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[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I live in Ontario, and I feel like I'm living in a bubble, because not a single person I've talked to likes Drug Fraud, but Ontario voted this sack of shit thrice into the office. Everything feels like it's in fucking shambles: the housing, healthcare, education (all the levels!); anything public aside from fucking businesses.

But then again, there's also an insane amount of political apathy amongst my peers (I'm around 30). No one believes that their ability to vote means anything. I'm not allowed to vote (I'm a PR), and I have to find ways to tell my friends to go fucking vote. While it's true that if shit hits the fucking roof I can always just move out, it hurts me to just watch my friends suffer, especially when a number of them are teachers and nurses, and they recount the sad episodes of the kids in schools and the patients in hospitals not getting the care they need.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

I know a few. They love his populist policies like alcohol and getting rid of bike lanes.

It is hard to get my non-Ford supporting friends to vote. They'll typically ask me who to vote. Yeah it's hard for sure.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Could one of you good folks explain to an outsider how this Muppet is still in elected office?

Like he's infamous on the far side of the Atlantic in the drugs and private jet and "fuck the poors" way. I haven't seen anything that would justify voting for him.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Many ontarians are really stupid. His "buck a beer" and literally no other platform to run on struck a chord with people who decided they got tired of the liberals

[–] burnitdown@beige.party 1 points 1 hour ago

@T00l_shed @khannie

if most Ontarians didn't vote, then most Ontarians didn't vote for Doug Ford. so who voted for Doug Ford, and what does that system represent?

"not my party, not my leader" never goes out of style if you're an anarchist.

[–] Aceofspades@lemmy.ca 24 points 6 hours ago

Socialism isn't a dirty word anymore. I would gladly take socialism over the late stage capitalism that allows surveillance pricing to exist.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 31 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Tell me you don't know what socialism is without saying you don't know what socialism is.

[–] AnabolicSpudsman07@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 hours ago

He might not know anything about socialism, but he can tell you how to make a mean cheesecake.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 41 points 7 hours ago

Ah, I see. Socialism is when the market operates fairly...

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 12 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Doug was getting a lot of PR slack from being "tough on Trump" for awhile there, even on /r/onguardforthee at the time. Disgusted me. Glad he's getting dragged again, although much like my fellow Albertans I have no faith in Ontario citizens to ever figure it out.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 59 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Charge Doug Ford 10 billion dollars anytime he tries to purchase an item, you say?

[–] ascend@lemmy.radio 2 points 2 hours ago

Sounds like a good way to implement a wealth tax

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 24 points 7 hours ago

I could totally see some hippie coffee shop doing this to him.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 35 points 7 hours ago

Fuck Dougie and his 28 million dollar plane he just bought with tax payers $

[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago

Correction: charging two people...

— in the same store, in the same plaza, on the same day, at the slightly different times (or not!), discriminating between them algorithmically —

different prices for the same item...

  • So much for early 2000s "price matching."

  • So much for benefits to loyal customers.

  • So much for knowing your grocery budget.

  • So much for the "neighbourhood store."

  • So much for people being anything other than another resource to mine.

Everyone, everywhere is just a "rational consumer" guided by the "invisible hand" and "voting with their dollars" so that "the best products" emerge.

All of these axioms have, in the fullness of time, proven false.

[–] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 21 points 7 hours ago
[–] Akh@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

Here is your time to shine, charge conservatives twice as much

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

So he thinks this Capitalist hell scape we are entering is Socialism got it. Would love to know what he thinks Communism is, is it just a dirty word he does not know like Socialism?

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

No, he thinks the capitalist hellscape we are leaving behind is socialism, apparently.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)
[–] burnitdown@beige.party 1 points 1 hour ago

@Eyekaytee @CowsLookLikeMaps he probably doesn't care what he means. it's an anti-Semitic dogwhistle.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago

He's a typical high school drug dealer that somehow failed upward. All he knows is that these are scary words that make people vote for him.