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If you are the head of a state you don’t get the luxury of personal convictions. You should always be acting in the interest of the state.

Realpolitik says the best interests of Canada are to try to get Trump to walk back steel and aluminium tariffs buying time while to diversify exports and institute “Buy Canadian”

So the PM should let his personal life dictate state actions?

They’re waterproof for a reason

Yup it was a deleted scene. They briefly debated doing Wicked/Marval crossover musical with Starlord in the role of Fiyero Tigelaar.

Audiences were incredibly confused and so we got the Wicked that was released.

Won’t anyone think of the politicians!?! They can’t ensure a sinecure position by willy nilly throwing money at basic societal needs!

“It is I, LeVance!”

What about my GBA game boxes? Do I need them?

… which begs the question. How do Americans pronounce them?

Edit: boo eey

Credit where it is due. My parents are willing to question things. And that is half the battle.

I’m a pessimist. The price increase won’t hurt them unless they lose more than 33% of the user base. Which is a big number of people choosing to change a habit/lifestyle.

Even if they do lose that amount, they could walk back the 50% and wait a few months and “only” increase it by 20%. People will feel good that they owned the big corpo and the big corpo still manages to increase profit.

My parents actually went the other way. They were very conservative while I was growing up until my mid twenties, and nowadays they are the complete opposite.

When they were conservative, I generally didn’t bring up politics, but if it came up I didn’t argue. I would just say I thought something was mean spirited and just shrug if they tried to argue. I think I accidentally psychologically fucked with them. I think being mean was against a core value of theirs and me repeating that idea slightly tweaked their thought process.

Eventually I started hearing the “mean spirited” comment from them as a reason they disliked a policy or conservative person. And they now vote for liberal or labour parties.

Bold choice to show my age by dressing as a rage comic

I really enjoyed Cracked in its internet heyday. It was at times funny and others poignant. Somewhere I would have wanted to publish. Technically it still exists… but it is not the same.

I looked him up. He is already retired from US military. A known democratic, endorsing both Harris and Biden. Nowadays it looks like he’s on a couple research and strategic groups and works for NATO directly.

BC has put a big effort to lower barriers to US and other foreign doctors. Also increase doctor pay. Apparently there has been a decent uptick.

The squirrels in my area like to eat pine cones…

Hey! Me too!

Permanently Banned for inciting violence.

I said the Trump government was going to put LGBT people in camps and this was a bad thing.

Zoolander, too, could only turn right.

What the hell were those doors for anyway? And who has a giant open pit. Also why the hell were they in an industrial site?