As is typical, announce "baseball nation", only show one country.
Kichae
joined 2 years ago
The game prices I'm ok with. When I was a kid, video games cost $70 CAD, and that's almost $200 now. I'm perfectly OK with going back to buying fewer games. I have too many of them I shouldn't have bought in the first place.
I'm wildly upset with the console price, in no small part because Nintendo and other electronics manufacturers seem to be trying to smooth over the shock of Dorito Don's tariffs by increasing prices globally.
The Americans made their own bed. I'm not willing to lie in it with them.
It remains so incredibly alarming to me the number of "business leaders" who looked at consumer spending in 2020/2021, looked at the global context of 2020/2021, and then went "things will now be like this forevermore," even as other "business leaders", and even, very often, themselves, were doing everything possible to force everyone back into a pre-COVID context.
My own employer was one of these businesses, and every time I've brought it up, I've been firmly told "everyone else thought the same thing we did, too".
I didn't have a whole lot of respect for business people before that, but I at least -- naively, it turned out -- believed they knew how to operate businesses. I now have no respect for such people whatsoever, as they've demonstrated completely and thoroughly, even to the point where my dumb ass can notice, that the only thing that ever "qualified" them to "run a business" was having money.
The fact that tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs because the ownership class chose to believe that they'd stumbled into an infinite growth hack is shameful, and these "leaders" deserve to be stripped of all that they own and tossed into the street.
Yup. The author is juuuuust missed in identifying the issue. The alt-right doesn't take gaming, or gamers, seriously. But they do see angry young men as recruitment targets, and understand that a lot of gamers are much, much bigger losers than most of us imagine, and that they have a lot of pent up anger at not being taken seriously.
The basement dwelling CHUDs don't realize that Bannon's brigade is laughing at them whenever they're not in the room. They're just that desperate for any kind of attention and validation, even if it's painfully disingenuous.
The PPC is just Bernier's hissy fit after he lost the CPC leadership race. It looks very similar because Bernier was a core party member. The biggest difference between them is the quality of candidate the party can attract, and the amount of money it has. Because Bernier has trashed his reputation, he's only been able to attract real wackos to run under his banner. But these are the same kind of wackos that have always found a less public-facing home in the CPC/Reform party.
Fiscal conservatives are never and have never been "fiscally conservative". Rather than being conscious of and considerate about how they spend our communal resources, they have always just believed that there should be no communal resources, and the rich should get to run roughshod over us all.
Let's throw a wrench into things: Dual Member Proportional, a system that doesn't send people who haven't directly stood for election to Ottawa.
Then leave. You've contributed nothing but vitriol, and without explanation. You seem to have no gripe, yet desperately want to gripe. Why don't you do that somewhere you find more entertaining?
Like under a bridge, or something.
The NDP really doesn't have a leg to stand on, let alone to throw their weight around. If they topple the government and force another election anytime soon, the electorate will absolutely stomp on them.
When faced with an existential threat, humans do not do the foundational things that prevent those threats from returning. They tackle the facade. Trying to be threatening to stability while everyone feels so deeply threatened and unstable is more likely to destroy the party than to accomplish anything, no matter how good an idea they may want to push.
Plus, the BQ has already thrown their support behind Carney.
The NDP needs to get their house in order, and actually build support by being active members of the community again, and not just the milquetoast social democrat political party with no media outlet backing them.
They’re all voting anti-Liberal, not pro-Conservative.
There are more than two parties running in every riding in Alberta. They don't show them the time of day, either.
They're just smart enough to be embarrassed for their pro-conservative votes.
Jesus, I know some people have weirdly hostile reactions to the Examiner, but come on.
The successful PhD economist with the public personality of year old Melba toast vs the textbook cult of personality leader.
Make it make sense.