Trumpocalypse Thread - The End Is Now
Its easier than that. Trev could send out an email that people should change their passwords because of a 'security' issue. If people still have the same email, and care, they'll be back.
lord forgive me, i might vote Liberal this year 
Embrace the collective good. 
*holding back tears as i fill in the f**king lib circle*
"Mort a l'Amerique..."
Scape @ Tue Feb 11, 2025 1:14 pm
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lord forgive me, i might vote Liberal this year

Yup, right there with ya. Unfuckingbelivable.
Scape @ Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:08 pm
Liberals now projected to win a majority with Mark Carney as party leader
Looks like we are not the only ones either.
Carney seems like a decent guy. Not that Trudeau wasn't, he just had more of a spoiled rich kid vibe to him. But we need smarts, not slogans.
Judge orders Trump admin. to restore CDC and FDA webpages by midnight
Tricks @ Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:29 pm
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
I think people got pissed off at the long stretches where the DB had crashed and Trev was on vacation. They got tired, and just never came back.
I am glad a few poke their head in once in a while. I can't stand other social media. It's just too toxic. At least around here, people argue but don't usually take it personally.
I figured if anything, the twice impeached but twice elected guy could bring come people back, if only to rubberneck the car accident as they pass by.
Wasn't so much pissed, but I'd try to check in and it'd be down, do that a few times and would stop. But always try to from time to time.
Tricks @ Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:32 pm
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
Carney seems like a decent guy. Not that Trudeau wasn't, he just had more of a spoiled rich kid vibe to him. But we need smarts, not slogans.
The problem is that we're already getting idiotic leftists starting to attack him the same way we saw the morons to the south doing with Kamala. And are still doing. When fucking idiots say in response to Trump wanting to annex gaza that "We don't know that Kamala would be any better" they're just the other side of a maga coin. No brain, no common sense, don't know anything, and arrive at easily the dumbest fucking conclusions.
I had a guy argue with me that "Carney oversaw the highest increase in home prices in canadian history". Carney over saw the slowest increase in home prices during his 5 years as BoC head since from 2000 to present.
Tricks @ Wed Feb 12, 2025 2:41 pm
I had a thought with the push for higher spending within NATO (which, by the way, I'm sure we'd all agree Canada needs to do a much better job on defense spending).
How much of this is them trying to appeal to their own arms industry? Most NATO countries probably buy a fuck load from the US (look no further than the F35). What if Canada/EU said, fine, but we aren't buying from you. Cancelled F35 contracts, told them to go fuck themselves, and instead bought equipment from Europe/developed internally.
Buy fighters from Sweden (especially now that they're NATO), buy tanks from Germany, buy ships from the UK, build our own ice breakers (that aren't just patrol). This isn't going to be possible across the board, but it'd sure expose pretty quick what their real motivations are.
I agree that we need to do more, but the war in Ukraine has changed things drastically.
Tanks are just deathtraps now. Artillery is useful, but fading. Drones rule the battlefield.
Ukraine just performed combined arms maneuvers in battle, just using air and ground drones instead of helos and tanks. The battlefield will be AI drones in the future.
We don't need F-35s.
xerxes @ Wed Feb 12, 2025 6:57 pm
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lord forgive me, i might vote Liberal this year

Same. Not that it would make a difference where I live. My riding is as blue as it gets.
xerxes @ Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:04 pm
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
I agree that we need to do more, but the war in Ukraine has changed things drastically.
Tanks are just deathtraps now. Artillery is useful, but fading. Drones rule the battlefield.
Ukraine just performed combined arms maneuvers in battle, just using air and ground drones instead of helos and tanks. The battlefield will be AI drones in the future.
We don't need F-35s.
Manned planes still have their uses. But we should cancel our order for the F-25's if it's not too late and go to Saab.