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There is certainly nothing to discuss if everyone is on ignore.

My analogy works perfectly fine without me needing to live in that area. I care about the ongoing struggle of the Palestinians and the human rights violations committed by Israel for many decades. I can't suddenly turn off my interest and thoughts on the region, because suddenly, in the past few years, there is a really shitty group out there, in another part of the world. Not only that, but another reason I speak up, which you keep missing the point on, is that NO ONE is trying to excuse or legitimize ISIS' actions on this forum. Also, my government is not supporting them either. On the other hand, a handful of people on this forum try to excuse and legitimize Israel's actions and my government continues to back Israel, politically (although, very quietly). Your attempt to try to shut down criticism of Israel has failed on different levels.

People "discuss" things as a form of social interaction. Do you understand what I mean by social interaction? A person does not have to have a lot of information. If we don't discuss anything, then we don't really get to know other people. Sometimes we learn something from someone else that we never thought of. Sharing information and opinion is part of life. I am surprised you don't think discussion is a good idea. If you can't discuss things with people, you may have a hard time in life. It is important to learn to discuss things with people. These forums are a good way to learn.

Can't dislike posts now?? BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

It was a little more than that. It is extremely unlikely that Canadians, or the British for that matter would have gone to war because of a beef between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. The German invasion of Belgium and France had been planned a good 10 years before # Schlieffen Plan, because of what the Germans considered unfinished business from the Franco Prussian War, and before that the Napoleonic Wars and before that, The Seven Years War, etc etc etc. Britain went to war because if its commitment to Belgium's independence, just as it entered WW2 because of Poland. This was consistent with Britain's long standing European foreign policy of backing the weaker side in order to maintain a balance of power in Europe, hopefully to make conflict between European powers less likely and prevent a single power from dominating the continent, be it Louis XIV, Napoleon, particular Russian Czars, Wilhelm II or Hitler. Which would of course present a threat to Britain. The EU came about because of a desire never to do that again. It certainly has its faults but I don't understand why so many people dislike the idea behind it.

WW1 was a useless war and only lead to an even worse war. Doesn't take away the fact that Canadians acted bravely in winning a battle that many others thought was impossible.

It can get even worse, with the lefties and progressives spitting on you while in uniform. Thank you for your service...enjoy a much deserved retirement.

If you look at the raw numbers, and considering that China is well over a Billion people now. The raw percentage of Chinese immigration since 1850 is still absolutely tiny compared to European nations. What helped boost European immigration to the US specifically was the 270 million acres of homesteading land given away completely free to white races after they broke away from British rule. About 9 million square kilometers in Canada is still considered crown land, and although some was subdivided fairly early for British farmers, it to this day - is largely unused and owned by no private parties. This has limited even European immigration to Canada - we never had a free land giveaway like the US did.

They can talk all they want but it'll mean squat until humanity finally demands that aiding and abetting a dictatorship is a far worse crime against ourselves than Sarin gas. Syria along with most of its neighbours are perfect examples of why dictatorships are such awful and perhaps the worst weapon any group of humans can deploy against another to further their own interests.

Unfortunately for people that join the military they have been brainwashed and conditioned in to believing that they are going off to war to fight for freedom. Well, here in Canada we are losing our freedom slowly but surely. These people go off to war to fight for the globalists/corporations who make billions off of war while the soldiers come home injured or dead. There really is no glory in being in the military. The world has had two world wars and numerous other smaller wars, and there is still no peace in the world. H. Kissinger once said that military men "are dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy". What more needs to be said about joining the military.

Lies. I got assaulted once and suffered a concussion. No military came to my aid then. Then you didn't do a very good job of it since we don't even have freedom of speech in Canada.

No, it gets really boring waiting for stupid conservatives to wake up to what lefties are saying. Progress will always remain an unnecessarily laborious task so long as they insist on kicking and screaming against it every inch of the way. Perhaps the way to speed up the process is to let them co-opt all the good ideas and live with the illusion they came up with them.

More like the other way around I think. It's the politicians who make the idiot decisions that result in these messes.

If they bring in a lot of low-skilled workers willing to work slave hours, a contractor will simply hire them and lay off Canadian workers. Why would he waste time with Canadian workers if he can get slave labour willing to work 14 or 16 hours a day. A contractor can make much more money with slave labour.

Because this topic has been dealt with here many times and you are very late to the game. Other posers have been much more clever. "Nano thermite" is very easy to mock and laugh at. Please try harder.....

From where I'm sitting now it looks like I'll be just getting out of debt when I hit retirement age. Between resource depletion, economic mismanagement the resulting financial hangover of these and meeting some oft-times complicated needs of my family I plan on having to work past retirement age and putting it off as long as possible, hopefully at the same job I love doing right now. Working till I nearly drop, my wife's CPP, plus rental income should be enough. I'm mostly worried about ageism and the anger of future generations who come to realize how much has been squandered and lost. I just hope the term "I wasn't no senator's son" still means something. To me, investing for the future should definitely involve trying to make things right between the ages as opposed to just assembling as big a stack as possible. It would sure be nice if we could leave a better system of governance behind. I definitely think the biggest threat to everyone's future well being is the governance we've got because there is just too much that is being rendered unsustainable by it. i.e. Pensions, resources, natural capital and above all else, social capital.

I see it as the end of the Caucasian race in Canada because we all should know by now that all those TFW's will be imported in from non-white countries, and it will be keeping the white people on UI or the welfare rolls because the corporations will want cheap labor. More immigrants means more assault on our social, traffic, medical, environment and infrastructure. I heard the other day Christie Clark say that there will be approx. 130,000 being born in BC. What about the other provinces? Add that up and we can easily see that immigration is something Canada doesn't need all that much. Adding another 300,000 to the mix is just creating more problems. But who cares, eh? We must not seen as being anti-immigration these days. Just keep bringing in more and add to the chaos and havoc. So, too those pro more immigration liberals out there, don't whine and cry when you have to wait for surgery or it takes hours to get home or home prices and rents go up. You want and asked for it, well you got it. Now live with it, and go sit down, and be quiet.

The analogy would only work if you lived in the first neighborhood. If, however, you lived in another city, and this second, much worse group, had been operating for many years and you ignored them and continued to focus on the first, people would wonder why. Unless of course, you have personal involvement in that neighborhood. And even then it's a false analogy since there are lots of gangs in that neighborhood and all of them are worse than then one that you are obsessed with. They simply lack the power to project their brutality as they would wish. You miss the point. There have been a few cases where the IDF used ARABS as shields from attack. Do you comprehend the difference in using your own people to shield you from an enemy and using the enemy's people to shield you? Hamas if showing explicitly, that they know Israel doesn't want to harm civilians. Even ENEMY civilians. Hamas, of course, has no such concerns, even about THEIR OWN civilians.