• Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Fair warning: This is CultMTL. It’s not a very serious newspaper. They tend to exaggerate things all the time. Take this with a grain of salt.

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      I haven’t been to alberta but it checks out for albertans that have come here that I have worked with in oil related steel trades.

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        Sampling bias; Albertans working in O&G are going to be the shittiest people our province has to offer

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          I mean I certainly hope not, but there is no shortage of canadians saying they will vote for trump when they have no voting rights in the states and even sometimes hanging banners on some highway overpasses. More than trumpers though its mostly the anti abortion losers that haul giant posters of aborted goop like its going to make me feel anything other than disdain for the people displaying the poster in areas where kids can see.

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          They’re cherry-picking the most right-wing province and comparing it to the entire US averaged as a whole. The claim doesn’t surprise me at all.

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          Make sense to me, they get all the rhetoric all the YouTube videos all the propaganda but none of the actual consequences. Of course he’s more popular there.

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    I live in rural Alberta and it’s pretty rare for anyone to profess admiration for the orange shitbird. It’s usually the people nobody likes to be around anyway.

    I call bullshit on this article.

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      The trick is that they’re cherry-picking the most right-wing province and comparing it to the entire US averaged as a whole.

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      I hope you’re right because rural Alberta was why we have Danielle Smith as Premier. She’s a lunatic.

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      Tbh sounds right I don’t think anyone really likes trump anymore. So maybe a handful of loonies in Canada do like him more than the US

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    the issue is that the people who do actually like him really like him, recently it’s gotten to freakishly cult-like levels

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    They’re welcome to him. I suspect even for oil-loving Albertans, stupid tough-guy posturing is more appealing than the reality of Donald fuckin’ Trump actually being in charge of anything about your life.

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      If you read the article it’s still -13%.

      So, pretty brain-dead to interpret that as wanting him.

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    Hey Canadian friends, what happened to that lunatic that proclaimed herself the queen of Canada and convinced her caravan followers to stop paying their bills and stuff? I haven’t really seen anything about her in a while. I remember towns were barring her and her followers from entering, but I think that’s the last I heard.

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      She’s still around. Laying low for the most part but still screwing with peoples lives.

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      That one is so wild. Filipino lady who claims she was gifted Canada. How does someone come up with that? She’s either a top tier grifter or she’s mentally ill

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      Nah they just want somebody to do what they want and Trump was that somebody in the past. As soon as he isn’t useful any more, they will drop him like somebody falling from a window.

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    Only if he moves to Taber. Or Mayerthorpe. Or Edmonton. Them good ole AB cuntry folk love them some authoritarian figure-heads. Have fun, 34-times-convicted-felon.

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        Exactly. He’d be more comfortable in Caroline AB which is where the KKK are.

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          Wait what? I lived near there. As a kid…with no idea…

          Although it does explain why a lot of the kids I met were racist…

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    He’s also more popular in Russia. Let them have him.

    With any luck he’ll bitch about lack of McDonald’s and fall out a window.