conservative “values” are just cover stories for greed, selfishness and prejudice. They grew up with a set of prejudices and they refuse ever to reexamine them. So they adjust the “values” to suit. Conservatives are incurious, stubborn people who refuse to grow.

The Chuck Schumer school of resistance.

The USA was given a choice of Nazis or not Nazis, and it chose Nazis.

I’d like to see this extended to software developers in non-game industries.

Yes, I hope the Canadian federal and provincial governments recognize this. And I hope we don’t get a Conservative federal government, because Conservatives tend to be bad at understanding the notion of investing in society for the benefit of all. In fact, they’re hostile to it.