I do hope so. It’s so hard to tell these days.

I expect the Trump government will prioritize cuts that make it difficult to get accurate data about the effects of the cuts.

So in your view a poll on the attitudes of Canadians to oil and gas tariffs should ask only Canadians who have worked for many years in the oil and gas industry? That’s not a poll of Canadians, that’s a poll of the oil and gas industry.

It’s literally just giving more money to the rich. Nothing’s in it for ordinary people. They have promised as much, but they add a bit of bigotry and people flock to support them.

The stupidest populist until Poilievre showed up. Fuck all these conservatives trying to bring MAGA to the Canadian government.

“Campus antisemitism” should be given scare quotes. Let’s not just swallow the propaganda. What they’re concerned about is not antisemitism but people expressing awkward political views like: Israel is committing a genocide with the support of the USA, and committing genocide is bad even when Israel does it.

Nothing says “American values” like whining about how foreigners insist on speaking their native languages in their own countries (while threatening to invade them and demanding they do you special favours).

Conservatives are not sophisticated thinkers. One might even be tempted to say they’re unsmart.

Yes, it makes a lot of reasonable people antisemitic just because they can see what Israel is doing to Palestinians. Since the policy then can’t be enforced consistently, this kind of situation gives a government a pretext for punishing anyone they dislike for other reasons. It’s still useful to governments to have laws almost everyone breaks, and that are seldom enforced, because then they can choose when to enforce them.

Ah, of course, it’s not real antisemitism: it’s the kind where you say mass murder and genocide are just as bad when perpetrated by Israeli Jews as they are when carried out by anyone else. And this seems to be part of a worldwide trend that goes along with the lurch toward fascism, for governments to decide they can kick out and disown their own citizens because of their inconvenient political views.

There is some suggestion that Trump may declare martial law on April 20th, which is when Hegseth and Noem’s advisory committee is due to recommend to Trump whether he should invoke the Insurrection Act. Coincidentally, perhaps, it is also Adolf Hitler’s birthday (perhaps one reason for Elon Musk’s fondness for 420 references).

https://medium.com/@aletheisthenes/on-april-20th-2025-the-united-states-will-cross-the-point-of-no-return-0aecac04cfc3

https://www.newsweek.com/insurrection-act-explained-trump-admin-deciding-whether-invoke-1807-law-2041626

I think they meant you’d have to design a combination of hardware that’s all compatible with Linux - that is, that has Linux driver support.

The USA is going down a route similar to Germany in the 1930s. Would it be appropriate to preach what you just said to Jews and LGBTQ+ people trying to leave Nazi Germany?

It’s not ridiculous.

I don’t think Canadians are generally hostile to Americans unless they prove themselves to be asshole Americans. Lots of Canadians have American friends and would regularly travel over the border until a couple of months ago. And I think most Canadians can see what’s going on in the USA and understand that some people may need to flee.

However, immigration to Canada isn’t automatically allowed so it’s worth doing a bit of research and planning. Here are some government web pages that may help:

https://ircc.canada.ca/explore-programs/index.asp

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada.html

She lives in Australia, so the crash may have happened there.

The KGB hasn’t existed since 1991.

Despite his claims to the contrary, Elon Musk is not a smart man.

It’s worth reading the whole article, because it makes pretty clear that it was Israeli forces that did this, that they initially struck the ambulances and then proceeded to execute the people in them, and that there were other slaughters of civilians involved in the same action.