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Weekly Politics Thread

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u/Cadaren99 on Jun 11 '22

To a lot of people it is. Also, Politicians don't control the price of gas, or housing, or food, or anything else you buy from a capitalist market. Not unless you want to bring in socialist price controls.

And before you go on and on about the carbon tax, I don't care, and to address the rest of the taxes on gas - reducing them will only allow price creep to occur. Then we're losers all around, the price of gas is the same and now we have less revenue to fund the province. Which is exactly what happened in Alberta and is going to happen in Ontario.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22

... what? All of what you said is just horse shit but that's getting way off topic.

I wasn't even going to mention the carbon tax but the fact that you don't care is yet again another example of self centered urbanite. Who would have guessed. "Fuck you got mine" seems to be on the dot

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u/Cadaren99 on Jun 11 '22

"I don't like what you said therefore it's bullshit."

Also - you don't seem to understand what the saying "fuck you I got mine" means eh? I support child care spending even though I'm at the end of my having to pay for it. I think a UBI should be piloted better because one of the root causes of gun crime is extreme poverty. I support more social programs for everyone.

So no, I don't think "fuck you I got mine" is a appropriate description of me. You should probably try and insult me by calling me a socialist.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22

No it's not the case but I appear to have pressed one too many buttons. You're ranting now for very little good reason and putting words into my mouth to try and make yourself feel better. You're indirectly implying how virtuous you are by stating your beliefs and what the government should do. We're on a gun related subreddit*.

I don't really care.

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u/Cadaren99 on Jun 11 '22

You are utterly frustrating to argue with. This is why we're losing the gun debate, people like yourself can't string a complete and logical thought together.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22

Frustrating to argue with? I'm not trying to waste time arguing about politics that aren't related to guns in any matter. Someone asked you how cost of living has improved at all, now here you are ranting about socialism and trying to prove how good of a person you are. I never wanted to argue.

"People like myself" aren't the reason why we're losing the gun debate. People like you voting liberal are why this debate is in such a bad state; liberal voters give liberals more room to talk and act irrational towards guns.

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u/Cadaren99 on Jun 11 '22

I don't vote Liberal, but my guns aren't my only identity and other things in life matter more.

Also if you don't want to talk about politics perhaps you shouldn't be in the weekly/bi-weekly politics thread buds.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22

NDP somehow is a better vote? It's not Layton era anymore. Sorry to inform you that there are many other people like me where guns comprise a big part of their values. I know it's hard to understand that other people think differently.

This thread is related to gun related politics. This isn't the place for me to virtue signal and talk about carbon taxes; neither have anything to do with guns. I talk about guns and gun culture because that's what this place is for.

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u/Cadaren99 on Jun 11 '22

I love how you make assumptions about me, then attack those assumptions. I feel like that is a logical fallacy of some sort...oh wait it is. Leave the strawmen in the cornfields.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22

Well, no CPC, PPC or independent voter says things like you've said. Maybe if you didn't wear your politics on your sleeve I wouldn't be saying these things.

Also, you're still going. I don't understand how you're this invested. I think it's time to give it a rest.

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