Fits in perfectly with the UCP.

After all this is the party that took advantage of misinformation flooding into the country during the pandemic, misinformation designed to have covid-19 kill as many Canadians as possible, they used that misinformation to leverage themselves into a political cult based around the same MAGA Christian nationalists principles.

Then they piggy back on the Christian communities collective narcissism to run a kleptocracy, funnelling off taxpayer money to themselves through various schemes and offices. Heck, we’re paying the same group that runs Canada Proud to run ads in Ontario, and the Alberta taxpayers have been paying this group to run multiple campaigns with no bidding process for people in other provinces. I remember reading Postmedia outlets attacking Notely for spending 1.9 million dollars on ads in 2019, but I have not heard them even mention once that Smith has exploded that to more than 80 million dollars, and thats not even including the 60 million we give to the war room, that turns around and pays the same company to run even more ads.

Kinda drives me nuts that whenever a conservative government takes power in Canada they all start giving huge sums of money to the same media groups that Harper used for his Action Plan ads when he was PM. We paid for taxpayer funded TV ads against marijuana use that the Doctors Association of Canada had to come out and debunk.

Now this same company is running social media account across the country that are breaking election laws on a regular basis and using all this money to create new media groups like Juno and TruNorth, which they teamed up with Rebel to disrupt our federal debates during the last election. I have no idea how this shit is possibly legal, and that without diving into the work of one Ezra Levant.

Politicians in Alberta are the most opportunistic, greedy, unscrupulous business people I’ve ever met.

The ability to enforce double standards based on political affiliation is a big feature of fascist governments.

I don’t like hearing our PM parrot US propaganda, and going directly against his speech in Davos.

I realize there might be political reasons for what he is doing, but the cynical side of me assumes this is more due to Israel lobbying our government for support.

There is a power vacuum on the right, since both of Canada’s right wing parties have abandoned right wing principles to chase Trumps tail. Which means the LPC can drift right, and there is no alternative for those on the left to vote for, while the CPC’s media machine can gaslight enough moderates that if the LPC drifts left, they can make the CPC seem like good old fashioned common sense conservatives of 20 years ago.

It sucks.

“So, I’m just calling because I’m obligated to for this investigation. I’ll just need you to swing by my office and sign a form saying I questioned you. We can grab a few beers too, write it off as business expense.”

Cops that are willing to hold other cops accountable don’t end up having much upward mobility within the ranks. You don’t get to a position where you are investigating the police, but being good at investigating the police.

These are the kind of cops that end up having long careers with multiple promotions.

It’s wild to me how police will say they don’t have the authority to break up Nazi rallies until they “do something illegal”. University students, homeless people or visible minorities on the other hand are never an issue.

This isn’t unique to Toronto. Most police unions in this country have cultivated this culture of partisanship, ideological adherence, and a complete lack of personal accountability. Police see themselves as above the law, and the communities they serve as enemy combatants in an ideological battle. Cops willing to hold other cops accountable for their actions will always be to first to be pressured off the force. Police unions will regularly endorse political parties, then police protests along those same partisan lines. Police in Ottawa let the convoy terrorize the city for weeks so right wing media could paint it as a federal problem, then claim tyranny when forced to take action. Do you think it’s a coincidence that every single right wing outlet that reported on the unauthorized use of the Emergencies act never mentioned the judges comments on the lack of enforcement?

These organizations are rotting from the top, the idea that it’s just a few bad apples is laughable.

Wouldn’t it be nice if Canadian politicians used a Canadian platform with Canadian moderators and Canadian algorithms?

If the platform is designed to get voters engaged in local policy then even better.

the goose is also golden.

I also came from Reddit, I’ve spoken highly of Lemmy in a few subs, canadianidiots, and ehbuddyhoser.

Might just be best trying a DM, but Reddit is definitely been going downhill for a while, they keep making it easier for people to engage in bad faith, and post misinformation under the guise of driving more engagement.

Postmedia will help her out by bringing attention to each scary sounding criminal who ends up falling through the cracks thanks to this lack of funding, and they’ll try to misrepresent the situation as current judges being soft on crime.

It’s depressing that it will work on a good portion of Albertans, just like when UCP cut municipal funding to Calgary and Edmonton, then Postmedia ran a campaign smearing the councils for not being good fiscal managers, leaving out the important detail of the UCP withholding funding and interfering in city projects costing cities millions of dollars.

For those who wondered if China’s legal system was independent or a tool of the state.

Make a mental note.

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It really is, you take a bunch of damaged people, cut them off from real life support systems, then feed them a non-stop stream of confirmation bias designed to keep them in the system, to keep them coming back to the echo chamber for more confirmation bias. By keeping people in these clashing versions of reality, instead of coming together to find resolution, or compromise, which is the hard option here, the path of least resistance is to fall back into those bubbles, to double down.

It’s a real mental health crisis that I’ve been calling political psychosis, because when you look at it from a mental health perspective, these folks have absolutely become so wrapped up in conspiracies and narratives on social media, they’re completely unable to respond to the reality unfolding around them.

As much as I want to scream, I know first hand that under the right conditions, anyone can potentially fall into psychosis.

Fact of the matter is if ICE wanted to round up Canadians, most local police, at least in Alberta, would be helping to support ICE operations while making a canned statement on TV about the legality of their actions.

CPC saying they want to collaborate while they send another MP to bend the knee at one of Trumps prayer breakfasts on the taxpayer dime.

I predict PP said something like this… “You better give Trump what he wants because we’ve spent the last year lobbying the Trump regime, convincing them that Canada would be an easier target than Greenland, and we will support him if he tries to replace you.”

The CPC have been clear, they see the problem of US aggression as an LPC issue. The CPC has always advocated for giving Trump everything he wants, just have to remember with all of their statements, they come from a place that believes Trumps rhetoric that Canada would be a greater, stronger country through submission to his demands.

I want you to be wrong, but it looks like conservative politicians in Canada have been pushing for him to focus on Canada instead of Greenland. Alberta makes us the softest target in the Western Hemisphere with the UCP and CPC ready to legitimize his actions.

Any article about foreign interference that fails to mention the fact the leader of the opposition still refuses to get his security clearance isn’t worth the time of day.

Yes foreign interference is a problem, but there is clearly a group in Ottawa obstructing any attempt to tackle the issue, which has been attempted only to be obstructed and politicized by the CPC. This absolutely needs to be addressed so the house can move forward on this issue in collaboration with all the parties.

This should also include making the parties themselves have rules to help prevent future interference, rules that are not just unwritten, but laid out in clear legal language because we can’t trust all the parties to follow decorum anymore.

It’s getting old conservative outlets pointing to China when the American administration is literally helping fund a separatist movement in Alberta run by the most corrupt morons in the province, actions the CPC refuses to condemn. BUT LOOK AT CHINA!!!