people online:"the founding fathers were evil because of slave-" Actual Democratic-Republicans in the 1790s: KILL GEORGE WASHINGTON

If this is true, this is a very worrying story. It may also require a certain updating of priors in how we consider threats to our sovereignty from the US.

Therapist: Quebecois Count Binface isn't real he can't hurt you. Quebecois Comte Tete de Poubelle:

That climate be changing huh

This would be a great time to have anything resembling a competent opposition party that could loudly and credibly accuse Carney and the Libs of bending their knees to polish Trump's shoes. Who's leading the BQ right now?

Let's pay the Danegeld, surely that'll be the last we hear from the Danes.

I may just be some asshole on the internet. But I can see the extremely obvious problem with teaching the Yankees they can unilaterally break any existing agreement and we'll give them better terms.

Post and cry

Wow

The underlying point: from bridges to defence pacts to ceasefires the word of the United States government counts for nothing. You cannot bargain with these people except through corruption

HMMMMMM

One of the silliest things about the AI utopians is the belief that completely alienating everyone from the economy will somehow work out better than completely alienating everyone from politics did.

Let's check in on the market reaction:

The Iranians really do not seem to understand that as long as the United States economy is not getting absolutely wrecked, we will just keep doing whatever we feel like doing, and what we feel like doing is clearly killing Iranians, no matter how many ceasefires we sign.

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My pet peeve is dialogue like: "Father, why must we sit through this boring ritual?" "Well, my son the prince, you and I know that it's bullshit and that all that matters is the exercise of power..." No! That's the opposite of a medieval mentality! It's not Brutally Accurate!

My own medievalist take is that "accurate" is often taken to mean, "the color is washed out and be everyone's covered in mud," but otherwise everyone still acts like modern people in costume. I think that Eggers's The Northman is the only movie to go balls to the wall to show a medieval mentality.

to be honest the tipping point for me was the IDF's psychotic response to the March of Return border protests in 2018-2019. it was where I stopped giving Israel the benefit of the doubt.

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I got some thoughts on this Wanting domestic manufacturing is a pan-ideological obsession in American politics. As you say they’re giving companies a fuckton of money to onshore, and now that that rubicon has been crossed, we gotta assume that’s permanent American policy.

this is why i affirmatively believe it is dangerous to indulge it even one iota. someone who has moved to a city five seconds ago now enjoys the same total right of access everyone in it always did

The people of Clacton truly have the opportunity to do the funniest thing, maybe of all time

If I was in the mob and they tried to “whack” me I would firmly, but politely, say: “no thank you, that is illegal.”

I knew something was wrong when all the wrestlers became teetotaling streamer nerds and all the business and politics guys started slamming gear and coke like the road warriors

This came to me in a dream

Solar's sharp rise continues. As of April 2026, global solar capacity now exceeds 3 terawatt. 1 gigawatt → 1 terawatt: 20+ years 1 terawatt → 2 terawatt: 33 months 2 terawatt → 3 terawatt: 19 months

Giving maple syrup as a diplomatic gift is the 24 Sussex Drive of diplomatic gifts.

If every empty nester both lives in a three bedroom house and opposes the construction of anything new, lots of adult kids moving back home is inevitable

Christopher Nolan: the Batmobile should be like gamer mouse! Everyone: Hell yeah nice Nolan (mad with power): the odyssey should also be like gamer mouse! Everyone: wait, Chris-

One bit of modern decadence I have no patience for is fortune cookies that give you advice instead of telling your future. I don’t believe cookies can tell the future, but I don’t want hedging from my desserts.

imaging a hypothetical subject who does not share characteristics with you, especially but not exclusively living in a more rural area & having a lower level of formal education, & feeling that this gives you & people like you a lower level of some essential authenticity that must be compensated for

around 55% of Americans live in a metro area of at least a million, it is true that the median voter has no degree and the things that excite assistant professors will possibly not excite them, that doesn't mean you need to engage in the Joe the plumber cosplay, just have some basic self awareness

insecure cosmopolitanism is one of the defining pathologies of our political elite, we are in a ten fucking year crash out from a specific set of urban cosmopolitans very insecure about the fact that they are urban cosmopolitans and I'm so sick of it.

An account with this avatar was just blocked.

Look you simply abandon Atlantic Canada and Quebec, and fail to make headway in Ontario but then you run up vote in Alberta and you get a big cowboy hat or something

One of the big differences between Edmonton and Calgary that nobody really talks about is the former’s incredible diversity in religious architecture. Everywhere else in Alberta I’ve been it’s usually a bunch of random non-denom churches, a few Catholic and the odd Anglican or Lutheran.

People getting worked up about nostalgiaposts like this don't seem to realize people aren't lamenting companies, they're remembering evaporated forms of community. Yes, get DVDs from your library! But are you going to ride your bike with your 5 best friends there then curl up together to watch it?

I would also add, contra the "LLMs are inevitable" crowd, that we could probably break the frontier labs with all of two tweaks to liability

Obviously this is excellent, detailed, and in many ways pretty terrifying - essential reading for anyone with even a passing concern for literature, thought, learning etc. I would only add that there is an even broader crisis here around attention. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

every day someone comes on this retirement home for millennial forum posters and gets my ass

I find I’m becoming less and less sympathetic to the self soothing narratives they’re generating because I’ve noticed they instil an increasingly sedative effect on the rest of us. For instance your average Canadian Bulwark listener thinks the worst of it is gonna be wrapped up by the midterms.

I’m not saying it would tradeoff free, I’m not saying it would be easy, but you make a few changes to liability law and Meta goes away, YouTube goes away. the first mover advantages they have will not return. These are breakable systems. None of this is inevitable.

Again, all of this is a policy choice. Social media is not the printing press, it’s not alcohol: it’s a network, not a technology. States break or suppress networks all the time. You don’t need The Revolution to change this, you don’t need an authoritarian state. You just need a few changes to law.

Its been US policy since like Albright to prevent europe from having its own defense base and this has been remarkably consistent!

This is why, as I've been arguing since the start of 2025, Canadians need to update our threat model and start thinking about American tech the same way we think about Chinese or Russian products. The threat from Huawei is real, but it's naive to think the same concerns don't apply to Starlink.

Trump isn't actually going to send tanks over the 49th parallel... But the banter is a signal that Canadian sovereignty is no longer recognized by America's foreign policy establishment. Things may shift a bit under the next administration, but the goalposts have changed. bsky.app/profile/vibi...

This is why I just can’t bear literary snobbery anymore. If at some point last year you read to the very end of a Colleen Hoover book or a Star Wars novelization and can talk about the characters and what the moral of the story probably was that puts you in top third of the population

Canada underestimates the kind of repressed rage that might be levelled at it. We share enough in common with the US that one half of America will see in us everything it hates about the other. But we are different enough that certain protections for fellow Americans will not apply to us.

The answer is of course almost always no, because if he meanr it, allies would be obliged to take it seriously and inflict consequences that would inevitably damage American global standing and power projection as a whole, rather than being micro-targeted to influence eight swing voters in Idaho.