My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
Way too many people voted yes to the other 9 questions
The vote to remain is not the victory we think it is. This is an indication that Alberta will not change its voting habits and will continue to vote against self-interest if it means seeing less immigrants. We voted to remain... we also voted to be racist, and deprive people of services. We voted for things that are already law and arent up for discussion like voter ID during elections.
To me this is a UCP victory and indicates they will continue being elected. This is an indication that the culture war rhetoric will not be ramping down and that this province is all in.
I am so beyond disappointed with these election results. I really thought we would know better and Im so tired of waiting for Albertans to finally be informed and make informed decisions.
Im tired boss.
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My job moved me to Alabama a couple of decades ago. One of the craziest places in North America. The first week I was there, I turned on the TV and the governor was dancing like a monkey and making chimp sounds to prove evolution wasn't true.
Things could be worse.
You can't fix stupid. There's not a pill you can take, or a class you can go to. Stupid is forever. Just keep your head down and try not to be murdered by a zealot.
Life is about to get a LOT harder in Alberta and it is already really hard here. Im tired of doing the insanity thing of always trying the same thing here and always being disappointed.
I still routinely have to tell people here that there have never been litter boxes in schools for kids... i just cant do it anymore. Its like we have a lead poisoning problem. Albertans will never beat the allegations of enjoying being ignorant.
I don't know if this is helpful at all but I fled TX for much less and never regret it. I got lucky though, had a friend who put me up for a couple years in WA until I could get on my feet. I know TX does have some small pockets of good people, if not reasonably tolerable. Hopefully you can find them if you can't/won't leave but fwiw I don't think you can fight a whole State/province. Go where you can be happy.
Honestly i think im coming to terms that Im in an abusive relationship with this province holding on to potential that will never be realized and old times that are fewer and further between
Everyone I love is here but the attitude of this province and the city of Calgary is pure rot. The whole place would close a door on a house fire just to pretend nothing is happening and everything is fine. Theyd eat their shit to make you smell their breath. Why am I fighting for people who constantly let me down? Idk. Maybe its time I move to a place where people already fight for each other and already know this culture war bullshit is hiding canadas TRUE problem which is decrepit nonfunctional antitrust and a country run on monopolies and controlled by private interest in media and legislation.
Like... im kicking myself for staying. I really genuinely thought as my generation grew up things would change here. I was clearly wrong.
I still don't understand why people would vote for something that is the equivalent of a lose promise written on the back of a napkin. Unless you get to vote on the actual text of the law, they can just do whatever the fuck they want now. Intentional on the UCP side, of course.
Everything must have its own butthole, even Canada
And apparently the butthole of Alberta is Grande Prairie. Lets be honest here, most of the province may be a little backwards, but it's not that bad. There are 4 districts all within spitting distance of Grande Prairie where the majority of the ugly attitudes are concentrated.
The entire QE2 corridor between Leduc and Airdrie is an awful backwater, but Grande Prairie is the only place that has made me fear for my safety as a non-conservative.
Literally every town in rural alberta is its butthole
Ive seen so many of them. None of them beat the allegations.
I won't defend all of them, but most aren't a lost cause either. GP though... There's something rotten there and I'd wager it's poisoning the rest of the well.
Rocky Mountain House is majority traitors. I won't visit/spend money in any part of Alberta again that voted majority to separate.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/alberta-referendum-live-results-9.7385074
My thoughts are similar. I was already surprised how little coverage the 9 questions got - I didn't realize they existed until a week or so ago. Then I read them and... Holy shit. They only seemed to be covered in the media in the last week. And my worry was that the referendum question would get a clear no, but some of the others would get a majority. It was worse, most of the other questions got majorities - in fact, the worst questions got majorities.
Even the coverage was weird - even from the CBC of all broadcasters. Constantly talking about poor, poor Alberta essentially being abused by the rest of the country. I think I can count the number of times environmental issues got mentioned on one hand, and even that's being generous.
What an absolute clusterfuck. A part of me wishes that Alberta would just seperate and I wouldn't have to hear all the whining anymore... But then there's still Quebec. And people like you who would probably suffer even more if Alberta were to separate.
I want to live on a self-sufficient space station, far away from this shithole of a planet. If only. If only this beautiful planet wasn't ruined.
racists choose to group together, just as non-racists group together. Why wouldn't they want too keep out people they don't like and prevent the people they don't like from receiving aid that they would have to pay for?