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CLAM DOWN posted:There's not even anything distinct about being the proud Albertan oil-loving trucknut-bearing rural hicks, like every rural area in Canada/BC does that already. Our distinct culture is that these morons also infest our cities, are nominally educated, and work in air-conditioned offices! I had avoided oilfield people for long enough to forget, but, nope, there's just no loving salvaging this place.
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cougar cub posted:Hey guys lets circle jerk hate Alberta for 30 posts always great to do something new Is it a circle jerk if we only use facts based comments? Or you know what, you're right. Let's cancel the NDP AB government to help the victims of socialism, so instead of deficit spending, they can simply reign in spending and hand out more public sector pinkslips to boost the economy. While they are doing that, cancel all environmental regulation like capping abandoned wells and that sort of thing, only lefties care about the environment.
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remember when alberta went apeshit at ottawa forcing them to adopt an energy policy Now they want ottawa to force BC to accommodate Alberta's policy ambitions 🙃
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Jun 9, 2017 18:54
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Can we sell Alberta to China already.
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Jun 9, 2017 18:57
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Works at Retired and Loving It
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Jun 9, 2017 18:58
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Manitoba has the lowest unemployment of all the provinces, suck on that  The Manitoba Miracle
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Jun 9, 2017 18:59
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 To save our nation we must purge the bicycultists from exixtence.
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Jun 9, 2017 19:05
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Dude! SHHHH! Ignore that guys. You're right. Manitoba is garbage and nobody should come here.
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Jun 9, 2017 19:06
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 You know what the real problem with this country is? Democracy.
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Jun 9, 2017 19:11
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The Butcher posted:
Basket of illiterates.
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The Butcher posted:
Well sure! Obviously the US has it right, where the guy with less votes somehow wins anyway. We could learn a lot from them.
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Jun 9, 2017 19:13
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The Butcher posted:
Who are Toopy and Beeno from BC, idgi
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The Butcher posted:To save our nation we must purge the bicycultists from exixtence. I've never heard "bicycultist" before but I really like it and will probably screen myself a shirt that says that on the back as soon as possible to wear when I ride.
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The Butcher posted:
82% of the Canadian population lives in medium to large cities and that keeps going up every year lol
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The Butcher posted:
Hmm... Well, he's not wrong; just not for the reasons he gives.
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DariusLikewise posted:82% of the Canadian population lives in medium to large cities and that keeps going up every year lol People look at geographic maps of elections and think "what!!! These few tiny dots have all the power!" and think it's unfair and that voting should be based on... land area??
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DariusLikewise posted:82% of the Canadian population lives in medium to large cities and that keeps going up every year lol And we subsidize the lifestyles of the rurals that hate us for being ... I don't even know, the Other I guess. I refuse to believe people really hate bicycles and the people who use them that much.
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Jun 9, 2017 21:12
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PK loving SUBBAN posted:And we subsidize the lifestyles of the rurals that hate us for being ... I don't even know, the Other I guess. I refuse to believe people really hate bicycles and the people who use them that much. Actually you'll find it's rural canadians who are the silent majority because look at an election map. Also GDP is based on land area so obviously rurals are subsidizing the parasitic cities. What do cities even do? If you aren't digging a hole are you even doing anything useful?
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CLAM DOWN posted:Who are Toopy and Beeno from BC, idgi Weaver and Horgan maybe? Which one's Toupy and which one's Binou tho
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The Butcher posted:They deserve it. These people say anti-business, anti-capitalist, anti-god like it's a bad thing lmao.
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Anti-business and anti-capitalist obviously are bad things, though? I hate the left and the right so much these days... it's just exhausting dealing with people who are so far up their own rear end on either side of the political spectrum.
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PT6A posted:Anti-business and anti-capitalist obviously are bad things, though? Nope. You've got a lot to learn about life PT6A. You'll get there.
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leftist heap posted:These people say anti-business, anti-capitalist, anti-god like it's a bad thing lmao. A lot of right wing people's only political exposure is from centre to hard right (sort of like this thread is only left to centre) , so they honestly think calling someone a socialist or anti-god or anti-business is an insult that will make them get defensive, or it's some horrible secret you need to keep on the down-low or it would ruin your reputation. It's a bit like how some "progressives" will call anyone or anything they don't like FASCIST no matter how strained the label, they expect the person to get defensive, never own it because in their circles being an admitted socialist is unthinkable.
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PT6A posted:Anti-business and anti-capitalist obviously are bad things, though?
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Baronjutter posted:People look at geographic maps of elections and think "what!!! These few tiny dots have all the power!" and think it's unfair and that voting should be based on... land area?? Not just elections. This came up in an analyst discussion a couple weeks ago at work, and I kept trying to steer them away from traditional maps. It's such a waste of space and effort to show people the entire map of Canada when the vast majority of the landmass can be completely ignored.
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I mean, a managed capitalism may not necessarily be completely terrible but "capitalism" as imagined by the business class and the reactionary right is out of control, extremely bad and corrosive to human life
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PK loving SUBBAN posted:And we subsidize the lifestyles of the rurals that hate us for being ... I don't even know, the Other I guess. I refuse to believe people really hate bicycles and the people who use them that much. You have no idea. Try being a cyclist in Winnipeg. I've been sworn at, honked at. Almost hit on a weekly basis. Hell I just had my brand new bike totalled two weeks ago after the front wheel and fork got trashed when I bounced off the hood of a car because the driver didn't see me. And when there's a news article about the cops finally doing something about the habitual ignoring of a stop sign at a very busy intersection for cyclists the responses in the comments is all 'pee pee doo doo I saw a cyclist run a stop sign one time and that means they all deserve to die' In a city with three quarters of a million people. gently caress them though I made them cut me a cheque for literally every penny I spent on that bike including the can of frame saver. And I'm going to buy it back and fix it on the cheap when it comes up on the salvage auction.
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If we don't elect pro-business governments who will protect those plucky little corporations from getting taken over by the working class!!!
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PT6A posted:Anti-business and anti-capitalist obviously are bad things, though? Capitalists are parasites who don't work for their money or contribute to society yet have enormous political and economic power that they use to further enrich themselves at everyone else's expense. Despite what conservatives tell you, if we actually believed in a makers/takers paradigm we would be confiscating mansions rather than yelling at homeless people.
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Just go full Confucianism. Merchants are the scum of the earth who produce nothing and just serve as parasitic middlemen who exist to leach money from all things productive.
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THC posted:I mean, a managed capitalism may not necessarily be completely terrible but "capitalism" as imagined by the business class and the reactionary right is out of control, extremely bad and corrosive to human life Dodd-Frank: House Republicans vote to roll back Obama's landmark Wall Street regulation
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EvilJoven posted:You have no idea. My cyclists friends frequently get into confrontations by road rage assholes, some of them turn violent as well. Even just walking downtown is horrendous, if the street is a one way guaranteed the idiots turning onto it when they have a red won't look to see if someone is walking across. I've been honked and yelled at so many times even when I have the walk symbol and they have a red.
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Anti-business is also good considering "business" is currently making our planet uninhabitable to human civilization as we know it.
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Fried Watermelon posted:My cyclists friends frequently get into confrontations by road rage assholes, some of them turn violent as well. Since being hit my tolerance for bullshit from drivers has literally plummeted. I've confronted a few people for blowing lights and putting me and others at risk. Hell, the afternoon after I got hit I decided to jump right back on the horse and took one of my other bikes out and someone laid on their horn while going past me and my wife because I wasn't in the bike lane enough for her  and when she pulled off on a side street and parked in front of me I gave her a dressing down where she of course used the 'roads are for cars you shouldn't even be allowed on them' line. And then after a few back and forths she literally got out of her car and grabbed me while yelling 'you god damned millennial'.And I kinda laughed and got back on my bike and left because the alternative was me going to jail for punching an old lady in the face. I need to stop arguing with drivers or one of them is going to run me over.
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Yeah, I'm super anti-business, as in the capitalist business class, or the business model under capitalism. Production is good, productivity is good, I'm pro that, but gently caress "business" Also man, you guys are making me really appreciate living in downtown Victoria. Pedestrian is really king here (or at least cars actually stop at crosswalks and poo poo) and cycling stuff keeps getting better too. Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Jun 9, 2017 |
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Still waiting to see y'all dumb fucks plan on implementing Chávez socialism
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namaste faggots posted:Still waiting to see y'all dumb fucks plan on implementing Chávez socialism Nationalize everything, stop all imports of toilet paper, watch what happens
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fuerdai making GBS threads in shopping mall planters
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That's cultural appropriation!
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"Chavez style socialism" was basically nationalize oil, bank on the oil bubble, and tell some of the big landlords to get hosed. Denmark is closer to being a communist state than VZ was at any time in the last decade.
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