Remembering how my sixth grade teacher back in like, 2012, was telling us a high speed train from Edmonton to Calgary would be a stupid idea, and that waiting for the hyperloop would be a smarter idea.

Hope he’s enjoying that curdled milk.

You’re not funny bro.

Got any other jokes to sell us, or are you supposed to be the punchline here?

I swear, Americans will sooner protest a Disney movie or Oreo Cakesters being discontinued before they end up protesting their country invading ours.

“We meet the criteria” no you don’t, you pulled several of your candidates and gave them the false pretext that you met the same criteria the other parties did.

The PPC didn’t meet the criteria and neither did you, maybe next time grow a spine and run candidates in Conservative-likely ridings because the fight for your cause is worth the uphill battle.

As someone in a Conservative-likely riding, I’m furious that I wasn’t given the option to vote and canvass for the Greens. Pedneault had me thinking that he was a positive change in the party leadership, and now the “strategic” decision to pull candidates in ridings like mine is coming to bite the party in the ass.

Ah yes, cause the less than one million green voters would have filled a nearly three million vote gap in November.

Talk about a generalisation, yeesh.

Made a wrong assumption then, not that it means anything, but downvoting myself to make up for jumping to conclusions.

What I think is that the Greens and NDP are highly disappointing, and as much as they overall don’t align with my values, I’ll likely be voting Canadian Future since I refuse to vote NDP unless Jagmeet steps down and they get their leadership act together. I would have voted for the Greens if they ran a candidate in my riding like they said they would on their site, but come April 9th when the entries list was finalised, they were nowhere to be seen. Even then it was only because I’ve been impressed with Pedneault to the point that it makes up for May still being party head.

I just feel that we could in such a different position where people didn’t have this conception of there being a need to strategic vote if these two parties actually fought like they should be. The NDP being this low after achieving Dentalcare for Canadians is beyond pathetic. Jagmeet says it in his speeches, but it should be all over the place with their advertising talking about how they strong-armed the Liberals into passing it.

Ah, so you didn’t even read the comment. Congrats. Go ahead and “strategic vote” and have fun making this country ever so slightly more like the U.S. by forcing smaller parties to dissolve creating a two-party system.

Layton would be rolling in his grave seeing the lack of fight people have for their values these days.

Greens, NDP, Canadian Future. All running with proportional representation in their platforms.

So you also think not voting Liberal leads to fascism? I love when parties are entitled to my vote, that’s definitely how democracy works.

My comment here summarises things.

You do realize that giving your vote away from a smaller party to a larger one leads us more into the two-party lockup that the U.S. faces right?

Always there’s this one-sided thinking of "oh, but if you vote this way, then it’s your fault when the party most opposed to you wins. Why do we never ask why the party that’s most positioned to beat the party we’re most in objection to isn’t out there trying to appeal to us? Why must we appeal to them?

By deciding that your vote is a waste when it goes to a smaller party, then congrats! Your “strategic voting” dissolves support for the smaller parties which in turn leads to their eventual dissolution, and then voila, you end up like the states where the larger left-wing party ends up losing support amongst it’s own base in pleas to appeal to Conservatives driving the overton window to the right.

EDIT: Quickly adding to this comment that if the Liberal candidate for my riding doesn’t explicitly come out in support for proportional representation, I will be throwing my vote elsewhere. Sent an email, and keeping an eye on public events.

I mean, if they bothered to run a candidate in my riding…

Quite literally unbelievable. They say on their site they have a candidate for my riding, I reach out and email the given contact on their site offering to volunteer, I get zero response, and then find out Canada’s Future can run a candidate here, but not them. Borderline pathetic.

Hey guys! Look! A Lemmy.World user!

Point and laugh!

But seriously what the hell is with this mindset always seeming to come from .world?

Copy-pasting my comment from the crosspost:

Can we stop with the “strategic voting” bullshit?

Go ahead and “strategic vote” but don’t come around complaining when Canada ends up being a two-party state like our oh-so mentally sound southern neighbours.

According to the City of Calgary’s Integrity and Ethics Office annual report delivered to city councillors on Sept. 17, 2024, there were 51 complaints made under the Code of Conduct for Elected Officials Bylaw. Forty-eight of those complaints were dismissed, with the rationale being no reasonable grounds, or frivolous or vexatious. The reporting period was from May 1, 2023, to April 30, 2024.

That’s a high ratio of complaints dismissed.

Hate to say they’ll likely move to BlueSky, but at the very least it would be a good idea to have them make a bridge via Bridgy Fed.

I mean, good on there being more options I suppose, but wish they had better values.

Saw they had a candidate in my riding listed on the Elections Canada site the other day and I just can’t help but feel they could be standing for better things.

Gotta love the language here implying he only sees Indigenous people as means to access resources rather than seeing them as normal people whose lives and histories should be respected.

Must be hard simply being a fiscal conservative in the Conservative party right now seeing the social conservatives botching all the good publicity the party could possibly have had left.

Look, if he just left it at saying that the protests were fine but the encampment was not, that would at least be understandable.

COMPARING IT TO THE FREEDOM CONVOY? BRUH