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Old 06-01-2023, 03:24 PM   #2101
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What went wrong? Alberta's NDP miss their best shot at forming government

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The reason the NDP lost is because people feared they would lose their jobs if the socialist got elected and Alberta became Venezuela North
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That's one of the comments not from the article.
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Eyeroll is warranted for a statement like that, but I didn't see that quote within the article? Article itself was pretty vanilla.
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It's an example of what the NDP are up against. If that's the voter you have to convince, you may as well be trying to stuff Andre the Giant into a Powerwheels Corvette.
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Eyeroll is warranted for a statement like that, but I didn't see that quote within the article? Article itself was pretty vanilla.
It's one of the comments on the article from a commenter. You have to click the "load comments" button to see it. It's not a line from the actual article itself.
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I've never seen any value in reading the comment section of anything. You could eyeroll most of them, ugh.
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It's an example of what the NDP are up against. If that's the voter you have to convince, you may as well be trying to stuff Andre the Giant into a Powerwheels Corvette.
The article asks "What went wrong" and then you see the type of comments I've been seeing forever. Yeah it wasn't in the article but it is exactly the reason why the NDP lost.
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"What went wrong?"

We've never had a high school course on critical thinking, so media literacy is in an absolute shambles.
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It was probably Eric Francis with the comment.
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It's an example of what the NDP are up against. If that's the voter you have to convince, you may as well be trying to stuff Andre the Giant into a Powerwheels Corvette.
So stop crying and go do something about it.
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The article asks "What went wrong" and then you see the type of comments I've been seeing forever. Yeah it wasn't in the article but it is exactly the reason why the NDP lost.
Haha, how to convince yourself of anything using a single example.
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Haha, how to convince yourself of anything using a single example.
Dude, if I had a nickel for every time I have heard someone say a comment like this whenever I support the NDP, I'd be living in the Caymans.
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Dude, if I had a nickel for every time I have heard someone say a comment like this whenever I support the NDP, I'd be living in the Caymans.
Sure using your math.
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Sure using your math.
yes, yes.. we all know math is hard.
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“Smith’s right-hand man also looks back to when Notley did a big favour for the UCP by promising to hike the corporate income tax if the NDP won.”

“It gave us an opportunity to show Albertans Notley hadn’t learned a thing,”

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Suncor slashing 1500 jobs.

UCP hard at work.
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If they end up cancelling the arena deal this thread should get interesting
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That def has something to do with Smith winning the election on Monday.
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