[ SECRET POST #3226 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3226 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Animal Crossing]


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03.
[Steven Universe]


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04.
[Excess Baggage]


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05.
[Sue Perkins]


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06.
[Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans]


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07.
[Vin Diesel]


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08.
[Hemlock Grove]









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Comments

Re: Unpopular opinions

[dethtoll]

After watching Harper from America I figured I had some sense of how Canadians watching Bush felt. Harper was poison and needed to go.

I do feel your pain on wishing smaller parties had a chance, though. But who's going to vote for Socialists in this country?

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

NDP isn't a small party. They're one of the three major parties. They're just never in power federally.

You are correct about Harper's reign of awful being our equivalent of the Bush administration, however.

Re: Unpopular opinions

[dethtoll]

I'd argue that NDP never being in power makes them de facto a smaller party. Though I may be projecting my distaste for the US system onto things.

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

"Though I may be projecting my distaste for the US system onto things."

Yeah, that sounds about right. IDK how much you know about how our government works, but I'm going to assume it's not much, since I doubt most people outside of Canada give more than the most minuscule fuck about our politics. Like, I'd actually be shocked to meet a non-Canadian who gives a larger-than-microscopic amount of fuck.

To summarize: The amount of influence a party has federally (usually) depends on how many seats in parliament that party has. As of now, NDP has a low number of seats, MUCH lower than I was expecting, and everyone else I've talked to about this agrees that this is Bad with a Capital B, regardless of how they voted or their views of the party leaders as individuals.

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I'd argue that NDP never being in power makes them de facto a smaller party.

I think they are a bit smaller, but more in the way of being the youngest of three adults, as opposed to a child among adults. I think when most people say "smaller party" they tend to mean the latter - i.e. a party that was never seriously in the running (like our Green party). That's very much not the case with the NDP, who have been flirting HARD with the possibility of a win for quite a while now. It took a while, but they had really built themselves up with Jack Layton at the helm, into a solid third party with a very real potential to win. But then he died, and they lost a LOT of the solidity and strength they'd built up under him.

They had managed to build it back recently, and only about a month before the election they were actually projected to take the lead and win by a narrow margin. Unfortunately, I don't think campaigning has ever been the NDP's strong suit. They shot themselves in the foot by saying outright that they'd work with Harper, and public favor swung hard over to the Liberals.

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

The NDP is not a small party, but they've almost always been last of the big three. The last while has been a bit of a blip, with the NDP benefiting from those who wouldn't vote Conservative, but also hadn't forgiven the Liberals for their past scandals. Quebec voting NDP was an anomaly, and they've gone back to their usual voting.

Not saying the NDP can't make strides from this and turn it around in future, but it's not surprising that it shook out the way it did.

Really, doing the "anyone but Harper" strategy was bound to bite one of them in the end - and the Liberals have the advantage of having been in government before.