My decision to buy a top end card for my 2019 base build PC in Q4 2025, Quickly spiraled into a panic buy of a full stack of new computer parts.

I calculated it last night. I spent about $4000 CAD in 2019 on my build then, which was high end for the time (tack on another 3000 or so in upgrades through its life, 16>32 RAM then switching it out for 64gb, 2070 > 3080 > 5080, and at least one SSD addition)

I havent even built it yet and I’ve spent like 6800 CAD on my next PC, I didnt plan on making the switch until Q4 2026 when my ESU Windows 10 expired but the rampocalypse and everything-pocalypse has forced my hand into buying now at bad prices, instead of buying later at worse.

I wouldnt have even lifted a finger if It wasn’t for the fact that my machine is so old, its stable but for how long?

the WWF connection is real. Trump has been a close ally of the McMahon family for decades and he was breifly involved with the show directley a couple of times . The way he runs conferences, talks to people, etc, is very similar to how things get scripted on the WWF/WWE

you dont get battle lines until there’s been a few years of mass killings on both sides, before Regime Loyalist and Opposition “states” or lines solidify.

I’m Canadian.

My interests are in protecting my own home, friends and family from getting stabbed in the back from our supposed brothers. Its up to you to sort your own obsession with fascists out.

The MAGA administration is setting things up so that they can never lose power again, a’la a coup. (Or I guess they call it a reverse coup?) the rubicon may have already been crossed and you may have to shoot your way out of it

Im not holding any faith that it changes. the whole point of moves that fascists make, is that by the time you realize you have to fight, its already fait accompli, checkmate, already too late.

Ive got just one question for you Scott.

what came first

Ranch, or Cool Ranch?

thats the crux of the problem.

we are NOT the same country. we have similar culture and values, similar, but not the same.

there are some things that Canadians firmly choose the Red door on, where Americans chose the Blue door.

those fundemental differences is what makes us a seperate country. there are many things we are on the same page of, but there are many things we might as well be cats and dogs on as well.

we’ve only lost faith in most of you

the sad thing about Rogan is he was a naive and dumb guy who was upfront and honest about being a dumb and naive guy. it was endearing and genuine for a while.

now after 10 years of him saying dumb shit, and other dumb people egging him on, he actually thought he was a smart guy for a while.

Sweeney has Steam living rent free in his head. Whining about Monopoly

Meanwhile, Epic Games already has something resembling a monopoly with the unreal engine, its buggy and resource hungry as fuck, and just seems to be getting worse. Necessitating an arms race of computer upgrades just to run the newest games on their obtuse engine thats being used for everything now. Epic certainly isnt doing anything about it. Its just a money printer for Tim’s legal battles.

Toyota CHR was a certified peice of shit.

and I say this as I post from work at a Toyota Dealer.

apparentley they’re bringing it back as either an EV or a plugin EV like the Rav Prime.

Honda is bending to Maga too.

Honda, GM and Chrysler have all cancelled plans of opening / expanding Factories in Canada, some that were already subsidied by the local governments, in favor of caving to US demands of returning manufacturing there instead.

CEOs like you’re talking about, they dont drive.

the only time they’ll step behind the wheel of a car is for a pleasure cruise in some multi million dollar supercar on a track, or a closed / private road.

Musk also has a private army of security contractors (and someone like him probably has mercenaries off killing people in other countries too)

he’s far too much trouble to go after, if you’re DHS, regardless if you’re Trump DHS or Democrat DHS. someone like that is ungovernable.

You dont have to look back very far to determine how this started on a low level, this is just aggresive inaappropriate counter-culture , 4chan internet troll, basement dwelling shitheel behaivor from the 90s and 00s but carried over into adult life

Contrarians will always be contrary, so I guess being contrary to a boring “regime” that didnt particularly say or do anything except for ask for generic human rights for everyone, means cosplaying as the most offensive thing you can think of because it makes them mad, Cosplaying as Nazis and even doing the same thing the Nazis did with randomly and incorrectly co-opting norse iconography.

Fair enough, then its even more epic.

I was never raised Christian due to my family being a mix of Catholics and Protestants who had all mostly given up on church going cept forbguberals and weddings…

The only exposure I ever gad to the Bible was reading comics of a Lego rendition of it called the brick testament. (Its actually creatively genius)

You’ve basically described everything i remember about it to a T

Yes, Tankies bad. Tankies and Fascists can be bad at the same time.

The worst part is a lot of Tankies are carrying water for Fascists, (Russia) and dont even realize it because they’re blinded by hating America or loving some fictional version of Russia that hasnt existed for 40 years (or arguably, ever)

the Military command is already aware that it’s basically in a de-facto war with Russia and it will likely be with China in the next 10 years or less too. hell things with Russia could kick off for the worse any day.

and people like Kegsbreath are essentially trying to pivot the Military into fighting the Culture War, instead of fighting the real war thats starting to unfold.

No, but theres now a nonzero chance there’s a Military coup against Trump,

the vast majority of the people in that Quantico gathering, are probably keenly aware that America is already more or less locked into a state of conflict with Russia and China, the war is already on and its just getting more kinetic as the months pass.

and then this coked out fuckwit brings them all together just to tell them he wants them to take their eyes off Americas actual enemies, the Russian Mafia State, the CCP, Iran, North Korea, etc. and to divide their attention to help stomp on what is essentially culture war enemies of the conservatives.

when you’re already in the opening stages of WW3, Your enemies arent liberals or conservatives, educated and intelligent people especially those who are senior officers in the military dont think along those lines. this is just a radical civilian government asking the warfighting people to point their guns trained on the Russians and Chinese, and turn them around and point them at political opponents.

Trump’s gang is essentially trying to do what Putin did in the 90s, and I dont think anyone in the command of the military is keen to actually put a Molotov to the country, unlike the Sycophants who all they do is talk to cameras and shitpost on twitter all day.