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I think this meme pretty accurately sums up the range of arguments in the right

“Since 1867 no prime minister has abandoned the House of Commons and downgraded its significance for so long a period and for such obviously self-centred and political opportunistic reasons.” - Rex Murphy, March 2021

I realize this might be a shocking idea to the ludicrous left, but a lot of people care more about what's in a person's mind than what skin is on their back. The far left only cares about race, of course, and considers that far more important than anything involving character, education, skill, values or culture.

Texas has the second largest number of cases, the third largest number of deaths and the third lowest vaccination rate in the country. The place is run by morons.

It's always refreshing when a little reality comes and slaps you up side o the head...

Sounds like propaganda produced by clever Communists to sell their evil system. The Communists in the USSR starved millions of people when they collectivized the farms. Communists don't tell you they killed 100 million people in the USSR and China to enforce Communism. They also don't tell you there were massive shortages of goods and infrastructure because supplies, production, transportation and distribution networks were absent. Just ask anyone who lived through that era and had no connections with the party insiders who had what they wanted at the expense of the masses of common folk. You would be fortunate if you could get a potato or piece of bread.

The missionaries arrived on the Great Plains, tried to get the many Indian factions to discard their environmental based religion (Father sky-Mother earth) and believe what the newcomers believed. Strange dudes on strange animals following stars, baby born with out copulation, dead guy rising to live again, baby floating down a river, walking on top of water, splitting the water so you can walk across, etc., etc., the list is long. The earth based 'religion' of the Indians was/is completely applicable to the everyday life on the plains. European religion can be the downfall of any society. My God is tougher than your God . . . . I'll go to war with you just to prove it.

Just to ensure I was not misunderstood, religion has always been a vital part of the human experience. My concern is that too many people are leaving school without a clear understanding of what we are faceing in the coming climate crisis. Math, geography chemistry and physics are the subjects that are most vital to study and develop.

With capitalist economics leading us all to a disaster lately, I've been dusting off my books on Marx and reading more from a growing number of younger socialists who are trying to figure ways out of a range of dilemmas we're all facing today. I don't have an attribution for this, but just recently I heard a claim by a reputable source that it was actually Adam Smith "Wealth of Nations" fame who first created a 'labor theory of value.' The difference of course was that capitalist merchant like Smith would never agree to a system that declares all surplus value belongs to the workers who created it, but apparently Karl Marx himself, read Adam Smith's book in the 1840's and used his theory to develop a socialist form.

I'd say we 'live in interesting times' today for sure. When it comes to which oligarchs actually run government, it's not as simple as the Wall Street commercial banks anymore. The Silicon Valley billionaires and their trillion dollar dotcom bubble machines have swooped in and taken over the Democratic Party over the past 20 years. That's why except for a few mostly inconsequential social agendas, the Dems have thrown their old union members and working class voters over the side, in a rush to curry favor with the new middle class of high tech professionals. While the Republicans still have the oil lobby, but that's about it! They're not even the preferred party of the arms manufacturers anymore. And that is also why every Democrat since Clinton has sounded more and more like a warhawk. Nowadays, if someone is going to run for Congress as an antiwar candidate, they better be libertarian in the Republican Party. Because there's no room for any Democrats who think they're on the left to step out of line on foreign wars and regime change operations...even Bernie has to sign off on it.....to keep his Senate seniority as a non-Democrat Democrat!

At least RT channels do some news coverage. CNN is nothing but one "expert" panel after another of talking heads and spin doctors. They wouldn't recognize a news story if it leaped up and bit them in the face!

There certainly is an undisguised vote-buying aspect of lax immigration policy. I got a close up look at this back in the late 70's, when Canada...under Pierre Trudeau agreed to take in 20,000 of a much larger population of Ugandan refugees, who were forced to leave Uganda by the Idi Amin Gov. at the time. These ethnic Indian and Pakistani Ugandans had made up most of the bureaucratic and business classes in Uganda under the British Empire. So, Amin's play at national and racial identity was to drive out all those were a legacy of the old colonial days. A small factory I was working at in 1977 hired an Indian and a Pakistani, who were about the same age as me at the time, and were part of that emergency exodus from Uganda five years earlier. The subject of federal politics happened to come up one day, and I recall both of them saying they voted for the Libs, even though they weren't happy with Pierre's economic performance at the time. In fact nobody was! It wasn't all the Fed's fault, dealing with an economy in recession from high oil prices (this was at a time when Canada - from Ontario east - depended on imported oil from the Middle East, while the west was swimming in much cheaper Alberta crude). So, late 70's Canada was not a happy place, but there was more hope things would turn around in the future than there is today. My Indian and Pakistani friends had voted for the first time in the prior year and declared that they were "obligated" to vote for Trudeau, because he got them and their families to Canada...case closed! It wouldn't matter what happened with the economy, or what kind of Liberal Prime Minister took over after Trudeau was gone, they and the rest of their families who were voting age, would have to vote Liberal .... just out of loyalty apparently. And I'm sure that example has been repeated many times over the years, and made the difference for the Liberal Party - seen as the most open and accommodating of the three to new Canadians. Can't follow you on this one! How does low wages improve productivity? And how do some nations like Germany have high wages and yet also rank high on these productivity stats? But, I'm further left than the NDP anyway!

1. In your message, I see concepts from the "first vulgar Marxism". But Marx rejected it. In addition, the ideology of building Communism is Marxism-Leninism. Lenin accepted Marx's ideas from Plekhanov, then he developed them .. Therefore, according to Marxism-Leninism: 1. There is "Private property". It would be more correct to say - private ownership of funds production of goods for sale. 2. There is "Personal property" that is necessary for life 3. A person owns personal and private property .... (Contrary to misconceptions, in the USSR you could own both personal and private property!) where is the misunderstanding? Here it is: In the USSR, it was forbidden to create "Surplus value", as it is "exploitation of man by man" ... Example: 1. You are a builder ... you have friends who are builders too .. you create a Company, buy Equipment, Cars, build houses, sell them, pay taxes and make a profit. Then you divide the profit among yourself according to your labor. Was this allowed in the USSR? Yes! called "Artel" ======== 2. You are not a builder .. you have friends who are builders .. you create a Company, buy Equipment, Cars, build houses, sell them, pay taxes and make a profit. Then you pay your friends' salaries and make a profit ... Was this allowed in the USSR? Not! Since, in this case, you create surplus value...

about "freedom and democracy"... 1. One day Rothschild and Rockefeller looked across the Ocean and saw "The Island of America" ... 2. And they said: - we will breed Donkeys and Elephants on this island - we will convince them that they must abide by the "law of the jungle". Winner and Loser - Elephants and Donkeys will swear with each other to make it look like "free speech" - we will prohibit other opinions, as they do not correspond to "freedom and democracy" ... - etc.. 3. Rothschild began to breed Donkeys, Rockefeller - Elephants ... ==== then they tried to offer such "freedom and democracy" to the Russians. But... the Russian Bear just kicked them out. ?

Why would you assume just because someone has a position they are the ultimate "expert" on any given occasion? Further: why would you assume someone else is NOT an "expert" on any particular subject just because they don't work for the government and bear the title? Reality in MANY cases is that only some tiny percentage of ANY profession are actually at the top of their game most of the time. In many cases, taking a government job for a professional is something you do because you can't cut it in the more competitive private sector. Governments - especially Canadian - are famous for putting diversity, inclusivity and other viture signalling attributes far above merit from expertise in filling positions.

Stimulus checks will now go out to fewer people than under Trump.

you cannot make this up, and MSM will not show it to you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GqaurmJSzI

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

1. Why do Canadian banks want votes then ? The part that is missing from this entire conversation, and that makes it feel like an uninformed conspiracy-type conversation is that nobody is talking about the obvious benefits of immigration as identified by conventional economics: increased economic activity. The premise seems to be that there is a fixed economy, and more people means less to go around. That is not how it works. The exception to this view is Argus - perhaps the only critic of immigration I have read on here, or anywhere, who at least appreciates the economic orthodoxy and has a respectable response. The other critic I have read (not on here) is Dr. David Suzuki. So, Argus, this point 1. is not directed at you and - yes - I know and have read and considered your arguments on this already, and have nothing further to add. 2. And yet you seem to think there are no benefits to immigration - that governments are simply embarking on a bad idea to get 'votes'. It's paper thin. They all believe it's better for the economy, Conservatives too. That's why Harper increased immigration along with the rest. If you don't think driving down wages is good for business, then you don't think driving down costs is good for business, then you don't like productivity and you belong in the NDP I guess.

What AOC did was stupid. She just decided that Amazon's jobs had to be done in another state. She didn't do anything to change the way that Amazon does business. What Trump did was necessary. He talked how the playing field between Amazon and regional companies needs to be levelled. I'm sure that you can see the difference. If Trump just said "Move those Amazon jobs to Mexico! We don't want them here!" you'd spot the idiocy right away.

Yeah, yeah, Beave, we know.' Don't believe your lying eyes.' Getting kind of tired, Man. Hey, speaking of tired, did you hear where tired ol' Joe Biden is climbing onto the cancel culture bus to cancel Dr. Seuss? The Cancel Creeps have been busy since Joe took office. They got The Muppets and Mr. Potato Head on their knees and now they've got the Biden regime on board with cancelling Doctor Seuss. https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/dr-seuss-cancels-book-titles Keep it up, Biden dummies. You're losing Generation Z.

It's understandable. Canada, and Canadians are becoming more like the communist Chinese each day.