The poll also found that a majority of Ukrainians believe the United States (58%) and NATO (55%) bear either a great deal or some responsibility for the conflict.
The poll also found that a majority of Ukrainians believe the United States (58%) and NATO (55%) bear either a great deal or some responsibility for the conflict.
This is unrelated, but Dmitri Lascaris delivered a really powerful polemical point in a debate a few years ago that I have never heard anyone else since, so I wanted to share it:
In response to a lib he was debating identifying a moderate:
"We have to stop talking about persons defending the status quo as moderate. If you have a status quo that is leading you towards extinction, that's extremism. The people who are the true moderates in this race are those who calling upon this country and this party to take the steps necessary to deal with a fundamentally flawed economic system that is leading us down the path of climate crisis."
I briefly joined the green party to vote for him in the leadership election.
I wonder whether its better that he lost by a few percentage points, considering that their communications dude or whatever somehow managed to blow up the party.
Regardless I have not been able to get them to stop emailing me.
I did too.
FWIW I don't think the communications guy blew up the party, it was that Paul stuck by him. Paul blew up the party, Lascaris might have as well but would at least have forced some good and needed conversations.
Yeah I completely forgot about Paul defending the dude.
One funny thing is my turbo lib father was rooting for Paul to win the leadership race (despite not following it all) for her “fresh perspective” or something.
I mean that's basically why she won, so many Canadians don't have politics at all, and just wanted identitarian representation so they can feel like good libs