These idiots spew this same nonsense all the time without understanding that the oil is a different grade, is at a different location than the benchmark grade it is priced as a differential to, and transportation logistics often suppress source prices.
This is up there with the "Trudeau bought you a pipeline" nonsense. They just regurgitate it over and over and over again.
@ABDanielleSmith Ok, now add an Alberta Firearms License to that there piece of plastic and opt out of the current RCMP PAL and RPAL licensing system.
Today.
Socialism is the belief that you can eliminate your problems by getting a credit card and then pretending there isn't a bill on the way.
For a while it looks like prosperity. You spend more than you produce, consume more than you earn, and call the difference compassion.
Then reality sends the invoice in the form of debt, inflation, shortages, stagnation, and collapse. The bill was never avoided. It was just postponed.
If your "culture" only exists because a politician gives you cash to do it, you're not an artist or a journalist.
You're a propagandist who works for the regime.
The Bolivian Revolution of 1952 handed us a perfect laboratory for socialism's destructive power. The Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario seized the tin mines that generated 80% of Bolivia's export revenue and systematically destroyd them over twelve years.
Before nationalization, private mining companies like Patiño Mines employed 60,000 workers and produced 35,000 tons of tin annually. The MNR promised worker control and economic justice. Production collapsed to 16,000 tons by 1964 while employment bloated to 75,000. This is the predictable disaster that free market economists would have warned about.
The newly created COMIBOL (Bolivian Mining Corporation) eliminated profit incentives overnight. Mine managers became political appointees who knew nothing about extraction. Workers received guaranteed wages regardless of output, so productivity plummeted 40% within three years. The state couldn't fire anyone (votes matter more than efficiency), so they kept hiring. Mines that once generated foreign currency became permanent fiscal drains requiring subsidies that consumed 30% of government revenue.
You can observe the exact mechanism of destruction: remove private property rights, eliminate price signals, replace entrepreneurial decision-making with bureaucratic committees. The tin was still in the ground. The workers still had hands. But without market incentives coordinating production, the entire system collapsed into organized chaos.
By 1964, Bolivia went from South America's largest tin producer to an international beggar importing food while sitting on mineral wealth. The MNR redistributed poverty with revolutionary efficiency.
Not all cultures are the same. Here is one small but revealing example.
This old interview, broadcast on Palestinian television, shows a Muslim mother celebrating her son’s “achievement” as a suicide terrorist.
She explains that before he carried out the attack against non-Muslims in Israel, he used to talk about the 72 virgin sex slaves in paradise and joked about marrying them after sacrificing his soul as a martyr for Allah.
She celebrated his death because he always wanted to sacrifice his soul as a martyr for Allah, kill infidels, and win them as a reward in paradise.
This is not fringe. This is Islam’s doctrine openly practiced by Palestinian Muslims on national television: mothers rejoicing that their sons murdered Jews in the name of Allah and were rewarded with sexual slaves in heaven.
This is the ideology that Western media and politicians still try to whitewash as a “land dispute” or a “fight against Islamophobic apartheid and oppression.”
Me: Ayn Rand had a point about <XYZ>
Socialist: Ayn was destitute and accepted welfare, hah hah, derp derp
Me: do you think you have answered the point?
Socialist: yes
Me: you literally restated a 2500 yr old fallacy: Argumentum Ad Hominem
P.S. it's not even true
Canada is being destroyed by a national socialist @liberal_party ramming through authoritarian bills to become the totalitarian monster they have all already proven themselves to be in the illegal use of violence to crush peaceful protest.
Of course, they will ignore the will of the people to stay in power and continue to enrich themselves and their friends.
Because you're too lazy to start a co op despite claiming it's the superior model.
Nothing stops workers from pooling their resources, sharing ownership, and competing in the market today. The reason most don't is because running a business requires far more than showing up for a shift.
The irony is that socialists insist workers should run society, yet rarely demonstrate a willingness to run even a business. Instead of building alternatives, they demand political power to seize what others have already built.
Four years ago, Marc Miller hired the pro-Hezbollah activist Laith Marouf to be an “anti-racist” consultant. Then Miller tried to cover it up.
He just did it again, hiring antisemites to serve on an antisemitism committee.
Without reading their resumes!
Some 700 IRGC members & or their family members live openly in Canada, I’m sure none of them is doing anything bad to support the Iranian regime & if the were, the RCMP would be all over it, right?
@canadacopwatch It's the natural human right to own and carry weapons for defence of themselves, their family and community. Concentrating on weapons [that can be anything and found anywhere] is meaningless if you don't concentrate on the character and behaviour of the population.
Let me get this straight.
Albertans having dual Alberta-Canada citizenship after independence is somehow “impossible” or “crazy”?
Mark Carney held THREE citizenships — Canadian, British and Irish — and that didn’t stop him from becoming Prime Minister of Canada.
Millions of people around the world hold dual or multiple citizenships.
The real question isn’t whether dual citizenship is possible. It is.
The real question is why some people are so terrified of Albertans having more freedom, more choices and more control over their own future.
Alberta First. Always.