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@NewRightPoast Partially true, but once recording tech got good enough to capture sounds accurately, music making achieved transcendance. Beatles music will still be beautiful forever.

Tired of the boomer narcissism from Billy S. Pumpkins. Where was "rock music" supposed to go next? It's four chords. The most celebrated bands of the last 30 years were rehashes (Strokes, White Stripes, etc). Rock wasn't shut down, because it was "too powerful," it fizzled out like everything else because we stretched it as far as the format can go. Chuck Klosterman thinks that within a couple of generations rock will be a footnote of history like John Philip Sousa's marching band music, and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" won't resonate with your great-grandkids any more than "Stars and Stripes Forever" does with you. The grandkids of Zoomers might never hear a "Beatles" song outside of academic study. The same thing is gonna happen to "movies," as we know them today, and any other transient consumer product you think is integral to the human experience because you happened to be born into it.

@Jimmy_Edwardo @AriGoldkind Average

@BlestToBePerson @AriGoldkind How old are you?

I wish he’d start the 51st state stuff up again. Many people do. Quietly. Not the loudest voices here. But the most successful and highest earning ones. It’s clear that for the taxpaying, hardworking, and sane CDN, this country is entering into a huge death spiral.

@CanadaChandler @AriGoldkind The poor and disadvantaged do not pay high tax rates and receive no benefits. They pay low tax rates and receive benefits

@BlestToBePerson @AriGoldkind Good to hear that you only care about the wealthy Canadians. Fuck the poor and disadvantaged.

@groovysmoops @AriGoldkind It is completely silly to suggest that America would allow Canada to join and share their wealth. Nobody smart thinks that might possibly happen. Maybe you got rich working your ass off I'll cut you some slack. Nobody with intelligence thinks this might happen.

@BlestToBePerson @AriGoldkind joining america would make canadians much more prosperous. is that even disputed???

@DrJStrategy Your post is more thoughtful than anything I've ever seen from Trump ever and your insight is to promote Machiavellism, which isn't that insightful.

Food for thought. In The Prince, Machiavelli teaches that a ruler’s first duty is to secure the state, even if that means speaking and acting in ways that shock polite society. He warns that “men in general judge more from appearances than from reality,” and that a successful prince must be judged on the effects of his words, not on whether they conform to genteel norms. Trump’s recent language toward the Iranian regime is not a lapse of self‑control; it is a calculated act of deterrence aimed squarely at the leaders of a state‑sponsored terrorist apparatus. He is negotiating through intimidation, signalling resolve, ruthlessness, and a willingness either to send Iran “back to the Stone Ages” or to ensure that “a whole civilization will die tonight” in terms that pierce the bubble of diplomatic euphemism and force the IRGC command to reassess its risk tolerance. In that sense, Trump is acting far closer to Machiavelli’s prince than to a modern liberal statesman: he is willing to appear vulgar, even “unhinged,” if doing so strengthens the fear of his threats in the minds of his adversaries. What is striking is not that a leader dealing with such a regime would use this language, but that so many in the West seem genuinely unable, or unwilling, to recognize the strategy. They clutch their pearls about tone while ignoring the basic logic of coercive diplomacy: when you want to stop a hostile regime and its terrorist proxies from further escalation, you must shape their expectations, not placate your own commentariat. Machiavelli’s blunt counsel is that a prince must sometimes speak as both “man and beast,” combining law with the language of force to protect his people. One is left wondering whether our political and media classes have forgotten the oldest lessons of statecraft. Has no one read The Prince?

@JustBayn @MarkJCarney Sorry. Good luck.

@BlestToBePerson @MarkJCarney I have neither but thanks

En cette période des impôts, près de 22 millions de Canadiennes et de Canadiens bénéficieront de notre baisse d’impôt accordée à la classe moyenne et pourront conserver une plus grande partie de leur salaire durement gagné.

@JustBayn @MarkJCarney Congrats on your wealth and good health

@MarkJCarney Everyone except the middle class thay is being destroyed by liberal policy. I pay over 42% in taxes and get ZERO benefits!

@BlondeLava @Bratt_world Floor crossing is allowed even if it changes a minority government into a majority. It will similarly work in reverse. If MPs lose confidence in the leading party, they can leave and a majority government can shrink. This is Canada.

@BlestToBePerson @Bratt_world Being disappointed doesn’t begin to describe how I feel about this so called democracy. Floor crossing to one thing, changing the election results without an election is a completely different scenario.

When i engage with the world about politics and current events, i get thoughtful responses. When i engage with anything Canadian on this app, the right wing accounts just insult and degrade me. And that’s why i don’t care what is happening with the floor crossing. 🍁 MAGA ruined the conservative movement in a lot of ways.

@BlondeLava @Bratt_world Our democracy doesn't prioritize the party. You might be disappointed but if a majority of MPs support the government that is what it is.

@Bratt_world No it’s because you picked party over Canadians. To not care about democracy and the Canadian vote is shameful. You know damn well Canadians didn’t vote for a majority government and the focus should be on Canadians, not party or leaders!

@MarkReid42 It was a Liberal slogan. They didn't hammer it anything like Conservatives are doing. Liberals stole the Conservative platform. I'm glad because I'm not a partisan and the conservatives had some good ideas.

@BlestToBePerson So... "elbows up" was a conservative slogan, now?

The elbows people are about to get their BIGGEST wakeup call in their entire lives. At first, it will be cheers of joy, a honeymoon phase, as Carney touts his majority. Then, after a few weeks of bills ramming through, cheers will turn to tears, then to anger. ...and it will be all too late. We tried to tell you - you didn't want to listen to us. We are the conspiracy theorists, but CBC tells the truth.

@Ike_Saul How good is it that Iran got wrecked? Will my life improve in even a tiny way?

This is important. It's ridiculous to pretend Iran got some unambiguous win; they took huge losses, are absolutely weakened, and the country is going to be in a fractured, confused state for sometime. It's *also* true that they may end up economically stronger w/ proof of concept for a new way to exact leverage against the world, which is not good. A decidedly mixed bag.

@tony__stark10 @TheMichaelEvery Trump repeatedly referred to Venezuela when justifying this action at the start. He wanted to impose control and compliance in a flash of shock and awe. That failed. Trump should have not wanted to force Iran to be compliant without the will to follow through.

@BlestToBePerson @TheMichaelEvery I think it would be useful for you to define 1) the outcomes you mention and 2) “what they want”

@tony__stark10 @TheMichaelEvery Don't chase outcomes beyond your control. If you have to debase yourself to get what you want, it's better to change what you want.

@BlestToBePerson @TheMichaelEvery What is the alternative

@tony__stark10 @TheMichaelEvery You can't threaten genocide to get what you want without being seriously debased. Shamelessness doesn't pay long term dividends.

@TheMichaelEvery But but Michael everyone is talking about how the U.S. lost and somehow China won? I’m confused

@ktcat @NASA_Tim @ginthegin @DrJStrategy America has the power to control the outcome, but they don't take responsibility for the outcome. They hope bombs will achieve their goals and when that doesn't work you shrug because you never really cared anyway.

@BlestToBePerson @NASA_Tim @ginthegin @DrJStrategy Well, first off, Biden != Trump so the Taliban analogy fails. Second, when you have air supremacy, it's pretty hard to take risks or spend your soldiers' lives. As for responsibility, it looks to me like the Iranians' ability to project power has been reduced.

For the record. The 2‑week ceasefire between the US and Iran echoes Trump’s April 2025 “tariff pause”, a temporary truce that triggered a violent repricing after Wall St had already priced in disaster. Markets are again misreading macro risk: this is not the 1970s, however pedantic the commentary. The US now sits at the centre of the global board, while Europe and NATO absorb the fallout, and China and Russia quietly lose leverage in the Middle East. Trump’s playbook is clear: threaten war, monetize fear, then sell “peace” at a premium, make a deal. As I’ve suggested, sell war, buy peace. If the deal fails, Kharg Island and the Strait of Hormuz remain on the table. Are you getting Trump’s peace through strength strategy yet? Have a nice day.

@ginthegin @ktcat @NASA_Tim @DrJStrategy 158 Canadian soldiers died in Afghanistan. For nothing but a demonstration of how little America cares.

@BlestToBePerson @ktcat @NASA_Tim @DrJStrategy No risks? How many offspring do you have in the military as of this moment sir? Don’t assume your USA neighbors have “nothing of consequence to lose”.

@ktcat @NASA_Tim @ginthegin @DrJStrategy You will spend nothing of consequence. No risks. No moral hazards. You just lost a war to the Taliban. You aren't weaker than the Taliban. You just lack willpower. Throw your bombs all over the world and live with the consequences. You aren't gonna take responsibility for them.

@BlestToBePerson @NASA_Tim @ginthegin @DrJStrategy You can't be serious. We just got through more than 10,000 combat sorties and you don't think we have follow-through?

@NASA_Tim @ktcat @ginthegin @DrJStrategy You have to leverage that control to have it. You have an utterly dominant military over Canada. You can do to Canada whatever you want. But I have no fear because America has no strength of will. No follow-through. We don't care about leverage you are afraid to use.

@BlestToBePerson @ktcat @ginthegin @DrJStrategy Sure. No one can come through there without our say so. Iran can also stop ships, but the absence of a positive isn’t a negative.