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  • 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in provocative speech at Davos

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  • He did... but just one sentence: "And on AI, we’re co-operating with like-minded democracies to ensure that we won’t ultimately be forced to choose between hegemons and hyperscalers."

    And Carney was only invited to be on the board, but it seems we're not going to be paying the billion dollars Trump is demanding. So it doesn't seem likely that's going to happen.

  • Me either

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  • I legit think streaming sites have become worse than video rental places.

    It seemed like a big advantage that you could have unlimited number movies on a streaming site while a video rental store had limited shelf space. But it turns you you have to scroll through endless pages of crap to try to find something you actually want to watch.

    Also the shops would eventually have any movie you want to watch. With streaming sites many things will never appear there because the corporation that owns the movie owns their own streaming site and will keep it exclusive to them. In the past it wasn't a thing where you'd have to keep track of which video rental shop had the rights to rent the movie you want to watch.

    There was a time when it was just Netflix and pretty much anything would come on there eventually. That killed video rental. But it's been a long time since you could find everything on one streaming site, and it's gotten to be more expensive and time consuming to find a good movie to watch, so going to a video rental shop might actually make more sense now. But they're all gone now.

    Luckily there are websites with dubious legality you can find everything on. I'm willing to pay for a streaming site that's actually convenient, but they don't exist anymore, just like Blockbuster.

  • Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World

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  • Whenever I hear news of China, they built a new electric railway, invented something new, or made massive tech progress.

    A lot of things in China fall apart in a few years. You can build things fast when you don't care about people's rights and just force them off whatever land you need, and make people work insane hours. A lot of the amazing things China brags about is a Potemkin village, just made to show the authoritarian leaders they did got the project complete on time and they in turn use it in their propaganda. Authoritarians always love to brag about making the trains run on time, right? The reality is often different from what the media portrays it to be in an authoritarian country.

    But still, China is slightly preferable to the US at the moment.

  • Convenience is relative

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  • Eh if you're a peasant and stay at home you might be conscripted to fight for your lord against the people lord the next county over just because they have a disagreement or maybe because they're bored or whatever. Probably gonna die a gruesome death either way. Going on a pilgrimage you at least see some of the world before you meet your gruesome death.

  • Trump is reportedly taking aim at Canada and raising alarms about its ‘vulnerability’

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  • The US always wins the invasion but pretty much always loses the occupation.

    Air power isn't how you win, because it's hard to hide a jet fighter. Assault rifles, RPGs, IEDs and a willingness to fight longer than they're willing to is what's needed to win the occupation.

    Americans forget that Canadians served in Afghanistan. But I don't. I know someone who diffused IEDs over there, pretty sure he knows how to build them if needed.

  • Trump is reportedly taking aim at Canada and raising alarms about its ‘vulnerability’

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  • That would be a violation of the Ottawa treaty.

    And landmines don't actually stop an army, they just slow it down and inhibit maneuver.

    The supplementary reserve of 300,000 citizen soldiers that's being planned is a better idea. There would be no stopping a US invasion, but 300,000 resistance fighters ensures the US would lose the occupation, as it usually does.

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    The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal | Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.

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  • Kinda like thought crime?

  • Disney deleted a Thread because people kept putting anti-fascist quotes from its movies in the replies

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  • Ok now apply the same kind of criticism to the anti-liberal memes you're consuming on the internet. Who do those benefit? Who benefits from dividing people?

    Where does this stuff originate from? Some millionaire trust fund baby influencers on youtube or twitch? Why is this Hasan guy on the front page of a website owned by Jeff Bezos?

    Keep on repeating the bullshit that Jeff Bezos wants you to about liberals being the real enemy. You're soooo much smarter than everyone else LOL. You're really "fighting the power" when you consume the content the billionaires want you to consume.

  • ‘This time the bullet won’t miss’: Iran issues chilling death threat to Donald Trump during state broadcast

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  • You don't realize the damage he's doing to the US in general?

  • ‘This time the bullet won’t miss’: Iran issues chilling death threat to Donald Trump during state broadcast

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  • It's difficult to know who's a dissident and who's a spy or terrorist.

    Iran just threatened to kill the leader of another country. Yeah fuck Trump and all that, but you aren't going to open the doors to anyone from a country that's issuing threats, especially a country that's complicit in a lot of terrorist acts.

    Russia is engaged in a sabotage campaign in Europe, so the reasons for blocking Russians from Europe is similar.

  • “Abolish ICE” Is More Popular Than Ever. How Will Democrats Drop the Ball This Time?

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  • Still too embarrassed to accept reality.

    So Dick Cheney was conspiring with Trump? Must have made for an awkward Thanksgiving with his daughter, don't you think?

    A conspiracy theory that only an American would believe. Denying reality is just compounding the embarrassment your country has become.

  • Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World

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  • Yeah China is like the Soviet Union.

    My grandparents had to hold their noses and be allies with the Soviet Union for a while.

    But unlike the Soviet Union which was way behind the West in technology, China is ahead of us on EVs and we will have to catch up. But before worrying about that, we gotta take down the US.

  • Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World

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  • US is the same as China now. Well that's not true, US foreign policy is way more batshit insane than China's. If you can even call it a foreign policy... it seems to me it's just the whims of a deranged old child molester surrounded by fucking Nazis.

    And China is further away and there's pretty much zero probability China will invade my country. With the US, who knows? Kinda stupid to send money to a country I may have to be fighting against within a year.

  • “Abolish ICE” Is More Popular Than Ever. How Will Democrats Drop the Ball This Time?

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  • ITT: People blaming everything on the party Americans voted out of power instead of the people actually doing the bad things.

    Literally the only thing the democrats can do is whatever they can convince enough of the GOP to go along with, which isn't much. Many times the most they can do is write a strongly worded letter.

    Are you capable of math? If D = 213 and R = 218, is D > R or is R > D? Oh right Americans can't do math, so blame the Democrats I guess!

    Dumbest country on earth, blaming the opposition party for what the governing party is doing.

    When there's FASCISTS in power, you are supposed to oppose the FASCISTS. This isn't hard.

    Y'all can't come to terms with the fact that your country is being run by a fascist child molester dictator and just pretend like it's someone else running the country. Too embarrassed to admit y'all should've voted for the competent black lady instead of voting for deranged lunatic child molester. Or maybe you just didn't vote because of some bullshit "principles". When your principles result in fascism, you have some really stupid principles. Too embarrassed to admit you filled your heads with internet bullshit that you were unable to do the painfully obvious.

    You're still incapable of opposing fascism because you still want to keep your heads filled with internet bullshit, never questioning where the bullshit is coming from.

    Stupid fucking Americans.

  • Trump is reportedly taking aim at Canada and raising alarms about its ‘vulnerability’

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  • Do you think complaining on the internet will fix things?

    Voting is an action people can do. Once people are able to do some form of action, they could be encouraged to further action. Americans are currently below the bar of even voting. You think they're going to do more than voting if they can't even do that?

    Y'all are so much in love with the romanticized myth of the American revolution you believe that if you write some pretty words about freedom and equality there will be another "clean revolution" that will solve all of your problems. The reality is that your "founding fathers" were slave masters, their pretty words were hypocrisy meant to fool regular people into fighting and dying so that the wealthy slave masters could get wealthier by killing the indigenous people living to the west and taking their land. People were tortured for any dissent, there were massive numbers of refugees from the US during the revolution because of how oppressive the government was.

    All of your rights actually came from voting, not from the bullshit fairy tale about "founding fathers" they indoctrinated you into believing from a very young age.

  • Disney deleted a Thread because people kept putting anti-fascist quotes from its movies in the replies

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  • Yeah I'm not into that kind of thing. Rogue One was weird enough trying to be Saving Private Ryan while having the toys I played with as a kid on the screen. And I find it kinda find it boring when shows spell out what they're about instead of having a deep subtext so I tend just get annoyed by plot holes since there's nothing else to think about.

  • Disney deleted a Thread because people kept putting anti-fascist quotes from its movies in the replies

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  • Isn't all of Star Wars about fascism?

  • Trump is reportedly taking aim at Canada and raising alarms about its ‘vulnerability’

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  • That's the message that won the GOP the last election. Are being paid by them, or did you just believe someone else paid by the GOP who told you not to vote?

  • The American Howling Retriever

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  • How high are you right now?

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    Toronto police increase presence along hospital row after pro-Palestinian protest

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    UN agency probes staff suspected of role in Oct. 7 attacks

    www.reuters.com /world/middle-east/un-palestinian-refugee-agency-investigates-staff-suspected-role-israel-attacks-2024-01-26/