In Alberta and elsewhere, the far-right is using referendums to mainstream white nationalism
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growing ignorance, failing education, growing effective propaganda, lack of regulation on media manipulation …etcetc
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Our education system really is broken. I’ve seen it firsthand. It’s not just a matter of me or others being in a different generation, but rather it’s in terms of their critical thinking, social skills, handwriting, etc.
The younger generation got messed up by Covid in terms of schooling as well.
And for mother fucking fuck’s sake, disallow phones in school during school hours!
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It is not a serious sign of a growing far right, it’s a confirmation that the far right is becoming more emboldened.
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It’s a sign that countries around the world are susceptible to foreign disinformation and unrest campaigns. Brexit was the first shot. trump getting elected is an ongoing attack on American hegemony. AFD in Germany is an attack against an anti-Russian government, the LePenn shit in France is a reaction to them being anti-Russian…
It’s not that the far right is growing, it’s that the ‘traditional west’ has been under rampant attack from historical adversaries, and the companies inside the west are letting them attack us collectively, because they make money off of it.
Shut down the bot farms like Ukraine has done, and watch these movements start to wither on the vine.
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Honestly I’m willing to go more analog in life to get rid of this online unrest bullshit.
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Stupid people are shutting up less. Birds of a feather squawking together.
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Far Right used social media as a vector to reprogram society. Hate is a virus.
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I’m sure I’m being pedantic, but it’s a meme. And I mean the original definition, not the modern/colloquial one.
- betanumerus@lemmy.caEnglish1 day
The oil & gas industry (from Russia, US, Arabia, etc) are tugging AB from Ottawa in an attempt to control it instead and take profits away from Canadians. This is about foreign influence. The AB far-right are those prone to being seduced.
- Canaconda@lemmy.caEnglish15 hours
Russia invented hybrid warfare. Everything that’s going on, the instability in the USA, was all part of their Regan Era plan to use the republicans to divide and conquer the USA.
Canada is defacto still a US surrogate until we finish diversifying our economy/defenses.
- betanumerus@lemmy.caEnglish1 day
I don’t know why they want even more but they do. You cannot expect them to ever be satisfied. No matter how much you feed them, they always want more.
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So I went to the advanced voting today, we were in line and a little old lady ahead of us started chatting with my wife. She started the conversation by going “thank you for voting today, I’ve been telling all my friends to get out and vote because its the most important one in our Lives”. Half expecting the next sentence to be " because we need to leave Canada" I am happy to report she started going off about Daniel Smith, asking “what kind of Christians are we?” If we vote to underfund immigrants, and that we need to fight against trump. She told us shes always voted conservative her whole life but that she wants to vote out the two-faced UCP. I feel like the winds are changing.
That’s jaw dropping that someone would use Christian identity to oppose the UCP, but certainly a welcome surprise.
I feel like the winds are changing.
Meanwhile BC seems dead set on throwing out the NDP for a Conservative party that seems to only ever make headlines for how dysfunctional it is.
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Did you not witness Eby shitting the bed with his decision making in the last month? Lol.
The NDP is clutching defeat from the claws of victory.
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Green Time!
There’s a debate in downtown Vancouver this afternoon and the BCNDP are trying to get people to show up to cheer Eby on his way in to the building.
Whee.
- rabber@lemmy.caEnglish1 day
After the russian bot farm went offline recently, all of the separatist influencer pages have a fraction of the traffic lol
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I don’t see the logic behind that. Trump has that weird s*** to say about Canada, but most Americans don’t ever expect Canada to be part of the US. But there is benefit for other countries to cause strife within both Canada and the US.
A divided Canada is a weakened Canada, which benefits the Trump admin. It’s not about actually separating, never has been. It’s about division.
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish1 day
Never ever stop allowing referendums. They are the ONLY way we have acheived popular change in the US.
Republicans have been trying to curtail and get rid of them in the US, over half of the states have them to some degree. Some states did change the vote from 50 to 60 and such. Ohio maybe, and some SW shitholy one I forget.
We all agree on many things, removing the ability to have a popular vote on it is a recipe for tyranny. (US states often have citizen sponsored ballot initiatives, via petition, maybe you should get some, eh?)
But I agree the separatist vote is, well, tantamount to allying with the US prez, which is at this point, a betrayal of the country, and it’s people.
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Ohio didn’t succeed at changing it. In part because it was a clearly blatant attempt to stop weed and abortion being legalized
The elites also use referendums to prevent proportional representation from being passed in Canada.
