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Alberta You See Pee 😷✊🟠🌻 Profile picture
@youseepeeYYC
May 30 • 13 tweets • 7 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Four years ago I launched this account with the intent to be a sh!t-posting satire account in the lead up to the 2019 election.

In that time, much has changed. Including me.

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For one thing, I learned that good satire is reeealy hard to do.

Some people on here make it look easy. To those who can find humour in dark times, that is your gift, and I thank you.

I pretty much gave up on being a satire account.

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Paying the closest attention to politics that I ever had placed horrific things front and centre.

There are too many to mention.

Just read @bailrs’ list. Follow him while you’re there.

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Instead of satire, I worked more on research, education, strengthening community, encouraging leftists & progressives to follow each other, and sharing resources.

And a healthy dose of memes.

To my surprise, people started following me.

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I knew that because of my family circumstances I wasn’t going to be able to produce the volume or quality of journalism as the many independent journalists I’ve discovered here. But I could try to contribute by bringing awareness to them.

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I’ve also been humbled by being able to connect with and amplify experts and doctors throughout the pandemic.

Y’all are way smarter than me. Thank-you for all you do.

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But my focus returned to the #UCP and the corrupt forces that bring them to power.

For a little while we even got #BoycottUCPdonors to trend.

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All this is to say that I’ve been spending four years to take down the #UCP.

This evening we’ll find out how that went.

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It still surprises me how nobody has openly ridiculed the #UCP for their name.

Yes, it’s childish, but how did anyone ever take these neo-social-credit Reformicons seriously? Why haven’t they been laughed at out of the province?

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Well, not THAT surprising, considering how money flows around the owners of this province.

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In my time here I’ve written many threads here. I could go on at length reposting them, but then we’d be here all night.

Most are saved in the threadreader app, or you can search @youseepeeYYC with the 🧵 emoji within the bird app to find them.

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I could go on. For now I encourage you to listen to @BertaAdvantage, @ForgCornPod, and the rest of the @Harbingertweets media network.

I’ve learned a great deal from them.
Anyway. Regardless of the outcome tonight, y’all have been wonderful.

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Alberta You See Pee 😷✊🟠🌻 Profile picture
May 29
Having a peak at right-wing media sources.

Here’s how the CTF is framing the NDP’s economic policy.

How much profit does a business have to be bringing in to pay $100k or even $500k in provincial taxes at current rates? Image
Rebel media implies that the #UCP is the healthcare party! Image
True North Centre says Rachel Notley & the NDP will get rid of math!

Also: colonialism is good; drag queens bad. ImageImageImage
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Alberta You See Pee 😷✊🟠🌻 Profile picture
May 24
A letter from doctors to the province:

“Despite our best efforts to provide comprehensive and accessible care 24-hours a day, 7-days a week, we are increasingly unable to do so.”

Things are bad. Screen shots incoming. 1/ https://docs.google.com/doc...https://docs.google.com/doc...
“650,000 Albertans are without a family doctor. This is due, in no small part, to the destabilisation of primary care through government policy.”

🚨 albertadoctors.org/services/physi… 👀 ImageImage
“The labour shortages are not confined to family doctors and nurses. We are now witnessing the effects of burnout on our own emergency doctors colleagues.”

🚨docs.google.com/document/d/1DZ…👀 ImageImage
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Alberta You See Pee 😷✊🟠🌻 Profile picture
May 21
In 2016 I predicted the results of the American election by scrolling some active social media places and counting how many times the candidates were named. Trump was mentioned at a ratio of more than 4:1 over Hillary. We know how that went.
It didn’t matter that almost every article posted about Trump was negative. It didn’t matter that people we calling out that he was bad. Republicans had dominated the ever-important attention economy to gain an edge at the polls.

rand.org/pubs/perspecti…
When I told people what I expected the outcome of the election to be at the time, they were upset. “How can you support Trump?” They asked.

My saying who I thought would win wasn’t the same as declaring support. 2016 was the result of corp media compliance + algorithms. 🧵👇
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Alberta You See Pee 😷✊🟠🌻 Profile picture
Apr 23
In January 2000, Darrell Night was abandoned outside Saskatoon by two police officers. He is remembered for speaking out against this practice of "Starlight Tours."

Night passed away earlier this month at age 56. ImageImage
Two officers were convicted in Night's case. Investigations into the deaths of Naistus and Wegner were inconclusive.

Night was essentially kidnapped, taken away and left to die on an extremely cold winter night on the outskirts of Saskatoon.

cbc.ca/news/canada/sa…
I wrote about the attempted murder of Darrell Night previously in this thread on police brutality in Canada almost exactly two years ago.

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Alberta You See Pee 😷✊🟠🌻 Profile picture
Feb 15
The “order” part of “law and order” has always been about keeping the “lesser” classes in line.

Policing in Canada grew out of gangs that were hired to beat Indigenous people and break worker’s strikes.

What @sunrickbell outlines is promises of violence.
Here’s a thread that I wrote a while ago about the history of “order” in Calgary and Canada.

The other term for “order” is police brutality.

Making streets feel “safe” means getting police off them, @sunrickbell. 🧵👇

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One specific example of police enforcing social order—that’s the term used in @sunrickbell’s article:

“The woman who was assaulted by a Calgary police officer who threw her to the ground like a rag doll in 2017 says she's still dealing with the trauma.”

cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
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Alberta You See Pee 😷✊🟠🌻 Profile picture
Jan 29
Because the wealthy own the largest channels that most people use to inform themselves, the narratives that challenge their dominance will never reach as wide an audience as they deserve.

#KlondikePapers
Those with wealth will use their power to suppress criticism and dissent. When criticism and dissent slips past their mass media conglomerates, there is always the courts—which have been built to protect the wealthy.

Because the working class has been squeezed to the point that almost half of Canadians are just a few hundred dollars from insolvency, it is virtually impossible for the working class to stand up to their oppressors.

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