sloppychops @ sloppychops @lemmy.ca

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I mean it's not necessarily the retailers. It's Canadians themselves who aren't buying them. If I read "états unis" on a product I will look for an alternative or go without.

Nuclear deterrent next, please Mr Carney. 🙏

Surely Trump will respect any agreement you make with him. He would never go back on his word.

Why is the UK being such a cowardly little bitch? I don't get it.

Is it possible to buy Jarritos in Canada that is not imported via Texas? That's what I want to know.

Although it's not insurmountable with the advent of improved battery storage technology, this kind of dramatic change is an issue for existing baseload infrastructure. The French grid is basically designed around a nuclear baseload which many would already consider 'green.' Nuclear also comes with a very high capital investment, typically from public funds, and energy prices dropping below a certain threshold could impact repayment, public debt and interest costs etc.

What does Trump think is far larger than 25%? I'd swear that he thought that 25 was as high as numbers go. Someone must have told him about 26.

It is not risking 30% of anything. 3% maybe.

Same complaint. Reddit posts with 100s or 1000s of replies were mostly a few good comments drowning in spam.

The US and Canada both have dairy tariffs in place. However, they functionally do not exist because they are only applied after a quota is met. For example, last year Canada charged a 0% tariff on all US dairy imports because the total volume of trade never breached the quota limit. This has basically been the case since NAFTA.

Canada, on average, actually charges lower tariffs than the US. That was true before Trump's trade war and remains true today.

Their lack of scruples is a skill in itself.

I may be misremembering but I'm pretty sure the same character appears in Nioh or Nioh 2. A Japanese game made by Japanese developers. A cameo, but a representation of an historic figure and not some random person plucked out of historical obscurity.

I probably won't play the game because I've never really been a fan of the Assasin's Creed style but imagine getting your knickers in a twist over something that no one is forcing you to play. There are a bajillion other games. So weird.

That whole pedo thing was so fucking weird.

Meh hee koh.

The USSR was a shitty little bitch during her heyday, too. Worse than the US? I'm not sure. Eastern Europe and South America probably have a major difference of opinion there.

In the last few decades I feel like Russia may have the US beat?

Could be wrong, but I think that might only be true for English.

Benny Hill music intensifies.

Well, I hope you can afford me the benefit of the doubt when I say that my critque comes from a left leaning perspective. I see this kind of response a lot online, particularly in left leaning spaces: "the left's authoritarianism is a conservative conspiracy" with a generous helping of accusations of 'both sidesing.' I don't think those characterizations are true or helpful.

The general public in most western nations all more or less agree with the flagship policies of the left. Whether that be universal healthcare, freedom of choice, marriage equality etc. The question then becomes; why do people vote against their own beliefs? What is it about "The Left" that is so unappealing that people would rather vote for fascists?

It seems to me that the reason the left is doing so poorly in Europe and NA is because we've been hijacked by purity spirals, exacerbating our already greater proclivity to fracture. Our message is not reaching the people who would be inclined to vote for left leaning policies because it is drowned out by so much of the more authoritarian online discourse, some of which has spilled out into real life politics. That's not to mention our aversion to recognizing or admitting fault in our own movement. We're each like the proverbial frog in boiling water; complacent to the growing failings and dangers within our own movement because we've slowly become acclimatised to it.

The authoritarian tendencies of the left's flank are, in my opinion, partly to blame for some of what we are seeing unfold and my fear is that unless we can acknowledge and reign in some of that we will, as a society, continue to careen toward something considerably more awful than Trump, Le Pen, Farage, Poilievre, Meloni etc. The backlash to the backlash will compound and compound until society ruptures.

Of course it could be that I am entirely too pessimistic and the future will be bright and rosey.

I think that left politics are more compassionate and probably better for more people, particularly working class people so I absolutely am not a centrist in that regard.

In terms of extremism/authoritarianism; everyone's susceptible to it and I don't think online discourse helps things, particularly when it comes to assumptions about others' motives and our lack of charitability.

Tesla Chrome and Android by X incoming.