• Wren@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    This is the distraction you’re meant to be paying attention to- watch his other hand, that’s where the damage is going to come from.

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      He doesn’t need distractions anymore. He can do as he please, and he knows it. This is just him enjoying himself.

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        3 days ago

        He knows he’s not getting Canada. This is part of his Flood the Zone nonsense. Don’t fall for it.

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    I like how he wants Canada as one state. Keeping the Provinces split would push the Senate to the left for quite some time.

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      Unfortunately if Canada got 20 senators they still wouldn’t have a 60% supermajority to remove Trump, undo citizens united, or enact public option healthcare with. It would be 47+20 = 67 and out of 120 that is 55.83%

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    4 days ago

    I wonder if americans will ever learn, that there is no such thing as bad publicity…

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      I’m still trying to figure out how everything in the last 15ish years isn’t. Why do we have to be in the dumbest timeline.

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        This is actually one of the most interesting and entertaining timelines.

        There was only supposed to be enough source data to make it to 2012- and that was originally a very generous buffer, since a fraction of a percent of Earths last more than 10 years after both networked computers and nuclear weapons have been invented in-simulation.

        So, the operators decided not to pull the plug and just let this one run its course.

        As it extrapolates history farther and farther outside of the initial parameters, the simulator is cannibalizing itself with feedback and undergoing model collapse.

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      4 days ago

      Poilievre alrady said he wants to align more with Trump’s America. He’ll absolutely sell us out.

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    4 days ago

    Is my English grammar lacking or is there something wrong with the “if” in the first sentence? Shouldn’t that be a “by” ("by Canada becoming […] )?

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      Commas can be used to identify parts of the sentence that can be cut out e.g. “… wisdom to cut your taxes in half … If Canada becomes the 51st state.”

      Now, here, the comma was used for a list so it shouldn’t have been used that way but I’m sure his meth head brain probably got lost partway or the AI bot that mimics his speech patterns is just that dumb.

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        I don’t have an issue with his use of comma but I found it weird to say “Elect the man who has the strength […] to cut your taxes in half, […] if Canada become the cherished 51sts state of the [USA]”
        But English is not my mother tongue, so it could just be language interference.

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          No, it’s terrible. Your English is better than his. Just because there’s some sliver of sense doesn’t mean he even did it on purpose.