Lidsville was a 70s surrealist kids' show about cartoon autocrats, & now here we are. @lidsville elsewhere

Through the Looking Glass
For those asking for links to some of my past Twitter threads & livetweets on BC issues, here's a selection: 1. Fracking quakes cracked a major BC dam in Northeast BC not far from #SiteC, the #PeaceCanyon dam, & the BC gov't covered it up. Jan 2020:
BREAKING: One of BC's major dams, the Peace Canyon dam upstream of #SiteC, was compromised by fracking quakes but the info was not made public. More stories to follow - here's the initial release in CCPA's Policy Note by journalist @BenParfittCCPA. Stay tuned for more. #bcpoli
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THE BC NDP CAN'T COMPLAIN ABOUT VOTE-SPLITTING Vote-splitting is a First Past the Post thing. The BC NDP deliberately sabotaged the chance to institute proportional representation on a trial basis, going instead for a designed-to-fail referendum written by...Dave Eby #bcpoli
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Enjoyable exchange
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Paper candidates, a bit of a sign of desperation
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Lindsay Brown retweeted
THE BC NDP CAN'T COMPLAIN ABOUT VOTE-SPLITTING Vote-splitting is a First Past the Post thing. The BC NDP deliberately sabotaged the chance to institute proportional representation on a trial basis, going instead for a designed-to-fail referendum written by...Dave Eby #bcpoli
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Lindsay Brown retweeted
Let's be clear. Under Ken Sim and ABC, City Hall is a godawful place. Two councillors resigned. Staff are miserable. There are bullying complaints. He is supported by AI slop-generating hate accounts and vicious lies. And now he's acting victimized? Come on. #vanpoli
A whole campaign built around the slogan “Evict Ken Sim” to viciously malign him. “Scapegoating the poor and homeless. You know, that was us.” When Ken holds an “Evict Ken Sim” button, it hits hard. His family faced real evictions and financial instability over and over again, growing up as immigrants with little to their name. And the family who lived through those struggles with him didn’t sign up for these personal attacks. Ken got into politics so his kids, and other kids growing up in Vancouver, have a chance to build a future here. That’s why safety and affordability are at the heart of ABC Vancouver’s campaign. The full change we all wanted hasn’t happened yet. There is still more work to do. The Public Safety Plebiscite is the next step on safety: stronger City laws against open-air hard drug use and a call for secure medical treatment, including voluntary and 100+ involuntary care beds. On affordability, it means a 0% property tax increase, help for families and a thriving economy where people can earn enough to get by and build a future here. Real change takes leadership that can face difficult battles and even brutal personal attacks that hit closer to home than you would ever want and keep going. Because Vancouver is worth it. #ABCVancouver #PublicSafety #Affordability
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Few things will kick you in the head quite like politics.
New @angusreidorg poll shows a complete reversal of fortune for the @Conservative_BC - Conservatives moved from a four point deficit to an eight point lead over @bcndp. 62% say the election call was too early, including 52% of NDP supporters. Eby's approval rating falls to 33%
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Vote @spkr118. She is an absolute badass in debates. She’s the kind of smart, thoughtful, empathetic leadership backed by decades of advocating for thousands of tenants that this city needs. #vanpoli
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At the Grandview-Woodlands Vancouver election panel, candidates had to say something they liked about their neighbour. Stephanie Smith @spkr118 got this zinger in at Kareem Allam (who was Ken Sim's campaign manager last elxn). He didn't like it. #vanpoli instagram.com/reels/DdpZbKrB…
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Eby has a lot of gall doing fake nationalism and raising the spectre of Trump all while he is busy giving tax and royalty holidays to the US-owned corps pilfering BC and closing mills, etc. And all while he hides behind the cover of his US liquor ban. #bcpoli #bcelexn
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Eby has always seemed to care most about the internal NDP game of snakes & ladders that he plays to win & keep power inside the party. He defeated Horgan/Meggs to get it the first time. He seems to care much more about this than governing a province. Snap election is similar move
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PS god bless all these smart NDP people who understand what a deeply awful thing the BC NDP did in defeating Proportional Representation. And it was Dave Eby as Attorney General who crafted the designed-to-fail referendum with its labyrinthine questions.
Even the NDP subreddit is loser talking.
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Taylor Lorenz is doing a "pivot away from the left" as a result of the usual: getting challenged by the left (rightly) plus the seduction of money. But she explains it with the old "I don't really fit anywhere on the left-right political spectrum" idea that needs to die now..1/x
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I had to post this because we now have TWO concurrent elections and I just dread having to deal with this claim over and over, in stereo. It makes me want to lie down on the carpet and stop breathing
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