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Imagine having to learn about all the available candidates and figure out which ones you like more than the others. Actually having to participate in your democracy. The indignity.
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That was also my first exposure to it and I had no idea it was a parody song (despite being familiar with the concept of parody and even Weird Al himself at that age), just because it fit the scene so well. I figured it was written for the movie like the rest of the soundtrack.
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Do we start the countdown timer until Trump has Musk deported to El Salvador? Wasn't there something about him illegally overstaying his student visa in the past or something?
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That's how you know she's properly in love with Carrot.
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Hey now, Paper Mario was on the N64.
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Again, I was agreeing with you.
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People explained the actualities of the bill to him and he never changed his tune, so yup. The bill in question passed into law almost a decade ago and none of the stuff he was fearmongering about ever came to pass.
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I've been assuming it's the brain damage from the medically induced coma that he had to fly to Russia to get because doctors in Canada and the US wouldn't do it because it's stupid and dangerous. He's always been a pseudointellectual, but he's gotten a lot worse at hiding it since then.
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Waiting for Elon to have another "I am Adrian Dittmann" moment.
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Especially once the Imperial reporter starts calling the clearly peaceful protest behind him "violent insurrectionists", I knew that some people were going to watch it, absolutely miss the actual point, and go "This is Jan 6!" because that's been their narrative of what happened that day for years.
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I'm more worried about the part where it says he had his grandkids do it.
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He already bungled covid resulting in a million excess deaths, and all that did was get him reelected 4 years later instead of immediately.
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Kamille was doing that in 1985. Gundam has always been thus.
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Quattro Bajeena, hero of the AEUG? What could he possibly have to do with the One Year War?
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I definitely remember the 90s and early 2000s when Millennials were going to be the "save the planet" generation.
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I've certainly read enough headlines about Millennials and Avocado Toast without ever seeing avocado on toast in my life (same with every other millennial in my income bracket or social circle) to be able to vouch for this.
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Ami not engaging with this herself (but still supporting the others when they do, as we see after Makoto's punch) is how her character is being demonstrated.
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As a Canadian, I'm also glad he was so quick about it. If he'd taken a few more months it might have been too late.
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There's some overlap (things like Poilievre pledging to "defund woke research in universities" when the Trump project to do exactly that is causing massive brain drain from the USA), but if anything your point means the author's argument holds even less water. Canada and the US are not equally bad.
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Yeah, that's a completely insane comparison to make between the country that just rejected Poilievre and the country that just reelected Donald Trump. Canada can have problems and systemic racism without being just as bad as the USA under a wannabe dictator. Insane hyperbole.
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Why are you trying to portray Pierre Poilievre as the voice of the Canadian people when he just the election he spent his entire career preparing for so badly that he didn't even win his own seat?
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Using his voice to engage in explicit roleplay with minors? Sue them into oblivion. And that's before taking into account his wholesome Make-A-Wish-granting wrestler hero image.
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"I, the president, set the price"? I didn't realize Trump was running the USSR here.
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Now he has become the postmodern neomarxist.
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The Book of Job is about a righteous and pious man who has everything good in his life stripped away from him and put through incredible suffering purely as a test to see if he would reject God as a result. Essentially "dealing with this, I'm starting to better understand how Job felt".
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It's not like wages in Canada go up to match the exchange rate, so this price hike is still insane.
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So all those weird Newgrounds flash games?
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And you'll notice how much Russia's neighbours want to follow its lead and kowtow to its whims. There's uhh... Belarus, and... Belarus? And even that country has popular revolts that have to be crushed by the Russian military.
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As a non-American, it's funny that they think they get to decide that. America sets the standard for the rest of the world only when those other countries consent to let it. And it's no longer in their interest to do so.
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Hell, *Canada* is giving the USA the finger. The US literally does not have a more natural ally than Canada, and they've managed to alienate us.
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...Did they not realize that US suzerainty was a result of Britain experiencing a similar decline from unchallenged hegemony?
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Exactly. Prompting an AI isn't making art, it's commissioning art. It's like claiming Pope Julius II did the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel instead of Michaelangelo. Except in generative AI's case, "Michaelangelo" is also doing plagiarism.
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Don't forget that he's also antifa.
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And then after that he has the nerve to show up to the funeral of the friend whose death he deliberately failed to prevent, and start judging everyone else based on who did and didn't show up. He's a hypocrite convinced he's the only morally just person in the book. Nick is not the moral exception.
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Yes, exactly. He spends the entire book moralizing in his inner monologue while doing nothing about anything. He won't even lift a finger or speak a word when he knows a grieving husband is plotting to kill the Jay Gatsby he supposedly likes so much. He just stands back and lets it happen.
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He spends the entire book talking about what a great friend he is to Jay Gatsby, discovers that Jay Gatsby is going to be murdered, and does absolutely nothing about it (not even so much as warning him). Then he talks about how much better he is than everyone else. He's a hypocrite.
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I see people saying this using Immortan Joe more than Bane, but Bane also works.
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Everyone in the book is despicable (including Nick, the narrator). High school students like you (and me) tend to despise it because being forced to read a book where everyone is miserable and despicable within a specific time frame is a very different experience from deliberately deciding to do so.
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Ripping that band-aid off is going to be particularly painful here in Canada, for example, but it's looking like that's what we're going to have to do to avoid further pain. Better than strengthening ties with a volatile bully who goes back and forth every month.
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Non-US businesses have the option to plan for the next 4 years by basically completely decoupling from the US so as to be unaffected by the US going back and forth over and over, but that predictability has its own costs.
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As a Canadian, this is exactly it. And considering how deeply embedded our economy has been with the US economy thanks to our geographical proximity and massive land border, this has been a terrifying thing to learn. Particularly given that we were one of the first countries attacked.
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Most Baptists' understanding of Catholicism is frozen in the 1500s.
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"And Canadian"? Why are Canadians paying the same tariffs as the US? Canada is also being targeted by the US tariff regime. Is Canada being hit by US tariffs and by the backlash to US tariffs?
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As a Canadian, I'm certainly hoping for it. I don't think it's likely, but I'm hoping for it.
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3 months in and we're reaching Soviet Union levels of cope.
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Oh lord it's 2020 again.
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At this point firing Waltz would be admitting the people criticizing him were right. One of the reasons he's not doing it is that people he perceives as his political enemies would be smug about it.
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As a Canadian, the lack of this coming from the US has certainly been taken as a sign.
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Hell, wasn't a reason a bunch of people said they were voting for Trump instead of Hillary Clinton in 2016 because they thought she'd bomb Iran if she got the presidency?
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Generally because if someone is the kind of person who ends up believing they're better than everyone else based on an immutable trait they had nothing to do with, it's because they have nothing going for them as an individual.