Recent content by adma

I know; that's what I meant by "opposite end of the ideological spectrum". But as per my "generic Liberal" point, in the Chretien/Martin era especially, voters voted for the brand, not for the person, because the other contender parties were perceived as not ready for prime time.

Re the NDP in SSW: it's not like there isn't *long-term* potential here (and besides 2011, don't forget that John Harney in the 70s and Reid Scott in the 60s also represented much of this area). However, I agree that unless there's an "Avi bump" the party's in no shape to be even 2nd-place...

Consider that Trump and Hegseth might have different goals--plundering vs Rapturing w/a dash of video-game cosplay.

Unstable *and* lackadaisical enough to take the advice of Christian Nationalists to that end--the "End Times is the End Goal" crowd.

Many on the left are very sympathetic to if not outright allied with Christianity, too Think of the Social Gospel, et al.

I can still see it being narrower, even if tokenly so--narrower than Miller vs Pitfield in '06--and a big part of it is that for whatever reason (racism, sexism, etc), Chow has always been branded as more "alienating" than Miller. Even when she was leading in the polls going into past mayoral...

All the same, here's things looking like a statistical tie, already. https://davidcoletto.substack.com/p/with-tory-out-torontos-mayoral-race And it makes sense--particularly when it comes to amalgamated municipal entities, there's always going to be that demo that's *really* antsy about the...

Except that once you trigger something as totalizing as Armageddon, there'll be nobody left to try you for said war crimes. And you may think that, as the Faithful, you'll achieve Transcendence; but that's like saying that nobody knew or cared who Elliott Rodger was before Isla Vista, and...

And if you think any of that is scary...

You'll probably ultimately be seeing Russian-style propaganda about how dying for one's country is a heroic and worthy cause.

Yeah, they're not going to flip Fulton County, However, they *could* make it difficult for voters in "Democrat precincts" to vote--that is, it went 71-27 Dem last time; shave off enough Dem votes through suppression tactics so it's more like 60-40 when it comes to "recorded votes", and that's...

Of course, I wasn't even referring specifically to visitors from the 905--it could even be visitors from abroad. It'd be a little like our own visiting a "foreign" place for a spell and hearing about or stumbling across some event or happening. To those jaded by transit lines worldwide, Line 5...

And one bit of little-commented-on ugly truth: a lot of regular TTC users (particularly Metropass-users) relate thusly to the GO network.

While it might not be sexy to the garden-variety tourist, ultimately "uniqueness"--or at least the single-loaded emphasis upon it--is overrated. Because *everyplace* is unique As I like to say: as I child, I went with my elders to the playground at High Park, and while that was certainly the...

What's so "insufferable" about the part you quoted (which by and large didn't include that deeper dig at you)? If anything, it *augments* your pro-suburban argument...