@Weird_Canadian We didn’t pick a fight, Trump did.
Laughable to suggest that we’re the ones not negotiating in good faith.
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Sean C.
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At what point do Canadians finally understand that picking a fight with one of the biggest economies in the world, our dominant trade partner, and our neighbour over petty reason was a bad idea?
We are going to suffer and continue to suffer until we grow up and start to negotiate in good faith 🤦
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@McCarthyist2 LOL, it’s not a deep metaphor, it’s an extremely obvious one. You’re pretty dumb if you missed it.
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Nolan dickriders have invented like 50 different “deep” and “philosophical” meanings for this scene in the replies and qt’s lol. The problem with critiquing a Nolan movie nowadays is his stans think he’s some profound philosopher and can thus invent some deep metaphor for any bad scene to justify it.
Modern McCarthyist@McCarthyist2
Im surprised more people aren’t talking about just how atrocious this scene is in the Odyssey. Nolan took a part of the story about savage giants who throw boulders at and eat Odysseus’s crew and changed them to be weird 12ft tall medieval knights or something.
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@Data_Jake19 @souljagoyteller Saudi Arabia is openly a monarchy, that's a different setup than a nominal republic.
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@souljagoyteller Up there with Eritrea and Saudi Arabia, lovely company
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Even extremely authoritarian countries have elections to present legitimacy. Incredible
CNN en Español@CNNEE
Ortega declara el fin de la alternancia en Nicaragua: “Aquí no volverá a haber elecciones” cnn.it/4gNEnB4
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@maxinthevalley @JohnIbbitson It's funny that you think this is an argument in Trump's favour, rather than demonstrating how right we are to mock and laugh at him.
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@JohnIbbitson During Trump1.0 Canada shit all Donald at every chance. Tittering, mocking, laughing.
Trump2.0 second favorite acronym behind MAGA is "FAFO".
Being two-faced asshats has consequences!
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I spent much of my journalism career, including two stints in Washington, telling Globe readers that Canada and the US were more closely aligned than readers imagined. This is no longer true. 1/2
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@JohnIbbitson The people are still aligned, the politicians are not. Not worth losing sleep over.
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@gmforbes35 @erinotoole Are you really under the impression that Canada is the holdup here?
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@erinotoole He didn't threaten new tariffs on Mexico.
Maybe because they are actually acting like adults and holding formal negotiations.
Maybe tell you new bestie Mark to put the country over his polling numbers.
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Keep calm and carry on Canada.
Two thoughts on the timing of the latest tariff pronouncement. First, it came the same day the 3rd most popular podcast in the US - NYT’s The Daily - featured the USTR delivering a weak defence of US Tariff policy and its impact on consumers. 1/3
CNN@CNN
President Trump is imposing new 50% tariffs on certain Canadian goods, which could ignite a fresh trade war with the US' second-top trading partner. cnn.it/4wTg2P4
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@hvsancheti @RajaKorman No, this statute expressly mentions duties, which is different from how the IEEPA tariffs were struck down.
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@RajaKorman Equally vulnerable to challenge on the same grounds as IEEPA
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The interesting thing is that the latest tariffs against Canada are under Section 338, a 1930s statute that most closely replicates the "Because I Said So" aspects of IEEPA, and had not been invoked since 1949.
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@dilanesper The closest would be the Radical Republican-dominated Congress during the Johnson presidency, though I think most would say that on substance their only real sin was not actually impeaching Johnson.
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Broad Article II point-- the entire Nixon era rightie narrative of a runaway Congress that hamstrings legitimate presidential authority is wrong. That's basically never happened in American history and is not a serious fear
What has happened numerous times is runaway Presidents.
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@aurelianus1985 @LinkofSunshine She has, but the most important part of her campaign was always going to be dragging down her opponent.
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@LinkofSunshine Fun fact: Susan Collins has been campaigning the entire time!
Also, generic candidates don't run in elections.
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@alibrooke4ever I kind of have a hard time believing that 80-year-old Michael Caine was expected to stand up for several hours at a time during filming.
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has anyone ever actually confirmed no chairs on set means "absolutely no one is allowed to sit ever" or is it just "actors aren't allowed to go off into their own private corner while the crew resets the shot"
gee@12gee_man
Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway say Christopher Nolan has no chairs on set. Brittany Broski: Are there any rules everyone abides by? Matt Damon: Thou shalt work hard. Anne Hathaway: Wow. Thou shalt not wear Uggs. Matt Damon: Oh yeah, that’s a good one. He hates Uggs. I think they just symbolize leisure in a way that he’s not comfortable with. Anne Hathaway: That’s not why. Matt Damon: Um… Thou shalt not sit down. Brittany Broski: Okay. Matt Damon: There are no chairs on set. Brittany Broski: Copy that. Matt Damon: Yeah. Uh… Anne Hathaway: Thou wilt be fed. However, lunch shall not linger. Matt Damon: Thou shalt not watch playback, because there shall be none. (Laughter) Anne Hathaway: Thou shalt feel tremendous gratitude. That’s not a commandment, it’s just something that happens. Brittany Broski: It’s a byproduct. Anne Hathaway: That thou art there. (Laughs) Thou art there. Brittany Broski: I appreciate abiding by the structure of the question. I really do appreciate that.
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@JeanEricMRV @RiicoBandzz They have been saying this for decades, but South America has only declined and Asia and Africa have not taken the big steps people keep anticipating. If anything Europe is ahead more now than 25 ago.
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I actually think the future will be way more diverse. A North African country reaching a World Cup final soon, more South American teams going deep, and fewer European teams in the knockout stages. Long term, I think some Asian countries will start making serious runs too.
The top 4 will probably always be a small elite group, but isn’t that the case in every sport? And every generation, one country breaks into that club. Who’s next? Belgium? Algeria? Morocco? The Netherlands? Portugal? Plenty of surprises still ahead.
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European idealism is grim. Do you know how hard it is for a non European side to get to world cup final? Once messi retires world cup will rotate between France and Spain fr years. Long gone are days teams like Brazil, Uruguay were real contenders. Argentina will join that group.
Rob Staton@robstaton
Too many people treat Argentina as this romantic love letter to football because of one player, Messi. They are a horrible, horrible team. Call it out. Don’t glorify what they are. A disgrace.
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@Smileyyeg We affect the climate via pollution. Regulating pollution is different from trying to manage a billion acres of boreal forest.
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Kenney has some terrible takes.
Since when was it a given that nature is simply insurmountable and there is nothing we can do? That is a ridiculous assertion.
How can these people claim we can effect the climate if they think it is impossible to fight a forest fire?!
We have waterbombers and crews that we send. We would not if they were totally useless.
Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱@jkenney
“Nature runs (Canada’s) forest. Politicians don’t. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.” 💯
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@Smileyyeg Shrugging shoulders and insisting there is nothing we can do…
It’s bullshit. We absolutely can do something. Manage the forests and clear out the dead wood. We have the capability.
The weak leadership we have doesn’t have the will.
That’s the problem.
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@ztisdale It's an excuse.
The BARE MINIMUM is to initiate, conduct and maintain forestry management and firefighting protocols around your population centres.
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Look at all of the defeatist attitude about preventing wildfires in Canada because it's big.
Total loser mentality.
Man should harness and triumph over nature.
It's the whole point of having a civilization in the first place.
It's the basis for all science and technology.
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@Hentity_NR @jailedamanda Yes, but that's because in taking revenge she violated a different inflexible moral law. As is often the case in Greek tragedy.
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@jailedamanda Clytemnestra's actions are depicted as wrong though, a crime to be avenged by Orestes (reason why she ends up dead while he, once purified of his matricide, lives to receive his father's inheritance)
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If only there were other surviving works from Ancient Greece that showed what contemporary minds thought about Agamemnon’s actions in the broader context of their culture. Perhaps even a trilogy of plays.
Überkierkegaard@UberKierk
Kierkegaard on Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter. He calls him heroic for overcoming his pain, an act that inspires every noble soul in the world to cry in admiration. Compare this complexity with Nolan's moral (monstrous) portrayal of Agamemnon as radically evil.
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@CinemaPrincipia I've considered this, but the Hades segment involves Sinon telling Odysseus information that he could not have otherwise (Clytemnestra killing Agamemnon).
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I see a lot of people being very hostile to the idea that Odysseus's memories of the journey home are all PTSD fabrications, but I think it's pretty clear Nolan intends for that to be the interpretation of his film.
1. The movie begins with a caption that says "in a time of apparent magic," which seems to mean, people believed in magic back then because they didn't understand science.
2. Calypso's role in the Odyssey is very different in the film, other than she forces him to stay for seven years. In the poem, the gods have to free Odysseus, but in the movie, he's drugged, and all the flashbacks are presented as subjective from this point in time. Calypso never displays any supernatural powers.
3. We never see anything supernatural or any gods that are not presented in flashback or as a person seen from Odysseus's subjective viewpoint. Athena is just hovering around, you never see a direct interaction between her and a mortal other than Odysseus briefly.
4. Most Nolan movies have a big "twist" that occurs late in the film, and when we see that flashback of Zendaya that is supposed to be it. People who say that Athena is real, but Odysseus connects her to that mortal woman are doing weird mental gymnastics. The only reason people think it's ambiguous is Nolan is almost never that subtle with his big twist, and this isn't particularly subtle. It's just normally in a Nolan film the entire rest of the movie is about the twist after it happens.
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@romanskates15 Has anyone ever left Montreal and come off the better for it, career-wise?
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tbf no other coach or coaching camp is giving them much reason to switch :/
sher@twizzloop
call it a montreal syndrome not a stockholm syndrome
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@ElectionCord @StatisticUrban The US has too many elections, in general. Too many minor offices that don't need to be elected, and too many legislators with two-year terms.
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@StatisticUrban My scorching hot take is 90 Day campaign period, no primaries (except for President) and have RCV. At the very least though, primaries should be shorter
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I've come to the view that super late primaries are really toxic. In many key races, it makes the vast majority of the actual time spent a bitter intra-party fight, instead of actually defeating Republicans.
Primaries should be earlier. Texas, not Michigan.
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@theweirdinggay In a different, better world, GRRM finished this series during Dubya's second term and got to spend the 2010s fully luxuriating in the experience of GOT's success and the opportunities therefrom.
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I dunk on the guy quite a bit, but I do feel deeply sorry for GRRM with regards to Winds/Dream, bc regardless of how meticulously crafted the hypothetical final products might be, there's essentially no way he can manage to live up to this fandom's bloated expectations.
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@theweirdinggay Remember when the show spent several seasons insisting that Sansa was "the key to the North" and, in season 5 specifically, where Roose repeatedly tells Ramsay that they cannot afford to lose her, and then when she does get out nobody in the North gives a fuck?
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There are absolutely times where the political intrigue and drama is better realised in GoT than in HOTD, but uhhh, Sansa sassing her rapist torture husband w/ no regard for her own well-being (because girlboss woooo slay queen) is absolutely not an example of that.
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