Canada

Literally every single thing Danielle Smith and the UCP espouse to care about is made worse by Alberta becoming a sovereign nation:

• Taxes
• Coastal access
• Pipelines and transfer taxes
• Tanker access and global markets
• Trade sanctions as a function of per capita CO2 emissions
• Infrastructure access
• Energy markets
• Codified projects and say in what they detail
• Comprehensive national strategy cost averaged down against 40 million instead of 4 million (aka costs 10x).

Think about what happens to Albertan property values on separation - literally no one is moving here, and many will leave. The "Alberta Edge" becomes even less tenable, and quality of life rapidly erodes.

But maybe they can empty everyone's pensions before they fuck off into the sunset, once the last drop of blood is squeezed out.

They're really talking about becoming the most taxed 51st state, or an erosion of living standards so sharp they'll get whiplash. Ghoulish politics.

"Once the votes are counted in Ontario, the election is over. We don't matter. We never matter," she said.

You know what Quebeckers do that's smart? They don't have party loyalty. One election, they vote NDP, next one BQ, next LPC, sometimes they give CPC some seats to push them over the edge. We make every single party want to cater to us. We aren't in anyone's pocket.

Do you want to matter? Stop being a fucking CPC stooge.

Watch out it's the Block Redneckqois

"Never been represented" forgets that there were ten years of conservative government before the liberal one.

Are they for real, or are they always this delusional?

How do you "win" a rally? Show up, talk sedition, claim victory?

Fascists get very, very upset when the rest of us, the reasonable people, don't want fascism. They are disappointed in us when we don't want to be ruled by their rulers.

They are truly stupid and harmful human beings and they should be loudly ostracized in every community in which they dare to advocate for fascism.

The dipshits in the crowd waving the American flags are the very reason why the rest of Canada dumped the Conservatives in favour of Carney. They are their own enemy.

Why is their sense of national unity tied to the success of an industry? Will PEI vote to separate because Canadians aren't eating enough potatoes?

Me, a Nova Scotian listening to Albertans whine about how underrepresented they are.

She can yap about it all she wants, there is no support for separatism outside the rabid Wildrose twats. Albertans may vote heavily PC, but this is a complete non-starter.

Being so cruelly deprived of oil pipelines, maybe they can claim refugee status in the USA.

I was relieved that the CPC didn't form government, but we're still in a lot of danger. Spend any time on X and you can see a full court press going on with propaganda to push Alberta separatism. The same stuff is going on now in Alberta that took place in Crimea prior to 2014, and the online media ecosystem is American. I see a lot of people stating Alberta couldn't separate because of the treaties, but when a powerful country decides they don't care about the laws, the courts aren't going to save you.

Pissed that the rest of Canada won't build pipelines for them. Give them better access to refineries in other provinces. Clearly, leaving the country is the solution.

This is like moving out on your own because your roommates won't clean up after you, and make you pay your share of the bills.

Call me crazy, but I don't want nationalists in this country, full stop. We can love and respect our nation without being worked into a blind, fervent frenzy.

People are real quick to point out that the Nazi's had "socialist" in their party name, and real fuckin' slow to pick up that it was preceded by "national."

They're so overdramatic

“I thought it was a beautiful, fantastic country. But now I’m so disappointed. I’m literally crushed that we’ll never be represented in this country and there’s never a chance of changing the government,” Speck said.

What the fuck. It was only 10 years ago that Conservatives were in power.

What a bunch of snowflakes.

"I thought it was a beautiful, fantastic country. But now I'm so disappointed. I'm literally crushed that we'll never be represented in this country and there's never a chance of changing the government," Speck said.

Maybe you could just campaign for electoral reform instead of separating? Since you're landlocked and all? These people are idiots.

This all has remarkable parallels from the Anschluss between Germany and Austria in the 20s and 30s. There was support for it in the 20s, but Hitler said Austria should join with Germany and how wonderful it would be. He used agents to influence pro-unification. Some Austrians agreed, and even tried an coup to overthrow the government and join with Germany.

In 1938 Austria was finally bullied into holding a referendum, but it looked like the outcome would be against unification. Hitler marched his armies in to Austria less than 24 hours before the referendum and annexed the country.

It was 5 years after he rose to power in 1933.

Trump will come for us, and it'll be traitors like this that give him the excuse to do it.

I had to read to the bottom for the best part:

"We have the oil, we have the resources. We're fine," Westernaier said, noting she believed Monday's election was rigged.

C'ya!

It’s a shame that no-one was there to identify these people.

We could have sent them all American immigration forms to fill out.

Or better yet, fill out and submit those forms for them. Along with Canadian citizenship renunciation forms.

Literally crushed