Not a Canadian - I keep seeing people ridiculing the Conservative party here on Lemmy, but I saw on wikipedia that they are currently leading the polls?

Trudeau is not popular as well, if I’m not mistaken. I know an older Canadian who hates Trudeau with passion and praises Poilievre…

Is this similar to Trump’s populism strat? What is it that the conservatives are promising to be that popular?

Edit: thanks all for the explanation, I wish the best for you guys

It’s like that in most of East Asia (and Southeast as well). I don’t know what will turn that around, Thailand’s cannabis legalization was the only hope but that is also at risk of being taken back.

Dude, nobody’s obsessed with their genitals but the zealots…

I’m all supportive for the reduction of meat consumption, but I believe even collective individual action won’t cut it.

Well, I totally agree with you. I somewhat fall into that category as well (younger-ish generation anxious for the future).

I think he just meant that we are a failure to our own ideals, for such a smart species we failed to be responsible or keep these companies accountable. Lets say that dinosaurs had millions of years of existence and we achieved more in thousands of years, but wouldn’t it be a shame if our achievements is what led us to our own extinction? Icarus’s fall would be nothing in comparison to ours, and that in itself can be considered a failure.

Once we see no snowfall where it should be, arctics not freezing as they usually do, we know we fucked up. Wait…we’ve been seeing these patterns last year didn’t we?

Yeah, it’s just a popular tactic for politicians to scare people then show that they are working on something to mitigate the “threat”. Immigrants, muslims, the jew, the non believers, the radiation (but not the pollution bcs it is a money maker) etc etc

Wouldn’t this thread be super biased to Linux users since those who use linux as a daily driver tend to talk about it more often than win/mac users?

50 degreees celcius?! Even 35 deg is already unbearable…