• ArxCyberwolf
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    Welp, I definitely ate the Onion with this one. Reality is so fucking bonkers at this point that it’s hard to tell what’s satire and what isn’t.

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    I know people should know better but there should be a rule (or a bot that enforces this) about adding [SATIRE] before these kinds of posts

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    In the “Beaverton headlines I wish were real” category, I present the January 2025 winner.

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    I can’t believe we voted her in. I mean I can because Albertans are gullible morons, but I can’t believe it got this bad.

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      She wasn’t ‘voted in’ in the traditional sense…

      Jason Kenney stepped down due to numerous scandals and mishaps. The conservative party of Alberta (The UCP) then held a members only vote to elect their new fuhrer.

      70k people picked her in a province of multiple million

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        Upon having it explained to her that applying for asylum in the United States first requires one to register with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Smith exclaimed “But I’m white,” before demanding to speak to the concierge at Mar-A-Lago

        Is it though?

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        You can tell its satire because it sounds less insane than any of the real things Smith says or does on a daily basis.

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        I’d argue that even knowing the article is satire, their comment stands.

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    How can any self respecting peasant vote for this regime whore…

    This Idiot can’t figure which regime she is legally obligated to whore for.

    How did she get elected into Canadian public office but be so willing to suck daddy Sam’s dick so eagerly.

    From America this looks pathetic, tell daddy Sam to get fucked. American pedons need another state.

    Seeing some elements of the right entertaining these brain dead talking points is concerning though.

    They don’t see how this is exactly what Putin does and even entertaining them gives Russia credibility.

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        Didnt she break with federal government after their counter tariff initiative after Trump suggested turning Canada into American state?

        Then went to mar a lago to kiss daddy’s ring?

        What am I missing here?

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          Ultimately she’s a whore for Alberta’s oil and gas industry, and Trump is just a means to an end. She’d put out just as readily for a Japanese tentacle monster if it promised to buy oil from Alberta. So this isn’t really about Trump or the US at all.

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            Well as long as all Canadians benefit from “Alberta’s oil and gas industry” than I guess she is doing her job as elected?

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              It’s . . . arguable. The Alberta oil and gas industry doesn’t really benefit “all Canadians”, just the ones working in that industry, and most of us who whose paychecks don’t depend on Alberta oil think the environmental oversight needs to be tightened up. In terms of advocating for the short-term interests of the subset of Albertans that elected her, Smith could be said to be doing her job. Problem is, she’s doing so in a manner that goes against the long-term interests of everyone in the country, including the people that elected her.

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      Dude, you are not making any sense. Are you from Alberta? She was elected to represents interests of Albertants, and this is what she is trying to do, as she understands it. It is up to the Alberta’s voters to judge her next election, not some internet randos.