Just an aside, but has anyone had the misfortune to have a quick look at the comments over on r/canada or cbc.ca around these articles? The amount of dumb (i.e. simplistic, low information), seething hatred for basically everything, is overwhelming. I can’t tell if this is all bots, or if something weird is coming out of the woodwork, but it seems like we’ve passed some tipping point and I’m starting to feel alarmed at where we are headed. I get this is super embarrassing, but no serious person could think there was malicious intent in this Parliament incident. Fuck-ups and carelessness happen, the guy resigned, time to move on and focus on real issues.
I agree, there’s been an apology and a resignation, so it’s done. This kind of mistake could happen to anyone, and the people spending their days in comment sections must have led really charmed lives to never have a friend or relationship that turned out bad.
He did the right thing, unlike that time that Pierre Polievre shook hands and took selfies with the well known white supremacist who later threatened to rape his wife.
Conservatives lie and cheat then change the rules to remove barriers to cheating. They have no shame.
I don’t peek at r/canada or r/vancouver anymore, just r/NiceVancouver and r/onguardforthee sometimes.
Here at Lemmy where the atmosphere is much lighter I already see a fair amount of unhinged comments and bigotry… specially coming from other instances.
When you hand the Russians a propaganda victory, you can expect them to dial up the troll farms to 11 to get the most out of the opportunity. It’s a big fuckup and CSIS/CSEC should have interdicted this TBH.
I’m sure we’ll see new house policies to prevent this exact thing from happening again, but the stupidity of politicians is a force without bounds. I’m curious how you expect CSIS to have prevented this. Do you mean they should get involved with all of the actions of our political bodies, or to somehow stem the deluge of AI-generated divisive content?
r/Canada was like a mini r/the_Donald sub for a long time. It was really bad. That’s why r/onguardforthee was created. It could go back to its roots anytime.
Just an aside, but has anyone had the misfortune to have a quick look at the comments over on r/canada or cbc.ca around these articles? The amount of dumb (i.e. simplistic, low information), seething hatred for basically everything, is overwhelming. I can’t tell if this is all bots, or if something weird is coming out of the woodwork, but it seems like we’ve passed some tipping point and I’m starting to feel alarmed at where we are headed. I get this is super embarrassing, but no serious person could think there was malicious intent in this Parliament incident. Fuck-ups and carelessness happen, the guy resigned, time to move on and focus on real issues.
I agree, there’s been an apology and a resignation, so it’s done. This kind of mistake could happen to anyone, and the people spending their days in comment sections must have led really charmed lives to never have a friend or relationship that turned out bad.
He did the right thing, unlike that time that Pierre Polievre shook hands and took selfies with the well known white supremacist who later threatened to rape his wife.
Conservatives lie and cheat then change the rules to remove barriers to cheating. They have no shame.
I don’t peek at r/canada or r/vancouver anymore, just r/NiceVancouver and r/onguardforthee sometimes.
Here at Lemmy where the atmosphere is much lighter I already see a fair amount of unhinged comments and bigotry… specially coming from other instances.
Exactly, I think the bigger news should be the misinformation coming out from this debacle and finding out who is behind all of this.
When you hand the Russians a propaganda victory, you can expect them to dial up the troll farms to 11 to get the most out of the opportunity. It’s a big fuckup and CSIS/CSEC should have interdicted this TBH.
I’m sure we’ll see new house policies to prevent this exact thing from happening again, but the stupidity of politicians is a force without bounds. I’m curious how you expect CSIS to have prevented this. Do you mean they should get involved with all of the actions of our political bodies, or to somehow stem the deluge of AI-generated divisive content?
Yes.
r/Canada was like a mini r/the_Donald sub for a long time. It was really bad. That’s why r/onguardforthee was created. It could go back to its roots anytime.
Last time I checked /r/Canada had openly extreme right mods who foster that kind of environment.