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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Remember when the liberal party made it their job to pass electoral reform and then didn't do it?

Electoral Reform Videos

First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)

Videos on alternative electoral systems

STAR voting

Alternative vote

Ranked Choice voting

Range Voting

Single Transferable Vote

Mixed Member Proportional representation

[–] Dearche 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There's hope that this might not have aged as badly as some think.

After all, PP might actually get fired as the Cons leader for not doing his job. (Though honestly, I'm rooting for the party to break up. A far right party and extreme right party splitting the votes will only show just how terrible each side is, and with a split, the animosity between them means that neither will gain traction for decades, and hopefully make Canadians realize just how terrible the parties they've been voting for really are)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Sounds like your voting system is fucked up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Saw Protest the Hero open for BTBAM last night and the lead singer was pretty stoked about PP losing his job and house.

It was fun watching someone be happy about an election … 🫠

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

Good. What a fucking piece of shit.

[–] kooks_only 100 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wearing my team Canada shirt today because the entire country won last night, whether everyone realizes it or not.

[–] corsicanguppy 45 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't say WON, but bullets were dodged for sure. Phew!

( But obviously we need to work on basic education )

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It was actually so nice. I walked into work and nobody was talking politics because it didn't feel like the world was ending.

For any conservatives, I'm sorry. I work and am highly involved with vulnerable people, and I vote to protect them as best I can. A vote for PP would not have been a vote to protect the most vulnerable I know, which in my eyes is what a society is meant to do.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Don't be sorry, also they can't hear you here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I appreciate that, but I also want to avoid tribalism in relation to politics whenever I can. It's not about teams or colours in my eyes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Make teams less important by passing electoral reform!

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[–] LiveLoveLaff 11 points 1 day ago

Same. I also work with vulnerable people and a vote for PP is a vote for many of my peeps at work to be tazered in a jail bathroom for something they cannot afford to medicate (such as it is in “healthcare is a big business” USA).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Huzzah!! Congratulations and Thank YOU!!

[–] LiveLoveLaff 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m looking forward to Singh’s next shots fired at PP. preferably asking him when he’s stepping down as the party leader such as any respectable person should do if they lose in their own riding.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Singh stepped down, he's gone.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think that is the point being made

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

OK, now I see it. That might have been a bit subtle for me after work.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

did you mean fine wine because it goes down pretttttty smooth

[–] LiveLoveLaff 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So WHY does he still get paid our tax dollars to do nothing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's a great question and the answer is: he shouldn't be drawing on tax funds. He cannot hold the position of leader of the opposition unless he has a seat, and I can't find any provision for unelected party members in here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

An MP in a conservative stronghold has to resign and then he can run there in a byelection to get back into the House of Commons. The timing of the byelection is determined by Prime Minister Carney though, so he could very well be put until 2026.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Yes, quite right - but until such time as this takes place, Polivere shouldn't be paid with taxpayer funds. Maybe there's a provision in some rule that allows party funds to be used? {/Speculation}

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That would be so funny, and imagine if he lost it again?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

That would be hilarious but they're going to make sure it's a conservative stronghold. Sucks for whichever MP gets booted on his behalf but that's what you get for having a leader like PP.

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[–] usualsuspect191 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

When kissing your reflection in the mirror, you can only kiss yourself on the lips

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

What about nose kisses?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Thanks black science man

[–] floofloof 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder who told him about the real world? Perhaps he'll have time to go out and discover it now.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He can retire on a full federal pension, the only way it would get higher would have been if his party won last night. He has not, and will not, need to acquaint himself with the real world.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Any chance he might self-reflect on this? I doubt it.

[–] avidamoeba 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I doubt it. His belief system is fucked beyond belief on multiple levels. Not impossible to deprogram but it's gonna take a lot of work. He's like the right wing, Schapiro-watching, Jordan Peterson-idolizing, teenage edgelord that got paid for it for over 20 years and is now 45.

[–] adarza 10 points 1 day ago (17 children)

maybe, after a few years selling shoes at canadian tire or something.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lifetime pension for MP after two terms.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I keep seeing this, but does anybody have the link? I don't get why the 2nd tweet looks doctored.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

In the real world, if you don't do your job you lose it.

In Trudeau's world, you get a big fat ArriveScam bonus.

1: https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1722744682302550389

In the real world, people who don’t do their jobs get fired.

In Trudeau’s world, they get bonuses.

2: https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1550879202559242240

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

Thanks! So they are slightly skewed, but it still works lol. I ditched my twitter account ages ago and was having trouble getting to the sources.

[–] Tigeroovy 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The second one I think looks that way because they searched for the specific phrasing from the one tweet but enough of the same words were used in the second tweet, he had just reworded it slightly. Thats why some of it is bold and some of it isn’t.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

Makes sense, thanks!

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