the "please subscribe" left has decided that having sources that leak you information from inside the trump administration is impure now. they're so radical

Idk. I think US popular culture will still be dominant. I’m just not sure it matters. I’ve known a lot of Koreans and Chinese people in my life. Two things they pretty much all agree on: 1.) Japan is a shitstain on creation and the Americans were cowards for stopping at two nukes. 2.) Anime rules.

one of the most distinctive things about the second Trump administration is the active attempt to appear as evil as possible. this is his portrait from his first and his second administrations.

Libertarianism (yes, even ‘the good kind’) is a death cult that is directly responsible for the nightmare we’re living through today.

I recognize that Schumer is not the leader of the party in any sense, but what I think is far more damning is the fact that there are no indications whatsoever that the caucus is displeased with this leadership.

this was way more prevalent when i was still on tiktok but it feels like people are getting really weird about alcohol, coffee, anything that might make you happy--even in innocuous amounts! feels like we're re-engineering puritanism as a method of maintaining control (over ourselves, each other)

If your decriminalization program is not about treating addiction like an illness rather than a crime, it’s just leaving wildly antisocial behaviour completely unaddressed while doing absolutely nothing for addicts. This violates the social contract in some pretty basic and obvious ways.

I think the main lesson ICE has learned from Minneapolis is that they can just avoid the big cities and sweep people from the countryside with minimal attention or resistance

This is really bad.

they should invent a society that has object permanence

The caveat here is that when people stop drinking with their peers they usually just stop seeing their peers altogether.

This is the closest thing I've seen to real consequences for any American in the Epstein files

Remember when trump said he would destroy air travel in North America by decertifying every Canadian plane? And then we never heard anything about it? If his brain wasn't turned to mashed potato, it would be a 5-alarms fire. Now no one remembers about it and it wasn't even 2 weeks ago.

FYI Americans: if you had Canadian grandparents/parents: you may be Canadian

Big ag is one of the most brutal extractive industries on the planet but we did the whole “well ok they aren’t *right*, but the big corps they’re opposed to *are* bad, so what’s the harm…” with pharma and holistic shit and now there’s measles outbreaks in 2026.

calls to return to “traditional indigenous agriculture” are calls for billions to die, it literally did lead to famine in Sri Lanka when it was tried, I’m firm believer that we should be bigger assholes to people hawking woo shit.

Your average American - and that includes Trump - won't hear about it until the CBC runs footage of the Mounties arresting a dozen chuds and then our media will turn it into the second Iran Hostage Crisis.

Right? It’s going to absolutely shatter our relationship with the USA in a way that dwarfs even the last year, and it’s not even on their radar. A half dozen idiots apparently freelancing this in Washington is going to crash entire markets and industries.

it will also likely not be taken seriously by Democrats or even normie Republicans until it's too late

i think the biggest issue regarding the Alberta Crisis is that it's likely going to be the greatest threat to Canadian unity and sovereignty in the 21st century, and it's likely to have a lot of American influence, both hard and soft

This is my policy

That’s Brett Ratner there on the right.

99% of modern security products are just some company going "would you like this app that gamifies paranoia" and you going "yeag" like just don't do it. just turn it off

we already had a system that worked it was "look through the little hole in the door"

Also and separately, it's damning that there's nobody on Canada's right who can credibly stand up and make a law & order/Canadian nationalism argument against Grok/X.

I used to do financial journalism in Vancouver, home of the penny mining stock scams. There would be days when ~40% of the stories were all shitcos changing their name to whatever metal was trending. One company went Gold to Silver to Cobalt to Rare Earths to Blockchain. Never dug a hole.

It's an even more apt one in that, circa 1920, you needed to put radium into everything to get attention/funding. If you didn't have a way to do that then, by jiminy, you damn well better find a way to work the word "radium" into the name of your product/service/company. Bullshit never changes.

I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.

The media desperately wanted to give the right a cultural moment and the problem is that they have no culture.

thank you bad bunny for allowing all the thirty eight year olds on bluesky to do the leo pointing meme at the television

All the stars are here: Brantley Gilbert, Brice Bradley, Gabby Babby, Bibb Glibsy, Slab Gabbert, Brice Bryce,

This is increasingly how I react to most pop culture news. I think I first heard of Mr. Beast a few years after he became the biggest influencer on the planet. Learned of Bad Bunny’s existence a few months ago.

I love this because he's not being contemptuous or anything, just a befuddled old man who doesn't know what you're talking about and doesn't care to know (which is my own attitude to 99.9% of all things).

One kind of millennial internet content that you don’t see as much any more is some guy taking a picture of himself everyday for like 15 years. I loved that shit. Hell yeah let me see that facial hair grow and those outfits blur past. Lay a bad techno song as the soundtrack sure that’s fine.

It’s a lot of things but it’s obviously The Phones, and every argument in opposition reads to me like an alcoholic arguing against drunk driving laws

this is what peak posting looks like. you may not like it etc. but this is the platonic ideal of posting.

Listening and learning from the bizarre land known as "Britain" in which a scandal may cause a political official to resign rather than post an AI video of them dumping their own feces out of a F/A-18E Super Hornet on social media. Truly an alien culture.

"Canada is full." "So we should build more housing?" "No."

i rag on the left sometimes for self-marginalizing but credit where credit is due the new liberals have proved that liberals are just as capable of such things. if not more

it's funny how UK politics is a war between zoomers who want to keep the welfare state for their parents and the populist right which their parents vote for

Hot take maybe we should let kids hang out with peers in person again instead of just doing this with their fundamental companionship needs forever

Entire information networks out there just posting videos of altercations, violence, crimes or even just random scenes of drunk/drugged people There are both ideological and grifter accs that do nothing but 24/7 post news of crimes committed by people of various backgrounds

I think one of the ugliest aspects of social media is how it traps some people into a 24/7 feed of watching content about crimes, abuse and violence

We absolutely must internalize that A. The traitors generally are not popular but proactive, B. American intervention is more likely to be fitful, uncoordinated and driven by private interests rather than an organized top-down government effort and C. That still makes them very dangerous.

Palestinian Uncles doing freestyle poetry battles coming with some of the hardest lines I’ve heard in a long time.

The haters said the Japanese opposition couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly, great call by the haters

> Americans say we can’t be a totalitarian country anymore > say we have to embrace liberal democracy now > ok > form “liberal democracy party” > vote for it every time > top US ally, part of the Free World