JD Vance is smart and quick-witted. You don’t go from bumfuck Ohio to Yale Law otherwise. Don’t have to like him, his policies (or his absolute dogshit PR team) to recognize that.

The only people who tap the gas when they see a yellow light are from places where all intersection left turns are signalled.

Macron sees blood in the water and doesn’t want his party to be a part of it. Let someone else lead, let them take the fall, and swoop in.

obviously because immigration just spontaneously happens because the US is simply just that desirable of a place to go

We knew this. Everybody knew this. Ukraine still requested them.

Frankly, this isn’t Canada’s problem. The Senator isn’t designed for actual combat operations. It’s a glorified armoured car designed to protect against shrapnel and small arms fire. At best, it’s an ERT vehicle.

A vigorous fascist is preferable to a corpse

Same reason the NDP in Canada runs Singh instead of Notley or Eby.

The dollar-crunched Global South is a direct consequence of the dominance of the USD in global trade. There’s absolutely a third route here where China’s pursuit of trade through local currencies decouples regional blocs from the USD (ASEAN, the AU, etc.), or where government borrowing in this countries begins to be RMB-backed with China acting as the supply of USD. The RMB’s soft peg with the USD introduces many opportunities for forex fuckery.

Done

In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my home. Later I discovered my employer (Apple) was dumping toxic waste into our windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off EPA, who raided them in 2023. EPA just sent me the report

Only so many ejects your body can take

Don’t you shit on cooks. Cooks are the lifeblood of any large organized group.

China achieved this at the cost of rising income inequality, though. Entirely part of Deng Xiaoping’s plan (“some regions get rich quicker than others”), but if left unchecked it would’ve been pretty disastrous. Fortunately, recent years have seen a reversal in this policy and it’s the less rich regions that are growing more quickly now.

The EU is trying to tax German and American car manufacturers… This was the best way they could come up with.

BYD will just circumvent these tariffs by going all-in on hybrids for the EU market anyway. It’s a silly game.

National security! Think of the children! Shale oil is good for the economy!

Wait, I’m confused.

The New York Times is incredibly lazy. They found a nice headline and filled the story in to match. Many such cases

Just like we extract and refine oil from the tar sands, right?

Wait, you mean Canada just takes the brunt of the environmentally exploitative resource extraction and the US reaps all the benefits of refining it into a usable product?

Legitimate expressions of grievance do not preclude outside agitators, though.

Everyone’s discontent, but not all issues end up organizing.

The easiest way to end the war is by forcing a coup. There’s no way Ukrainian citizens are desperate to keep throwing people at the meat grinder to please their overlords in Kiev. I’m fairly confident that’s why Zaluzhny got sent away and Zelensky has been cleaning house in his security detail.

Props where they’re due, Zelensky’s an absolute monster for staying in power and surviving this long into the conflict.

Russia is about to become China’s Canada and… I think that’s ok?