People can be fine with someone even though they voted for a candidate from another party.

Five weeks is fucking forever in a Canadian election. It’s way, way too early to make such a proclamation, particularly since nobody likes Scheer and even fewer people like Trudeau.

Comparing Trudeau favourably to Trump in response to fucking brownface and blackface is whataboutism. Both you and the person I initially responded to are engaging in it to delflect from brownface and blackface.

No, I understood it. That’s why it was all the more important to shut down that kind of bullshit.

Now imagine if the NDP had actually ever held power. We’d be decades ahead of where we are now.

We should call things that are racist racist, yes.

You deny the blackface and brownface are racism because a guy you like did them. That’s it.

It’s not the extent of the problems, no. But hey, nice whataboutism.

People’s perceptions of the parties at each level tend to bleed into one another. There’s a reason MPs often campaign for MPPs (my own MPP is currently knocking doors for a federal candidate) and vice versa. And there’s a reason Scheer doesn’t want to be seen with Ford.

Yikes.

Canadians are the only ones who get to vote in the election.

While he took responsibility, he blamed his “enthusiasm” for “costumes” rather than his ignorance and racism and, above all, privilege.

Ah yes, it takes a “real man” to do brownface and blackface.

No, minority governments are bad. Only someone who would be able to stomach someone like Scheer as being in charge of the whole country would think minority governments are good.

If only someone would run on electoral reform. Even people who wouldn’t normally vote for their party might do so as a compromise in order to make things change the next time around.

“Do you understand that you can afford to do things that you simply don’t do?”

Truly wild seeing nominally right wing people do performative outrage over this while nominally liberal people insist that, Actually, it’s political correctness gone mad that racism is seen as anything less than acceptable.

It sucks shit. Would rather have someone who doesn’t do brownface and blackface and doesn’t have a Haida tattoo (unless of course, that someone actually were Haida). But he’ll probably get to stay in charge with a minority government because enough people are coming around on the idea that the Conservatives are even…

Uh, it’s been a long time since there’s been enthusiasm for Trudeau. His approval ratings have been pretty consistently lower than Trump’s for years.

Forget? They know they did and that’s one of the million reasons why they’re comfortable fucking people over. The state itself is willing to give them billions of dollars if they have a bad day. The workers are dependent on them for the medical care they and their families need to live. Corporations like GM have…