Nah the factory in the West Bank was closed about nine years ago. So you’ll be happy to know Palestinians in the West Bank have a longer commute and have to pass through a lot of security checks if they want to work for Sodastream.

So you can buy a Sodastream with a clean conscious. Unless even employing Palestinians is somehow wrong. Which people will find a way to rationalize because everyone knows that people who have a decent job are less likely to fire rockets at Israel, and we want that to continue forever, right?

The country I live in has a leader of a fairly large church as it’s Head of State. It’s been this way going back generations. By the atheist definition, am I living under theocratic rule. It’s certainly more significant that someone simply saying the word “God” from time to time.

Nobody really worries about it. In fact most people probably don’t know who the Head of State is, and if they do, they don’t know he’s the leader of a church. In fact we have religion pushed on us far less than countries that have official separation of church and state.

BTW the Head of State I’m referring to is King Charles III, who is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.

Well the government can break up corporations which results in more competition. They can also enforce standards which also allows more competition. This gives people more options so they can’t just set prices in a monopolistic way.

Unfortunately there’s not much the Canadian government can do about Walmart and Microsoft as they aren’t Canadian companies. And Kamala’s opportunity economy has been cancelled so it doesn’t look there’s going to be any positive change in the US for foreseeable future.

But they could break up Loblaw’s at least.

Well the debate should be over whether the taxes cause things to be expensive or it’s corporate greed causing things to be expensive.

Next time you see one of the ubiquitous Poilievre ads claiming it’s taxes that’s making things unaffordable, think about where the problems actually are.

Given so much you know about the world comes from corporations, how do you determine what’s true and what’s a lie? Just based on your feelings which were formed by social media algorithms?

Sounds like someone that’s not on the right side of history would say. You’re going on the list!

Yeah I was talking about TVs… we are discussing movies after all. Moreover, TVs that the average person has.

There’s a huge jump in quality between the TVs the average person has now compared to 20+ years ago.

Yeah but I’m a little old fashioned so I like to sit on my couch and watch things. And you can get a TV that’s insanely better than anything that existed a decade ago for the price of a good smart phone.

Which of these isn’t real?

• Most of Founding Fathers owned slaves
• Elon Musk treats workers like shit
• The Founding Fathers wrote pretty words about rights and freedoms
• Elon Musk writes words about right and freedoms.
• Founding Fathers were wealthy because of the work done by slaves
• Elon Musk is wealthy because of work done by oppressed people under apartheid

You keep saying I’m divorced from reality, but which of these things do you think isn’t real?

If you want to make an argument against that, you can do that in your head. You seem to be good at making up things you want other people to say, so you don’t need me for your imaginary argument.

The huge improvements in TV screens have a lot to do with it too, I think.

When we only had CRT screens at home it was a big jump in quality to go to the theater. But when you have a 4K screen in your living room, there’s less reason to go to the theater.

Yup, the death of cinema has more to do with inconsiderate assholes and big screen TVs being affordable now.

Sorry to Marty Scorsese, but I’m not going to the cinema to see some septuagenarians talk about a hit they did decades ago for three and a half hours.

It’s internet real…

Somebody really posted that on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shitizdogra_firing-layoffs-job-activity-7271758403717214211-l-FG/

And if you search on LinkedIn for “Ashu Arora Jha” there is an account that looks real.

Whether or not it actually real and not just internet real is anybody’s guess. But it’s not something OP made up anyway.

Good example of why you don’t trust internet “journalism.”

It’s just a rumour until you get confirmation from the AP. People tend to think the mainstream media is hiding things, but it’s usually down to them not publishing unconfirmed rumours while the internet will. And here’s an example of why that is. Many of these things wind up being false. It’s better to hear about what actually happened two days later than spend time forming opinions about what might have happened right now.

Well you did hear it here first. It’s just it wasn’t true.

We actually don’t know what the “right side of history” is because that’ll be decided by historians that aren’t born yet.

It would be forcing people who prefer Ben & Jerry’s to either have vegan ice cream (which may not be their preference) or switch to another brand (which also may not be their preference). What you’re saying is that you want people to have fewer options.

So you don’t believe that George Washington owned slaves? Talk about making up a reality in your head.

You were indoctrinated from a young age to believe in the myth of the Founding Fathers. Everything you heard in school, all the the monuments, the faces printed on your currency all reinforce your beliefs. So I understand that it’s not easy to accept that these guys were the Elon Musks and Donald Trumps of their times. But it’s not some dead slave masters that guarantee your rights. This mentality results in apathy and taking rights for granted which made the US susceptible to fascism. Mythologizing a false past leads to people wanting to go back to that false past.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say MAGA is about wanting to go back to full on slavery, but there is a feeling there that people of certain ethnicities should “know their place”. And people certainly “knew their place” when the Founding Fathers were running things didn’t they?

Which world do you live in? People voted for Donald Trump, a guy who wanted to shoot BLM protestors and says he’ll let Israel do whatever they want.

The edgelord bullshit only makes you popular with people that agree with you. It has demonstrably failed to bring people to the causes you care about.

I am “what have the Romans ever done for us?”