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So dude posts this:

I've done a pretty good job of eliminating most American products from my life, but a few have slipped back in or maybe were missed, this just strengthens my resolve and I will do another review of everything I do.

I've discovered lots of great Canadian products, hardbite chips, Tough duck clothing, all sorts of alchohol, Presidents choice products are surprisingly good all around. Coke is the only tricky one for us, but atleast it's canned in Canada and is more of an international brand now.

Where he lists a half dozen things hes shifting to buy Canadian, and also that he is constantly thinking and trying to shift the rest of his purchasing to Canada.

After reading that, you think a half dozen comments about soda pop and then this bat shit line:

But I think we're proper fucked if that is anything resembling most Canadians' willingness to sacrifice anything

Is somehow justified?

Zeolatry isn't an argument, my dude. You come off as maniacal when youre attacking someone who is 99% onboard with your platform already. I fully support slapping the fuck out of the US here, but you've gone round and then off the bend, mate.

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Its a coke, buddy. Chill.

The dude has clearly already made huge, direct changes to his purchasing to cut out American products. He got 99% of the way there.

No need to shame him with "buying a coke means you dont want a sovereign Canada" type rhetoric because it just makes you and your goal look ridiculous. It reads like "you used a plastic straw so you want to watch the earth burn" level of wacky.

Take the win you already have on this one.

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GameRant Using AI to slander

Gamerant is owned by Valent, which bought out and owns all the following:

Android Police, Comic Book Resources, Collider, Hardcore Gamer, MovieWeb, OpenCritic, Screen Rant, Game Rant, DualShockers, TheGamer, XDA Developers, How-To Geek, GiveMeSport, And Polygon

All of the above, and I mean all of them, had huge layoffs and pivoted to AI articles and adhoc underpaid contractors:

previous and current Valnet employees claim the company prioritizes "mass quantity over quality to churn out mind-numbing SEO bait." Once websites are acquired by Valnet, the permanent staff are usually replaced by contractors, who are paid significantly less (reportedly around $19 for 1000 words at GameRant[3]) than the former tenured staff. One former contributor described Valnet website Collider to TheWrap as "a content mill, borderline like almost sweatshop-level", while another writer suggested that Valnet forced contractors to create "junky clickbait" content. Valnet writers who complain about payment, working conditions, or reveal payment rates are alleged to be blacklisted by the company

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Him brashly showing naked pictures of her to people in front of her was sexual assault, meant to damage her mind/emotions/social connections.

Why are you only interested in the damage done to his body, and not the damage done to her life?

Why is her "option of last resort" use of violence not okay when ever other attempt failed to protect her? How else can she protect herself when literally everyone else refused to?

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Its a common phrase for an exceptional mind. Its not meant to be taken purely literally becsuse its untestable, but generally remarked upon in hindsight.

You can argue Newton fit the bill even though Liebniz was a peer of his. Einstein and Oppenheimer, etc.

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He also got his pension for life after being hired back for 1 month and retiring medically for "PTSD."

Murdering Daniel was so tramatic he requested they give him back the murder weapon, his personal AR-15 with "youre fucked" engraved under the safety.

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It was the most wishlisted game on steam ever, priced at a very reasonable $20, and it released today after a 6 year wait with almost no press before the last couple of weeks. All the press it did receive was about how the devs were just having a good time, which was insanely endearing.

It's basically the ultimate indie darling at this point. I 100% believe it could crash all the platforms above.