It’s crazy that Trump is rejecting America’s loyal allies. Soldiers from these allies fought and died in Afghanistan and Iraq, under American leadership. Instead Trump is inviting dictators to his “Board of Peace” such as Putin and Lukashenko.

I get my shots just about every year including this one. I’ve been sick 3 times since October. To be fair, I have a suspicion it’s been a mild case of covid, a rough go of the flu, and a cold. But fml it’s been a rough few months.

Reading it charitably, I think the point was that they stuck to the slogan (a perfectly noble one) as an expression of support for the government, long after it had become clear to everyone that the government wasn’t serving the workers any more, if it ever truly had been. Similarly, the rules-based international order is a noble idea that everyone still voices commitment to, though everyone has known for a while that it has nothing to do with what the imperial USA and its vassal states really do.

90%+ of every policy in every country in the world is written at the request of corporations.

People here don’t seem to understand what LLM detection is. All it does is search for patterns that are very common in chatbot generated speech. It’s not some magical property that’s metaphysical in nature. Either the speech is written by a chatbot, or Carney naturally talks in this sort of vapid and content free fashion which is common for politicians to do. The real tell with AI writing is in the substance. It’s the weirdly balanced, almost bloodless neutrality on complex topics, the total lack of any authentic personal stake or lived experience, and a distinct feeling that you’re reading a brilliantly comprehensive Wikipedia summary instead of a thought that formed in a human mind with memories, biases, and a body.

I don’t know what that means.

The slogan doesn’t make sense. The whole point of temp work is that you work for a period of time. It’s a misrepresentation if it’s meant for permanent settlement. The thing is corporations are abusing the temp worker system and giving these guys false promises. Rather than a spontaneous influx of opportunistic newcomers, the recent growth in international student numbers reflects a carefully engineered labour strategy. I’d argue it’s both. They are opportunists and it is an engineered labour strategy. Both sides are to blame. This piece paints those international students as completely ignorant when there is defitetly a portion that only see student status as a stepping stone to permanent residency. Furthermore, they want to go to Canada/US because it’s rich. If Canada/US were not rich places they’d go somewhere else. The difference between China and India is that Chinese international students become CEOs of Chinese companies while Indian international students become CEOs of American companies. This shows a failure of government as well.

Why come at me so aggressive? Did something I say offend you personally? I’m sorry you feel that way if so, wasn’t intending to cause anger.

The world needs a league of nations, and we need a league of citizens. Like Carney said, if we are not at the table, we will be on the menu.

That should go just fine.

Snicker, like we would have bought into that scam anyhoo. [image: 317bcffb-badc-447b-96f8-4e9626a966b2.jpeg]

Went to John Ware. There were more than two dodgy teachers there.

If we only sacrifice 25% every year, we’ll never run out!

Does anyone know if there will be a protest outside their offices? Seems like something we can do as Canadians to help.

I’m going to be very stressed if we have an election soon

Oh I don’t doubt that they were asked. Americans of that breed are simple creatures. America good. Elsewhere bad. Why would you NOT want to live in the good place with freedoms and GUNS!? That’s it. That’s literally all the thinking that goes into it. You’re not missing something. They are just extremely stupid and propagandized into believing that the rest of the world is literally on fire and covered in the blood of babies at all moments.

I don’t put much stock into the “Russian puppet” theory. Presidents have been removed for far, far less than destroying NATO on behalf of the foreign enemy. If he really was a foreign agent, the CIA or some other three letter agency would have gotten rid of him one way or another. It also lets America off the hook. “Is this the culmination of a process that started before Reagan? No, it was the bad country, Russia, that used their puppet to destroy us. Without Russia and their puppet, everything would be fine.” The effect of the claim, and I would argue the point of it, is to exonerate the Democrats and non-MAGA Republicans for all their failures and misdeeds, to chalk Trumpism off as an aberration, and to promote the idea that everything will be fixed once this one guy goes away. It’s a simplistic and self-serving idea that reads like an airport novel, and it shouldn’t be taken very seriously. The truth is much stupider and much scarier. The smart people in American politics and government have slowly been rotated out, leaving the stupids. Republican culture war politics, originally just red meat for the base, has wormed its way into the actual world view of the people at the top. They believed their own propaganda, and think that maintaining global hegemony through soft power and finance is “woke”, and “giving money away to third-world shitholes.” They don’t actually understand that they were the primary beneficiary of the old world order, and harken back to the good old days when America would simply violently impose its will on the rest of the world, not realizing that America never stopped doing that, and all the diplomatic power and financial power was just the velvet glove over the mailed fist. This is probably a good thing for the world, at least in the long term, but it’s very bad for us and for Europe. We let the vampire in a long time ago, letting it offer us benefits and protection at the expense of our independence and our complicity. Now it’s turned on its minions, and we’re weak, long since made ourselves dependent on it. Look at how Macron grovelled to Trump about Iran - “Brilliant work, master! We are in complete agreement about the townsfolk and who their blood truly belongs to! But why must you feed on one of us, your friends?” The vampire does not have friends, it has prey and it has servants. Now it’s decided that the servants are prey as well.

When did it stop being the British Empire? Like, I’ll agree that it did, but it wasn’t before WWII. The Union Jack flew long after that, and many of the shitty domestic practices stayed too - just ask anyone Native. If we’re saying yay rape or torture, that’s bad and dumb. If they’re saying yay kill the POWs, that’s also bad and dumb. Again, I’ll let people be their own judge.

I did hear most of it, including that part. I hated how he compared the ‘illusion’ to the slogan Workers of the World Unite! It pisses me off that I fear we will never truely be rid of that oligarch shit that has plagued society from the dawn of civilization.

Not really, Americans were our enemy before Trump and they’ll be our enemy after Trump. See NAFTA.