the strawman further polarizes me away from your perspective. if i didn’t know better I would say you’re trying to make things worse.

Even the 2 dimensional compass is a simplification, though orders of magnitude better than the binary “left or right” simplification, and also better than the 2 dimensional gradient as well.

No, I get it, you don’t like nuance.

Similar to me. My passport got wet when I was in the rain. The lady at the Canadian passport office literally yelled at me for damaging it. I was surprised, but they seem to take it very seriously.

Friendly reminder that China isn’t a country, it’s a region. PRC is a country. And follow-up reminder that India is absolutely not properly allied with the USA, and China and India’s wars had nothing to do with the USA.

Free Tibet!

It’s personal and private and children shouldn’t be exposed to it. It’s not wrong, and you can do it, but keep it away from me and mine.

Zero sympathy for anybody who owns investment properties. Zero sympathy for landlords.

Highly skilled locals, too. Anecdotal, but all of the smartest people I graduated university with have left. It’s a lot easier to land 400k salaries outside of Canada.

Also consider a lot of online comments are bots designed to make people angry. Even on this site, though I don’t think it’s as bad here as some other places.

some commentators here are hating on Albertans. Not all are. I understand it’s a sensitive issue, but try not to generalize large populations.

Some of the commenters here suck. Some are amazing. And there’s everything in between.

I am sorry you’ve had a bad experience, but I can tell you that I do not judge Albertans or reduce them to a single group. Hell, I have family in Alberta, and almost half of them are pretty OK.