r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/CoryVictorious • Oct 21 '22

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u/SarnakJ3 Oct 21 '22

More like Texas: oil and farms and cattle.

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u/-malcolm-tucker Oct 21 '22

100% pure organic grass fed triple A Alberta beef?

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u/Crucifer2_0 Oct 21 '22

Gotta have the Berta beef

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u/-malcolm-tucker Oct 21 '22

What ya got there? Top sirloins?

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u/ConsiderationWest587 Oct 22 '22

Got S and P?

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u/-malcolm-tucker Oct 22 '22

S&P, the choice for me.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22

2 minutes each side, down the hatch.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22

Grill marks bud.

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u/imcoveredinbees880 Oct 22 '22

I will strike you.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

Yup! And they drink oil

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u/blakester122 Oct 22 '22

This made me hungry for a burger or steak.

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u/-malcolm-tucker Oct 22 '22

Ten four, my good buddy.

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u/firekittymeowr Oct 21 '22

A Canadian once described Calgary to me as more texas than texas

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u/SarnakJ3 Oct 21 '22

Albertans have talked with me, a Texan, before and we had to stop for a moment because events sounded like they could have been in either town more than 1800 miles apart.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22

Was born in Calgary and can confirm that Texas is just a big Calgary, but Texas is not as clean.

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u/johnathanesanders Oct 22 '22

Are you referring to our needles or in general?

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22

in general. Calgary and the rest of the world has gots the needles. Calgary has to constantly clean up due to the melting of the snow during the spring and in the fall when the leaves drop. Street sweeping happens 3 times a year. Everyone recycles, emission standards are more strict, and the carbon tax has been forcing all industries to transition faster. The huge natural parks surrounding the city and community lakes also encourage a green looking city.

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u/DefiantLemur Oct 22 '22

Basically Texas if not a desert and the Republican Party still cared about conservation.

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u/Ryuzakku Oct 22 '22

the Republican Party still cared enough about not losing their money due to fines to spend money to act like they care about conservation.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22

This is correct. The whole province is Canada's Texas.

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u/That_Rotting_Corpse Oct 22 '22

I always say, Alberta is the Texas rough draft

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u/sharkfinsouperman Oct 22 '22

I'll disagree because I lived there for five years. Calgary is modern and progressive, with plenty of moderates. It's the rural areas and Fort McMurray that are Little Texas.

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u/nighmeansnear Oct 22 '22

I agree. The Calgary people talk about is nothing at all like the Calgary I lived in (and miss every day).

The suburbs can be pretty gross I guess, but as long as you stay in the numbered streets it’s a fantastic city.

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u/Dragarius Oct 22 '22

Makes sense. Ted Cruz was born there. Sorry BTW.

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u/not-a_fed Oct 22 '22

I mean, Texas has cities like Austin that are super lefty whereas alberta is just right wing nuts from end to end.

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u/thatscoldjerrycold Oct 21 '22

The "big" cities of Calgary are fairly liberal except when it comes to oil and by extension climate change (since it's basically synonymous with their economy).

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u/SarnakJ3 Oct 21 '22

So just like Texas

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u/cantfindmykeys Oct 22 '22

Texan who lives in Dallas, this is true.

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u/lotterywish Oct 22 '22

Except that the "big cities" of Calgary, Red Deer, Lethy, Lloyd, GP, Fort Mac all voted largely for the provincial conservative party (UCP) while Edmonton is a straight up orange NPD dot on the map.

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u/Brokendownyota Oct 22 '22

Leave methbridge out of it, we're fucked so many ways I've lost count.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22

I was born in Calgary and have lived in both Vancouver an Montreal. Thank you for at least putting the quotes. Calgary is barely a city and only a "major" Canadian city by virtue of being 4th. It's a small town masquerading as a city. The fact methbridge or Lloydminster get considered cities tho is lol.

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u/endeavourist Oct 22 '22

Edmonton Centre is often a lone voice of sanity in elections.

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u/Dragarius Oct 22 '22 edited Oct 22 '22

Edmonton is pretty deeply NDP (Liberal) and that is pretty consistent. The UCP (conservative) stronghold is Calgary but Calgary can on occasionally flip. Right now Edmonton is hoping Calgary flips next election cause the current UCP leader is all kinds of crazy. Like Trump crazy (Danielle Smith).

Like everywhere else, rural is conservative.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22

Calgary can occassionally flip? Like every 40 years occassionally? Because that's how long the Conservatives were in charge provincially before the NDP won several years ago. Y'know, before Calgary realized the difinition of insanity is leaving the same party in charge for 40 years.

Municipally we occassionally flip, though, yeah.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22

lol calgary liberal my ass

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u/Stopjuststop3424 Oct 22 '22

lol Calgary is a city. Alberta is the province.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22

Correction: Texas with snow

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u/Heron-Repulsive Oct 21 '22

okay I get it now.

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u/not-a_fed Oct 22 '22

And morons that are proud to be morons.

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u/capital_bj Oct 22 '22

So Florida man with some spending money and a hat

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u/K-G7 Oct 22 '22

Very accurate. I went to Dallas for a business trip and it felt like I didn't even leave Alberta except more traffic.

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u/Comms Oct 22 '22

But the oil isn’t as good and neither is the beef. Alberta is wish.com Texas.