

I wouldn’t call it positive, but it is very successful.
I wouldn’t call it positive, but it is very successful.
Even more fun fact: the masculine is gender neutral, so it also means just “friend”.
So somewhere between doing absolutely nothing to armed revolution. How enlightening.
Was plan B sitting on your hands?
A brief reminder, uncertainty, rapidly changing stances, and blustering the whole time is a pretty accurate synopsis of Trump’s last term. Why would we expect anything different this time?
Even worse, it was made “unprofitable” by being required to have a ridiculously high standard of pension coverage, which I believe just ended or ends soon.
Tariffs can have certain benefits if wielded with finesse in the right circumstances. Trump uses anything he has like a blunt object. The goal of the retaliatory tariffs was to cause key parts of America pain, rather than mostly Canada feeling the pain of these tariffs.
As for helping the working class. No tariffs are better than tariffs for that working class, but that group has been neglected or targeted for a long time.
This is a key point. A lot of Canadians are going to avoid buying American, at which point it doesn’t matter if they’re product is on the shelves or if the price didn’t go up, so there will still be some economic impact even if our leaders kiss and make up.
Trump didn’t piss off one person, he pissed off millions, then gave them a target. And this isn’t a unique event. Similar responses are happening in the EU and elsewhere.
The quality of lawyers only matter when the case is close (unclear evidence).
Given that the single greatest hurdle to gaining convictions in rape cases are the lack of witnesses, usually limited to the accuser and the accused, I imagine a good many rape cases, Title IX or otherwise, are largely decided by the relative quality of the lawyers involved.
I’m not sure how you’re going to talk politics without personality, and this is both indicative and typical of his personality.
Trump hasn’t liked Trudeau since he won Trump’s stupid little handshake game.
Hence, the plans in Project 2025 to remove people who resist their plans in most bureaucracies and replace them with loyal followers. While they may not be as effective at running the bureaucracy, they will be very effective informants. And the bureaucracy being effective isn’t high on their priorities. And on top of all that, their base will approve of the bureaucracies running poorly because they’ve been taught that they represent government waste. At least until they learn about all the things they do that they never thought about until they stop being done right, on time, or at all.
The recent spate of broken underwater cables has been in the Baltic Sea, and I’m not sure if there is a short route between those two locations. I doubt this particular ship has any connection with those incidents.
Your gotcha is that it only cost $3000 per person to deport them?
While you’re correct, another option would be to use that money to help his fellow countrymen, but apparently that isn’t American.
“I don’t rightly know why we started a-fueding, but by God Sarah, you’re a red hat, you can’t go out and marry a blue hat! Granny would keel over and die!”
Welcome to the internet, you must be new. Keep scrolling through new here and you should see some pretty common jokes about the falliability of AI of various flavors. Criticism of the weighting on training models can be found with just slightly more effort.
I don’t think you’re wrong in general, and I could give you a list of criticisms of Gate’s actions even today. But if we’re going to have wealth disparity, and we probably always will, I’d rather it be pragmatic self-interest clothed in good will than rabid self-interest clothed in freedom.
I understand what you’re saying, but you are still implicitly agreeing with the idea hardened criminals should be treated more harshly. If your goal is rehabilitation and not punishment, this is the wrong mentality.
I had a teacher tell me women couldn’t get hemophilia because it’s a sex-linked gene. True enough, but it’s on the X chromosome, and what do you suppose happens if a woman has that gene on both of them… I lost points on a test because of that.
This was before the internet, so I couldn’t easily find answers to prove he was wrong.