Wait, you mean the constantly flowing pipeline of low-brow cultural sewage that they hawk to the world doesn’t tickle your fancy?

Reality shows that have no resemblance to reality?

Love in pods?

The Kardashians?

Survivor? Let’s take that one. You think anyone watches that to see the winner? Why not just have one episode then? No. Americans LOVE a loser. They identify most closely to losers, because that is their nature.

A river of shit, from a SHIT HOLE COUNTRY, worshipping their rejects and losers, deserving of all the scorn that’s shortly inbound.

Apologists who sit down at the same table as the Nazis are equivocal to the pre-seated Nazis. Zero sympathy.

Purge and lance the boil.

💯 not even island nations are islands.

Well I can’t, but my point is actually having the opposite perspective: that even a well integrated world economy will eventually experience truly awful times, and, eventually, collapse. I didn’t mean to suggest isolationism was inherently better, apologies for any ambiguous wording.

Why isn’t the puny, petulant man-thing that runs the Nazicar Factory not suing us all for not buying them? That’s how you deal with advertisers who don’t wanna advertise with him so why not consumers who don’t want to consume?

It’s the next stupid, asinine step.

I hope anyone who ever admired this fuck face is deeply embarrassed. Or losing money.

These guys are making it so easy to outcompete with America in the world market.

Isolated economies perform worse in the long run

Isn’t this a somewhat flawed statement if you consider a long enough timeline? Not saying you’re wrong, just that history keeps happening.

No. See, you don’t personally get to write the narrative.

Here’s how it is:

You are in the “United” states until you tell us otherwise. You are the ones renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. You are the ones who, by majority vote, decided that this was to be our world and our future.

Your people. Your culture. Your country. Your leader. Your choices.

Fucking own it. And if you don’t like it, or this response, FUCKING STAND UP AND CHANGE IT. But don’t ask ME to give a wet slap about your feelings or the when it is your country is an imperial expansionist empire trying to kick over anthills. I don’t owe you that courtesy and I’m disinclined to politeness of late towards my Southern neighbors.

Do you, when you reflect on history, make such subtle distinctions? For example did Germany start world war 1 and 2 or should we defer to the feelings of the objectors to those conflicts when ascribing cause?

Dumbass.

Apple and Google have also been around for decades. The blueprint to copy the service side of what they offer is not impossible to replicate. Canada probably could not angle to manufacture hardware however, at least not in the practical near term.

Umm what was all that noise and wind about back in November then?

Also the only animal whose greed and hoarding behavior outdoes it’s conspecific altruism.

To be able extra clear, fuck twitter, fuck nestle and fuuuuuuuck Musk.

No. Please tend do your own bitterly divided house first.

We’re not here to do your dirty work, we just help you in your time of need, like letting you land your planes in our country and housing your travellers when terrorists blow up your building and cause your airspace to be shut down.

You know. The kind of actions that earn you tariffs.

A form of art they have main-ered.

Switch to a credit union.

I did not vote for Justin Trudeau, and if he ran again I would not have voted for him.

I would consider voting for Mark Carney once I’m more informed about him.

Literally every appliance I’ve replaced in my house that crapped out was embossed with a stupid “Made in Urmuricur” flag on it.

Not the seal of quality you think it is, cousins.

Yeah.

So it comes to: do the dumbest of us in the room see the hot stove and know what happens if you touch it?

What a question to have to frame my life choices on in 2025.

Esp considering they need to rebuild a good chunk of LA. Bad time to make anything more expensive for anyone.

Maybe we should do what I’ve been suggesting over and over and over and over and over again when I lived in Alberta and BUILD REFINING CAPACITY.

I just can’t with them…I worked with so many O&G folks back in my day. Nobody ever wanted to acknowledge our dependence and vulnerability. Just whistling loudly past graveyard after graveyard.