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CBC calls new leader of far-left Green Party "first permanent Black leader of a major federal political party". They have 3 MPs in a parliament of 338 & got 6.5% of the vote (archive.is)
posted 5 years ago by YesMovement 5 years ago by YesMovement +35 / -0
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– YesMovement [S] 17 points 5 years ago +17 / -0

https://twitter.com/7uzidoesit/status/1312594955676708864

“Major federal party?” I have more seats in my pickup than they have in parliament.

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– Gizortnik 11 points 5 years ago +11 / -0

How is he permanent?

Are they admitting he's a despot?

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– YesMovement [S] 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

HE???

Reported for misgendering. Off to the gulag with you, bigot!

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– deleted 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0
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– Gizortnik 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

Ah.

That's not how that word normally works, though.

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– desyee 9 points 5 years ago +9 / -0

One of the replies got me laughing, permanently black as opposed to Trudeau who is sometimes black.

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– Knife-TotingRat 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

Permanent leader?

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– Grumman 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

Presumably as opposed to somebody filling in while the real leader is overseas.

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– YesMovement [S] 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

No. Standard in parliamentary democracies is when a leader steps down the party executives chose an interim leader to serve until they can run a leadership race to determine the new leader.

One party once chose a black woman to be an interim leader so they make that distinction.

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– Knife-TotingRat 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

Yeah, and when a certain somebody from Austria said that voting for him would be an "end to elections", he just meant that the Germans wouldn't be having to go to the polls every few months and things could get back to just having normal elections every few years. I'll buy that for a penny.

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– YesMovement [S] 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

When a parliamentary party has their leader quit, the party bigwigs appoint an interim leader until the leadership race is over- usually someone with a lot of experience but isn't running for leadership themselves and they usually pick someone fairly milquetoast (for that party). For the Greens after May stepped down someone named Jo-Ann Roberts was appointed.

The Bloc Québécois appointed Vivian Barbot, a black woman, as interim leader in 2011 for a year. But she wasn't chosen by the members and interim leaders are designed to be temporary so they don't "count" per se.

The permanent leader is chosen by the party members so that takes time as you have campaigning then voting.

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– Knife-TotingRat 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

I know, but the way words are being played with lately by "journalists" ...

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– Neilcuckman666 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

fucking hypocrits. Our green party leader regularly flies over to US (before covid) just to visit her son but wants to limit people flying. One rule for politicians, one rule for everybody else.

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– Killroyomega 21 points 5 years ago +21 / -0

Because green parties exist entirely to promote the bidding of their masters. They're used to capture the focus and attention of all the stupid environmentalists and trend slaves to misdirect away from actually useful environmentalism.

If any of them really wanted a healthy, self-sufficient future they'd be doing nothing but nonstop advocacy for nuclear power. Instead they're doing the opposite.

Did ya never wonder why?

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– YesMovement [S] 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

The old leader of the Greens was a crazy cat lady, I'm talking believing more conspiracy theories than Alex Jones.

But the media covered for her, in fact treated her like some elder statesman, some wise old sage.

Here's a collection of her craziness the MSM covers up or minimizes: https://jjmccullough.com/elizabethmay.html

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– lgbtqwtfbbq 11 points 5 years ago +11 / -0

Imagine society deciding to ban air travel after the first two plane crashes in aviation history occurred instead of trying to improve aircraft design and air travel processes to make it safer.

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– Killroyomega 10 points 5 years ago +10 / -0

Chernobyl was both a bad design and the ultimate result of communists shirking responsibility.

Fukushima was the unfortunate result of the company that built it ignoring the designer's safety feature specifications and cutting all kinds of corners.

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– Galean 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

I'm guessing they are trying to make it appear popular to attract more votes to it. Most likely it will work.

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– TheRedThirst 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

Coalition and swing votes. Typically align themselves with other less egregious left wing parties like Labour in order to bribe their bills in with underhanded deals - i.e. Well have our seats vote yes to push through your new Law but we want X in return"

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