Post #1573244
2026-04-21 14:11 UTC
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@Paulatics@mstdn.ca 2026-04-21 19:13
This story from @thetyee@mstdn.ca broke while our Standing Senate Committee on Transport And Communications was meeting to conduct hearings on generative AI. I was able to sneak in a related question at the tail end of the meeting. https://youtu.be/0HAgoeteUcI?si=0SfsXU5owPeXuPC0 #ableg #cdnpoli #TRCM #Canada #ForeignInterference #YouTube #AI #separatism
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@Gordarnit@union.place 2026-04-21 15:08
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca @thetyee@mstdn.ca “I think if you just look at it more broadly, it suggests that there is very clearly an American-led attempt to normalize and amplify the idea of Alberta becoming the 51st state of the U.S. annexation. And the co-ordination effort is so obvious.” Patrick Lennon, a former criminal intelligence manager for the RCMP’s federal policing program in Alberta,
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@pinhman@humanwords.party 2026-04-21 15:33
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca @thetyee@mstdn.ca its the classic paring of outrage and ignorance for political gain, one pushes the other, allowing the other to become wider and more effective, that allows the other to become wider and more effective. But when an outsider, not taken by the ignorance and outrage calls it out, they are taken as an outsider, one of "them" and readily dismissed. It takes a very careful curation and management of the ignorance and outrage to keep pushing the extremes, but not too far at once, an awareness of what outrage and ignorance can be pushed, who can push it, and who will accept and join and accept, and who should be abandoned and dismissed. rinse and repeat ...
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@kitkat_blue@mastodon.social 2026-04-21 18:43
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca @thetyee@mstdn.ca Here's an idea: just retain the east-west corridor that includes Calgary and let em have the rest--and see how long *that* lasts...