O just read that China, Japan and SK will cooperate on anti-American economic action. I am azed to see those three cooperate.

I admit that opinion is more rhetorical and anecdotal than informed - bit don’t kide yourself into thinking that the East isn’t also in crisis.

I mean the general failure of capitalist idealogues, and imperialists destroying their own countries. I’m not great with detailed evidence, but Chinese abandonment of their working class, focusing on export production instead of domestic support - rich get richer and corruption grows. Indian divisive and racist politics, Russian imperialist destruction of their domestic economy to chase the dream of a king, South Korean cultism.

The world is a funky place with people really not feeling like they belong.

Not even gonna start on the mess that is the middle east, as that has been burning for a hundred years.

It is not unreasonable to ask why he didn’t use the filibuster to block actual legislation, instead of just I terupting procedure.

It’s like that comic “best I can do is drugs to trick your mind into thinking it’s alright”

It doesn’t feel much better in the East. This is global, the rot just smells more in the West.

Then you need to compare salary to something like CPI. What can the money buy?

He had 6000 feet?

I commented before that I didn’t think that Canadian and have it in them to fight an insurgency, but I have been impressed since then with the Canadian civil and political response since them (Carney more than Ford.) Now I realize that the US has never had to face an insurgency at there border, of ppl who they couldn’t possible recognize. When you hear stories of Ukrainians who speak Russian being very successful as insurgents gives a lot of suggestion of how Canadians could make it really annoying for the U.S. government. Then think of how the border couldn’t all be guarded.

I hear it talked about plenty.

There are some things that I will only buy through Chinese retailers, to cut out middlemen. There are somethings that I would never buy from a Chinese retailer.

They want the Baltics, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, all to be like Hungary, or preferably like Belarus - slave/puppet authoritarian regimes. Finland too, really, but I think that the Finns scare them.

That graph bar is where the battle of propaganda will be waged. Millions will be put in against joining, as an isolated Canada is better for the Russians and the Americans.

Google kind of went downhill

Spumoni. They even make that anymore. Probably only in the Mediterranean area.

“Faux pas” - you day didn’t smile while eatng the poop that we served you.

De facto yes, but not in law they don’t - no

Get them to watch some robot war shows. Those things all have devices to flip back over.

LXQT on niri could be quite interesting

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