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Is this recent? Last night I read they were going to gain


Ugh

 

CBC News Canada Poll Tracker

 

I mean, if it happens they deserve it for literally forgetting they're supposed to be the progressive party until the last month or so. I still think moving forward, they'll be in a much much better position. A lot of people are pretty excited about the new platform and shift right now, they just most likely waited way too long. I also read they were projected to lose in the last cycle but then at the very last moment they gained a bunch of seats so idk. Ugh.

 

The law will apply to foreigners and all engaging in same-sex relations as same-sex marriage isn’t recognized in the country.

Millions may risk jail as Indonesia prepares to outlaw sex outside marriage

 

Is there any sort of actually progressive wing in the NDP similar to AOC/Tlaib? I know they were campaigning on a moderate federal platform under Mulcair on some things in 2015 (weed, budget iirc), and have just gotten trounced in the Prairie elections since.

 

Can't wait to have sex while insulting Jokowi as I cum.

 

The NDP are basically at their lowest point since the pre-layton days. I don't really even know who their base of support is- they're currently projected to win a single seat east of ontario, and that specific seat is still a "toss-up". according to 338, they've only got one single "safe" (ie 75% probability) seat in Ontario. Really can't imagine them being relevant in our politics for the next long while

 

That's a good question. I've had a hard time finding much blatant left leaning Canadian publications that tell you stuff like that TBH it's really from watching a lot of credible people on YT or reading them on that I have a pretty solid idea what's going on. With the postmedia takeover being fucked as it is, that makes it even harder.

 

Fuck

 

also, wrt whether there is a progressive wing or not, there is and isn't- when Singh won the leadership election he represented the more centre lane of the party while candidates like charlie angus and nicki ashton were more "progressive".

In terms of how influential those wings are in government, remember that the NDP has nearly always been a third party. This means that they'll usually have to caucus with other parties to influence anything. If you've got 10% of the seats in parliament, as the NDP does, your "progressive wing" will literally represent about 3 MPs. In a house with 338. AOC/Omar/Etc. are better able to enact change because their party will always have anywhere from 40-55% of the seats in government. That barely ever happens in Canada, and when it does, it's typically because the party in power is extremely consolidated.

the ndp had their chance to become a force after 2011- they were given perhaps the greatest gift in electoral history with the orange wave over quebec where they were able to seat literally anyone including several undergraduate students in pretty much every seat in the province. at this point, unless there's a leader from quebec, they'll forever be irrelevant here, and that basically shuts them off to 30% of the country right there.

 

Drop out and leave your seat, thx

 

Kennedy is so young and has a bright future. I don’t get why he’d fuck it up by trying to primary a fellow progressive who’s actually popular. If it was a Joe Manchin-like Senator I’d understand.

 

Katyal’s hyping up aside...holy shit at that headline.

 

how does this get more insane, his wife is Gwyneth Paltrow's cousin !!???!!

 

add it to the list of stuff that would be the cause of a term defining scandal for any other president but will be forgotten by tomorrow morning for trump

 

More of a general statement, but my town has so noticeably become even more divided by class the last few years it's unreal. School enrollment is low because there are no jobs here and nobody can afford housing. Despite the fact that we have tons and tons of ppl on waitlists for income based housing they just had to build these luxury random apts that costs double mine. I can get an (albeit small) apt in Portland for the same price as these new ones. And then at least I'd be living in Portland and not this dump in the middle of nowhere with fewer resources. And then as this election cycle gears up seeing ppl voting against their own self interests is difficult. It's just depressing.

 

I wonder if Trump promised to out the spy

 

I mean, she really doesn't want them galvanized on anything otherwise she wouldn't be attacking her own party for the last three months.