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u/some1guystuff Saskatchewan 8h ago
Perfection.. this is the most accurate way of depicting their issues
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u/_n3ll_ 7h ago
Yes and no. Its just a meme, but a lot of the online discourse that pushes Alberta separatists to behave this way is foreign interference.
In fact, I'd argue that a lot of what we're seeing here and south of the border in the past decade is, in large part, the culmination of cyber warfare thats been going on in the background between the great power states since at least brexit (anyone remember Cambridge analytica?)
Here's a primer on how powerful control over online discourse is for anyone interested https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ5XN_mJE8Y
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u/vanillaacid Alberta 4h ago
Cyber warfare has definitely make things worse, but the underlying ideas in the OP have been around for decades. We’ve had people complain about equalization payments before the internet was a thing. Misinformation is the problem, most people don’t actually understand the equalization payments, all they see is that we are a “have” province, and others are “have nots”, and think that we send all of our money to those provinces.
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u/Crawgdor 6h ago
Just found out my sister in law who we don’t speak to is a hard core separatist.
She gets roughly $2500 a month in federal Canada child benefit cheques, and benefits from tons of other federal programs.
Knowing her, she has never spared a thought for the idea that these programs which allow her to live reasonably comfortably are federal, and she’d be trusting her entire quality of life to the Alberta government which has been gutting provincially administered programs for years.
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u/elderrion 6h ago
Imagine, if you will, that China is known to not just fund, support, spread and highlight California separatists, but that the relevant Californian politicians would be open about colluding with China in this matter for the sake of weakening the US.
Would the word "traitor" be passed around? Would the federal government come down and lay down the law? Would intelligent agencies and the media be involved to stop these things? I would say so.
So explain to me why the Canadian federal government is just letting this happen. Why is everyone pussyfooting around here?
Is it because Canada is subservient to the same capitalist influence that rules the US? I would say so. What's your explanation?
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u/wrgrant 6h ago
I hope they are tracking all of the information and relevant parties, waiting for the referrendum to happen and not interfering because they want to avoid any impression they are interfering with the provincial process. If the whole thing is suspect then I hope they raise the point and lay out the interference information to the public, and then start arresting and charging anyone guilty of violating the law. I cannot see them just blindly ignoring financial and political interference from another nation when it threatens the stability of our entire country.
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u/bababooey7653 6h ago
It's the same as every Independence movement. You keep being told how special you are and people start to believe it.
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u/RealHumanAndNotABot 6h ago
Facebook. It connected idiots, re-enforced their petty grievances and amplified their voices. "Social Media" is a cancer on society and self well being (yes I get the irony with Reddit as I post this, but it doesn't enrage me as much as entertain).
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u/Fine_Shriner 2h ago
My buddy from Alberta literally just told me these as the two big reasons for the friction. "They get to decide for us because they're densely populated and have the numbers to out-vote us, and they take all of our money while treating us like crap." Has he taken the red pill?
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u/Ok_Crow6645 8h ago
I’ve been living in Alberta for over 20 years. I still haven’t figured out what I need to be mad at the rest of Canada about.
You gotta live in some weird bubble of friends and media to figure it out I guess.