ahal

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[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I originally posted this in a separate post, but was redirected here. It's more about the "how" rather than the "what", original text below:

The community description explicitly states that this community is non-partisan. I think this is a very smart call because we'll need people with all sorts of different political ideologies to get onboard if we're ever going have a shot at implementing some form of PR.

However lately the sub seems to be filled with anti Poilievre articles that don't seem to have anything to so with electoral reform. I'm no fan of Poilievre, but in my experience electoral reform is already unfairly labeled as a "leftist" policy.

My opinion is that the most important thing we can do is help conservatives understand that PR is in their best interest just as much as it is for people on the left. It means the conservative movement no longer needs to live under one giant tent. It will be able to split into multiple parties that can then form coalitions on the issues that matter to them. Conservatives on the fringe benefit because at least they'll have some representation in parliament.

Anyway, any conservatives who are interested in electoral reform and come peek at this community will be immediately turned off by the content that's here. So please, let's try to keep posts as non-partisan as possibly, and focused on things relevant to electoral reform!

[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Oops thanks for the pointer, will do!

[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Russian windows are uninsurable

[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago

They'll regret not staying longer after catching up with current events.

[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Toyota and Honda at least are already here

[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 months ago (3 children)
  1. Lol, they didn't even remove the watermark.
  2. Why throw Tom Hanks under the bus?
[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

That's just the prediction on if the election were held today. I don't think the trend is showing any signs of stopping here. A couple weeks ago this same prediction gave the Cons an 80% chance at a majority. And even that was seen as a massive decline for them.

[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

To what end? All that will do is increase volatility, discourage investment and tank the stock market.

[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

I think it also would have made him look weak. It would be seen as capitulating to Poilievre. It wouldn't have won anyone over.

But Carney didn't have that optics problem.

[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Uh, I'd prefer if our militaries remained on friendly terms myself. Even if our politicians don't.

[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, similar to Slack or Discord

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