Binzy_Boi

This just reminds me of the thing Google pulled not long ago asking users to submit pictures of their younger selves to generate their adult self at the baseball game with them.

Immediately thought it'd be stupid to do that since people are gonna work their ass off to bypass AI guardrails in any case including generating child porn, and lo and behold, few days later I find a tweet of someone calling out another person for creating AI-generated porn of their own daughter.

I am livid. I can not put my anger into words right now.

The "strong, Conservative woman" claims that her party doesn't use the notwithstanding clause "unless the stakes warrant it."

Right, because clearly the biggest threat in Alberta is trans people. Not lobby money from the oil and gas industry, not the rising cost of living, not the mental health and addictions crisis, it's clearly a group that makes up 1% at max of the population of the province.

Calling herself a "strong woman" is so unbelievably rich when all she seems able to do is effortlessly punch down on the everyday person. Like awww, how cute, she's fighting fucking Big Teacher and Big Hormones, fuck off. "Strength" in defending the status quo requires zero effort whatsoever as it simply means doing fuck all, and I will be unapologetic in saying that she is doing nothing but continuing women's status as objects by acting as a mere chess piece for the male CEOs in oil and gas and other profitable industries that direct her and the UCP's decisions through political donations.

Un-fucking-believable.

I mean, not really, even here in Alberta Calgary and Edmonton have some rather impressive TOD (Transit Oriented Development) projects.

The Bonnie Doon redevelopment in Edmonton along the Valley Line LRT, and Calgary's long-term plans for the new Green Line for the Ctrain are great examples.

Reminder that Dennis Prager thinks bisexuality is the norm rather than heterosexuality.

So... checks out?

"No they won't"

Right, because other unions didn't come out in support for Air Canada flight attendants to help them with their win.

Clearly labour leaders, especially ones that oversee over 170,000 union members, will do nothing and learn nothing from what was accomplished with Air Canada.

I don't buy that one bit.

Edit: I got the number wrong, whoops.

The separation referendum is being stalled by a referendum to stay within Canada, where the petition to start it has already received enough signatures to start the referendum at 456K signatures.

Polling for separation is laughably low. This is not something that will happen, and not something legally feasible because of Treaty rights, and other numerous legal barriers. Smith herself has admitted she herself does not support separation, but has felt backed into a corner by her base as she fears a party split handing the NDP a win next election cycle more than she does the referendum succeeding, as she sees the former as a far more likely scenario. This can already be seen with the variety of right-wing parties in Alberta as opposed to the province's left-wing being much more unified behind one party. Basically all this is an issue that could solved by implementing proportional representation in the province.

The pushback is currently being coordinated, it has only been a week since the back-to-work order, I personally feel it is way too early to judge a lack of action, but regardless students have been pushing back in the meantime the labour movement sorts things out on their end.

I do appreciate being distinguished as an individual and not as a part of the government or the worst of the crowd that voted them in.

Except I am giving facts? The guy said that the NDP was in control of the province for a "long time" before Lougheed was premier. The Alberta NDP never held government before 2015, the Social Credit Party was the ruling party in Alberta for nearly 40 years before Lougheed was premier. This is something that can be easily found through a Google search. He also claimed that Lougheed ran on diversifying the economy, and did nothing to do so afterwards, which is also provably false. The Heritage Fund was founded by Lougheed's government to save money for investment in sectors, and it was following premiers that squandered that fund to the infamy it holds today.

So in the midst of implying my intelligence is lacking by stating that the schoolboards here have somehow failed me because I made a simple comment he disagrees with, he also spouts outright misinformation. I gave facts. I gave facts about the current state of affairs in regards to the teacher's strike in response to someone falsely accusing people here of doing nothing, followed up with my opinion on what can be done, and then was greeted by further insults by someone who was blanketing Conservative views on me from the start for the very nature of where I'm from because they met some people that hold those beliefs.

Me saying "the rest of country turns it's brain off", may have been a little more loaded than I realised, I will take accountability for that, honest mistake on my part.

Diversification of the economy is the biggest issue that Alberta needs to address. People here think they want oil and gas development because we're a single-resource economy, but what they really want is stability and affordability just like anybody else across the country does. Alberta's reliance on oil is a strength that became a debilitating weakness, and our own leaders, Lougheed to be specific, saw that as the case and wanted to diversify using the Heritage Fund to do so, but this was never picked up on again after the 1980s oil glut until the NDP came to power and tried attracting tech jobs.

As someone who vehemently supports the federal NDP, I genuinely think that Alberta is a prime example of the party's failings with working-class people. Farmers are hurting, oil workers are hurting, and as a result everyone else who works other sectors is currently hurting because the province still isn't doing too great. This isn't going to be solved by pipelines, and yes, that is in the large part on us for having demanded them so much in the past.

However people are scared of the shift from oil because there's literally a cultural connection to it here. That money in the time of Peter Lougheed brought the province insane prosperity, and a lot of that money generated was invested heavily into the arts and cultural staples here. People are fine with shifting away more than you'd think, they just want job security for the people that built the economy of this province that brought us that prosperity and cultural flourish through the transition so that they don't get left behind like is nearly always the case when industries anywhere go bust.

When you promise and deliver for working-class people's wallets, especially in a time of economic hardship like now, they will trust you more than Rebel News mouthpieces and such as they can see that you have cared and delivered for them, and as a result of that, will be more likely to listen to you on social issues such as trans rights, racial issues, immigration, and so on. The issue with the feds is that they always have the same mistake as most people here where they think another pipeline is how you address that, when it only makes Alberta's boom-bust single-resource economy even worse.

The worst premiers we've had know how to signal economic populism, Smith pretends and postures that she's fighting for the "Alberta Advantage", and Ralph Klein absolutely gutted everything in the government under the guise he was getting rid of the province's debt. As a result of controlling economic narratives, they have been able to control social narratives as well. If the provincial and federal NDP were to hammer economic points time and time over to Albertan voters in an effective manner, they will steal voters, and as a result, then be able to control social narratives.

Alright, so despite it being clear that you specifically are against this, but still have a single minor tidbit of information I disagree with, it's then fine for me to call you a fucking idiot because "this is brought on by ourselves", right?

Clearly people have the ability to distinguish the "good" Albertan if they're literally out here asking to be called names, so why do they have a hard time distinguishing that I'm not someone who supports the stuff happening here when I'm clearly in support of unions by the nature of my comments, my profile description states I have certain instances blocked for transphobia, and my linkstack is on an instance that's queer-friendly based on the domain name alone?

Because we all know how much Conservatives and the UCP support... reads notes, unions, trans people, and the marginalised.

I'd agree if my intelligence wasn't insulted with people near immediately saying "oh, you're just stupid because you're Albertan" when they disagree with me because of a minor comment about tariffs.

YOU'RE making accusatory statements of me, THE ONUS IS ON YOU to prove it

WHEN DID I AT ALL SAY THIS, YOU ARE PUTTING WORDS IN MY MOUTH.

Also congrats on again blanketing Albertans as a whole. I can meet some jerks in Northern Ontario, and you won't see me calling the entire province racist, but somehow that's acceptable for you to do with Alberta.

Thanks, appreciate being casually called an asshole, racist, xenophobic prick based on where I was born.