They're just local politicians doing something rather silly

doesn't city governments get tax money as their funding?

Yep

Sort of, the exact system depends on country

They often make their money from local taxes

thats still taxpayer money?

They also had new feminist period art installed in subway stations
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/stockholm/ny-konst-i-tunnelbanan

Well yeah

But the point here is that you cant really say 'The federal government is wasting money'

Better example. Just look at the administration of Universities.

Pretend tuition is taxes.

Not quite a whole state, but I think it's what they idealize.

@Deleted User Why do they have jam coming from their undies wtf

suppose to go on your toast

Government officials in Sweden fund their parties with tax money too
http://www.bt.se/nyheter/forsakringskassan-stallde-in-fest-skattebetalarna-nota-36-000-kronor/

pls answer question

There are places in the US that do this. It always ends up in the hands of incumbents somehow.

@Franken the answer is in the post.

It's a fucked up government

But it hasn't gone full social justice yet

Canada is pretty close too

I dunno about that.

Trudeau can be a goon, but overall i really dont feel our government has gone SJW.

That's why I said *close*

I dont really think we're close either

To be clear

@pratel but why jam

Canada will probably become more right wing next election.

I kinda hope not. Im really not a fan of SJW like shit, and some of Trudeaus antics, but im even less of a fan of the conservative party here.

I got this weird feeling a reaction to Trudeau is building behind the scenes.

Trudeau is a Social Justice PM and he's moved policy in that direction. ("feminist budgets" and things like denying funding to pro-life groups for summer programs being key examples)

But it's being met with growing resistance.

He has, but as far as ive seen its almost all been very token

Hence why im still just very meh on him.

Man i miss Jack Layton

NDP is electing shitty leaders, Conservatives are pretty shit right now, and the liberals are Trudeau

I just find myself really not being a fan of anybody

It's a less extreme version of how i feel about US politics

I think that's the new normal for everybody at some level.

Furthermore, coalitions shift.

In the US we are in the middle of a very big shift right now.

Once the Democrats come to power and fracture, the shift will be complete.

They can't hold their current divisions entirely.

Or if they do, it would be one **** of an act. Social Justice being the likely glue.

In which social justice would only get more extreme.

The only party we have that is consistently against increasing surveilence powers/compromising what 'free speech' rights we have, is the NDP, but they've seemingly been taken in by the SJW shit thats going around, despite having been mostly above it historically (At least in terms of race/gender/etc)
Though probably not as bad as the liberals with Trudeau

Liberals have seemed really willing to compromise those rights along with the Conservatives

Before 2013, I'd have thought that would be the Democrats. Then social justice happened. And now look where things are. The ACLU is backing away from free speech and there's fake news bills being passed around California.

Who knows anymore.

See

Our analogs for US parties are as follows

Conservatives are a more mild version of republicans

Liberals are quite similar to democrats

NDP is the further left leaning party

They're more.... old school though?

Or at least used to be.

Hence my comment about Jack Layton, which was their leader until 2011

Old school meaning old school socialist?

Kind yeah. NDP was formerly a outright Socialist party, but toned that down somewhat in the late 90's/early 2000's

Not sure how to explain it really

Comparing them to people like Bernie in the US i think actually doesnt work that well

Do they map well to Cortez?

No, not really.

Ok. try this.

Chavez? Castro? 😄

No :p

Guevera?

No.

https://i.imgur.com/v6gnGYH.png

This was their platform last election

If you read carefully, they mention repealling Bill C-51

The 'anti terrorism' bill

Which is a massive part of why i liked them that election

They were the only party interested in doing that.

Stance on:
1) Minimum Wage.
2) Rent control
3) Nationalization of industries
4) Firearms
5) vices (alcohol, weed, violent media)
6) Social Justice (as defined by feminism and racial politics)
7) Preferred taxes

The platform is useful, but it seems pretty par for the course for Canada from what I can tell.

damnit i misread that last part "Crack down on Senate expenses and LOBSTER Conflict, interest laws" 😦 i was so excited

Oh, two others I forgot, preferred subsidies and defense spending.

1) Dont think they had one. But they're a party that would like a relatively high one.
2) Never mentioned really. Not that ive seen. That kinda goes for all parties in the 2015 election. More of a local issue?
3) NDP is pro-nationalization for industries Canada has tradtionally had nationalized (Hydro is the big thing. Conservatives moved to privatize, NDP strongly dislikes this.)
4) No comment. Canadians are generally quite happy with their firearms laws, though im sure some gun people would prefer them loosened. It's not a big debate here, and wasnt talked about from what i saw.
5) Fine with vices, probably would consider legalizing marijuana like Trudeau is doing, but didnt run on it.
6) Talk about it alot less then Liberals, but some of what the individual party members have said, especially in 2017/2018 makes me feel bleh. I think they'd be significantly more mild about it then liberals though, more worried about class like traditional leftist politics, then race/femininism
7) Liberals have a habit of increasing spending, without compensating enough with revenue. NDP would like to both increase spending and increase taxes. (IIRC they wanted to increase spending by a similar amount to liberals, but actually talked about raising taxes to pay for it. Liberals kinda avoided talking about how they would pay)

Our parties, as of the 2015 election kind of end up
Conservatives : Right
Liberals : Centre Left
NDP : Left

Traditionally the liberals have been centrist or centre right though.

And they tend to vote with conservatives more often then NDP

Sounds like Sanders to me.

On the tax question, what I really meant was if given the choice between say an excise tax or an income tax, which would they choose.

The flier indicated a desire to cut the business tax for 'small' businesses, which seemed kinda odd for a traditional left party.

excise tax?

Alcohol.

Oh yeah, they did run on that.

Cigarettes.

Stuff like that.

Carbon.

They wouldnt really do that. Again more of a local thing here?
Carbon tax they would do though.

Trudeau is trying as well

Interestingly

The Local NDP in Alberta

(Oil sands)

Is fighting strongly against the carbon tax.

Rachel Notely is the local NDP leader in Alberta

Notably Alberta consistently voted conservative before her

But she's quite popular now

And yes, like i was trying to get at before, more class focused, then race/feminism focused.

Which is much like sanders

Though i havent seen them call for taxing the rich to pay for university or some such

So less extreme then sanders in some ways with that.