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  • Mark Carney says Canada to match vehicle tariffs in response to Trump levies

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  • Nuclear deterrent next, please Mr Carney. 🙏

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

  • Starmer offers big US tech firms tax cuts in return for lower Trump tariffs

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

  • Leaders of Canada, Mexico discuss plan to fight trade actions by US

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

  • French Power Price Plunges Below Zero as Solar Swamps the Grid

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  • 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.

  • Trump threatens 'far larger' tariffs if EU and Canada unite to do 'economic harm' to the U.S.

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  • 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.

  • Era of close ties with US 'is over': Canada PM Carney

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

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

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  • Their lack of scruples is a skill in itself.

  • Assassin's Creed Shadows streamer goes viral after confronting whining commenters: 'Normal people don't get upset about this sh***'

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  • 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.

  • We are not all the same

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  • Meh hee koh.

  • We are not all the same

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  • 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?

  • We are not all the same

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

  • Trump’s spell has been broken | The US president is hurting rather than helping his ideological allies such as Nigel Farage

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  • Benny Hill music intensifies.

  • Trump’s spell has been broken | The US president is hurting rather than helping his ideological allies such as Nigel Farage

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  • 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.

  • Trump’s spell has been broken | The US president is hurting rather than helping his ideological allies such as Nigel Farage

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  • 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.

  • DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next

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  • Tesla Chrome and Android by X incoming.

  • Trump’s spell has been broken | The US president is hurting rather than helping his ideological allies such as Nigel Farage

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  • There are always consequences, some more productive that others. Note that I am not claiming that progressive politics are authoritarian, only that there are authoritarian tendencies on the far left end of the progressive spectrum. I would probably class myself as progressive. Green/Labour left is probably closer.

    Where one might say 'overly zealous' another might say 'authoritarian.'

  • Trump’s spell has been broken | The US president is hurting rather than helping his ideological allies such as Nigel Farage

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  • There is a tendency amongst those on the political extremes to:

    Silence opposing voices; Push for, and sometimes implement the policing and criminalization of certain speech; Root out 'enemies' through witch-hunts and humiliation rituals or 'struggle sessions'; Enforce a conformity of ideas and opinions through the threat of ostracization, humiliation or violence. Instill a culture of fear around speech or activities contrary to the 'party line.' Amongst other things.