Advertising is officially entering the dystopian era without any shame.
You're bagging your own groceries and they're running ads at you.
You're pumping your own gas and there's a voice harassing you.
Hats off to doctoral student and podcaster Zhong Shu in Beijing, China, who did this fascinating and smart interview with Christopher Nolan about THE ODYSSEY yesterday, originally posted to Bilibili.
A great listen/watch.
@PraetorGroypus@SweetestJRP@GroyperHodl21m You have a picture of another man dressed up as an emperor, while you flex about how your community backs you no matter what you say. Tone dead much?
@Tiramisu7667@SweetestJRP@ObscuraDeFi@Tablesalt13 On top of that China has a surplus of 80,000,000 homes. It’s years of surplus with a declining population. There are over 70 major Chinese cities with 26 months of housing collapse. That can’t happen here, and it’s stupid to suggest so.
Do you realize how significant this is?
@Tiramisu7667@SweetestJRP@ObscuraDeFi@Tablesalt13 Chinas projected population change in 10 years is a decline of 60,000,000.
Canadas projected population change in 10 years is a growth of 5,000,000.
Canadas home shortage by only 2030 is 6,000,0000 homes.
The data does not back you and the countries are vastly different.
One thing I’ve always despised about the USA is the militaristic and imperialist attitude of their neoconservative establishment, present in both the Democratic or Republican parties. For decades they’ve invaded, engineered coups, bombed, and killed thousands of innocents in countries that posed no threat to them, under the pretext of “protecting the free world.” They still have 750 military bases in 80 countries to control their empire.
One of the key reasons I supported the election of Donald Trump was that he has been opposed to these pointless and costly foreign wars, and has promised to quickly end the US proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. While the Democrats under Obama and Biden have clearly become the war party, the Republicans under Trump, to their credit, have behaved like the peace party.
It’s clearly in the US’ interest to do so, since they have ultimately been humiliated in most of their foreign interventions, from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Things are going badly in Ukraine. Sanctions against Russia have backfired. The BRICS now comprises half the world’s population and a huge chunk of its resources and economy, and a new multipolar set of international relations is gradually replacing the one based on American hegemony.
It’s also in the Americans’ interest to adapt to this new geopolitical situation and help it evolve peacefully, rather than deluding themselves they will always be the top dog. Their government is close to bankruptcy, with a national debt that is spinning out of control. The status of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, which allowed them to print trillions of dollars, export their inflation, and make the rest of the world pay for their empire, is now threatened, as emerging countries are rapidly dedollarizing.
All this to say that it is extremely disappointing and concerning to now see Mr. Trump acting like a typical arrogant American imperialist, with his increasingly aggressive and outrageous statements about annexing Canada (and Groenland and the Panama Canal), again under the pretext of protecting the free world.
For two centuries, we’ve been the closest friends, neighbours, trading partners and allies. Does he really want to throw all of this overboard in a grandiose quest to make America’s dick bigger?
He says he wants to only use “economic force”, rather than bombing our cities and killing us like his predecessors. What a nice touch! Concretely, that means he’s willing to wage economic war on us, destroy our economy and our standard of living — and inevitably also hurt that of Americans, but to a much smaller extent — in order to achieve his goal.
Obviously, Canada is in no position to win any war with the US, military or economic. We can retaliate and hurt the Americans, but we won’t be able to sustain an economic war for long, given our economy’s complete dependence on theirs. Plus Ottawa is almost as bankrupt as Washington.
I still hope, as I said weeks ago, that these are just another example of his habit of making outrageous declarations as a bargaining position to force his counterparts to do something or make concessions under threat. And not the ravings of an unstable megalomaniac.
He wants a better trade agreement, a more secure border, and he wants us to help pay our share of North America’s defence. These are all fair demands that can and should be negotiated in both our countries’ interests.
If he is really serious about annexing Canada though, we’re entering a whole different game in trying to deal with a dangerous bully. And there won’t be any easy solution.
The alliance is not between muslims and Christian’s.
It is between East Asians and whites under the cross.
Door is still open to muslims but their largest voices inevitably talk down to Christendom whenever we let our guard down in a gesture and act of trust.
It’s getting old.
🔴 The child victims of rape were denied justice and protection from the state to preserve the image of a successful multicultural society.
This is how the grooming gangs scandal was covered up ⬇️
https://t.co/ah1cv27Jm9
Throughout history any nation that was displaced by a large contingent of foreign men that raped their daughters without consequence would know that they had been conquered
Today we call it multiculturalism