pride and propaganda and such makes it hard for people who don’t understand the sunk cost fallacy to change course.

I mean, I know conservatism is nothing but a series of projections, but this is just impressive. I really don’t think I could have said it better myself.

Sure, but if they said that aloud instead of continuing to deflect, they’d basically lose their whole identity.

Ruined the place for people like you, maybe. An act I can be quite proud of.

I just straight won’t engage with video-only news.

Of COURSE the Canada section is overwhelmingly Alberta.

God fucking dammit. I hope this is fake, but I’m afraid it is not.

As an aside, please tell me you passed forum access to law enforcement.

Corporations should be allowed to lie and abuse people who aren’t knowledgeable or practiced enough to avoid it, because they deserve it?THAT’S your take?

You know, I knew I recognized that name from somewhere. You’re that one who was trolling around here pre-election spreading misinformation that I got into an argument about over your completely insane perspective on the Liberals destroying Canadian identity. I’m glad I get to share a message with you post election, so I can point, proudly, to the way Canada happily rallied together under a Liberal banner, sporting a national togetherness that we certainly haven’t seen since the selfish, Conservative nutjobs started doing their damnedest to sow division and tear us apart to their benefit before and through the Covid era. I’m not shocked that, in the brief 5 minutes I gave your account to figure out why I recall your name, I saw a majority of your posts filled with vitriol and hatred, while you continuously deny objective reality and dismiss everyone who disagrees with you as being intellectually stunted. Losing the election and watching Canadian’s rally together must really be shaking your world view, and since the only real responses are to adapt and grow, or lash out and blame the world, it really is no wonder you’re here, spreading hate.

Your completely ethically bankrupt and sociopathic take on the topic at hand here doesn’t even deserve a response, but I’m giving you one for the satisfaction of myself and everyone who works to make this world a better place while people with your perspective justify abusive practices and beliefs: fuck you. You should be embarrassed just thinking it, let alone typing it out. Get off social media, stop treating the people you interact with like garbage - if your posts here are any indication of how you speak to people, you are a truly reprehensible piece of shit - get out of your hate-filled bubble, and at least try to experience the world from a perspective other than the one that bred this abhorrent, inexcusable take. Or, just fuck off.

So “gullible and foolish people” deserve to be abused by corporate interests? We aren’t supposed to build a world that benefits everyone, regardless of how “gullible and foolish” they are?

So, the capitalist brainrot belief is that Adam Smith’s invisible hand is going to make sure that money only goes to the people who deserve it, because people obviously will buy the best product at the cheapest prices and everyone else deserves to be pushed out of the market unless they do better.

Except we have consistant evidence that that isn’t true. The raw existence of marketing and advertising completely undermines the core concept of what is supposed to make private business good. “We’ll just make sure we’re the name people know and appeal to their cultural wants” is a complete subversion of how businesses are supposed to function. And then there’s the reality that once businesses have reliabily built themselves into the cultural needs of people, they don’t need to care anymore: see the process of enshitification in the mass of new business concepts - streaming services, 2nd party food deliver apps, etc. - and this becomes obviously true.

On paper, providing a better service should result in higher income. In reality, there are a million manipulatable factors to undermine this concept, and as we continue to argue that wealth is an inherent virtue, we’ll continue to give perceived moral superiority to the private businesses that will pull the plug on your grandmother’s life support if it will save them a dollar. Fuck that. The more services we can keep our of the hands of greedy CEOs and venture capitalists, the closer we are to a genuinely just world.

Because it is never the service that privatization seeks to make better. Private corporations make more money. That is the only target metric.

Nah man, “parents rights” advocates. Because it is your right to give suffering to life you create.

0% homelessness in China btw.

Which is like the US declaring homelessness a federal crime, imprisoning everyone who lives on the streets, and calling homelessness a solved problem.

A 2 week old account posting over 250 times in that tiny duration, spending every single post completely blasting the Liberals and pretending to care about the NDP.

Hmmm…

Not sure I’ve ever seen such an egregious case of being on someone’s payroll. Then again, I guess there’s a chance this is someone so cripplingly, unapologetically far down the right-wing misinformation pipeline that they’ve completely lost control of their life and spend every waking moment trying to get images of the Liberals inviting immigrants into Canada and shutting down oil pipelines out of their heads.

1. I am hard convinced that most “Albertan” seperatists are genuinely astroturfers trying to sway Canadian politics.

2. The ones that are legit are your bog-standard victimized conservative types. Every hardship they’ve ever faced is the fault of someone taking something they “deserve” with no genuine logic behind it rather than a self-centered belief that they are entitled to a level of prosperity that the majority of the world can barely dream of. So they aren’t mad about one or more clear things; it’s the general sense that they deserve more than they’ve been given, and the constant lie that others have been taking from them.

“Everyone who is critical of me is woke.”

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I hate that you get downvoted for pointing out the reality of the situation.

Relative to the price of everything else, $80 for a AAA videogame is actually reasonable. The problem is that rent has gone up drastically, food has gone up drastically, and our wages have stagnated. Getting pissed off at Gearbox for charging $80 for Borderlands 4, and then paying $15 for a burger and fries without an equal reaction just doesn’t seem sensible to me.

Everything is awful, and videogame devs aren’t the ones stealing all our buying power.

I agree. The war in Ukraine can only truly be resolved by removing it’s root causes. Remove Putin, and the war ends.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick called Canada a “socialist regime”

God, I fucking wish.

This. Canada’s food standards have always been leaps and bounds ahead of the states, and we won’t sell American food that doesn’t meet Canadian standards.

That said, fuck Trump and the US right now (sorry to those of you that are along for the ride) and look for Canadian alternatives anyway.

Call me crazy, but I don’t want nationalists in this country, full stop. We can love and respect our nation without being worked into a blind, fervent frenzy.

People are real quick to point out that the Nazi’s had “socialist” in their party name, and real fuckin’ slow to pick up that it was preceded by “national.”