This is a relief. This plus Vucic losing in Serbia has made for a pretty good day
The Alberta separatists getting brutally stomped on last week was also very nice.
Let’s see how the American midterms go now.
Muted whimpering from BC
Hey, at least Alberta’s UCP lets you look at your conservative party and think about how much worse they could have been.
I guess you haven’t been reading the particulars about this batch of mouthbreathers then. We’re talking Flu Trucks Clan, 51st state, aggressively stupid.
Conservative != Bad
I really have been disappointed over the last few days reading comments here that amount to that.
I haven’t voted Conservative since Harper but it was clear that in BC (I’m in Ontario) Eby shit the bed with a vote no one wanted when the system was not prepared. The voters saw through his bullshit and they punished him and the NDP accordingly.
How about we wait and see what they do before we default to “oh no here we go downhill again”?
No, Conservative == Bad. It’s a shit political movement that really just consists of wrapping fascism in euphemisms. And yes, that includes your conservative party, whose platform includes cutting taxes, increasing the police force, giving NIMBYs power over zoning decisions, attacking electrification and promoting fossil fuels, repealing DRIPA, increased immigration enforcement, and anti-BDS regulation. You don’t need to give them power to find out how awful they are, you just have to read and listen to what they are saying
Reputable news sources explaining all this in relation to the BC Conservatives?
In this case, they didn’t make a good impression!
- many candidates have expressed interest in repealing our human rights code
- we are likely to see a sharp downturn in government/ First Nations relations
- the party still tolerates separatists
- pro-american views verging on seditious have not been disciplined
- a bunch of very racist things were said without consequences
- historically, right wing government leads to fiscal hardship in BC
- it’s likely to get very rough tor trans people, especially youth
- republican style rhetoric about LGBTQ+ people and programs
- crime and punishment rhetoric (more cops, more enforcement, no address of root causes)
- our housing problems require left-wing solutions
BC has a pretty wacky record on right wing populism, and they’re back. UCP vibes.
Reputable news source reporting on this?
CTV, CBC, Global, CHEK. Use search functions, it’s a wide range of topics but they all reported some of it. Is there something in particular you want verification for?
Any of the specific points raised. I will admit I follow CBC closely both TV and radio and I haven’t not heard any of this. I also follow numerous podcasts and haven’t heard any of this as well.
Vucic losing in Serbia
I had not heard yet – this is great news!
Congratulations to both Serbia and Brazil for saying NO to autocracy!
Good to see Lula did not let the right-wingers walk all over him and rig the elections without fighting back.
The time for playing nice with cheating foreign agents is over.
Congratulation to Brazil, all the best to you all !
The American billionaires aren’t going to like their right wing puppet lost
By a whooping 1.5% difference, we haven’t got a mob boss on the head of the executive power, with an aligned congress and the capacity of putting 2 judges on the supreme court and get a majority there.
So… whew… our democracy will only die slowly now. Beats dying quickly.
A whopping 10 million more people voted for Lula in this second turn of the election, and he had a 4 million voters lead on Flávio. That’s not a bad number. Now our job is to push the government in prosecuting all the mayors and secretaries involved in undermining the election.
So the good guys won but didn’t win hard enough for your tastes.
Just take the W and have a nice night. Now there’s an opportunity for improvement, that’s a good thing.
Who is Lula ?
A man who has been opposing the far right in Brazil since the 70s. He became a union leader after a workplace incident and medical negligence caused him to lose his little finger at 17 years old working in a steel mill, as he had been working there during the nights to be able to afford living. From union leader, he spent many years fighting the far-right USA-backed military dictatorship in Brazil, ending up in prison more than once, and also suffering torture. In 1989, when Brazil recovered its democracy, he ran for president against Collor, a rich asshole from the far right, and then lost because of the far right propaganda of “He is a Communist, he will take your pension money and savings from you!!”. What ended up happening though was that Collor himself had that plan, his right-wing government froze the savings accounts of middle class people, and then confiscated it all. A few years later, in 2002, Lula finally won the presidency, and his first and second turns (2003-2010) were the fastest Brazil has ever grown and developed, we went from 12th to 6th economy in the world, and cruised unscathed through 2008 economic crisis. On top of all that, his early government is responsible for saving millions of people from hunger and misery, and for the first time ever Brazil had left the world’s hunger map. And then he was reelected back in 2022 and had to repeat the same feat of saving people from hunger and misery yet again, because of what the previous two far-right governments did.
Kind of a dumb and dumber choice there, unfortunately. Both are kind of putinist.
But Bolsonaro would’ve been slightly worse in various other ways so yay I guess.
