all that these useless ass city officials get paid to do is come up with fun new ways to torment and punish the dreaded Homeless

usually when you put them to the question they just vaguely say that keeping the dems in power is "buying time" even though these are the same people who have spent the past 4 years doing basically nothing but breathlessly posting about Trump. My heroes.

Yeah I got jumped last night because I said, factually, that if you vote for Kamala then you're supporting genocide (and basically every GOP policy). Kicked dogs holler! Literally every abuser trope was there lol, my favourite was "no you're supporting the US empire by doing nothing!1!" yeah man, supporting the genocidal democratic party is definitely somehow better than not supporting them

It is subjective like others here have said but for me a big part of it is Longevity. Most "great" movies stand up to repeated viewings bc there is some density in the text, or because the spectacle is just that good. Jurassic Park is a perfect movie to me because it both has richness in its themes but also incredible spectacle that emerges from the text. All my favourite movies can be watched whenever bc there's so much there visually and textually.

Zelensky's government? Not really (bc that's who they are). Zelensky personally? Probably.

god I wish. I enjoy Pick Me Up I'm Scared which goes into history sometimes

They internalized the propaganda that you either Stand With Ukraine or support Russia. The Russiagate thing was a very successful investment in that sense. They (like me, formerly) live in this haze of conspiracy and palace intrigue where Putin is omniscient and omnipotent. The only frame of "analysis" they have are these binaries based on flawed assumptions.

it's the look of cocksure arrogance

I fr think that a Trump admin would be approximately as mask-off and smug as the Biden admin has been with their imperialism. Shedding their skin with Biden was so successful that they know now that they can kind of just say whatever as long as they wave a pride flag once a year.

it's so pathetic how transparent the MAGAcommunism thing is lol

They've spent generations alienating and atomizing us to extract more profit, more rent, more income, neglecting our basic needs, but now suddenly we're supposed to believe we're all in this together? I'm going to laugh my ass off when this place crumbles lol I've been waiting for it my whole life.

I think this quote is a mealy-mouthed way of saying that basically every Canadian is up to their asses in debt and struggling to get the bare minimum they need out of life so no, they really don't care what NATO wants. We're not "divided", we're broke af and have bigger concerns. CBC journos really are something else. Do THEY know the "strategic realities"? If they did maybe they wouldn't write pro-war puff pieces like this.

So many people I know here are either sick or chronically ill because they have no family doctor. Hell, most people I know my age want to LEAVE Canada altogether because we loathe it here despite being born here. There are certainly old geezers here and spoiled bougies flying Ukraine flags who would be fine with war and death because they already got what they needed out of life and watch propaganda 24/7.

For the rest of us who have already sacrificed and settled for so little (even having my own place to myself while working full time is a fairy tale now), we aren't going to just happily sacrifice more so that Trudeau and parliament can sit around some more and eat bonbons and play war games. We're going to be pissed and resist in any way possible. I think it would politically push a lot of people over the edge, possibly into communism, but I think we all know it's more likely to be fascism. It's not like the NDP are going to put up any kind of actual fight lol, they're a worthless lib party now. Canada can go fuck itself in other words.

now I want to write a story about communist dragonriders

I see your point and will try and exercise a bit more patience in the future, but I do think that part of what helped me develop from a radlib into a leftist was the occasional cold reminder when I stepped out of line without doing any investigation.

If one enters a conversation about a conflict in a leftist space where the stakes are as high as they are (WW3, really) and tries to disprove facts by doing ad hominem stuff, you deserve a bit of ridicule because that's not a real analysis. Acting haughty and doubling down on it and pouting when others besides myself directly ask for some proof is also not really a good look. Nor is tattling to the mods when you're losing the room.

Please just have some facts if you're going to walk directly into a thread and confidently say that it's all bullshit and don't take it personally when people lose patience when you do not. It's not asking much.

Is it brusque? Sure. But what exactly is factually wrong with what I'm saying? I AM criticizing what they're saying because it's just moralism. They make an emotionally charged statement where the gist is simply that they think the source has had other bad takes (thanks, we'll take that into consideration) and then takes it personally when others point out that the factual essence of what the source is saying is correct so their supposed character is irrelevant.

It really is not my responsibility to spare the feelings of those who charge in with emotionally and morally charged "arguments" and then martyr themselves when there is pushback from people who honestly just want to know what they're getting at. They still have not made a single factual claim here!

lmao right?? I feel like I've been hearing this one every week since 2021. I sometimes wonder how aware he actually is