Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism

Post by tomhow » Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 1:03 AM UTC

shell0x wrote: post #85

tamimio wrote: post #62

The root issue is the monetization. If engagements weren’t monetized, no one will be incentivized to post in rage bait or hot topics for the most part, and of course, if you live in a country where $100 a month is a quality of life, you will have thousands of these posters. Look at twitter, if you browse it now you will think ww4 is imminent (as if ww3 started already), everyone is hating and attacking everything and…

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Post by roncesvalles » Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 5:58 AM UTC

api wrote: post #76

roncesvalles wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Separatism is born of a sense of ethnoracial exceptionalism: 1) we're a genealogically different ethnic group from the rest of the country 2) we're better than the major ethnic group of the rest of the country Both bits are absolutely essential. I can't recall a single instance of a separatist movement based on purely political differences gaining serious ground, Alberta included.

Why just ethnic? It can also be religious, ideological, or based on some economic interest. The US revolution was a mix of tax revolt and ideology. The British were the same ethnic group as most of the leaders of the revolution.

Most (serious) separatist movements that appear religiously/ideologically motivated on the surface have a lesser known but critical ethnoracial exceptionalism myth that underpins them (e.g. Kashmir).

Again, I don't consider de-colonization movements to be separatism. A rough criteria would be that you must be physically contiguous to the state that you're trying to separate from.

Also heed my second criteria: a people who perceive themselves to be inferior to the majority group will never, ever develop ambitions of separatism. It usually goes like: "we're better than these other guys but they keep us under their thumbs, hence we want our own country."

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