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On Strategic Voting And Killing Trees In The Name Of Limitless Luxury

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by Sean Orr | A political website that gets right to the point: Dont Be A Fucking Idiot. “The cherry on this shit sandwich is his C-51 spying bill that lets the government spy on you all the fucking time. You have nothing to hide – as long as you are white, middle-aged and have a maple leaf tattooed on your ass”. Wish I had seen this before I voted in the advance polls…

Speaking of advance polls: B.C. election worker quits due to long lineups. That old couple at the beginning is adorable in a sort of Yaletown, Baby Boomer, white-privilege kind of way: “We both got heart problems, we can’t do that…” And I can’t tell if David Beattie is some kind of electoral martyr or he’s just really good at throwing temper tantrums. Also, the Roundhouse is where I voted and there definitely was a long line, but I had VIP access and just breezed passed everyone. Suckers.

Police called to Elections Canada office in Vancouver. I just had a crazy vision of the future under Harper where people basically resort to rioting just to be able to vote.

Pete McMartin: Voter registration glitch keeps growing. I’m generally a proponent of Hanlon’s Razor but this is getting out of hand. Also, did you see that the Simpson’s predicted Trump’s presidential bid? You guys, I’m scared.

Not scared enough to vote strategically, though: Strategic voting is stupid. Here is why it won’t work.

In 2011, 10 days before the election – where we are right now – the Liberals and NDP were tied in the polls. No one – not a single pollster, not a single pundit, not a single “expert” – predicted just how strong the NDP’s surge would be on election day. They were estimated to maybe – if they were lucky, and if all the votes fell in all the right ridings – they might maybe, possibly, get as many seats as the Liberals. Of course as we all know now, they ended up winning three times as many seats as the Liberals.

I like to post the following when someone on Facebook posts another article about strategic voting: Staunch New Democrat to vote Liberal again.

Although this is a pretty good reason to: I’m Voting Strategically Because I Hate Strategic Voting. Yeah, but the Liberals were in power before; they had their chance to enact proportional representation and they didn’t.

OK, so I’ve shied away from rhetoric like, ‘Harper is evil’ or whatever because he’s just as Canadian as most Canadians, but then this: Prime Minister’s Office ordered halt to refugee processing. Remember when he cried about the dead boy on the beach? That was fake? I mean, I said it was fake at the time, but I didn’t know he knew this. That’s some God-tier scumbaggery right there…

Red Truck, Blue Truck: East Van brewery ferments anger after private Harper event.

Alberta of the day: Confederate flag-clad man ‘against the niqab’ charged with uttering threats at Calgary debate. Lol at all the comments saying he had a right to wear a confederate flag not realizing he was wearing a confederate flag while uttering threats.

Besides, she took her oath and God didn’t rain down his vengeance on us, yet: Zunera Ishaq, who challenged ban on niqab, takes citizenship oath wearing it.

Related political cartoon of the day. The cartoonist has “the end of life debate” as one of the many issues being hidden under the niqab. I didn’t really think about it until I read that Vancouver artist Elizabeth Fischer was headed to Switzerland to end her life: Vancouver artist Elizabeth Fischer on her ‘ironic’ terminal diagnosis.

Video of cyclist getting doored sparks debate. What’s the debate? Should cars have doors or not?

The only good condo is a dead condo: New Vancouver condo tower knocking out beloved neighbourhood tree. Dig the story’s accompanying photo. Um, what is it exactly that you people don’t understand about “limitless luxury”? It’s fucking limitless! It doesn’t give a shit about your shitty tree!

Best “missed connection” of all time? I met you in the rain on the last day of 1972 .

Bonus: Daylight Saving, the movie.

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  1. Heh heh, fair comment. I am the David Beattie referred to. And the answer is both and neither. I quit becausse Elections Canada made no effort, over three days, to fix the lineup problem, and many voters were so angry not just because they saw EC as bunglingly incompetent, but rather as an extension of the Harper government, and they suspected VOTER SUPPRESSION. How do I know? Many of them told me that directly. Nice column.

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