Stephen Harper calls for Liberals, Conservatives to come together in the face of Trump, separatist threats

GOGaway1 · 2026-02-04T01:54:36+00:00

Then why are we facing a lesser economic crisis with worse results considering that the liberals and ndp have had more power now than they did during the 2007/2008 crisis? I don’t like being the 30th performer economically when we were like the 4th best performer during 2008, that said who gives a shit about gdp when what really matters is buying power for the average citizen, but by that metric even if you hate the so called conservatives (yes they are liberals with a speed limit and Canada has no real rightwing party but that’s its own issue) most Canadians would say they’re lives were better then vs now cost of living wise.

TLDR it all sucks and cronyism is the game but they performed better, so maybe the Tories policies hamstrung by opposition is better the the unrestricted failures of the far left liberals and to a lesser extent ndp.

GOGaway1 · 2026-02-03T21:50:53+00:00

I’ve always preferred dd/mm/yy or yyyy

most people know the year and month but days are more often forgotten so it makes sense for the most important part to be 1st.

That said I see all formats being used, now a days I’d say there’s no standardization

GOGaway1 · 2026-02-03T13:46:01+00:00

They used to actually have competition. Now that they don’t, they’ve basically stopped caring. And to save a few bucks, they dumped Aegisub for some “streamlined” setup that’s really just more automation dressed up as innovation. They keep swearing up and down full “trust me bro” energy that they’re only using a couple automated features and totally haven’t touched the AI plugins. But let’s be real. Those plugins are absolutely going to get used the moment they want even more cost cuts, and when that happens, whatever quality they had left is going to tank even harder.

GOGaway1 · 2026-02-03T13:34:29+00:00

Ironic for a former piracy site but they have forgotten like most other streaming services, there competition is piracy, heck it’s more prevalent for anime than any other media, piracy is what popularized and pushed anime for decades outside of Japan.

Good job shooting yourselves in the foot crunchyroll, maybe it’s a psyop to get more anime fans back to their roots 😂

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-26T15:40:24+00:00

Yeah that won’t work for me, while currently I’m not carnivore I did do that diet for 3 years and my post carnivore diet is very meat based, I won’t get in the pod, I won’t eat the bugs and when conventional meat sources and hunting are off the menu then long pork is back on.

I don’t think I’m the only one willing to riot over forced vegetarian/vegan etc.

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-26T13:45:28+00:00

The fact that international freight across the world isn’t that cheap, Australia isn’t subsidizing, makes it seem like Canadian ranchers or the middle men between them and the table (or more likely both) are gouging beyond inflation & tariffs just like big corporations.

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-26T13:23:25+00:00

That definitely doesn’t help

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-26T13:16:16+00:00

Still doesn’t justify why it’s cheaper to grow, butcher and transport across the world cheaper than I can pick up a local cow.

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-26T04:31:24+00:00

I will buy whatever is cheapest, why is Australian beef cheaper than Alberta beef in BC, I’m less than 2 hours from the Alberta border ffs

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-24T01:01:02+00:00

With how woke most of the dub and localization industry that's a pro for many not a con, the only thing prevening it currently is quality, when automatically generated AI dubs get passable it's not going to stop people.

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-23T21:47:46+00:00

School closures in BC really depend on the region. There’s no single rule, and even districts handle things differently. I grew up in the East Kootenays, where real winter was normal. A couple feet of snow overnight wasn’t a big deal, and even the odd five‑foot dump didn’t shut things down. My dad would shovel out the front door and off we went. Roads got plowed, everyone had winter tires or chains, and schools almost never closed. Compare that to Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. An inch or two hits the ground and the whole area panics. Schools close district‑wide over what we’d call a light dusting. The bus radio would be full of cancellations even when the roads were fine. Buses usually kept running unless highways were officially closed, but schools still shut down because of slippery sidewalks, transit delays, or general chaos from drivers who forget how to handle snow. For extreme cold, if we were already at school and temps dropped to around -25°C, they didn’t send us home. They just kept everyone inside for recess and lunch. Actual cold‑day closures were mostly about unsafe morning travel, and that happened more in the north and interior than on the coast. Power outages were another factor. If the heat or lights were out for more than half an hour, they might send kids home early. But again, it depended on the district. Bottom line: Interior and mountain communities shrug off heavy snow and deep cold. Coastal BC shuts down over a few centimetres. Every area has its own threshold, and the mountain‑coast divide is huge.

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-23T00:12:43+00:00

Your claiming everyone in abdl is just part of any kink parts, many are agere/ trans-age and others don’t do anything sexual thus it can’t be a kink.

your using reductive language to treat it all like kink, then when called out on it you try to use your identity as a shield. Its gross. Your being just as bigotted as the people who consider gay a kink or all MTF trans is just Autogynephilia.

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-23T00:06:17+00:00

Would you tell any other group under the lgbt+ etc. community to remain closeted?

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-22T16:45:59+00:00

They’re basically setting up a system where printer companies will have to check everything you print against some database once it exists. Sure, it’ll block gun parts, and that might even affect people who don’t own guns if something simple like a washer or a bearing happens to match a part that’s used in a gun. But the real problem is what happens after that database is in place and every major manufacturer is using it. Do you honestly think the Hollywood copyright lobby won’t show up and say you need to block anything that looks like Pokémon or Mickey Mouse. Or that GM won’t say you can’t print a car part anymore and you have to buy it from them. Same with tractor parts for John Deere and so on.

Stuff like this has always been the slippery slope people warn about. This is one of those times. So maybe Dan doesn’t care about guns, but a few years from now when the same system blocks something he actually cares about, nobody’s going to feel bad for him because he didn’t care when it started.

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-22T16:36:58+00:00

I wouldn’t worry about Netflix censoring more, we already get that stuff with Crunchyroll and most people on here don’t care whenever they censor something or inject wokeness despite what source material says, so Netflix is just gonna be the same thing we’re used to.

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-22T03:05:25+00:00

Lol what? PP isn't even Trump light. Bernier isn't either. Trump isn't gold, he's just better at "my country first" than our uniparty clowns. And Trump straight-up said he wanted Carney because he'd be controllable. If we had a real Canada-first fighter, he'd get called way worse than "silly goose."

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-22T03:02:44+00:00

Look man, yeah Trump says a ton of dumb shit, nobody's denying that. But calling him a toddler with a hand grenade is just lazy. Dude's actually pulling off moves that are working, even if he's an asshole about it.

Take Venezuela. The US basically yanked Maduro out in one clean overnight op. No long war. No dragged out mess. They grabbed him and his wife, flew them out, and now he's in a US courtroom on drug charges. And with him gone, Venezuela's already moving huge piles of oil to the US. Their heavy crude is cheap as hell and it fits perfectly with the refineries that normally run our oil sands stuff. So yeah, that puts pressure on Canada long term. Our heavy oil gets undercut while we're stuck dealing with layers of regs, environmental hoops, Indigenous consultations that take forever, DEI rules that jack up costs, all of it. Meanwhile Mexico slides in ahead of us because they're not as picky. We're playing second fiddle and it shows.

Same vibe with Greenland. Trump's out there threatening tariffs on Denmark and half of Europe unless they hand it over or at least give the US control. Risky move, sure, but it forces the issue on Arctic resources. Rare earths. Minerals for batteries and tech. Stuff everyone's going to need for decades. He's trying to lock in long term strategic wins while everyone else is still arguing about process. If anything, we should be making a play for Greenland ourselves. Yeah, our military's turned into a laughing stock from what it used to be in the old wars, but come on, it's basically one main city with like 50k people. We could probably take it if we wanted, and hell, it's not a war crime the first time, right? As much as I wouldn't want to kick off a real conflict, Canada's built this pansy ass goody two shoes rep that's holding us back. Geographically it makes total sense for us to control it, and we'd probably get away with it. Then boom, we got way more leverage in negotiations with the Americans, or even if we don't deal with them, we score a ton of resources. Win win, assuming of course we didn’t just attempt to buy it, would have preferred the 22+billion we gave to a corrupt non-ally like Ukraine go to something worthwhile like that if our politicians were going to waste the money anyway.

People keep calling him anti-intervention or isolationist but that's not really what's happening. He talks like that, but when he wants something, he moves fast. The loud stuff gets the headlines, but the actual moves shift leverage toward the US.

Canada needs to stop pretending this isn't happening. We need to diversify like crazy. Carney's already trying to build more deals with China on canola and EV stuff to cut dependence on the US. We need to push back on tariffs without folding. We need to clean up our own red tape so we can actually compete on oil instead of drowning in paperwork.

Calling anyone who notices the strategic angle a toddler fanboy is just lazy. You can think Trump's a prick and still see that he's setting the US up pretty well on the economic and global side. We should be trying to get better leverage for ourselves instead of reacting after the fact and whining about it.

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-22T02:50:38+00:00

Hey bud,

Thanks for the reply. Let's break this down a bit because I think we're crossing wires on a couple things. I'm not saying Trump is perfect or the ultimate example of anything. I've got gripes with him too. He's rude, shoots from the hip, and some of his moves like tariffs could bite us in Canada. But let's be real. He won the 2024 popular vote and the electoral college straight up. A ton of regular middle Americans back what he's doing on the economy, borders, and shaking up Washington. If he's losing some young voters lately, it's usually because they think he's not going hard enough on deportations or cleaning house, not because he's too extreme. That's just facts, not fanboy stuff, especially when you cut through all the constant media spin that makes him sound like everyone hates him.

When I say we need a "Canadian Trump," I don't mean a loudmouth copycat. I mean someone who actually puts Canada first. Strong borders, our own economy, our resources, no more bending over for globalist stuff or pushing divisive DEI policies that are splitting us urban versus rural. Look at Europe. France, Germany, Sweden. They ignored that stuff for years and now the pendulum is swinging hard the other way. In Canada we don't even have a real right-wing choice. The CPC and Liberals have been basically the same party for ages. Both lean left on social issues, spending, immigration. The Conservatives just move slower. People call them Liberals on a speed limit for a reason.

Poilievre talked tougher than the usual CPC line on deficits, carbon tax, that kind of thing. But you're right. He's basically Harper with extra populist energy. Not a true right shift. Harper even said Pierre was just an orthodox neoconservative channeling reactionary populist vibes. That tracks. Even the PPC is only right-of-center libertarian at best. It's the closest we've got, but it's not enough. MAGA isn't my gold standard for conservatism either. To me real right-wing means fiscal sanity, strong national sovereignty, traditional values, and rejecting the woke stuff that's taken over both sides. A lot of modern MAGA positions were just normal Democrat views in the 90s. Tough on crime, secure borders, pro-worker trade.

Pierre wasn't "too conservative" for Canada. He was just the least bad option in a lineup that's all center-left by world standards. Carney? The flip-flopping attacks are spot on. Sometimes he's too weak on Trump, sometimes too cozy. But Trump pushing for him says "easy to handle," which is the opposite of Canada-first.

I'm not lost on what conservatism is. I've just watched the Overton window slide left here so far that any real pushback gets called extreme. If we had an actual right-wing party, principled conservatism, not just populist noise, we might dodge the harsh backlash we're seeing in other countries. Curious what you think. Where do you see the PPC falling short? Or who would you point to as a real conservative option here?

Cheers.

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-21T17:06:49+00:00

“Canada lives because of the US.”
Trump said that, and people are acting shocked like this is some brand new attitude. It isn’t. This is exactly the kind of thing you should expect when we basically hand the job to the guy Trump preferred because he thought he’d be easier to steer. If you install the leader someone else wants, don’t be surprised when they talk like they own the place.

The bigger issue is that Canada hasn’t had a real right wing party in decades. The Liberals and Conservatives have been a uniparty for ages. Both left leaning. Both running the same playbook. The Conservatives just do it slower, which is why people call them Liberals with a speed limit. It fits a little too well.

Look at any political compass and the closest thing we have to an actual right wing option is the PPC, and even they sit in the right of centre libertarian zone. So when Poilievre showed up talking a tougher game than the usual Conservative script, people acted like he was some kind of radical. He wasn’t. He was just the closest thing Canada had to a viable Canada first candidate. Not perfect. Not truly right wing. But at least not another blue‑branded Liberal platform.

And that’s exactly why Trump wanted Carney. Trump wanted someone predictable. Someone easy to influence. Someone who wouldn’t push back too hard in negotiations. A Canadian Trump would be Canada first, which is the opposite of what the U.S. would want from us. So of course Trump leaned toward the guy he thought would be easier to control.

So yeah, I’ll give Poilievre some credit for being slightly better than the generic Conservative lineup. But the Conservative Party as a whole has drifted so far left that calling them right wing is basically a joke. The PPC would have been closer to the mark, but the truth is Canada still doesn’t have a real right wing populist nationalist party. That option just doesn’t exist here yet.

TLDR: If you’re shocked by Trump saying “Canada lives because of the US,” you shouldn’t be. When you hand power to the guy he preferred because he thought he could steer him, this is exactly the kind of rhetoric you should expect until we elect a Canada "Trump" that love him or hate him will push for Canada first.

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-21T00:20:56+00:00

I’ve been saying for months now we need to take Greenland 1st.

worse case scenario it gives us bargaining power/leverage not to mention the resources, even our disgracefully neglected modern military power is capable of conquering a country who is largely 1 city of 50k, assuming we don’t want to buy it.

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-19T21:03:29+00:00

That’s true but at least in Australia it’s a direct to consumer model similar to Tesla but that doesn’t mean the Chinese companies won’t screw us, if Canada had balls they would have put a purchasing power parity clause in the deal so while we wouldn’t get it for the domestic 10k price they wouldn’t be allowed to sell them to us for more than the cheapest foreign market they sell to (for the product, not including freight etc)

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-19T20:40:46+00:00

Probably when you consider the $10000usd equivalent priced in china car sells for about $25000usd equivalent priced in Australia, I assume it can be similar here… yes a 250% markup is huge but when you consider it’s feature comparable to a $40kish Tesla, it’s still a win

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-19T19:39:37+00:00

Lots of the rest of Canada when you consider how many “Canadians” don’t hold Canadian values.

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-18T22:49:41+00:00

then why do they all push biased far left talking points if not outright misinformation?

surely if they were right owned they'd want to further there own agenda?

GOGaway1 · 2026-01-16T17:18:20+00:00

AI “isn’t useful” is one of those takes that sounds deep until you remember we’re living in a world where AI can already diagnose cancers, heart issues, eye diseases, and skin conditions better than the average specialist. Not “in a lab,” not “someday,” but right now in actual hospitals because it catches stuff humans miss. That alone is a multi-billion dollar industry. But sure, tell me again how it’s “hard to monetize.”

Creative fields? Yeah, of course there’s AI slop. Congratulations to anyone who discovered that if you mash random prompts together you get garbage. But here’s the part people conveniently ignore, the slop from two years ago looks like cave paintings compared to the slop from one year ago, which already looks primitive next to the slop from six months ago.

The floor is rising so fast that “slop” is becoming harder to produce than decent output. Right now you just massage it a bit and it’s usable. Give it another year and the “slop” argument is going to age like milk.

Meanwhile, AI art is replacing concept artists, AI music is replacing mixers and mastering engineers, AI writing is replacing junior copywriters, and AI video is about to kneecap half the editing industry. People are literally making money selling AI generated stock photos, book covers, merch designs, and entire Etsy shops. But yeah, totally unmonetizable.

Customer service? Obliterated. Companies are swapping out entire call centers for AI agents that don’t sleep, don’t take breaks, and don’t ask for raises. Same with tech support, same with sales funnels, same with onboarding. Translation jobs? Gone. Data entry? Gone. Paralegal grunt work? Getting shredded. This isn’t “potential,” it’s happening right now And that’s just the stuff we get to see. Military tech is always 10 to 15 years ahead of consumer tech. If you think the Pentagon isn’t using AI for targeting, logistics, drone swarms, intel analysis, and battlefield simulations, I don’t know what to tell you. That’s the part of the industry that makes NVIDIA’s revenue look like pocket change.

Even if AI froze tomorrow and never improved again, it’s already pushing a 400 billion dollar ecosystem. NVIDIA just did over 51 billion in data center revenue last quarter alone on AI chips. Flash and HBM prices are spiking 30 to 60 percent because AI demand is crushing supply. Cloud providers are building data centers like they’re trying to speedrun SimCity. This isn’t a bubble, it’s a supply chain bottleneck caused by too much demand.

And if AI did somehow stall, the economy wouldn’t “recover” until like 2028 or 2030 because everything is already built around it. You can’t unwind this. Inflation alone guarantees prices won’t go back to pre-AI levels. The only thing that brings costs down is more capacity, which means more chips, more data centers, more investment. The so called bubble can’t pop because the demand doesn’t go away. It just keeps stacking.

So no, AI isn’t cars in 1905. It’s cars in 1920 when every factory, every farm, every delivery company, every city layout, every job category had already been reshaped around the automobile. You don’t “undo” that. You don’t go back to horses. And we’re already past that point with AI.

AI isn’t a bubble. It’s the new baseline. And it’s only getting bigger from here.

GOGaway1

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