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Lavenie@programming.dev to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 hours ago

Alberta voters reject plan for referendum to leave Canada

www.theguardian.com

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Alberta voters reject plan for referendum to leave Canada

www.theguardian.com

Lavenie@programming.dev to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 hours ago
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Result is a victory for prime minister Mark Carney and supporters of Canadian unity
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    You can’t reason a person out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into

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      Beautiful. Why haven’t I heard this one before? Standard repertoire from now on!

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        Why haven’t I heard this one before?

        Because you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000!

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          Thank you for thinking of posting this, it’s as apt as the original post.

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        Enjoy

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      Yeah, but there aren’t enough idiots anywhere to actually do something like that.

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        Press x to doubt.

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          If there were, Quebec would have done it years ago.

          Or, to go to a different country, Texas would have ceded from the US.

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            TX thinks they’re special enough to have their own private power grig largely disconnected from the rest of the USA managed by the folks at https://www.ercot.com/

            Guess which state it is we see massive outages across whenever there’s a slight dip in the winter temps or the least bit of snow?

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              I was about to ask “and what good has that done them?” before I got to your second paragraph.

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        Thankfully not

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