Give the unmarked American owned media organizations with major Republican connections time to soft sell Albertans.

It only takes months to soft-pivot literally everything.

The slop image is less melted than her real images

End the war before even taking office. Kept moving the bar, then eventually just pivoted and pretended there was no bar.

We really should be turning an eye towards American owned media in Canada, especially since it's almost entirely owned by hard Republican interests (and that would be bad if I had said Democrat as well).

It's insane we can almost all collectively identify Trump as a threat and an enemy, but his disinformation arm isn't.

It would be regressive democratically; our MP system is far from perfect, but the electoral college is much, much worse.

Set aside all the things Albertans regularly enjoy and take for granted, and that there is absolutely no way back under the American Constitution, our taxes here would either skyrocket or massively erode our quality of life overnight.

A surface level awareness of things is telling of why it's very bad, but even that's asking a lot these days of the regular fellow who's exposure to politics is limited to what their favorite pundit says.

It's kind of interesting - O'Toole probably would have done better at preventing vote loss in this type of election, but I'm not sure he would have been as effective in whipping up the Conservative base on the front-end. It certainly would have been harder for Carney to enter though, and would have instead probably been a Trudeau or Freeland election instead.

What we should do now is turn our attention to American media organizations within Canada. They were the root cause to the attack on the CBC that walked a similar line as the Liberal party this election (read; the precipice of annihilation). The orange blimp (and his successor cronies) goofy missteps likely won't be repeated next time around.

It's the same hunting for narrative that usually happens.

He says something without meaningful context, and his base and others fill in the blanks in a race to make it profound. "He's actually playing 5D chess because..." And others ponder why he'd do something as reprehensible as trying to steal everything from an ally.

There's always boons to taking other people's shit; resources, access (NW Passage), infrastructure (energy), water, etc to give a couple examples.

Most of the time, it's because he's robbing someone else blind so needs another horror to enable and distract, and he got angry someone pointed out he's little more than a jerk.

Good information.

Given we live in a FPTP country, this is a worthwhile thing to consider as well: https://smartvoting.ca/ridings/federal-2025

You can look up your riding to see vote projections; you ultimately vote the system you have.

And make it everyone else's fault somehow.

Essentially want to be the only option - buy a Tesla and fill both the trunk and frunk with gasoline or get wrecked.

Nevermind they're pumping and dumping the entire stock market now, turning all the safeguards off, and extracting wealth at a rate that makes Congress look like child's play.

Don't forget the 2016/17 OPEC crisis

Good message.

In Alberta, we had one riding in the last election 8 votes apart. ~180 different votes in a handful of ridings would have changed the Premier.

Even if you're in a deeply red or blue riding, protesting your incumbent in safe areas is powerful messaging; if they can rest in the right colored jersey, that's all they'll do. When a 1:5 riding suddenly goes 2:3 or 1:2, they start at least trying to demonstrate what they're doing for you (sometimes theatrics, but it's a start).

All that said, it's still your vote - given the difference in how voters turn out, and abdication of your vote is generally a blue vote anyways, and that's a choice too.

He's going to rid society of an awareness of societal issues?

So he's running on Danielle Smith's and Ron DeSantis' (Trump Lite) platform still.

It's an aggregate - the devaluation of the US as a trade partner increases China's, even if they do nothing other than maintain the status quo (they won't).

A valuation internationally of "the least worst option," viewed from the perspective of decade long trade relations.

Yeah, every activity they've taken so far has driven the ship towards American isolation and incentivized Chinese trade (and trade between everyone else) with every other nation.

Not sure why you're railing against this comment.

An objection vote is advocating for literally anyone else (Green or PPC or whatever your views even), as well as attending town halls and talking with your MP/MLA.

As an Albertan, putting MLAs on notice last election who usually enjoy a 5:1 spread eroded to 2:1 or 3:2; that kind of pivot definitely makes them uncomfortable, especially in the span of 4 years. These are metrics they closely pay attention to, as it determines whether they have a job next term. It's also useful for "popular vote" metrics, and highlighting broken systems.

As another commentor acknowledged, advocating for something beyond FPTP is also a good use of time - essentially the USA, Canada and the UK are the last meaningful holdouts.

But it is your vote; voting is ultimately the minimum amount of effort someone can effectuate (they can mail it to you, and you use your favorite crayon to write a dozen letters). Absentee is (almost always) just a Conservative vote anyways, so accepting that is also a choice. Demonstrably, none of this is "BS."

While I agree that Canada being one of 3 major democracies (4 if you count India) still using FPTP to everyone's detriment, we're talking about who leads Canada in 8 days.

In a perfect world, PR decoupling MPs/MLAs from leadership is probably ideal for the times; give everyone a voice with fewer hostages to party zealots who are there only because their constituents only know the party leader's name.

https://smartvoting.ca/ is one tool. Best of luck, all you can do is your best.

You vote the system you have. FPTP necessitates strategic voting. Look at your riding, acknowledge reality, vote accordingly, and if you really care about making things better - talk to your MPs/MLAs frequently, regardless of who wins.

As you say, even with Internet connection, LLMs only infer. The software you run it on (or online) is a different story, and it's literally already the case with everything else for decades (although it is getting worse).

We weren't upset enough when Google started scraping everyone's emails, or how Meta/Amazon/Google/Microsoft/ByteDance track all your Internet activity right now via browser fingerprinting.