danielquinn

I upvoted 'cause "types while bootlicking" was genius. The actual article is trash though.

This. The Liberals haven't earned union support, and electing Carney, who as far as I've read is just another neoliberal capitalist should be a warning that their pattern of abuse will continue.

A lot of people are going to tell you that "it's the algorithm", and there's some truth to that, but honestly I think it's a lot more straightforward:

The boomers got everything, and when they burned through that, they burned through the millennials' share too. If you're growing up a zoomer, you're looking around at a world literally on fire, and the emergence of what is effectively feudalism as the dominant world ~~religion~~ economic system. You'll never own a home, because literally everything is rented now. You're probably working 2 jobs, though they barely qualify for that word because there's zero security and you're carrying all the risk.

You're watching a literal genocide playing out on your phone, while the outgoing Trudeau proudly declares himself a Zionist, and literally everything is expensive, especially food.

Now, consider the political climate:

• The NDP (and to a greater extent, the entire global left) is toothless and obsessing over identity politics, and if you tell your friends you're going to vote for them you're either laughed at or told you're "wasting" your vote.
• The Liberals are refusing to recognise the dire state of the economy and the fear & frustration you have. Instead they go on TV and say that the problem with the economy is "vibes" and that voting for Conservatives means you hate gay people.
• The Conservatives acknowledge that fear and frustration. They don't gaslight you with claims that "the stocks are up, so the economy is fine". No, they cast blame: "Trudeau did this. He torched the economy for 'wokeism'. He put on silly costumes with foreign dignitaries while you had to move back in with your parents. He did this. Him, and those immigrants, and if you vote for us, we'll get rid of all of that".

They've got the best story, and their opposition is either inept or oblivious. If they hadn't made the mistake of cozying up to Trump, they'd be a shoe-in for the next election.

That's fair. Frankly, asking for donations is a half-decent way of gauging interest in a project as a whole, and if there aren't enough people in the whole world willing to meet a threshold for support, maybe the mountain of effort required to maintain said project isn't worth it.

"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.

I loved it. I loved the whole series, but Jinx's fate still hurts.

I wrote a rather gushing blog post about it the night I finished it. It's all so beautiful.

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.