Southern Trope Racist Old Man

Very interesting, I hope he succeeds

Comprehending why you’re still replying to this thread isn’t my thing either

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Either way you slice it, throwing a vote at the NDP or Greens and staying home to file your nails is about the same thing. Your vote could help the NDP to… lose official party status, or if your heroic strategy fails the CPC will have a pointless number of seats anyway because they are about to be obliterated by the Liberal Party. I know I know, it’s exhausting that your point has to be re-explained yet again, right?

Also, speaking of embarrassing, saying that polls are not to be trusted while also saying that you should vote for a third party because the polls say they might win in your riding is a hilarious bit of cognitive dissonance. Thank you for brightening a drab Monday morning with that.

Sexist!

Also given the projected seats right now, your “point” about “strategic voting” just makes you seem kind of dumb. The only Green candidate worth a damn is Clancy, polling behind the Liberal party in her riding, and the party of Tommy Douglas is looking at six MPs or less.

It’s a two horse race and it’s looking like it will not be close, so whether you vote for Santa Claus or your grandad, there will be three recognized parties at the most post-election, LPC, CPC and BQ, and the latter two almost certainly won’t have the votes to make a difference anyway.

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I fully understand Canadian politics, but whatever hot take “strategic voting” opinion you have is meaningless if the ridings are polarized. There is a reason the NDP is dropping to the brink of non-party status. They aren’t going to be an option for anyone’s “strategic vote”. That works occasionally but this is not one of those years. For the vast majority of the country, it’ll be red, blue, or a wasted ballot, even in traditional NDP or Green ridings.

Ok, you are telling me the most basic shit like it’s news. I know what a minority government is, I just don’t think the NDP has done anything worthy and the Green party is a wreck, so I think most seats will go either blue or red with the bloc being the only party that might have a chance in hell of pulling enough seats to play spoiler and become the swing votes in Parliament.

See Parliament after the 2006 election, except replace Jack Layton with Singh, i.e. maybe two seats of they’re lucky

Oh, I understand, I also understand that no NDP ridings are safe, no Green ridings are safe, and the BQ will almost certainly be the swing vote of either the Conservatives or Liberals gain a minority.

So there are three options:

Liberal majority Liberal minority where Quebec has oversize influence Conservative minority where Quebec has oversize influence

I would not be surprised in the least if the only seat to go Green is May’s, and I wouldn’t even bet on that. I would not take for granted that Singh holds his seat either, and I would predict maybe two or three will hold on.

This one will be polarizing, and I think this one will be a two-horse race with Quebec taking third and precious little left over for anyone else.

I am not American, so I could not vote, but I predicted the 2024 result based solely on the shenanigans of the DNC.

Trump v Sanders in 2016 would have gone the other way. Trump v Biden would have been closer, at least.

In both cases the Democratic establishment crowbarred a wildly unpopular candidate into the race, and in both cases Trump benefited from that to gain power.

Sure, MAGA voters supported him, but when you look at how those elections shook out, many Democrat voters sat out and many swing voters went away from Hilary/Kamala.

So yes, the MAGA voters are responsible for Trump, but so is the desire of the Democrat establishment to prop up candidates that would fully embrace their agenda.

It sure sucks, I’ll grant you that

I’m pretty sure you can just yell it out, like bankruptcy

Stunning? It’s been blatantly obvious since forever.

Right, I’ll take your bets on NDP, BQ or Green winning the election.

Wait, it was used in reference to the killing if the intellectually disabled in Nazi Germany? I thought the use of that term started in the sixties

They would have the added benefit of not having another set of oligarchs behind them hoping that this current set of far shittier oligarchs gets removed.

Bernie doesn’t need the billionaire class, he showed that by the grassroots donors that supported his 2016 campaign.

If they actually broke off and formed the Solidarity Party that sought to pick the best platforms from both the D and R parties and pursued policies of wealth redistribution and breaking down barriers to a true free market system, they would win.

Wow dude, that cuts me deep.

/s

Someday saying “intellectually disabled” will draw horrified gasps from people who will berate you for not using “cerebrally unenfranchised”

You know idiot, moron and imbecile were replaced by “retarded” as a less offensive way of expressing those terms? Kind of funny that things have flipped and the original offensive terms can be used with abandon but the less offensive replacement is now the thing that can’t be said.

No, that’s Bill Smitherson, long-time Ohioan and car parts manufacturer who moved to Arizona after he took early retirement to work in film production.

He was Paulie, but only up until last week.