Like the corrupt monopolies pillaging our country?

No? Just more punishment for the poor, homeless, and mentally-ill, huh? So the usual, but worse.

I cannot express this enough. Do NOT start the WAAAGH.

But then they have to fill those prisons with more and more people. How can America just increase the crime rate on a whim?

glances briefly to American history

Oh right, shit.

That’s the goal. Burn down the forest and scoop all the assets of the businesses that died.

Republican America is not a loaded gun. It’s a deranged rabid coyote. It seems so obvious: don’t fight the rabid coyote. No one will win. But we’re trapped here with it. Its taking its bites out of everyone close to it, and everyone else. What the fuck else are we supposed to do? Lie down and take it? Stand on the table and try to keep away? No one is coming to save us. This will not go away. They will not surrender.

The only way out is through; for Americans to start their civil war to disrupt their regime or, if they can manage it, figure some other way to oust their fascist government and their cult. To all the Americans fighting the good fight, keep it up, the world literally needs you.

The Republicans have already proven the laws mean nothing. They’re already boasting plans to stay for a 3rd term. There’s no waiting this out.

So, bring it on, you fascist fucks, let’s fucking go.

It’s the Conservative way to prioritize material gains over human and environmental consideration.

Isn’t their mascot prospector stepping over their own grandmother?

The Northern Pikes are a Canadian rock band whose biggest hit was She Ain’t Pretty (She Just Looks That Way) about a woman who, despite being physically attractive, has a subpar personality.

This meme is unrelated to that fact. Or maybe it’s not. Up to you, really.

The cynical perspective is that it’s an attempt to consolidate wealth for the wealthy.

Basically, you drive the price up on everything and force the least able to bear the loss in revenue to give up and sell.

Elon Musk can afford to lose $11 billion, because he still has $200 billion left over and that is obviously more than anyone needs to keep afloat for a few bad years. The same goes for every billionaire and every multibillion dollar company.

When you import something from another country, it needs to go through things like customs, etc. You have to fill out all the paperwork about what it is and where it’s going (if you’re using/selling it in the US or just middlemanning it somewhere else).

Part of that paperwork includes tariffs, a tax on the good you are importing. So, the importer has to pay the government that money in order for the product to legally come in to the country. The importer pays that cost, so the local purchaser pays that cost, so the consumer pays that cost. And each one of those (and likely many other) steps probably will add on a little extra for the trouble.

The hope is that encourages local production; even if it costs more to produce locally, when you factor in the cost of the tariffs to import, it might make sense to invest the cost to avoid the tariffs.

The troubles are:

1. you can’t often make a fully operational supply chain domestically in 4 years
2. the US doesn’t have some of those raw resources, like minerals or regional food sources
3. good or bad, places like China can pay professional factory workers way less than minimum US wage, which, in case this is news to anyone, is already far below a livable wage

Let’s not forget that the Republicans are an army of sycophants with zero capacity to think or act for themselves. Trump is a narcissistic pawn and absolute loser, but even at the highest level of power he’s only a problem because the Republican Party are either spineless cowards or deranged cultists.

Ah, the American healthcare system!

I think the sentiment of “just let PP take office and then we can help you fuck us over” really irked people for some reason.

“The beer’s getting stronger” says local man

We need to drop the American idea of “the opposition”. It’s incredibly fucked up to think that about half the government is there simply to stop the other half.

3 “major” parties is the bare minimum to keep is out of what’s happening down there. The Left and Right. The Good and the Bad. Us versus the Enemy.

We need 7 or 8 major parties with at least 5% of the seats whose goals are to earn enough seats to influence Canadian policy on behalf of Canadians, not 2 major parties whose goal is to control the government. That goal always leaves Canada second (or third, when corporate interest buys it’s way in).

Minority governments are always better for democracy

Classic uplifting news! Community member(s) do something the fucking government should be doing.

It works for the American prison industry!

About time for the covid hoarders to resupply!

I don’t like the idea of polyamory. It feels wrong to me. But when it’s consenting adults (or parties of mutual age in teens), there’s no argument against it.

That’s a big problem with people: not being able to reconcile their feelings with rationality. My feelings are irrelevant to how other people conduct their lives when it doesn’t affect anyone else. I think that’s a key component in having an open mind: to challenge your own feelings, to say, “I don’t like it, and that feeling is objectively wrong. I need to actively check my behavior so I don’t impose that feeling on others.”

It’s fine to have those feelings and good to acknowledge them, but you still have to think it all the way through.

The Conservatives need to step up and oust her yesterday.

Seriously, they want to win so hard they’re willing to sell our country out, but they refuse to acknowledge that denouncing this would show actual leadership and win back a bunch of the shift toward the Liberals.

I mean, in the grand scheme it’s better for Canada for the Conservatives to fuck up and lose, but it’s still not clear enough that will happen. Somehow, there’s still enough Canadians who support these fuckups.