canada has far more to offer the world, artistically, than shitty pop music for 12 year-olds. good riddance to them.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2026
i'm not particularly well versed in contemporary children's music, but from what i can gather, tate mcrae fucking sucks. and everybody knows that justin bieber is the world's biggest loser. this is bad music, for lame audiences.
but what that means is that this type of music is dragging around the cultural reality that, within it's own precepts, canada is deeply uncool and it's deeply uncool because of the liberal party. what would the newsradio electrician guy think?
canada's phony liberal facade may not be very real, but it also makes it exceedingly unpopular amongst a certain demographic of absolute losers in both canada and the united states, and it is exactly that demographic of absolute losers that both bieber and mcrae are trying to sell media to. this is a complete reversal of the pop culture norms from 1960-2020, or so, where being liberal was cool and being conservative was lame. as a direct consequence of liberal governments shutting down the economy in the pandemic, that completely reversed over 2020-2025. today, conservatives are cool and liberals are lame. it's not exactly evidence based (here in ontario, it was the conservative doug ford government that shut everything down, and not trudeau), but it's the public perception. the trudeau-biden axis ate the unpopularity of these restrictions amongst young people like a pie in the face and took the entire capitalist left down with it. it could be generations before it flips back.
this isn't a temporary annoyance. this is a permanent spectrum reversal, and liberals are still struggling with trying to realize it exists.
if the junos want to attract these shitty performers, who are not artists but do turn over a lot of capital, they should stop inviting liberal politicians to the show. bieber's pr people would consider the idea of being seen in public with any kind of liberal politician for any reason to be career suicide. liberals are uncool and canada is even more uncool because canada is liberal.
but i might question that. why do the junos want to attract shitty performances by non-artist losers like tate mcrae and justin bieber? this is an awards show. perhaps they ought to stop trying to be cool and start focusing on real artists that deserve recognition, instead.
canada was at it's best culturally when it cultivated an idiosyncratic form of alternative music that was canadian in character, and has struggled to remain relevant since it began to produce artless commodities stamped as "music" for the american market.
this is not what's going to happen.
what's going to happen is that consumers will switch to using couriers to delver everything, and these mailboxes will end up overflowing with flyers, as nobody bothers to go check them. canada post will, as a result, post even worse losses than it's posting now.
as a receiver, i'm not going to check the mailbox at all. it will just fill up with junk mail until there's no space left to put more junk in it.
further, as a consumer, there is no possibility that i'm going to send mail via canada post, knowing it's going to end up in one of these communal boxes. i will use fed ex or sendle instead, to ensure the package is delivered directly.
if canada post wants to survive, it needs to be increasing home delivery, not eliminating it.
this will completely destroy them.
as a taxpayer and a citizen, i don't expect canada post to be profitable, but i do expect it to be functional. i would rather they abolish canada post altogether than move to community mailboxes, and expect that they will very shortly, if they do this.
nobody is going to send anything using this system, and taxpayers shouldn't be funding it. it's not an acceptable compromise to save money, it's sheer stupidity that makes the concept of a post office irrelevant and useless.
Officials from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain have conveyed in private conversations that they do not want the military operation to end until there are significant changes in the Iranian leadership or there’s a dramatic shift in Iranian behavior, according to the officials, who spoke to AP on Tuesday on condition of anonymity.
that's logical. and they're going to need to put together a regional counter-terrorism operation, including arab soldiers, to help the israelis get the job done, which they should have done decades ago, and which should have been ready to go when this started.
further, if the turks will not drop their opposition to a kurdish operation, they should be told to do it themselves. trump apparently likes to ride erdogan's dick or something. but somebody else in the united states military is going to have to call the turks and tell them to make a choice - either get out of the way and let the kurds do it or mobilize and do it yourselves.
nobody cares about "territorial sovereignty". that's an obsolete 20th century idea. we're in the middle of a civilizational struggle against terrorism, and carney is still stuck in the cold war. it's a complete embarrassment.
canada should be helping israel and lebanon work together to defeat hezbollah, not talking to itself in the mirror as it dreams about trying to bring back the 20th century.
i condemn my government's inaction and backwardsness.
the current president of iran was not replaced in the current round of bombing, he was elected after the previous president was killed in a suspicious plane crash.
maybe the world should start to feel some level of pity for donald trump. he's been waiting for 40 years to finally make a deal with iran, and iran doesn't want to make a deal with him. in the process, trump's entire concept of existence is being pulled out from under him. he's watching himself fail in the mirror.
i have a suggestion to donald trump: hang yourself in the oval office. just end it all.
i have no interest in the well being of donald trump.
my interest is in doing this properly, and this utter dumbass isn't going to figure it out.
he launched a war he didn't want to fight and he can't be allowed to walk away. there's no undo button. somebody else has to come in and clean this up.
i find it baffling that humans continue over and over again to blame their own defects on technology and repeatedly think that stifling or banning the technology will take them back to a simpler time that existed, before they were corrupted by it.
this is boiler plate conservative bullshit. you expect them to seek the make believe better past. you want to punch liberals that fall for that nonsense in the fucking face.
the simpler time never existed. it's a myth. some kids killed themselves before social media, and there will be kids killing themselves after a social media ban. it has no relevance on the causes. being a teenager comes with shifts in hormones and a need to accept rapid change. some percentage can't do it.
you will never succeed in shielding children from reality, you need to teach them how to cope with it, and you have to begin with the starting point that life is shit and coping sucks, and they'll have to figure out how to deal with it. some percentage won't figure it out.
there's no solution to this problem.
the iranians are just targeting what they see as competition at this point.
trump is right to be annoyed with europe, but the europeans are not the ones being targeted by terrorist attacks.
i said on day one that this is the arabs' war, and they're the ones that are going to need to fight it. if the americans won't do it because the europeans won't, which is the logic of a child, the arabs are going to have to just do it themselves.
the more iran hits the gulf, the more the gulf needs to focus on regime change in iran.
let us not forget that the actual reason that the americans invaded iraq was not 9/11 and not wmd and not democracy but because the saudis wanted the baath party dismantled.
trump's idiocy may get the best of him, but that's just postponing the inevitable. it's over for iran. iran's days are numbered.
they should have immediately blockaded the strait of hormuz from day one and they should have had the kurds ready to go in from the north and an arab force ready to go in from the south before the bombing even started.
they didn't do that because trump wanted to negotiate and 'make a deal' to sell his book, because he's a retard with no understanding of what he's dealing with - the depraved irrationality of religious belief and faith in it's most extreme form possible.
trump's punishment for his stupidity should be assassination.
and the americans need to get this done without him and immediately get to wiping the mullahs off the map.
i've been clear that i think the united states should blockade the strait of hormuz.
but if the americans create this mess and walk away from it, they're walking right into the trap set by conservative media, and i don't want to listen to that.
the united states will not recover from what appears to be a humiliating defeat, but is in truth the whims of an incompetent president trying to sell a book for self-promotion and individual gain. this is when the cia needs to step in and force regime change in washington to get this war won, before it's too late.
"Every day that the war is ongoing is adding a huge amount to the public debt," Savell tells me.
well, if they'd stop fucking around and quit wasting their time trying to negotiate a deal with irrational people and just go in there and dismantle the regime, they wouldn't be wasting so much money.
if trump refuses to pull the trigger on this war, the deep state needs to pull the trigger on him, instead. this is a catastrophe of indecision in a scenario that needed swift thinking and decisive leadership. trump's new nickname should be mr. dithers.
they can't let the retard just create this mess and walk away from it.
this is the best case for assassination the us has seen since jfk.
take the dipshit out.