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[–] Ryan213 166 points 1 year ago (5 children)

FYI for non-Canadians - Alberta is often referred to as the Texas of Canada.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, 'Democrats' in this case is referring to the Alberta branch of the New Democratic Party.

[–] nomecks 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Which by national standards is the most conservative NDP in the country.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Texas and Florida, considering the outright maniacs they elect.

[–] QuikxSpec 19 points 1 year ago

Texas is more appropriate because of their size and oil and cattle industry

[–] expatriado 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Rafael Cruz covers the maniac aspect

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Alberta's latest Premier is more in the vein of an all-out far right crazy like MTG (who I know is from GA but feels like she came out of Florida) for whom things like facts and rationality are entirely alien concepts rather than a slimy weasel who repels everyone in a 20 ft. radius around them and intentionally and purposefully causes damage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

And came from Alberta. Coincidence? I think not.

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

this person spittin facts.. alberta is the 53rd state

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Say no more.

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

And Canada's Utah. Former Mormon here and I met many Albertans in the church.

[–] SCB 129 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lmao my town is in an uproar because there is no bussing for the high school, but my town literally voted to disincorporate (and won!) rather than pay a double-digit yearly increase on their taxes... to pay for bussing.

[–] Delusional 78 points 1 year ago (4 children)

More and more it seems like people just don't want to help pay for services that are extremely helpful. Yet when those services are removed, they get all uppity about it. It's just like brexit. Stupidity on a massive scale.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it's extremely easy to convince people to make conservative decisions, but they have to actually be paying some level of conscious attention to get behind progressive ideas.

[–] notatoad 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

people really hate being warned about the consequences of their actions.

"you can do whatever you want, and we'll tell you it’ll be ok" will never not win votes.

[–] BeautifulMind 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometimes the cost of not funding the thing is higher than the costs of funding it

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Not just sometimes. That's the norm. It's why we decided to fund stuff with public money in the first place: it's cheaper than not doing it.

[–] demlet 9 points 1 year ago

It's the result of deliberate dumbing down of the voters. Can't have the plebs actually voting for their interests.

[–] Madison420 4 points 1 year ago

They don't want to pay for programs they don't benefit from and even those they only want to hamper enough that they get theirs but no one else does.

[–] Cruxifux 104 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who lives in red deer, yup, sounds about right.

My fellow Red Deerians are political illiterates. My one friend works in admin for schools here. Or at least, she used to, but she lost her job after the party she furiously badgered everyone to vote for got in and cut the funding at her school, targeting administrators. Which they ran on.

It was the most Red Deer thing I ever saw.

[–] ViewSonik 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This sounds like almost all red counties across America. Politically illiterate and full of bandwagon republicans who don’t understand they’re voting to hurt themselves and their livelihoods.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Alberta to a "T".

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But I was voting for policies that would hurt other people, not me!!!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

That will never not be funny

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP needs to change the title. We don't have a "Democratic Party" in Canada, or even in Alberta.

[–] loulis 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Apologies my ignorance, I am not from Canada. What do you guys have?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

New Democrats. They still have the wrappers on them.

[–] loulis 9 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NDP and Liberal parties, which are politically very similar to each other. Closest analogue to them is the US Democrat party but the Democrats in the US are more neolib than either Canadian leftist party - although Canadian politics tends to trail US politics by a few years, so they'll get there lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Canadian politics tends to trail US politics by a few years, so they'll get there lol.

We let Murika test the shit for 5 years then follow suit even though you can clearly see it don't work

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

We do the same. Sorry from Japan.

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[–] TurboDiesel 38 points 1 year ago

"But I never thought the leopards would eat my face!!"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck Round & Find Out, conservoclowns.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It doesn't matter if they find out since they never learn anything.

[–] Etterra 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well yeah, I mean, they had probably planned to get new AR-15s with that money. Now they have to waste it on their kids.

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

You know this is a story from Canada, right?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Alberta is the arm pit USA wannabe in Canada so it tracks

[–] DarthBueller 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

What would the Canadian version be (no points if maple syrup or Tim Horton's is mentioned)? EDIT: the Canadian version of "they probably planned to get new AR-15s with that money"?

[–] joel_feila 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] WoolyNelson 6 points 1 year ago

blah blah leapords blah blah faces.

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

Sounds very Albertan.

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