My nana was full gospel, same thing. At 6 years old, I was having nightmares due to their bible / church teachings, which they thought they'd cure by laying of hands to cast out the demons, which involved a lot of speaking in tongues and rolling on ground. It didn't help. 🤣

Perhaps more of an alternate history Mosley's Britain?

Collecting money as many others do during drought, is not the issue. The issue is that coal mining in Southern Alberta will both use a lot of water and put the water shed at risk. He knows the importance of ranching, yet he is onboard with the rest of him for coal mining.

I’m sure Braid will eventually figure out a way to pretend UCP corruption was done to protect the province or something. Maybe Rick Bell can help brainstorm new excuses for the self serving corruption.

Agree - unfortunately though many Leftists I knew were saying they thought that Trump was going to create peace (in a non violent way).

This one is the biggest "I told you so" moment yet, I can't even when it comes to this. Yes, Democrat support of genocide was bad, but Trump will be worse and he'll probably put up a casino afterwards.

Anyway, I was wondering if ya'll have or had the same asymmetry in the relationships with Trumpers, where they did drive-by opinion dumps in your comments including laugh emojis and making insulting statements, and you either rarely comment or didn't at all on their posts.

I figured that basically I wasn't likely to change their views anyhow, so I limited to extreme misinformation, like them posting a ridiculous conspiracy that just didn't make sense - eg Trudeau being Castro's son, and asking them if they were serious or just trolling.

Doing it for the lulz can lead to irony poisoning, where something that was previously considered wrong becomes a joke, and slowly because it is no longer taken seriously people become desensitized, and what was once a joke becomes a belief for those same people.

Of course they are gaslighting now - but unless they are very very stupid, they know what it was, and they knew he did it for the lulz -- to troll the Libs.

But doing it for the lulz is still wrong.

Don't worry, if she is able to push through the coal policy and the Grassy Mountain Coal Project gets built, most of the ranching & farmers in Alberta will be done with anyhow.

Seems fiscally conservative of them, not like having blind seniors to take care of is more expensive than taking care of glaucoma exams.
This is why I will always reject fiscal conservatism over fiscal responsibility.
Fiscal Conservatism is short sighted, greedy and does nothing to benefit society.