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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: The New Canada Guide |
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:35 am
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| Thanks for the corrections! |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Canada's tangled web of parties |
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:25 pm
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Comments: 8
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| Charest's PC party, in turn, was the party Stephen Harper formed his political career in opposition to That isn't quite correct. The Reform party was created by Preston Manning in response to the West's being locked out of confederation by the Liberal party. The party was founded in 1987 during the... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Justin's least favourite PM |
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 5:33 pm
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Comments: 16
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| You make a good point, and I think that's why the Summit Series hasn't aged that well as a Canadian myth. If we had been playing the Americans instead of the Soviets I'm sure it would still be a huge deal today, but as it stands, I think it's a legend that's getting harder and harder to relate to in... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Justin's least favourite PM |
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 9:59 pm
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Comments: 16
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| I guess in a way, though I feel like almost every country has had a father-son team at some point or another. |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Four score and two marriages ago... |
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:01 pm
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Comments: 15
Views: 275
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| Very insightful, Trenacker. |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Liberals: Party of the Future |
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:08 pm
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Comments: 28
Views: 488
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| It works well in all democracies ever. It's hardly a Canadian thing. |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Liberals: Party of the Future |
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:11 pm
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Comments: 28
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| Doesn't that describe every single party that already exists? |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Liberals: Party of the Future |
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:04 pm
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Comments: 28
Views: 488
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| What are you ideas for tweaks, Thanos? |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: The political preferences of professions |
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 1:29 am
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Comments: 29
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| Ron Paul says a great deal of Ron Paul supporters are active-duty officers as well, which certainly defies common stereotype. I'm not sure I know enough about military culture to guess why a soldier would be inclined to support one ideology over another. Certainly the military is orderly and hierarc... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Dictator Dynasties |
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:05 pm
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Comments: 131
Views: 1219
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| If hereditary rule produces a bad heir, you have to tolerate him. There is no way to remove him from office without undermining the founding principles of the system. That's a system that encourages "tolerating the intolerable," which is what I meant by that line. |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Dictator Dynasties |
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:40 pm
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Comments: 131
Views: 1219
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| I don't feel I've ever made a post that has been less understood than this one. Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned the Canadian monarchy at all, since that's clearly a topic that tends to suck all air out of any debate. Imagine you were a North Korean politician. You love the North Korean regime. Woul... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Dictator Dynasties |
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:34 am
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Comments: 131
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| At any rate, JJ's rants against seem to always focus on hereditary monarchy. I don't think we really know for sure what he thinks about e.g. elective monarchy. An elective monarchy isn't really a monarchy at all. I think we sometimes focus too much on these titles, like whether the head of state is... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Dictator Dynasties |
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 7:00 pm
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Comments: 131
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| It's not a specious comparison. My thesis is that hereditary leadership provides generally worse leaders in all contexts. Which is to say, Baby Doc Duvalier was a bad dictator of Haiti for the same reason I imagine Prince Charles will be a bad king of the UK or Harold Buffett will be a bad CEO of Be... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Dictator Dynasties |
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 5:45 pm
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Comments: 131
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| I don't give a shit either way about our monarchy. I used to be more against it, but now it doesn't really seem worth all the angst to change it. But to compare it to a Bush or Harper dynasty seems a little overboard to me. When it comes to the monarchy, JJ tends towards republican evangelism for t... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Cain's harassers |
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:24 am
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Comments: 20
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| I'm not saying every random allegation of any random crime is automatically valid. Obviously I could dream up six scandals for any politician right now. My point was more that credibly argued allegations of promiscuity against politicians tend to have a very high record of accuracy, especially when ... |
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