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[–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's one poll. Among DECIDED voters. I suspect there are A LOT of pissed off people who are considering Green (who would have otherwise voted NDP).

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Eby laid the biggest political shit in decades. He was an idiot to call this election...and we'll be the ones who pay for it.

    Life is about to get a whole lot worse for most British Columbians...but they don't care.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    For what it's worth, those of us still fighting for sanity in Alberta, have nothing but sympathy for our BC family. If anyone knows what it's like to be living under a government that likes to pretend nearly half the province doesn't exist or at least doesn't matter, we do.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    What a fucking blunder...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago*

    Scrap and or hinder bill C21 and I’ll gladly vote for your party, until then I am not voting for a party that intends to criminalize me and hundreds of thousands of other Canadians for property that was legally purchased, and has been available on the market for decades, all for votes in Quebec.

    🤷‍♂️

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    [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    This shows that the thing BC dislikes more than incompetence, hatred, discrimination and American influence is someone inconveniencing them with a snap election to capitalize on those things.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Eby's a fuckin' idiot. What was he even thinking?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    He was thinking his opponents were in disarray. What he should have been doing, though, is remembering how quickly the right came together before the last election. They can unify pretty quickly, if temporarily, when it means these grifters will get a chance to rob the public coffers.

    And thanks to the international right wing media ecosystem that has been built up over the last couple of decades whatever party emerges from that process can count on a significant amount of support no matter how obviously incompetent they have shown themselves to be very recently.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    It isn’t just that they can unify, but they’re masters of cognitive dissonance. They’ll make up all kinds of excuses to rally around a single point, and they don’t often consider the other views of a politician so long as their personal interest is pandered to in some way. Conservative parties rarely split because they simply do not need to. Technically, they are split(CPC and LPC) but upsettingly simple branding has kept them separate.

    Meanwhile, the same problem exists with our other major parties except instead of pushing left, most of the country falls in line with the “center” and we get full-blown capitalist goblins in the form of the LPC. The LPC claims that we need to make a sacrifice to fight the CPC but will NEVER admit that it’s the centrists who need to go progressive.

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  • [+] -4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Not a chance. Loads of people in the province, including the opposition, municipalities, etc. were saying he shouldn't call one. If he was feeling any pressure to call an early election (he wasn't) he had plenty of ways to resist it. This election is 100% on him.

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    [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    Fuck me. Rural voters are so fucking dumb.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    This time the conservatives will give us freedoms and low taxes without wrecking public services, I promise. ;)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    I mean he has done a food job of increasing deficite. I don't get the vote for "my party" people. They all suck we should not have majorities but then wevneed electoral reform. And tjatvseems impossible.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Could be the biggest miscalculation in recent Canadian politics.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Quite a masterful play by Eby, this election is. Political hubris of the decade, mayhaps.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    So many people blaming Eby, but voters decide the election. If BC goes with the Conservatives, it's because of people who vote for them. I wish Eby hadn't called it, but I wish far more that we didn't have so many people choosing to vote for a bunch of nutjobs, bigots, and cynical untrustworthy incompetents. That's where blame belongs if the province flips.

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