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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

So please understand that this political grandstanding bullshit is a way to pander to their supporters, appear tough on crime - more accurately let’s punish, not rehabilitate; and stay in the headlines. They care not one jot about jurisprudence, professionalism, or pragmatism. Happy Hallowe’en.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I also have no clue how the training and experience of Moe, Ford, Smith, and Poilievre even qualify them to rule in judicial cases (Not one of them is a legal expert, IIRC) let alone sit on the highest court in the land.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I do not want ANY politicial interference with the judicial branch - at all. Ever. I certainly do not want our judges to be elected as they are in the US - largely because it’s not going great for them down there, though the campaign ads are hilarious.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

So I get a little disquieted when the likes of Poilievre, Ford, Smith, and Moe begin the ragefarming in this way. Moreover, Scott Moe came out with the line “…unelected judges…” - an echo from our US cousins.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

For the uninitiated - the judicial branch of the Canadian government is there as a realistic check to the parliamentary and senate branches. Judges hear cases and weigh them, on their merits and evidence, and pass their learned judicial opinions. That’s their job.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I think of a modern retelling of Pandora’s Box - only Pandora is in therapy with buried childhood trauma.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Scott Moe supports the pipeline proposal that Danielle Smith has decided to put forward, with this comment. I wonder how both Moe and Smith would feel if PM Carney came out saying that the natural resources in AB and SK are Canadian, not theirs.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

With all of his bluster about banning “cash grab speed cameras” I can’t help thinking that Premier Ford - or a close family member - may have got himself a speeding ticket recently. #ONpoli

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

- engage in hate speech and conspiracies. - and are often the most thin skinned when it comes to criticisms. So you’ll forgive me for reaching the conclusion that some of our right wing politicians (Polievere, Smith, Moe) need to abide by a better standard before the situation can change. #cdnpoli

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

- deploy lies and half truths. - deny the existence of marginalised groups. - regularly justify hatred and bigotry. - regularly cosy up to extremists and demagogues. - avoid accountability and responsibility. - engage in behaviours of which they accuse their opponents. …

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I’m getting pretty sick of right wing politicians implying the left need to get better at hearing things they don’t agree with as a cure for the political division and violence of the modern age. Need I point out that these folks: - debate in bad faith, usually deploying logical fallacies. …

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Listening to Danielle Smith on #CBC #FrontBurner this morning was painful. If she spoke about every topic the way she spoke about oil and gas, she’d be a lot more compelling. Her misinformation about puberty blockers and trans youth was awful. As were her comments about Charlie Kirk. Do better

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

But then, what else can you expect from someone who uses the very tools Mr. Kirk used to rise to prominence - rhetoric, delivery, debate skills, logical fallacies? When we ask the big questions, PP does not have anything but simplistic answers and/or slogans.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

With hearing things they disagree with. While I agree, partially, with his response his irresponsibility in assigning motive to the killer prior to *any* investigation starting speaks volumes. As does his reductive take on how to end political violence…

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

In an interview last week, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre suggested (with no evidence) that the person killing Charlie Kirk did so because they didn’t agree with what Mr. Kirk said. When asked for how we can end political violence, he answered that people need to get better at dealing…

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Cancel culture warfare was never about silencing free speech. It was laying the groundwork for what is currently happening: the silencing of dissenting and critical voices of the Dear Leader. First Colbert. Now Kimmel. Numerous administrators, judges, jurists, opponents, journalists, lawyers. Gone

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Also, 49 trips around the Sun. Happy Birthday to me.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

If you’re currently angry that there are too many immigrants taking (below market wages) jobs away from your country’s youth and citizens then the propaganda has worked. The problem isn’t immigration. It’s the below market wage jobs. The problem is capitalism.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Maybe we need to consider an alternate approach. #cdnpoli

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Neoliberalism/laissez-faire capitalism has given us: - exploitative corporations - ever worsening climate change - environmental damage - microplastics in the human diet - industrialised farming - degradation of ecosystems - erosion of social safety nets - hyper concentration of wealth

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Speed painted Palanite. I didn’t like the green so the next batch are blue. Not sure what to do with the other 4 - paint ‘em green? Or blue? T

Necromunda Palanite Enforcer - a heavily body armoured law enforcement officer - holding a barrel magazined sub-machine gun and a pair of handcuffs. Painted in green with yellow accents.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

We have multiple provinces with historic wildfires. Multiple provinces under their third or fourth heat warnings this summer already. West Nile virus showing up in southern Canada. But, sure, climate change isn’t real and we should *absolutely* pull more fossil fuels out of the ground. #sarcasm

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Recognising Palestine is performative at best - even with the conditions. Without removing the illegal Israeli settlements and a recognition of Israel’s historial annexation of Palestinian territory and war crimes - up to present day - this will do little to ease tensions in the region IMHO.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Did you ever wonder why those neoliberalists and capitalists who decried “You won’t anything and be happy” a few years ago won’t do anything against streaming services and digital subscriptions who say that you don’t own what you pay for - you’re just renting it??

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Saw my first Fuck Carney flag today. A dude, hopefully on his lunch break or day off, wearing it and a large syringe prop with the word “bioweapon” on it. So, that’s fun. Especially protesting against a centre-right neoliberal market-solutions capitalist PM.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

People are starving. There’s a genocide in Palestine. The far right are in control of Israel and the US. Capitalism has led to the widest wealth gap in history. But sure, socialism is the threat.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

So, y’all thought COVID lockdowns were the worst thing ever. You’re now living in a year where there are 2 wars, a genocide, a large social democracy sliding (further) into right wing authoritarian, unprecendented climate change, and widening wealth disparities. So, you know, happy Friday.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

AND, they choose to make this announcement on graduation day for many secondary schools. The last day of the school year for many. What a joke?!

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This is from CBC. Who takes over the dept. for education for failing to make decisions that does not support student success by increasing class sizes, mandating tech education and online courses, and failing to support students with appropriate funding.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Cool. The provincial govt just took over my school board. Years of underspending on education put us in this position. I have no hope - none - that they will be do anything to solve the problems they’ve foisted on us. #ONpoli #OnEd

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Alright y’all. The US currently has a tyrannical government. Time to get going, 2nd Amendmenters.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I have no idea what the distraction could be from. But it’s not out of the realms of possibility that this noise is a cover for something.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Listen, as fun as the Trump/Musk feud is, my concern is what it’s distracting from.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

#onpoli The Supporting Children and Students Act, 2025 is being tabled. This would allow the minister of educations to directly supervise school boards for entirely ideological - not educational - or finiancial reasons. From the same government failing to address funding shortfalls in education

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

#onpoli Bill 5 could well usher in a wave of deregulation the likes of which the US has witnessed since Reagan. Environmental, labour, planning protections could all be removed and all without the consultation of Indigenous peoples. Please oppose this with your MPPs.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Sounds good. The daily vids are enough to get the news across and jumping right into the interview would be welcome.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Or believed the half truths and outright lies he spouted during the campaign.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

He’s a centre-right political figure. Just as Trudeau was centre-left. Not sure I agree with the tack he took in the election but then I’m more progressive, it seems, than the electorate.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I work in a school in the Carleton riding. The nationwide Civix student vote went 36% CPC to 31% Liberal. In our school, the vote was overwhelmingly for the Liberal. Take from that what you will.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Danielle Smith, in an interview with CBC Power and Politics, described the CPC as a centrist party; and the NDP, BQ, and Greens as fringe parties. So, that’s fun. #cdnpoli

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Achievement unlocked: Civic duty performed. First Federal election vote in the bag. Now I have one of each level of government. #cdnpoli

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Especially considering the data does not support that conclusion, like, at all.

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Deeply concerned by some of the vox pops I’ve been hearing on CBC in the last 24 hours. Many of them just parroting talking points from Mr. Pollipoopoo without digging in to the platforms. I’m reminded that the greatest trick conservatives pull is the veneer of fiscal responsibility. #cdnpoli

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Cap’n Tightpants @capntightpants.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I sincerely hope that despite the outcome of the election, Pollipoopoo loses his seat. Wouldn’t that be hilarious?! #cdnpoli

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