I meant Discord.
vaguerant
joined 11 months ago
Somebody get a sponge.
What's the quality like of the people who are still on Twitter in 2025? Does the fediverse want them? (These are real questions, I have no idea if there's still any decent people on Twitter.)
Even if that's how it goes, I think his days are numbered. There's 100% a couple of rivals in dark rooms right now, calling around trying to get the numbers to oust him as leader. Whether they'll be successful, I don't know, but this is such a dramatic snatch of defeat from the jaws of victory. It's only been a couple of months since the Conservatives were 30 points up. That can't all be blamed on Poilievre, but there will be those within the party who will. Party unity will be shot.
Thanks, glad you didn't mind the thread hijack!
Seriously. If he had said it a couple months ago, that's pretty cocky, but over a year ago? Brass balls.
Absolutely, the vote splitting has cut both ways (all three ways, including the Bloc Quebecois). Three broadly left/centre-left parties are competing against a right that is, on the surface at least, united. All three of them stand to benefit from electoral reform in a way that the Conservatives do not.
Much of the Conservative strategy is around splitting the vote. In a post-electoral reform Canada, that strategy becomes useless and the Conservatives will have to bring something new. Their ability to pivot to a completely new strategy within a single election cycle is questionable, so getting this done is directly in Carney's interest right now.
CBC News is officially projecting that Bruce Fanjoy has won the riding of Carleton.
4:50 AM EST 264/266 polls reporting (99%)
| Name | Party | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce Fanjoy | Liberal | 42,374 | 50.6 |
| Pierre Poilievre | Conservative | 38,581 | 46.1 |
Poilievre trails by 3793 votes.
4:40 AM EST 260/266 polls reporting (98%)
| Name | Party | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce Fanjoy | Liberal | 41,998 | 50.6 |
| Pierre Poilievre | Conservative | 38,303 | 46.1 |
Poilievre trails by 3695 votes.
Long wait for this report!
4:20 AM EST 257/266 polls reporting (97%)
| Name | Party | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce Fanjoy | Liberal | 41,706 | 50.6 |
| Pierre Poilievre | Conservative | 38,057 | 46.1 |
Poilievre trails by 3649 votes.
Haha. I think you're a bit out of the loop, Freenode "died" like four years ago. Some fucking weirdo who claims to be the rightful king of North and South Korea bought it, started selling advertising on the web site and tried to turn the IRC network into a "cybernation" with himself as ruler. Cool, right?
The people who actually ran Freenode all left to found Libera.Chat and basically everybody moved to either there or the OFTC. Meanwhile, original Freenode was shut down entirely (i.e. all users, services, etc. dropped) and booted from scratch as ... whatever the fuck it is now, some coked-up royalty LARP.