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1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Oct-2018 16:30:27 EDT Adam

   "Why vote? All politicians are the same. They're all crooks, no matter which party they represent."

   My friend, let me tell you about a little something called the Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie.

   1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Oct-2018 16:39:18 EDT Adam

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      Despite that haha-only-serious joke, I do still vote. Often, it's just for damage control and it will probably never result in real revolutionary change, but I do vote.

      Maybe we'll get lucky and have our own Allende...hopefully without the military and CIA deciding to stage a coup.

      1. Gurjeet ✅ (toxicflange@mastodon.club)'s status on Thursday, 04-Oct-2018 11:37:17 EDT Gurjeet ✅

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         @ink_slinger No idea whom to vote for .. Always voted liberal but this time I've been severly let down. I find the CPC are too US/racist supported/ like.. the NDP.. i just know they exist. Rise up green party or something else where the average age of that party is 30 and I'll vote for them young folks.

         1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Thursday, 04-Oct-2018 12:26:58 EDT Adam

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            @Toxic_Flange I typically vote NDP, just because they're the mainstream party closest to what I believe. I've voted Green and may even have voted Liberal on occasion.

            Being out here in the conservative heartland, it's especially easy to feel like my vote doesn't matter. Except at the municipal level, I rarely cast a vote for the winning candidate.

            1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Thursday, 04-Oct-2018 12:28:23 EDT Adam

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               @Toxic_Flange I want electoral reform and am still angry at the Liberals for lying about it. If they had a specific form in mind, that's what they should have campaigned on.

               I also don't buy the "more smaller parties getting elected is bad" argument. That's a feature of proportional representation, not a bug, even if it does sometimes lead to bizarre alliances.

               1. Gurjeet ✅ (toxicflange@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 05-Oct-2018 09:43:48 EDT Gurjeet ✅

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                  @ink_slinger Yes! thats why i voted liberal, electoral reform would have been totally awesome! Then they shut it down, "no clear mandate from people" as designed., instead of saying "we'll continue to work on it". So pissed off at that.

                  1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 05-Oct-2018 11:03:05 EDT Adam

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                     @Toxic_Flange Yeah, I think they got a lot of votes for that promise, from people who otherwise would have voted for someone else. I can imagine a lot of Green party supporters, in particular, voting for the Liberals in the hopes that, next election, after the promised reform, their party would be able to have more representation.

                     What's the saying? Make a deal with the devil and you're the one who gets burned?