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The Breakdown

7 Mar, 13 tweets, 11 min read

There are some really great Twitter accounts in #abpoli.

We are grateful for the amount of content that others produce, for the friends we have made on our little journey here.

Yesterday we posted about an odd little Facebook post...

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That post has resulted in some fascinating reactions, the largest being denial that it’s real.

It’s been implied we were duped, it’s been implied we faked it ourselves.

But the post, and what you see in not only our videos and others is real.

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We expect a variety of reactions when we post things.

And we can understand why people would be suspicious and skeptical.

But we also got a particular reaction that we honestly didn’t anticipate.

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We, and one of our favorite Twitter accounts of #ableg were attempted to be blackmailed.

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This account has harassed others before. It’s anonymous and super sketchy. But they didn’t stop there.

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To be clear, we do not know the identity of the person who (if our interpretation of events leading to the creation of the Facebook posts is correct) may admin both the GOA and the Alberta Patriots page.

And we don’t dox or encourage doxing.

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We don’t know who runs the Alberta Loud & Free citizen network.

But we do know that we hit a really big nerve last night.

And we know that rather than come at us, people have decided to go after Albertans who have nothing to do with our show.

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We’ve struggled with where to go with this, because the rules of engagement for #abpoli have clearly changed and have gotten much, much darker.

But if this is how Alberta politics works now, we believe people need to know.

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We have reported both of the posts as well as the account. We also forwarded these threats to who we believe was the target so they are aware and can make their own decisions on how to proceed.

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And for whoever runs that account as well as whoever fed them that info, we want to send our own little message...

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You are cowards.

You use human shields because you are cowards.

You are corrupting the very fabric of our society and our democracy.

And if you think we’re going away because you are willing to threaten people and threaten to destroy lives, you are wrong.

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We are commentary and satire, and every once in a while we hit upon something of substance through the help of other passionate Albertans.

You are beneath us and the people of this province and we will not stop because of cowards like you.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

To everyone else, we love our little network and we are so so sorry that it appears the knives have started to come out.

This is where we are Alberta.

We know what we’re going to do about it.

What are you going to do?

/fin

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https://twitter.com/thebreakdownab/status/1368295417885073410

There’s been quite a bit of furor over this post, so we would like to take a second to offer some clarification.

Do with it what you will.

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https://twitter.com/thebreakdownab/status/1368295417885073410

First of all, like we said, we made the video. It is cropped to not have the person who shared it on February 8th doxxed.

That’s not how we roll.

But it is absolutely a real video of a real shared post on a real Facebook profile.

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Without them, it would have eventually come out with UCP MLA’s posting pictures, displaying that same lack of judgement, but those two really got the ball rolling.

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