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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 9 minutes ago)

Remember this for the rest of your lives, the Russians are running AT LEAST thousands of bots that can be on virtually every site known to man, everything they say will push the Russian propaganda. Now, with that horrible knowledge... Add to it that that is just Russia and that China, North Korea and Israel to only name a few are all known to be doing the same. The Internet is a VERY different landscape than it was less than a decade ago.

Please don't believe the whole world is suddenly conservative Nazis. It's what they want us to believe so we feel hopeless and give up or give in.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I've thought since Alberta separatism was first mentioned in the oval office that the idea would be to make Alberta be to Canada what Crimea is to Ukraine. The groundwork had been laid and the danger from the US is real. Thankfully, I believe Carney understands how real the US threats are.

How much of this do we see in Alberta this year?

  • Pro-US & Pro-secession information campaigns
  • Pro-secession protests & rallies
  • US, MAGA, & secessionist flags & slogans
  • Violence between pro-๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ & pro-๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ groups
  • Support from US-based groups
  • Staged referendum
  • Little green men
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Iโ€™m sorry that our cancer has spread to you guys.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Ha! As a life long Albertan. We have had this cancer for a very very long time. Up until the NDP won an election a few cycles back the way it tended to work was the only way to unseat a conservative government was with an even more conservative government.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Lots of Vancouver folk headed toward Calgary

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 21 hours ago

We should be carefully taking down names. Not to do anything now, but to hold them to account if another violent insurrection occurs.

Because even if Trump invades, these traitors will likely be hunting down the rest of us, and likely exterminating us as well. We need to be able to identify the traitors.

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (8 children)

why don't they just fucking move to America then? jesus, the solution isn't to make canada america, but to move your ass to the country you like then

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You wouldn't see this on Friendica!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

While Iโ€™m sure itโ€™s true of most of the fediverse, hopefully at some point echo chambers can be broken. Maybe the chuds who scream like children at anything they donโ€™t recognize as their ilk doesnโ€™t need to be assaulted with lunacy.

So basically I hope all will leave Meta and the social media platforms of yore, even if theyโ€™re mouth breathing chuds. Maybe getting into a dose of friendliness will be their antidote to the big crazy

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Remember the bots are also trying to sway public opinion as well. The more people hear the same story it creates this false consensus.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Oh of course, that's the point

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dude in my gym just brought it up. Says we can sign a petition and if we get 10% of the population to sign it, the government will make a referendum and we can all vote on it. He doesn't think Alberta would have to pay back anything like highways, airports, banks and our share of the Canadian debt. Also thinks we can use the USD instead of the CAD which I find funny.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I had a kid at a gym tell me that all i needed to do to get lean was eat more pepper and spicy food.

On an entirely related matter, I exercise at home now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Aahh, to be an ignorant idiot, must be so peaceful

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

You'd think so but he's clearly worked up because his team didn't win the big game so he's always thinking of ways to prevent him from choosing the wrong team.

Imagine if the Toronto Maple Leafs quit the NHL because they didn't win the Stanley cup. Who the fuck are they going to play now lol?

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Why did countries stop hanging traitors? I'm pretty sure handing your sovereignty to a foreign nation classifies.

[โ€“] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

My wife comes from the west. I am from the East. We live in Nova Scotia now but we spent most of our lives in the west. We made some money in the oil and gas industry though it was in environmental reclamation not extraction. Lots of her family people are in extraction.

Some of her family are showing their true colors right now, loudly and proudly on Facebook and she is reading it all. People that tell her they love her are saying how we are all just in it for the transfer payments. It's all for the gravy train to keep rolling. She's watching her family disintegrate in real time on Facebook and tell her that she's a piece of shit as are her friends and relatives from my family, for voting against fascism. Not one of them has considered that they are speaking about her.

We're as fucked as our neighbors to the south.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago

We really should be turning an eye towards American owned media in Canada, especially since it's almost entirely owned by hard Republican interests (and that would be bad if I had said Democrat as well).

It's insane we can almost all collectively identify Trump as a threat and an enemy, but his disinformation arm isn't.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Propaganda is a hell of a drug. I've read about similar experiences from Ukrainians with family in Russia.

[โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Facebook

This is our existential threat.

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Can't disagree with you there. That shit can fuck right off and should be torn to a million pieces never to exist again. I'm not an authoritarian however and people are free to do as they choose. They choose badly a lot. Even those I love the most.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

I got banned from Facebook for fighting literal terrorists. Who used the service to attack literal at risk children. If anything. mark Zuckerberg should be tried for crimes against humanity and he and his wife hung like the traitors to man kind they are.

[โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They keep telling people to "move back to their own country" so why don't these assholes just move to Florida. Heck, we can probably even crowd source some funding to pay for their damn tickets.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As someone from the US, I propose a swap program. One pro-Trump admin Canadian for an anti-Trump admin person from the US.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As someone from Canada, I'd be so down for this. What a great deal for us.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Dude can we rescue the ones from red states first?

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

It would probably be good for them to see how much better Canada has it than the US right now. Our billionaires are living large, but that's about it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

So we were right. The cons and PP by association wanted to concede to trump.

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Doomberg, the most popular energy market substack poster, has a theory that Trump wanted Carney to win in order to push an east to west pipeline during an Alberta sovereignty crisis. It actually seems to be going all as they predicted, including Trudeau stepping down and Carney then winning the election.

Its a fun theory anyways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kA0JzxylvE

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago
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