• CircaV@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    62
    ·
    edit-2
    7 days ago

    He’s a piece of shit. Got voted out last election and then made another politician resign so he could run a “safe” conservative riding in Alberta. He is a garbage person with zero redeeming qualities who has never passed a piece of legislation despite being a lifelong politician never having any other job. He’s a grifter who has sucked off the taxpayer tit his entire career. He lives in taxpayer subsidized housing . He will never be Canadas Prime Minister. We call him PeePee, or Millhouse or just “massive douchebag”.

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      34
      ·
      edit-2
      7 days ago

      He got voted out AND lost his riding.

      For those in the US, it’s the equivalent of a governor with presidential aspirations blowing a 30 point lead to lose the election, then immediately getting voted out of his governorship, only to then ask Greg Abbott to step down so he can run for governor of Texas while living in DC.

    • Smoogs@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      6 days ago

      He and Danielle smith need to fuck right off this planet. Send them back to mars

    • rozodru@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      6 days ago

      well we did. and then one of his lackeys who did win in some butt fuck no where town decided to step down so PP could have it. I mean the guy not only lost the PM race but also lost his home riding so he quite literally had to move somewhere else and have that place handed to him.

  • cheeseburger@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    6 days ago

    He’s trying to be disruptive in the same way as politicians in the Trump regime, and there’s probably a reason for that. Maybe the same reason he won’t get his security clearance?

  • Glide@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    21
    ·
    7 days ago

    Ah yes, gloss past the fact that they were nationalists before they were socialists, even if you take their name at face value.

    Fucking Polievere. Every time I think he can’t get any more unlikable.

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    7 days ago

    He has to be the worst candidate they have put forward in a long time, carney is pissing me off but this guy is dangerous. As soon as he came back he started in in immigrants and his supporters started up their racist protests

  • SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    edit-2
    6 days ago

    It seems that Beaver Trump wants to invoke the tired, old “But socialism in ‘national socialism!’” trick. Surely, the same logic applies to Deutsche Demokratische Republik. I remember coming across Poilievre during the WE Charity scandal. I’m not Canadian but I really like their Fifth Estate documentaries and their coverage on the aforementioned scandal caught my eye. In a separate video, Poilievre grills the two heads of the operation. This seemly obscure Canadian PM suddenly became Canada’s favorite favourite politician and possibly the next prime minister. But it soon become clear that Poilievre was just another right-wing, Trump-esque populist.

  • Paragone@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    6 days ago

    From what I’ve read, Canada DOESN’T designate nazis as terrorists.

    Chickens DO come home to roost, “leaders”, INEVITABLY.

    Correct the problem!

    _ /\ _

  • Smoogs@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    edit-2
    6 days ago

    PP so pathetic. Lost the election lost his riding lost his mind. And he’s a career politician. So none of this is excusable.

    Pathetic.

  • Soleos@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    7 days ago

    So if socialism is bad because it’s in the name of Nazis, then democratic republics for the people must be pretty horrible too, going by the DPRK.

    While we’re cherry-picking, the Kingdom of Norway is consistently one of the best countries to live in across several metrics. So clearly we should go back to kingdoms, because it’s in the name. Sometimes the old ways are best XD

    • Paragone@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      6 days ago

      There’s a much more-fundamental example:

      Socialism is when parents shelter, clothe, & feed, their children, who don’t have earnings to shelter/clothe/feed themselves.

      Every parent who feeds their babies is demonstrating socialism, no matter what their politics purport to be.

      Keep the framing universal, & that guts the gaslighting’s position MUCH more effectively.

      _ /\ _

      • Soleos@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        6 days ago

        Thanks for sharing that idea! I appreciate what you’re getting at: that basic care (food, clothing) embodies the tenet of equality in socialism. However, the example of a parent feeding a child doesn’t quite capture the power-relations, freedoms, and systems aspects of socialism. I don’t think we really want to say a master feeding/clothing their slave or a king feeding/clothing a favorite court jester is really “demonstrating socialism”. Socialism is about how society as a whole arranges ownership, production, and resource distribution (i.e. collective ownership of the means of production). It’s a counter to capitalism.

        Parental relationships are, ironically, a special case where limiting freedoms and greater power disparity are justified in most egalitarian systems. We usually don’t give children ownership over the means of production.

        Good formal description: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socialism

  • Paragone@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    5 days ago

    No, his claims are not “simply” ignorant, as the article claims:

    his claims are INTENTIONALLY ignorant, which is malevolent, is disinformation, & is gaslighting-of-fact.

    The difference between the 2 states is signficant.

    _ /\ _

  • Devanismyname@lazysoci.al
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    5 days ago

    This guy is human garbage. One of the moat dishonest politicians in Canadian history. If carney hadn’t run, we have had freedland, and she’d have had a historical lose to pp because of her ties to trudeau. We’d be the 51st state already.