ryepunk [he/him]

As someone who lives in Gastown Canada; Alberta, I regularly have to hear how we need to keep on extracting oil and gas because if we don’t we’ll fall behind or something else. And it’s just exhausting.

you’ll at least use the money to invest in solar and wind battery technology to turn us into a part of that growing market right?

I have found it better if we just made our companies incredibly wealthy doing whatever they want.

I fucking hate this place

Nope, I don’t think he’s a terrible person, but he’s not a good dad. It’s pretty clear now that he never really had any passion for anything (or he did and never chased it, I guess we have something in common) and just kinda went with the plan for boomers. So he got a boring job that paid enough to have a house and two cars and 3 kids. He went to work and spent time with the kids occasionally. But he never taught me anything how to shave? Mom got me a razor and told me to figure it out. How to talk to girls, or date or anything? Nope, he vaguely alluded to making sure I only jerked off in my bedroom when I was like 16. And then never talked about sex or dating or relationships at all. Had a hard day? Well he’ll just shrug and go “yep it sucks out there sometimes”.

And that’s probably the best part about him. His treatment of my mother is infuriating, not because he’s actively abusive, but because he doesn’t do anything and acts like because he worked for 25 years (he retired early because he got too tired of working at 57 and basically nuked their retirement plan causing my mom to have to work until her RA diagnosis which forced her to retire in 50s) he has earned being a lazy shit head who only needs to wash the dishes and take out the garbage. He can’t cook, hates cleaning, and basically sits in front of a computer all day playing free to play mobile games on it while watching ESPN all day until the games themselves come on. He has no reason to leave the house and begrudgingly walks the dog. He’s basically done this for over fifteen years and is now in his 70s. My mom has begged him to get therapy or couples counselling and he has stoically refused to even discuss it.

Profits before product efficiency. Truly the American military represents the very core of America.

I think the problem is a vast majority of the American people still believe that old Reagan line “the worst thing you can hear is I’m from the government and I’m here to help” or whatever that geriatric ghoul said.

The majority of people hold a propaganda fueled belief that the government is wasteful and ineffective and inefficient at doing things and so when they hear someone is going to find ways to fix that they mistakenly believe that it is coming from place of honesty and not the bald faced lie it actually is. They (Elon Musk and his sickos) just want to gut government to do whatever they want without any hindrance. If they have to ruin the lives of 200 million in the bottom 75%, well that’s a price they’ll happily pay.

Can’t forget hating your kids too!

Felix’s conservative history series really nailed the point home; neither the Dems nor the conservatives know how to win an election anymore, they can only win when their opponent fucks up more than them.

Copying klannada once again. Royal Canadian Air Farce, was a sketch comedy show from the 70s until the late 90s.

Watching tik Tok on the toilet. I’m in Canada so it still works here. But I’m sure we’ll get around to following the American lead, don’t want to offend the overlords.

I expect it as well and I also expect the libs to win like under twenty seats this election because the party firmly believes Trudeau dragged them too far left. They saw the Harris election loss and went, hmmmm that doesn’t have any relevant information for us, let’s try and court right wing voters now while actively antagonizing the left.

As a Canadian I support this. Gotta commit to the bit so everyone can have a good laugh.

Nope, the American will never accept a foreign made truck. The Toyota had some impeccable indestructible trucks and Ford and Chevy outsold them. At this point you need to sell a truck the size of a school bus to satisfy the average American truck buyer.

You won’t be shunned. You must accept your ppb though

Oh certainly there was a brief window for even me where yeah maybe something better can come from this. But then constantly being surrounded by people refusing to mask, masking badly, masking incorrectly, finding any excuse they could to slip the mask off to breathe or sneeze or whatever. And it’s like people here in Canada, and america have no desire to actually fucking modify their lifestyle even superficially to accommodate better future outcomes of others.

It’s a pretty good article, although I think it over estimates the idea that there was a glimmer of a better world that covid showed us. Because sure for like a month, we had reduced emissions, actually reduced child poverty and such, and worked together.

Well unless you were deemed an essential worker and you got worked harder than before, while half your coworkers (the well to do ones who did it more as a side gig then because they needed the work) simply took a leave of absence until it was over. I never saw a single glimmer of hope, I work on a grocery store, all I saw was rabid animals buy out entire shelves of soup and toilet paper and rice because they had to get theirs lest someone else get it first. I saw a small wage increase disappear as my supposed hero pay was taken away after 2 months despite all the covid precautions remaining up for another 3 years. I saw no wage increase as inflation would later drag the price of most real food items up between 20-100%.

For me all covid revealed is that the capitalist west is unwilling to be slightly inconvenienced for more than a couple weeks, maybe a month. And now that they did it they’ll never do it again. My hopes for climate change ever being possible were dashed over those years. The sweeping changes needed were never possible. The government would never have the stones to force that through, the people would riot like they should riot for all the other injustices we face but don’t give a shit about.

The only chance for a future is

Death to america, death to the west.

The same thing happened here in Alberta, the brief interlude of a centrist government a few years back, made it so farm hands had to be covered by basic safety codes all other workers are allowed and they freaked out and threw a hissy fit. They even got an exemption so their family farm hands would remain exempt from basic safety protections.

Oh and the starting inspecting the housing offered for the farm hands and told them no you cannot shove 16 workers into a tiny work shed, with threats of deporting then if they talk.

Frum, presumably is a millionaire several times over at this point. When his daughter revealed she was struggling to get adequate treatment, you’d think he’d rush in and be a good dad, promising to pay for her to get the best treatment no matter the cost to him. What’s the point in being a ghoul for the monsters in the world if you can’t even use that misbegotten wealth to save those around you?

There is after all stories by the hundreds of parents mortgaging their houses, selling off heirlooms or retirement accounts to try and save loved ones when the health crisis hits. I guess Frum is made of tougher stuff he’s not downgrading the lifestyle he has come to know and love just to save his flesh and blood.

Or his daughter knew he was a giant piece of shit who worked for some of humanity’s worst monsters and has been refusing to talk to him because of the obvious reason.

Regardless Frum comes off terrible. I wish him a miserable torment for the rest of his days. May a bird shit in his eye each morning and a fire consume him before the end. May he receive no pleasure from his actions and only pain. May he see his western civilization crumble before his eyes and only then be granted a release from existence.

Counter point, they have in the past tried to kill me, and perhaps one day they will succeed. I mean I still don’t know what they taste like.

I mean he made a Netflix show about government and had Obama on and didn’t yell at him at all so I saw this coming a mile away.