Remembering how my sixth grade teacher back in like, 2012, was telling us a high speed train from Edmonton to Calgary would be a stupid idea, and that waiting for the hyperloop would be a smarter idea.

Hope he’s enjoying that curdled milk.

Not my area of expertise, but try taking a look at this list: https://codeberg.org/Taffer/canadian-alternatives

You’re not funny bro.

Got any other jokes to sell us, or are you supposed to be the punchline here?

I swear, Americans will sooner protest a Disney movie or Oreo Cakesters being discontinued before they end up protesting their country invading ours.

Would’ve been nice if they actually mailed me the 1000 I signed up for. Two people emailed later, and still nothing.

Ah yes, let’s travel to the state where the Govenor has a new podcast with his first guests being “I hope that black pilot is qualified” Charlie Kirk, “I’m banned from the UK for being so racist” Michael Savage, and “Nazi salute” Steve Bannon.

Oh yeah, and that’s a Democrat doing this, the “normal” political party in the U.S…

“We meet the criteria” no you don’t, you pulled several of your candidates and gave them the false pretext that you met the same criteria the other parties did.

The PPC didn’t meet the criteria and neither did you, maybe next time grow a spine and run candidates in Conservative-likely ridings because the fight for your cause is worth the uphill battle.

As someone in a Conservative-likely riding, I’m furious that I wasn’t given the option to vote and canvass for the Greens. Pedneault had me thinking that he was a positive change in the party leadership, and now the “strategic” decision to pull candidates in ridings like mine is coming to bite the party in the ass.

Them having a contract with them at this late date makes zero sense. Fuck private health care, but even if you wanted a private Canadian alternative, DynaLife is literally headquartered in Edmonton.

THIS FUCKER HAD ME QUESTIONING MY THOUGHTS ON GREEN PARTY LEADERSHIP, AND THEN HE PULLS THIS???

“Strategic” my ass, you give it fight, and you try anyway. What an unbelievable show of weakness that they don’t believe their platform is strong enough to win over voters.

Ah yes, cause the less than one million green voters would have filled a nearly three million vote gap in November.

Just lemmy.ca yeah. My system uses the correct timezone for me, but when I check the date of posting by hovering over the indicator of how long ago the post was made, it just gives me the time in GMT.

No Name has an option.

Also while still an American brand, Lays has their Stax brand, and I believe their chips are made in Canada from Canadian potatoes.

Christ, with how many business owners are fucking idiots, maybe I oughta start one.

The things I want to say about this man would heavily violate Rule 2 of this instance.

Talk about a generalisation, yeesh.

Not even just progressive vote splitting.

You can absolutely sell this idea to supporters of the PPC by telling them that their party was robbed of multiple seats because of first-past-the-post. It’s shocking that they haven’t been advocating for this on their side of the aisle considering it would massively benefit their odds at representation in parliament.

Made a wrong assumption then, not that it means anything, but downvoting myself to make up for jumping to conclusions.

What I think is that the Greens and NDP are highly disappointing, and as much as they overall don’t align with my values, I’ll likely be voting Canadian Future since I refuse to vote NDP unless Jagmeet steps down and they get their leadership act together. I would have voted for the Greens if they ran a candidate in my riding like they said they would on their site, but come April 9th when the entries list was finalised, they were nowhere to be seen. Even then it was only because I’ve been impressed with Pedneault to the point that it makes up for May still being party head.

I just feel that we could in such a different position where people didn’t have this conception of there being a need to strategic vote if these two parties actually fought like they should be. The NDP being this low after achieving Dentalcare for Canadians is beyond pathetic. Jagmeet says it in his speeches, but it should be all over the place with their advertising talking about how they strong-armed the Liberals into passing it.

Ah, so you didn’t even read the comment. Congrats. Go ahead and “strategic vote” and have fun making this country ever so slightly more like the U.S. by forcing smaller parties to dissolve creating a two-party system.

Layton would be rolling in his grave seeing the lack of fight people have for their values these days.

Greens, NDP, Canadian Future. All running with proportional representation in their platforms.

So you also think not voting Liberal leads to fascism? I love when parties are entitled to my vote, that’s definitely how democracy works.

My comment here summarises things.