Hemingways_Shotgun @ Adderbox76 @lemmy.ca

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I'll preface this by admitting that I'm far far far from an expert, but if I recall correctly, the issue is that the oil that is left in Alberta (Tar Sands) is largely dirty, bitumen layers that require so much refining that it's not cost effective to the point where no other province really wants to bother building the rather expensive refineries necessary to do it.

It's more cost effective to ship it to places that already have such refineries and then buy it back.

Though my understanding on it is very very limited, so please if someone can explain it differently to me, please do. I'm always open to learning.

Even the dumbest drunk driving murderer in the province is right once in a while....

Pinning it solely on the Liberals is pretty typical Scooter Moe bullshit, but he's right in that we should have been divesting our trade from the U.S a long time ago.

The only freedom's you'll have left is the ability to vote on what America names its version of the Lada

You think a U.S. military base isn't getting kicked the fuck out of a foreign country the moment they are declared an enemy? Or do you have such a little opinion of everyone else that you think a couple of military bases will immediately take over every European county at once?

If America invades Canada it's global reach becomes null and void essentially the next day. Every Nato country expels American military personnel, by force if necessary, and America's role in the world is done, regardless if they win against Canada or not.

If you think your Apple phone isn't listening to you, I have some seaside real estate I'd like to sell you in Montana.

I unapologetically woke up this morning hoping to read that someone took a successful shot at him during the Superbowl.

Put me on whatever list you wish.

If they had any brains, they'd create a salient by using the fifth column traitors in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Very little would hold them back in Maple MAGA country. They'd have both provinces in short order and then work on defending them.

A bit like Hitler making a beeline for the Russian oil fields before he got distracted with taking Stalingrad because of "symbolism" or some shit.

Multiple fronts I'd imagine.

I'd easily imagine Mexico declaring and starting to fuck shit up at the southern border.

Depending on when it starts, potentially embargoes from Europe. (Right now I think they're still too skittish, but if Trump invades after he's spent another year or so destroying international relations, I don't doubt Europe would slap embargoes on him. At some point, those countries that host American bases would tell them to fuck off back home which in the short term would be bad for Canada since it would be reinforcing the American military, but in the long term destroying America's global reach.

I'd accept casualties if it meant taking care of American imperialism long-term.

Imo, Europe is better off forging its own path, only collaborating with countries such as China when it is in our strategic interest to do so.

Europe, without the U.S. needs to increase it's military spending. (Same with Canada, who, I hate to say it, really needs to get some nukes onto it's territory on loan from somehwere)

Ironically, NATO increasing it's military spending is something that the U.S. has been bitching about for years. So now they'd finally get their wish, but in some weird monkey's paw Faustian way.

"Fuck appeasement"

• Poland, 1939.

The moment they make clear that CA farmers cannot access the Colorado river waters like they used to

But..but...I've been told that there's a big faucet up here in Canada that we can turn on for y'all to make it all better.

/s. (god I can't believe I live in a world where I need an /s tag for this)

Not really. I find that most "pop culture" still gets talked about, it just doesn't get pushed into everyone's face by an algorithm.

If I drift away from my subscribed feed and look at the all feed, it doesn't take long for something or another about pop culture to pop up. And then if I'm interested, I go to the particular community that's talking about it and subscribe. The more I do that, the more interests start to show up in my subscribed feed.

For the most part, these communities all exist, there's just no algorithm saying "hey...you'll probably like this". And so you have to find them yourself.

Flive has flive letters.

Stop all this Prime Directive nonsense.

There's no such thing as a culture's "natural progress" because there's no such thing as "fate". We live or die or change or stagnate based on random events and there's no saying that one specific course of events is the correct one.

Putin is currently staging a coup, and it's on the United States' dime. If all of this is somehow actually the machinations of Putin, you can't help but be impressed with it.

I can't even remember what my phone was like before Niagara, to be honest. It's simply become the correct way to use a phone (to me).

On the one hand, I feel bad because these are people running to a better world hopefully before they get deported back to a shittier one. They come north so that they aren't sent south. (I presume that's what's going on here) And in that respect, I would welcome all of them.

America is a shit hole. Meanwhile, our population is stagnant because of declining birth rates, and our country absolutely loves diversity (at least on paper). Unlike America, where you're expected to melt into one giant conglomerate "American" culture, in Canada, you enrich ours by adding yours, like a spice.

But the problem is, doing it this way out of desperation is just going to embolden our own Maple MAGA fuckwits to become even bigger assholes because their IS a cost of living crisis, and we do have an immigration problem that needs to be addressed as well.

There's no winning.

Little Peepee's only shot was to get his election before the theory of a Trump presidency became the reality of a Trump presidency.

Now that that's not possible and every bit of that orange shit-stains bullshit is reflecting on him, not only has he gone relatively silent, but most of the Maple MAGA fuckwits have shut up as well.

With every day that Conservatives are kept wallowing in their reflection of the U.S. Republican party, they're chances of a majority government fall further and further down. I'm cautiously optimistic that even if it's too late to come back or too large a lead for the Liberals to make up, that at least we'll fall into Minority Government range where Peepee won't be able to get the worst of his agenda accomplished.

The notion that "facts matter".

I've spent my entire life believing that facts don't care about feelings. That scientific truth doesn't require your belief in it in order to be true. That at the end of the day, reasoning will beat emotion...

By far the most dis-heartening thing about the last few years (to me) has been accepting the idea they "facts" are "whatever is shouted the loudest".

It, more than anything else, makes me feel helpless. If the enemy isn't even playing with the same fact-sheet... How do you even begin to fight that?

I know how anyone could organize something so large, But a mass strike/walkout would have more impact than anything else right now.

None of the common people go in to work until shit stain "abdicates"