Your eyes are stunning. You are absolutely slaying with that smile.
Because she’s a woman and a Green candidate.
Rustad: “British Columbians are NOT facing an existential threat from our changing climate. It isn’t a crisis. In fact, our changing climate is not the most pressing issue facing us in BC or around the world.”
Voters: Oh, okay, sure thing boss.
Good luck all. I hope you don’t have anyone in your life who needs social services.
Imagine having that kind of free time, goddamn.
What’s up with the pro-Con downvoting here? Every post I see on British Columbia about a Con candidate in any negative way gets immediately downvoted.
I’m legitimately afraid. We’re on track to vote in a federal Con government that wouldn’t even admit climate change exists. Now after an at least partial recovery from the last time we had decades of Con governing in BC–openly corrupt members and all–we’re going to vote for their even more right-wing cousins?
It’s just so goddamn embarrassing.
I hope all the volunteering does help but I just feel like maybe we deserve this. They’ll make everything worse faster and we can all lose our houses to flooding and fire, and our parents and grandparents to heatstroke. Sell off our tree cover to increase flooding and make the wild fires even worse. Prove to the world that we would rather die on a larger pile of gold when our AC fails than work to fix anything for our kids or their kids.
This is so embarrassing. I’ve never been more disappointed to be from BC than to see the BC Conservatives neck-and-neck with the best government* we’ve had in a lifetime.
(*yes they suck in various ways, and we all know how much worse the Cons would be and the BCLibs were.)
Thank you, god that original one was an awful read.
I’ll do my best, yes.
Good luck, everyone. I genuinely hope you make it through as okay as you can.
I’m curious what Con voters will tell themselves after we lose this. And then whatever they take after that. What do they think, internally? Is it enough for them that people they’ve never met suffer, or do they require it to be specific people?
Good luck everyone, I am starting to feel a very real fear.
This projection is calculated using a weighted average of polls by the 338Canada model to estimate current party support.
And the support of the Cons is trending up. I feel like you missed that part.
Sadly in this day and age, it is not obvious sarcasm.
RIP Irony.
But according to you, that is simply too far back to matter. Which is weird, because again, you provided the cherry picked data.
What? The BC Cons went from so far behind the BC NDP/United, whatever they’re called, to a few percentage points behind the NDP.
Scroll down on your link to the British Columbia | Popular vote projection.
On April 14th, 2023, the Cons were polling at 5%. A year and four months later, on August 14th, they’re polling at 38%. Look at that insane upward curve.
Sure, but women were literally considered lesser than men in virtually all ways for thousands of years and didn’t attempt to usher in another go at Fascism when their rights got taken away in the US. I am a 40-something man, and I have children who are now young men, and they don’t do this. The issue is we, older men, have failed younger men at large–we didn’t tell them ‘hey you’re being lied to, this toxic masculinity stuff is bullshit, here’s how to be a good partner.’ We let them think that they could act like we did in the 90’s and everything would be fine.
We let the media, particularly conservative, tell them all they have to do is be ‘breadwinners’ and they’ll get everything they want. Then they don’t, and we just… shrugged and said too bad. This is the first time in history women don’t have to be with men to survive, it really hasn’t been the case that long. These young men also, and this part I’m not 100% on the why’s, seem to have very, very low critical thinking skills. Not just because they’re young, but even into their mid 20’s the easy promises of fascism take them over.
There is an horrific irony to conservative media telling young men they’re only worth anything if they become a billionaire and find a partner to have children with, and then doing everything in their power to make that a challenge for those same young men. My kids come to me about once a week to try to figure out how to talk to their friends who are, quite literally, waffling between the CPC and NDP. They hate the way things are, but as soon as their 2SLGBTQIA+ friends get targeted, they go back to the NDP. Basically, they eat up conservative propaganda on Facebook (yes, still), Youtube, Twitter, etc, and then out in the real world they are faced with the opposite: women try to help them, their gay friends are totally normal, no immigrants or poor people come out to assault them.
I bring my kids with me to local workers strikes, Left-wing potlucks, etc, and it’s still somewhat baffling that there’s maybe 5-6 men there, and 40 women.
Instead of turning them into allies for those who are disadvantaged they have been told, “No yo go the back of the line.” (sometimes literally, looking at you federal NDP).
I have no idea what this is, can you link to something?
I agree with a lot of what you’ve said, but we also have to address the fact that men are, quite frankly, more easily tricked than their women counterparts, are more violent than their women counterparts, and have extremely low critical thinking skills. The solution to this is not to go ‘yeah but people are lying to us/them.’ Yes, I understand capitalism exists, we can’t do anything about that while over half of men are so easily swayed by what is frankly low-effort, easily-seen-through promises. We have to address this directly, to men. We’re fucking up. We’re letting our mothers, sisters, daughters, aunts, sons, really everyone down.
Over half of us have bought into this idea that to be a man is to be an unthinking robot with a sex-slave ‘partner’ while we toil endlessly for fascism, having enough children to replace us as cogs in the machine when we die. Why are young men behaving this way? Because the rest of us are too, and they’re learning from us.
That was what, 15% between the NDP and Cons a month or two ago? The lead is shrinking quickly.
I understand this is a federal poll, but I think we’re all intelligent enough here to extrapolate Conservative voting federally with provincially.
It’s not ‘hillbillies’ hurtling the Cons into power–there aren’t enough of them to make numbers like these.
Across all age groups, horrifically moreso the younger they get, men are voting Conservative in Canada. 56% of men under 35 want either the CPC or PPC in power.
And to be honest, and yes I’m using it again