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[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 43 points 2 days ago (3 children)

At least that election season won't last more than 7 weeks. Instead of this insane 2 year marathon the US has.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 days ago

Funny, I was watching tv and had a Canadian station on. Every other commercial break was a Pierre Putinfever ad.

In Canada, Elections campaigns can last a MAXIMUM of 50 days.

Somehow, in the past few years, the laws for campaign ads changed (thanks Crtc!) and they no longer fall into the category of a campaign.

And there are newish election laws that set out a 'pre campaign period' that allows further erosion of the campaign time limit restrictions.

That period - anytime after the last election.

Wtf.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

2 year marathon is underselling it, I feel like we’ve been in election season since he came down that fucking escalator

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

We kinda have been. The media has realized how much their viewership (and therefore ratings/money) goes up when they constantly doom and gloom, and that orange fuck has been running a reelection campaign from the moment the previous election was called.

[–] FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

What makes it worse though is that the outcome is a lot less uncertain, and the picture is really bleak.