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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (40 children)

Everyone needs to VOTE. End of story.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While I don't enjoy seeing our politics being reduced to a two party system, given the lack of proportional representation this seems like an obvious decision for the NDP voters and even the party itself. Better a liberal than Conservative when they're clearly not going to win.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Proportional representation sucks (see Israel for an example of how that can go wrong) and it will never happen because nobody can promote it without also indicating they like it because it will give their preferred political party an advantage. So it all sounds like "I want to change the democratic system so that my party will win" which puts you on the same level as people that want to rig elections.

Ranked choice voting would be a better thing to promote for people that find it difficult to accept democracy is about making compromises. In the end you'll never have a system where millions of people will get exactly what they want, but if the goal is to give immature people warm and fuzzy vibes when they vote for a party that doesn't have chance of winning, then ranked choice is a way to do that without giving political parties even more power than they already have.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

U guys want trump? No? Go vote then.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

@Sunshine, I like the idea of engaging fellow voters by surfacing interesting ridings. We should do more of that. Highlight close races, and who's the main contenders. Might get some people in those ridings informed and others motivated to get out and vote.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm so disappointed in our country at this point. 4 years of conservative government across North america- good luck everyone who doesn't vote for PP

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Not really clear where your position is, but I will make my position clear: We all see where right wing populism ends up just by looking south of us. It's a disaster. Copying that in this moment is outright idiocy. Picking the right wing populist who has never been on the right side of an issue and who mimics the exact policy beats of the Republicans is a surefire way to go down the same path. We need to tell the Conservatives to drop their culture war crazies, stop fighting against experts, stop trying to remove rights from people, and focus on real solutions to real problems.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Very strong collaborator vibes from this one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

looks like 170 bless could make the difference

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