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I am reminded of someone who pointed out that the whole Brexit campaign was "Britain first!! Fuck everybody else!!!!" and then the entire process of negotiating the exit was just "But why.....why are you being so MEAN to us.....don't you love us..... 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭"

"there's too few people on bluesky there's no point in hanging out here"

i used to spend all day posting on web forums with 500 active users. IRC chats with 25 people total. even on twitter i cared more about a handful of group DMs with like less than 200 total people in them than the public TL

"write your thoughts in a fucking journal and do a bump of cocaine after every sentence" is legitimately a better and less morally corrupting idea than continuing to post to twitter

i dont think "twitter is the largest producer and distrubtor of csam thats ever existed" has really sunk in

Most people simply do not even perceive an option

This was basically the policy of the entire Trudeau government, and to a lesser extent the Carney one.

Recognizing and asserting the space between ourselves and any potential American allies is a necessary prerequisite to having a useful strategic partnership with them

Bruce Arthur: Canada’s medal total at Milan Cortina Olympics was a quiet reckoning: ‘Our system is in decline’ If this Winter Games was a canary in Canada’s sports coal mine, then perhaps the government should decide how much sports is worth. It might be a lot.

“Our system is in decline.” The Canadian Olympic Committee’s closing press was unlike any I have seen: a call for more funding for what they say is a sports system in quiet crisis. The federal government should listen. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

It’s not a mutually exclusive impulse strangely enough.

It’s not unique but it is far more pronounced

You lost.

You’re asking us to put down money on the guy laying on the mat while the ref counts over his head

This is highly relevant to our national interests because Democrats obviously do not have the same ones as us (on account of being from a different country).

Canadian liberals (particularly those with higher levels of political engagement) often consume a lot of American political media and have a resulting tendency to place all their expectations and hopes on American progressives.

This fosters a sense of complacency that we can’t afford right now

For example, is there any reason Randy Fine should ever be admitted to Canada? Or any of his staffers? Or why any company he is a director, officer or investor in should be eligible for any Canadian government contract?

The fuck are your elbows Carney?

For example: NDP leadership debates unironically proposing ringing up Zohran Mamdani to answer how to take on Trump

Cross border connections with American liberals have largely had a numbing effect on their Canadian counterparts rather than a galvanizing one though.

We would be much better served by dispelling the common assumption that Democrats can or will save us, and recognizing that we are on our own.

FDR drinking something

FDR: "I assume that the German leaders are not deeply concerned, tonight or any other time, by what we Americans or the American Government say or publish about them. We cannot bring about the downfall of Nazism by the use of long-range invective."

JJ?

Spending time on the Nazi bird app absolutely cooks people's brains until they can't recognize that they sound like someone who wants to cut my throat, it's pretty bad

I think it's bad that regular degular journalists are Rothschilds-posting whatever their intentions TBH.

It’s necessary because from their perspective the US is an anti-liberal democratic force, and having one of those directly on the border that shares a language and a lot of culture is a direct threat.

A world with no border on the 49th parallel is a world with no TSA between him and a former Canadian with nothing to lose.

Remember when multiple Democrats just casually talked about how they would do a Gaza to us if we ever fucked with them? In 2023?

canadian tories going viral complaining about woke sowed the wind and are now reaping the whirlwind

When i say the american right is obsessed with us, this is kind of what i mean

It’s fine to have hope, but I really, really resent it when they bash us over the head with it when we call the ball.

I don’t think this is a particularly new view. They’ve always viewed our existence as a strange (possibly temporary) quirk.

So-called “inclusionary zoning” acts as a tax on new housing by requiring home builders to sell or rent a %age of the new homes at a loss.

Without funding, IZ only “works” when the market price of new housing is significantly higher than construction costs.

I am glad to see Oregon rolling it back.

It feels like we’re just sort of generally wallowing in mediocrity at a time when excellence has never been more needed