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Problem is Toronto and Vancouver are left wing havens, and they have many seats, so you can win the country despite the map being pure blue (conservative) because a bunch of tiny ridings outnumber entire provinces.

It works right until it stops working.

They were on a waiting list for 8 years to get that car.

FreeBASIC FTW

No global megacorps would ever want to touch that.

It's funny, when they swapped out Biden for Harris at the last minute I was thinking of Kim Campbell and how that basically destroyed her political career so Mulroney wouldn't need to take an L.

One reason I don't want Trudeau to retire until the Liberal party is in fourth place next election good and proper.

I feel like Trump should tap her for secretary of defense, help get the armed forces back on track with experience of the problems inside them.

Ah, that all-powerful far right in Southern California. Everyone knows they've got a strong power base there.

He is happy with his life, he doesn't want to kill himself, if anything happens to him it was not suicide, don't believe it.

I like how they just double down on "everyone but me is stupid and ignorant and that's why I'm losing subscribers and paid members!"

I like to double down on the "I'm actually retarded but maybe if I work hard and try to listen to other people I can figure some stuff out"

Deep dives into reality and the facts behind the scenes really are interesting, and it paints a totally different reality than the skin deep understanding most people have. Of course, once you have that view of a more complex reality, it's almost like they exist in different planes of existence from the basic narrative.

In retrospect it should have been obvious: They thought we could send the manufacturing to China, then our job would be to manage the factories and do designs for the factories. You'd have to think the Chinese are pretty stupid (and they aren't) to think that's a remotely sustainable model of economic development. Everyone in the west who has ever worked a manufacturing floor is dying of old age, while in China there's generations of people who have grown up working in factories who know exactly how something can be designed to be built.

So here's a question: Why shouldn't we just give southern ontario back to New York State and cut our losses?

Put simply, because 50% of the American economy was government at its peak in 2020, and 80% of dollars in existence were printed since 2020.

So for every apple you buy, there's a whole ecosystem sucking apples down without doing anything productive in exchange.

ngl, as an old man who grew up watching power rangers, I kinda want to read the comic.

These are not serious people with serious political philosophies.

It didn't do very well until the pandemic. If he actually is the bureaucracy buster he says he'll be, it's going to go down, but if he's the same as Trump 1, I sort of expect it's at least go generally sideways. If he spends like he did in his last quarter in office, it's gold 10k like Peter Schiff says.

I'm leaning towards "that's fucked up" because part of me thinks it wasn't a mistake.

I feel like some forms of inflation are morally just, and "I have to pay more money because we don't have slaves do work anymore" is one of those just causes of inflation.

The same media that told you to believe all that told you Trump would never be able to be in politics ever again, he'd never run for president again, and that he'd never win.

Uncritically believing whatever the media tells you isn't healthy. Imagine if you were in Germany in 1938, what would you be telling me then if you uncritically believed what the German media told you?

I believe their line was "nobody is above the law!"

If only everyone could agree we live in a more authoritarian western society than we ought to and focus on pushing back against that, instead of pushing back against the less authoritarian people who happen to be "on the other side".