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He will declare that Dems cheated everywhere they win, and if the House tries anything, he will declare they are traitors and declare state of emergency claiming absolute power (or whatever other made up shit).

Time to count who sides with whom in the military…

No no no, when you ask them, they work 200 hours a week. Each of them. At the very least!

The poor aren’t poor because the wealthy are wealthy. Like I said, the vast majority of the wealthiest people’s wealth is not cash money, it’s a theoretical price tag going up over time. Over the past hundred years, the number of billionaires per capita has increased 7x, but a hundred years ago, poverty was MUCH more prevalent than it is today.

The poor are poor because while they're paid peanuts, everybody else estimates the value they create through their work in very large numbers. It is absolutely a matter of work-value distribution. Calling that "wealth redistribution" is an artifact to prop the "tax is steal" propaganda.

Tax the companies "theoretical price tag" and see it adjusting to much more realistic numbers, that would be beneficial for everyone.

Lastly, we can keep saying all we want about one hundred years ago, but at the time, economic growth was 2 digits. Today it's one digit, and almost all of it value goes straight up to the ultra-rich. Growth is decreasing but ultra-rich worth net keeps increasing at faster rate. How can one not see this is bonkers?

I am pretty sure than between the current model that is slowly but inexorably going towards: "2 kinds of people in the world: trillionaires and people depending on trillionaire's charity to survive", and the model decribed above, we can find a middle ground.

Not so long ago, the ratio between CEOs pay and median worker pay was 20. Today it's 280. There were successful and motivated CEO at the time.

The US had a period during which the highest tax bracket was 90%. There were CEO, there were rich folks and there were entrepreneurs.

Enough with all the "impossible". The current situation is the anomaly. The current situation is the not sustainable approach. It's not just the US, neo-liberalism has spread over the decades with the very very very exact same results absolutely everywhere it was tried:

-impoverished population overall -reduction of services to the population -increased public deficit -ultra-rich getting immensely richer

Either we keep saying "it's complicated" and keep course. Its end is already known: a collapse of the economy on itself: there is not enough people left making a decent enough living to buy what is produced, and everything belong to the ultra-rich.
Or we change course. It's almost a matter of survival for the poor.

Sure I can answer him: because there was no better way to push your white supremacist nazi propaganda and launching a child porn abure tool as a stand-alone app would have landed you in jail.

You're welcome!

Trump is actively trying to kill Canada's car industry. So if China is willing to do so, Canada should lift the tariffs on their EVs in exchange for a quota of cars or components made in Canada.
Long term, it is probably a better strategy as US car makers are falling so much behind on EVs they could go down in the coming years, especially if they hang on petro-cars.

As for the military, it's never too late to start doing the right thing and diversify its sourcing. No more 100% US by default, and require guarantees on supply and independence.
Europe and other countries have very good and modern equipments also, mind you.

I agree with you on what we'll hear, but I second the other comment: besides the speeches, Carney will move Canada further away from the US.
He started doing so without saying it too loudly. Only an idiot would not see it. The good thing is only one idiot needs to be fooled.

To escalate, he has multiple levers at his disposal: the everlasting hesitation between F35 and Gripen purchase, the tariffs on Chinese EV (if they were repelled, US car makers could be driven out of Canada's market within just a few years). And of course dumping US bonds, but that would hurt Canada too.

"No worries! We just launched Chat-Phone: a cellphone totally connected to ChatGPT. It has almost no capability by itself: poor CPU, min RAM, min/no storage, etc. But it is always connected to ChatGPT!
BTW: because of RAM shortage, we are the only smartphone maker in the world now!"
The phone is 50$, but you need the premium subscription for it to work…

Promises of buying only work if the buyer still exists at the time you produce the goods.
Besides, I'm pretty sure that the main buyers type on the consumer side are PC and phone makers. So they could go back there almost unharmed.

If you forget only the name, that's cool. I also forget people's faces. Talking with kids parents: "Hi! I'm [name] -Huh! I know!" -_-'

Since vibe coding produces code that looks like it was written by a drunk-dead dev, they might actually be on the right track!

And then they will use US made systems. But the vendors will locate some computers in Europe, so it's totally sovereign.