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[–] Thrillhouse 59 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wish journalists would stop pulling punches on headlines. β€œMaking up facts” is lying.

Alberta Conservatives Are ~~Making Up Their Own~~ Fabricating Lies About Climate Change ~~Facts~~

[–] SamuelRJankis 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I think we'll start to see progressives abandoning traditional media companies soon for this as well.

Even CBC really contorts the headlines in attempts to keep things moderate. I understand there's a certain need to do keep thing civil but it shouldn't come at a sacrifice of factual reporting.

[–] CheeseNoodle 2 points 3 weeks ago

I feel like moderate and centre are the biggest lies in modern media/politics. It always involves giving the right half of what they want (ultimately everything they want just slower) and giving the left nothing. When the platform is right wing but slower its not moderate its just right wing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

or alternatively, it’s the right/conservatives that are making things uncivil and bowing to their bullshit is how all civility is lost for good

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

"Start"? Last month I saw a print edition of my local newspaper, serving more than a million people. It was one section, four pieces of paper.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

Bad headline. Much too polite.

"Alberta's Conservatives are blatantly lying about the climate for their own agenda. Again."

[–] homesweethomeMrL 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

well sure, because as the republiQans have just demonstrated - nothing matters and what if it did.

[–] frunch 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We're embarking on the final liquidation of humanity--we're all getting sold out to temporarily satiate the greed of a few. Hooray πŸ₯΄πŸŽ‰ the only comfort i can take from it is that the fucked planet will eventually be difficult if not impossible for them and their offspring to inhabit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It is always funny to me when people post comments like this acting like this is the first societal collapse our species has ever had.

This endgame has played out so many times it is boring to watch.

[–] frunch 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm all for this not being the endtimes, fwiw -- just has that kinda feeling but wtf do i know. I've never experienced endtimes before so maybe I'm way off and climate change + rise of fascism is normal and not a sign of the decline of humanity or whatever. I'm excited to find out, lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Don't get it twisted, humanity is in decline. The evidence is abundant and apparent. But that does not mean we are in "the end times" of our species.

The most likely thing to happen is another round of eat the rich followed by a good idea to move forward with that will eventually bloat to the point of collapse. Rinse and repeat.

The rise of Fascism is just the last stop before the Train turns around.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Alberta gonna 'berta I guess.

Seriously though, the UCP needs to get an urgent divorce from US Republican extremists before they crash the whole province (and then proceed to blame it on Ottawa. Again.)

[–] foggenbooty 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm really hoping the NDP can flip Calgary next election and we can climb out of the mess the rural vote has put us in. It's getting bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My biggest concern is that the UCP get a new boogeyman out of that, like how they are treating Notley.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

they've already been piling on nenshi. campaign ads pointing out how everything bad that's ever happened has obviously been part of his evil plan all along, etc. (also, campaign ads when there isn't an election????)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The Alberta desert will be lovely.

Edit: Relative to past years:

(No one gets out alive)

[–] ikidd 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not even sure what that's supposed to mean relative to past. A lot of the Canadian Prairie is only slightly above desert levels of precipitation historically.

Edit: was edited to give some context, at least. All I had seen was the first image which meant fuck-all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, this is pretty useless without context. The colour coding should be a delta to historical averages, not an absolute number.