Bit of a reality check: people acting as if Donald Trump is the first American President to say something ignorant about Canada really don't know anything about the relationship between Canada and the United States.
In the 1960s, old enough for an individual who was born when it happened to have died of old age, the president of the United States at the time made comment about "the tail wagging the dog" what's the implication being that Canada was small and powerless, and should know it's place in the hierarchy of American Continental politics.
In some ways, Trump's 51st state talk is an elevation from being treated like a mere territorial holding that many previous presidents expressed.
In the 1960s, old enough for an individual who was born when it happened to have died of old age, the president of the United States at the time made comment about "the tail wagging the dog" what's the implication being that Canada was small and powerless, and should know it's place in the hierarchy of American Continental politics.
In some ways, Trump's 51st state talk is an elevation from being treated like a mere territorial holding that many previous presidents expressed.
"Workers are putting away a record share of their income for retirement," per WSJ
The ought-is problem is a major problem -- you can't find right and wrong in the spin of planets or atoms. It isn't there.
The modernists thought you could, so every ideology they came up with ended up being horribly destructive, and they claimed their piles of corpses were acceptable because they claimed to have found morality there and all they found was justifications for whatever they wanted to do anyway.
The postmodernists had ideas that might have released them from modernism, but they ultimately collapsed into postmodernism flavored modernism. Paradoxically, their grand narrative becomes a specific flavor of "there is no grand narrative" and their objective truth becomes "there is no objective truth". If you are certain with religious fervor that the things most people believe to be true or not true, what happens when that becomes what most people believe?
The modernists thought you could, so every ideology they came up with ended up being horribly destructive, and they claimed their piles of corpses were acceptable because they claimed to have found morality there and all they found was justifications for whatever they wanted to do anyway.
The postmodernists had ideas that might have released them from modernism, but they ultimately collapsed into postmodernism flavored modernism. Paradoxically, their grand narrative becomes a specific flavor of "there is no grand narrative" and their objective truth becomes "there is no objective truth". If you are certain with religious fervor that the things most people believe to be true or not true, what happens when that becomes what most people believe?
Yes, the problem with marxists is that marx lived in a time where the government represented 5% of GDP or less. In such a world, he might have come to think that capitalism was the only thing that could hold power. Today, some Western countries are as high as 60% of GDP as government, proving definitively that capitalism is longer the dominant power
I was at a circus recently, I saw someone do stuff like this. Maybe she wants to be a circus carney.
Shit, now I've got the Egyptian authorities on my ass.
I haven't seen them so mad since someone made Cleopatra black.
I haven't seen them so mad since someone made Cleopatra black.
"while it is true that X, oh look a birdie look at the little birdie ooh it's so cute. Fact check: FALSE"
True. You can have normal soap that's potassium stearate, or metal soaps like magnesium or aluminium stearate. The former acts like soap we think of, the latter doesn't so much (metal soaps are hydrophobic)
I kind of feels like an absurd question because anyone who's been following things knows there have been big problems for quite a few years now.
Every time I'm like "hey, maybe I should also open an account in X?" I shortly after am shown that the fediverse is the best platform and I am right where I need to be.
The really scary thing about it is that the boomers are going to die soon. Most of them are already in their 70s. When you have all of these million dollar homes and the population is collapsing, even the kids who took the risk to buy a home are going to be kind of up shit creek without a paddle.