I’ve forgotten this sometimes but being able to discover something you like, curate it, and make time to enjoy it *is* intelligence, connecting with art is intelligence, empathy is intelligence, the way of the dullard is to find nothing meaningful in art except for a way to seem snidely clever

"...to largely American owners, while suppressing competition and access to other forms energy.

I can’t emphasize strongly enough that policies that aren’t remotely based in reality are doomed to fail." 6/6

"Canadians are being told that in order to save Canada and keep Alberta from separating, we just have to permanently agree to weaken our laws and suppress Indigenous rights for a plan that ensures the maximization of oil industry profits..." 5/6

"it’s not regulations or provinces or Indigenous people in Canada that have been the obstacle to oil and gas development. It’s been the market conditions, distorted by a global oil cartel that sets prices that we are forced to take." 4/6

"...and because it has been repeated so much, it has shaped public opinion, and fuelled the flames of rage, threats, and separatism." 3/6

"When Danielle Smith talks about Albertans being “abused” I find it morally repellent. It’s genuinely a kind of hatemongering. It wasn’t other Canadians attacking Alberta. That’s a colossal, and incredibly harmful lie, and it has gone unchallenged..." 2/6

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Forgot to add this tag! (see parent to this reply) #Caturday