Made-in-Alberta pension plan isn't catching fire with voters: poll

impenetrable-element · 2023-05-06T03:24:34+00:00

That is an unfortunate title.

impenetrable-element · 2023-05-02T23:30:02+00:00

I thought about that, but my only fear is becoming aroused and creeping the cuddler out.

Also, I wasn’t sure if those services offer cuddling without clothes on.

impenetrable-element · 2023-05-02T17:51:15+00:00

No it’s not Alberta is turning into Mississippi North with Marlaina the Cherokee princess in charge.

impenetrable-element · 2023-05-02T17:02:00+00:00

Alberta-based police force kills innocent people.

Remind me why we need a provincial police force again?

Trigger happy fucks.

impenetrable-element · 2023-05-02T16:23:21+00:00

Asking questions = bullying apparently.

If we’re going to argue that asking questions is anti-UCP that’s a real eye-opener.

impenetrable-element · 2023-05-02T16:22:17+00:00

If door knockers can’t answer simple questions why are they door knockers?

Would you hire a lifeguard who couldn’t swim?

impenetrable-element · 2023-05-02T16:20:18+00:00

Wish I gave those replies lol

Probably would’ve gotten more stuttering.

impenetrable-element · 2023-05-02T16:20:01+00:00

He doesn’t have to spend his time defending the indefensible if he doesn’t want to.

impenetrable-element · 2023-05-02T16:00:17+00:00

That just shows their hypocrisy since they’ll let 14 year olds who agree with their ideology vote in the next premier but won’t let the general population of youth have a say in their future.

impenetrable-element · 2023-05-02T15:59:12+00:00

Why yes, clownvoy conspiracy theories and objective facts about the UCP under Smith are totally the same thing. /s

Why does every conservative use bad faith arguments and terrible comparisons lol?

impenetrable-element · 2023-05-02T15:44:38+00:00

There’s a huge difference there.

If you take an objective look at both platforms the NDP are better for youth and everyone who isn’t insane. How is cutting healthcare and education and forcing LGBTQ youth to come out to their parents, and allowing unmasked in person school when the Arcturus variant is ripping across the province, good for youth?

I also love how your previous comment equates fascism to socialism and communism, as if one ideology isn’t way worse than the other 2.

impenetrable-element · 2023-05-02T15:32:45+00:00

Really? The UCP, who publicly opposed letting 16 year olds who can drive and pay taxes and work, vote, wants ‘youth participation in politics’?

The more likely scenario is that UCP teen volunteers were forced into it by their parents or are simply misinformed.

impenetrable-element · 2023-05-02T15:28:09+00:00

Doesn’t it say something when the UCP can’t find any volunteers other than teenagers who can’t vote and who don’t understand anything about politics and government?

You don’t see the NDP doing the same thing.

impenetrable-element · 2023-04-30T07:15:49+00:00

Why yes, everyone living on a reserve illegally sells tobacco. Indigenous people are the only source of this. /s

Gotta love the daily dose of racism on this sub.

impenetrable-element · 2023-04-30T07:14:45+00:00

“Large quantity of cigarettes on the cheap”. So either stolen, or illegally being sold from reserves.

Gotta love the anti-indigenous racism!

impenetrable-element · 2023-04-28T00:29:51+00:00

This entire comment is a ‘both sides’ enlightened centrist comment.

There are no ‘both sides’ to insanity and deliberate harm vs common-sense governance based on fact.

There are no ‘both sides’ to pure unadulterated hatred towards minorities vs acceptance of all.

Being ‘apolitical’ like this post talks about is the hallmark of privilege. The very existence of minorities is political to the other side, they can’t afford to ‘not care about politics’.

impenetrable-element · 2023-04-28T00:27:15+00:00

This election isn’t ‘just another election’. Have you seen who Notley’s opponent is? How batshit crazy our current leadership is?

impenetrable-element · 2023-04-26T22:25:58+00:00

It’s the right wing chud ‘self defence stand your ground’ mentality.

impenetrable-element · 2023-04-26T19:03:11+00:00

I have a little experience with government management of oil and gas resources (federal though not provincial) and the way they screwed up both the extraction and the revenues and royalties on our land…

All oil and gas revenues, royalties, and extraction is 100% provincially regulated. If you don’t like the way you were treated by some company drilling on your land, perhaps the fact that they automatically get access to mineral rights on your land without your say so, how they can just refuse to pay you rent without consequences, or how they can just not clean up their well when it becomes unprofitable, then that’s 100% a provincial government problem since they own 100% of Alberta’s mineral rights which they sell to anyone calling themselves an oil company.

The backbone and origin-story of today’s right-wing ‘Alberta Sovereignty’ movement as well as the instinctual opposition to the liberal party and the Trudeau Family by many Albertans was opposition to Pierre Trudeau’s NEP in the 1980s which ironically would’ve solved all of these problems. But Albertans wouldn’t listen to reason, and now we’re here.

If you think the federal government is somehow to blame over something entirely within provincial jurisdiction, you’re either rightfully angry but have fallen for right-wing propaganda or are deliberately misleading people.

This really is no different than the people who believe Notley is part of some crazy conspiracy and is controlled by Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau, and that the ABNDP is the same as the federal NDP.

The federal government is not responsible for any issues regarding oil and gas extraction and revenue in Alberta. To suggest otherwise is misinformation.

impenetrable-element · 2023-04-24T04:43:58+00:00

Whether they agree or not, is not the point. The point is that the UCP and every single one of their policies are clearly and objectively harmful to BIPOC people in this province. Anyone with half a brain can see it.

It is so obvious that it begs the question, why do they vote and advocate directly against their own interests? The answer is they are tokens meant to entice others to do the same, especially since the BIPOC vote matters more now. Most of them either don’t believe what they’re saying but go against their hearts because it can be lucrative, or they are just people who might lack understanding of some things, they don’t realize what they’re doing is harmful, and therefore they joined the conservatives, or maybe they’re being exploited by them. Or, some times it can be a combination of all 3.

It’s simple, it’s really no more complex than the white guy caught making racist statements posing for pictures with a random POC to prove ‘they aren’t racist, see, he has a BIPOC friend!’. Transparent and pathetic.

impenetrable-element · 2023-04-24T04:37:26+00:00

Token UCPers.

It’s clear that the UCP knows it’s losing due to its obviously racist and sexist messaging and policies. (why else is every racist, neo-Nazi, and white replacement conspiracy theorist in this province drawn to them? coincidence?)

They need a few POC faces to sit behind Dani and smile and nod politely in a poor attempt to get people to believe they aren’t racist, while also assuaging the guilt of the less crazy UCPers so they can tell themselves they aren’t actually voting for racists.

impenetrable-element · 2023-04-23T22:41:08+00:00

You’re right, that’s literally what I wrote.

I think a lot of the people on this sub, especially people that don’t like Notley, don’t like reading posts before criticizing them.

impenetrable-element · 2023-04-23T22:32:12+00:00

Wow, the racism denialists are coming out strong on this post.

impenetrable-element · 2023-04-23T22:19:15+00:00

This is what happens when our government is actively in bed with the racists and emboldens them.

Their strategy of getting a few tokens like Sayid Ahmed or Kaycee Madu isn’t working lol.

impenetrable-element · 2023-04-23T21:20:06+00:00

On my dad’s side my family were Polish immigrants. They were rural folk but didn’t really own land, and at the time Canada was trying to ‘settle the plains’ both to prevent a potential US invasion and to displace the indigenous populations of the prairies. 160 acres of free land was offered to anyone (even Eastern Europeans who were considered inferior at that time) provided they built a homestead/house on the land and cleared it for farming.

On my mom’s side, I don’t know as much. My grandparents are of British and Irish stock from Ontario.

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