Tom Cruise is just Tom Cruise to me, I never feel like he disappears into any kind of role - he’s just Tom Cruise pretending to be someone else who happens to look and act similarly to Tom Cruise.

With one exception, that being Les Grossman from Tropic Thunder 😆

Democracy is good when it can’t be completely subverted by a couple of rich international oligarchs spending billions of dollars in a dedicated mass media campaign over a period of decades that beams a literal firehose of lies, half-truths, and the glazing of any person/organization that willingly assists them and does everything in their power to destroy and denigrate anything that even comes close to undermining them at the cost of factual reality directly into the eyeballs of anyone who owns a screen…

But other than that democracy is generally preferred, yes.

He’s a pretty standard neoliberal but he’s fairly straightforward about it I suppose. He’s better than PP but that’s not a high bar at all.

At this point, people in Canada are scared of the Conservatives just bending over for Trump (myself included), so right now there’s a surge in polling for the Liberals, which I think would still be there if they ran a ham sandwich, nevermind Mark Carney.

More centrist people probably like the guy more. Whether he will beat the Conservatives? I don’t know anything anymore in North America. Canada has its fair share of right wing grifters and nutjobs.

When I was 10 my dad committed suicide and my grandparents told me we’d never be able to see him in heaven. Pretty much broke my little brain for awhile trying to understand how a just and loving God could separate a young boy from his father for eternity.

Never could, and now I’m a proud atheist disappointment to my grandparents.