Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[Cecil Terwilliger]

I read that tweet, and Yoho posting it, to mean that Smith has had the equivalent of 4 years of incompetence packed into a week. She’s that much a moron.

[Muta]

Ah, Cory Morgan... now there's a blast from CP's past. Paging First Lady...

[jayswin]

And also, what's with this weird new narrative from UCP supporters that the NDP was somehow a media darling and treated nicely and fairly while in power? I keep seeing it everywhere.

It's so weird, cause I remember them being attacked relentlessly by a large portion of this province and criticized and even mocked to an insane degree by local media during their tenure.

[AFireInside]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Yeah, I have a small business and they absolutely did not need to lower the rate. Such an unnecessary tax cut.

I would absolutely understand it if our taxes were way out of line with the rest of the country. It would also mean my household would pay more taxes as well.

[Major Major]

Originally Posted by Yoho

https://twitter.com/user/status/1582163729776775168

Laughably soft.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Major Major

Laughably soft.

far right/conspiracy guys/QAnon/gun nuts etc. They all mock the left for being soft and needing their safe spaces, and yet they've become the biggest snowflakes and pu**ies around. They just sit there getting butthurt and upset about big bad critics and bullies of what they want to say and believe, 24/7. It's hilarious.

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by jayswin

far right/conspiracy guys/QAnon/gun nuts etc. They all mock the left for being soft and needing their safe spaces, and yet they've become the biggest snowflakes and pu**ies around. They just sit there getting butthurt and upset about big bad critics and bullies of what they want to say and believe, 24/7. It's hilarious.

Hey, leave me out of this

[RedHot25]

Come on.

I know I said I was done, and I am but really?

I seem to remember the NDP getting relentless media and public attention. They just knocked off a conservative political dynasty in Alberta of all places, and the media and the public was like nah, let's take it super easy on them?

Let's at least make things plausible.

[Fuzz]

For all the hot horny love Corey has given Conservatives in Alberta over the years, you'd think they'd reward him with more than a crappy job writing for a dollar store Breitbart. The fact Yoho stumbled upon this utterly moronic tweet, and chose to repeat it here says a lot about where they get their information from, and their cognitive ability to evaluate information and sources.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by jayswin

And also, what's with this weird new narrative from UCP supporters that the NDP was somehow a media darling and treated nicely and fairly while in power? I keep seeing it everywhere.

It's so weird, cause I remember them being attacked relentlessly by a large portion of this province and criticized and even mocked to an insane degree by local media during their tenure.

Populism playbook. For populism to be an effective strategy, you need to capitalize on the ways the population feels ignored or unfairly treated (which is why Kenney bitched so much about equalization he helped create and why conservatives shake a finger at CERB or emergency measures they supported) and/or create new sources for those feelings (NDP was a media darling, unvaccinated where the most discriminated people ever, etc.).

Basically, the goal is to manipulate people who are easy to manipulate by giving them someone to be angry at for all the wrong in their life and a saviour, while ensuring any criticism of the saviour is just “the enemy being the enemy.” Doesn’t matter if it’s true, if the person pointing it out is part of the problem, or anything like that, because their targets want to believe. They’re giving purposeless people a made up purpose and making people who are just kind of stupid and bad at life the heroes in their own story.

They aren’t going after guys like CaptainCrunch, Ryan Coke, Zarley, or whatever other conservative posters who can think for themselves, they’re going after the Yohos and 14Romans of the province who are easy to rile up and manipulate. Get them angry or scared enough and they basically function like bots, repeating everything you feed into them and spreading it to a wider audience.

It’s why Yoho’s commentary is nonsensical or just constant editorials and why 14Romans was going on about COVID being a government conspiracy to control the population and how the hospitals were going to be full of people dying from the vaccine. Populists just put the slop out to their channels, the followers eat it up without even pausing to chew, and pretty soon it’s beyond their bubbles and flooding random social circles, social media, message boards, etc with whatever nonsense.

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by Yoho

https://twitter.com/user/status/1582163729776775168

You really need to develop some original thoughts on this board and stop trying to stir up #### for the sake of stirring up ####.

[RedHot25]

Originally Posted by yoho

https://twitter.com/user/status/1582163729776775168

https://twitter.com/user/status/1582208463056568320

[Harry Lime]

nm

[Macman]

I don’t think that was the real WS twitter, (not that I actually follow them). If that’s an actual parody, who would even spend their time on something like that?

[Wormius]

Cory Morgan whining about mainstream media. Yawn.

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by Yoho

https://twitter.com/user/status/1582163729776775168

Hahah what a snowflake, cry me a river!

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by Macman

I don’t think that was the real WS twitter, (not that I actually follow them). If that’s an actual parody, who would even spend their time on something like that?

Mostly people with a sense of humour.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by Yamer

You really need to develop some original thoughts on this board and stop trying to stir up #### for the sake of stirring up ####.

Sorry, but I blame you guys. Some of us have had the good sense to put the likes of Yoho and other blatant morons on ignore many moons ago, but the ignore list **doesn’t work** when you fools keep QUOTING his posts.

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

Sorry, but I blame you guys. Some of us have had the good sense to put the likes of Yoho and other blatant morons on ignore many moons ago, but the ignore list **doesn’t work** when you fools keep QUOTING his posts.

Given the limitations of the platform, 'ignoring' a poster then complaining that they show up in quoted comments is one of the silliest things I encounter on CP.

One of the things markedly sillier is probably blaming people that continue to engage with someone they 'ignore' and attributing them as fools.

[Yikes]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

Sorry, but I blame you guys. Some of us have had the good sense to put the likes of Yoho and other blatant morons on ignore many moons ago, but the ignore list **doesn’t work** when you fools keep QUOTING his posts.

"Blatant morons"? Nice touch. Maybe have a quick look in the mirror?