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I regret looking because it made me not even want to go out and vote.
This is the main reason I think poll prediction media should be banned during elections. People can change things by voting, but you’d never know it from the election “advice” plastered everywhere. I believe it promotes an apathy vote where people just stay home more than anything informative or otherwise useful.
ty for going anyway.
Cons promised it too. Since the 1979 Pepin-Robarts “Task Force on Canadian Unity” report, both Ruling Parties have been dangling the promise of electoral reform. And swarms will keep blaming the NDP that we still don’t have it. Reality be damned.
Check some other posts here. People yesterday were already blaming the decimated federal NDP for not forcing the Liberals to give us PR by the next election, and the votes weren’t even finished being counted.
[edit bc I’m pissed and tired, but the internet doesn’t need more antagonistic language lashing out imo]
No harm to you at all, but I’m avoiding that site completely and advising everyone I work with and care about to stick with one of the other poll prediction sites like 338 if they have to use anything (scroll down for tl;dr).
Originally called polarispolls, smartvoting is run out of Polaris Entertainment.
When the smartvoting site was launched during the last Ontario election and started showing up on facebook/twitter/lemmy/etc, they didn’t include specific information about their (proprietary) methodology, but they’ve put together a pdf for the federal launch. If anyone cares to read it, it’s here.
Polaris Entertainment is made up of 3 people, afaict, and they’re all podcast influencers. The youtube link here is a joint podcast they did 5 months ago. In it, the guy who claims he made the smartvoting website suggests twice just in this one interview that the NDP should bow out federally. Pretty standard Hot Take these days so not particularly sus, except that it’s coming from a guy who made a vote recommendation website.
The person running the site used the royal WE a tonne when smartvoting was just one person during the Ontario election, and he now claims to have a “bipartisan data board.” The site also now has someone they’re naming as a general manager of the site, and she’s said the NDP is running a harassment campaign against them, which is affecting everyone’s mental health. Now, the same guy who claims he made the site says the reason he won’t name any of the people on his new board and won’t share any of his data is because of the NDP.
tl;dr: At best, smartvoting is a do-gooder project by someone trying to save us all from ourselves. With project 2025 rushing down the pipe and the mass media influence of the rightwing, I totally get it. People with fab intentions don’t always come up smelling like roses, and I never require Purity from my left allies. But at worst, smartvoting could be another disinfo campaign, claiming to be anti-conservative, openly interfering with our elections to amplify the appearance of division between Canadians on the left, when we’re already pretty cool with strategic voting and have been doing it when necessary for decades.
[disclaimer: this is the second comment I’ve left about being suspicious of this site since I made my lemmy account.]
Globe & Mail seeding slogans for the Conservative/Reform Party. “It’s about Hope and Change, amirite fellow under 35 y/o guys? Don’t forget to vote for Hope and Change!”
Nadeem Mahmoud, the spokesperson for Ahmed’s campaign, said multiple people reached out to their office, saying a woman wearing an Elections Canada badge was approaching people lined up to vote at the Teston Village Public School in Vaughan, and encouraging them to vote Conservative in the federal election.
The woman was speaking to people in English but also in Urdu, Mahmoud said.
“This is something which is not supposed to happen. It’s a breach of protocol,” he said.
Brazen breach of protocol by someone who apparently wasn’t a wee bit worried about getting caught. Someone should ask Pierre Poutine what he has to say about it, but conservatives are in the “we’re not letting him talk anymore” stage of the campaign.
This is the best thing I’ve read today. I’m so glad you went anyway. Poll prediction sites don’t predict upsets and voting can absolutely change things.
It’s very that. So much so that the person who wrote the headline obviously knew exactly what they were doing.
Headline misrepresents what their acting President said. From their own article:
“After the devastation of the Korean war . . . the United States gave us aid, technology transfer, investments and security assurances,” which helped make South Korea “a very comfortable investment environment for foreigners”, Han told the Financial Times in an interview.
“Our industrial prowess and our financial development and our culture and growth and wealth are very heavily due to the help from the United States,” he added.
In light of this debt of gratitude, Seoul — one of Washington’s closest security allies and economic partners in Asia — would enter negotiations with Trump seeking to find “solutions which are more win-win for both, rather than taking their actions as the objective against which we should fight back”, Han said.
The CFIA says the product might have been sold in clerk-served packages or smaller packages without a label, or in a package that doesn’t bear the same brand or product name.
Hotels, hospitals, retirement homes, bakeries, etc: all places where these are served with no reference to their brand name. Heads up.
TIL! ty
So Montreal’s one of their studios. Good to know.
I suspect the plastic bag/straw issue is politicians virtue signalling to the Oil and Gas lobby, like “I’ll make sure you still get pennies for your nurdles, Boss!”
[edit - link’s to a vox article from 2022 explaining what nurdles are]
Challenge accepitebbted
How everyone in Parliament doesn’t have an aneurysm from having to deal with him is beyond me. Just 3 minutes of his blatant bullshit gives me an ice cream headache.
Highlight of the debate imo: Skippy says I’m “living in terror” here in Toronto, because of car theft.
Sweet mother of god, someone muzzle the attack poodle. I really want to hear everything everyone has to say tonight, but SkiPPy is working his ass off to make me turn off the radio. Everyone’s losing continuity and intelligibility with the amount he’s talking over and interrupting.
The Manning Centre trained him well.
Don’t worry. They changed some visa requirements, but it looks like the “deporting 500 Americans” part is disinfo meant to rile up the internet. The President had to put out a press release denying it, asking people to only use info from the government before sharing.
Exactly. It’ll rile up the “eating dogs and cats” nazis, for sure. But just like here, it’ll get amplified as well by people who love the idea of Namibia kicking Yankees out of the country, or who are just excited to contribute commentary about Namibia’s awesome, stylin’ Pres.
And anyone deliberately amplifying it can easily post a link to Namibia’s visa requirement changes, knowing hardly anyone’s going to click through, much less check the details. Sucks that she had to take time out of her workday to issue the denial. It’s so frigging frustrating. I’d like to post her press release everywhere as a heads-up, but I know the accelerationists want that as well (they don’t care about sides, just making the talking point louder).
Not trying to preach to the choir or educate here; just venting.
np!
btw, didn’t mean to imply you were a bad actor (apologies if it came across that way). I replied because you were the only person here to post anything that looked like a source. No harm to you intended.
I did a quick lookup of the quote you posted. Except for facebook and insta reposts, I found nothing. otoh, from yesterday’s news:
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has slammed circulating claims that Namibia is planning to deport 500 American citizens, calling the allegations false and urging the public to be vigilant of fake social media posts.
A press release issued by the Presidency on Wednesday said it has noted with concern the circulation of social media posts and online articles alleging that Nandi-Ndaitwah ordered the deportation of the American nationals on the grounds of visa reciprocity.
The statement pointed out that various social media accounts circulated this fabrication attributed to the president. “These posts feature fabricated quotes and images containing misinformation and disinformation intended to tarnish the image of the president, the Namibian government and to create potential diplomatic embarrassment,” it read.
Not to be a party pooper, but where tf are you folk hearing about this? I can’t get a fact check on this story anywhere. msn.com “reporting” what people are sharing on social media doesn’t count, as Yankee mass media cannot be trusted any more than Russian.
This feels very disinfo to me - using the black female president of another country to accelerate the race war in the USA. Just because it’s something I like to hear, or something I agree with, doesn’t mean it’s legit.
What I have found, from The Namibian today,
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has slammed circulating claims that Namibia is planning to deport 500 American citizens, calling the allegations false and urging the public to be vigilant of fake social media posts.
A press release issued by the Presidency on Wednesday said it has noted with concern the circulation of social media posts and online articles alleging that Nandi-Ndaitwah ordered the deportation of the American nationals on the grounds of visa reciprocity.
The statement pointed out that various social media accounts circulated this fabrication attributed to the president. “These posts feature fabricated quotes and images containing misinformation and disinformation intended to tarnish the image of the president, the Namibian government and to create potential diplomatic embarrassment,” it read.
I hope everyone holds off sharing this “story” til a reliable site backs it up. There’s a reason it’s posted as a text image in a humour community, and not on worldnews or something.
Long, brutal read, and so worth taking the time for. OP, ty for posting.