Social media starting to 'tear down' Canada's democracy, O'Toole warns in final Commons address

3 years ago by Fentikx to c/canadapolitics

O'Toole, who will soon retire from politics, believes the country's best days are ahead -- if MPs avoid playing into divisive politics

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illegalsmile 2 points 3 years ago

Probably goes without saying but hoo boy that comment section is spicy

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Kyle 2 points 3 years ago

Never scroll past the end of an article on mainstream media 😬

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GrindingGears 1 point 3 years ago

It's basically just angry dads who can't figure out how to use social media, and Karen's. Like who actually creates a comment account on a newspaper page, how very 2003 of you, Uncle Dennis.

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kent_eh 1 point 3 years ago

That seems to be the normal state of commentary on any mainstream media post.

I saw a ton of climate change deniers / conspiracy nutbags on a Global news video talking about the wildfires.

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illegalsmile 4 points 3 years ago

I saw from this link that NP had a story on that too. It was basically "did leftist eco-terrorists set the fires? No, but Maxime Bernier tweeted that it's totally something they would do".

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Fentikx 1 point 3 years ago

I hadn't paid attention to the comment section prior to reading your reply. I feel like I would have been better off not knowing what's written in there.

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girlfreddy 1 point 3 years ago

I will learn from your experience and stay away from it.

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lightrush 1 point 3 years ago

Every time I make this mistake I have to repeat to myself that this is not representative of a significant number of my neighbors until I believe it. It's probably a lie.

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