Are you sure it was arson? I hear they just do that sometimes 😆

In case you’re wondering, the correct response was:

I’m sorry. My country is overrun with fascists and Nazis and I’m horrified by the threats to your nation’s sovereignty that manchild of a president is making. He does not speak for me, and I appreciate that you would decide not to spend money in a country that’s actively threatening your family.

You know, for the next time you feel the urge to defend a government that demonstrably doesn’t care about you or anyone else.

I’ve stopped buying from Steam on account of their country threatening to annex mine. GOG is looking good though.

“These Americans, they’re out of their minds!”

Gotta love old people. They’re all out of fucks to give.

Also, the dude is 101 years old and is sharper mentally than most people I’ve met over 60. We should all be so lucky.

You wouldn’t go directly from country status to state. It would be from “country” to “occupied territory”, to “state”. My point is that we’d never leave the occupied territory stage.

A fascinating take on an old idea. I wish they’d spent more time covering the economics of mass producing these things.

Canada will never be a US state. The US has never dealt with us honestly or fairly, so why would they elevate us to statehood when they can just make us Puerto Rico North™?

We would be subjugated and pillaged. Don’t let anyone fool you into thinking otherwise.

That was remarkably good.

No I’m well aware of how tariffs work. The thing is, given how tightly coupled our economies are, nearly all major US manufacturing is heavily dependent on Canadian exports. Our auto industry alone has a single vehicle traversing the border multiple times. When we impose a counter-tariff, that hurts US industry considerably. Couple this, with the lost good will between the US and it’s biggest trading partner by far, and you’ve got a a massive devaluation of US stock prices due to diversification and boycotts alone.

In other words, the dude’s not wrong that the market hit is massive, he’s just got blinders on around the cause.

Those factors will likely pack more punch in Washington than the $155 billion in counter-tariffs threatened by Canada. To put this number in perspective, it’s a fraction of what American stock markets have lost this week.

That’s a pretty dumb take when you consider that a major cause of those losses is the market factoring in the cost of Canadian retaliatory tariffs.

Many of us have spent massive sums of time and energy supporting Firefox and Mozilla. We’ve donated patches, documentation, and more importantly our good will to the project, promoting Mozilla as the defender of your rights and of the internet. We are rightfully upset to have those efforts stolen and used against us, and we won’t stop raging about it until Mozilla does right by the social contract we all signed on for at the start of this journey.

It’s maddening that this isn’t being discussed in a more official capacity. Doctorow pitched this at least a month ago.

Philosophy Tube recently did a great video on exactly this. It’s on Nebula for those who subscribe.

I couldn’t watch it. I tried, but that dude is too annoying.

Don’t stress yourself out too much. It’s the Telegraph, whose journalistic standards are on par with the Toronto Sun.

That’s fair.

That’s a good point. It’s infuriating that racism has an effect on our politics like this. Really what this says is: no matter what Jagmeet says or does, he’s not electable because of his skin colour, and that’s fucked.

I was an NDP supporter for a long time, until Mulcair started doing insane things like dragging the party to the right. Now I vote Green, since they’re the only party that seems to care whether there is a world for my kid to grow up in, but I would come back to the NDP in a heartbeat if I saw them genuinely fighting for the planet and workers again. But it’s the fighting I want to see.

100% this. The NDP need assertive, angry leadership. Someone who can stab at the political establishment with the righteous anger of the working class and demand worker’s rights, a wealth cap, and an end to rent-seeking.

I think Singh shares a lot of those ideals, but his persona is just too friendly (he describes how to pronounce his name as “rhymes with hug” ffs). Every time I hear from Angus, I find myself shouting “fuck yeah!”. That’s the kind of leader the Left needs.

Cough Greens cough

1. Mass importing cheap low-quality goods may lower prices but (a) it increases dependence on an unsustainable and self-reinforcing economic model based on disposability and planned obsolescence, and (b) drives wages and local innovation way down. Canada (and arguably the US) need less of this, not more.
2. Leaning hard into solar energy is a good idea, though the oil addiction Canadians suffer from is likely to be a real problem. Initially we could buy these from China, but there’s no reason why the panels couldn’t be built in Canada as well.
3. Electric cars are not a solution worth pursuing. Sure they’re better than ICE cars, but they suffer from some serious deal breakers, like mineral availability. You simply can’t convert every ICE driver into an EV one. There’s literally not enough of the minerals required on the planet to do the job and they’d still kill more than a million people every year. A better option is to invest in transit infrastructure and back Canadian train manufacturing to make installing light & heavy rail across the country cheaper while simultaneously leaning into cycling.
4. This seems reasonable to me, but could antagonise the Americans and give them the excuse to invade.
5. (Your addendum: join the EU) Yes, please do this.