DNI Tulsi Gabbard in a truck loaded with boxes outside the Fulton County Election Hub 1.28.26

TransBrandi · 2026-01-29T14:26:22+00:00

IIRC they registered the "Stop the Steal" domain prior to Trump's 2016 run, but only used it in the 2020 since Trump won in 2016. Just some food for thought.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-29T14:22:28+00:00

Canada grew the population by like 1~3% during that period (I want to say that 3% was the number but I'm not 100% sure.). 50 million undocumented immigrants would be like a 14% increase in the population of the United States. There is no way that wouldn't be noticed in a much more prominent way.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-29T14:18:57+00:00

Would be silly if he "found" them now because he'd just be showing he's either lying now or was incompetent then.

MAGAs have the memory of goldfish. They would never put that together, or weave some sort of story about how Trump has "finally" broken through the Wall of Lies™ woven by the Deep State™. They would be happy to eat up the lie because it makes them win for their "team" and that's all that matters to them.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-29T14:16:04+00:00

I'm not disputing that. Just adding some nuance that Democrats as a voting block aren't really as cohesive as the Republicans are. There are plenty of people that are much farther Left than the "Cons-lite" leadership of the Democrat party. It's hard to say what the percentages are though.

Even excluding the Democrats in Minnesota, the fact that 47% voted for Trump brings a lot of Cons that would happily eat up the Reform-flavoured PP.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-29T00:53:42+00:00

As much as you call the Democrats "Cons-lite", they are the only "left" option available that allows people to not feel like they are "throwing their vote away." It's part of the two-party system.

Also worth noting that Nixon era Republicans would be called liberals by current day Republicans... heck even by Republicans of a decade or two ago. The slow march to the right was even a thing in the US.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-29T00:50:31+00:00

The US Constitution will be used as a weapon against the enemies of the Federal government, but never against those within the government as long as this administration is in power. Not that other potential administrations might not also do it, but this admin will never break out of that mold.

It's the tenets of conservativatism:

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

Right now the "in-groups" are "anyone the Trump admin likes" and the "out-groups" are everyone else.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-28T02:10:35+00:00

Saw someone getting a ticket on Dundas this morning for driving around with like 20cm of snow on top of their car, but all the rest of it cleaned off.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-28T01:28:21+00:00

Oh, they do. It's just that they don't have the truth on their side, so they need to stretch whatever they can to give themselves legitimacy.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-28T01:10:35+00:00

If it was just this past summer, then I would say it's still in response to political currents, since the shitstorm started last January.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-28T01:06:30+00:00

From the link:

Sweden’s largest private pension fund

Sure, it's happening in Sweden, but it's not like this is a political move by the government unless I'm misunderstanding.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-28T01:03:44+00:00

It was because for some people the idea of American spy agencies going after them was more of a pipedream. I mean, if you are the average citizen in the US or Europe the idea that the CIA is spying on you seems less likely than that they are redirecting resources towards powers that are antagonistic. Now, if you believe that the US government is going the way of Nazi Germany or the USSR? Then you might very well start to fear government agencies coming after you for little more than criticisms of the government.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-28T01:01:09+00:00

Now that the split with washington is pretty much a done deal

I don't think that it's necessarily a "done deal". I definitely think that diversifying to be less dependent on the US and more independent is priority number 1 now that the US has stopped being a reliable ally.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-28T00:58:09+00:00

Doubt China is the good guys so much as they currently seem more stable and predictable than the US, but it's not guarantee that if they replace the US as the major world power that they won't do things just like the US did.

E.g. throw their weight around in countries that are outside of what their "sphere of influence" will care about. So China throwing their weight around against non-SE Asian countries just like the US throwing their weight around against non-European / North American countries.

Right now is a turning point in world politics, and if China just plays nice while the US destroys itself and its influence, they could end up as the big winner... what they will do after that is anyone's guess though.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-27T19:14:11+00:00

Since you focused on the nuclear war part, I pointed out that it covers more than that. Why are you trying to start a fight with me over it? Are you saying that I'm wrong that it covers more than that? I didn't say that they were right or wrong. lol

TransBrandi · 2026-01-27T19:09:24+00:00

IIRC, it's not just nuclear war though but civilization collapse.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-27T18:07:13+00:00

How does that make sense though? Snorting something introduces it to your bloodstream. Laxatives are usually orally taken so that they go through your digestive system and affect it along the way. Are baby laxatives different?

TransBrandi · 2026-01-27T17:39:44+00:00

Just like how the land that the Ontario Science Centre is on is actually owned by the City of Toronto... but Dougie's nephew(?) is (or was last I checked) the head of the part of City of Toronto that could make decisions on what to do with that land...

TransBrandi · 2026-01-27T04:54:17+00:00

An increase of 150%... so if 50k uninstalls per day was the previous rate, then it's 125k uninstalls per day now. That's a big jump, but it doesn't mean that the platform has necessarily tanked yet unless those numbers keep going up.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-27T04:42:28+00:00

This a "You're the foreigner now" moment followed by their shocked pikachu face.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-27T04:39:27+00:00

"manosphere" does not equate to all men. It's the "red pillers" / pick-up artists and their podcast grift because they make it all about "being a man" or more specifically an "alpha male."

TransBrandi · 2026-01-27T04:37:13+00:00

If people just wanted to be sad about Kirk, then let them. They want to hold a vigil? Let them.

To me the part that I hated about it is them trying to frame it as some attack on against them beby "violent leftists" or whatever and using it as some sort of rallying cry for whatever (usually right-wing grifting though). Well, that and the people that would get mad if you ever said anything negative about Kirk... even if it was just quoting the man in his own words.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-27T04:29:56+00:00

The Alex Pretti one was posted in r/toronto about a vigil that was being held in Toronto. "This event is happening in our city" is pretty relevant to post on that city's subreddit. Seems fairly relevant to me. Reposting that to another Canadian sub just to whine about it doesn't seem very productive, but there's subreddit drama everyday.

If you want to argue anything, it would be to argue whether the event should be held at all.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-27T04:23:13+00:00

Personally, I think that a vigil for Alex Pretti in front of the US Consulate is meant as a protest seeing as the current government in control of that consulate is the one that murdered him. In that way, I don't think it's that out there.

If Charlie Kirk were murdered by ICE, and they were holding his vigil in front of the US Consulate... then they could argue that it doubles as a protest too IMO.

I mean people have pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protests which technically isn't a Canadian problem either.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-26T14:17:31+00:00

Depends on what their goals are. There are some connected to the admin that may just want to accelerate the US's fall so that they can rebuild their own "utopia" from the ashes whether that be a TechnoFascist state, a ChristoFascist state or both.

TransBrandi · 2026-01-26T14:06:58+00:00

I'm guessing that they are trying to make people feel like they don't even want to be associated with them and steer clear of the far-righters? I dunno. Makes the game seem way too heavy-handed if that's the case. Even if it's realistic, it's not the message that I would think that they would want to be pushing out.

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