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Some conspiracies might be true. There's been all sorts of false flags to start wars throughout history. The problem is the layman getting good evidence on theories. Things kept behind the scenes will often be kept there. The bigger problem is not going nutty from paranoia buying into all this stuff when you can't prove a lot of it. Following politics is almost a fools errand. We don't know what's real, and we can't change policies anyways so WTF is the point? We get a vote every few years and that's it. We are all useful idiots, sad to say. We'll be controlled by someone one way or another, it's always been the case. Democracy gives us some choice, but a lot of it is also an illusion of choice.

You can call it anything you want, it's really racial division 101, and it's not actually beneficial to minorities. If my kid was a POC I wouldn't be letting anyone tell them that their opportunities were limited because of their skin colour because that's motivation-destroying bullshit. I also don't care what people think of slavery, which ended 160 years ago. White people didn't invent it, and it has been normal on every square inch of the globe for all 5,000 years of recorded history, but white people did end it. It's not like white people got caught 'holding the bag' either: if slaver guilt is in the DNA then everyone has it. Here's the thing Moonbox. You shouldn't be electing politicians based on their ability to realize that they screwed up. You should be picking the people who are smart enough to make the right choices on day 1 so that the future is as good as it can be, instead of getting caught in a protracted 'catch-up' phase. Open borders, defund police, no-cash bail, scaling back serious crimes to call them misdemeanours, not prosecuting gun crime, etc are examples of catastrophically stupid Dem policies, but nothing beats killing the energy sector like Biden and Trudeau both did gleefully. Throwing covid cash around to buy votes was stupid, and both leftist parties in NA racked up monumental CC debt which is really going to hurt in the long run. The supply chain crisis is partly a function of the covid cash windfall that left a lot of able-bodied people sitting on their asses, and a shortage of goods always drives inflation. Printing bajillions of dollars always devalues your currency (drives inflation). The raise in the price of energy is a huge driver of inflation. The leftists, 'those champions of the poor', have done nothing but divide people along racial lines and create inflation. "Yay, raise the minimum wage!!!!" (By less than inflation lol) And rising costs hurt poor people more than wealthy people. Prince William can afford to fly from state to state in his private jet regardless of whether the cost of gas goes up by 500%, he won't even notice it. Then he'll preach to you and I about our gas-guzzling hybrids. I'll be the only one disregarding him. Dr Petersen spoke of it this way: Literally everything is on a bell curve, like the Laffer Curve. At the one end there's a 0% and at the other there's 100% and the sweet spot is always somewhere in the middle. We don't want to create fuel like jackasses and get the price back below 50 cents/L. We don't want to import hundreds of tankers full of oil either. Somewhere there's a sweet spot, and it's not "get down on our knees and beg OPEC to increase production". There never were any projections showing that alternative sources of energy were going to take the place of petroleum as fast as leftists were killing energy production here. It was stupid. Look back at recent history Moonbox. Were conservative strategies 'playing to Alberta's base' or would they have served us well? FYI if we lost all of those SNC jobs the vast majority of those people would have just gone and worked for other firms within Canada. The loss to our tax base and our job market would be minimal. Not so with the shrinking energy sector. We lose our tax base and we lose income from our exports and we also have to pay other countries for their energy. It's like stupid piled on stupid heaped on stupid. Only in NA do we say "Let's leave our oil in the ground and just import some from 5,000 miles away, to save the environment??????" lol. Ugh. If I would have read this first I wouldn't even have bothered to start lol.

Yes, Putin spent a lot of time and money on cyber-ops to instill mistrust in the MSM by feeding you fake news. That's true.

I don't think you understand what I'm saying. The financing of economically feasible refining capacity and transportation (at the necessary scale) would take decades to earn a return positive return. It'd be such an enormous capital outlay at the start and require so much borrowing that we'd probably never come out positive on the investment and even if it was possible we could, it's almost certainly not worth the risk. You didn't understand the Supreme Court. The Justice Minister IS part of the government so it's silly to say it wouldn't be influenced by the government. You were confused on the role of the Supreme Court and how it was independent, just like you don't seem to understand the Bank of Canada or its governance. The government doesn't appoint the BoC governor. A council of independent directors appoints the governor for a 7 year term. Governments come and go through the governors term. You're right in a strictly literal sense, but completely wrong in a practical sense. Though the government could fire the governor of the bank or compel him to do something he didn't want to through written and publicized orders, that hasn't ever happened and is unlikely to happen. These technically literal powers are similar to those of the Queen or the Governor General. They're symbolic for practical purposes and would likely trigger a political crisis if someone tried to use them.

So you're just stating the obvious then? Okay. We'll see how well that works out for him in the medium-long term.

I just think our victory will be pyrrhic and short lived. I need more convincing when I factor in the avoidance of transparency and the sustainability issues our way of life is showing signs of choking on. Of course everyone should be reluctant to go to war - there are all sort of things we need to be more reluctant about.

No, I want a Conservative Party that embraces fiscal responsibility and pragmatism without embracing Boomer social conservatism or Trump-style demagoguery.

You've stated facts but not why they're important, relevant or justify an invasion. Bio labs with western funding? So what? There are all sorts of Russian companies that had western funding too. Opposition leader was imprisoned in Ukraine? How's the opposition doing in Russia these days? ? You're not presenting complex questions or looking for serious debate. You're just apologizing for an invasion and obfuscating. If you were concerned for democracy you'd have been talking about the steady erosion of it in Russia since 2000 rather than justifying the invasion of a country trying to steer itself away from that.

Yes it's broken because from the inception it did not have any independent checks and oversight by the society. No amount of wishful thinking can cover the fact that a bureaucratic system left to itself will come to care only about itself, and feed mostly itself. It's Grade 1, 2 + 2 of democracy. And we are stubbornly refusing not learning but even thinking about it.

Is our system of government "broken" as myata contends? Or is it simply being abused? We give people powers to govern in free elections. I believe a lot enter politics thinking they can do some real good for the people who have shown their faith in them. It takes about 6 months to learn that even an elected official must play the established "game". Your budgetary needs must grow yearly. You must never cast doubt on the bureaucracy. The public are below government officials and only need be pacified. Those who refuse to play the established "game" will be destroyed. The "system" is sound. The implementation is abusive. How would I fix it? Go through the bureaucracies with a butcher knife. Cut out all the fat and abuse. A lot of heads would roll. There would be massive resistance. But this one simple act would send an unmistakable message. Play properly...or expect the butcher's knife to hack you off. Then...watch the governing bodies all of the sudden...find humility and money to spare in their bloated budgets.

Maybe we should wait until they get out of jail first. Maybe there'll be a groundswell of support and... and... Trudeau will step down... and... and...

Why do we still have mask mandates that aren't doing anything? That normal countries dropped months back and the sky hasn't fallen. How are they justified? Who has reviewed the necessity and proportionality objectively and independently? You cannot answer because there's no answer. Because they can, just so. Keep trolling, it only speaks for the absence of any meaningful arguments and yet again proves the point.

Maybe the reason that our propagandist MSM was cherry-picking their angles for protest video is because they didn't want shots with Truck Fudeau flags dotting a sea of people of all colours dancing together waving the Maple Leaf.

So what? Because it simply won't matter one bit no matter how much science I provide. It is a historical fact that if science doesn't align with received conservative wisdom then it is not science. I've decided my standard for scientific evidence from conservatives needs to have the consensus of at least 99.99% of the world's scientists behind it before I'll even look at it. For something like your claims involving collusion between governments to use the planet's MSM to control us the evidence will need to be forensic and on par with the 0.00014% (or something like that) degree of confidence demanded by quantum physicists before moving onto their next building block of reality. No, I've been laid up with a bad back. I'm feeling better though.

It's almost word-for-word Russian disinformation.

You need to do more research. The information I shared isn’t pro-Putin. You just don’t know some important details behind what’s happening.

Apparently the "F Trudeau" flag is no longer allowed on Parliment Hill lol.. Trudeau got his feelies hurt

There’s no perspective on just how left Canada has become. People are worried about losing abortion rights in a country where it’s legal to abort up to the day before a baby is scheduled for delivery and Trudeau said that anyone who isn’t pro choice can’t have a government funded job? People are worried about LGBTQ rights in a country where conservative mayors attend Pride parades and the major banks and schools fly rainbow flags? Canada is out to lunch on the meaning of centrist policies, let alone conservative ones. There are no conservative policies in Canada. Putin knows this and funds green activists here as he expands oil and gas production. It’s a joke. The Canadian electorate has been taught to worry about weird shit. We barely have a military and we’ve undermined our resource development, yet the government actively seeks to reduce citizens’ rights and piles carbon taxes on top of sky high gas prices. It’s insane. Trudeau and Singh have completely sold out working people and families for some creepy notion of an international green totalitarian post-national state. They’ll get re-elected. It’s a one-party system and the opposition are eternally construed as racist-fringe-Nazi both by government and state-funded press. There’s no outside to the Liberal Party of Canada. No free press either.

Turbans are fine and respect for people of different religious backgrounds is important. It would be in poor taste to start going after politicians for their garb. My disappointment with Singh is that he’s turned his back on workers. Doesn’t he appreciate how many Sikhs or Indo-Canadians are truckers and blue collar workers? Doesn’t he see how gas prices are punishing working people?

That makes no sense. Why should he care about this nonsense? His attitude is a normal response to exaggeration and horseshit conspiracy garbage.

rolling blockade on the 401 today, prepare to move colors flying, Old Glory & The Maple Leaf Forever, side by side Jesus Bobblehead on the dash get some

These things are written and passed around by people with no idea how the world works. Bank runs are yet another risk that we have to contend with because useful idiots on this board spread disinfo.

You're clerly watching too much Goebbels' News - all the Hitler-speak from our PM has you speaking German now. Can you translate Hitler's speech for me? Someone told me that he was saying this: I don't just want to assume that Hitler was evil enough to say something like that. Can you translate plz?

Some of us can wear a feather and moccasins also a stetson and riding boots. Both fit and both are comfortable.

but not at all, and the Courts agree it's not. All of your whining about it therefore appears to be little more than coping with how unhappy you are about your place in the world.