The Carly Rae Jepsen photo really highlights how Canadians are always 15-20 years behind everyone else
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ALT A bedroom closet with an open doorway draped with a Canadian flag, a laundry basket in the foreground, and a backpack covered in political buttons hanging on the wall.
ALT A desk setup with a MacBook covered in political and pride stickers next to a Detroit Red Wings mug filled with pens and miniature Canadian flags.
ALT A light blue wall featuring a wall-mounted shelf holding an ASUS ROG Ally retail box and a Carly Rae Jepsen poster, situated above a Chris Borgia NDP sign.
ALT A close-up view of a Durham College backpack covered in political pins hanging on a wall hook next to a hat, a white Ontario Tech University baseball cap, and jackets on a door rack.
So Grok will literally not generate an answer just to run up your 24 free uses for the day? What the fuck is up with this garbage?
Why is she the Trump of film journalism
I can't state enough that if Grace Randolph is the voice of reason, somebody dun fucked up. #Clayface
Ironically true about women, but never highlighted because that hurts women’s feelings
We are living in a world that exists at the mercy of Europe’s image control. Everything needs to be defined (or redefined) so that Europe can set the “developed standard”, and if they’re less developed, that becomes the developed, superior standard.
Blistering record heat in Europe this summer killed more than 50,000 people, with nearly two-thirds of that death toll blamed on human-caused climate change, a new study found. abcnews.link/EUhX7dR
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On the morning of October 23, 1983, a suicide bombing carried out by Iran-backed Hezbollah destroyed the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 299 people. The casualties included 241 U.S. Marines and Sailors, representing the Marine Corps' highest single-day loss of life since the Battle of Iwo Jima.
WE NEVER FORGET! 🇺🇸
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On Saturday, the Desert Shield and Desert Storm Memorial opens in Washington, D.C., honoring the courage and sacrifice of American servicemembers who answered the call to defend freedom and helped liberate Kuwait.
Their service will never be forgotten.
ALT Close-up of a stone sculpture featuring a detailed airplane and two smaller aircraft in flight.
ALT Memorial wall inscribed with 'To honor the service and the sacrifice' dedicated to Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm, surrounded by green trees.
ALT Close-up of a metallic eagle sculpture head against a clear blue sky, highlighting detailed feathers and sharp beak.
The country with Pakistani grooming gangs being allowed to rape children and turn them into sandwich meat wants to assert that American children are more in danger of sexual assault based entirely on his deranged conspiracies about Trump.
Europeans are so fucking deluded
How bout you get rid of them
I can’t believe I’m seeing articles like this because, as a child without many biased notions of the world and other cultures yet, it was apparent that Europe was much poorer and less developed when I visited in 2008.
An American child seeing Europe for the first time is probably going to note the lack of climate control, the pay toilets, the graffiti and bad odors and old buildings stacked higgledy-piggledy and cramped interiors and limited consumer variety and think “poor”. Come on people
Notice how this guy constantly subverts what it means to be a rich country, and also creates a list of inserted opinions and words like “walkable” that he’s given their own nebulous meaning in order to make his “America bad” claim impossible to be argued with…
Achieving the quality of life afforded to middle- or working-class people in Europe or Japan in the United States is very expensive. I'm talking about the ability to live somewhere safe, walkable, next to a park and supermarket, with a few cafes and bakeries serving appetizing stuff, and clean public transport. Tract housing in subdivisions is no longer aspirational for UMC Americans.
The outrageousness of the claim and the generalizations involved cap it all off. Europe and Japan are generally poorer and less developed than the U.S., and the only way you could claim it’s harder to find all of the things he lists in the U.S. is if you’re using any limitations-
Obviously BS when it turns around to looping America into some kind of colonialist effort but for Europe, it makes sense
“Africa”
A good rule of history: if you find yourself opposing a student movement while siding with the ruling class, you're wrong. Every time, in every era, whatever the issue.
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Student movements have not always been on the right side of history. Mao's student Red Guards persecuted hundreds of thousands. Students helped Castro and Khomeini rise to power, and Nazi student groups opposed the Weimar Republic.
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One of the most sickening aspects of modern culture is women talking, acting, and posturing like the most boorish of men.
A nice old building burns, and so the pearl-clutching begins. Where were these pearl clutchers when austerity was wrecking a generation? Why does one town hall grab their attention but millions of schools, hospitals, and homes dilapidated by neoliberalism are of no importance?
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France's level of public social spending was third highest in the world at 30.6% of GDP in 2024. Excluding the pandemic, it is slightly down from its 31.9% high in 2014. Total public spending is 57.2%, second highest among large countries not at war and near all-time highs.
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