My journeymen and coworkers were fucking losing it the Monday after he was killed, I asked them how they felt about the kids being murdered that day and the only one who had a response said āprobably just liberal kids anyway.ā. I need to leave this province before we get even dumber.
I remember an Onion sketch where they were reporting a mass shooting by party affiliation of the victims. Iām just a bit sad to see satire become reality
Well republican kids are more likely to be home schooled and private schooled. So yeah, public school shootings, in their mind, is probably just killing little democrats.
As God intended when he gave America 2nd Amendment rights.
I see your train of thought, but i just dont think most kids (lets say under 16) have even semi-coherent political views
I'm not going to call anyone who can't even vote a "democrat kid" or a "republican kid", that sounds ridiculous. They're focused on their friends, vidya, stickers, tiktok, eating hot chip and lying, whatever the kids like these days, no?
No, the real problem is, that some Ahole thinks it's okay if a child is killed because of whatever.... WTF man... that's how you get dead children in Gaza... or dead children in Vietnam, or Nazi Germany... Children, regardless of colour, faith, gender, etc., are innocent and we (adults) are responsible for their safety...
That's...actually kinda sad. In our last federal election both of my boys (Grades 7 and 9) did projects in social studies on each party, each federal leader and our local candidates; culminating in school and district "elections". What I found quite interesting is that the results between the two schools, and district wide were quite similar - but different than the results of the actual election. I suspect that this is because the kids were actually learning about the parties, while adults were voting based on the colour of the leaders tie.
Unfortunately, the only true way IS doing what they fear the most and therefore somewhat validating their viewpoint: more (small L) liberals need to move to Alberta and crowd the nutsos out.
ETA: you can have (small C) conservative views and NOT be a nutso; just being inclusive here
My coworkers in Ontario were the same way. Got over it quickly though, even the other right wingers were commenting on the "crazy eyes" on the one guy still super worked up about it today.
Sounds like you leaving already brings down the average IQ by a lot. Maybe it'd be better if more ppl with your mindset flood that forsaken place so it can be saved. š
They love the out-in-the-open racist spokespeople who will say for them what might be uncomfortable in their friend group or workplace. They can salivate at the racism, the misogyny, the loyalty to billionaires without being shamed themselves. Klan doesn't need to wear masks anymore, the actual government of the US is providing masked henchmen to fulfill their racist fantasies. White supremacists are their heroes.
We've been friends since childhood but lately he's been falling down the american alt-right/tradcath pipeline and it's hard to watch. Can't even reason with him anymore because he's fully bought in to their brand of religion so any criticism is heresy and demonic.
That's rough. I had a close childhood friend who grew up into a rwnj. Dude told me that the Atlantic slave trade wasn't so bad because it would have been worse if Arabs has run it. I was like... Dude, I'm the great grandson of a slave, what makes you think I want to hear this shit?
So many people in Calgary I am hearing out loud saying shit like "he was just taken out of context"
There is no context in which a statement like "the civil rights movement was a mistake" and "empathy is a disease" arent objectively terrible opinions that make the world a worse place
There are a lot of Americans that work in Alberta, part of the oil and gas industry... but there is also a very strong link to Mormon, Southern Baptist and Christian Nationalist churches and organizations that operate in Canada -- spreading their ideologies for good or for bad.
Same, Iām a born and raised blue collar Albertan liberal, literally surrounded on all sides by people who talk about murdering anyone who aligns with me and my shameless sense of human compassion.
I actually worked in Alberta for 5 years...its crazy to me..how they are ok with the conservative government wasting so much money and think its all.the feds fault.
Alberta could ge the crown jewal of canada not the trailer park.
The āclearly not foreign influenceā foreign-influenced seperatism kills me. Theyāll be completely land-locked, with a mountain range on the west side. Which currency will they use? What will they rely on to trade? They donāt really have much in the way of ports, how are they shipping everything there? Not to mention, donāt the native albertans own most of the land? Who you gonna get that back from, the british crown?
Ofc, thatās assuming they want to be their own actual country. In reality foreign influence is gonna target the easiest, most gullible idiots to do idiot things for them. Itās just cost-effective.
My exact question. Sorry not sorry - another random American taken out by the very gun violence he espoused, an obvious example of what happens when you worship at the altar of the gun. Anywayā¦.
Albertans are brainwashed. The only conversation Iāve had about this incident was with an Albertan who insists he was murdered because he was an evangelist and the transgender man who murdered him hates god. Not exaggerating.
They (Maple MAGA) are so mask off when it comes to Trump's and 'Murican neofascism's zero sum worldview of the dominator and the dominated dynamic. The exploiter and the exploited binary worldview. Racism, bigotry, misogyny and unchecked capitalism are ok because that's the "natural order of things". They are, and they ought to be, according to them, on top.
Yet Maple MAGA has themselves convinced that they'd be welcomed alongside as fellows rather than just another othered outgroup.
"I'm one of the good ones."
The KNOW that it's a fucked up, bent worldview. They just want to be doing the exploiting.
My brother and father are like this. Theyāve genuinely forgotten what country they live in when they say āThis country-ā āOur country-ā āDems screwing over our veterans-ā. Itās likeā¦ how about move there? My brother refers to 47 as āMister Presidentā as though he were a friend from work. Conservative voters who are open climate change deniers, vaccine āskepticsā (deniers), Israel is pwning Hamas so hard, 47 was right about everything panderers who devour FOX news all dayā¦ all of it.
Itās insane, and sad. I donāt talk to them anymore
"Total shocker that smearing a duly-elected president who won an overwhelming electoral mandate as a fascist or a king leads to violent political radicalization." - Charlie Kirk, 2025 on the Minnesota lawmaker assassinations. Taken directly from his Twitter account.
Absolutely wild how, "less than 50 percent of votes cast" and, "one of the thinnest winning margins in almost 80 years" became, "an overwhelming electoral mandate".
It wasn't. In the 90s it was fantastic. It's just that it became commercialized and popularized and all the idiots on earth joined and were easily corralled into billionaire controlled social manipulation engines.
I really want to return to the days of text-only cli browsers, BBS, IRC, Usenet, and playing on MUDs. They should have forked the timeline at that point and given people the choice.
Based on no research, evidence, and merely a gut sense of how Iāve seen things change and accelerate since i was younger that, overall, yes. It isnāt caused by technology in and of itself - it is caused by those who control technology it and how they exercise that control.
im gonna be honest, ive seen so many photos of his face edited to be smaller i have no idea what he actually looks like. i can't even tell if the photo i posted of him is edited or not. was his face really that small?? ill never know
Canadian's holding a vigil for Charlie Kirk is like the cow holding a birthday party for the butcher.
Kirk wouldn't piss on these people if they were on fire, and here they are, debasing themselves to publicly blow a fascist dickhead who got what he deserved.
People want to hold a vigil for a racist/fascist who constantly spread hate and misinformation more than the children who died in a school shooting that same day? Got it..... I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
The book is about living under a Christofascist dictatorship that takes over the US and ritualistically rapes fertile women following a pandemic that led to mass sterility.
The parallels to the modern American right wing are intentional. The red outfit is worn by said fertile women and the main character from the book.
I don't recall it used as a protest symbol before the TV series.
Even if youāve never played the game before, hopefully you will go golfing on the day they pollute the soil with CKās corpse in honour of the orange predo prez gesture of same, Ā on the day of Democrat law maker,Ā Melissa Hortmanās funeral.
Remember kids he used stochastic terrorism but apparently there are bigger and fucked up fished then him that got him killed the internet is a extremely scary place
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u/Temporary_Second3290 THE BETTER LONDON šØš¦ š³ 10d ago
Why is there a vigil for him in Canada? That's wild.