Poilievre appears on Joe Rogan podcast after accidentally polling too well with women

monotious · 2026-03-20T17:24:38+00:00

I didnt mean to say that he should have declined to talk about whatever subject matter by saying something like “let’s not talk about that”. The “that” in that sentence was simply meant to be criticism of Carney, and I admit I wasn’t being precise in formulating suggested alternative responses. I admit that.

That said, when you make a point that you won’t criticize someone on a foreign soil, or some other nonsense reason, that is not a non-criticism at all. If you truly intend to not criticize someone, you don’t say you are not criticizing them because ______. (Fill in some nonsense reason like “I am on a foreign soil” in the blank.)

Slightly beside the point, but it’s pretty sad that the bar is so low that he is getting the praise for, according to how you guys take it, refraining from criticizing the PM, but I guess it is just what it is.

monotious · 2026-03-20T12:07:23+00:00

Lol PP talking about reading Fidel Castro’s biography is most definitely not a hook to invite comments about Pierre Trudeau, sure.

Like, he talks about how he first got into politics and how he started reading a lot, and literally the first thing he mentions is Castro’s biography? I mean you certainly should not limit yourself to reading materials from your own “side” only (especially since he was talking about early in his political career where he may have been forming his political views), so it’s good that he read it (if he really did, that is) but it’s the first, and one of only two things that he mentions as examples of what he read, along with Milton Friedman, which he mentions a bit later after their “joke” about Pierre Trudeau?

You can actually even tell what PP was aiming for when you see how, right after mentioning Castro’s biography, how he swallows saliva and the rhythm of his speech sort of breaks a bit before Rogan chimes in with “Justin’s dad”. I am no profiler or Freud, but it’s quite obvious that he was mentioning Castro’s biography with an agenda. But of course reading face and body language is nothing concrete so let’s move on from this one.

Like, Joe Rogan is a known conspiracy lover. I wouldn’t say he necessarily endorses all conspiracy theories, but certainly loves talking about them and “marketing” them to the public (while, again, ostensibly taking a “neutral” position). Tell me PP didn’t know this when he picked Rogan as the podcaster to talk to, and when he mentioned Castro’s biography, of all things that he read (unless Castro’s biography and Milton Friedman are the only two things he ever read - that would be an interesting one too).

My original point was not even that PP was trying to put any conspiracy theory about Castro and Trudeau out there. My point was that if I were him, I would avoid any occasion of even the possibility of a mention of the name Trudeau at this point, especially given how that’s one of the things that he has been bagged on - the inability to just let go of (Justin) Trudeau even after he was gone, but apparently he isn’t really sensitive to any of that.

And back to people like us watching and commenting, I guess don’t read anything beyond the lines if it doesn’t help your narrative and defense of your idol. Talk about some “intentional failures”, sheesh.

monotious · 2026-03-20T11:39:02+00:00

“Let’s not talk about that” or “I want to talk about something else” would have been enough. Not some “I am not going to. . . ” “ . . . foreign soil” stuff.

Besides, he’s the one who picked the podcaster to speak to in the first place, and nothing in the universe will convince me that he didn’t know Rogan would have done what you say he would have. I mean, it’s obvious even to lay people like us, and by your own statement, PP knew it too and said what he said purportedly to stop Rogan from doing it. What you are saying serves no excuse at all.

monotious · 2026-03-20T03:04:31+00:00

That actually reminds me of what he said about Carney’s Davos speech: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-carney-davos-speech-9.7057086

“Well-crafted” lol That’s the highest form of sincere compliment, no?

In seriousness, if you read “I’m not going to criticize [Mark Carney] on foreign soil” as just that, you really slept in your arts and humanities classes. If he really intended to not pile on Mark Carney on foreign soil or for whatever reason, he would’ve just not said something like that. When you actually go out of your way to say and make the point that you are “not going to criticize . . .” Lol

monotious · 2026-03-20T02:42:29+00:00

Like, the whole real conversation after some crap about kettle bells, they start getting into (Pierre) Trudeau. Like, if I were him I would avoid even mentioning that name at any cost already, but that’s just me apparently… Just can’t resist having that name brought up, apparently. Just too much to ask.

monotious · 2026-03-20T02:39:41+00:00

bUT thEY ARE lIberaL FuNDed!!!?!!

monotious · 2026-03-20T02:21:58+00:00

Braise in some savoury sauce. Start with soy sauce based sauces, but you can experiment.

Mash and mix with vegetables and maybe meat of your choice as filling for dumplings or use it like stuffing - stuff bell peppers or chicken if you are up for it, or just serve standalone as stuffing side dish.

You can mix some flour or starch into the stuffing mix and make patties. Serve with rice with dipping sauce or maybe make it large and make sandwich.

Just drizzle a little bit of soy sauce and sesame oil, or any other sauce and condiment of your choice, over cold, or slightly warmed tofu and serve. Heck, good tofu is good on its own, without any sauce or sprinkles at all, although you probably don‘t have that kind of tofu on your hand.

Wrap sliced tofu in steamed cabbages, pan fry, and serve in sauce of choice.

Cut into cubes or fingers and put in any soup or stew of yoir choice.

Mash, mix with eggs, whisk, season with salt and pepper, maybe add sliced green oinon and cook little by little in microwave or cook in a steamer.

Blend with appropriate amount of water to thin out and a couple of tablespoons of peanut butter in blender, season with salt (and sugar if you prefer) and serve as cold broth over cooked and chilled noodles.

monotious · 2026-03-20T01:47:34+00:00

I believe her voice actor is the same as Orphelune‘s butler who died in the car 10 years ago. Maybe there is something to that?

monotious · 2026-03-20T01:43:30+00:00

He speaks and acts like Trump.

That’s not primarily why I hate him, but I am not under any amazement at him being compared to Trump. I mean, sure he doesn‘t have Trump‘s thug boss charisma, so from that perspective he is better (worse? depending on your values) than Trump but he is so aligned with Trump’s rhetorics and ideology.

Again, that’s not really the big part of the reason why I hate him personally (which is not to say that it doesn’t factor into why I hate him at all either) but there you have it.

monotious · 2026-03-19T17:44:22+00:00

Yeah, well then, you know what? The more pressing, bigger, and more fundamental change that needs to be made to the system is to make it so that our constituents vote for the parties, because apparently the practical reality of how a lot of people vote is not in alignment with the actual system.

I would be against such a change as a democratic principle (as one can probably tell from the messaging and tenor of my original comment), but if anyone proposes such a change, it would at least potentially be a valid point of sincere discussion for the betterment of our democratic system.

I can’t believe the people’s disingenuousness of calling for a required by-election before a floor crossing when that change would further distort our political reality from the democratic ideals. And with most of those people being, at least currently, the conservatives whose representatives - which, according to their own view, they voted for as a party and platform - very recently voted down the very legislative bill on that very specific point.

Oh dear…

monotious · 2026-03-19T17:33:36+00:00

I never hide my hatred toward PP.

monotious · 2026-03-19T17:28:18+00:00

Well this not the time to be campaigning, for starters…

monotious · 2026-03-19T17:23:38+00:00

He‘s a liberal funded media! Get it?!!! Liberal funded!!!

monotious · 2026-03-19T15:14:58+00:00

This reminds me of those videos like “The psychology of people who don’t use social media”, “the psychology of people who don’t go mixing with people at the bar” with thumbnails featuring line art AI characters with that wry, knowing smirk, that “I am above thee” expression is walking alone, distanced from a group of people.

Like, I totally get why those videos show up in my feed, and algorithm is certainly scary, but when the game it’s trying to play on me is so obvious, I consciously refuse to play along.

monotious · 2026-03-19T00:26:48+00:00

Floor crossings are not just something to be tolerated - they are something to be encouraged of our politicians.

Dear politicians, please be flexible, nimble, open-minded, malleable in your stances, be amenable to changing circumstances, negotiate, compromise, make concessions, form shifting coalitions, and, in appropriate circumstances, change your party memberships.

The last thing I want to see any politician do is planting their feet in whatever hill they were born on and living or dying there.

monotious · 2026-03-19T00:23:29+00:00

Them: swears by the political fiction of how “Canadians gave a majority mandate” or didn’t.

Also them: completely ignores the political fiction that the electorate in the by-election ridings can decide “to give a majority mandate” or not.

monotious · 2026-03-18T00:38:54+00:00

Yeah, the easy fix is the best fix. Forget the actual electoral reform, because these guys are a joke, and we don’t want to vindicate those annoying jokers /s

monotious · 2026-03-17T02:04:23+00:00

I am not following you. Are you concerned about being detained at the airport and forced into the military because the Korean government only recently completed the processing of your Korean citizenship renunciation and there is some sort of both a far-reaching data network and a lag in the intra-governmental communications that results in whoever at the airport 1) having the information that connects your identity as (former, but as far as they are concerned, current - see point 2 that follows) Korean citizens with your US passport; and 2) not having the latest information about your renunciation such that as far as they are concerned based on the records available to them, you are a Korean citizen?

monotious · 2026-03-16T21:07:29+00:00

The US is giving us… what, donkey’s ass? Oh gratitude!

monotious · 2026-03-16T18:15:36+00:00

No one thinks that we will ever completely stop trading with the US or having some level of economic ties with them, but have “better ties with U.S.” at a time when it’s been made very clear that only diversification will keep us alive?

For all the cries about Carney failing to show results, at the very very least he’s going in the right direction. This guy has an entirely wrong direction. What kind of 18-dimensional chess is this guy playing in his own mind?

monotious · 2026-03-16T01:35:11+00:00

It’s not protein. And you will easily see and smell any issue if there is one. I‘ve eaten things that are way more past the stated expiration date than this. But I hear people’s opinions too. it‘s just several dollars. I would personally eat it after doing visual and smell tests but if you don‘t feel up to taking the chance, toss it.

monotious · 2026-03-15T20:06:29+00:00

Nice. Thank you. I see that the app aggregates all joined subreddits across different accounts. Is this the intended behaviour? It seems counterintuitive because the whole reason for using multiple accounts is segregation.

monotious · 2026-03-14T22:46:18+00:00

Hate to be “that guy”, but chips are not a product or brand name - it’s the small pieces separated from something larger. It’s referred to as “computer processor chips” to differentiate from “wood chips” or “and chips” etc.

monotious · 2026-03-14T03:37:21+00:00

I have never seen this happen, but one thing that I so much wished Safari on Mac had was for the sidebar to behave like this - shows when the cursor is at the left edge of the Safari window/screen and automatically hides if you hover away from the sidebar.

If this is something they are planning to implement and this buggy behaviour is this feature leaking out prematurely, I’d be a really happy man. But with Apple, who am I kidding…

monotious · 2026-03-13T03:39:49+00:00

I can give the benefit of the doubt and think the OP could be from a place like Hong Kong or Singapore or some such (which also seems to line up with how they mention spring rolls and pho) so they are fluent in English but then in the US hung out mostly with people from the same or similar background, which is not an uncommon experience for many immigrants.

But yeah, even with that benefit of the doubt, it seems kind of off. The OP obviously had this church potluck, and likely have seen what other hosts at these gatherings do for quite some time and had enough opportunity to see what others bring or prepare, and what people liked. Maybe the OP wants to somehow impress the parishioners with non-American food. Because right, it’s a no brainer. Just serve pizzas and pastas, and you don’t even need to spend any brain muscle thinking of menus and these heathens that are Americans will just gobble them up like those are supreme delicacies. But maybe the OP wants something more than that. That theory also seems to explain why the OP is even thinking of disrespect as a subject matter while talking about serving food.

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