• ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    In the “Beaverton headlines I wish were real” category, I present the January 2025 winner.

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    10 months ago

    I can’t believe we voted her in. I mean I can because Albertans are gullible morons, but I can’t believe it got this bad.

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        10 months ago

        Upon having it explained to her that applying for asylum in the United States first requires one to register with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Smith exclaimed “But I’m white,” before demanding to speak to the concierge at Mar-A-Lago

        Is it though?

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        10 months ago

        You can tell its satire because it sounds less insane than any of the real things Smith says or does on a daily basis.

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      She wasn’t ‘voted in’ in the traditional sense…

      Jason Kenney stepped down due to numerous scandals and mishaps. The conservative party of Alberta (The UCP) then held a members only vote to elect their new fuhrer.

      70k people picked her in a province of multiple million

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    10 months ago

    I know people should know better but there should be a rule (or a bot that enforces this) about adding [SATIRE] before these kinds of posts

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          Ultimately she’s a whore for Alberta’s oil and gas industry, and Trump is just a means to an end. She’d put out just as readily for a Japanese tentacle monster if it promised to buy oil from Alberta. So this isn’t really about Trump or the US at all.

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              Mmmm, not quite. Industry and good paying jobs are not worth bending the knee everytime king little hands makes a quip about whatever. It shows weakness and shows that we will do whatever it takes to appease.

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      Dude, you are not making any sense. Are you from Alberta? She was elected to represents interests of Albertants, and this is what she is trying to do, as she understands it. It is up to the Alberta’s voters to judge her next election, not some internet randos.

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              10 months ago

              You know the funny thing here? I’ve had this conversation with a few fellow Albertans about easterners not caring about Alberta’s problems. They can never seem to wrap their heads around the rest of Canada quite literally not giving a a shit about the oil and gas industry. When I ask them what there thoughts are on the fisheries in there maritimes, or the auto industry in the GTA or bombardier cutting employees in Quebec they answer they don’t care. And yet…they don’t see the hypocrisy. Always amazes me.

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    Welp, I definitely ate the Onion with this one. Reality is so fucking bonkers at this point that it’s hard to tell what’s satire and what isn’t.