2024 BC Election

[Infanteer]

Two PhDs from a unaccredited online university? Neat. She’s a classic charlatan.

Great candidate vetting there.

https://quantumuniversity.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/PHD-NM.pdf

25 pages for your Masters degree and another 45 for your doctorate!

If you are interested, call their office on its local line in Hawaii, USA....

 

[brihard]

https://quantumuniversity.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/PHD-NM.pdf

25 pages for your Masters degree and another 45 for your doctorate!

If you are interested, call their office on its local line in Hawaii, USA....

Look I know my first choice for my masters turned me down, but I’m not that despondent yet.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

And Eby led them to a big slide, especially in Surrey, which might not endear him to some in his (more ruthlessly ambitious) party members:

What Now? How the Next BC Government Will Be Decided​

As things stood on election night, the BC NDP won the popular vote, taking 44.6 per cent with the Conservatives close behind at 43.6 per cent. The Greens trailed with just over eight per cent.

That share of the vote was among the NDP’s better results, but short of what it received in the 2020 election held in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic when John Horgan led the party to a large majority. Eby replaced Horgan as leader almost two years ago.

The NDP slide translated into losses in several ridings the party had hoped to win and for 16 NDP incumbents. They included cabinet ministers Nathan Cullen in Bulkley Valley-Stikine, Pam Alexis in Abbotsford-Mission and Rachna Singh in Surrey North.

NDP incumbents also lost in three other seats in Surrey, two in Chilliwack, two in Richmond, two on northern Vancouver Island, two in Langley, one in Maple Ridge and one in the southern Interior.

All of those seats went to the Conservatives, who over the last 18 months built a movement from nothing that overtook the official Opposition, BC United, which responded by suspending its campaign in August.

What Now? How the Next BC Government Will Be Decided | The Tyee

It could take a week before final election results are determined.

thetyee.ca

For Nathan Cullen to lose, they really screwed up. he was well respected when I was working up there by both sides. He might decide to to take another run at the national leadership when the Fed NDP's take a beating next Federal election.

 

[FSTO]

Re: The Bozo eruptions. Commentators have been noting lately that bringing up old tweets and FB posts to embarrass political opponents doesn't seem to have the career ending cachet it once had. Screaming "Heretic!" at every single deviation from the approved narrative has caused the voting public to tune out. They (the voting public) just don't give a shit anymore.

Is that the Trump effect? Since the Trumper is a complete crazy uncle with the nuance of a wrecking ball and is on track to become POTUS, then a provincial party leader can say he regrets getting the Covid vaccine with little blowback from the electorate.

Strange days indeed.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Commentators have been noting lately that bringing up old tweets and FB posts to embarrass political opponents doesn't seem to have the career ending cachet it once had.

Advance voting has become more popular. Small beer surprise scandals only work if they hit shortly before people vote. Too early is almost as useless as too late.

Self-inflicted media scandals and water-carrying, and the perpetual lying of politicians, would have tuned out voters even without Trump's influence. Every mistake media and politicians make is amplified and remembered in the internet era and is a correspondingly larger hit to their credibility than if it had happened in 1970 when most people had access to one or two newspapers and CBC. Untrusted sources eventually have no influence.

 

[QV]

... then a provincial party leader can say he regrets getting the Covid vaccine with little blowback from the electorate.

Strange days indeed.

Or... a much larger portion of the voting public empathizes with that stance then you think.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Or... a much larger portion of the voting public empathizes with that stance then you think.

I think it’s this, plus everyone is tired of gotcha politics and cancel culture.

 

[Pelorus]

I think it’s this, plus everyone is tired of gotcha politics and cancel culture.

Is it really gotcha politics or cancel culture to simply hope for a mature government, and that an Alex Jones-esque moron shouldn't be anywhere near actual decision making? He unfortunately got elected.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1845663193668145317

 

[Cloud Cover]

Is it really gotcha politics or cancel culture to simply hope for a mature government, and that an Alex Jones-esque moron shouldn't be anywhere near actual decision making? He unfortunately got elected.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1845663193668145317

Sure thing.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1845725489161445717

 

[daftandbarmy]

Egomaniacal ramblings from a nothing burger former BC Green Party leader



Elections BC has announced the initial 2024 BC Election results and I am absolutely thrilled to see how things played out on October 19. While recounts are scheduled for two ridings where the NDP presently lead by < 100 votes (Juan de Fuca-Malahat and Surrey Centre), and about 49,000 absentee and mail-in ballots have yet to be counted, the NDP hold a one seat lead with the BC Greens once more holding the balance of power.

Embedded within the election results are some very clear messages that party leaders should heed.https://www.andrewjweaver.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-21-at-2.34.38 PM.png

https://www.andrewjweaver.ca/2024/10/21/2024-bc-election-results-assessment/

 

[Pelorus]

Sure thing.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1845725489161445717

Considering that the original post says, "Look, I really hope that no one was actually killed at any of these events..." (emphasis mine), I'm not sure how you can argue in good faith that the "apology" above was anything other than an attempt to backtrack on some dogshit opinions once they threated his electability.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

So we have 617 hardcore Communists in the Province. time for a one way ticket to a communist paradise of their choice.

 

[Pelorus]

So we have 617 hardcore Communists in the Province. time for a one way ticket to a communist paradise of their choice.

Fuck Freedom of Expression I guess?

 

[dimsum]

So we have 617 hardcore Communists in the Province. time for a one way ticket to a communist paradise of their choice.

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How much of that is what the Aussies call the “donkey vote”? Where they vote for the most ridiculously sounding party as a protest?

 

[OldSolduer]

How much of that is what the Aussies call the “donkey vote”? Where they vote for the most ridiculously sounding party as a protest?

We had The Rhinoceros Party.
I once wrote in the Ayatollah Khomeini on a ballot. He was already dead and equivalent to those running.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Fuck Freedom of Expression I guess?

How about we not lionize a political philosophy that has killed and enslaved hundreds of millions of people?

We don’t celebrate Nazis.

Let’s not celebrate Communists.

 

[OldSolduer]

Fuck Freedom of Expression I guess?

Yup be prepared to accept the consequences of your political views.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Fuck Freedom of Expression I guess?

Ok, we can bring them back after 5 years if they survive. Communists have been the most successful eradicators of other humans so far, so I don't have much love for them.

 

[Pelorus]

How about we not lionize a political philosophy that has killed and enslaved hundreds of millions of people?

We don’t celebrate Nazis.

Let’s not celebrate Communists.

It has nothing to do with lionizing communists, it's about protecting expression in a free society, so long as it doesn't fall under the limited restrictions against hate speech, etc.

Considering that the various Communist Parties within Canada are federally/provincially registered, it would follow that they've met the requirements of political speech without devolving into advocacy of hate speech.

As a comparison, a number of Army.ca regulars are hard over on defending the Freedom Convoy dipshits, despite the majority of Canadians opposing them. Either we support Freedom of Expression in all directions, or none of them. You pick.

 

[OldSolduer]

It has nothing to do with lionizing communists, it's about protecting expression in a free society, so long as it doesn't fall under the limited restrictions against hate speech, etc.

Considering that the various Communist Parties within Canada are federally/provincially registered, it would follow that they've met the requirements of political speech without devolving into advocacy of hate speech.

As a comparison, a number of Army.ca regulars are hard over on defending the Freedom Convoy dipshits, despite the majority of Canadians opposing them. Either we support Freedom of Expression in all directions, or none of them. You pick.

I can agree with that but if you espouse a doctrine that has failed miserably and killed millions then maybe just maybe you should be vilified,

But feel free to express yourself. That way we know who to watch