• Cyborganism
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    6928 days 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.

    • @Grass
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      1628 days ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        627 days ago

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

        • @Grass
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          928 days ago

          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.

        • @[email protected]
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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.

        • @[email protected]
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          227 days ago

          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.

  • @[email protected]
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    6028 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      1927 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      727 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      127 days ago

      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

  • @TheMightyCanuck
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    4827 days ago

    Good fucking god I hate Albertans

    -An Albertan

  • moosetwin
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    3727 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      027 days ago

      The issue as seen from the outside is that

      freakishly cult-like levels

      are on all sides of this. Jules Verne’s description of Americans (that fist fight scene, I think it’s “Around the world in 80 days”, but I may be wrong) has aged well.

  • @[email protected]
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    3428 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      1028 days ago

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

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

    • @booly
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      627 days ago

      I’m thinking a cold West Texas: oil and cattle.

  • @[email protected]
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    2027 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      727 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      427 days ago

      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

    • @[email protected]
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      427 days ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    1327 days ago

    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.

        • Sai Somsphet
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          527 days ago

          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…

  • Yer Ma
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    928 days ago

    Alberta, the Texas of the North… full of degens