vastard

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[–] vastard 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think a friendly “how to get started” community would be better than the big peepee energy of WSB.

[–] vastard 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Is there a problem using an email alias to sign up? I applied more than a week ago. I recognize it’s a lot of work but I was wondering if I had been accidentally been binned as a bot.

[–] vastard 3 points 1 month ago

That’s a really good perspective I hadn’t considered the attention span aspect.

[–] vastard 1 points 1 month ago

I understood that reference! Bonus points for Canadian content.

 

Wondering if people wanted to speculate what’s been going on this week amid the new threats and tariffs. Seems like a lot of radio silence.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I’m not sure. On one hand I think it’s healthy to not give the bully in the room undue attention. But ignoring entirely doesn’t project a position of strength, either.

This week we had our Mr and Ms Premiers Go To Washington moment but little else. Is that to give Liberal leadership candidates to speak up? Perhaps more room for PP to attack shoes?

[–] vastard 23 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I’m not expecting Trudeau to respond to stupid shit like this but he’s been pretty silent this week. I’m hoping that means he has some trade deals to announce.

The good news about global tariff threats is that it would be really easy to find allies that would match responding tariffs made against our exports or diverting required resources away from that orange fuck.

[–] vastard 10 points 1 month ago

This was a token gesture but I’m glad this happened. We don’t have many levers to pull but our resolve to bear the hurt for longer than the Americans is one of them.

Demonstrating that Canadians can unite across political ideologies and fight for a shared goal should give pause—not to the idiots that float this policy, but to the state senators and reps who need to worry about their reelections.

It’s a stretch but things are dire and I want a win, Lemmy Pals.

[–] vastard 4 points 1 month ago

Photo op > Irrational logic and glaring inconsistency

[–] vastard 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He’s had 20 years in politics to to come up with at least one good idea and he just hasn’t. He’s a career critic. That has served him well as the opposition but you can’t lead when your only play is to blame somebody else.

[–] vastard 9 points 2 months ago

It’s Tokyo Drift time, Canada.

[–] vastard 7 points 2 months ago

You can’t motivate a country who historically ignores international law by saying they’re doing illegal stuff.

[–] vastard 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Every new press photo makes him look more and more like a 60s Batman villain. Louie the Lilac vibes.

[–] vastard 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I agree. If the fine for not meeting the standard continues to increase every year eventually it will be too big to write off as a cost of doing business.

I hate that I have a for-profit corporation for a utility.

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