You know they’re full shit, they know they’re full of shit.
It doesn’t matter much, it’s the cognitive dissonance hitting her like a train wreck.

Different people will use different ways to resolve cognitive dissonance by trying to create some sort of internal consistency.

1. Denial: (we’re here 👋 )
   Deny ever supporting him or his policies even though she literally did.

2. Rationalization:
   Argue she was misled, she never believed he’d take such drastic (yet promised) actions.

3. Alter perception:
   Convince herself he’s not really a fascist and it’s necessary for some poorly defined greater good

4. Selective exposure
   Seek out info that aligns with her current view, dismiss anything that contradicts.

I mean it all sucks, but I’d rather deal with people doing #1 or #2 than the other forms of doubling down. 🤷

Build your enemy a golden bridge to retreat across and all that.

Aye, 12 hands, representing the 6 agencies.

Good. If you’re gonna produce oil, it might as well be going elsewhere than the US.
Ideally, I’d rather the planet consume less of it and minimize its transport and potential leaks and spills, but not dealing with the US is a sound option. Unless the overseas buyer is another fascist shitshow.

LPT: Maybe don’t start comments with “Go fuck yourself”, people might take you more seriously or be more receptive.
🤷

I can’t wrap my head around a service being so much shit but people still forking some cash to them.
I know for a company, $1000 is change but still.
$1000 for a glorified support ticket that gets auto-closed by some AI is fucking bullshit.

Even now, he seems to question the targets of the boot more than the existence and eagerness of boot itself.
Like, he’s pro-oppression, but doesn’t wanna be oppressed.
A little steps for boot lovers, however how small, I guess.

You might have received one but we usually delete them pretty quickly. We’re either doing an ok job at fighting spam, or I’m keeping her to myself.

Imagine Support that sucks so much that you end up paying $1000 a month for premium support, only to still have to basically social engineering your way back into your account by messaging random employees.

My uninformed guess is the person posting this is NOT the person in the picture.
Most likely, it’s some weirdo’s bizarre roundabout way of harassing whoever’s picture this is.

And then all of them are “Nicole”.

By all means, eat the rich, but cook it well done, it’s full of brain worms and ketamine and other vile stuff you probably shouldn’t be eating.

I’m a little torn as to whether I should support my favorite Canadian brands or avoid them since the tariffs are going to be funneling money to the trump administration.

Come drink it at my house then.
That way you’re not crossing the border with any bottles, just your stomach contents which isn’t subject to import tariffs.
Unless you somehow get the whole bottle in there which would become smuggling.

Dear Mr. Daniel,
I’m sorry that a store pulling things from their shelves is hurting your business, but I thought you should know that this is not even the tip of the iceberg.
Regardless of what any store does, I will simply not be buying Jack Daniel’s, probably ever, along with a slew of other things, as many as I possibly can.

There are so many better whiskeys around the world that I certainly don’t need to.
I empathize with the collateral damage this may cause, and hope that something, anything really, is eventually enough for y’all fuckers to start thinking about getting your shit together.
In the meantime, I will simply Buy Anything But American.

I am just one person, but I am not alone.
Sincerely,
Fix your shit or get fucked,
A random Canadian

Even if running a government like a business was a good idea, putting in charge a conman that managed to bankrupt a fucking casino is well beyond dumb.

What username are you trying with on lemmy.world?

Fallout universe science, silver linings, or lead.

2025: Buying Anything But American

This.
I’m not mad about USAmericans not standing up for Canada specifically.
I’m fucking mad at them for not standing up against literally anything else.
That they don’t care to defend Canada is whatever, but they don’t even care enough to defend themselves.

Forget about Canada, just stand up for your own fucking selves and we’ll be fine.

I don’t know about a Canadian alternative, but PrestaShop is French, headquartered in France.
I haven’t had the time to dig too much into it, but it at also seems open source.
I imagine they might have something extra to sell on top of that for revenue.

I have no experience with it whatsoever but it seemed worth a second look.

Your examples seem vaguely related to home automation, so maybe they’re already in Home Assistant.
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/

It has a bunch of sensors and media related integrations. You can also add custom REST API queries.