No. Not wrong. But like everything else in this propogandized polarised world, I generally believe nothing is either as bad or as good as the loudest voices like to pretend.

Cyber risks aren’t unimportant, of course, but our risks from China are certainly no worse or better than the Cyber risks from the American government or even our own.

To be honest, I actually disagree with that.

Private ownership isn’t the problem. CORPORATE ownership is.

When a company is no longer owned by humans and is instead owned by shareholders (who themselves are usually non-human hedgefunds, LLC’s, financial firms, etc…), and being run “Boards of Directors”; fat-cats who have no idea what real life is like and are entirely beholden to a stock price.

When humanity is removed so far from the capitalist equation as they are in corporations, we’ve lost the plot of what capitalism was supposed to be in the first place; human’s buying and selling from other human’s.

I usually like to use, as an example, my best and my worst jobs. I worked for a locally owned furniture store. The owner was awesome. He built the business ground up with his family. And he was a success. He paid me fairly, gave good benefits, treated me like family. Would just randomly pass out raises if things were good because he believed in sharing success with the people that helped him achieve it.

The very reason he could do this is because he wasn’t beholden to a stock price, or a Board of Directors, whose only legal mandate is to increase profit year over year. He was successful, in the multi-millionaire range. Could he have been even MORE successful (monetarily) if he didn’t give raises, or benefits, or paid vacations? Sure he could have. But that’s not what it was about.

Compare that to my worst job, working for a Telecom in Canada (frontline store manager, nothing major) and being told that no one was getting raises that year because the “company didn’t make any money”, even though I knew damn well that the company make 6 billion dollars. But the point was that, because at the beginning of the year, analysts forecast the company to make 7 billion, and because they didn’t make it, the stock price was going to take a hit, and holding back raises would at least mitigate that hit a little big. (This…by the way…is the moment that fully radicalized me against corporations).

We need more of the first example and the second is the part of the system that needs to be burned to the fucking ground with extreme prejudice.

In a statement, Canada’s big three automakers — Ford, General Motors and Stellantis — said the entry of these EVs “undermines” the domestic auto industry and opens Canadians up to “cyber risks.”

A hard cap of 49,000 Chinese E.V.s (roughly 3 percent of the market) doesn’t undermine the Canadian manufacturers, it just forces them to actually fucking do somehing to make their own EVs more appealing.

Trans women are women, so what’s the writer’s point here? That it’s somehow gay to watch trans porn?

I’m the first person to say I don’t understand how the nuances of sexuality work. If I had to make a guess, I’d say that humans aren’t actually attracted to “Male” or “Female”, so much as they are attracted to “Masculine” and “Feminine”. regardless of the relative body parts that may or may not be under their clothes.

It says nothing at all about their sexuality, because it’s nobody’s business but their own.

He shits the bed and wants credit for putting the sheets in the wash

I’m stealing that metaphor. Yoink.

Any guy who feels the need to proclaim himself a Nice Guy probably isn’t one.

I’ve honestly been having some trouble getting into Prey. Don’t know why. It theoretically should be everything I enjoy in a first person game, but somehow I always turn it off after a half hour or so. I’ll keep trying because, hell, I paid for the damn thing. But yeah… It’s no dishonored (but what is really)

I’m hardly one to fall into the ‘both sides’ argument because, let’s face it, one side is clearly far worse than the other. And hell, as your northern neighbour, I’m frankly more interested in the the fact that I see the same kind of crap happening up here, but…

When one of the supposed good ones on the so-called better side get’s caught on mic saying that they’re “used to hearing their people say fuck no, and doing it anyway”, it’s clear that modern politicians in general (In both the US, Canada, UK, etc… I dare say everywhere, have gotten cocky and forgotten who they work for.

And we’re past the point where a little bit of the ol’ ultra-violence is becoming necessary.

Call me a pessimist, but at this point we’re not getting out of this without a fair amount of death anyway one way or the other.

I’d go a step farther and say it’s time to come up with an entirely new type of monster.

I don’t mean “villain” like a Candyman, or a Jeeper’s Creepers, or a Terrifier, or something like that. People make up new ones of those all the time.

I mean an entire new class of monster. Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, etc… Where are the classes of monsters that represent our modern sensibilities?

True.

Oh I know precisely what that entails and I’m of the opinion that it’s well past time.

That’s the easy part. Remove corporate money from politics and severely punish any hint of corruption before it spreads.

It needs to be made very very clear that these assholes represent their constituents, not big business. Any district has the absolute authority to recall their representative at any point; no argument, no appeal. If they fight the recall, it’s treason and is punished as such.

The system isn’t without redemption. We’re only here because they forgot that they work for US. And we lost the wherewithal to make them remember that. Three…maybe four heads roll (literally), and they’ll remember how politics is supposed to work for the people.

For example: The moment Ted Cruz ran to Mexico and left his state in freezing temperatures, his own constituents should have dragged him from his mansion by his toenails and strung him up. If they did, you think the next person would try that shit? If we let them get away with it, they’ll keep doing it. Nip it in the bud right from the start. Get out of line and we’ve got no problem fucking your shit up.

Politicians need to be very afraid of their constituents.

Health tip for everyone:

Drink more water.

No. Not because it’s good for you. But because in the next few years, there’s going to be an awful lot of graves coming up to be pissing on.

Has there ever been a point in history where the entire white house needed to be hosed down in Purell after a White Trash president finally dies?

The entire system needs to be burned to the ground and built from scratch.

Sadly, MacGuyver’s retired.

Great. Can we purge him from reality next?

For the most part, Jason Momoa

Sue them. Not for money, but for the release of the unredacted Epstein files.