“I just reread The Left Hand Of Darkness last month, and it’s such a great book.”

It was my introduction to her writing, and wow what a fucking book. I read it in two days, I couldn’t put it down.

What I am saying is they are getting what they want, it’s just far smaller than most people will expect.

Religious people don’t need an actual religious man up there, they want abortion banned, and he’ll do it, so they vote him. The police want to be unaccountable, with larger and larger budgets, so they vote the guy who will do it. The Police at large won’t suffer with a criminal in charge, it won’t change their day to day at all other than they’ll find it easier to do illegal things that Trump wants.

Organized religion has always been hypocritical, the Jesus-following ones often from the forefront. Jesus would be stoned to death by the current mob of Christians in the US as a Communist/Socialist/etc. Police are often the driving force of Fascist takeovers of nations. The idea they’d allow a criminal in charge seems pretty in-line with the fact huge portions of police are already criminals, they just are either immune/won’t be targeted for prosecution or hide their crimes with their fellow cops.

The Right has virtually always existed with projection, from ‘law and order’ to ‘religious humility’ to ‘non-violent protests.’

It’s morbidly fascinating. Yes, they have “right-wing” in common, but there is a unique betrayal of core principles happening for each of them.

Hasn’t Conservatism always been this way? A big tent of people with single issues they care about, all of whom don’t care what the others want, so long as they get what they want, (almost) always just for themselves.

This is a political group that started with the primary belief that ‘inheritance based on birth was the foundation of a stable society.’

I feel like a certain poster here is conveniently and transparently overlooking the word “DEVELOPING” in the title.

I notice the wikipedia article is still un-edited, too. Put your money where your mouth is if you’re so confident.

No sci-fi wasn’t an official thing, yet the title of this is ‘were developing the Afro-Futurism/Black Sci-Fi genre…’

I’d say a fictional story about slaves successfully rebelling and taking over a country, narrated by a scientist, who does science things, counts.

It is ridiculous how much hair-splitting is done when it’s Black culture, and I’m quite embarrassed by the attempt to claim entire wikipedia sections are ‘wrong’ like this.

(Not saying you’re saying that, I understand we’re on the same page.)

So looking up the Blake story it’s not really sci-fi at all?

You should edit the wikipedia entry then, because it disagrees with you.

"Samuel R. Delany described it as "about as close to an SF-style alternate history novel as you can get.

Further, while it incorporates elements of the fugitive slave narrative, Blake’s narrator is also a scientist, whose focus on data collection and research stand in repudiation of the racial science of the day.[10] In fact, this reflects one of Delany’s major themes: that Africa and its contributions to science and math were foundational to the Western world.[12]"

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This projection is calculated using a weighted average of polls by the 338Canada model to estimate current party support.

And the support of the Cons is trending up. I feel like you missed that part.

Sadly in this day and age, it is not obvious sarcasm.

RIP Irony.

But according to you, that is simply too far back to matter. Which is weird, because again, you provided the cherry picked data.

What? The BC Cons went from so far behind the BC NDP/United, whatever they’re called, to a few percentage points behind the NDP.

Scroll down on your link to the British Columbia | Popular vote projection.

On April 14th, 2023, the Cons were polling at 5%. A year and four months later, on August 14th, they’re polling at 38%. Look at that insane upward curve.

Sure, but women were literally considered lesser than men in virtually all ways for thousands of years and didn’t attempt to usher in another go at Fascism when their rights got taken away in the US. I am a 40-something man, and I have children who are now young men, and they don’t do this. The issue is we, older men, have failed younger men at large–we didn’t tell them ‘hey you’re being lied to, this toxic masculinity stuff is bullshit, here’s how to be a good partner.’ We let them think that they could act like we did in the 90’s and everything would be fine.

We let the media, particularly conservative, tell them all they have to do is be ‘breadwinners’ and they’ll get everything they want. Then they don’t, and we just… shrugged and said too bad. This is the first time in history women don’t have to be with men to survive, it really hasn’t been the case that long. These young men also, and this part I’m not 100% on the why’s, seem to have very, very low critical thinking skills. Not just because they’re young, but even into their mid 20’s the easy promises of fascism take them over.

There is an horrific irony to conservative media telling young men they’re only worth anything if they become a billionaire and find a partner to have children with, and then doing everything in their power to make that a challenge for those same young men. My kids come to me about once a week to try to figure out how to talk to their friends who are, quite literally, waffling between the CPC and NDP. They hate the way things are, but as soon as their 2SLGBTQIA+ friends get targeted, they go back to the NDP. Basically, they eat up conservative propaganda on Facebook (yes, still), Youtube, Twitter, etc, and then out in the real world they are faced with the opposite: women try to help them, their gay friends are totally normal, no immigrants or poor people come out to assault them.

I bring my kids with me to local workers strikes, Left-wing potlucks, etc, and it’s still somewhat baffling that there’s maybe 5-6 men there, and 40 women.

Instead of turning them into allies for those who are disadvantaged they have been told, “No yo go the back of the line.” (sometimes literally, looking at you federal NDP).

I have no idea what this is, can you link to something?

I agree with a lot of what you’ve said, but we also have to address the fact that men are, quite frankly, more easily tricked than their women counterparts, are more violent than their women counterparts, and have extremely low critical thinking skills. The solution to this is not to go ‘yeah but people are lying to us/them.’ Yes, I understand capitalism exists, we can’t do anything about that while over half of men are so easily swayed by what is frankly low-effort, easily-seen-through promises. We have to address this directly, to men. We’re fucking up. We’re letting our mothers, sisters, daughters, aunts, sons, really everyone down.

Over half of us have bought into this idea that to be a man is to be an unthinking robot with a sex-slave ‘partner’ while we toil endlessly for fascism, having enough children to replace us as cogs in the machine when we die. Why are young men behaving this way? Because the rest of us are too, and they’re learning from us.

That was what, 15% between the NDP and Cons a month or two ago? The lead is shrinking quickly.

I understand this is a federal poll, but I think we’re all intelligent enough here to extrapolate Conservative voting federally with provincially.

It’s not ‘hillbillies’ hurtling the Cons into power–there aren’t enough of them to make numbers like these.

It’s men.

Across all age groups, horrifically moreso the younger they get, men are voting Conservative in Canada. 56% of men under 35 want either the CPC or PPC in power.

And to be honest, and yes I’m using it again

Stay frosty, everyone, even with these insane views they’re polling neck-and-neck with the BCNDP.

Oh, I have ublock origin so I don’t see any, sucks it’s that bad.

No one from the center is going hard right and it would be incredibly shocking if the BC Conservatives managed to win any real number of seats with their bat shit crazy platform.

I have some bad news.

I was curious if people would notice, and it seems not everyone did. ;) Maybe someone got to be the daily 5,000 for SCP.

I mean, yeah, basically.