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I could be wrong, but in my lifetime, I don't recall the government telling us to shun friends and family who didn't have the MMR shots. I don't recall ever having have to show my MMR vax record to buy groceries.

So, once you've gotten your wish and vax passports have gotten rid of unvaccinated people in society, and covid STILL is circulating (because we know it will).......what's your next move, maniacs? Get rid of those who don't want jab #3? And down the inevitable line, what will you do with those who finally say "Enough!" around jabs #5 or 6? Get rid of them, too? Do you not understand that this is not about health, it's about obedience?

seriously, in fifty years, I have never encountered such hatred for the federal government objectively, Justin Trudeau and his degenerate cronies are the most hated government in Canadian history it's not even close, everybody I meet curses Justin Trudeau and the scum who are cronies to him I don't even hate Justin Trudeau, I wouldn't allow myself to succumb to that but every single person I meet on the street despises him and his government with a passion there is no conversation I have with anybody, where the rage against the federal government is not palpable

No, being stupid is indeed an accident of birth for which you can't be blamed. But ignorance is a choice and you've elected to wallow in it. Instead of shouting to the rafters that white privilege doesn't exist, you could spend some time learning what it is and why it persists. Listen to the experiences of people of different backgrounds. You might learn something.

For someone who claims to be well educated, one wonders what passes for education in Florida because it seems to turn out people who can't have a discussion without name calling and abuse. You really do come across as a mo- ron who has no other tools.

And just look at the obstinate callus foul-mouthed cultists POS they produced. I've been on a lot of forums... I've never come across anyone as disconnected from reality as you. Congrats...

Exactly, you started with a conclusion and call anyone who disagrees with you names. That is not a discussion is just being an ahole. But hey, that's all you ever do.

Here's the definition of white privilege for the troglodyte Jethro miscreant racist foul-mouthed cultists here: "inherent advantages possessed by a white person on the basis of their race in a society characterized by racial inequality and injustice." I'm guessing youve never been the only white person in a vehicle full of your black friends driving through Hollywood on a Friday night, when it gets pulled over by LAPD. I, (the white one), was pushed aside while all my friends were frisked, verbally demeaned and prodded, harassed... Their only crime... Being out on the street while being black. As usual, reason10 is spewing his particular brand of racist, insulting garbage banter. Vomiting out crap that he has absolutely no idea about. Call the nurse, reason10 is coughing up more garbage.

Yes we all saw where the policy was heading. People claim it's "offensive" to compare the vaxx pass to nazi Germany but we all saw the rhetoric and knew it would eventually get there. Trudeau is a very sick man

They don't care. The "message" isn't going to actually make anyone do anything. 50% of people vote now, they don't care. Elect someone you like or run for office and start your own party. These are the choices. Not voting is giving your power to other people.

It's mostly over my head too. That was my education as well, and I've spent the last decade or so in the industry. I do, however, know enough about it to understand that Justinflation, or Bidinflation is goofy nonsense, and I do speak to the experts who do understand what's going on. It's multiple textbooks and courses to get even a foundational level of knowledge. We're talking PhD-level education and/or work experience to be able to usefully contribute to these topics.

Oh yeah you did. You've said 100 times on this forum that people needed to stop talking about the PM's misdeeds against the Freedom Convoy because it was history. Why don't you just ignore the topic if it causes you so much heartache?

There is a thread title. And then a post that has absolutely nothing to do with white privilege. I have to assume OP doesn't know what white privilege is. It doesn't have to do with money or other circumstances of birth. It refers to the general "benefit of the doubt" that white folks like myself enjoy every day in a society that is built from the ground up to treat us as a special class. OP, did you forget that you already posted a stupid thread about white privilege?

I've been saying this on this forum for awhile now that monetary policy and central banking is overwhelmingly complex beyond the average perception. Explaining it is hard because unless you also have the foundational economic knowledge to understand the terminology and relationships, it's going to seem hopelessly esoteric and complex. The number of people who are actually going to read (or listen to) an essay on it to get even a basic grasp are few, so as a popular media/discussion topic you end up with little but oversimplified and/or grossly inaccurate summaries/narratives that mostly confuse people. This has made for fertile ground for negativity, with central bankers around the world under mountains of criticism from folk who (at best) have no idea what they're talking about, but also those that do understand but see it as a useful political whipping boy. The reason I made this thread was a timely article in the CBC (I know - reee MSM fake news), where the author points out the challenges explaining this to the average layfolk and references the Deputy BoC Governor's attempts to make policy decisions more accessible. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/inflation-interest-rates-column-don-pittis-1.6660112 The CD Howe Institute also had some interesting takes on how silly the politicization of monetary policy has become, but my favorite quote from the article was the comparison to "Doing Your Own Brain Surgery". Most people would defer to the medical experts on this and can understand the obvious implications of mucking around as noobs, but because it's not so obvious or visible, they have trouble doing the same for monetary policy despite relatively similar levels of complexity. I've done some crypto investing over the last couple years and made a lot of money off it, but it's been very much a Greater Fools game where I ride a delusional hype train and bail long before whatever sh*tcoin I'm buying inevitably steams off a cliff. Central to the delusions of crypto bros and moonbois has been the theory that central banks were steering us towards hyperinflation and the imminent collapse of sovereign fiat currencies (pushed heavily in 2021). These theories have predictably played out as false and crypto market caps have been devastated since Nov 2021, but the narrative that central banks are just printing piles of cash out on their money machines and using it to prop up their governments persists anyways. Many of these folk sit at their computers reading charts that don't tell them what they think they do, and sharing tweets and blogs that reinforce their narrative, but all they're doing is reinforcing their poor decision making. The TLDR of this post, I think, is that people often don't know what they don't know. Convincing yourself that you're capable of proficiency in deeply complex subjects that usually require years of formal education and/or practical experience is unwise. I'm guilty of it sometimes and try as much as I can to recognize when it happens, but that's unfortunately sometimes long after the fact. We don't have to blindly defer to authority, but at the same time we should be acknowledging that on many subjects, we're not really capable of commenting fairly or intelligently. That's not because we're stupid. It's because we have no idea what we're talking about and because spending our after-hours prowling the interweb is not going to solve that. Sometimes, we have to let the experts be the experts.

I just got an email from my son's school saying that they need his vaccination info, and where I can get it. The letter link takes you to: https://sbsurreystor.blob.core.windows.net/media/Default/medialib/parent-letter-vaccination-status-reporting-regulation-85.e72cb4140387.pdf Where you get this link: https://www.healthgateway.gov.bc.ca Where you are greeted with this: Is that eventually going to be what we all have to present to show our "vaccination" status?

Is that you Donald Trump? Still stupidly telling others what they "know," I see. That ONLY works with YOUR CULT. Ironically you still don't understand how STUPID that is.

You are a tool who thinks the most insults wins.

Like everywhere else on Earth Africans routinely took slaves long, long before the coming of either Arabic or European slavers. And even at the heigh of the Atlantic slave trade the majority of African slaves were in - Africa.

Excuse me but you are LYING. Most (not all) who disagreed with me here started out with insults. All I do is put them in their place. So far NONE of you ignorant goose steppers have even bothered to read the material from the sources I've provided.

If you are engaging people who use the term "Marxist' at the drop of a hat, use it to describe people like Brian Mulroney, Joe Biden etc. then you are using a political forum to engage with gnats for small entertainments;...

No, sh!t for brains, there’s nothing racist about the fact that Clarence Thomas never asked a single question from the bench in ten solid years. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/29/468576931/clarence-thomas-asks-1st-question-from-supreme-court-bench-in-10-years

Got to love the let's use tanks on the protesters stuff coming out. How Red China of Trudeau and his fascist friends.

Do you, like Trudeau does, admire Communist China for their basic dictatorship? Trudeau wants what they have here in my country. You'll support it.

Current events have a tremendous political, diplomatic, social, and economic impact on affected nations and citizens that results in increased geopolitical competition, which is what we discuss. The group isn’t USA-centric, we touch on what’s happening the world over and have several international members. But TBH, the group is tilting slightly to the left and I would love for some strong, well-informed conservative voices that can keep their cool to join to prevent it from becoming an echo chamber. However, folks from all political ideologies are welcome. The MeWe app has great features/functionality. You can ask a specific question you’d like to discuss or share relevant information on Posts, create a Poll or engage in a fluid conversation with no restrictions on Chat. Also, there’s a wide array of emojis to convey your thoughts without words! You’ll have the opportunity to exchange ideas and make acquaintances with some well-informed and high-quality people. You’ll find me there as LuxLuz, love to see you there! https://mewe.com/group/629ba8857e82a64167c5245c

Non-stop victory for Ukraine.

Do you actually need proof of all the times you said "It's over, stop crying about it"?

Rex is our Robbie Burns (unless we can claim Robert Service as our own).

Yeah right...proven by West LOL Besides the link I provided is Factcheck.org which is "FactCheck.org is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The APPC was established by publisher and philanthropist Walter Annenberg to create a community of scholars within the University of Pennsylvania that would address public policy issues at the local, state and federal levels. Oh and "PolitiFact is a nonpartisan fact-checking website to sort out the truth in American politics. PolitiFact was created by the Tampa Bay Times, a Florida newspaper, in 2007. In 2018, PolitiFact was acquired by the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit school for journalists." If you are gonna chuck rocks West, chuck them in the proper direction LOL

Ever heard of a Gesundheitspaß ??? No? You have a good sleep. I'm sure they'd never target you...a good German who follows all their rules.

Jeez! Boys and girls. Some knucklehead does a Google Search using the words "Trump" and "Narcissist" and somehow it becomes a doctoral thesis? Seriously? I'll bet this HO has a whole shelf full of participation trophies.

These liberals here are lucky if they can get through a comic book without help. Creating a thread about Americans not being responsible for slavery is like telling a blonde to go into a round room and sit in the corner.

Oh, because GOOGLE says so? You are so gullible, which is also another group of defective voters that went hard for Obama.

I listen to renowned trade economists regularly. What's astonishing to me is that with the depth of understanding, and the ability to analyze, create models and explain all of that.... these people have such humility. They have seen what happens when you tie your ego to your words, the results will make you look foolishly eventually. We're all learning and trying things out but experts can foresee the impacts of risky moves to a large degree. That doesn't prevent the 'common man' or the Trump who thinks that experts are 'hogwash' and that they know better. As eyeball says, we don't have trust in these people but we should at least trust them to try. And I'm hoping that in the age of the web, we can gain a collective sense of who is earnestly knowledgeable and giving us good faith advice and who is an absolute charlatan. I know we have seen a lot of the latter lately, but maybe it's just a phase in our evolving maturity. After all, we USED to have public intellectuals, experts and such that people had faith in and listened to. Maybe it will come back...

Yes if you're going to throw around words like most or plenty to convince readers what really happened. Well if you get a standing ovation, normally it means the majority of the room stood up and clapped. it would be different if only one or two stood up or the majority disagreed with what he said and remained seated. . It is the Generals job, to disagree with these things it is what she does. And yes, I'm sure there are some that are going to say the same thing, but the majority of military members are not fans of the new dress code, and think it is a huge mistake, if not embarrassing.

It's weird that you're using an appeal to authority argument when the authority that you're appealing is to is yourself, and you've been proven the fool here many times. I never quoted you out of context at all, your quote is just as dumb as it looks. The number of deaths do matter, in fact, they matter more than anything else by a long margin. It's not even close. Do you think that Canadians would have approved of the massive expense of a vaccination campaign, propaganda campaign, forcing young people who didn't need the experimental drug to take it or lose their jobs, vaccinate children, all to just end up with the exact same number of deaths? You're really trying to pretend that "It took more cases to generate the exact same number of deaths that we expected had we not vaxed anyone" is a valid defence of vax success? Same number of deaths year over year. Covid deaths at the exact same rate/100,000 people during the exact same span of time. A success because.... Hodad says that case mortality rate was lower ? Dude, we test more people than ever. Do you realize that the gov't had to change the way they record infections during the last flu season to tone it down? Read the top line on the photo below, and look how high case counts are artificially LOW due to changes in testing policies despite the fact that the number of cases is still so high. More tests = more cases. Like I said, we're not counting deadly snake bites, where basically everyone goes to the Dr, we're taking about covid, where lots of people go back to work now. Counting extra cases means dick all. There could be 100,000 people infected right now or 3,000, it makes no difference because the symptoms are so mild. If there are 1,000 deaths in each of the above time periods, that's a big deal. If there are 3x as many in one period, that's a big deal. We count toe tags, not sniffles. I don't distrust the data. They actually had the balls to put data out there that's extremely unflattering. I also understand the math done on those charts implicitly. That's why I'm always having to explain to you exactly what it means. The math is just done in a way that is intentionally misleading. If you're really mathematically challenged enough that you don't understand that, that's your problem. FYI: a chart making a direct comparison between the # or % of covid deaths among 4xers and unvaxed between Dec 14 2020 and Sept 25th 2022 should not exist, period. The number of days of exposure by 4xers is about 1/20th that of the unvaxed, and the unvaxed went through 2 flu seasons, 4xers zero. They just went through one summer, and you can ask Beave what covid deaths do in the summertime because I just rubbed his nose in it in another thread. The only reason to make a chart like the one you keep posting is to be intentionally misleading. Your seatbelt analogy was useless, and yes, mine was perfect. Do you need me to dig them up? And the number of cars on the road has gone up every year. It's a stupid analogy. The population of Canada didn't go up in order to result in the slight increase in covid deaths. Did you see the paltry number of "cases" that resulted in all those covid deaths in early 2020? Do I have to tell you why the "case count" seems really low compared to all the deaths? I probably do need to tell you, but I won't, because I don't care what you think. You're just gonna keep lying about the stats anyways. You keep thinking that an increase in the number of reported cases is a big deal, but FYI we test people now for no reason. If no one was dying, we'd stop testing almost completely. Seatbelts do save lives. So does the polio vaccine. They're not good comps for the vax.

BoC interest rate is the overnight rate, and not the rate that banks are lending money out to people and businesses. The other consideration is that most of today's unusual inflation is global supply-driven and raising domestic interest rates doesn't solve this largely temporary problem. You don't have to admit it. You've already proven it. Go ahead and tell us how the "compromised" BoC has caused global inflation to double in 2022. I'll wait. ?

Yeah, how could anyone mistake Trump for a narcissist? Definitely not. He's the stable genius who knows politics better than the politicians and military strategy better than the generals, ready to tackle the problems that he alone can solve. We know because he told us all this in front of the biggest audiences ever, who just adore and love him, he said.

Okay. You're not very good at it. Keep trying I guess. ?

No Dougie. The math isn't simple. Not only do you not have the knowledge to write or calculate inflation prediction models, you don't have the data to populate them anyways. It's far beyond the scope of a single person to undertake, and even large teams of economists and statisticians can't make accurate predictions, nor do they even try. Rather, they provide guidance and best-guesses - probabilities of different scenarios based on how the unknowable future plays out. ...but sure. It's so simple. Dougie has it all figured out at home. ?

highway of heroes

Here is a very good example of what I'm talking about. Some of his points are true (albeit simplified), some are exaggerations and many are flat out wrong, including the final conclusion. This will bear out over the next year or two and he'll of course be proven wrong, but the narrative has been repeated so many times that it's become the only reality to many.

You could have written the very same thing about several other complex issues our society is faced with. It's too bad we couldn't have a technocratic chamber or branch of government to turn to when it's appropriate. There's just too much mistrust in the world. The confidence that people once had in not just governments but governance itself has been eroded to the point it's now threadbare.

Really? Let's google test your hypothesis. Search for "Obama" "narcissist" 530K hits Search for "Trump" "narcissist" 1730K hits Trump wins your "used often" test by more than 3 to 1. And despite your amateur opinion, MANY of those calling Trump a narcissist are HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS. But most of those calling Obama that are political pundits. Let's see if you know what you're talking about. Without googling, post your definition of narcissist HERE. And then cite FACTUAL examples of Obama ACTIONS which prove your thesis that he is one. k?

You people claimed Americans invaded Africa and captured the slaves ourselves. One of you goose steppers called me a racist for pointing that out. From Hoodad. Seriously, are you high on meth all the time?

The first time I saw the term "narcissist" used in a political context it was used to describe Obama. It was used often. I'm all the time noticing one of the key MO's identifying the Progressive Socialist (especially the type indoctrinated in university) is a need to re-use burns that were used to identify them but redirected towards the ones that hit them dead on with it. The thing is though, it never really fits when the Prog uses it. The definition as we know it doesn't really apply, so they simply behave as if it does and another term gets corrupted.

Can't be true. Trudeau doesn't like Trump

I mock you and people like you, and the term is meant to describe exactly what you're doing here. Yes, I believe in freedom over fundamentalism and ancient religious dogma. ?‍♂️ Your beliefs are your own, and I'd have nothing really to say about them until you start trying to shove them down everyone's throat.

What are you contesting? There was undoubtedly a crowd that gave a standing ovation, but it wasn't the whole crowd and plenty have voiced their displeasure about both the speech and the ovation. They didn't list who applauded it either, so I don't really see what's strange about this. Are we supposed to tally up the yays and the nays to determine who's right? ? I don't think the Minister's opinion is remarkable. She's going to parrot Trudeau, so we can ignore her, but Jennie Carignan's voice matters and she undoubtedly has the support of Eyre and others in the upper leadership, else she'd have said nothing. It's not just the brass either. I can't remember the guy's name but I'm sure I could find it, but some colonel working with NATO in Europe was tweeting the speech was disgraceful or something to that effect. Of course it was his opinion, just like you're giving your opinion and I'm giving mine. What I thought was interesting was how closely Scott's feelings matched my own.

I didn't realize that it was you in that video.. congratulations on being so handsome. You look like Larry David's fatter older brother. Anyway, I only listen to a few minutes which is a lot less than I'm going to ask from you for reading my post here. What did you think of the astronomical deficits Donald Trump voiced on the world? It caused capital c conservative Paul Ryan to leave politics. Were you aware of that?

Republicans win in landslides when (a) the population is well educated and (b) when election laws are enforced.