Eliott Dumoulin is a journalist who covers Canada for the French newspaper Le Monde. In this article, he tries to explain to readers back home what’s going on.
If a foreign nation threatens to forcefully annex you and you go with it, you’re quite literally the definition of a traitor.
I’d like to hear from actual Albertans what they think of this.
We might not agree on much most days, but still, I hope the country comes before whatever squabbles.Traitor
Danielle Smith: Soorry aboot that, but orange is my favourite colour.
Favorite color**
She doesn’t use the kings English, I guarantee
Aw, man! I specifically added the proper amount of U’s, posted it, then had to go back and edit the autocorrect.
TBF aren’t most of her constituents pro trump?
No, we’re not.
Even before this shit started she barely won. The grocery stores have been full of people looking for local products like anywhere else.
Nope, Edmonton here.
No!
Its time to give her the traditional traitor treatment. Lock her in the tower of London and throw away the key.
It’s* time to
Oh look. its no tits.
How about tar and feathers?
Take her ice fishing.
Use her as bait.
If you shoot them, they can never get a second chance.
dani smith is a traitorous cunt!
Seditious bitch.
A shit-stain of a human who’s in it for herself.
So many places to go after Danielle smith. Do we have to make her sex one of them? She is a horrible leader, a liar, traitorous, vacuous, purveyor of bullshit culture war, climate change denier, maga sycophant, incompetent shitforbrains, and worst of humanity
You can say a lot without mentioning her sex
He never mentioned her sex. Cunts are gender neutral.
Maybe is Australia. Next guys calls her a bitch. Just saying hate her cause she’s horrible. No need for misogyny
Don’t be a cunt
See? it’s entirely different when you call a guy a cunt vs when you call a woman a cunt. Because it’s not gender neutral
He didn’t even know if you were a woman or a man. You just made his point.
I’m trying to figure out if I’m having conversations with 14 yr old edgelords. Is his point that derogatory comments to women are cool, or that misogynistic terms are cool regardless who their aimed at? Are racially insensitive terms ok too?
it’s entirely different when you call a guy a cunt vs when you call a woman a cunt
No it’s not. Maybe to you but that’s more a ‘you’.
Gotta say I’m kinda shocked at the amount of people adamant that they’re right to call women cunts. Do you also fight for your right to drop nbombs or other racial slurs, or is it just women were allowed to slander? If cunt and bitch are ok, can we also call them whores and sluts? Is there a line we don’t cross?
Please explain as it seems I’m too stupid to understand the nuance here
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This is hypocrisy unless you’re also this offended when someone calls another person a dick
Is it the same? Is calling a white person a cracker the same as calling a black person an nbomb?
I could. But she doesn’t deserve that kind of respect
I agree she doesn’t deserve respect. I guess my point is that it’s not just her that you’re hurting with misogynistic slurs, it’s also my daughter who gets hurt
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I totally hear you. It is not my intention to hurt anyone else besides danis shitty feelings. I just dont have a problem getting in the mud with them to play their own game
The word, as an insult, may be used predominantly to refer to either gender in some parts of the world, but in other parts it’s usually gender-specific. Both points of view – that it’s misogynistic and that it’s not – could be argued to be valid because we live in different cultures. That said, we’re a global audience here and so using this word across cultures becomes problematic.
Here in the USA, it’s still a mostly gendered word based in misogyny. People in the US claiming otherwise probably just don’t want to stop using the word as an insult and either don’t believe or care that it perpetuates misogyny in the US when used against women.
The claim in this thread that it’s matter-of-fact not misogynistic is untrue globally.
Danielle the traitor. PP the traitor. That’s my nicknames for those two.
ford is a traitor, he was humping trumps leg and was ready to sell out Canada until it looked bad for him. He is still fucking up healthcare, and selling off greenspaces, and filling his pockets, as is tradition with conservatives. Fucking traitors the lot of them.
Any sources because he’s been pretty loudly against trump since the 51st state comments. Not holding back waiting for polls
Yeah, he came out and was a good guy by surprise there.
I really hope he’s what the future of the Conservative party looks like federally. Not PP or Danielle Smith.
Ford was caught on hot mic saying he was happy Trump won until tariff threats started.
“Election day, was I happy this guy won? One hundred per cent I was,” Ford said. “But then the guy pulled out the knife and f–king yanked it into us.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-trump-win-comments-tariffs-1.7449512
In defence of Ford, he’s done a pretty good job vocally standing up to Trump, but I don’t know anyone in their right mind that would be happy Trump won.
He withdrew the electricity surcharges after winning the election and meeting with trump…
Weak
Yes, but the original post stated, Ford waited for things to look bad for him before he switched sides. Ford was pretty quick to say fuck them.
Yes he’s conservative but he’s Canadian first
To be clear I didn’t vote for him but I could have.
Yeah I’m as unhappy as I am he’s in charge … he’s at least got Canada as his priority unlike Danielle Smith.
Yeah I think as soon as he heard about tariffs again he was immediately aggressive about it.
He’s an asshole for sure, but he’s our asshole.
I just don’t know how he forgot about this all when on US election night.
Not ‘our’ asshole, just a populist. They see the way the wind in blowing and make a bunch of noise about it and then do what they were always going to do, which is sell off more of the province to Mattamy.
For anyone just reading the comments, please be aware that this is old news. Article from Jan 21st.
Any developments since then?
I imagine they would update the article if that changed but maybe I’m putting up my hopes too high here
Alberta’s Trump. Glad in BC we avoided our version, by the skin of our teeth.
Oh, was it close there too? It was painful when Smith won by 1300 votes.
No thanks to Danielle Smith who ran election interference in BC.
At this rate, Danielle LeSmith is a few months away from being indicated on embezzlement charges 🤞
You might be on to something. Might be angling for the Andrew Tate treatment from the Trump regime. Probably will renounce her Canadian citizenship and get a job on Fox News.
I wish Dani was at least owned by the Canadian oil companies but we can’t even have that…
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