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Does the urge to get the star wars quote in there override actually reading what I wrote?

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It's my employers rule so if they fucked up that's on them.

I couldn't watch the tiktok because there were no subtitles so maybe I am missing something.

I don't understand how these glasses could be permitted in a medical setting. It's becoming more normal for medical offices here to record visits and use AI to transcribe the visit. Sure, there are concerns about those in terms of accuracy, and there is a risk of unauthorized access and systems failing, but there is a list of vetted products build to meet privacy and security requirements. Kinda the same way I am only permitted to use Copilot at work because the data is not sent back to be used in training models.

I don't believe Meta has any such programs or versions?

I have a question for people who are upset when their posts or comments are moderated: would it be preferable for content to be approved before being posted?

There absolutely is a way for a party (or rather the Congress itself) to confine a President to their role,

I don't think I expressed myself well.

When I said

If the president can do whatever he wants within the confines of his role

I was trying to be specific that I was looking at my understanding of the system as designed, from day one.

Not all instances have downvotes

What if we had a king but used a different word" theory

I yapped about it too much over here but like...

If the president can do whatever he wants within the confines of his role

And there is no way for his party to hold him to account

And there isn't even an overall party platform so we can't even pretend there is a mandate

How is it not just choosing a new king every 4 years?

It's likely I'm not understanding your point so I would appreciate it if you could correct my interpretation..

I'm hearing that it's important to choose a leader because a party or movement without a leader could not communicate the platform effectively and would surely lose even if people agreed with them. I wasn't suggesting that within an electoral system a political party should not have a leader or at least a spokesperson.

I realize my example doesn't have the same meaning to people who are unfamiliar with other political systems but parties just yeet leaders and move on. I suppose there are structural differences that make that impossible in the states, like having the election for president being entirely separate from electing local representatives and that being party leader or even PM in canada doesn't require you to hold a seat. I also keep forgetting about primaries lol. Those are not a thing.

I was looking at US congressional election results to see if I could imagine a comparable scenario but I think the systems are too different..

In 2019 the new leader of the Conservative party lost the election. His party wasn't in power before, and they actually gained 26/343 seats but he had to step down as leader because his party was not happy with his gains. He's still in office and still a member of the party. He even served as interim leader again when the next guy got ousted.

The next election in 2021 had a new leader and they lost again but did not gain or lose any seats. His party was still mad but this time it was more about him not being right wing enough:

On January 31, 2022, Conservative Calgary Heritage MP Bob Benzen submitted a letter with signatures from 35 Conservative MPs calling for a leadership review on O'Toole's leadership to the Conservative caucus chair, Scott Reid. In the letter, Benzen criticized O'Toole's reversal on repealing Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's carbon tax and assault weapons ban.

He kept served the rest of this term but did not seek election.

I remember some of the discussion around Bidden stepping down from reflection and how it seemed to be portrayed as a weakness of the party or something that would doom the party. I also think about how the president can basically do whatever they want without needing to get buy in from the party, especially in the context of "blue no matter who" and the question of supporting Palestine in 2024. There is no party cohesion because there isn't a mechanism to have consequences for pissing off large sections of your party while you are in office. A more positive framing would be there is no mechanism to ensure the party leader is representing the wishes of the party, which is assumed to be the wishes of the public who elected them. If I understand correctly platforms are individual rather than party based as well that doesn't really help with a cohesive message either.

I think I now understand better why emphasis on the individual is so important in this system:

A leader for a party (presidential candidate) is chosen shortly before the general election. They get no practical experience before hand because choosing a leader is part of the election process and cannot happen until then.
They get the job, presumably based on the platform that won them the primary and was crafted by the party after the primaries.
Once they are in office you better hope they toe the line because to question them would be to question the whole party even though the party has no say in how they conduct themselves.

In contrast, in other systems you don't need an election for the party to say "nah you don't represent us any more" and the person doesn't lose their seat/you don't topple the government. It's rare it happens to the sitting PM, but our last PM resigned from the job basically under duress because his own party was like "don't make us kick you out" and the opposition was like "don't make me trigger an election".

it's not a magic approach. The last PM broke his promise on electorial reform and his party did not care at all, but obviously they had vested interest in it not changing. But that was more about the public losing faith, not the party.

I was just discussing this with my spouse so we refreshed our memory on how previous elections went. I'm not disagreeing with you at all, I just think it's funny that they went from Sheer to O'Toole to this guy and we're like, "Yes, this is the fresh new face we need to appeal to the youth." 🤭

I think that anyone who was paying attention when Trudeau entered politics knew the party was treating him as their savior. That said, I had forgotten how blatant it was. I lived in Michael Ignatieff's ward. I remember at the time an thinking '"this guy is fucking cooked" after it came to light that he made disparaging remarks about Ukrainian people in his book and then doubled down when asked about it.

People loved Jean Augustine (MP prior) in Etobicoke Lakeshore. I remember people crying at events to honour her when she retired. She was a teacher, and a Black woman who immigrated from Grenada as a domestic worker. It gets overshadowed by Little Jamaica but Etobicoke Lakeshore has a very large Caribbean immigrant community because many of them came as skilled workers to the (formerly) heavily industrial area. So they plop this suit who has lived in the states for 30 years and taught at Harvard in this riding and thought it would work out? It suddenly makes more sense why Trudeau was seen as being able to save the party lol. They steered too hard toward a leader like Harper and it did not work out for them.

Idk I think canada has a lot of that too. People rely on fox news type shows, facebook, and political advertisements to decide. We have a lot of the same absurd misinformation shit. People did literally believe the prime minister was the son of Fidel Castro, for example.

Even if they buy into "immigrants are stealing our jerbs" they have to pick which right wing party to vote for and leadership has kinda been a revolving door at both the federal and provincial levels in recent years. Not sure if it's the cause or effect?

Parties do spend a lot of time and money promoting the leaders. I don't want to pretend we're above that or anything lol. A hilarious example:

It didn't work lol, he's still a fucking nerd. After he lost the last election (both for the party and his own seat) he decided to try harder and moved to Alberta. I can't find the photo but apparently he showed up wearing the cowboy hat backwards and folks did not take kindly to that 🤡

I don't know much about the political climate in countries other than the US and canada but it would be interesting to know if the emphasis on the individual is so high.

I'm not going to sit here and pretend a strong, well liked leader doesn't help a political party. But like, how can it be wise to lean so heavily on an individual? Is it a symptom of how 'high stakes" US elections are?

As if the end goal wasn't forcing an extremely rigid definition of womenhood on all women.

This is only as of June 1, 2021.

Directly prior to this if was $13.95/hr for "liquor servers" when regular min wage was was $15.20/hour.

Ontario had a different rate until Jan 2022. I think they still have a "student" minimum wage.

It's not as stark a difference as it is in some states but it has been part of the reasoning for tipping here as well, in the past.

Like it might just be the autism but in general I think I get indifference or disinterest. There are definitely men who just don't like me but I assume it's not because they think I'm ugly. At least I hope not lol. Still, that's very much a them problem 🤷‍♀️

I don't think I've experienced outright cruelty at least none that impacted me. I don't flirt or shoot my shot really so that might be the main reason why I'm not experiencing anything too negative.

Not sure what any of this has to do with discrimination?

I don't even know what this Tesseract is

Oh I see

Lmao right? LLM learned to from somewhere.

They don't mean it. They just want someone for the working class to blame. They need immigrants to work for cheap and to only be here during their "productive" years and they need someone to blame for low wages and lack of local jobs.

Who is paying them under the table? Doesn't that mean they are not paying their share of payroll taxes, wsib etc? Why not crack down on this?

Who let them into the country? Was it because they couldn't find local people willing to take low paying jobs? This takes both the company and the government to make happen.

Will off shoring end? Not likely...

Will foreign companies be discouraged from investing in the country? Absolutely not.

If there is no one for the poorest and most exploited working class american to feel superior to, will he continue to buy into the 'american dream'?

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