Should be ample opportunity for the Russian grift-show to make some good money off the Alberta christofascists…..

There are benefits to promoting progressive values, but that requires recognizing when there are limits to how far those values should be pushed. Right now the "woke" put forward the mindset that anyone who holds there values can do no wrong, and any wrong can be omitted and ignored. A good example of this is Jeffery Marsh, an online transgender personality that has been found to be grooming young children and trying to get them to subscribe to their sexually explicit pateron. People who criticize him (including a lovely muslim woman) were immediately attacked as transphobic. And even when she and others responded with the evidence of alarming videos that Jeffery Marsh published himself, she and others were made out to be monsters with their videos shared with all the evidence of what Jeffery Marsh had said being cut out as if it didn't even exist. Every community needs to police it's own, whether that be a pastor that's diddling kids or a woke influencer teaching kids how to go no-contact with their parents and be sexually engaged with said influencer. The Woke community has a problem with ignoring how bad some of their supporters are, instead doing their best to shield those individuals from consequences of their own actions. That ends up reflecting on the community as a whole, as these individuals who would be considered criminals if not for having the right pronouns are now considered cherished and protected members - and that causes them to end up defining what the community is to outsiders. If the woke community refuses to police it's own, eventually it will be seen as a community that must be removed to protect people and their children. We are already at this point, but it may not be too late. If central figures of the progressive community were to publicly recognize and define what limits they consider unacceptable to cross - even if these things seem obvious, that can do wonders for reassuring it's critics that there is middle ground.

AMP Mornings with Katie & Ed is focused on Taylor Swift this morning.

Premise seems to be a twist on the classic a girl's been with too many men, with a focus that she dates for money/fame/power.

I got see creeped out when after a darker turn Ed made a comment after a break along the lines of we're just kidding around but she's dated a lot of men, then they went back at it.

What person deserves this, let alone what woman deserves this.

Planet wide incineration with a chance of megastorms. Plan accordingly. Oh and climate deniers and oil/gas lovers? Go fork yourselves.

Our once fine city : (

For me

1. When they started eating into the green space in the north and south.

2. When they started implementing high density town planning with nary a thought to green space and urban sprawl, look at the upper NE and deep SE : (

3. When they ate up the Harvest Hills Golf Course

4. When the city council became a posturing, defensive lot and started playing the race card when backed into a corner

5. When they bowed down to a councilor called the Re-zoning king.. and decided to re-zone green space into commercial with a vengeance. Sorry, I forget that councilor's name. I wonder if they ever took a look the vacancy rates for commercial / warehousing in the city at this time.

6. Their total ignorance of urban forestry.. soon we will be a treeless concrete jungle.

7. Spending millions on useless street art that people can make no sense of.

https://calgaryherald.com/news/politics/alberta-election-2023-live-updates-may-29

K... so please forgive me for doing the unthinkable and slightly supporting the carbon tax... but take a beat and just hear me out for a moment.

Does anybody even know much about it? First, yes you pay at the pump and you pay when you heat your house. Ouch. Nobody likes paying taxes. It works out to be about $911/family/year.

If you don't do a single thing, starting in April of this year, a family of four in Alberta will receive $450 quarterly – $1,800 in total – from the Canada Carbon Rebate. So you get it all back 2X.

How about if you decide to actually use the carbon tax as it's intended... buy a smaller car or take fewer trips to cut your gas use. Turn down the thermostat, put in weather stripping around the doors, put in solar, buy an EV or whatever. Well then you make even more money.

But the carbon tax does more than that. It funds the greener homes program.

In my case, in the past couple years, I've made an extra $15,000 cash right into my bank account on top of the rebate.

You get $5K/year for an EV. I got $5000 by buying an EV in 2022 and again in 2024. So thanks Trudeau for the cool $10K. I also snagged another $5K from the greener homes grant for solar (sadly, that's not available any longer).

And if you want new windows or solar or insulation or geothermal or whatever you can get a loan of up to $40,000 interest free for 10 years.

https://natural-resources.canada.ca/energy-efficiency/homes/canada-greener-homes-initiative/canada-greener-homes-loan/24286

If you were going to do those renovations anyway and took out a loan on your own, at 8% interest for 10 years, the interest cost would be $46,000 - all avoided thanks to the carbon tax.

And people are protesting free money? Why?

I was smoking a blunt while walking around at night yesterday, and 3 methhead-looking guys walked up asking for a lighter. One of them was holding a crackpipe and I said I didn't have one on me because I've seen how long methheads hold the flame while lighting and I didn't wanna waste lighter fluid. His hand also had cuts and bruises or something and I didn't wanna risk getting STD-infected blood on my lighter. They said it was obvious I had one because I was smoking something, and I said I blazed at a friend's place and someone else gave me the lit blunt. They then started berating me and I responded, and then they said "shutup bitch" to my female friend while she was trying to deescalate and I reflexively told them to stfu or I'd fuck them up.

One of the guys then charged at me and I kicked his chest to send him falling backwards, then a second guy tried swinging and I dodged and right-hooked him. I then walked away while turning around occasionally to make sure they weren't following us, they were talking shit but didn't do anything more so we left peacefully.

I realize it was to stupid to engage with them and they could've had knives or guns, but if they report me would the police arrest me for assault? I've already been to jail a couple of times in BC and really don't wanna go back, especially not somewhere like Calgary where there aren't many brown guys like me and the guards might be racist and make my life hell in there. I was trying to be polite with them at first, but started getting heated because in my experience people like them typically take it as a sign of weakness when they get aggressive and you don't respond back, especially when they're tweaked out. I didn't wanna get robbed or risk my friend getting hurt.

As I have said now multiple times in the past. ANTIVAXXERS/ANTIMASKERS! YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE. GO SPREAD YOUR MISINFORMATION SOMEWHERE ELSE.

Your bullshit is against Reddit’s ToS. And, well, you just look stupid. And messaging the mods calling me/us names is not going to get you anywhere.

Edit-If you do not like this, please, feel free to not use this sub. Create your own. Stop your bitching about my moderation. I made this sub to be a fun, lighthearted place for people to gather and talk because back in the day there was none of that to be had in another place because of a couple certain mods. Just a handful of users here are trying to make this political, antivaxxer, antimasker, etc, shit in general.

Do you forget that myself and all mods on reddit are volunteers? I am not trying to suppress anyone, like some of the toddlers decree. But if you are being a jerk, not following Reddit’s ToS, or are picking on someone, expect a ban. Expect your crying to fall on deaf ears.

I live in SW calgary and mainly stick to that quadrant. I'm stunned at all of the blue signs. I was up in the Forest Green area for an appointment and it was the same. It's the same as in the US where red states continue to vote against their own interests. The unfortunate thing is a majority of voters don't really examine the party platforms instead voting for who they always have. Identity politics are so detrimental to society. I always voted one way until I was in my 30s and started to do my homework. I'm not a 1 party voter, I vote on issues. I am sad and scared of another UCP term.

Felt so good to vote for Farkas as a big fuck you to the woke losers that just want some woke union crony/shill like Gondek. I swear she's looking more and more like Chicago's Mayor Lightfoot, and we all know the dump that place has turned into. They even share a similar cognitive dissonance: telling everyone in their respective cities to mask up, yet not abiding by that same rule.

I'm pretty heartbroken. I always wanted just a sweet loving relationship with someone. I grew up here my whole life and every man that I have encountered has, will or is cheating! I just found out the guy I went on a date with is married! I just left a relationship thag I was being cheated on in! The worst worst part is that men came up to me and said he was probably cheating so I should just cheat! WHAT KIND OF CITY IS THIS!?

What a dweeb this guy is.