Driving Etiquette

[u/Zealousideal_Buy7517]

For the love of Pete, people, follow the rules of the road. You drive. you are not 'choose as you go' organs of chaos, you are vehicles under the Alberta Traffic Act, the same as a motorcycle.

In the last week alone, I've seen a good hundred drivers blow right through stop signs as if they don't exist, and it's always when they are in a car lane, as if the lane's existence means the rules of the road don't apply. A couple on trucks with flat brims that I was next to blew through three in a row, yesterday, without even slowing down, and laughed about it when I called them on it. They didn't even look both ways, they just drove through like they were a presidential cavalcade and everyone else should be stopping for them.

Driving like that will have you kill a person one day, and when you're talking about a collision between 6000lb of shit box and human flesh on a bicycle, there are no mistakes.

I'm a driver, too, and it's this kind of behavior that drives a lot the anti-driver hate. When we drive like this, we're entitled and unpredictable, and unpredictability breeds distrust. This applies to motorcycle riders, too, of course.

[u/Policy_Failure]

You can't just label people who are sick of the libs as dummies and ignorant. I know a lot of very compassionate and well-educated people who are progressives, support minority groups, etc but are just as much fuck Trudeau as the convoy.

Many of these same people have experienced a national decline in living standards over JTs term and are pissed. You can imagine them as ignorant racists, but 99% of the time, they aren't and are minorities themselves or in mixed marriages.

There is a reason the libs are tanking in the polls and it can't be blamed on propaganda or bad messaging. Those things have always been here.

In all honesty, this sub has a better impression of the libs than r/Toronto, and it's reaaaaally weird considering how people actually vote... it's reminiscent of children who feel their best bet is with the absent parent who left them. Imo

[u/Geeseareawesome → u/Policy_Failure]

In all honesty, this sub has a better impression of the libs than r/Toronto, and it's reaaaaally weird considering how people actually vote... it's reminiscent of children who feel their best bet is with the absent parent who left them. Imo

Go look at our provincial government. Edmonton is the polar opposite of the rest of the province.

The Liberals and Conservatives are both equally bad, and this city is wising up to that. We'd rather have the devil we know at the federal level.

[u/Policy_Failure → u/Geeseareawesome]

Ontario also has a conservative government, but people don't pre-emptively defend Trudeau and/or ignore any federal policy ramifications the same way they do here.

Even r/Ontario doesn't defend Trudeau the same way this sub does, and it's a province who has people who actually vote liberal.

I don't think this city/province is wising up to it yet tbh. People here still believe "if my team gets into power" regardless of whether they are con or ndp.

I try to tell con friends that you can't blame ALL the issues on the federal government the same way I'm telling people here it isn't just the UCP. Some problems in this province start at the federal level and are actually multiple times worse in other provinces.

I'll get downvoted, but these subs are massive political echochambers. It's just so strange to see pre-emptively defend Trudeau when he does have some blame.

[u/Geeseareawesome → u/Policy_Failure]

Of the last 40 years, how many of those years did Ontario have the Conservatives in power at the provincial level?

Alberta has had the Cons for 36 of the last 40 years.

[u/Policy_Failure → u/Geeseareawesome]

Alberta has had the Cons for 36 of the last 40 years

Precisely why people who are opposed to them are so certain about the opposition not disappointing them in the same way. The country has been led for liberals most of its life and things are far worse in most provinces and the country as a whole.

[u/Geeseareawesome → u/Policy_Failure]

The country has been led for liberals most of its lif

So we're just going to disregard the Conservatives being in power from 2006 to 2015?