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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Pretty good write-up.
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In the wake of Tuesday's vote, some of its biggest supporters were angry. George Brookman, a bonafide civic booster and flag-waving Yes man, called the No side "losers" and wondered where their vision for the future was.
It was a common refrain on social media. A suggestion that if you're opposed to the Olympics, provide another vision for the city or get out of the way.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ysis-1.4906001 |
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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
is it safe to assume the next day he apologized for calling tens of thousands of Calgarians losers?
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He did:
https://twitter.com/CalgaryGeorge/st...19861267132417
The most frustrating thing about people like Brookman is that he's still parroting a blatant fallacy that "if you're a 'no' voter what's your alternative to 'move our city forward'?" As though if you voted no to this particular idea you have to have some "back-up plan" for the city.
Brookman and the like deluded themselves into believing that the Olympics would "kickstart the economy", which is a complete and utter fabrication. The Olympics
do not miraculously generate billions in long-lasting, local economic activity. Take the '88 Olympics an example: Calgary's economy was in the ####s beforehand and actually got
WORSE by 1990. It didn't rebound until later, and the rebound had precisely nothing to do with the Olympics.