• tleb
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    3 months 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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      3 months ago

      It’s because of the rail labour dispute. The NDP can’t/won’t be party to cutting down unions.

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      3 months ago

      Doing it when the Liberals are in really bad shape improves the odds of the NDP winning, up from 0.0 to 0+ε.

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        3 months 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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      3 months ago

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

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        3 months 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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      3 months ago

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

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        3 months 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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            2 months ago

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

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              2 months 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.