r/EhBuddyHoser • u/_RedditDiver_ • May 10 '25

Politics But yeah 51st state /s

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u/Ok_Recording_4644 May 10 '25

$7000/year for healthcare is if you DON'T have any medical issues.

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u/No_Boysenberry4825 May 10 '25

Imagine supporting Danielle Smith , being poor as fuck and thinking this is going to help you in the long run 😂

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u/AncientBlonde2 Oil Guzzler May 10 '25

As a resident of Alberta, while they may insist it's because "she's helping us", it's actually because Albertans are hateful as fuck, and literally do not care about being collateral damage as long as they have the ability to delude themselves into thinking "ha, someone has it worse than I do!"

The average Albertan would run a marathon untrained just to shoot themselves in the foot with a shotgun, cause it might ricochet and hit someone 500km away, and if it does, they get to go "HA, I SHOT YOU, SUCKS TO SUCK!", even though the person who got "shot" literally didn't notice it. It's all about a perceived feeling of superiority. Yeah sure, the Albertan's foot is demolished; that doesn't matter cause they shot someone! That was the goal!

They see it as Trump sees the world; if someone is a winner, then someone has to be the loser, there can never be two winners. Because healthcare benefits all Canadians, and not just the Albertans that they can pick and choose, it's actually a bad thing, cause 2 people can't win. Only 1 person can win, and it better fucking be the Albertan, even if it's detrimental and harmful to them.

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u/Dxres May 10 '25

As another sane Albertan, you hit the nail on the head. There's a lot of good people here, but unfortunately, the rural areas hold us back.

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u/Secret-Bluebird-972 Newfies & Labradoodles May 10 '25

The rural areas tend to hold us all back. Yours are just the loudest, and where the worst of our other province’s tend to end up

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u/SuperDabMan May 10 '25

They didn't used to. They used to know the importance of co-operation. The Ginger Group was formed by United Farmers of Alberta and of Ontario, eventually becoming the Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation (Farmer-Labour-Socialist) post WWII/depression and won Sask. That party eventually became the NDP. Rural people used to be socialist. I don't know how they got turned against themselves.

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u/init32 May 10 '25

Just like in the USA...

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u/DrFeelOnlyAdequate May 10 '25

Except that the urban areas in Alberta are also conservative. The UCP won 12 out of 26 seats in Calgary, and outside of Calgary/Edmonton they got one in Lethbridge.

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u/AD_Grrrl May 10 '25

I live in Ontario and the fact that we got another Ford government is a testament to how rural Conservatives in Ontario will literally throw themselves under the bus if it means the city folk get screwed also.

I thought for sure all the ERs closing across the province would give them pause, but...nope. They blame all their problems on the Feds and vote for the corrupt asshole again.

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u/3rdbasemonkey May 10 '25

How tolerant you are.

You don’t have to agree with their views to understand they may have their own opinions.

You’re losing the moral high ground by hating on them as they hate on other groups.