If there’s one thing his base cares about it’s gas prices, and they’re going to be going through the roof once the actual shortages start to hit. So far it’s just been market speculation driving them because tankers take a while to arrive. The shipments that were supposed to leave when the strait was closed would’ve been arriving in the next week or so, and when that doesn’t happen that’s when the real fun starts. I just don’t see how he’s going to climb out of the hole he dug for himself here.

I imagine the whole thing comes down to libs thinking that the western system is the peak of human development. So when they see it failing visibly, they can’t accept that there might be structural problems within liberalism itself that are the cause. And thus it must be nefarious foreign actors and their collaborators trying to tear down their perfect society. This was perfectly summed up in the whole garden and jungle slip by Borrell.

Here, Bruges is a good example of the European garden. Yes, Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. Everything works. It is the best combination of political freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion that the humankind has been able to build - the three things together. And here, Bruges is maybe a good representation of beautiful things, intellectual life, wellbeing.

The rest of the world – and you know this very well, Federica – is not exactly a garden. Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden. The gardeners should take care of it, but they will not protect the garden by building walls. A nice small garden surrounded by high walls in order to prevent the jungle from coming in is not going to be a solution. Because the jungle has a strong growth capacity, and the wall will never be high enough in order to protect the garden.

The gardeners have to go to the jungle. Europeans have to be much more engaged with the rest of the world. Otherwise, the rest of the world will invade us, by different ways and means.

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/european-diplomatic-academy-opening-remarks-high-representative-josep-borrell-inauguration-pilot_en

I’d be so insulted by that if I had a shred of respect for you little fash.

I mean there was a fuck up at a national level as well. Canada gutted its publicly owned oil assets and handed the whole show over to private capital. This is a textbook case of neoliberalism doing exactly what it says on the tin.

Back in the 70s and early 80s, there was actually a wave of state intervention. The feds were terrified of American control of our resources, so in 1975 Trudeau created Petro-Canada as a federal Crown corporation. Out west, provinces followed suit with Saskatchewan starting SaskOil in 1973.

But then Mulroney’s PC swept into power in 1984. Mulroney immediately began gutting the nationalist energy policies at the federal level. The process of killing Petro-Canada as a public entity began in 1990 when they sold the first shares to the public. This was an ideologically driven decision.

Alberta absolutely loved the whole privatization wave and by the time Ralph Klein was Premier in the 90s, the province was already deep into deregulation. Alberta had successfully argued that Ottawa should get out of the business entirely and leave it to the free market i.e., the multinationals, and the feds finally sold their last shares in Petro-Canada in 2004.

The federal Liberals under Chretien and Martin finished the job Mulroney started because they had fully adopted Third Way politics . They didn’t want to own oil companies and they wanted tax revenue. Meanwhile, Alberta uses the memory of the hated National Energy Program from 1980 as a cudgel to this day. Any time Ottawa tries to regulate emissions or climate change, Alberta screams separation and Ottawa is killing us.

And now the profits are privatized to shareholders and CEOs, while the environmental destruction is socialized onto the public and the planet. Alberta continues to act like a victim of federal overreach while simultaneously demanding that Ottawa build pipelines and bail out the industry whenever prices crash. It’s capitalism all the way down. The public built the infrastructure and took the risk and the private sector took the winnings.

Nice thanks for digging it up.

Hopefully you learn to read one day ignoramus.

bye

Exactly, just look at Norway where they nationalized oil. This could’ve been us.

I kinda wish the article talked about that part.

Thanks, nice to know the posts are appreciated. :)

Personally, I have yet to see anybody who was willing to use Signal whom I couldn’t get to install the Element app instead. 🤷

Right, and we’ll be seeing more and more of this happening as Trump continues to destroy the economy.

Using Element is no harder than Signal.

I think Trump’s days are numbered after Epstein and Iran debacles. And it’s almost certain that Carlson is angling to grab a chunk of the base when the infighting get serious.

Vast majority of people, outside a tiny technical niche, aren’t on Signal. And if you’re going to get people to switch anyways, then why choose Signal when there are far better alternatives around.

I thought maybe I missed something in the article so I checked again but no. There’s nothing in there about that and there’s nothing anywhere about that. Make it up for yourself I guess?

Were you educated at a clown school? Colonizers murdered so many people that it literally changed the climate of the whole planet https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47063973

German nazis were directly inspired by this genocide and US policies in 1930s https://www.history.com/articles/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-jim-crow

The only stupid fuck here is you ignoramus. Imagine being so utterly stupid to think Trump isn’t just the frontman for the US oligarchs. You’re an utter imbecile buddy.

What you’re missing here is that people treat politics as sports ball when they fail to connect it to their daily lives. As the economic situation in the US continues to decline, Trump supporters will start having problems paying their bills and making ends meet just like everyone else. They will turn on him, and it will get ugly. What Carlson is most likely doing here is setting himself up as an alternative, and he’ll harness that anger for his own purposes.

One of the most sus things about Signal is the cult following it has. I really can’t think of any other chat app that will have people coming out of the woodwork advocating for it while telling you not to use anything else. There’s absolutely nothing special about Signal that would warrant this. It’s at best a mediocre user experience, it still handles a lot of things like switching devices really poorly. It’s open source in name only. There’s just no reason why it should be this popular on its own merits.

Most normies aren’t using Signal either, they’re all on Whatsapp and fb messenger. You’d be asking them to switch platforms to use Signal just as you would with any other app.

Whenever Signal advocates chime in, they never help beat the allegation of being a cult that cannot be reasoned with.