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There’s no such thing as a “non-harmful” pedofile.

Either you’re actively molesting children (yes…even teens), or you’re consuming the CP that is the result of OTHER people abusing children by forcing them to participate and worse.

You don’t get to say “its not repulsive to consume the product as long as youre not a creator of it”. Consuming the end result is still participating in it.

I can’t believe that even has to be pointed out.

come at me, bro…

I was dumbfounded the first time my ex-wife tried to tell me that because I was a (former) Catholic at the time, that it wasn’t actually Christianity.

My exact words were; “Bitch please! We were the fucking original christians, what the fuck are you on about?”

That was before we got married and I should have listened to my gut in that moment.

A French court found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzling over €3 million in EU funds, potentially ending her 2027 presidential bid.

“pfffft…amateur.” (Donald Trump, probably)

Apocryphally, CEOs have committed Seppuku for far less.

Are they getting DOGE to look into whether the tickets were non-refundable?

I would make one hell of an ugly woman…

I was an archaeology major, hence the history thing. And I’m fascinated by the psychology of crime.

I’m far far far from a younger consumer, and I find that I too have moved almost entirely to online content, mostly in the form of True Crime podcasts and YT channels, History Documentaries, etc…

Especially in non-fiction content, there’s pretty much nothing that paid TV can offer that Social Platforms cannot. It’s the only place where I think this whole internet experiment is actually working as intended; the democratization of knowledge.

Trump: “Canada is harbouring terrorists…”

It’s not “surprise polling” when it’s been literally happening everywhere for the last two or three years…

Did Putin order it while winking?

Because Ford has a personality. And he used it to make a big show about (pretending) to counter Trump, which gave him a boost.

For the most part, not even Conservatives in Canada like Trump. It’s a mistake to think that Canadian Conservatives are just “Northern Republicans”. Some are. But for the most part, Conservatives here (especially Ontario provincial Conservatives) are still human beings.

Poppinfresh, on the other hand, made his entire schtick about basically copying Trump style tactics. He and his cronies are to federal conservatives what MAGA is to old-school republicans; a hard-right political fringe that is attempting to wrest control of the Conservative narrative by appealing to the same demographics as Trump, clamping down on what Con MPs are and are not allowed to say to the media, personal attacks and three word slogans instead of actual policy, etc…

And it almost worked. For a while it looked like he would succeed. And it’s why he was absolutely desperate to get an election before Trump took office; before the idea of a Trump presidency became the reality of a Trump presidency. Because even among Conservatives, Trump’s chaos craters the popularity of any politician that seeks to emulate him, which Doug Ford certainly did not do.

Thanks to Trump, the Liberals have been gifted the best possible campaign season. Poppinfresh has spent his entire time as leader doing only three things:

• Basing their entire campaign on Trudeau

• Coming up with stupid three word slogans.

• Outwardly and openly styling himself after Trump in order to court our own version of MAGA.

They’d be stupid not to take advantage of it earlier rather than later. It’s primed for all this shit to blow up in the Cons faces in an exceptionally hilarious fashion.

In Trump’s brain, soft power isn’t properly deferential to him personally. That’s what it amounts to.

It all comes down to his raging narcissism; soft power is done with tact and diplomacy in whispers. For Trump, that’s weakness. It’s not true power unless people/countries/organizations proclaim his power with effusive thank-yous and obsequious shows of capitulation.

It’s not enough to lead the free world; the rest of the world needs to be properly thankful for it in a way that he himself finds acceptable. (namely by making a big show of bending the knee)

an unfortunately not insignificant percent of the population in the central provinces who would probably side with the US

As someone from the prairies (Saskatchewan), I can assure you that while, yes, we do have our fair share of pretty hard-right leaning individuals, most of even THEM are anti-trump because of the sovereignty issue. Even the ones who agree with what he is doing and would like to see Poppinfresh in power to do similar up here, would never side them militarily in an annexation attempt for the same reason that American MAGA flies the US flag…sovereignty is their identity; CANADIAN sovereignty.

There is a TINY number (some dipshits in Alberta) who actually want Alberta to join the US. But they are fractionally insignificant.

it feels very weird to call them “egg producers”

Chicken pimps?

I was discussing the same thing with a friend just this morning. This isn’t anything new. It’s just where other administrations know the phrase soft power and were able to use it effectively, Trump is a blunt and stupid human who doesn’t know anything as complex as modern diplomacy.

In that way, I unironically think that Trump may be the best thing to happen. He’s taken the mask off. The world can’t ignore it anymore or pretend it isn’t happening so long as they still get their iphones every year. It’s a kick in the pants for all of us.

People need to wake up and realise that there isn’t going to BE a “next election”. At least not a fair one. Trump will win it the same way Putin and Orlov “win”.

The sooner American’s wake the fuck up to this and deal with it in the inevitable way, the sooner the planet can be done with this nightmare.

Because you can’t cosplay the Robber Baron age without bringing back consumption…

Trump is all about pretenses.

There are the “reasons” he’s making those decisions, and then there are the “pretenses” he uses when the opportunity comes around to make them.

Swiss banks hold a lot of money from oligarchs and billionaires. Putin wants pressure put on them. But Trump has to find the “pretense” to do it so as to at least nominally not be seen as a russian asset. But what a coincidence, Lindt announces that they’re going to supply Canada directly from Europe to avoid his tariffs. And BOOM. Pretense established.