• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    Last week, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called on Singh to pull out of the agreement.

    Calling Singh’s statement a “media stunt” in a post on X, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre criticized the NDP leader for not saying whether he will vote non-confidence in the government at the earliest opportunity.

    Conservatives moving goalposts constantly… colour me surprised until I’m blue in the face.

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      Poilievre is making a string of very strange political gambles. Doing the rhyming nickname thing, trying to look like a cool badass, going on a string of unusual, foolish-looking, public attacks against rivals.

      If the Conservatives don’t do as well as expected in the federal election, I wonder what’s next for them, from a leadership, attitude, and policy standpoint.

      This will be Gen Z’s first real federal election to participate in. I’m very interested to see their impact. Convention is to assume that the young won’t vote, but, life and livelihood for the youth in Canada has never been worse, at least in my lifetime.

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        If there’s a glimmer of hope I have despite the current >99% CPC majority projection, is that Canadian youth will look to the US, see how much the outlook changes between June and November to know what is possible with an engaged electorate and the appropriate leader to match.

        What we’ve got to figure out here is either how we can remove FPTP or come out with a proper plan to vote strategically. Like look at this fucking “Leans Conservative” riding. A massive hunk of bullshit, I tell you.

        https://338canada.com/59038e.htm

        Edit: I missed a word

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          FPTP needs to be stopped. The court needs to get its head out of its rear end and actually call this method of voting antiquated and no longer appropriate.

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        I hope they will consider carefully before voting. We don’t need a lot of edgy, kneejerk mistakes.

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          I disagree. And also I don’t understand how your comment is relevant to the conversation. Making a non sequitur like this isn’t constructive. So, nice try but, you will not divide us!

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            The comment was about GenZ voting! It’s super relevant!!

            Young women are the only cohort that strongly supports the NDP. The difference between young men and young women is striking enough to be panic inducing.

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            you will not divide us

            I’m not even sure what this is meant to mean. What do you imagine my motives are? Who am I supposedly trying to divide?

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          Young Men have largely been abandoned.

          There are many reasons for this, but it still hurts when you need help and kindly get told to get lost because we don’t have supports for men and boys.

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            Ah yes, it’s society’s fault young men are swinging hard right into fascism like they always do. It’s society’s fault that toxic masculinity has become a political movement. If only we had allowed young men into women’s shelters, the next 20 years of repression and oppression could have doubtlessly been avoided. Stupid society.

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                  Genuinely not sure why people are lining up to argue you on this. Its not even opinion, just facts.

                  If anything, it’s about time us white guys have to fucking struggle a bit. I’d just like a world where we can collectively pull our heads out our asses and stop voting the wrong people into power.

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      To Poilievre it seems to be a game he needs to play as hard as possible to win. I bet he’s semi-open about his disregard for accuracy the moment the cameras are off.

      Honestly, I blame the voters for not noticing.