Welcome to Canadian Parliamentary politics, where every good step forward has an equal and opposite step backwards.
While I still prefer it to the alternative system to the south; where it's all bad steps. I'd be lying if I said our own system was perfect by any means.
Those old beaters contain the best memories. Vehicles today are just kind of soulless. (IMO)
My first vehicles as an adult in the mid to late 90s. Objectively cheap used jalopies that I bought for a few hundred dollars but were loved because they were mine.
My first car was a 1981 Dodge Aries K-Car. The front bumper got ripped off by a guy running with no headlights while I was delivering pizzas and I literally just threw the bumper on the back seat and continued on with my deliveries, then went to my local pick-a-part and took a replacement off a different one and bolted it on myself. You just couldn't kill it.
I eventually replaced it with an 1984 Sentra that I bought at auction. I called it the "relationship killer" because the passenger door didn't open from the outside so there was no way to "open the door for your date to get in first", and half the time it didn't go into reverse, so since my dates didn't know how to drive standard transmissions, they were the one that had to push us out of parking spaces. It honked when turning left for some reason.
My point being, when things were wrong with them, they were cheap enough that you could just go to the local pick-a-part and get replacement parts. If it wasn't starting for some reason, you could stick a screw driver in the carburetor valve to give it more air. You could "own" and "tinker" on those things in ways that doing so in a new car would terrify us.
Even mother nature looked at our present timeline and said "Yeah...fuck it....let's see how crazy shit can get."
You'll invite him over for a better burger, no doubt. Because yeah, Big Macs suck.
But by the very definition of the word, a Big Mac IS a burger whether you want it to be or not. Actual facts don't generally give a shit about your opinion on the matter. A burger patty between two sides of a bun is a burger. Doesn't matter if the meat is half cardboard and the buns are reheated frozen pieces of shit, it's still very much the technical definition of a burger.
So please give the pretentious twat persona a rest, thanks.
Some are. Some aren't. There's really no other way to answer.
No political party exists as a monolith. They're all made up of people on all points of a spectrum.
In the case of the conservatives, you still have some old school Progressive Conservatives hanging around, along with some Reform/Alliance party harder right conservatives. And even some Trump style MAGA type conservatives.
As someone has already mentioned, PPC didn't split off because of idealogical differences, but because Bernier was pissy about losing the leadership.
Every single European country spent everything they had fighting each other in the first world war, and then every single country in Europe went to the United States for financial loans in order to keep fighting.
1914 to 1918 marked the single largest wealth transfer in human history. By the end of the war, America was holding much of Europe's wealth, which they used to build up their infrastructure and manufacturing base and become, frankly, an economic powerhouse far surpassing what anyone had seen before.
The rest is history.
Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
If you read you've probably heard about a little something called "Occam's razor".
What's the most probable answer, that a far right news host from a far right news channel is sporting his tattoos as a symbol of his love of history and the holy land, or that he's sporting them because he's a fucking nazi.
Nobody is denying your "history" of the symbol. We're all well aware of the "larger story". But it's irrelevant because there's an approximate 99.99999% probability that the guy who doesn't understand the wider history of the cross is the guy that's fucking wearing them.
You can write a thousand paragraphs "teaching people" all you want, but it's totally irrelevant in this situation and you are only doing it in order to obfuscate the issue with meaningless nonsense.
If conservatives don't figure out that he is 100% of the reason they lost, they're 'effin stupid and blind.
It's plainly obvious what the problem is when your party gains seats, but your leader loses his because the only person people hate more than him, resigned. (Trudeau)
When the public is sooo eager for any reason to no longer vote for you that you lose a super majority the moment the first opportunity presented itself, you are the problem.
Irrelevant. It's not about changing their mind. It's about making them afraid to spread their bullshit.
I'm currently training a new employee who comes from the "My school handed out Chromebooks" generation, and hol...eee...shit... Its frustrating as hell.
Literally every single instruction gets followed up with "no...double click"
FML