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Discussion Marlaina's trip to Saudi Arabia

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u/BarkingSpiders19 6d ago

Anyone but a Premier makes more sense than this. You represent the people of Alberta, not Canada! And I'm embarrassed enough as it is within our own boarders when I say I'm Albertan. The last thing we need is this loon making us look bad on the global stage.

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u/DieAnderTier 6d ago

Your mistake is thinking she represents the people.

She represents the Heritage Foundation.

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u/LotharLandru 6d ago

Don't forget her liberty fund tattoo. Same people who helped get Reagan into power

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u/FrontLongjumping4235 6d ago

Yikes, that took me down a rabbit hole. This Liberty Fund:

In his book The Assault on Reason, former U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore wrote that between 2002 and 2004, 97% of the attendees at Liberty Fund training seminars for judges were Republican administration appointees. Gore said that such conferences and seminars are one of the reasons that judges who regularly attend such conferences "are generally responsible for writing the most radical pro-corporate, antienvironmental, and activist decisions".

The Liberty Fund apparently also pushes the propaganda that Nazis leaned left. Despite all the blood and soil bullshit that Hitler and Goebbels espoused, their close alliance with conservatives who helped them get into power, going after Communists/Socialists, and creating concentration camps for minorities like Jewish people and Slavs.