https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-annexation-destabilizing-canada-1.7479890
Perhaps I’m just paranoid.
Canadian expat living in the UK here. Do not be so quick to dismiss these as bots.
I moved to London 6 months before the country shot itself in the ass with Brexit. Even days before the vote, literally everyone I spoke to in person and online agreed that Brexit was too stupid to happen, but my wife wasn’t convinced. She’d been spending time on right wing subreddits, reading the misinformation and vitriol. She was convinced that Leave would win.
The day after the vote, two of my work colleagues proudly announced that they’d voted to leave.
Our social spheres are small, and despite (or perhaps also because of) the internet, typically insulated from people with whom we disagree. There are very likely more Leavers out there than you might think.
Alberta has had a deep “fuck Canada” streak for as long as I can remember. It’s entirely plausible that at least some of these comments are from real idiots with real power to vote Leave, and we dismiss them at our peril.
Also Canadian in the UK. Hello from The North™.
I moved just as it was being implemented, and the people at my local who had voted leave, there weren’t many, that were shocked that they couldn’t go through the EU express lane at passport control…was frankly disturbing…Protestations of “this wasn’t the Brexit I voted for!” abounded… And like… motherfucker…this is exactly the Brexit you voted for dumbfuck!
Danielle is greedy for Canada’s oil (not Alberta’s oil…Canada’s oil) and she is willing to use all kinds of chicanery while she gets more and more in cahoots with our southern neighbours.
Canada has a history of separatists, most notably Quebec who held two referendums on the issue.
The first (in 1980) was rejected by 60% of Quebec voters. The second (in 1995) was extremely close – 50.6% to 49.4% against separation.
After the last vote the Quebec separatist movement seemed to die down a bit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_sovereignty_movement
While we should pay attention to what some Albertans say on the issue I am hopeful that others will look to Brexit and Quebec for teachable moments.
russian bots wouldve done the same, if not at a better effect than US would.
The backend on YouTube is pretty much designed to encourage skub (ragebait/“engagement”). Having comments that are incendiary is good for the video’s performance.
Does that make it the perfect breeding ground for astroturfing and pushing misinformation? Probably. Bad actors can basically use it as a cheap form of advertising and pushing ideas that benefit them. Even the creator of the video if it was a video that has a completely opposite viewpoint of those comments still stands to benefit from having them because that increases engagement and their revenue.
So I guess my point is is that YouTube has a lot of problems and there is a multitude of reasons why comments like that have a home there and motives for them.
the shorts are good for that ragebaiting, but putting stuff out of context.
Regardless of whether or not these particular comments are US intelligence, I am 100% convinced that Trump is going to try and make Alberta the Canadian Donbas.
They’ll do their little Wexit vote thing and they’ll lose, but there will be a massive amount of disinfo in all of the places you’d expect saying it was rigged, and they’ll just escalate from there. Who knows when the guns break out, but I feel like there are people down south who are planning on this leading to a military “liberation”
Albertan First Nations need to steal the spotlight.
Recent polling by Angus Reid shows that major opposition from First Nations (as secession violates their treaty rights) either would not effect Albertans/Saskatchewanians opinion on leaving or would make them more likely to want to leave
https://angusreid.org/referendum-alberta-saskatchewan-smith-moe/
I didn’t really mean opinion polls. I expect it’d be something more like this
It’s likely not even a US op, and division like this benefits places like China and Russia even more.
All the US did was take Russia off the cyberthreat list and stop monitoring their VPNs. The Russian bots have been very obvious across all US platforms.
A data scientist supposedly uses emojis like that?!
“Data scientist” (also known as a “scientist”) here.
Yes.
Have you seen Git project READMEs? Also what’s the problem with it really?
It was a tweet, not a dissertation.
America is Russia.
Cant spell russia without usa!
Amerussia
It’s time to recognize that the US is fully capable and has deployed propaganda operations throughout the world over the years. We may or may not have been a target so far, but the more we try to decouple, the more we’re becoming a likely target. And they’re not gonna come out and say we’re being targeted.
Bot avalanche. I’m sitting here with in laws from AB, life long conservatives they think Marlaina is a big mouthed idiot, for the first time in their life they voted liberal because Polievre is not a compelling leader - and them and none of their conservative Christian friends or anyone they know anywhere in Alberta have any interest in separating. The internet doesn’t reflect the real world. There IS no critical mass of people in AB who want to separate. And oil & gas is not a culture, it’s an industry - not an identity.
That’s what a French teacher in Alberta was saying today, being from Quebec they have an opinion on separatism may they want it or not.
“Being allowed to pollute as much as you want isn’t a national project contrary to Quebec’s project when they had their referendums.”
Is that Youtube comments?
Lol, if you are just realizing this, I think you are late to the party buddy.
Youtube has been filled with extremist comments for a while, like at least a decade now.
As someone who lives in Southern Alberta. I can say that no one I’ve spoken to would support this nonsense. Mainly because they understand how levels of government work, how funding works, and how trade deals work. The basics lol.
This can be anybody really. Russia for example is known to just stir the pot as much as possible. Whatever argument will cause destabilization.
Funny, Danielle Smith does the same thing…
Obviously not from Alberta. Proper grammar and punctuation is a dead give away.
You might look at the history of Calexit and Brexit to deduce who’s behind Albexit.
Closer to #40 by GDP if they were to keep their economy as strong as it is now, which they wouldn’t as they would be landlocked and absorbed by the US in a matter of months and would then by #23 out of 51 states instead of the #1 province…
Hey, totally not an American agent here. Comments have totally always been like that. Just ignore it and don’t push back, troll them, or engage in anyway. You should just post about how you don’t like this stuff on Lemmy where it’s just us here.
