Considering the Liberals are less than seven seats shy of a majority, the NDP have quite a bit of power still - Libs have to turn to them or the Bloc to pass any policy, and especially so for any that requires confidence of the house or it will trigger an election.
It’s effectively the same parliamentary calculus as before the election, except now the NDP have far less presence on committees and we pretty much lost anyone who cared about Palestine.
They got a few small policy wins but other than that you’re right. I’m hopeful a new leader can move things in a more popular and left-wing direction.
And if the acting wasn’t dogshit lol
Might even lose Mike Morrice too.
This is a really, really disappointing election and is only going to lead to shitty policy and probably a conservative majority next time. But of course the only national conversation is, “we stood up to Drumpf!”
You can tell from his voice that his humours are very imbalanced - likely a severe lack of phlegm and an excess of black bile.
I’d make The Da Vinci Code canon.
It reminds me of my idea for a cult where the last person to join automatically becomes leader.
You got this!
Under the view you’re expressing, taxes are necessary for a number of reasons, the two most primary being 1) giving a value to the currency in the first place, and 2) controlling inflation.
You have to follow through now and add it.
I think the future is very unpredictable and I find some hope in that when things seem inexplicably bleak.
I’m sure analogous dark periods in history also felt all-consuming to those that lived through them, and they were to those that died in them. I’m currently staying in the house of a brother of a member of the Dutch resistance who died in a concentration camp two days before it was liberated. He didn’t make it but his life story is humbling to me, and some of the people he helped escape did make it.
I’m not quite ready to give up just yet.
A similar thing happened to me. My partner and their family bought tickets, and I didn’t want to commit, so they bought me one anyway and I felt guilty about wasting it. They had a “omg this is gonna be so bad, can’t wait” attitude that I can normally respect — I love trashy films — but it wasn’t The Room bad, it was just big milk-the-franchise blockbuster bad, and I knew that going in.
The entire thing is just reference humour. The acting is pretty shit too: Jack Black is playing himself (he always does, but on top of that there’s no character TO play), Jason Momoa was really annoying, and the kids are completely forgettable.
My armchair analysis is that it’s a common theme in futuristic space media to show that the Earth is much more united now that there are other worlds with which to fight, form tenuous alliances, etc. China is the biggest, most distant Other, so merging them into the American melting pot in your lore is the strongest way to make that point.
If two political bodies that were once very distinct in the past are now just provinces in a single nation, the cheapest way to extend that pattern into the future is to do what they did. It’s a bit cliché but I wouldn’t consider it the worst writing sin in the world if they had just made the characters and casting reflect that.
Side note: across Firefly and Dollhouse, there aren’t that many black characters either, and a uncomfortably large proportion of them are villains.
Four, they all speak Mandarin because of some historic cultural amalgamation, but there’s not a single Asian person on the crew (or in the show that I can remember)
I’m stuck on step 8.
I literally lasted two years. I’ll probably have to dive back into tech soon but I can’t imagine lasting more than another two when I do 😅
Yeah I’m gonna buy one of these (I want it for camping trips too) but I expect it’ll take a bit of getting used to and may not be as easy to use over a composting toilet where you want to avoid getting liquids in the solids chamber as much as possible.
I live in a vehicle 
The math is still what it is, and unless they land right at 171 (or 170 and Mike Morrice wins his riding - currently 450 votes behind with 2000 left to count), Green support isn’t enough to pass bills.
The NDP will still whip their caucus, appoint an interim leader, and hold a leadership race soon enough. As much as there’s a part of me that wants the party to die to open some some room to the left of them, I’m not convinced it’ll happen just yet. They’ve been pretty far on the sidelines for most of their history.