JohnnyCanuck @ JohnnyCanuck @lemmy.ca

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That's fair, but I doubt it would last long. Quebec voters can be a bit fickle and the BQ might not be as patient as the NDP+G have been. I would guess non-confidence and a new election in about a year.

Damn, he must really hate his wife. Just get a divorce, dude!

Archive: https://archive.is/6Kqbb

Get on your knees and beg, donny.

Lol, do your own homework and stop revising history based on what we know now. Your new link doesn't say shit about musk's intentions, just that some people said he was out-to-lunch. That does not show him being the biggest cancer. There have been plenty of times people said what he was trying to do was impossible, for example, landing rockets.

I didn't say and I'm not arguing that he had a product in the hyperloop and I'm certainly not defending him. He's done plenty of shitty shit we haven't even talked about (ahem, astrophotography). I'm defending Mark Kelly's latest action from your holier-than-thou bullshit. There are plenty of articles talking about the change in Musk in the last three years to become hateful and right-leaning.

Before that he was publicly calling out Trump and defending things like the Paris agreement. Tesla had pushed the all-electric vehicle to being what it is today and even if it wasn't all him, his backing/money certainly helped and he was the face of that. SpaceX changed spaceflight as we know it. Starlink was creating a whole new way for people to access the internet (again, not defending him, I know the other side of this one, but it was becoming and has become a very important thing to a lot of people). There was the big power reserve plant in Australia 2017/2018. I think it was around 2021 that things started to fall apart publicly for the solar roof stuff, but before that there was a lot of hope around it.

Just because you hated musk for however long you've hated him, it doesn't mean everyone could have predicted what's going on now. You want us to say you were right? Fine, assuming you've been saying for 10 years that he's the biggest cancer, good on ya. You got it right.

But if you had said that even four years ago (like when Mark Kelly bought his Tesla), there would have been a lot of people jumping on you with all the great things he's pushed forward, despite being a weird-ass douchebag who also did many shitty things.

So instead of focusing on calling out Mark Kelly for his mistake 4 years ago, how about saying, good, at least someone is taking an action, publicly, loudly, however small, against what's going on now. There are plenty of them that are just sitting back and watching, focus your ire on them. Stick together and give the ones who are fighting a boost instead of trying to kick them back down because of some perceived iniquity in the past.

This is Elon in 2018 showing his butt

Yes, he was a douche, asshole, fucknut, etc. Sorry I thought I had mentioned the 2018 thing in my comment but must have forgotten. That, to me, was the point where he really started his downward slide. It's certainly an inflection point where people who thought he was a genius started to get the picture that he wasnt. But that didn't make him the biggest cancer we have. That was mid-Trump v1 for fuck's sake. Plus that was 7 years ago, not a decade.

His hyperloop bullshit started around 2012-2013 and he admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that the Hyperloop proposal was only intended to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California.

And we only learned that he said that in 2021 or 2022 or something like that!

So he went with Musk, the biggest cancer we have, a known entity for at least a decade?

Uhh, sorry, not sure what timeline you're referring to, but Musk was being compared to Tony Stark up until about 2022. He was a weird and eccentric douche, but hadn't gone right-wing MAGA evil yet. Tesla was on top and it was not controversial (to most centre-left) to have one. In fact it was a progressive statement until recently. Plus SpaceX was fucking rocking it and that would have been important to Mark Kelly.

How are you guys not marching on Washington yet?

The key is to soften/glottalize that t.

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They're not recyclable yet. In a few years when we have Mr. Fusions and replicators, things will be different.

Or we need to buy them and jailbreak them.

Lol, that's some real convoluted copism you have going on there.

A. musk's "yup" was an amplification of the xit attacking the article in question. That makes it an attack. That's how xitter works.

B. The point is that DOGE is the epitome of inefficiency. It's cutting too much while the results are too little.

C. musk's xit attack got >19k re-xits and >200k licks (xit-lickers gotta lick) causing us to see this. What's the responsibility of all the xit-lickers? How is that a little thing being made into a big deal?

D. Even if the title is hyperbolic (which I don't agree it is) 15 people on lemmy upvoting it to fight the fascist tyranny and lies spouted by musk and his xit-minions doesn't "need to stop". He needs to be kept in ckeck and that can't be done on platforms owned by billionaires. If nothing else, it's important to spread the word that musk is unable to understand the concept that something can be both too much and too little. What a genius.

He wants to be emperor.

Now it's because of banks or some shit. The goal posts will just keep moving and because the real goal is to cripple the Canadian economy.

PH blocks itself in those states because of their ID requirements.

I'm not positive, but I always took it as a conservative way to say "I have a tiny penis and I want to fuck Joe Biden!" Pretty sure that's what marjorie taylor greene means anyway.

I thought that's what let's go Brandon was too?

Not yet, we still have hope it won't happen.

Our system is a bit different. We elect a party and that party has a leader. The leader of the elected party is the Prime Minister. The leader can step down and the party stays in power and selects a new leader, who then becomes Prime Minister. Trudeau stepped down and his party selected Carney to replace him, so we have a new prime minister and maintain a centrist government. (Centrist to us, left wing to the US.)

We can also have elections at any time, either by choice of the party in power, or forced by the opposition parties if they have enough seats in the government. Our current party in power, The Liberals, don't have a majority, so they've been maintaining power by making deals with a left wing party (the NDP or New Democratic Party). Liberal + NDP is one seat or so from a majority right now, so they've been finding additional support from other parties. This has actually worked out pretty well, as it has forced the government to be a little more proactive and given the left a good amount of power. There is always the threat of losing power and having to make different parties happy.

If the NDP (or others) decide they don't like Carney, they can force an election and then we will have the chance of getting that Conservative government you were worried about. Most likely they will wait a bit to see how things are going before doing that because their worst fear is forcing an election and ending up in a worse position (a Conservative majority.) If you hear that Canada has a new Prime Minister named Poilievre in the next year, you'll know we just ran into the same shit you guys did.

because we want him to be better than Poilievre

Or at least seem better than Poilievre to the people who might vote conservative.

I just learned about it, but it's called the "Newfoundland Curse" not the "Newfoundlander Curse" or the "Newfie Curse".

It's a curse of the land that some newfies get struck with, not a curse of the people that all are afflicted with.

A Newfie Curse would be "Lord tunderin' Jesus, the arse is gone out of 'er!"