I do not vote against anyone. I vote FOR someone or something I believe in.
This is not a mature or responsible way to wield your vote. All this lofty, emotional talk about "muh principles" or "standing for what I believe in"....none of that means anything. That's emotion, not reason. The vote tally doesn't care about your principles, and what you believe in counts for nothing if the person who represents the opposite of what you believe in takes power because you failed to invest your vote wisely and chose instead to let short-term emotional self-gratification guide your vote.
All that matters is election outcomes, and the policies of the winner.
Look, if you have three parties:
One that offers ALL of what you want.
One that offers SOME of what you want.
And one that offers NONE of what you want....
...And where the ALL of what you want party has no chance in hell regardless of how you vote, but the SOME of what you want party might be able to win if you vote for them, you would be an absolute fool to piss your vote away on the ALL party, because all you're really doing is making sure you end up getting NONE of what you want.
It's self-defeating, even if the surface level interpretation makes it seem like you're voting for your own interests by voting ALL. But that's just the surface level, childishly naive interpretation. The actual fact is, you're voting against your own interests by choosing NONE of what you want over SOME of what you want. Getting SOMETHING is better than getting NOTHING.
And none of the sentimentality about "Muh principles" or "what I believe in" counts for shit when the party who's offering NONE of what you want takes power.
Yeah the CPC's recent track record has been a dumpster fire. Scheer was a joke and he got caught up in a scandal, Jim Karahalios being kicked out, topped with last night's train wreck for counting ballots. It's like they want to lose. Hell Ford is acting like a Liberal too. Erin is slightly better than Mckay but not by much. I wish our right wing parties weren't so fucked. I'm praying for the day of the rake lol.
Hey guys, voting based on your principals is emotional
Are you really going to deny you're acting on emotion while simultaneously saying
This guy wants to get stomped in the nuts or something
And yes, pissing your vote away on a hopless joke/sham party and condemning this country to another four years of Trudeau because the other viable party would only give you some of what you want rather than all of it makes you a fucking child.
You PPCtards are literally indistinguishable from the Liberal SJWs.
Yeah I got really mixed feelings. Either throw my vote away for PPC, vote for Liberal Lite (CPC), go full retard and vote Liberal, or don't vote at all. I'm really considering pulling a George Carlin; stay home and rub one out come election day.
They say the amount of time it takes to get over a breakup is equal to the amount of time you were in the relationship. He was in the game (as a CPC MP) from 2006 to 2018, two years have passed since the breakup, so in about a decade he should be getting over it.
LOL why is he even making a statement on the CPC leadership race?
Obsessed much?
Sounds like he's filled with regret over quitting the party, since it would probably be his turn right now if he'd stuck it out. Lashing out at the CPC endlessly is his way of coping, of trying to convince himself he did the right thing (he didn't).
No, not at all.
He needed to run in 10-15 targeted ridings, make sure the candidates were excellent and build on that.
More importantly, he needed to play nice with the CPC and go after the left, rather than attacking them and ignoring everyone else. He had one question in a debate to make his mark, and he used it to ask Scheer if he considered himself to be a "real conservative."
5-10 seats where he propped up the government wouldn't have been a bad goal. He'd be exceptionally relevant in today's parliament if he'd done that.
Instead he went for the short-term, win-it-all-or-go-bust play and it fucked him.
He needs to change tacks and quickly. His attacks on the CPC are far more motivated and more vehement than his attacks on the LPC and he almost never attacks the NDP (the party that used cheap accusations of racism against him and which certainly deserves some bitterness.)
He could have been the godfather of a new political party and written himself into history, but he went for it all. It's sad.
Well, when your only goal is to shave as many points off of the CPC as you can for the rest of time and keep collecting that sweet donation cash from your followers, there really is no success/failure end sate. There's just you sitting on the couch, tweeting about the CPC, cashing those donation checks and if you're lucky, occasionally laughing at the CPC when they lose an election, hopefully due in part to your efforts.
Why bother? He's collecting a $100k/year salary from his gullible followers. All he's gotta do is tweet once in a while to keep them thinking the PPC is a real party with real political intentions and that money will keep rolling in forever.
No voice, lost his seat
This is not a mature or responsible way to wield your vote. All this lofty, emotional talk about "muh principles" or "standing for what I believe in"....none of that means anything. That's emotion, not reason. The vote tally doesn't care about your principles, and what you believe in counts for nothing if the person who represents the opposite of what you believe in takes power because you failed to invest your vote wisely and chose instead to let short-term emotional self-gratification guide your vote.
All that matters is election outcomes, and the policies of the winner.
Look, if you have three parties:
...And where the ALL of what you want party has no chance in hell regardless of how you vote, but the SOME of what you want party might be able to win if you vote for them, you would be an absolute fool to piss your vote away on the ALL party, because all you're really doing is making sure you end up getting NONE of what you want.
It's self-defeating, even if the surface level interpretation makes it seem like you're voting for your own interests by voting ALL. But that's just the surface level, childishly naive interpretation. The actual fact is, you're voting against your own interests by choosing NONE of what you want over SOME of what you want. Getting SOMETHING is better than getting NOTHING.
And none of the sentimentality about "Muh principles" or "what I believe in" counts for shit when the party who's offering NONE of what you want takes power.
Yeah the CPC's recent track record has been a dumpster fire. Scheer was a joke and he got caught up in a scandal, Jim Karahalios being kicked out, topped with last night's train wreck for counting ballots. It's like they want to lose. Hell Ford is acting like a Liberal too. Erin is slightly better than Mckay but not by much. I wish our right wing parties weren't so fucked. I'm praying for the day of the rake lol.
Are you really going to deny you're acting on emotion while simultaneously saying
And yes, pissing your vote away on a hopless joke/sham party and condemning this country to another four years of Trudeau because the other viable party would only give you some of what you want rather than all of it makes you a fucking child.
You PPCtards are literally indistinguishable from the Liberal SJWs.
Yeah I got really mixed feelings. Either throw my vote away for PPC, vote for Liberal Lite (CPC), go full retard and vote Liberal, or don't vote at all. I'm really considering pulling a George Carlin; stay home and rub one out come election day.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
They say the amount of time it takes to get over a breakup is equal to the amount of time you were in the relationship. He was in the game (as a CPC MP) from 2006 to 2018, two years have passed since the breakup, so in about a decade he should be getting over it.
LOL why is he even making a statement on the CPC leadership race?
Obsessed much?
Sounds like he's filled with regret over quitting the party, since it would probably be his turn right now if he'd stuck it out. Lashing out at the CPC endlessly is his way of coping, of trying to convince himself he did the right thing (he didn't).
No, not at all.
He needed to run in 10-15 targeted ridings, make sure the candidates were excellent and build on that.
More importantly, he needed to play nice with the CPC and go after the left, rather than attacking them and ignoring everyone else. He had one question in a debate to make his mark, and he used it to ask Scheer if he considered himself to be a "real conservative."
5-10 seats where he propped up the government wouldn't have been a bad goal. He'd be exceptionally relevant in today's parliament if he'd done that.
Instead he went for the short-term, win-it-all-or-go-bust play and it fucked him.
He needs to change tacks and quickly. His attacks on the CPC are far more motivated and more vehement than his attacks on the LPC and he almost never attacks the NDP (the party that used cheap accusations of racism against him and which certainly deserves some bitterness.)
He could have been the godfather of a new political party and written himself into history, but he went for it all. It's sad.
Well, when your only goal is to shave as many points off of the CPC as you can for the rest of time and keep collecting that sweet donation cash from your followers, there really is no success/failure end sate. There's just you sitting on the couch, tweeting about the CPC, cashing those donation checks and if you're lucky, occasionally laughing at the CPC when they lose an election, hopefully due in part to your efforts.
Why bother? He's collecting a $100k/year salary from his gullible followers. All he's gotta do is tweet once in a while to keep them thinking the PPC is a real party with real political intentions and that money will keep rolling in forever.