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Cake day: May 1st, 2025

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  • What do you know, I was severely downvoted for pointing this out in a post the other day. The Canadian boycott is failing, if not more likely it’s already officially failed. American private equity has fully bought Canada. Canadian’s are still investing en-masse into the S&P500 and are in love with American services like social media, tech devices, digital infrastructure, etc. Canadians have no problem with Carney’s conflict of interest as Brookfield is the fourth biggest company in Canada by market cap (he has millions invested in the real estate cookie jar) and seven out of the top ten companies in Canada are banks and private equity. Canada is finished, there is no economy, and there certainly won’t ever be one at this rate.


















  • From the wiki: “By the 1930s, muckraking journalists, consumer protection organizations, and federal regulators began mounting a campaign for stronger regulatory authority by publicizing a list of injurious products which had been ruled permissible under the 1906 law, including radioactive beverages, the mascara Lash lure, which caused blindness, and worthless “cures” for diabetes and tuberculosis. The resulting proposed law was unable to get through Congress for five years, but was rapidly enacted into law following the public outcry over the 1937 Elixir Sulfanilamide tragedy, in which over 100 people died after using a drug formulated with a toxic, untested solvent.”

    I believe I’ve heard that the FDA was actually beneficial for capitalism as consumers would entirely avoid certain products out of fear, making it difficult to sell even legitimate goods.