4 ms·
Rural Canada was fairly poor back in the day, but being poor doesn't mean you are gullible or some "aw shucks" ingnoramus. For someone with a partial high scho
by alephnerd 1y ago
Rural Canada was fairly poor back in the day, but being poor doesn't mean you are gullible or some "aw shucks" ingnoramus.
For someone with a partial high school education an Oil job was the only job that would afford them the kind of salary a UT or McGill grad could demand in Toronto or Montreal back in the day.
As such, attacking the ONG industry feels like an attack on livelihoods for a lot of people.
If you turn a culture war into a class war, us liberals and progressives cannot win.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- Fricken 1y ago[flagged]
- bondarchuk 1y agoWhat kind of drugs?
- Maxatar 1y agoAlberta has been particularly hit hard by the opioid crisis.
- AlexandrB 1y ago> Either way their victim complex is preyed upon by an industry that has been working to undermine Canadian unity for decades. I thought we were taking about Alberta, not Quebec.
- mmooss 1y ago[flagged]
- nh23423fefe 1y agoway to get brainwashed into hating your neighbors
- mmooss 1y agoI don't hate them or anyone.
- gruez 1y ago>Bull. The right gets angry no matter what. They always have a reason, even if it has to be fabricated. It's Friday? The right must be outraged. That's funny because if you ask the right, they'll probably say the same thing about the left. How do you adjudicate this?
- TimorousBestie 1y agoDoes it take any great adjudication? I talk to conservatives in my real life. I talk to socialists in my real life. I can tell who among them are angry about real things and who are angry about things they imagined or read someone else fantasize about. You can do the same.
- gruez 1y ago>I can tell who among them are angry about real things and who are angry about things You only need to go to /r/all to see all the things that liberals are angry about. >they imagined or read someone else fantasize about. That just moves the issue from "whether people are angry" to "whether the issues are 'real' or not". If you're a liberal, of course you're going to think liberal causes are "real things" and dismiss conservative issues as "imagined".
- sjsdaiuasgdia 1y agoThis is false equivalency. There is a right wing media machine that generates culture war rage bait 24x7x365. The right spends a massive amount of time being enraged over things most of them weren't thinking about at all before they were told it was the most important issue in the world and something they needed to be very angry about. Reality has a left wing bias because the right has abandoned facts.
- dang 1y agoPlease don't perpetuate regional flamewar, or any flamewar, on HN. It just makes things worse. (Your comment would be fine without that first bit.) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html