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This is our existential threat.

Do you think Trump got confused by the whole red team / blue team thing being different?

No, they tried to tax links to news, so facebook just took the links away.

I’m saying tax or regulate the platform itself.

Edit: to give a practical example off the top of my head: tariff foreign advertising services targeting Canadians (or even more broadly), use that to subsidise media.

This was such a huge own goal. They need to fix this asap.

I’m not saying put things back the way they were, but stop the disincentive for real news. Maybe tax social media and subsidise journalism, or otherwise regulate them in some way.

Assuming I’m looking at the right thing on google maps, it does seem to be a lot of earthen bunkers with berms separating them. There are also quite a few free standing buildings scattered around.

I looked at Hawthorne Army Depot (US) to compare, and that one is a lot less dense, but it’s absolutely gigantic.

The demographic breakdown is disturbing, especially gender.

I read that entire paper and it was good damned hilarious.

Betteridge’s law in shambles

This isn’t even about transportation policy. It’s literally just “He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting” policy.

Working class conservative voters get nothing out of a conservative government other than potentially hurting other working class people they’ve been taught to hate.

If it makes a sound you don’t recognise, use the gun.

The aim is to terrorize the civilian population and turn them against the Ukrainian military and government, forcing them to sue for peace with Moscow.

Hasn’t this famously backfired whenever it was attempted?

I actually felt a little bit guilty after writing the comment. I don’t think volunteering to run it is the answer, but I should at least be advocating directly instead of just complaining online.

Our town went from posting on twitter to mirroring every post to their website as well as twitter, Facebook, etc. There must be tools out there to facilitate this.

Don’t let […] old people wishing blindly for the past steal it (again) from you.

But vote conservative?!

I guess we’ve got to the point where progress is regress and regress is progress.

I heard a little of the debate on this and it seemed like there was no consideration of open platforms, or whatever happens after Bluesky inevitably enshittifies.

I have no problem with it them posting on Bluesky, but everything should also be on a site with RSS, or a mailing list, or something open.

Surely we can give them tools to do this without relying on big American tech firms.

Probably not what you’re looking for, but it just occured to me that Ted Lasso might be the closest modern show to this sort of cosy/wholesome British sitcom.

Also if you want something really on the nose, I seem to remember enjoying Rev:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rev._(TV_series)

Edit: bonus recommendation for The Royle Family

Can we move the front line to the Mason-Dixon line?

A homeless person ending up in a hospital bed or dying costs us substantially more money than housing them

Same goes for things like allowing abortion, at its core abortion rights inherently save such enormous magnitudes of money long term,

Same goes for trans rights, the most cost effective and safest way to treat trans folks is just provide them with medical intervention to align their body with their gender.

To me Conservatism is literally lack of empathy. These are all arguments to convince someone without empathy to accidentally do the right thing.

Do you need a fiscal reason to support e.g. trans rights or housing as a human right? If not, then why even consider yourself a fiscal conservative?

In my experience, people with empathy who identify as ‘Fiscally Conservative’ just want the government to be efficient. That’s great. Everyone wants the government to be efficient. Leftists want the government to be efficient too.

Edit: a sibling comment said it well I think:

Nobody doesn’t believe in spending money wisely and sustainably.

If you’re truly conservative then you’d also support a deregulated free market that allows extreme wealth disparity.

You probably already know this, but Down East has refill stations in various places to reduce waste.

The American Have I Got News For You is actually awesome IMO.

Minority Probability

We shouldn’t normalise ‘most seats = minority government’. They can do their fucking jobs and form a government that represents 60% of the people instead of letting one form that represents 40%.

Coalition -> Electoral Reform -> Election #2

That would be the best outcome for the country.