I think to myself that Alberta is a highly misunderstood place, that the people here are more relatable and complex than the stereotypes that I hear come so often from people in nearly every other province.

…and then each time I think that we can beat the stereotype, some random politician whose name I’ve never heard before shows up out of the woodworks to make a comment nobody asked for on an issue that doesn’t affect us.

Shit like this pains me man

Jfc I hate this government.

My perspective of this is that it’s similar to the clapping for the side the fought against the Russian/Soviets during WW2.

If you shout some feel good slogans with a bunch of holes in it you’ll just get a brain dead effort applause from most of the “leaders” of this country.

Although I’m fairly certain that there’s decent amount of Liberals and Conservative also that agreed with what Kirk was doing.

This just in, people who make speeches for a living are against killing people making speeches.

Fuck it if we are going to act like the 51st state we might as well officially be it.

I recommend taking this opportunity for thoroughly internalizing the knowledge that the vast and overwhelming majority of people in government, no matter what color they wear, truly do not care about you in the slightest. Go listen to some George Carlin, he can explain.

It’s just interesting because they don’t honor the three children killed in the school shooting the same day. So clearly they’re not speaking out against gun violence or uttering victims of gun violence. Otherwise they’d honor them too. So I can only conclude by doing this they are explicitly endorsing Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric. Everyone that stood up and clapped agrees with Charlie Kirk 100%. That’s the only conclusion

Alberta is so fucking weird man. Conservative as hell, but also has the most secure NDP federal seat in all of Canada (Edmonton-Strathcona) since like 2008. The rural-urban divide in Western Canada is honestly crazy when you get down to the nitty gritty of it.

Strathcona is incredible. That section of Whyte Ave is so active, and it’s a very artsy part of the city because festivals like The Fringe take part there. I used to go there regularly growing up since my grandmother wasn’t far off around Bonnie Doon.

But it wouldn’t have been possible without the funding for the arts that happened under Peter Lougheed’s Progressive Conservatives. It’s also wild to me how many areas are NDP provincially, and then Conservative federally.

Looks like the NDP and Liberals weren’t to happy about applauding Charlie. They were however happy to invite an actual Nazi and applaud him though.

People surprised by this haven’t been paying attention.

What a surprise, it’s almost like all politicians are two faced criminals. For a country with so many wildfires it seems like high ranking politician’s properties are never affected.

I really wanted to move from America to Canada…not anymore it seems.

They did WHAT?!?

I am horrified.

No where is safe. We need to stay and fight.

Oh, we’re so fucked.

Fucking revolting

People will later say they didn’t know what was happening. They didn’t know any better. No, they were only minding their own business.