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The people to blame are the ones who kept voting conservative instead of switching to reform. Handed the majority to labour.

The past 4 years have really been a divide between those who own stocks and assets, and those who sell their labor.

Even people who got respectable raises for the past 4 years haven't gotten raises to cover the increased costs in food, shelter, transportation, and fuel. You can blame companies for that, but they can't just massively increase everyone's pay in the same way you can't fly just by denying gravity exists. Moreover, CPI shows 20%, but that's cumulative and a lot of things that didn't go up or went way down by CPI's measure. Smart phones went way down, but ever since phone companies stopped giving out free phones, a lot of people are still using their old phones. I'm personally rocking a Galaxy S10, released 6 years ago, and I'm not looking to upgrade any time soon. Personal computers went down, but I'm still rocking the gaming PC I bought pre-pandemic.

Stonks, on the other hand? They've been doing great in general! My (modest) retirement account has gone up double digits, and there were months where I made more on stonk increases than on my actual wages. (It's all set aside for the future so it isn't like that changed my quality of life for the better today, but it's something worth knowing). I'm not even invested in stuff like the AI trade, which has in some cases seen more than triple digit increases.

If you realize this scenario, then it perfectly explains how the Democrats (who are mostly elite multi-millionaires themselves and whose closest allies are at least that too) thought they could run on vibes and joy. If you're already rich, then it *has been* vibes and joy. The problem is most people don't live off of stonks, they live off of selling their labor, and those people have seen material drops in their quality of life.

Don't get me wrong, the Republicans are mostly multi-millionaires (Trump is a multi-billionaire) with at least multi-millionaire friends, but one other key thing of the past 8 years is that the Democrats reject anyone who doesn't agree with them as racist sexist homophobic transphobic fascist nazis, as deplorables, and the Republicans haven't taken to this strategy. I think that's one reason why despite their historical disadvantage with the poor, the Republicans won big among the masses including union workers.

Right now, the Conservatives under Poilievre are on track to a massive majority. If the election were held today, the socialist New Democratic Party would drop from third largest party to fourth, the Trudeau's Liberals would drop to second.

My hope is that we can drop the Liberals to third, so the official opposition will be the the separatist party the Bloc Quebecois, because I can't think of a better denunciation of the Liberals or NDP than having the separatists beat them in a federal election.

https://338canada.com/

Reminds me of all the people who claim the only good people for the environment live in cities, apparently blissfully unaware of why people can live in all those cities and not die of lack of food, fuel, or other materials.

"Quick! He's trying to escape!"

Yes, even if he's the most impactful president in 4 years in American history, this is a marathon and he'll be dropping out after the first mile.

Theatres can't stay in business on showing movies that claim to be important for society but don't put butts in seats, and that's basically every movie from Hollywood these days.

For those who didn't know, Transport Tycoon was reverse engineered and it's now available for free in open source form on most platforms.

https://www.openttd.org/

That's impressively self-deluded.

Sometimes I see a picture like this and I'm like "How can people live on instances without pure black backgrounds? It must be so sad. I feel for them."

Because it looks really cool on a pure black background.

And if there is no threat, let's phone one in so we can do it anyway.

I bet there's some interesting backroom conversations going on there.

I don't think you can get kicked off of facebook for that. Our Prime Minister is still on there.

Fukken do it, quickly!

"didu you maku zu babisu, Donardo?"

"Yes Shinzo, we're not talking about that now"

"MAKU ZU BABISU!"

I don't think so. Nyquil is mostly just tylenol these days, no different than most any other cough syrup -- at least in my neck of the woods.

Colbert used to be funny sometimes, but most of these people went so far up their own asses they have fractal teeth now.

I want my old green death nyquil, that'll knock you out and let you see the face of God if you try to fight it to humble you, back.