https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2025_Canadian_federal_election

PQ and NDP are both pretty level for the past few years, which leaves the NDP in a better position now that the Liberals are imploding. Maybe you saw a Quebec poll?

This is also increasing order for revenue generation (probably).

What are the old social-democratic arguments, exactly? As an anglo, it seems funny to me to have a nationalist movement that’s not also traditionalist.

Really? NDP opposition is more in line with the polls right now.

Man, I wish Alberta was more like that. Zombie brand loyalty is frustrating.

On the other hand, it lets me pretend we don’t have FPTP, I guess. There’s less pandering to strategic demographics when there are none.

Lol, then they’ll find out it’s the same shit but worse. Unless they work in tech, I guess. I guarantee virtually none of them are asking to be forcibly kept out - don’t paint that as a benevolent position.

We do need to build more houses, though, and let values chill the hell out (you caught this before I could ninja edit that in).

You know that might be most Canadians in the upcoming election, right? Do you really think to moment you leave Toronto or whatever people become toothless inbreds?

I’m not in this picture at all, by the way. Like the rest of Lemmy I dread PP. Exaggerated stereotypes serve nobody well.

The immigrants would disagree.

The S*n.

It’s Newsweek, but this does sound like a thing they’d do.

TBF they like that guy too. And the second guy didn’t suggest this - it’s all them and their weird homoerotic incel energy.

Depends. Does propaganda have to be untrue or wrong in some way? If not, they’re definitely political messages that are widely displayed for persuasive purposes, which is the rest of the definition of propaganda. If so, propaganda is relative to what you believe anyway.

Most people never fully believe anything about the big picture, which is frustrating as hell in good(-ish) times, but in really bad times becomes a grain of hope.

If all Americans thought like this, I might support a union too. Unfortunately, you’re outnumbered.

It’s never too early to start collaborating with the occupiers, I guess.

Like, it’s still mostly hypothetical and this guy is putting his hand up to be a Quisling.

Yes, but imagine all the rage clicks!

He’s basically a professional media villain at this point. Not many people take him seriously, and I doubt the share among journalists is larger.

Guessing this is supposed to be a gotcha based on domain, but it’s not. They pretty openly teach people to read so they can read propaganda.

Of course, if you believe they’re Wakanda IRL maybe that’s just what they say to outsiders to keep them away.

It’s a weird place. From what I’ve heard, at this point it’s more like a giant plantation or a resource colony (with no foreign overlords) than a normal dictatorship. The three sectors of the economy are policing the common people, making stuff for export (often on the black market and often globally illegal stuff) and making nukes to protect from foreign adversaries. The money from exports goes to grain, and luxury items for a separate elite that doesn’t even like to stay in the country, let alone be part of it.

Probably got caught not believing all this stuff in private, and listening to k-pop or something. Off to war you go…

He also implied that being sent to Ukraine was punishment for something.

No way. You notice how he implies he broke the rules and is being punished for it? This was the diary for his commanders and/or military police to “secretly” read. Defectors pretty much give the same story - corruption and crime is ubiquitous, nobody follows the rules when they can’t be caught.

Human nature is pretty unremarkable for the most part, but one thing we have going for us is that the majority of people never buy the propaganda, regardless of what it is and where they are. You can see that in history, in modern authoritarian states, and even in the West about propaganda I personally agree with (save the planet! vaccines don’t cause autism! covid is real!).