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If Bernie can't win a competitive primary that doesn't speak very much of his ability to win a general election

Rosstin316 posted...

I refuse to give the guys that destroyed the most important franchise in all of fiction even a blink of my viewership.

grow up lol

Also Barron is weird as fuck and always has been

I think it was in reference to the fact that he's fair to report on and make fun of.

Still a weird tweet but whatever

After Moreno won the nomination I give the edge to Brown

this is the best senate map they're going to get for a while wtf are they doing

The ghost of Walter Reuther looks on in approval

Looks pretty cool. The setting should be fun

pegusus123456 posted...

Ah, in FO2, they just call that town the NCR, but I guess other games still call it Shady Sands.

It should be way more advanced than what we see in this scene though, but I know the Bethesda era games really like the post-apocalypse aesthetic rather than post-post-apocalypse one.4

Do we know when the show takes place? It might be before Shady Sands is built up

pegusus123456 posted...

Huh, I looked up the timeline. Weird that Shady Sands still exists. This takes place long after the NCR was founded.

Shady Sands becomes the capital of the NCR after it's founded iirc

the thing that kept me from it was the fact that it just looked like a "flavor of the week" game

bnui_ransder posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/04339bd8.jpg

These are pretty damn good

And I have that electric water kettle that boils water in less than a minute

That's the brand I got!

DDP886 posted...

d00m_art

omg it's you! it's been a long time haha

... not bad at all.

I tossed a bit of butter in there, some garlic powder, and some salt n pepper and it's real damn good.

Your child calls me "Dad", Charlie Brown

I would've preferred Pattinson but ATJ is alright too I guess

GranTurismo posted...

the alcohol means its working way better

The alcohol in the mouthwash works better in the way that it kills more bacteria but the drawback to that is it kills the bad and good bacteria in your mouth.

And it also dries you out way too much

The purple one

But you gotta get alcohol-free otherwise it'll burn the fuck out of your mouth and dry it out

Zikten posted...

Is this about a Sith?

Mechu posted...

wait, what even is this

It's a TV series set a few hundred years before the Phantom Menace during an era called the High Republic when the Sith were operating in the shadows and the Jedi were at the height of their power.

We don't know specifics on the plot, but I think a synopsis they dumped a while back said something like "A jedi and his apprentice investigate a gruesome crime spree and come face to face with dark forces"

Zwijn posted...

Theyre releasing this stuff at a MCU rate now. I havent even seen half of Mandalorian yet and have yet to see part 9 >_>

the last TV series was Ahsoka several months ago and Part 9 came out half a decade ago lol

that's not an MCU pace

The Tossers - Be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-51tD4fv0o

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/de158773.jpg

be careful, I made a topic asking this and was told to "stop talking about this because no one should care about the royal family"

Or at least have been since the Southern Strategy in the 60s

Always have been

What is the current political environment in your country like?

In Canada there's basically four major parties

There's:

• the Liberals which is centre/every so slightly centre-left)
• the NDP (New Democratic Party) which is firmly left/social democratic
• the Conservatives which are most analogous to the pre-Obama Republican Party but are currently led by a populist.
• and the Bloc Quebecois which is an annoying regional party that advocates only for Quebec. It's mostly left-wing but its members are a mish mash

The Liberals under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have been in power nearly a decade now. Most people are tired of them and blame them for several crisis' currently.

There's a housing crisis, a cost of living crisis, and an immigration crisis which feeds into the previous two. His government is accused of doing either not enough or actively making these problems worse.

The immigration issue in particular has enraged a chunk of the population against him. Basically Canada welcomes 500,000 new immigrants per year (out of a country of roughly 35,000,000). A lot of issues with the immigration system also come from both the Temporary Foreign Worker program (basically supposed to be a program through which Canadian businesses hire foreign workers to work at jobs for which there are no qualified Canadian applicants) and the International Student program (which as the name suggests entices foreigners to attend Canadian universities and colleges). Both these programs have been HEAVILY exploited as pretty much either a way for corporations to import cheap labour or for schools to bilk money out of immigrants (non-citizens pay about several times more than a domestic student).

The exploitation of these programs has led to increased rates of immigration, which in turn (since we're not building enough housing) is blamed for rising rent and housing prices. There's also a racial element to the backlash (a very sizable chunk of new Canadian immigrants come from the Punjab region of India).

tl;dr: People are fucking MAD and getting angrier/racist-er. The Conservative Party is polling historically well and will likely win bigly in the next election

Do you agree with the current state or the direction your nation is heading?

Not at all. For how much I admonish the negative reaction to the immigration programs, the fact of the matter is they are absolutely being exploited by the people seeking an easy way into Canada, by the corporate interests seeking to get cheap labour, by schools seeking a piggybank to bilk huge fees out of, and by the government since huge immigration rates artificially prop up the GDP.

Trudeau has wasted just about all his political capital. He has no major successes in office to point to, is making no major moves to fix the housing/immigration issues voters have, and has no "vision". There's no reason for me to vote for him again.

Usually I would vote for the NDP since they usually align more closely with my views anyway, but their leader is about as bad as Trudeau. He's an empty suit.

I'll never vote for the Conservatives, especially not with their current leader either.

Are there any threats from parties/politicians that have you concerned?

For how much I dislike him and how much people online will try to claim he is, Pierre Pollievre (the leader of the Conservatives) is not Donald Trump.

I wouldn't like him being elected, and I think his policies would be a disaster for this country; but he's not particularly anti-democratic or authoritarian in a way that makes me feel threatened.

Is there anything that's giving you hope for the future, such as possibly countering the aforementioned concerns?

Honestly, the only thing keeping me hopeful is the fact that after they get blown out in the next election, the Liberals and NDP will select new leaders who are hopefully better than the current crop, and from there an actual left-wing vision for Canada can be achieved. And I honestly aim to be part of that in whatever way I can when the time comes (though I'm unsure which party I want to work for).

The current electoral coalition that the Conservatives have built is also not particularly sustainable. There's too many competing factions at each other's throats. Maybe they'll have the solution to our housing and immigration problems, but I doubt it. Happy to be surprised though.

Mr_Karate_II posted...

Who cares?

congrats you're the 1000th person to post this, you win a prize

It's a case of people who dislike thing somehow managing to be more obnoxious than the thing they dislike lol

DarkAssassin89 posted...

You made a topic about this though.

Because it's a news story I've heard about and I'm curious what the background to it is. Like holy shit lol

hereforemnant posted...

No one should care

It's a news story and people notice things. That's all. I already mentioned I'm not a royalist. Grow up lol

...what the fuck is going on with Kate Middleton right now

I tried the cheeseburger ones years ago but all I tasted was pickle

bfslick50 posted...

The white house council and many others are telling him not to do it. Then he still calls Dan Quayle searching for approval. Afterwards he could've stepped up as the leader of the party, condemned trump, used his exit from politics as the cover other Republicans needed to convict him in the Senate. Pence probably wanted to overturn the election but didn't because of his lack of spine. How else do you explain the Dan Quayle call?

The fucking most hilarious part of the Trump presidency was the fact that Dan fucking Quayle may be responsible for saving American democracy.

August

I am in a bit of dry spell rn

Westernwolf4 posted...

This. I shake my head when people panic about the polls right now. Obviously a second Trump term would be a disaster. But as campaign season ramps up, Trump is going to continue to say moronic, divisive things and remind people why they dont want him.

His ridiculous cult is going to vote for him. No one else will. He will get more votes than he should, but without a change before November it wont be enough for him to ooze his way back into the Oval Office.

The thing that keeps me from worrying about polls is the fact that Trump has never cracked 50% and there's a ridiculous amount of undecideds

Like seriously, every poll is basically

Trump - 42%
Biden - 39%

Humble_Novice posted...

l forgive you, Norwood said, and the men embraced to applause and groans.

fucking idiot