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Election night humor: What's the difference between watching the watching the Jays game and watching the election?

One is an entertaining spectacle of overpaid careerists with no genuine love of the activity, corrupt officials, and will never make a meaningful difference in the lives of its fans. The other is Toronto's baseball team!
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mt.real
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shriekingviolet posted:

We all deserve to die.


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Soviet_Salami posted:

getfiscal posted:

this is justin trudeau for people that don't know. this is a real press conference btw.

Prime Minister Trudeau

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/10/10/liberals-within-reach-of-majority-poll.html

The URL is more optimistic than the article.

fyi for non-canadians, this is now just as real as anime, thanks to jeremy corbyn

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Marxist-Leninists received more than twice the votes of the Communist Party of Canada. The people have spoken.
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Soviet_Salami posted:

Marxist-Leninists received more than twice the votes of the Communist Party of Canada. The people have spoken.


I miss living in edmonton-strathcona, where I would have had the rich choice between Rhino, Pirate, and MLPC.

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wait, so that crazy guy won? i dont understand...
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communists gained 13 more votes in my riding, an increase of 9% over their 2011 result! still beaten handily by Radical Marijuana and the rhino party

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The MLPC and the rhino party need to dialectically combine to form the rhizzone party
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stegosaurus posted:

The MLPC and the rhino party need to dialectically combine to form the rhizzone party

can the rhizzone party get some of that radical marijuana? asking for a comrade

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discipline posted:

Soviet_Salami posted:

Marxist-Leninists received more than twice the votes of the Communist Party of Canada. The people have spoken.

so, 200 votes..

can we have less of americans insulting foreign liberation movements thanks

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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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canada how come your president look like the dude at the bar trying to get with your gf
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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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re election campaign idea: "they saying he helped canada? that's tru, do"
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so the fat mayor of canada who smokes crack has been replaced by someone whos even more of a cartoon character?
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ilmdge posted:

so the fat mayor of canada who smokes crack has been replaced by someone whos even more of a cartoon character?



the fat mayor of canada got cancer and is now thin

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le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

canada how come your president look like the dude at the bar trying to get with your gf

you guys got married remember. he's trying to get with your wife

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http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/20/opinions/kennedy-canada-election-bad-news-for-us-conservatives/index.html

dude seems pretty worked up over trudeau's diktats
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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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chickeon posted:

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

canada how come your president look like the dude at the bar trying to get with your gf

you guys got married remember. he's trying to get with your wife



le fffuuu

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lol wait that dude won? hahah. getfiscal if u need a place to crash after canada becomes an apocalyptic shithole (winnipeg but everywhere) and u manage to make it over the wall, hit me up in sf
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Themselves posted:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/20/opinions/kennedy-canada-election-bad-news-for-us-conservatives/index.htmldude seems pretty worked up over trudeau's diktats



As Shelley's "Ozymandias" reminds us, "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

should be the ending of every cnn article imo

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id like to meet all nine thousand people who voted mlpc
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le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

canada how come your president look like the dude at the bar trying to get with your gf

as if my hypothetical gf wouldn't put a cigarette out on his hand.

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stegosaurus posted:

id like to meet all nine thousand people who voted mlpc



They had 10,000 votes in the previous election.

I'd like to meet 1000 Hohxa-Trudeau swing voters.

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OR I guess they could've died.
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UNUSUALY COOL
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this guy trudeau reminds me of timothy treadwell
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stegosaurus posted:

id like to meet all nine thousand people who voted mlpc


greetings

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*checks u off clipboard* alright. thank-you.
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this guy trudeau reminds me of timothy treadwell





http://youtubedoubler.com/gJKH



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cars posted:

cars posted:
this guy trudeau reminds me of timothy treadwell




http://youtubedoubler.com/gJKH




sia's been working out

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they appointed anne mcgrath (the NDP campaign manager) to analyze what went wrong with the campaign. most of the leadership are like "we did great, just lost" which is probably half-true. like the NDP was leading for a bit, people changed their minds for stupid reasons, but the reasons they wanted the NDP weren't principled in the first place and the campaign was terrible in terms of advancing good policy. sid ryan trashed mulcair for veering right but who is going to actually run to replace mulcair anyway. like i saw someone endose nikki ashton as the possible alternative, who is nice but like no one in caucus is going to push to dump mulcair if she's the alternative lol.
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getfiscal posted:

they appointed anne mcgrath (the NDP campaign manager) to analyze what went wrong with the campaign. most of the leadership are like "we did great, just lost" which is probably half-true. like the NDP was leading for a bit, people changed their minds for stupid reasons, but the reasons they wanted the NDP weren't principled in the first place and the campaign was terrible in terms of advancing good policy. sid ryan trashed mulcair for veering right but who is going to actually run to replace mulcair anyway. like i saw someone endose nikki ashton as the possible alternative, who is nice but like no one in caucus is going to push to dump mulcair if she's the alternative lol.


The internal chatter I've been hearing from my friends in the party bureaucracy is all doubling down about how everything is fine, the campaign was fine, Mulcair is great, nothing went wrong, santa claus is real, their uncles work at nintendo, and socialism is right around the corner.

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nothing is ever going to improve if the party leadership remains the same. they keep running the same bland, pandering, personality-free, lowest common denominator campaign. the only reason they had "success" in the past few years is because the liberals were so repugnant that even liberals couldn't bring themselves to vote for them so they went with the orange protest vote. everyone knows this except the ndp campaign team and having them post-mortem themselves is hilarious, they are probably the most live-in-a-bubble of any political people in canada.

elizabeth may often points out that turnout goes up when the greens have good candidates, i.e., they are inspiring non-voters to vote. the ndp can't say the same thing, the people who have been voting for them are the "i feel like i should vote, and i guess jack is the least bad option. ok." they don't inspire new votes. they do nothing to appeal outside the "i guess" demographic and their own diehard base.

i wish there was a real left party. i would work for it.
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i don't really want to blame it all on the leadership. i mean where in the world are the main postwar reformist parties all that healthy. there has been a populist pushback of varying degrees but most of these don't even propose to go much beyond the status quo. like corbyn is dangerous for specific elites but even he doesn't question the idea of a mostly privatized economy, he just says certain things like railways and health care need to be socialized. i think it is more likely than not you'll see a left-populist campaign within the NDP or independent of it in ontario or canada within the next few years just through simple imitation but if your goal is socialism that's not really the basis for a new movement.
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i think the NDP would flip out if someone started a left party, like try to destroy them and pin all their failures on them, as the labourites against corbyn shows.