MyMindIsLikeAnOcean

I’ve never lived in Alberta…but I was in BC for ages so I’m familiar.

They, first and foremost, think they’re superior because there’s oil in Alberta. They don’t understand that all of the profits from oil are leeched from their province - or they do understand, but they’re happy as long as Quebecers and “Queers” don’t get a dime. When the province catches fire or there’s a downturn in oil prices…suddenly they’re all socialists. Don’t know how they function with so many conflicting realities.

I grew up in a very poor neighbourhood, then moved to a very rich one for high school, then back to a different poor one for young adulthood. I feel I can speak on this.

All the rich people I know are lazy and are constantly on vacation and play golf/whatever exclusive sport they prefer. Doesn’t matter if they’re 15 or 50…they basically all have the same life style. They will lose their minds if a peer stays at work at work or works in their home office for an extra hour or two a day as if they deserve a medal - provided the work is white collar work. They will completely disregard all the random days off and vacations they take on a whim as if they didn’t happen.

The hardest working people I know are immigrant dishwashers, hands down (just because I spent a lot of time in the restaurant industry - I’m sure there are equivalent jobs in other sectors). 6-7 days a week 10-12 hours a day, sometimes less than minimum wage, no overtime. Thankless, soul sucking, and difficult work. They will never ever complain, never ask for a raise and beg for more hours even tho additional hours have to be “off the books” and paid out of petty cash. Don’t even get tipped out like cooks. Never buy a luxury. They raise families and put kids through university. Biggest unsung sector in labour, as far as I’m concerned. Also the most exploited that allow the rich people to pretend what they do is work. If you try to advocate for them they tell you shut up and not rock the boat.

The people are just myth making: Musk and this woman first stretch the definition of work to mean everything they ever do…expensive business lunches or exotic vacations (that include a zoom meeting!) are considered work. But then difficult or stressful work gets discounted by association because the surfs only do it for 12 hours a day.

It’s not just Albertans…it’s many, if not most, conservatives. My neighbour in Ontario idolizes Texas and even flies it’s flag. My sense is it’s just team sports…ideology…partisanship. These folks aren’t honest with themselves, and we can’t expect them to be honest with us.

This behaviour from conservatives obviously begs the question: Why don’t you just move to effing Texas, then? The short answer, as I see it, is because they love to troll and perform because they’ve been radicalized by their particular information bubble. They won’t admit that what they actually want is the best of both worlds: all the benefits of living in a liberal democracy with none of the repercussions or responsibilities of bigotry or stupidity (than they will never ever admit they display).

I mean…this is just another in the line of examples (that will get much longer) of Trump just saying what he wished happened, instead of what actually happened. Kirk shooter, ICE shooter etc

“The shooter was an immigrant from a poor country to we must ban all immigration from poor counties”. He doesn’t expect it to become relevant that the shooter was a lunatic hired by the CIA and imported by his own administration.