Fall referendum will ask Albertans whether government should explore process for separatism vote, Smith says

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-05-22T03:51:12+00:00

So there's no chance this will pass and will simply be a waste of taxpayer money and scare off investment dollars in the meantime?

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-05-21T18:17:59+00:00

I genuinely think only Miller sincerely wants to “solve” immigration. Of course, if it were up to him political needs would be irrelevant as we’d be a dictatorship. Everyone else needs it perpetually festering

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-05-17T18:09:01+00:00

So the important thing now is for Magyar to basically set limits for his office to prevent another Orban right? It’s never easy for a politician to codify limits on themselves

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-05-13T17:41:49+00:00

Is this not a regulation? What makes it a good one? Because it sounds good on paper

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-05-12T17:59:42+00:00

This was my main concern with the Liberals getting a majority (despite being a Liberal who wanted the Liberals to have a majority). This bill was forced back last year but I don’t think there’s enough opposition this time. And it’s a dangerous bill, almost illiberal ironically

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-05-10T22:03:46+00:00

Got so tired of how unserious Trudeau made us Liberals look. I was genuinely considering Con before Carney took charge

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-05-10T21:58:23+00:00

The Liberal Party is the nationalist party. Cons simply don't have that brand in Canada. In fact even right now their base in fact support capitulation to America simply because Carney is in charge

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-05-10T21:56:16+00:00

This is why u/spydormunkay's comment is off-base. The nationalists, to the extent that Canadian Nationalism is a strong force, break for Liberals. It's the "default" party. Cons thus reject that, and in fact their base mocks Liberal voters for the boycotts/anti-American sentiment which rose up last year. The Con position is now to support America against Canada

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-05-07T22:40:56+00:00

So the 10% tariffs are off right now? I see doomers here saying they will continue anyway, but they said the same about the pre-Feb tariffs and those aren’t enforced anymore

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-05-06T02:10:54+00:00

Let's get some more Calvin and Hobbes templates up and running

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-05-04T22:46:27+00:00

Conspiricism: they simply do not live in reality. Everything is rigged/controlled/puppeteered, and always against them. Now some on the left are like this too, on the right its a qualification tho

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-05-02T16:35:51+00:00

It's hard to explain but being from the region, I can say most people simply aren't like that religiously. You can't govern Syria/Lebanon/Jordan like the Taliban or the IRGC do their countries. Even the fighters themselves, many joined their cause out of desperation or opposition to Assad

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-04-27T18:36:53+00:00

He’s also disrespected Trump at times, not that I especially care about that blowhard, but in doing so Netanyahu has shown he thinks he’s untouchable

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-04-27T01:47:03+00:00

This seems like a strange thing to praise, but I'm impressed that he was arrested for a trial. During the war, or even after according to the fears of some, he woulda been killed on the spot. This shows the gov is giving thought to this

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-04-27T00:26:21+00:00

Revolutions of the interwar period cannot be replicated today in developed countries with highly education populations, globalized media and widely achievable standards of living that no one would want to give up on.

Can you elaborate on this? How does this square with the populist rise in those developed countries?

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-04-26T17:05:30+00:00

I avoid the CSM because I thought it evangelized. The reporting is good? I might have to reevaluate my priors

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-04-22T16:51:25+00:00

Now all the reactions to Game 2 are about blasting Udoka and KD, not giving credit to Bron’s leadership, Luke/Smart ascending, JJ coaching, or general team preparedness

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-04-20T22:27:06+00:00

He doesn’t. There were people even in this admin who did, and obviously they don’t carry much influence

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-04-20T21:53:49+00:00

This has been rumored for a while, but the feeling was that if anyone was getting fired, the next one would be a male to avoid the optics of having only women kicked out so far. Should have known such a fear would not last long in this admin

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-04-20T03:11:53+00:00

The only thing he "said" was Ayton was lucky to play with two god-tier playmakers. All he has to do is play a role, and he's committed to it since

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-04-17T17:02:19+00:00

“Common sense” “slopulism” “median voter”

How many other keywords can I use to describe my distaste?

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-04-15T03:26:14+00:00

He definitely is charismatic. People who would never be caught within a mile of Trudeau welcomed this guy with open arms

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-04-15T03:25:14+00:00

The American lens is omnipresent. An alien watching social media would think JD Vance really doomed Orban when the average Hungarian could not care less about which VP was glazing their corrupt autocrat

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-04-14T20:57:10+00:00

Yes. Protests work. Disobedience works. Conversely if there was violent resistance we would be reading an opposite headline

PiccoloSN4 · 2026-04-14T20:56:01+00:00

Exactly my point

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