NDP announcing it will tear up governance agreement with Liberals(www.cbc.ca)

posted 30 days ago

NotSteve_@lemmy.ca

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tleb@lemmy.ca

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30 days ago

Singh had many reasonable opportunities to do this over the last few years, but finally pulls the rip cord when the Conservatives are polling way ahead? What the fuck? He’s such a useless piece of shit, why do the NDP keep him around

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wise_pancake@lemmy.ca

4 points

30 days ago

It kinda looks like PP goaded him into it with the timing.

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n2burns@lemmy.ca

10 points

29 days ago

I think it’s less of “goaded him into it” and more of “predicted it”. As others have pointed out, messing with unions is a red-line for the NDP.

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rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com

5 points

30 days ago

Yeah, I thought selecting him for leader was bad years ago, but it’s obvious now that he can’t really do much of anything. Guess we’d better prep for 4 years of conservative austerity since our electoral system is broken.

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Funderpants @lemmy.ca

15 points

30 days ago

We will be lucky to get away with 4 years. A generation of young men is being swayed conservative in the smoke pits of the internet and I’m worried we’ll suffer a lost decade of governance by bumper sticker weirdos.

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jerkface@lemmy.ca

2 points

29 days ago

Jagmeet is decent. Its the voters who are complete shit.

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psvrh@lemmy.ca

2 points

28 days ago

To paraphrase Terry Pratchett, once you think the problem is that you have the wrong kind of people, you shouldn’t be a leader

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jerkface@lemmy.ca

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28 days ago

And how does that apply to me?

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psvrh@lemmy.ca

1 point

28 days ago

You’d said the problem was voters. That’s an entirely wrong way to look at politics.

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jerkface@lemmy.ca

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28 days ago

Obviously I was being glib. But even if I weren’t, I am not intending to be a leader, so Pratchet is not talking about me.

Having said that, voters have dynamic, even mutable qualities, and those are exactly the qualities that determine elections. There is an entirely reasonable approach to politics that is about educating and informing voters so that they can make more rational decisions. There is a very effective approach to politics that encourages and exploits voter disenfranchisement. Yes, voters can be the problem.

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