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Lloyd Parrott: “If they shut down the oil industry in Newfoundland, there is nothing left”.
▲ 250 r/newfoundland

Lloyd Parrott: “If they shut down the oil industry in Newfoundland, there is nothing left”.

In a house debate last month today, Minister of Energy and Mines Lloyd Parrott claimed that “if they shut down the oil industry in Newfoundland, there is nothing left”.

This is completely untrue. Only about 18% of our real GDP in 2025 was in fossil fuels while green energy and mining (both of which Parrott is also minister of) combine to make up another 12%. For a cabinet minister of this province to publicly discredit over 80% of our economy, *including 40% of his own department*, is a dangerous lie from a narrow-minded man meant to undermine confidence in a green energy transition. While Quebec, PEI and even Alberta develop their green energy infrastructure, the PCs pinch pennies over the “best deal possible” on an MOU pertaining to green energy. Meanwhile, they simultaneously hand yet another blank cheque to an industry in the midst of its fourth major “crisis” in a decade.

Of course, it’s probably just a coincidence that the tories blindly support oil and gas when they once again accepted tens of thousands in corporate donations from them just last year. After all, who *would* be willing to disagree with an oil company after receiving a $20,000 contribution from North Atlantic that would be illegal in most provinces? And don’t get me started on the $47,000 donated by Danny Williams, the man who takes personal credit for stopping the Churchill Falls MOU.

It’s pretty clear at this point that the PCs are hoping to blow up this deal with Quebec so that everyone feels like we have to support their newest billion-dollar corporate handout to their oil and gas lobbyists. With that in mind, I guess the premier hired the right man for the job: because if you’re just looking for someone to blindly repeat whatever Oil execs say, why bother hiring anything more than a Parrott?

u/Epicarcher1000 — 1 day ago
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Best paths in each civil war?

I’m craving some early-game action lately, and I’ve never played any of the civil war nations (besides a single Italian state run last year). I’m interested in giving them a try. What are your favourite paths for countries with early civil wars like Spain, Italy, China and the USA?

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u/Epicarcher1000 — 2 days ago
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How do we counter the “common sense” rhetoric of conservatives?

Conservatives, both politicians and voters, love to brand their policies as “common sense” solutions to problems. Tax cuts to help with the cost of living, two-tiered healthcare to give people a choice, more police officers to reduce crime, eliminating supervised consumption sites to reduce the number of drug users. Of course we know that in reality, these vibes-based solutions are often misguided and unhelpful, if not downright malicious. These solutions sound like common sense, but in reality they are more like common misconceptions. Mass misunderstandings, often created by social paradigms that conservative movements have worked very hard to establish. The “facts and logic” crowd seem to put a lot more emphasis on their own (flawed) logic than they do any actual facts.

My question is not how we disprove these issues on an individual basis in a topical debate. Field experts use the scientific method to collect much of the data that we use to back our solutions up in individual arguments, that’s all fine and dandy. My worry is that until we find a way to break through, the statistics and evidence that we cite is never going to get through to many voters. In this era of anti-intellectualism, people are increasingly close-minded and unwilling to change their mind. Hell, a significant chunk of the GOP in the states are practically in a cult because they refuse to consider other perspectives. What we need is a way to better open people’s minds to alternative solutions as a whole.

I’m asking both in the context of how you engage with individual voters as well as ideas for a party-wide strategy we could implement for this issue: how do we work towards presenting our new ideas in a way that is friendly, productive and engaging to workers?

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u/Epicarcher1000 — 12 days ago