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u/bcbuddy May 27 '22

Thank you, thank you all 2021 PPC and Liberal and NDP voters

We're all about to get fkd on Monday.

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u/yummybunnybear May 27 '22

I often heard PPC voters say things like "I'm going to vote for what I want rather than the lesser of two evils" or "We're never getting change if we keep voting for the status quo". These people don't know how our political system works. The general election is not the time or place to be voting for what you agree with 100%. Voting for policy change happens at the party convention stage. You can try to influence the policies of the major parties during the party conventions, but after the major (edit) parties vote on their official policies, those major parties and their official policies are your only realistic options in a general election. Creating a new splinter party will only hurt your side of the political spectrum. Think of it this way: If the right leaning CPC didn't even adopt your favored policies, what chance in hell would your new fringe party have in getting your policies voted in by the rest of Canada that is far more left leaning than even the CPC? If you don't like the direction the CPC is going, then change it at the convention stage. But once it's general election time and you don't see a party that you agree with 100%, it's not the time to play a vain offensive play. Your only option is to play defensively and vote for the party that will make you lose the least yards. That party was the CPC in the last election. Even if the Toole didn't revoke the OIC, we still would have been better off than what's going to come on Monday.

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u/drain-angel BC May 28 '22

I mean everyone with room temp IQ or higher has clearly explained what will happen in terms of firearms policy if they gone the way they gone and no matter how many times you hit them over the head with it or try to reason, they won't listen and now they still will cry and bitch about it.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '22

This has been mentioned so much man. If the idiots can’t figure it out by now they’re never going to

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u/DJ_Necrophilia May 27 '22

The way I view it is that PPC were throwing temper tantrums because they didn't want to listen to the rules, and hated the fact that O'Toole tried to drag the CPC into the 21st century

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u/SodaPopinsky1337 May 27 '22

If by "Dragging the CPC into the 21st century" means being having a platform akin to the LPC from ~10 years ago - yeah, not interested lol

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u/discostu55 May 27 '22

So by not voting for the LPC 10 years ago you instead allowed the LPC on steroids to win and here we are? Great work you showed them. Got ‘em good

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u/SodaPopinsky1337 May 27 '22

Yeah, and in another 10 years you'll be voting CPC with the platform of today's LPC lol maybe they'll be the last hope for defending possessing a break-action shotgun at that point

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u/discostu55 May 27 '22

What’s the alternative? The snowballs chance in hell party (ppc?). And you don’t know what the future holds and neither do it.

But the next time your rolling into a McDonald’s and ordering a Big Mac. Wondering why there’s only one beef patty instead of the regulation 2. Just remember you helped build this world of single patty bigMacs

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u/SodaPopinsky1337 May 27 '22

Weird analogy to throw in, but ok?

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u/IllustratorMoist8068 May 27 '22

Unfortunately my MP is Bill Blair so he easily got re-elected with 50 percent of the vote. My vote doesn't count so it went to the PPC

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u/PersecutedCanadian May 28 '22

I voted for the Conservative party in 2021 because it's mathematically impossible for the PPC to have a seat. It's like throwing your vote into water.

Source: probability and statistics

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u/AD_VICTORIAM_MOFO Martini Henry! May 27 '22

Conservatives are progressives driving the speed limit. They are a corpse party with a dead ideology. All they do is copy the socialists but dress it up in a blue suit and pretend they are fighting back

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u/Geddy_Lees_Nose sk May 28 '22

Only PPC people think this way lol. You aren't gonna find a single socialist in Canada that thinks the CPC are socialists in a blue suit lmao

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u/password_is_09lk8H5f on May 28 '22

That's just because "real socialism hasn't been tried yet"

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u/Geddy_Lees_Nose sk May 28 '22

No, it's because the CPC isn't socialist lol.