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CBC Canada

Liberals will soon pick the next prime minister. Here's what candidates are promising
In just under a month, Liberal Party members will choose their next leader, who will automatically become Canada's next prime minister. The Candidates vying for the job are starting to flesh out their visions for the country.
#politics #election #candidate #Canada #News
cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-fr

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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

@mloxton @KathyLK

no

not voting has no blame in the minds of some on the #left

because their personal feeling about themselves is more important than mattering in the world

so voting for a #candidate they feel is impure is so terrible, they don't #vote, then the #right wins

that's #toxidealism in a nutshell:

people whose personal sense of their #ideological purity, how they feel about themselves, is more important than messy impure strategy to get effective change in the world

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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

Many factors why #Trump won

The most crucial piece is that #socialmedia is the center of all attention

Not unique to the #USA

Example:

"#FarRight #candidate takes shock lead in #Romania presidential #election"

bbc.com/news/articles/c9dlw5pq

#Georgescu is anti-#NATO, anti-#EU and admires #Putin

He joined in August in 8th place. He is now in 1st

Why?

Social media saturation

Forget #cable, forget the #press: dead #media

Social media is killing #Democracy

This is now our greatest struggle

www.bbc.comFar-right candidate takes shock lead in Romania presidential electionCalin Georgescu, a NATO and EU critic, is ahead in the first round of voting, overtaking the prime minister.
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Nonilex

In the interviews, #JohnKelly expanded on his previously expressed concerns & stressed that voters, in his view, should consider fitness & #character when selecting a president, even more than a candidate’s stances on the issues.

“In many cases, I would agree w/some of [#Trump’s] policies,” he said, STRESSING that as a fmr MILITARY officer he was not endorsing any #candidate. “But again, it’s a very dangerous thing to have the wrong person elected…”

#law#democracy#Freedom
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libramoon

heathercoxrichardson.substack.

#politics #history

..." September 7, #Republican #presidential #candidate Donald #Trump predicted that his plan to deport 15 to 20 million people currently living in the United States would be “bloody.” He also promised to prosecute his political opponents, including, he wrote, lawyers, political operatives, donors, illegal voters, and election officials. Retired chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told journalist Bob Woodward that Trump is “a fascist”...

Letters from an American · October 21, 2024By Heather Cox Richardson
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JdeB

#Gaza #USelections

If you're against the colonisation of Palestine by #Israel ,
and see that neither party is doing anything against it [even sending the bombs] ;
and your conclusion is
NOT TO VOTE .
I do understand your sence of powerlessness...
but your wrong.
Not voting is no stance... it will not be noticed.

Consider if there are other issues you think are important;
like #WomenRights #ReproductiveHealth the #ClimateEmergency #P2025 or #LGBT+rights and let those decide your vote.
Or else just consider #Character of the #Candidate .

Or do you prefer looking at your 'clean hands' when Trump takes away YOUR rights.

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