I see a few ridings where the margin between Con and NDP is razor thin with Green taking a sizable chunk of the vote.

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    How is this election so close?? The NDP have been doing a fine job governing, why try to wreck it by voting conservative.

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      Various external forms of ratfuckery from Alberta culture leaking into the ripe compost of BC bigotry : KlownKonvoy fans running rallies, the Take Back Alberta crowd running various astroturfing schemes, funding flowing into rural communities for campaigning via Harper-derived organizations, and as one NDP campaigner pointed out, intense “microtargeting” in social media in a divide-and-conquer approach which was successful.

      People are unhappy about the economy and are blaming local conditions; combined with anti-Trudeau tribalism it’s all very emotional and truth doesn’t mean anything.

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          This is laughable with respect to the far right in BC, who are masquerading as small-c conservatives.

          The discourse of outrage that’s promulgated throughout social media is full of unsourced, proven lies. How do we know? Because they get airtime and volume, and are examined and debunked.

          In traditional media, the arguments for the unambiguous bullshit that gets aired are clearly founded in emotional, unscientific rhetoric, and mouthpieces for this bullshit are confronted and then immediately dissemble into a related issue backed by equally unsubstantiated emotional bullshit.

          Note that I am using the dictionary definition of bullshit here.

          Inevitably, when people complain about bullshit that is rather obviously propaganda built for oligarchism but hiding behind populism, some toady pops up to claim that true objectivity should put the opposing viewpoints on equal footing, and those that were educationally deprived of critical thinking skills will applaud.

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      Combination of the NDP not pressing the “fix everything” button and the popularity of the federal conservatives

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      By believing weird claims online. Friend of mine that immigrated to Canada and got citizenship recently, voted for conservatives because he is now anti-immigrant and believes Trudeau gov/NDP are giving too much support to immigrants. The youtube algorithm has turned him into believing conspiracy stuff

  • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca
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    I’m happy that it’s looking like the ndp will be forced to work with the greens.

    Let’s get free public transit and proportional representation!