cfijwpg.bsky.social
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| Canadian prairie socdem, New Democrat 🍊
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Cenk is really committed to this idea that MAGA is not a personality cult surrounding Trump, and that they're a genuine, freethinking principled populist movement who'll hold Trump accountable when he steps out of line. After all this time covering them, he really should know better than that.
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Animated movie producers:
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Good luck to us, I guess.
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Why would a burglar want to steal that bread from me when he's got all the cake he needs?
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And distract from it to what end? So he can be president again? That was never on the table.
Or to avoid damaging the reputation of DNC officials who knew Biden was in poor health and tried to soldier on with him anyway? Those people won't face consequences regardless.
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Right now it's only as a placeholder until Poilievre can get a seat again, but I kind of have a feeling Scheer still has aspirations to take another shot at being PM.
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On behalf of Canada, absolutely not. (I'm not even a big fan of Carney, but we definitely do not want Trump.)
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And remember, this is while the PCs were in the middle of a leadership race and the NDP weren't.
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True. Hell, sometimes they'll do everything in their power to temper expectations, and people will still expect the world.
I was thinking about this because I saw a reddit thread where people were complaining that "EA scrapped The Sims 5."
EA never announced The Sims 5.
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Optimistically, those factors may take a chunk out of the Conservative margin of victory, but it won't turn a 70 point margin of victory into a loss. It just won't.
Best case, he wins with 60% of the vote instead of 80.
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... (cont)
c) a 90% drop in Conservative turnout, not accompanied by a similar drop in Liberal or NDP turnout.
I don't think there's a snowball's chance in hell of any of those three things happening.
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Maybe if BR-C had a history of being a swing-seat before, but it didn't.
Question is, if PP doesn't win this seat, how's it more likely to happen?
a) the party grassroots stops him from running
b) his candidacy causes a 40 point swing to another party
c)🧵⬇️
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I'd like to hope so, but if the party wants to run its leader in any by-election, nobody's gonna be able to stop him, and the riding itself is VERY blue. Like it's always voted Conservative with like 70-85% of the vote.
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Which, now that I think about it, is worse for the people of BR-C. It pretty much means they have no representative. If Poilievre plans to run for re-election in Carleton, he has no reason to still care about his constituents in BR-C once they've given him a seat.
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I think the implication is that in the next general election, he'll run in Carleton again, and let this resigning MP run for his seat again
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Congratulations Leah! Now more than ever, we need your voice in Parliament. I'm glad to see you win again.
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People definitely voted out of fear this time, and that never benefits the NDP. ("Love is better than anger, hope is better than fear" and whatnot)
I think a time will come when progressives will realize we made a crappy bargain to beat the Cons this time, and we need to be ready when it does.
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I'm quickly learning that Bluesky is a great place to dunk on conservatives, but not if you're a leftist who's frustrated with liberals.
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I hear ya. There's a lot of celebrating on Bsky right now, understandably so with Poilievre losing, but there are a lot of phenomenal MPs who lost their seats last night. Green, Julian, Desjarlais, Dance, Collins,
At least we still have Leah Gazan and Heather McPherson.
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It's sad to see you go, Peter. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication.
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It almost happened in Manitoba 2023. Wab Kinew's NDP took the Liberal leader's seat, the PC leader resigned, and her seat flipped orange in a by-election the following year.
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Elmwood-Transcona too
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Here's another one for ya:
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And now we live in a political climate that is more rife with anger, fear, and despair than ever before. It's easy to understand why this moment led the NDP to its worst result ever.
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How many NDP/Con marginal seats went Conservative because people were told "you have to vote Liberal to stop the Conservatives"
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I'm inclined to say no it's not
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Anyway,
Ezekiel 23:20 ✝️
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"Hillary Clinton was right about EVERYTHING!"
...including how she elevated him in the 2016 primaries with the pied piper strategy because she thought he'd be easiest to beat, and then ran an incredibly out-of-touch and condescending campaign, and lost to him?
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If it's just for your own personal use then do whatever, but if you plan on actually publishing/marketing this game, than people who try to replace talent with AI are a poison on real artistry, and should be called out.
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I don't think anyone should be making game assets from AI generated images. It's basically tantamount to stealing from real artists.
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At this point I'm not taking for granted that Trump would abide by the rulings of the Supreme Court.