As someone who moved here from Scandinavia (Sweden) we’re hardly immune to extremist right-wing philosophies and political movements. Case in point: the former Nazi party won the last general elections in Sweden and is making a right old mess of the country as we speak.

And while it’s not Norway, our closest neighbors haven’t been insulated from the right wing populist tide either, judging by the news.

Shock the monkey by either Peter Gabriel or Coal Chamber with Ozzy Osbourne

And here we see the actual problem - Danielle isn’t the crazy lady holding the party hostage (like Kenny’s comment about the “inmates running the asylum” suggested), the whole party has gone off the deep end.

I don’t see how this has any chance of being fixed, unless the UCP suffers multiple crushing electoral defeats over the next decade or so.

I recently mused that it has got to be hard for the Onion to come up with something these days given how reality keeps catching up to satire, but this headline proves it’s not just hard, it’s downright impossible to satirize Trump.

That would actually be good parody yes. Surprising nobody jumped on that yet.

Man, I’d hate to work for the Onion these days. Reality is catching up to satire so quickly I’m pretty sure there’s a bunch of people going “yeah, that sounds like something he’d do” and think nothing further of it.

18 and life by Skid Row?

Honestly, even with the two clues and the genre I had no idea this was a Lamb if God song, and I listen to them frequently. Sometimes the hints might look obvious to the poster but not the audience due to the different perspectives they approach the hints from.

I was already in favor of Trudeau stepping aside to let someone else run, but this has convinced me even more that this is the right direction for the Liberals. It would instantly invalidate the years worth of vitriol the conservatives have fomented towards Trudeau personally (see the “fuck Trudeau” merch) and send them scrambling to drum up the same amount of baseless hate towards whoever runs in his place. Personally, I think this is the best play the Liberals have, and a masterful way to make the Cons look like they have no platform other than outrage.

Not to question the mod work being done, but if someone is trolling, isn’t it better to reprimand them than the users responding to the troll? Telling people not to engage with trolls is adressing the symptom, not the cause IMHO.

It honestly reads like the author dismisses the potential of foreign influence affecting both domestic actors and politics outright without proof. There’s ample evidence that Russian state-affiliated actors have worked with social media influencers to foment outrage, for example. That’s not a “new red scare”, that’s straight up proof of intelligence operations designed to undermine Russia’s geopolitical opponents.

“Big surprise” said everyone with half a brain.

Seriously though, this is working exactly as intended by the UCP - they want to have Alberta’s faith pinned to the petro dollar to stay in power. Hard times, global downturn? Blame everyone for ruining Alberta’s precious oil industry -> vote UCP to stick it to the federal government. Good times, oil boom? The UCP freed us from the green yoke the federal government is trying to force on us -> vote UCP to keep your heard-earned success.

This is a difficult one. Any specific subgenre of metal you can give as a hint without spoiling it?

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Rocket man - Elton John

Don Jr really can’t stop saying the dumbest things and making himself or whoever he’s talking about look worse in the process. I’d say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, but I honestly think he’s actually even less aware than his dad.

Money well spent Alberta. Keep doubling down on propping up an unstable, temperamental, speculation prone, polluting industry with a great track record of improving the lives of all Albertans. If you’re in a hole, keep digging.

Sure, but let’s all agree it could be worse.

If it were added to this meme, it’d have a reaction somewhere between the Supra and the Eclipse. Something like “oh, okay”.

What do you mean? At least the new WRX is still a sedan, still AWD, still has a boxer, and can still be bought as a manual.

Sure, it’s making about the same horsepower as 20 years ago, and it got progressively heavier as Subaru needed to add more safety equipment to remain compliant, but it’s nowhere near as bad as Ford and Mitsubishi taking legendary name plates and slapping them on crossover SUVs.

Having lived and worked in several countries, I think the concept of Jantelagen is rooted in the Protestant Reformation more than it being a specifically Nordic thing. Not only does it fit well with the general premise of the Protestant worldview, all countries that were early converts seem to have ingrained that particular perspective (under various names) in their collective cultures.