In Alberta and elsewhere, the far-right is using referendums to mainstream white nationalism

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[–] 2 points 25 minutes ago

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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  • [–] 2 points 59 minutes ago

    Look at all those old white people! Shocked I say, shocked!

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  • [–] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    Translation: Plenty of out of touch, spoilt idiots in Canada.

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  • [–] 31 points 9 hours ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    In this case it's very likely American data centers doing the work.

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  • [–] 1 point 42 minutes ago

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 hours ago

    The elites also use referendums to prevent proportional representation from being passed in Canada.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 hours ago

    Just got home from the polls!

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  • [–] -2 points 7 hours ago

    Send the cops.

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