Don Allen

@maerlande.bsky.social

Full time BA student focusing on Philosphy and History for now. Student representative on council and advocacy committee for my fellow students. Survivor of 4 tumors and going hard and strong. Carpe Diem! #ForeverCanadian Go Thomas Go! #abpoli

How did you Americans elect Trump? It's obvious to the rest of the world it's at the core of the USA. You are at root, a deeply fucked people. You elected a sociopath. No where else in the world voted for a sociopath. Democracy should eliminate sociopaths.

This is a profound continental divide. Canadians overwhelmingly view other Canadians, even those unlike them, as being good people. Americans, more than any other country, view their neighbours and fellow citizens as bad people. Anti-Americanism flourishes in the United States

Pew Research Center@pewresearch.org · 6mo ago

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country. The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...

Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.

I read a lot about all this stuff is counter to American values. Trump is the result of American values. Reality TV beats science. Branding beats content. There are reasons we have legislation requiring Canadian content. This is America as we see it and have for decades.

I grew up with Rob Reiner. I watched him as Meathead as a child and teen. "Spinal Tap" was formative for me when it came out. "The Princess Bride" I still quote regularly..... Rob Reiner is one of the very few people I would consider an inspriration. The other is the Dalai Lama. That's a short list

Hey Americans? Your president is the laughing stock of the rest of the liberal democracies. How does it feel to be a joke? You used to be the scariest nation in the world and we all had to suck up. Now? We can just laugh as your economy implodes, you lose all credibility in foreign affairs...

I really hope Elon and the other techbros along with the Muskovites get that Mars mission going real soon and they all piss off to Mars. Hell, may as well spend all that US government subsidy on something useful like getting them gone.

“Enyinnah Okere, a deputy minister of communications, also said in an email the interim report won’t be made public, citing no requirement to do so in the terms of the investigation set by the government.” So no interim report for public eyes. #abpoli www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Interim report on Alberta health contract scandal not finished, won’t be made public

Alberta’s government says it has yet to receive an interim report on the investigation into allegations of corruption over health contracts but it should be finished in the coming days.

ctvnews.ca

“Danielle Smith has directed officials to invoke the Charter’s notwithstanding clause in amending three laws that affect transgender people” Danielle Smith is going to revoke people’s Charter Rights. Thats where we are. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli lethbridgeherald.com/news/nationa...

Alberta to use notwithstanding clause on its three transgender laws: memo

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has directed officials to invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause in amending three laws that affect

lethbridgeherald.com

"This was identified early on as the likely outcome." Investors jumped on this technology, not because it would actually solve the problem, but because they could make loads of money provided by desperate governments eager to show they were doing something. /1 www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Carbon capture – the get-out-of-jail-free card that does not actually work

Engineers have been trying to perfect the technology for years but the maximum effect it could manage is far short of what the planet needs

theguardian.com

"After Bill Clinton banned assault weapons in 1994, mass shooting deaths dropped by 43%. After the Republican Congress let the ban expire in 2004, they shot up by 239%. We don't need to arm teachers; we need to BAN assault weapons again!" - Lee Turner, Democratic Congressional candidate

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