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Is this what the Putin bots are on about now? Russiaphobia? Russia is a pariah state now. They wanted to diminish the unity of the West and their little invasion has done the exact opposite.

I can't help but notice the rise of Russiophobia in this country. From the Russian theater being vandalized in Vancouver, to sports leagues refusing to draft Russian born players to stories like this one https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-recital-society-cancels-performance-by-genius-russian-pianist?_ga=2.162885119.258220157.1646946529-638476670.1646946529&_gl=1*jsmc1m*_ga*NjM4NDc2NjcwLjE2NDY5NDY1Mjk.*_ga_9H6VPHFHKG*MTY0Njk0NjUyOS4xLjEuMTY0Njk0NzE3NS4w where artists are being cancelled due to their ethnicity. To Facebook temporarily allowing hate speech toward Russians. I can't help but wonder if Russiophobia is one of those "acceptable views" that Trudeau was talking about

I think the reflective motives and repetitive talking points tell you something. It's still a good exercise to play narrative hockey against them.

But to speak to the OP. Hate for Putin's Admin should not be conflated with hate for Russians. Putin will do more to Damage Russia's reputation than anyone in the West. Scores of Western Businesses will now refuse to do business in Russia because it's better business to oppose Russia than do business with them.

Yes that Vladimir is a clever one using classical music to assert his dominance

Everybody else's job is easy lol. I coached my son's baseball team for a few years and that's just 12 kids doing something that they like for 90 minutes. Still, it's not easy. It can wear you down quite a bit. I don't really envy people who teach kids things that they don't necessarily like for 6.5 hrs, starting on a Monday morning.

It was definitely a "let them eat cake" moment.

I used to watch Stephen Colbert. I can’t anymore. He has said some absolutely ridiculous things about being willing to pay $15 a gallon to have a clear conscience though he drives a Tesla. Just another out of touch rich brat, but he’s “green” so give him sainthood.

Oh this is terrible. I can't help but feel some compassion for poor souls that are so tortured. It simply has to hurt. Can we please develop a vaccine for this TDS thing? I don't know if it's a pandemic but man...this is a cry for help.

Fox News was so obviously rooting for Chairman Pant suits.

Okay Karen.

I can't help but wonder at how easily you've been duped by Vladimir Putin's propaganda machine. Maybe you watch too much Tucker Carlson. The ease at which you slurp nonsensical Russian and Chinese sources whilst dismissing anything from anywhere else in the world is beyond pathetic. Anyone who cries about freedom in Canada while boosting Putin's regime and parroting their (and Chinese) propaganda is morally stunted.

Yes the fake conservatives on the right joined up with the progressives to create the narrative. John Bolton another piece of excrement you will notice is now a hero to the left wing media. They want war with Russia. They are maniacs.

You could also work on that grammar. Or not, you may have enough on your plate with the paragraph thing. One thing at a time!

So we should marginalize someone in Canada because they are Russian?

well said, although I use the same concept, if the right says anything it's a lie and then work backwards from that, save a lot of time. since their whole beliefs across the board are lie based, actually lie based garbage.

And yet people defend them on here. I don't feel moral revulsion often, but this is one of those times.

Russiophobia is as a direct result of murderous actions by Russian governments and Russian armies over the past many years and centuries and is very legitimate and has nothing to d with Trudeau. The whole world criticizing these murderous actions. I have to write a book to even summarize murderous actions by various Russian governments but I only summarized the most recent, Colonizing half the Europe for over half a century sponsoring the most oppressive governments in Eastern Europe Occupation of Afghanistan and killing of many civilians there even the use of toy bombs to specifically target and kill children. Killing of civilians in Chechnya and Georgia by Putin regime including the use of cluster bombs Invasion of Ukraine and indiscriminate bombing and killing of civilians. Their history is full of murders and killers killing even their own people who dared to oppose like Stalin did with his opponents. Russian army commits many rapes against defenseless civilians every time they occupy a territory.

I don't think you understand the markets and how their values are determined. Biden spent his entire campaign telling people he was gonna shut down the oil industry. Fine oil companies. He killed the pipeline, revoked leases and sent signals that the USA was getting out of the oil and gas industry. THAT produced concern with investors and oil companies which in turn, drove the prices up. The markets are a fusion of fact and feelings. Biden's actions produced both bad facts and bad feelings about the state of the oil and gas markets. The Washinton Post...along with countless other unreliable rags...still push the Russia/Trump hoax. They still ignore Hunter's escapades. They compare January 6th to September 11th. They backed Jussie Smollet who just yesterday was sent to jail for a fake racially motivated attack...along with Michelle and countless others. Will that news make it to the pages of WAPO? If it does, it'll be buried on an unrelated page, in a very small column. Please don't take WAPO seriously...

No they don't. But nurses do deserve full time jobs.

Bander needs to cut his posts up into SHORT paragraphs. And then stop reading his(or is it a her?) favourite left wing media. Stop consuming any media for a month, in fact. life will get much better...

They approved drilling on land where there is no oil, you won’t get that from the Washington Post or the Biden admin. Look at US oil production per day/ per year under Trump in the last year after he was able to open things up. Compare that to current production where they are importing oil again to meet needs.

If that's the case I think Big Brother probably needs to get a life.

1) Schadenfreude - not a good look. 2) I don't think you understand how many people work in the construction trades in BC, and how hard it is to carry building supplies in a Tesla. 3) If you own a car and you end up renting a truck twice a month you don't save money.

I find it a little ironic that in BC , they regularly protest pipelines and oil and gas, almost every natural resource sector going... But when things get tough now they are complaining about high fossil fuel costs....And i get it not everyone in BC supports the green or NDP wackos... which include their premier, it is almost worth paying extremely high prices to see them get a glimpse of what they are pushing for....and i really hope what's her face the ex green leader miss May, and the rest of her racist party is paying attention....

They were conquered. Canada is no longer the British Empire though. Quebecers have been our PM most of the last 50+ years and we've done just about everything to bend over backwards for them.

There is undoubtedly a lot of weird shit going on. Why is this information being kept quiet. Why are they still mandating vaccines. Why is there not a tidal wave of lawsuits. Why, why, why.

We just heard your worthless opinion about it, as is the case with everything else. If you ever cite anything half of us will faint, but your rebuttal read a lot like the CTV propaganda here: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/what-is-an-adverse-event-inside-the-recently-released-report-on-pfizer-s-covid-19-vaccine-1.5812411 This ^ is what CTV calls 'reporting'. They donate just a few more words to the serious topic of heart issues in the healthiest people of all: So what did we learn about myocarditis and pericarditis from that? Other articles that I've seen say that only 81% of those people fully recover. That leaves a lot of our healthiest people with serious & permanent(?) health issues. No mention of that from CTV. They just blew by that as if it's no big deal. Why should we care if 85 yr olds die but we don't care about young people living indefinitely with serious health conditions?

From where I'm sitting it's you and blackbird who are the few among them. But don't take it so hard comrades, I mean they basically forced me to acknowledge that these days Dick Cheney is a reasonable man. 20 years ago you couldn't get me to imagine that even if you waterboarded me.

The world changed so much in the last two years. If some dude was in a coma for two years and just woke up today he'd feel like Encino Man.

That's only true if you think conspiracy theorists are conservative.

These passages don't condone, or encourage slavery. Slavery was not a choice for these people, but how they lived their lives was. Allowing yourself to become resentful or bitter is more harmful to you than your oppressor. Spartacus led a rebellion with the best armed, and best trained slaves in all of the Roman Empire, and it didn't end well.

Because you strike me as a hyper liberal.

Not our pony. Not our show. I have to wonder if there would be as much outrage and call for war if this was China on Taiwan.

Correction: Old political categories aren't relevant in the modern day. You frame your arguments based on the current reality, rather than outdated bygone attitudes that nobody cares about anymore. They're fighting divisive rhetoric with Pierre Poilievre, by supporting the freedom convoy and their "fuck trudeau" signs, and by appealing to idiots who call their critics fascist woke totalitarians?

That would be great. If the conspiracy goofs would all join up with Maxime's clown parade, then maybe we could form a realistic, adult opposition to Trudeau Liberalism. Meanwhile you guys lose all your elections with little/no seats but can still high-five each other about how "conservative" you are. ?

Yeah I want a conservative leading the Conservative party. There’s nothing to fear from a social conservative perspective. It’s all upside down anyway because the Liberal party are no longer lessez faire. They’re about government overreach and intervention in the minutiae of our lives. There’s nothing liberal-democrat about the Liberal Party of Canada or NDP. Self-serving elitists. Very anti-worker.

the Russians didn't attack on Trump’s watch they attacked on Biden's Trump clearly did a better job deterring Russian aggression than Biden has Trump Derangement Syndrome is a helluva drug

Ukrainian radical groups have been blocking the exit of the civilian population through the humanitarian corridor in Mariupol for several days in a row. They are especially harsh with those who are moving towards the Russian border, there is a video with executions of cars. How long will the world community remain silent about this lawlessness? This is only a small part of the crimes of the Kiev regime.

I know this has probably already been said. But Canada really needs an impeachment process.

Reports were that the cops were photographing license plates at the protest. I know the government SAYS they did not use the stolen GiveSendGo list of donors to target others, but I don't believe it. I know someone who had their bank account frozen who had merely donated, and never attended the protest in Ottawa. I also saw photos posted of Ottawa residents who stuck posters all around their neighbourhood, with the title "Know Your Neighbour!!!!!" listing the names of those in the area who donated to the convoy. And they wonder why they are compared to the German citizens who turned in their Jewish neighbours......

All I'm saying is maybe there doesn't have to be a third world war. Let's check out this possibility it could all be squelched by simply convincing the Russians nobody wants NATO Missiles and weaponry on their Ukrainian border.

It's a real war. This was not a surprise attack. Zelensky had many direct and unmistakeable warnings. Like it or lump it. In case you forgot, Zelensky told his civilian population to fight. When they do, and when they get shot, by snipers or anyone else, it's not Putin's fault. Your moral compass is set to 'obey propaganda': you never had any credibility when this thread started and yet somehow you're still going downhill. You're a little puppet man, driven this way and that by the MSM. You have no ability to think for yourself or to make sense of what's happening around you. You hear the MSM narrative and, regardless of whether or not that conflicts all of the facts that you've been exposed to, you just instantly absorb that narrative and start regurgitating it as if it's the key to your existence. FYI Russian soldiers are in Ukraine because Zelensky felt like Putin wasn't serious about what would happen if Zelensky kept pushing closer to NATO. FYI Russian soldiers are getting shot at by civilians because Zelensky told his citizens to shoot at them. Now Zelensy's citizens are getting killed because they listened to Zelensky. FYI Russian soldiers are allowed to fight back when they're attacked. If the Russians/RCMP/Chinese/FBI surround your house and your family is in there with you, do you start shooting at them, oblivious to the consequences? Are you as stupid as the Ukrainians? Go find me something in the Geneva Conventions that says that civilians can shoot at soldiers without recourse. Do you know what you'll actually find out? Uniformed soldiers actually have more protections from the GCs than unlawful combatants. Shooting at soldiers when you're not wearing a uniform (a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance) is a war crime. Zelensky is asking his civilians to commit war crimes. Russia is abiding by the laws of war. Sometimes you gotta choose to live to fight another day. If that means that you have to accept the rule of a foreign power then so be it. The only time that you fight with your family right there is if they're gonna be attacked. Then it's blaze of glory time. Sorry MH but you're way off base here. Stupidly so. It's like you came from a planet where there was no such thing as war, rolled out of bed, watched twenty seconds of "the news", and started running your mouth.

real war = snipers shooting civilians Your moral compass fell overboard, man. You have zero credibility.

Tucker makes a pretty good case for the idea this war is all about the Biden regime pushing the Ukraine for NATO narrative. But tucker is an Anti-vaxxer, Climate denying, racist Putin-lover, of course. However... If he's so wrong why not just prove it? Simply make it clear to the Globalist stenographers in the puppet media there will be no Ukraine in NATO. What's the worse that could happen? That Tucker might be right and the shelling of Ukraine would stop. That there would be no WW III with billions dead? Boo frickin Hoo. If Tucker's so wrong, prove it, Joe Biden. Tell the world there will be no NATO for the Ukraine.

Dude, Russia is at war. It's a real war. If Ukrainians want to shoot at soldiers that's fine, but then they make their homes into viable targets. That's war. I wouldn't shoot at Russian troops from my house if my family was in there.

If he doesn't flee they'll build statues of Zelensky. And then in 50 years some college kids will tear it down.

Yes. He's not going to let Ukraine bring NATO in. No one knows how many have died. Zelensky said that but he's obviously not going to tell the truth. Stop watching CNN and CTV and then acting like you know wtf is going on. It's so annoying.

If more people think like you, the Liberals will win again. The Liberal Leader is demanding that 3-doses of a vaccine be the standard for fully vaccinated now. He would have spent more time in Lockdown that DoFo did. This statement shows a misunderstanding of the responsibility of different levels of government. JT didn't shut anything down because the Feds can't shut anything down. They can impose restrictions on Federally regulated industries and implement border restrictions. The provinces make the call on Lockdowns. And every single one implemented Lockdowns, at some point. DoFo's calculation is/was that moving to the Left and implementing unpopular COVID policies will take a lot of the bite out of his opposition. It's worked. They've been pretty quiet. If his base abandons him, then they're just welcoming Liberal rule back. That's cutting your nose off to spite your face. AFIK there's not going to be a PPO in Ontario this Spring.