The answer to ALL things going on in the US is simple:

Who’s gonna stop them?

The president and his (ex?-)boyfriend are doing whatever the FUCK they want, and they even have the backing of the Supreme Court, so the only way to stop them is active resistance.

You’d be surprised at how effective it is to absolutely ignore the law when you’re on top of the heap. I expect that Le Pen would do the same if she got a chance; as would Poilievre, the nuts in charge of the AfD, or any of the unrepentant fascists.

The truth is that the laws put in place to stop this sort of behaviour are like the velvet ropes for crowd control. They only work is people decide to obey them, and if someone were to stomp over them all, it’s only the other people who could stop that person from reaching the front of the line.

Hoekstra is just another Nazi fuck, feigning outrage. Weird to make him ambassador to Canada, but we’ll continue to go our own way and ignore the ravings.

Nazi fucks. Need to stomped out at the source.

I don’t disagree, but I …don’t entirely agree either.

It’s absolutely true that devs are pretty bad at estimating costs, because it’s not their job. (And they’re usually good at estimating timelines, but bad at insisting on them.)

It’s also true that games blow over budgets and deadlines all the time, and yeah I remember when Duke Nukem Forever first became a joke and then a meme.

But consider that DNF was completed by a small handful of devs who ran with an almost-finished game that they knew they could make happen. In contrast, there is no finish line for Star Citizen. There is no path to success. As you say, they can’t drop it and be satisfied, so they make more promises and ask for more money. But here’s the key: They KNOW they cannot fulfill those promises - existing or future. It’s impossible at this point! The only thing they’re doing is delaying the inevitable, which would be fine if it was their own time and money; but since they’re constantly begging for money from optimistic gamers with promises they have no intention of delivering on, they are grifting. No excuses, no conditions, no “but maybe…” just pure con-artistry at work.

Denny’s is now “Denny’s Canada, PROUDLY CANADIAN OWNED AND OPERATED.”

Fuckers.

Take off that flag you fuckers have draped yourselves in.

MEC is dead, and I will never set foot in one again.

It’s possible that it wasn’t a scam to begin with.

But now? Now it’s impossible for even the most dewey-eyed dreamer to see it as anything less than a deliberate hustle, perpetrated by amoral grifters.

And they’ll continue hiring and expanding, pushing the ‘churn’ bullshit to keep thrir employees scared.

Asshole company deserves to die.

I support strict gun control laws, and also have my RPAL.

My question is what specific changes do they want, and what specific weakness does it address?

Are there deficiencies in our laws that could be improved, to reduce firearm injuries and deaths? Let’s have at 'em!

Are there specifc guns that are too easy to modify to full-auto? Don’t need 'em.

But if we’re going to start (continue) banning guns only because they look scary, then stop with the performative BS.

That’d be nice, except that the fringe extremists ARE the party.

This is really to justify to the ‘moderate’ conservatives why she’s pandering to the extremists, and isn’t one herself. (Which is a lie.)

Swap Catholic for almost any Abrahamic religion here, and it would still hold true.

This is identical to what my relatives in the Dutch Reform church accept. It’s not Catholic dating culture.

They have to choose an interim leader who isn’t going to make Poilievre bad by comparison. Scheer is perfect for that role.

We’re working on it.

Can you imagine?

“We just had 338 team members face a tough challenge. 144 of them, including the boss, failed. You did the VERY BEST out of alk of them, and now we’re firing you so the boss doesn’t get in trouble.”

I find that idea fascinating, because I don’t think Harper is going to ley him stick around.

Holy shit, what a disingenuous puff piece!

It portrays Ford - one of the most self-interested, power-hungry, and amoral politicians in Canadian history - as Captain Canada, the gracious and intelligent saviour of Canada. It taljs about Hoyston’s ambitions to lead the party but doesn’t mention that it’s likely going to come down to a two-horse race between Ford and Kenney.

I’m disgusted. That was pure campaign material.

Nope.

For context, I’m in my late 50s and always want to know the right answer, and share it with everyone.

Buy sometimes, you need to let it go. You might be in a situation where someone is confidently stating something you know to be wrong. Correcting them can - depending on context - come across as insulting and know-it-all; and if it’s not important, maybe stay silent this time.

Now if you’re in a situation where the truth IS important, or where everyone is more interested in the truth (or even debate) than something cool but false, your knowledge will be appreciated.

You don’t have to always have the last word, even if it’s right.

“Canada’s left” is a long way from where the NDP stand.

The Liberal party is absolutely the Progressive Conservatives of 1980. The NDP are a mostly-ineffectual version of the Liberals of the same era. The Green Party needs to get their leadership shit in order to take on the coherent left role.

The CPC is now in the same category as the PPC or Christian Heritage party - racist nutbars who deserve to be forgotten except as a historical footnote.

Let’s not worry about ‘fixing’ the NDP as a left party, accept who they are, and filling the hole they left when they slid right.

Wow, that is really terrible!

Oh, but he HAS said what it means.

• “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) and “environmental, social and governance” (ESG) ideologies are garbage
• Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday he is only aware of two genders — male and female
• [when] asked whether he would ask the U.S. to recognize the gender-neutral “X” marker available on Canadian passports, Poilievre pivoted to talking about the cost of living instead
• Poilievre vows to repeal environmental assessment law to fast-track resource projects
• Poilievre told his supporters that the Liberal government had driven investment away from Canada by pursuing an agenda of “radical net-zero environmental extremism.”
• Poilievre promised to use the notwithstanding clause to impose consecutive life sentences on multiple murderers. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 2022 that imposing consecutive life sentences violates an offender’s Charter rights
• Introduced bill Defined marriage as a union between ‘one man and one women to the exclusion of all others’
• Said Indigenous Peoples needed to learn the value of hard work more than they needed compensation for residential schools
• Said wearing a niqab at a citizenship ceremony is “not in line with Canadian values.”

And his actions since day one have backed this up.