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They know what they want; they just don't know how to spell it (lemmy.today)

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But hey let's commit economic seppuku

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[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 31 points 4 days ago

Independance

It's a good dance group name.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

So You Think You Can Independance

[-] CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago

Independance Dance Revolution

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 days ago

"Stay Free" seems like a bad motto for them to use.

Are they admitting that they are already free right now?

I thought the whole point was to "Be Free" of the tyranny of Canada.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago

I think they are harkening back to a golden age where they felt like their rights weren't being trampled by Ottawa. I'm not sure that time ever existed, and I'm not sure that their rights are being trampled, but that's not the point.

Similarly, they seem like the kind of people who believe they're mavericks in a world of sheeple, so it could also be saying "don't let yourself be sheeplified".

[-] deeferg@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

trampled by Ottawa

More like they feel trampled by the Liberals, the leader of this movement was on CBC the other day (layer of irony here) to explain their views, and it was mostly "we're upset our party keeps losing and we want to make everyone who voted for them suffer in the same way Trump is making all of those lefties down south suffer".

I can't stand that fat fuck Doug Ford but I'm not threatening to secede North Bay from Ontario because the people of this province would rather shoot themselves in the foot. Like God damn, get over yourself people.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

I think you're right about the Liberal thing. It seems like the Conservatives have morphed into a regional party tied to Albertan and rural identity.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The regionalist thing is just absolutely paper thin, too. Everyone knows they're the freshly rebranded far right, and they're open that the entire point of sovereignty is just to force through more far-right policies. They're not defending our linguistic and cultural distinctness from Saskatchewan, because lol.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

They want to go back to a time before they felt angry about everything... which started sometime around when they started going on social media. How can they ever get back to those times again? Quick, go on social media to see what it's telling us what to do!

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah. Unless they mean "the exact minute before Justin Trudeau took office", I'm struggling to picture that moment. If you go back past the first Trudeau that people hate, you hit the worker-populist UFA/SoCred era, and the era that fueled it right before. And then that's all the history there is.

100% chance this imaginary version of Alberta is also devoid of old but now unfashionable bits of Prairie life, and saturated with red American lifestyle imports, instead.

[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

But hey let's commit economic seppuku

*sudoku

[-] inlandempire@jlai.lu 8 points 4 days ago

My fav character from dragon ball z

[-] acorn_auto@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

Watching people do the Indepen-Dance is never pretty. Never.

[-] bowreality@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 days ago

It just shows they are honest about their level of education

[-] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 7 points 4 days ago

It was name for my pen tricks, indie pen dance.

[-] wolfeh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago

I guess English must be a second language for the Kremlin.

[-] mggnn@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

May be inspired by the the movement of the « Indépendance du Québec » ?

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Vocally. They state that they see what Quebec has gotten by threatening independence and they want the same.

It's safe to argue that what they've gotten was mostly due to agreements signed before Canada was created, but that isn't how the Albertan separatists see it.