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This is whataboutism. The fact that Canada fails to be perfect in all regards doesn’t excuse anything done by other countries.

A good warning to have about any trading partner, as we’re seeing with America right now.

It’s possible to trade with a country without giving them undue power over us, though.

I think that guy you know might also be one of the folks who doesn’t do the work to figure stuff out, unfortunately - we don’t “vote for Premier”, we vote for a local representative and the party that gets the most representatives installs their party leader as Premier. Just like how it’s done with the Prime Minister.

Even if we did, his plan has taken a bit of a hit in the past year. A lot of Albertans have soured greatly on Gretzky given his chumminess with Trump, his statues have been repeatedly vandalized recently. “Maple MAGA” is actually not as popular here as seems to be commonly believed.

You can get a quarter of the population to vote for basically anything.

While writing an opinion piece on the Gollum effect in 2022, Valdez realized that no one had studied territorial behavior in academic research—claiming of specific ideas and topics, samples, or study sites—and its potential impact on the academic research community.

He then declared it to be called “The Valdez Principle”, piled all of his data on it in the corner of his office, and sat on top of it hissing at anyone who approached while brandishing a halberd.

I make a point of referring to birds as “feather-bugs”, much to the weary resignation of my RL friends.

Oh yes, I know why people have picked up a distorted and prejudiced view of Albertans.

Should I go “oh, okay then, carry on believing that and propagating the stereotype?”

It’s true that we’ve got a terrible premier. It is not true that it’s “unsafe” for tourists to visit. It’s not true that “everyone in Alberta thinks being compared to Texas is a compliment.” And so I will call those falsehoods out when they’re propagated.

And for that reason OP isn’t “safe” when they visit Alberta, but would be “safe” if they visited Norway? I still have yet to figure out what this connection between the oil industry and personal safety is.

OP is being warned to “stay away” specifically from Alberta because we’re apparently not safe to be around, how am I supposed to be taking this? So far the only solid reasons that have been given are:

• Alberta produces a lot of oil.
• Someone in a small town post office didn’t wear a mask while picking up a box of books related to Christianity, which I might add is far more widely practised in Canada’s eastern provinces.
• Apparently “everyone” in Alberta thinks being compared to Texas is a compliment. Based on the fact that you personally didn’t know anyone who thought otherwise, in your particular social bubble.

So yeah, I’m rather offended. I think OP would have a perfectly fine time coming to visit Alberta.

And yet they produce 2 million barrels of oil per day. Must be a bunch of jerks.

During mask mandates I was in the Carstairs post office,

Carstairs is a rural town with a population of 4900.

the second is everyone in Alberta thinks being compared to Texas is a compliment.

Oh, everyone?

I happen to be Albertan and the notion of being compared to Texas fills me with anger. I’d like you to back that up with some kind of poll or statistic, please.

But their emissions!

what the government is doing

Which is?

how most albertans support them.

Let’s hear those specifics, I think you’ll find that the population’s not as supportive of whatever you’re imagining they’re supporting. And in particular the large cities, which are NDP strongholds.

They have the largest emissions per capita in North America.

This is why you think a tourist wouldn’t be safe here? Because we’re an oil-producing province?

Better advise OP not to visit Norway either, they must be monsters over there.

Do they dismiss entire provinces’ worth of people as jerks based on a single experience? Because that would be a pretty awful thing for them to do, yeah.

I doubt appearance will factor significantly in most places. Where in Canada were you planning to travel to?

Also, which country are you from? We’re rather cross with America right now so if you’re from there then there might be some additional coaching I’d suggest.

Yeah, I never noticed any particular negative reaction when someone walked into the Holodeck on Star Trek and said “Computer, create a mystery in the style of Sherlock Holmes” or whatever. Ask most people and they’d probably count that as one of the fictional technologies they were most looking forward to.

After the studio was already shut down. If it turned out they hadn’t used generative AI would the results have been any different?

Also, oh no, marketing material. Definitely worth destroying a game studio over.

Due to the accusation of using generative AI. This was a result of the witch hunt itself.

Yeah. And in Empire Strikes Back the Rebels got rolled over as soon as the Imperial ground forces reached their base, the whole strategy of the battle of Hoth was to delay them for as long as possible so that everything and everyone possible could be evacuated. They’d started evacuating the moment they knew they’d been spotted. Same with Bespin, the strategy was always “run the fuck away” when Imperial forces showed up.

The only real loss we saw for Stormtroopers was Endor, and that was a bit of a special case. They were up against Ewoks, on their native ground, after the Ewoks had been radicalized by their god’s direct divine instruction and coordinated by an elite Rebel strike team. Doesn’t matter if you’re the Emperor’s best troops, you’re going to struggle against something like that. Endor is a hellworld and Ewoks are murder-bears.

On the plus side, maybe this will encourage police to actually have their body cams on.