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The tally for October is old white guys 59, NY muslims 8. Still seems like a landslide for the home team. When the number of murders by immigrants starts to approach those of natural-borns then you might admit a problem there.

"Providing proof/evidence that supports the US 911 Conspiracy Theory" now closed to father replies. Just wondering who did it and why.

So, if you have a rat in your house the solution isn't to get rid of the rat, it's "oh well, lets get more rats".

"Trudeau" and "thinkging" is an oxymoron (with the emphasis on "MORON")

He got caught red-handed in terrorist activities in Aghanistan and hauled off to Guantanamo and apparently "Canada" didn't save him from Guantanamo. Here's an idea - maybe if you don't get involved with terrorists, you won't get hauled off to Guantanamo.

He was given 10.5m and a apology from all of us. For what? Killing americans and canadians?

Yes, I've heard your ideas on souveillance and body-cams. Personally, I think its a good idea. You can count me in for the vote on whether that should be a thing when you've got the referendum on it organized. Unfortunately, the probability of something like that becoming reality seems rather slim. Rather, Western governments are increasingly clamping down on personal freedoms and privacy, while government officials, both elected and appointed, seem to become ever more corrupt and incompetent, and the mechanisms that are supposed to hold them accountable are increasingly failing in their duties. I think essentially all governments of all advanced countries are converging towards roughly the form of government that China has now: massive surveillance, censorship, government control, and corruption taking up over 50% of economic output, but a rejection on the part of government officials of wanton slaughter of millions of their own citizens to achieve their ends. Basically, dictatorship but with the understanding that mass murder and genocide of your own people isn't a great idea. With the way things are going, that's probably the best we can aspire to. People in dictatorships are no more responsible for the actions of their government than people in democracies are. They have no power to influence the course of their government affairs, and neither, realistically, do we. Democratic governments respond to the will of the masses only in the crudest ways and usually only on hot-button emotional issues rather than anything of substance. I can't speak for what you may have heard from "right-wing conservatives". I hate those guys just much as I hate "left-wing liberals".

There it is. People in power are easily bought off by large amounts of money and perks. Disgusting humans all over the place.

Yeah then we have apologists for Saudi Arabia, because they are an 'ally'. Shows the hypocrisy of many posters here. One terrorist is better than another, One rapist is better than another, one murderer is better than the other. Both committing the same crimes, but one gets a free pass. Does not look good on our leadership in government.

So no problem then? One terrorist nation is ok over another terrorist nation? I thought the US was there to FIGHT terrorism, not help export it.

Saudi Arabia gets its pass, because it's multi-generational dictatorship is smart enough to line the pockets of the ruling elites around the world, thus allowing them to hunt down and kill dissenters (aka terrorists), have an appalling human rights record when it comes to women and gays, and forego the pretense of democracy. And it's a fair point that it's not just the US. Europe, Canada and others are just as complicit.

So that gives them a free pass on exporting terrorism? While others do not. Iraq was a relatively stable oil producing nation. Look what happened to them based on many false allegations.

Why does Saudi Arabia get a pass, while Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and others got pummeled into the ground? Who signed off on this?

It's the inconsistency in how the US applies 'regime change' in certain Muslim nations, but then cozies up to one of the largest exporter of terrorism on the planet (Saudi Arabia).

At the same time, when you see violent attacks by planes, drones, helicopters and other weapons, where more innocent people have been killed, the usual culprits is the West. Just because collateral damage has been normalized in the West, it doesn't mean that it's okay or not part of the equation. Have you ever thought that perhaps, the brother, sister, cousin, friend of the person who was killed or maimed is not looking for vengeance and this is the only way they're able to fulfill this.

As I said, I'm not venturing into the Israeli/Palestinian 'debate' as I don't want to take on five hundred Israeli apologists all armed with the same talking points.

Most of it is far less than mediocre, so may as well vertically integrate for a larger share of the ticket/subscription revenue. Canada just wants Netflix to keep contributing to a cancon pool of money that guarantees far worse than mediocre. So much content....so much crap.