Conservatives shooting Conservatives

Gonna need a source of that, the guy was a registered Republican but there are records showing he made a donation to a Democrat-related organisation. Personally, I’m more of a “follow the money” type person (and simply registering doesn’t cost anything) but the reality is not enough investigation has been done to realistically speculate on motive yet.

IMHO the issue is that the the CPC is a “big tent” that was historically dominated by SoCons (which Harper kept in line pretty well), however over the past approx. 5-8 years the Libertarian contingent has grown quite a bit from grassroots.

Now even many of these “Libertarians” generally abide by SoCon principles but they don’t feel any need to push them on the general population; these people simply want to be left alone. This is causing some friction in the party as some SoCons are appealing to the “No True Scotsman” fallacy when discussing internal party/supporter politics.

Agreed, that is a big pile of bullshit, though unsurprising given that the government doesn’t want it’s own population armed, that is dictator 101 right there.

Something something, admiring basic dictatorships…

If there is a higher chance that an item is going to become illegal than another, stocking up on items that you might not be able to sell doesn’t make sense.

As an example, the Modern Sporter was FRT banned about 4 years ago and is still not actually illegal.

Although I’m aware there’s a greater uncertainty around semi-autos in general right now.

We definitely build small arms here (though not the handguns anymore I suspect), there’s no reason we couldn’t have local industry doing the manufacturing with licensed designs.

Eh, so does Western Liberalism and basically every other government for the last hundreds of years, I’d argue that they are even authoritarian to very similar degrees but about different things.

The Atlantic provinces and Quebec are probably the biggest reason we won’t see PR actually take affect. They currently have massive over representation constitutionally guaranteed and I highly doubt they are gonna give that up without a massive fight.

The closest we will ever get is a different way to count votes within the current riding system, which is still not PR at the end of the day.

(And aside from the fact that PR doesn’t solve the issue of more populace regions fucking over less populace ones without regard)

Not a bad lisy actually, although I heavily disagree with the military and police budgets line… Authoritarian left regimes are known for very high police and military budgets even with heavily states controlled economies.

Edit: police and military spending tends to relate more to the libertarian-authoritarian spectrum rather than the socioeconomic left-right spectrum

The the majority of large, brutal facist and authoritarian regimes of the last hundred or two years were secular: Nazi Germany (paid Christianity lip service near the beginning but that fell off as some churches opposed and loyalty to the state became more important), the USSR, Mao’s China, and other smaller non-USSR communist regimes that committed massive atrocities (such as the Khmer Rouge)

We don’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. We don’t need more taxes. We could tax away the entirety of the wealth of our richest citizens and it’d only cover our federal+provincial deficits for 2-3 decades at most.

Something structural with our spending needs to change.

name me a Canadian subreddit that ISN’T run by mods that staunchly control the narrative

Not just limited to Canadian subreddits, it’s all local subreddits and basically all that are over 10k people. Niche hobby subreddits are basically all that’s left that’s still ok for actually discussion.

And quite honestly, Lemmy kinda sucks too mostly because the userbase isn’t that large and politically leans significantly left of the average IRL (Reddit, other than some select (mostly American-based) subreddits also leans left of average, but not as far as Lemmy) so it’s very much an echo chamber.

Doesn’t matter, just explain it with actual examples of policies

I’m not American so I’m not all that familiar with that frame of reference

Mind describing to us what you consider a right, but not far right, political stance is? Examples of both economic and social policies would be welcome.

Sorry your cousin is a fucking moron, but I think it’s fucking absurd to curtial the freedoms of everyone because of the lowest common denominator of people.

Perhaps consider there’s a lot of space between draconian government restrictions and acting like a complete buffoon.

“Trying to protect the public” aka limiting what people can and can’t do. We’re adults, we can protect ourselves.

Last time I checked almost the entirety of that was better than the current Liberals. Lower housing prices, lower cost of living, lower immigration, lower homelessness, lower drug deaths, less crime, higher per capita GDP

Trudeau isn’t fear mongering about the CPC, they’ll be every bit as bad and worse than the Liberals say.

Could you also use that crystal ball to tell me next week’s lottery numbers?

I felt far more under seige by the federal and provincial mandates than by any of the related protests.

I mean, Minecraft is one of the most popular games in the world… Maybe the kids are trying to tell us something