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1/4 Greed. Corporations, Extreme Wealth, Poverty, War... It's all about Greed. Greed is the antithesis to religion. Greed is why your life sucks, even if you're rich.
@Renmakesmusic
did this, even if you don't like his initial take on religion, listen
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As an Albertan, I grew up thinking that Liberals hated Alberta, I hated Ontario, and the horror that Ottawa had visited upon our beautiful province. I admired Preston Manning (The guy who created the party that would become the CPC). Then I met a Political Science Prof at MRU
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One person, who brought a simple, well thought out, clear set of diagrams, some numbers, and some understanding of Politics? Showed me in 1 hour how badly we've been lied to, and how it was simply for political gain. And it's been hurting Albertans ever since.
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Turns out, a lot. Conservatives lie about a lot. And that was the original PC conservatives, who were socially progressive. The CPC conservatives, who replaced the PC conservatives, are not socially progressive, they're socially conservative. Like the Taliban.
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They lie about pretty much everything. Especially the part where they claim to be good at fiscal management, they (Both PC and CPC over the years) have never shown any ability to manage finances for a province or country. Looking at the numbers is startling.
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🧵Good morning.
We're in trouble.
I'm not talking about Alberta, which is my home.
I'm not talking about Canada, which is a country I'm VERY grateful to live in.
I'm not even talking about North America, home to Canada and the US (and Mexico, which extends to Central America)
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I wondered, if our provincial government was willing to lie about something like that - a pretty huge lie, one that made us angry at our country, rather than their own failure to prepare for a downturn, instead blaming that pain on Ottawa, what else would they lie about?
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I'm tired of this.
People aren't sick of Trudeau, they're sick of the fictional character that the conservatives attack with bullshit 24/7/365. Trudeau hasn't done anything illegal, he's apologized when he's made mistakes, and he strives to make Canada better for everyone.
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Just a reminder, WE Charity, which was effectively killed dead in Canada? That scandal was found to NOT be a scandal. The CPC killed a CHILDREN'S CHARITY to try to hurt the Prime Minister of Canada. Why doesn't the media report fake scandals were fake before they drop coverage?
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@dzennon
@CaptainSollie
@lemonspear
@davidwilliamsnz
@AylaKessler
@SenSanders
American taxes buy golf trips for the president, not health coverage
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He detailed a conservative propaganda campaign that took place around the launch of the National Energy Program (NEP). Most Albertans believe (because they were taught) that Pierre Trudeau hated Alberta, and the NEP had ruined Alberta.
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I find no fault with his statement, that is what I'd be taught, and believed - after all, everyone believed that. But then he pulled up some charts - showing global oil prices from that time period. He reminded us that global markets were the source of oil prices, not politicians
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Which was an absolutely ridiculous statement. Canada is a fairly influential country on the global stage, but not nearly influential enough to crash oil prices. So we went over all the numbers, we talked about what we surmised just from the real data. It was all a lie.
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Also took an introduction to Political Science. At the start of Political Science, the prof pulled up some official numbers and stats on the board, and started with "If you were born Albertan, you probably believe some things that are simply not true."
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He admitted that yes, the NEP may have made life a tiny bit harder for Alberta, but not for the reasons we'd been taught. Global Oil Prices had tanked badly right around the same time the NEP was introduced. He said, how dare a Canadian Prime Minister tank GLOBAL oil prices!
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🧵1/21 - This is a long ass post. And it's a terrible post. Trust me, I know that.
If you see me wearing a mask in public (I still do, and will continue to do so until there's some kind of breakthrough with this covid crap - a sterilizing vaccine that prevents infection)
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People who warn get slandered.
People who care are attacked.
People who protect themselves are weak.
People who hate call it "freedom"
I'll say it again, we are in trouble, globally, and these are global issues. We need to fix this.
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Can we please stop referring to the CPC as Conservatives, or Tories? The PC (Tory) Party has been dead for 19 years. CPC is renamed Reform, they're Social Conservatives (as in religious extremists, not fiscally conservative) - and they've taken over all the provincial Con parties
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I was 24 years old, feels like an eternity, but I went to school for Broadcasting. I took 3 electives in my first year, since they were required (I got to choose what I took, I just needed 3 electives) and I chose a 4000 level English class dealing with Science Fiction
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1. Covid-19. Covid is a dangerous virus that we're ignoring en mass. It's a vascular virus that infects your entire body, including lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, skin, brain, digestive tract, immune system. It does short term, long term, and permanent damage to your body.
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We had the power to prevent and correct all of this.
I had thought we were on the right path, but now we're devolving, regressing, panic is pushing people away from reality - but accepting reality, and working together, everyone, is the only path that leads anywhere worth going.
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2. Climate. Our global climate has changed. It's vastly different now than it was 20 years ago. It's changed ocean temperatures, changed the trajectory of jet streams, caused more instability, drought, more extreme storms, and it's been accelerating rapidly.
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We're not in trouble for "A" reason, we're in trouble for many reasons - but all of the reasons have one thing in common. The vast majority of people in this world are no longer informed. It's not that we pick and choose what we want to believe, although that's a part of it.
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The problem is we're inundated with bad information that gives us alternative reasons for problems, alternatives that allow us to feel better about making choices that contribute to the problems. Instead of finding or working on solutions, we blame others, and downplay the danger
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3. Hate. People are telling us to hate our neighbours for being something. The thing doesn't matter because it's bullshit. Blame the gays, blame trans, blame muslims, blame christians, blame blame blame. It's not about people, it's about hate. And it's working.
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4. Media. We allow propaganda. We "both sides" issues even when the two sides are facts and lies. Media presents lies and equates them with truth. Media no longer tells us what's happening, it makes things happen.
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Do people know that Canada is still legally bound to bad trade deals that Stephen Harper signed off on? Harper left a mess that's incredibly difficult for us to clean up, because he signed legal commitments with authoritarian governments he admired - because he's an authoritarian
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@KarenSh03385510
@merry123459
A very, very successful propaganda campaign that all Albertans were subjected to by our provincial government, to save themselves politically in light of a very dismal time in our history. One that keeps repeating because they never, ever learn.
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I'm not proud to be Canadian, that would imply being Canadian was a choice.
I'm grateful every day that I had the good fortune to be born in this wonderful country. I'm thankful to be Canadian.
What I'm not thankful for is the cult that's fighting to turn Canada into the US.
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Thinking about the whole convoy, and how the CPC interim leader and Pierre Poilievre walked with them, ate with them, brought them food and coffee... based on something, I think the two of them were involved in the whole thing, including planning it in the first place.
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After 8 years of Trudeau, I wonder how much better off we'd be if he'd had provincial governments that actually wanted to help people by working with him, instead of clueless careless c*nts who just misspend their funds, and hurt people for spite, shits, and giggles.
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screenshot from the CDC explainer on how to classify deaths when considering Covid. SARS. SARS-CoV2, or Covid-19.
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It's like he was training a dog - square to them, eye contact. Xi broke eye contact and squirmed away, muttered under his breath. Xi is weak, not used to people standing up to him and speaking truth.
Xi got the message. Eye contact and body language doesn’t need to be translated.
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Can I call 911 and report that DANIELLE SMITH IS TRYING TO KILL EVERYBODY AND NEEDS TO BE ARRESTED AND HELD, AS SHE IS A PRESENT DANGER TO EVERYONE IN THIS PROVINCE!!!?
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Alberta is the economic engine of Canada.
Wait, what? How?
Alberta has around 15% of the GDP in Canada, with 12% of the population. Higher than average, yeah, but Toronto, ONE city in Ontario, has a higher GDP than ALL of Alberta.
Alberta is the economic engine of Alberta.
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I just want people to be more careful - this whole "you have to live your life" line is complete crap - yes, you should live your life, but you should also try and make sure you don't lose it or destroy it by taking unnecessary risks. Today matters, yes, absolutely
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2. The name is misleading, it's a vascular disease, not a respiratory disease. It causes immune dysfunction, damages your heart, your liver, your kidneys, your brain as well as your lungs. 1/10 infections cause Long Covid
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I'm sorry, but CPC MPs and Conservatives hanging out listening to someone talking about Nazis being alive and well, WW3 and the Fourth Reich taking over is just fucking disturbing. This should be a HUGE wake up call for anyone who isn't an embedded psychopath.
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Conservatives these days don't govern, they're lobbyists for big business - oil, housing, construction, and they bow down to cults like The Plymouth Bretheren. If you want good government, start with people who want to work for Canadians, stop voting for lobbyist parties.
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We should all be clear on a few things.
1. The federal government mandated masks for airlines, and public transportation that crosses provincial boundaries. Nothing else.
2. The federal government restricted travel for non-Canadians coming into the country, nobody else.
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When I say that Conservatism in Canada is dead, I don't mean there aren't conservative minded people, I just mean that there are no conservative political parties. Conservative voters are being played by Reform, who stole the name. Reform is not conservative, it's a fascist lie.
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1. This is called SARS - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, it will never be a mild disease generally speaking. It's not spread by droplets, it's airborne, and someone infectious walking through a place with poor ventilation and no mask?
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Just a gentle reminder that if you're at a protest and someone is waving a Nazi flag, or wearing a Nazi logo, or any other racist symbol, and they're not being chased out, you're not at a protest, you're at a Nazi rally.
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I'll never say don't live your life, or hide away, but why governments and health authorities and media have decided to go silent on this is inexplicable - yeah, it's annoying, yeah, people are sick of it... but yeah, it's still going around, it's still killing people
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That's really the gist of it. Either denounce those who spread intolerance and hate, or admit that you're intolerant and hateful. Pick a lane, and admit who you REALLY are
@PierrePoilievre
, Canada would like the truth.
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6. In autopsies, they've found recently active virus activity in every organ of people who had it months ago, meaning your symptoms clearing means it's cleared your respiratory system, but there's no way of knowing where or whether it's still active, or if it's actually gone.
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figured worth mentioning why. I hear people trying to say it's over (sadly, no, we've stopped talking about it, but it's certainly not even close to over)
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7. There is no flu going around. If you have the flu, it's probably Covid. SARS.
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So it's Feb 19, 2024, and I've made the choice, I'm going home. It's going to be a pain in the ass, and I hate moving, but moving back to BC is the only viable option. Skyrocketing rent, insurance, utilities... health care privatization? I can't afford to live in Alberta anymore.
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4. catching it grants no immunity to catching it again, because it attacks your immune system. It makes you more vulnerable to catching it again. It also makes you more vulnerable to everything else, bacterial, viral, and fungal infections,
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They will leave behind enough active virus to last for 5 or 6 hours in a room. Not everyone who has it will be infectious - and not everyone who's infectious has symptoms.
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BUT so does tomorrow, and catching this will lower your number of tomorrows. Personally, I'd like to see everyone thrive and live long healthy lives. It's too late for millions of people already, that have died, that have long covid and can barely function. It's not over.
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🧵 I see Canadian Conservative voters, people who used to support the PCs, who seem to be good people, but cling to the idea that the CPC is that party, that brand of Conservatism - despite all the facts and evidence showing it's not, in fact, a conservative party at all.
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(not 1 in 10 people, 1 in 10 infections - even in vaccinated people) - Long Covid is the result of damage to your brain and internal organs. Whether it's permanent, how long it lasts depends on how severe the damage is.
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I know people are blaming their neighbours. I don't. I blame Canadian mass media. People not on Twitter got a raw deal, nobody warned them. The selling hospitals, the blaming people for their own cancer. Trudeau's socks got more headlines.
The most egregious foreign interference we're dealing with is Postmedia - a foreign owned conglomerate regularly pushing political opinions and narratives that belittle our government, and ignore what they're actually doing in favour of the opposition leader's petty gaslighting
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but media and health organizations, governments are silent. At current rates, they're saying that 50-99% of the population of planet earth will be dealing with C-19 related disability by the end of 2025.
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I know this post sucks.
I hate that we live in this dystopian, bullshit reality.
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@CanadianAndi
Very much so, it's disheartening that even with evidence to the contrary, people will still cling to things that are easily disproven, even with solid evidence. I don't hate Ontario anymore (even lived there for a while, in Port Arthur), but Doug isn't helping.
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and it's still leaving people disabled, 1/10 infections causing disability. Why a deadly, life altering virus is being ignored? Thankfully there are still doctors, scientists, and disease experts monitoring it and talking about it, sharing wastewater data
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Hi, I'm Patrick. I live in Canada. I know that infection and reinfection accumulate and will make everyone more susceptible to other ailments. I wear a mask whenever I'm out of the house, and indoors with other people. I want to be, and to help others be, safe.
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Weekly chat with my mom, we were pondering life before dad left for his much younger wife, I don't know why, I said to my mom, you know, he was very manipulative and emotionally abusive, and my mom paused, something caught in her throat... "about time someone said it, thank you"
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3. Vulnerable people. This gets mentioned a lot - problem is, anyone who has had the disease qualifies as a vulnerable person, because:
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5. a mild infection means it's not bad in your respiratory system - there are no symptoms for heart, kidney, liver, or brain (or any of your other internal organs) until they're damaged badly enough they stop working properly.
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I'm no Trudeau fanboy, but I'd take him over a regressive Reformer any time, and every time. Real leadership and compassion before out of context gotcha moments and clueless wood stroking. We don't have a conservative party anymore, or a viable progressive party.
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Postmedia, who publishes all the major Canadian newspapers, including the Sun, National Post, et al, is owned and controlled by MAGA Americans - Trumpers. They're a CPC mouthpiece, and their political takes are 100% CPC supporting drivel.
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At the end of this thread is a screenshot of the US CDC document explaining how to classify Covid deaths. The document is available to the public - sadly, it doesn't match up with what they're telling everyone about catching the disease.
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because again, it damages your immune system. It also mutates quickly, so even if you had immunity to a strain (you did not), new strains aren't the same, and you'd still be vulnerable.
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Young people are having heart attacks and strokes due to clotting and heart damage. Image is from the right side of Page 2.
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@1MikeMorris
Propaganda predates Harper on the right side of the spectrum going back far before our time, the big change with Harper was they just dispensed with debate and ideas, moved to US style fear mongering instead.
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The most egregious foreign interference we're dealing with is Postmedia - a foreign owned conglomerate regularly pushing political opinions and narratives that belittle our government, and ignore what they're actually doing in favour of the opposition leader's petty gaslighting
🚨Foreign Interference🧵
To-date, not one media story on all the things our gov’t has done to combat Foreign Election Interference. And I’m NOT saying that to imply we aren’t committed to improving our response to the evolving threat, but lets get some facts straight!
#cdnpoli
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Public funds should NEVER be used to fund private schools OR private medical services. 100% of public money should be spent on PUBLIC services and facilities. If the only options are private, nationalize them. NO private entity should be offering essential services in Canada.
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🧵Hi, I'm Patrick. When I was a kid, I leaned Reform, I voted for conservatives - There were many reasons, the primary being they talked financial responsibility, and making sure we leave a better world for our children.
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July 23, 2023. Good Morning! Wake up call, Canada doesn't have a FISCALLY Conservative political movement any more, we have religious SOCIAL Conservative wingnuts provincially and federally. Tea Party, MAGA Republican crazies. And we still have Covid. Fuck. Stay Safe! ☮️❤️🍁
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This is who he CPC are - they're not Conservatives, they never were, and they never wanted to be. Well... they're "Social Conservatives". The best known "Social Conservative" parties in the world at the moment are ISIL, The Taliban, and the current Government of Iran.
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Weird how people are complaining about federal overreach, but they're cool with the UCP passing a law that's blatantly authoritarian and unconstitutional, and will remove their rights as Canadians if allowed. I guess "sticking it to the libs" is more important than their rights.
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I do believe this is one of the biggest media failures in Canada - not ever correcting their eager reporting of fake scandals targeting the Prime Minister - and never bothering to retract or correct anything when they don't amount to anything. We need media reform in Canada, fast
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I have a question for Conservative voters.
If you owned a brand new, 2023 F350 Supercab with 500L of fuel storage, you took it to the shop for service one day, and when you came to pick it up, they gave you a rusted out 1977 ford pinto, would you pay the bill drive the Pinto?
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September 28, 2022. Good morning! A gentle reminder that Canada is still one of the freest countries in the world, more free than the USA, safer than most countries, and we need to fight to keep it that way - the CPC wants the freedom to take your freedoms away. Stay safe!
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I find it odd that we had 2 World Wars that were about defeating Fascism, and now people in the west are defending and subscribing to it - it was always horrific, always anti freedom, always anti democracy - nothing has changed. We don't need more wars, we need less fascism.
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Madame Premier,
@ABDanielleSmith
we're in a dire situation with out of control fires and evacuations, people losing their homes, and the federal government has offered to send in assistance, what say you?
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The real anger should be the depths of depravity it takes to attack a successful, helpful charity, destroy it, to look for political gain against an opponent. The CPC is an abhorrent, evil organization.
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Went to a clinic yesterday, asked them if they could remove a mole. They said yes, it'll be $450.
a few years ago a doctor in a clinic suggested I should have it removed - while it wasn't concerning yet, it probably will be, it's free.
AB heath care isn't safe, fire the UCP.
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I had someone the other day try to tell me WE was still a scandal - and I blame the media for allowing that misconception to fester in the public eye. The CPC HATES Trudeau is doing a great job, and constantly flings empty bullshit at him hoping for anger.
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Throw in, people were waving Nazi flags, defaced Canadian flags, Confederate flags... if you're at a protest and someone waving one of those isn't removed, you're at a Nazi Rally, not a protest.
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Private sector is more efficient?
Hard no on that one. Costs stay the same for things when they go private - but now, someone needs to make a profit. How do you make a profit? One of 2 ways.
1) raise prices
2) lower quality of service
that's it, those are the only ways.
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This is an assault on Canadian laws and our rights. Danielle Smith is not safe nor fit to serve for 5 minutes, let alone 6 months. Any delay removing her will, with no doubt, hurt, disable, and kill people.
#DanielleSmithIsUnfitToLead
She, and the UCP need to go NOW.
New bill "would allow cabinet to direct provincial entities, including municipalities, municipal police forces, post-secondary institutions, school districts and regional health authorities not to enforce federal laws."
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Also of note, the Prime Minister apologized for any appearance of impropriety, not for any actual misdeeds, as no "bad" deeds were ever found, aside from those who attacked the government and KILLED the charity.
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@CBCNews
This is weird. I mean, the idea of credible news sources is important, but you, as a news source, have been pretty lacking in credibility and big on pushing false narratives for quite some time.
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Their entire plan is to make you hate others for them.
They don't debate in parliament, they scream obscenities and act like drunken teenagers.
Mulroney didn't do that, Joe Clark didn't do that. PCs had decorum and class, and respect for Canadians. The CPC do not. At all.
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July 31, 2023. Hope you're having an amazing day - if you live in Canada, please remember, you have a legal, constitutional RIGHT to health care services and tests with no service/admission fees, and such fees are illegal. If someone tells you different, they're wrong. ☮️❤️🍁
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Do I believe conservatives want to be fiscally responsible, to leave a better world for generations to come? Hell no. They want to rape and pillage every dime they can, and fuck everyone else. And the current generation of Cons is so brazen they admit it. Listen to them.
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The thing is, our Prime Minister, does not chastise the media for doing this - he takes the high road, he says what he needs to say on the matter, and gets back to doing his job, helping Canadians - even the Canadians who attack him constantly. No malicious or vengeful bullshit.
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If
@ABDanielleSmith
is so worried about electricity rates, why doesn't she re-instate caps?
I mean, the provincial government is responsible for that, yet I keep hearing and seeing ads blaming Ottawa... the UCP are the idiots that allowed/ENCOURAGED rates to get out of control.
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I don't hate people like Danielle Smith, Pierre Poilievre, Jason Kenney, or even Stephen Harper. I do hate that we, as a country, have been dumb enough to elect them, they're not leaders. Some of the people I've liked most in this life are people who'd be horrible leaders...
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Maybe it's just me, but if you're looking at the banned weapons list, and thinking "BUT THE HUNTERS!!", you're a fucking moron. Hunters don't need assault rifles, semi auto, or automatic weapons, and if they do, they should find a hobby they don't suck at.
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Look at this flag - on a truck in the convoy, before Pierre announced he was running for leader.
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I can't emphasize this enough. NOBODY knows how many votes have been cast for a specific party, NOBODY. The 758,550 votes that have been cast are uncounted until tomorrow. Any poll telling you "so and so is going to win" are projections based on LIMITED polling. GET OUT AND VOTE!
Please remember, polls are not a reflection of how people voted. with 758,550 votes tallied in advance polls, the only number anyone KNOWS is what they put on their own ballot. Ballots won't be counted until Monday, we'll know after that happens, make sure YOUR vote is counted
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🧵 I decided to edit a thread I wrote last year about an experience I had in college with a Political Science class in 1995, make it a little more concise. If it had a title, it would be "Why a Conservative Kid Isn't a Conservative Now". I suck at titles. 1/12
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Postmedia is not Canadian media.
Postmedia supporting a political party IS foreign interference in elections.
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