T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦
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Evolutionary biologist. Genome size, junk DNA, applied evolution, sci comm, SARS-CoV-2 evolution. Onions have 5x more DNA than you do. He/him.
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Considering the goal of public health leaders has been to make COVID endemic, this would be a great time for them to explain why that's a good thing.
Were they just trying to get it everywhere so they could use that as an excuse for failing to do anything, or is there some sort of plan here?
Were they just trying to get it everywhere so they could use that as an excuse for failing to do anything, or is there some sort of plan here?
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Considering the goal of public health leaders has been to make COVID endemic, this would be a great time for them to explain why that's a good thing.
Were they just trying to get it everywhere so they could use that as an excuse for failing to do anything, or is there some sort of plan here?
Were they just trying to get it everywhere so they could use that as an excuse for failing to do anything, or is there some sort of plan here?
Yes. Doesn't change what Carney fans are doing.
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Yes. Doesn't change what Carney fans are doing.
1) No it isn't. Candidates who wouldn't stop genocide is how you got that.
2) This post was not about American politics.
2) This post was not about American politics.
November 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
1) No it isn't. Candidates who wouldn't stop genocide is how you got that.
2) This post was not about American politics.
2) This post was not about American politics.
Same. Lived in NY and also very much like DC, San Francisco, New Orleans, Chicago, and other places. But can't imagine going.
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Same. Lived in NY and also very much like DC, San Francisco, New Orleans, Chicago, and other places. But can't imagine going.
Here you go. And yes, someone (now blocked) actually asked "But what was the alternative?" in the comments on this thread:
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Please stop saying things like "We had to vote for Carney, it was the only alternative to PP".
It's just not true. In fact, that kind of thinking made and continues to make things worse.
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It's just not true. In fact, that kind of thinking made and continues to make things worse.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Here you go. And yes, someone (now blocked) actually asked "But what was the alternative?" in the comments on this thread:
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You clearly didn't understand it then.
November 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
You clearly didn't understand it then.
Big Daddy Knows Best.
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Big Daddy Knows Best.
Instead, we get an LPC moving farther and farther to the right, indeed attracting CPC MPs to join them, with almost no progressives putting a check on that. *Because* people said "there is no alternative but to vote for Carney".
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Instead, we get an LPC moving farther and farther to the right, indeed attracting CPC MPs to join them, with almost no progressives putting a check on that. *Because* people said "there is no alternative but to vote for Carney".
We could easily have had a minority LPC with NDP holding balance of power. Good things have happened in that situation. Do the math on 8 fewer CPC seats and those going instead to progressives. "There is no alternative" cost us exactly that.
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We could easily have had a minority LPC with NDP holding balance of power. Good things have happened in that situation. Do the math on 8 fewer CPC seats and those going instead to progressives. "There is no alternative" cost us exactly that.
I don't know how to explain it any more clearly. Did you read the thread before commenting?
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I don't know how to explain it any more clearly. Did you read the thread before commenting?
All of this is to say that "We had no choice" or "But PP would be worse" are *terrible* arguments for shrugging and accepting whatever Carney does now.
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
All of this is to say that "We had no choice" or "But PP would be worse" are *terrible* arguments for shrugging and accepting whatever Carney does now.