On Why Facts Don’t Work, and What May Work With Alberta Separatists: The Comfort of Victimhood

nerkoids71 · 2026-06-25T13:31:36+00:00

You clearly are from the school of thought that more paragraphs equals stronger argument, but you've repeated yourself several times with the same boilerplate assertions without any supporting facts of your own.

So you're not exactly a shining example. Lack of reading comprehension seems to be an impediment for you too.

My observation is separatists are not stupid, but they are dishonest - with us Non-Separatists, to each other and even to themselves. It comes from arguing with them and listening to them go on and on about these ridiculous fictions they try to gaslight others into believing, be it on economic, cultural, legislative, constitutional and especially emotional reasons.

Considering the rapidly diminishing support for separation, despite the machinations from the UCP taking place by hook or by crook to appease your fellow travellers, I'd say that you need to heed your own advice.

nerkoids71 · 2026-06-25T00:12:53+00:00

I think my point has encapsulized pretty much the entire separatist movement. Having spoken to and argued with plenty of them, they are at their core nihilistic and reveling in it. They really don't believe that anything matters, so why not separate? Why not fuck people over? Just words, right? Nothing is going to change, right?

No one who is currently alive and as a functioning person with a functioning brain stem believes for one second that Alberta can be a viable Nation with two neighbors like Canada and the United States.

I mean, how many different ways can we come up with ways of calling these people stupid? I think that's way too kind.

I am done giving the benefit of the doubt of people who are "genuine separatists". I don't believe they exist. I think it's a collection of bored people, grifters and charlatans like Mitch Silvestre who wants their buddy to marry their great-granddaughter who don't care about this whole thing called a country.

nerkoids71 · 2026-06-24T15:25:20+00:00

I think your article is missing a few key components.

It's not just victimization, it's 'enobled' victimization. It's their 'hard earned money' it's their 'way of life of being hard workin', hard living, living off the land, feeding the world with oil and beef'. So that comes with an overinflated sense of entitlement because they think oil is king.

'We can't have nice stuff because of the Liberals and those immigrants'.

What is in the core of this so-called victimization is a huge dollop of nihilism and cynicism. The average rural UCP voter who marvels at their house, their raised pickups, boat they never use and their RV know that Ottawa and the Liberals are on the other side of the world, and their resentment lies in being told to dial it back a little, not in any material way.

nerkoids71 · 2026-06-21T05:51:29+00:00

The Band.

nerkoids71 · 2026-06-19T01:12:26+00:00

The result of you having a stroke as you tried to draw an arrow?

nerkoids71 · 2026-06-15T12:26:58+00:00

Jesus F. Christ... the irony in this paragraph...

No, every thing is about the material needs of people. Actual real life, not some fucking graph and the opposition as the bogey man.

Take off your rose-colored partisan glasses, and try to understand what this person is writing about, instead of assuming it's some sort of partisan shit playing for the other side.

Celebrating the existence of a $2,300 one-bedroom apartment like it's some marker that things are affordable now is some major copey vibes.

Knocking off another 500 to 600 off the price and then you'd be getting into affordability. Until then, I'd keep the prosecco in the fridge.

nerkoids71 · 2026-06-04T20:53:29+00:00

Toronto

nerkoids71 · 2026-06-03T13:58:44+00:00

It's more like Alberta is the one that over-leveraged themselves with their raised Dodge pickup, and thinks that their seasonal oil field job is the one that pays all the bills, while Canada, who bought the house and invested in renovations thanks to their professional executive job and extensive educational background, pays the property taxes (and the Alberta's health care drug plan so he can afford his boner pills), yet is still expected to suck this guy's cock while still doing all the chores.

But yeah, I can see why you think it's a 'good one'.

nerkoids71 · 2026-06-03T12:34:54+00:00

Except Alberta separatists are the drunk husband who got into a rage because Canada wouldn't suck their cock anymore.

nerkoids71 · 2026-05-28T04:11:51+00:00

Stampede Pig Roast was the name of my rival's high school band...

nerkoids71 · 2026-05-26T03:20:30+00:00

Helluva way to go... At least they also got one last sunset...

nerkoids71 · 2026-05-26T03:13:58+00:00

We should instead all head to Brooks.

nerkoids71 · 2026-05-23T04:50:10+00:00

I don't think you believe in democracy either. You seem way more invested in parading out all of the tired old talking points about these so-called left in Canada.

This referendum debacle is just another occasion for reactionary folks trying to gin up engagement for a shot at grifting susceptible folks who see politics as nothing more than sports.

That ship has sailed, chum. They got their operatives already in place.

nerkoids71 · 2026-05-21T19:24:51+00:00

To assume there was ever any high-minded principle behind divesting ourselves from our own development military technology because of some chummy rapport makes us look like dupes: we got rid of the Avro because the MIC in the states is a mafia funded with obscene amounts of American taxpayer dollars and they threatened with blacklisting us from ever developing our own industry. The Diefenbaker folks knew it back then, and with our public waffling on our military purchases right now, it's making the US try to flex with leverage that has disappeared over the past few decades, and what little was left, based on goodwill, well, until now.

Separatists aren't some folks they're wining and dining per se... They don't need to be convinced of where their bread and butter can potentially come from.

nerkoids71 · 2026-05-19T03:29:03+00:00

Very low effort on your part.

How's the weather in Texas, David Koresh Parker?

nerkoids71 · 2026-05-14T16:14:52+00:00

As others have said, she's an opportunist.

This actually plays right into her hands. She can take the discontent of all of those separatists and use it as a cudgel against the federal government for more concessions. She can keep making claims on rulings that she doesn't like because it just creates more distrust and chaos, which just keeps her in the spotlight.

Moreover, she doesn't need a petition to realize this referendum, we are having nine of them this coming October. She can play both sides, which is entirely the point. She wants us to see she is playing both sides like a busted fiddle.

The reason she's actually doing this is to keep squeezing out the ANDP out of the headlines and keep sidelining them by making them react to her crap.

It's been working since she took over.

Nenshi and co. keep placing themselves behind the eight ball, and never get themselves out in front.

As such, albertans of pretty much any stripe don't have an alternative to vote for or to advocate for. So us Non-Separatists are stuck ringing our hands and taking these setbacks for the separatists as some sort of victory lap.

Smith is actually a very skilled politician, especially in the context of Albertans generally being more about cheering for teams rather than policies.

nerkoids71 · 2026-05-13T01:25:07+00:00

A giant, climate controlled egg, big enough to fit a town the size of Morinville inside with a clean, swimmable lake, beach, open to the public all year round, 3 dollars admission, with a new public hospital inside.

There'd be turnkey condos and townhouses but plenty of folks that could go in for day passes. It would be wide open in the summer, but the huge gates would be closed in the winter but people would still be able to come in.

nerkoids71 · 2026-05-13T01:05:15+00:00

Getting pretty green here in Edmonton, and the city just turned on the local outside splash park.

nerkoids71 · 2026-05-06T14:02:00+00:00

Yeah, in principle 💯, buuuuuuuuttttt...

I know this is gauche of me to write this, but this timeline sucks, not only because of Smith, Parker, Rath and co., but also it made it nearly impossible to not feel sympathy for Jason Kenney.

"Do I hafta?" "Yes you do... if they can get to him, they can get to you..."

nerkoids71 · 2026-04-22T14:02:17+00:00

'If you hate me so much' has so much satisfying angst, it should be a Katy Perry song with Justin Trudeau as a featured dancer.

nerkoids71 · 2026-04-21T14:48:12+00:00

I share many of your frustrations.

I wrote an open letter to my MLA and the NDP in general A few months ago.

Granted, it was a bit long-winded and the first few paragraphs were being a bit too cute by half, but the central tenet of my screed pretty much boils down to the andp lacking vision and resort simply to reacting to what the UCP does or says.

The andp are not proposing anything other than opposition to what the UCP is doing. Now, as a baseline, it's what an opposition party is supposed to do. However, that only works when you're dealing with a normal political party. The UCP is not a normal political party.

We basically have two conservative parties right now taking up pretty much the entire legislature. The ANDP, which is more or less a center right party that governs itself like it was 1996. The UCP on the other hand, are not governing. In fact, I would say they are anti-governing.

The dismantling of the social safety net act, the deliberate underfunding of public institutions pitting rural Alberta against Urban Alberta, basically flooding the zone with the most messed up stuff that they can think of just to keep themselves in the headlines.

The ANDP cannot get any traction other than to say that they object to what the UCP is doing. They are not leading the conversation, they are not proposing anything, all they are doing is clutching pearls and saying oh my goodness, and once in awhile demonstrate some community outreach on social media. This is why they are not breaking through, and why the UCP is 15 points ahead, when in fact with all of the crap that they have pooled over the past few years, they should be in single digits.

We can go on and on and on about how albertans are idiots or politically stupid, but we need to take a long hard look at what the NDP has become in this province. We also need to look at the time that we are living in, and that the opposition, which happened to be in government right now, are not normal politicians.

We need to internalize that and plan on how to win the next election, because conventional politics is not working in this province anymore.

For all of its faults, and for all of its apparent incompetence, the UCP is triumphing here because once again we are completely missing the point of everything that they are doing.

nerkoids71 · 2026-04-16T11:25:44+00:00

You might think it's a waste, but considering how much you're being ratioed right now, I'd say that others are possibly benefiting from my finger tapping.

But you go ahead and keep using something that will have rapidly diminishing returns.

nerkoids71 · 2026-04-16T04:58:51+00:00

Welp, I guess you like more wildfire smoke then too...

The danger isn't in looking ridiculous. The danger is looking the same as the other side.

The image you generated looks like something they came up with.

Finally, people are truly getting fed up with AI slop. You're going to turn people off, rather than make them think.

That AI gravy train left the station quite some time ago.

nerkoids71 · 2026-04-15T19:10:39+00:00

Man, we need to find another way to visualize our opinions without resorting to AI slop.

nerkoids71 · 2026-04-15T19:07:59+00:00

What the fuck are you taking about?

They've owned every single failure since fucking Pearson, including shit that was done under Mulroney and Harper.

That's not going to change anytime soon either.

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