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beer pal

im ready to die now thanks

# ? Oct 19, 2015 23:01

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GEExCEE

have you considered lupus?

# ? Oct 19, 2015 23:13

beer pal

if the conservatives win im moving to whatever that country is thats bottom of the sea and you drown

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# ? Oct 19, 2015 23:13

GEExCEE

beer pal posted:

if the conservatives win im moving to whatever that country is thats bottom of the sea and you drown

that's south carolina

# ? Oct 19, 2015 23:16

beer pal

maybe ill vote for the liberals... they said theyre gonna implement the right for me to bury myself alive ina burlap sack and let the worms eat me ... i mean theyre otherwise poo poo but i guess im a singel issue voter this time

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# ? Oct 19, 2015 23:16

beer pal

ndp leader jason mulcair: health care should our number one priority
me: this guy doesnt get me at all

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# ? Oct 19, 2015 23:22

beer pal

green party: bullet trains
me:

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# ? Oct 19, 2015 23:24

mags: I am a congenital optimist.

move under the sea

paul_soccer12 posted:

everyone in the idf must die

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# ? Oct 19, 2015 23:29

Al Borland: by XyloJW

could be worse.

Could be the US elections.

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# ? Oct 19, 2015 23:46

mags: I am a congenital optimist.

uh the us elections have little to do with voters but in canada you actually deserve who you elect

paul_soccer12 posted:

everyone in the idf must die

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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:11

beer pal

mister magpie posted:

uh the us elections have little to do with voters but in canada you actually deserve who you elect

whats that mean

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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:28

mags: I am a congenital optimist.

canada isn't as much of a hopeless oligarchy as we are

paul_soccer12 posted:

everyone in the idf must die

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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:31

beer pal

oh... word? well I gues sits nice to have Three neliberal capitalst parties to pick form instead of just Two.. and i think i head a rumor that one of the newspapers didnt even endorse the conservatives... its good to be canadian for sure

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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:36

mags: I am a congenital optimist.

do you prefer real maple syrup or the imitation kind

paul_soccer12 posted:

everyone in the idf must die

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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:48

Weekend Bridges: by Smythe

This could be the year Harper gets elected God-Emperor.

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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:51

beer pal

the imitation stuff is fine but its just sugar .. odesnt even taste like maple.. the one good thing about the tpp is that it means canada can sue for infringement against fake maple syrup

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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:51

Damp Star Baby: Staying Legend. CA Exempt DEATH

welp newfies voted libs by a landslide

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. - William Blake

# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:14

Damp Star Baby: Staying Legend. CA Exempt DEATH

libs leading all riding in atlantic canada lmao

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. - William Blake

# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:17

alnilam

How are the québécois separatists doing

# ? Oct 20, 2015 02:24

alnilam

What's the one party whose whole deal was pushing oil development and exports and now that opec turned the tap on they're hosed

# ? Oct 20, 2015 02:25

beer pal

bloc quebecois was doing pretty poo poo for most of the election until the niqab became an issue, at which point a lot of quebec ndp voters switched to them and the liberals... they might get a couple seats i think... dont think theres a real push for separatism at this point, though, its still in their platform but mostly just rhetoric from what i udnerstand. the parti quebecois is pretty much gone afaik e: oh parti quebecois is just a provincial party

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# ? Oct 20, 2015 02:30

beer pal

alnilam posted:

What's the one party whose whole deal was pushing oil development and exports and now that opec turned the tap on they're hosed

you mean the conservatives? latest polls said they were in second place, back a few points from the liberals

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# ? Oct 20, 2015 02:32

platonicbackrub

I voted for the weed candidate

# ? Oct 20, 2015 02:35

beer pal

u ever notice theres a weed leaf on the flag? seems about time we legalized it

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# ? Oct 20, 2015 02:35

platonicbackrub

ever notice the national anthem is 'green and purple', the cover of black and yellow thats about weed

# ? Oct 20, 2015 02:37

alnilam

beer pal posted:

you mean the conservatives? latest polls said they were in second place, back a few points from the liberals

yeah that's the ones

:smith:

# ? Oct 20, 2015 02:44

beer pal

well cbc just called a win for the liberals... seems crazy eraly to call it esp considering most of the prarie ridings arent reporting yet... but its probably right

alnilam posted:

yeah that's the ones

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# ? Oct 20, 2015 02:48

mags: I am a congenital optimist.

do all canadians know french?

paul_soccer12 posted:

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# ? Oct 20, 2015 03:31

Damp Star Baby: Staying Legend. CA Exempt DEATH

Mostly only if you're from a French Canadian family. You can get away with 100% English in pretty much 95% of the country.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. - William Blake

# ? Oct 20, 2015 03:47

Damp Star Baby: Staying Legend. CA Exempt DEATH

so Justin Trudeau, the most byob candidate won. I didn't vote for him,but pot will probably be legal in Canada soon.

he's also the wacky jokester at the bar. The social media era of politics is brutal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRnwK01n904

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. - William Blake

# ? Oct 20, 2015 13:25

Damp Star Baby: Staying Legend. CA Exempt DEATH

he's gonna kill first-past-the-post omg yes

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. - William Blake

# ? Oct 20, 2015 14:14

Weekend Bridges: by Smythe

The Canadian Gerald Ford.

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# ? Oct 20, 2015 14:54

Ralp: by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Damp Star Baby posted:

he's gonna kill first-past-the-post omg yes

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# ? Oct 20, 2015 15:14

alnilam

Damp Star Baby posted:

he's gonna kill first-past-the-post omg yes

# ? Oct 20, 2015 15:42

alnilam

Do you think he'll succeed or is that something that requires a huge majority? Like for example in the US, electoral reform like that would require a constitutional amendment (actually, a pretty major constitutional overhaul) which requires 75% majority.

# ? Oct 20, 2015 15:45

Damp Star Baby: Staying Legend. CA Exempt DEATH

no, our system is cartoonishly flawed, and widely considered to be in need of reform. It isn't protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, so legislative action could influence at least how federal elections works relatively quickly. Provinces would have to decide on their own if they wanted to get rid of it. At the provincial level, where geographical considerations and sample sizes are less of an issue, FTTP makes a lot of sense in certain circumstances. A lot of atlantic provinces wouldn't see any major changes to its electoral results, but Ontario and British Colombia would get a much more accurate picture of people's voting patterns.

you shouldn't be able to win a majority with 35-40% of the vote tbh, and a lot of provinces hold a disproportionate amount of sway in deciding the outcome of elections at the federal level.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. - William Blake

# ? Oct 20, 2015 15:54

beer pal

i hope they actually follw through - the platform item was kind of wishy washy wasnt it.. like convene a commission to explore the possiblility kind of poo poo... and now that they just got a majority off fptp they lost some of their motivtion...

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# ? Oct 20, 2015 16:48

Ralp: by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

alnilam posted:

Do you think he'll succeed or is that something that requires a huge majority? Like for example in the US, electoral reform like that would require a constitutional amendment (actually, a pretty major constitutional overhaul) which requires 75% majority.

As far as I know the electoral college is necessarily FPTP but it's up to individual state legislatures to appoint presidential electors however they want (which admittedly often or maybe always(?) is codified in each state's constitution). For senators and reps it just says "elected by the people" and "chosen every second Year by the People of the several States". We could totally change.

Sorry for the uspol derail.

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# ? Oct 20, 2015 17:00