this has “with us or against us “ energy

There is very little ’Alberta’ that is left over after you map out Treaty lands and Crown land.

The Treaties are older than AB and take precedence.

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Such a prescient episode.

yes I Am Canadian, bud

Our conservative movement didn’t die out, they got more votes this time than the last few times and the popular vote was split down the middle.

We have more right wing media than centrist or neutral or left wing combined, and much of it is USA owned.

This all happened at the expense of the moderate left and the extreme right. If we don’t ditch our first past the post electoral system we risk Americanized politics.

This is true, though the declaration being avoided is a wider set than just terrorism.

When I say skew I am not implying intent to mislead, just that paranoid interpretations by readers are kind of inevitable in such a situation.

While I agree that it skews the narrative, it’s likely that media at early stages of the story use passive language like that to leave open the possibility of various causes, such as mechanical malfunction or even an algorithmic failure.

This is the kind of uninformed bile that bots and provocateurs use, might want to rethink that readyfireaim joke.

No. East Asian looking male with a history of mental illness.

Most likely the political component of this tragedy is how the Socreds closed regional mental health institutions in the late 20th C, and subsequent governments just swept the whole thing under the rug while homelessness spread through the province and mentally disturbed and unsupported people lashed out in random ways.

Now you have dorks and bootlickers like Mayor Sims turning a health system failure into an opportunity for cruelty and repression. Punishment will be the talking point. They will roll with that, watch.

A drunk and his goons just took over your bus and it’s headed right for a school, I get it, you didn’t do it! …even though everyone saw them standing on the curb with tommyguns and shitty fedoras before they boarded, but OK.

Whatever happens from this point on is entirely on you and yours, now, though. History is watching.

Just a reminder to non-canadians that a core part of Canadian identity has always been not being American. It’s a quasi-colonized pov. Make it real and it will be life-or-death for many many folk.

not sure why

Hm. Let us see. Does it benefit other dictators? Yes? Hmmm.

Slightly more than 50% of all people are at least somewhat uncool, in my estimation, and that of course includes Jews, so thanks for confirming that!

It’s merely a shortage of intelligence, not human nature–other than the obvious limitations of a hominid brain–to lack nuance in a situation.