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Gotta go further south this time. Warching Mar-a-Lago burn will be fun.

Yeah! We should all be handing out swords in these uncertain times!

I mean, none of these people ever question Tesla's valuation in the first place. Why is the stock losing all of this value?

Maybe it's because Tesla sells a tiny number of units, cannot turn a profit without government subsidies, and produces by most accounts a really meh fleet of vehicles. There was no sane reason for it to be valued equally to the rest of the auto industry combined.

Even at half that value today, the number is beyond unjustifiable.

My understanding, though, as a Canadian, is that refusing to sell Jack Daniel's is over-stepping, and that they have the unalienable right to be on whatever privately owned shelves and sold in whatever privately owned facilities they wish, regardless of threats made to autonomy or safety.

American media promotes Canada as a singular place. Seattle is in Washington, but Vancouver is in Canada; Detroit is in Michigan, but Toronto is in Canada. The idea that other countries can also be broken down into sub-national jurisdictions that are not politically or culturally aligned just doesn't come up.

That's a privilege reserved only for 'Murica.

No, but they're not out there making the daily argument for the most active communities of the same name being the only communities of the same name.

I get that nuance is a thing, but maybe you are not the one to be the standard barer for this one, given how it conflicts with your very public lobbying for consolidation? I say this with kindness and respect, but it does make you come across as more controlling and manipulatuve than well intentioned.

Thank you!

It doesn't take that many people to create an active forum. It takes even fewer to make for an active sub-forum. And it's so easy to pull in content from elsewhere here if you want to discuss it with your little group.

The push towards centralizing Lemmy has always seemed like an artifact of people not actually wanting to leave Reddit, but drawing a line in the sand anyway.

Tankies are people who play apologetics for authoritarian dictators who have claimed to be socialist or communist, and who will often excuse any action in opposition to "the west".

More formally, they're the cathartic branch of Marxist-Leninists (MLs). Lemmy's a small space, and it's a place that many MLs landed after bouncing off of Reddit, and the core developers count themselves as MLs.

The flagship Lemmy server is lemmy.ml, but the Tankie trolls have their own server, lemmygrad.ml where they go and be all 4chan-like.

Smith's been behaving rather strangely around all of this. She's doing the Tulsi Gabbard routine, getting her face out there next to promanent conservative talking heads, which is an exit strategy when you've just torpedoed your political career in a more liberal riding.

But she in True Blue Alberta, with no real sign that the NDP is resurging.

Is there reason to believe she's going to fail her next leadership review?

I noticed many of the same things mentioned in the article, and I noticed it almost immediately.

There's a New Brunswick-based company -- Bourbors -- that makes, among other things, peanut butter. Sobeys does not list the product as Canadian.

Right below it is Kraft peanut butter, which gets a big ol' Maple Leaf next to its price tag.

Now, I know little about peanut butter, but what I do know is that A) we don't grow peanuts in Canada, at least not to scale, B) Bourbors is a Canadian company, and C) Kraft is not. Even if Kraft is grinding the peanut butter in Canada, its operations are not more Canadian than Bourbors.

I wandered the store looking at other products, and noticed the same thing: Products from bigger companies were labeled as Canadian, with very little pretense, while things I knew were made in Canada and sold by Canadian companies were not. Almost anything with Compliments branding was labelled as Canadian, even if I knew the product likely wasn't made in Canada.

You can't trust the big grocery stores. Not for a second.

Alright. Ford threatened to cut off the tap entirely. Let's see it happen.

These are not protectionist tariffs. He's not trying to encourage US manufacturing.

He's trying to get other countries to bend the knee, and abandon their right to regulate their economy and their environment.