Conservative leader, Pierre #Poilievre, constantly argues 'Canada is broken' under PMJT, and he, the "gentleman from Carleton" will fix everything. He's going to need a knockout slogan to justify chiselling away👇
Dental Care
Pharmacare
Carbon rebate
$10 /day childcare
Canada Child Benefit
Canada Pension Plan
Public Healthcare
LGBTQ/Trans rights
Women’s reproductive rights
Diplomatic currency
Ukraine support
International respect
My high school history classes treated the War of 1812 like it was some inconsequential grudge match between the Crown and the U.S. It was a big war, with lots of battles, and many casualties. While it began as the US being annoyed with Great Britain’s behaviors, killing indians, and that big resource-rich Canada sought by expansionists became big aims. And without Tecumseh and First Nations kicking our ass repeatedly, Canada would probably be a bunch of mostly blue U.S. States today.
Christmas greeting from #Con leader #PierrePoilievre: “From my family to yours, I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and happy holidays. Sadly, because of Trudeau’s costly carbon tax and inflationary deficit spending, too many Canadians will be eating worse and eating less over the holidays. And millions will have to rely on food banks to put food on the Christmas table. Justin Trudeau is not worth the cost.” What a lovely Christmas msg of cheer and goodwill.
@CanadianCrone As much as this message strikes me as being in character for #PiPiLeQ, it still seems odd that he would put this sort of bile on the record at this time of year. Was this particular billet-doux from an e-mail newsletter or from an online video? #CanPoli
@parismarx
“Ooh, there's Ross Perot, Dr. Laura, Spike Lee…”
“Wait a minute, they’re not so great.”
“Okay, but there’s Dan Quayle, Courtney Love…Tonya Harding…Al Sharpton? Aaaaa! Tom Arnold! What the hell’s going on?”
“Wait! Only that ship’s going to Mars. Ours is headed for the sun.”
“Yeah, ain’t that a kick in the teeth? I mean, my shows weren’t great, but I never tied people up and forced them to watch. And I could’ve, because I’m a big guy and I’m good with knots.”
@jake4480 “See that guy? The soup salesman you’ve brought to the brink of bankruptcy with your predatory lending? He’s gonna work up a crowd song about you in a couple of minutes.”
Twenty-one minutes. That has got to be a record for the shortest period of time anyone has ever spent at an office #ChristmasParty in #Toronto. Turned in my unused drink tickets and went home because the noise and the overcrowding were simply less than conducive to good cheer.
So there I was, teaching class. My Divine Madness was course discussing the history of Victorian hysteria and the witch panics that came before it. And one of my students, in the midst of asking a question, says, in complete seriousness, "....but because they were expecting the Spanish Inquisition..."
And, of course, I say: "Anna. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition."
So I was watching one of Trump's lawyers outside the courtroom in NYC today, where they said something like "in 33 years of practicing law that's the best testimony a client has ever given". And I'm thinking to myself this isn't a stupid person saying this, but it sure reminds me of something ... something ... and ...
I realized what it is.
In the original "The Twilight Zone" episode "It's a Good Life" (1963), Billy Mumy plays a little boy who is described by Serling as a monster, who can kill anybody, create horrors of all kinds, simply with his mind.
And the adults all live in abject fear of being turned into something horrible and being killed and being "buried in the cornfield."
"It's good that you killed that, Anthony!"
"That's a really fine two-headed gopher you made there Anthony!"
They all said wonderful things about him, for fear of his retribution if they didn't.
One of the most famous of all Twilight Zone episodes. And there it was, in front of a NYC courtroom today. No closing narration by Rod Serling required.
@lauren
“The kick is up…it’s looking good…the ball is turning into a fat bald guy! And it’s no good! And you know what we say every time something strange happens — hey, it’s good that Bart did that! It’s very good!”
REMINDER: ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and other large trained neural models are NOT "artificial intelligence", they're just stochastic parrots, remixing and regurgitating what they've been fed. There's no theory-of-mind involved, so no understanding: there's no "there" there. (A real live parrot exhibits more intelligence than this.)
Don't call it AI; call it parrot-tech. That way you'll have a better perspective on what it can (and can't) do.
@thomasfuchs Not to mention the cognitive dissonance between advertising environmentally responsible decision-making with their search tools on the one hand, and on the other burning through enough electricity and fresh water to run Argentina for a year to prop up their artificial idiot.
Trudeau calls Putin a “weakling” for executing Navalny, other opponents (globalnews.ca)
Speaking with reporters at the end of his visit to the capital Kiyv, Justin Trudeau accused Putin of "executing" opposition leader Alexei Navalny.