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

  • dasrael@lemmy.zip
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    4 hours ago

    growing ignorance, failing education, growing effective propaganda, lack of regulation on media manipulation …etcetc

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      33 minutes ago

      Our education system really is broken. I’ve seen it firsthand. It’s not just a matter of me or others being in a different generation, but rather it’s in terms of their critical thinking, social skills, handwriting, etc.

      The younger generation got messed up by Covid in terms of schooling as well.

      And for mother fucking fuck’s sake, disallow phones in school during school hours!

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    11 hours ago

    Sent in my ballot a week ago!

    I wish to stay in Canada. I can’t believe I had to participate in something like this but … Here we are.

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    18 hours ago

    It is not a serious sign of a growing far right, it’s a confirmation that the far right is becoming more emboldened.

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      9 hours ago

      It’s a sign that countries around the world are susceptible to foreign disinformation and unrest campaigns. Brexit was the first shot. trump getting elected is an ongoing attack on American hegemony. AFD in Germany is an attack against an anti-Russian government, the LePenn shit in France is a reaction to them being anti-Russian…

      It’s not that the far right is growing, it’s that the ‘traditional west’ has been under rampant attack from historical adversaries, and the companies inside the west are letting them attack us collectively, because they make money off of it.

      Shut down the bot farms like Ukraine has done, and watch these movements start to wither on the vine.

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    21 hours 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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    1 day ago

    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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        21 hours 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.