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[-] AGM@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Listening to what everyone had to say, I most liked Tony McQuail and least liked Rob Ashton. Worst of all was whoever was in charge of handling sound for the voiceover translations, because that was horrendous. The rest were all fine, but nobody I found inspiring. All pretty likeable though, except for Ashton who came across as kind of caustic and a bit fake. I liked Tanille Johnston's positive energy.

One thing that struck me watching it: I wish the NDP would speak the language of finance, tech, and economics with much more sophistication. It's no good just talking about big business, billionaires, or the 99% in cartoonish ways. If you're going to take on these huge challenges, you need to show you actually understand them at a really sophisticated level, otherwise you end up sounding like your ideas are all pie in the sky. Talk to NDP voters like they're adults who understand economics, business, and tech, and who want a different way of dealing with them. If you've got a sophisticated plan, lay it out and educate us on it like adults, not undergrads who just read Graeber for the first time. It's the working class you need to win back, and they're not idiots. At the end of the debate, because they didn't speak to these topics with sophistication, I was left feeling nobody on stage was really plugged in to a number of the most pressing challenges the party needs to be ahead of.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I gotta say, Avi is doing a great job even if I'm still debating between him and Rob.

[-] maplesaga@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Which one wants to reign in immigration and rezone housing for density?

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] deeferg@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

I was hopeful for Rob at first but starting his candidacy with an AI AMA on Reddit was a bad look. They even hit him on that point at the end of the debate.

He also didn't much charisma on the stage. I guess I understand why he had his helpers do the AMA with AI, because he had to keep looking at his notes last night, and it makes me wonder how much he believes and how much he's just parroting.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I was initially leaning towards Rob as first pick and Avi second but I might swap.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I wish Alexendre boulrice was in the race.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago
[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

"Climate [change] is a class war, because big polluters profit and their friends run away with a pocket full of money. When it's the working class that at the end of the day that pay the ultimate price in their communities."

Class war mentioned 20 minutes in!

[-] drewaustin@piefed.ca -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oooh, soon we’ll find out who Lucy Watson and the cabal of NDP insiders will choose to be the party leader!

[-] glibg@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Isn't it a vote by NDP members?

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

It is, we're registered and ready to vote!

[-] drewaustin@piefed.ca 3 points 1 month ago

A vote of the people chosen by the cabal complete with secret rules. Not sure if they have a secret handshake though.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Excluding Yves Engler was a mistake.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Yes it was. At the same time, Yves Engler trying to hijack the NDP leadership contest to carry water for Putin was also not any kind of good faith politics.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yup. And we'd have dealt with that democratically, without appearing undemocratic.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of the (mis)understanders of democracy who thinks what we have in Canada is an effective people's democracy. But if we're to improve material outcomes for people while still doing democracy, I think we need radically more democratic processes not less.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago
[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

On that account, I'll go have a greek village salad with a warm Metaxa after work, at my local Greek restaurant. 😁

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Try Metaxa with ice and orange juice, and maybe a maraschino cherry ;)

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Today or in a few months at a patio under an umbrella?

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Anything is possible!

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