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This is the dinosaur attitude that makes people post such incredibly STUPID questions. It's 2023 not 1911 FFS.

Demonize your opponent and refuse all negotiations, then we’ll continue this stupid ethnic conflict forever. I hope you enjoy the atrocities. Are you working for Xi Jin Ping or Raytheon?

The is why I miss the days when illiterate people simply watched TV and had no political opinions. Now they’re all MAGAs posting nonsense they don’t even understand and aren’t intellectually equipped to scrutinize 1) None of the OP proves “woke investments” (almost all of the items listed are charitable donations or non-financial activity like the fellowship program, not investments. 2) Nothing in the OP proves rhat the “woke investments”failed, much less that said investments failed AND also caused the bank to fail. 3) SVB had HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of assets under management. The desperate examples you scraped together above aren’t even a rounding error on their books let alone enough to cause a bank to fail SVB ALSO DONATED TO MANY REPUBLICANS AND EVEN HIRED MCCARTHY STAFFERS

People on this board blamed Wokism for the 2008 crash too. They really don't understand how the world works, they see something they don't like then they construct a massive Jenga structure to associate it with current events. You should ignore all of them.

Canadians can’t handle anything anymore? Language is placed in the same category as violence? Now the head of HR in Markham is suspended for saying the full “N-word” when using it in the context of describing racism in an anti-racist case study. How sensitive are people now, yes all people of all races? What a spineless city in an increasingly spineless country. This is the return to superstition and witch trials. Don’t utter Voldemort. No wonder youth throw derogatory words around inappropriately. It’s the forbidden fruit fetishized through rap. People have lost their minds under EDI direction. Of course the CBC can’t get enough: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6781265

It's been clear to me for years that that the rise of atheism in the world hasn't done very much to dispel the confused starte much of it's in. Maybe another 20000 years of evolution will help.

I thought Alberta was the last sane province in Canada, but it appears the entire country is overrun by the radical left.

You should tell the Babbitt family lawyer to stop lying. She is a PAID ADVOCATE for that family and as such will tell ANY PLAUSIBLE argument to serve her clients' interest. AKA LIE. Obvious LIE is her claim of "plenty of other officers" who were HEAVILY OUTNUMBERED by the MOB. Apparently you (quoting her) believe that officers "holding submachine guns" opening fire on the crowd would have been preferable to ONE PERSON being shot. Do you THINK before posting such DRIVEL?

Nice “alternative history” there, Sergei. The Russian military failed against a military force a fraction of its size because the Russian military is incompetent and poorly led. Their initial invasion forces ran out of gas and convoys were stalled on highways flat tires and troops came without basic equipment or rations. Russia’s situation has only gotten worse since. Now a permanent stalemate is their best possible outcome they could achieve. They’re down to deploying 60 year old tanks and their most effective secret weapon has been human waves of convicted rapists. It may be that in Russia rapists are an infinite national resource, Russia might even be a rapist superpower but I doubt it’s enough to win the war.

https://spectator.org/democrats-robbed-a-bank-in-silicon-valley/ SVB gave over $70 million, according to a Claremont Institute database, to Black Lives Matter and BLM-related causes. Ellie Gardey reports at The American Spectator that California Gov. Gavin Newsom requested in 2021 that “the now-defunct Silicon Valley Bank give [$100,000 to] his wife’s woke ‘gender equity’ foundation, the California Partners Project,” which it did. Political commitments bizarrely guided investments. In December, it boasted of $17.5 million in investments in four “Black-, Latinx- and Women-led Community Development Financial Institutions” Last year, SVB sent out a press release titled “Silicon Valley Bank Commits to $5 Billion in Sustainable Finance and Carbon Neutral Operations to Support a Healthier Planet.” The company featured a “growing” Technology Equity Research Team that pursued quota-ism, paid Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison to conduct an “equity audit, and launched “the SVB Fellows Program, a fellowship program for Black, Latinx and women professionals looking to launch their careers in venture capital.” The board, and the like-minded people it hired, turned a bank into a charity, a women’s studies department, and a political action committee. One could say they lost focus or that they focused on matters extraneous to banking. Certainly the company’s failure to hedge its investments after the money supply tightened represents a larger causal factor for its insolvency. But dismissing the non sequitur political spending from a bank misses the point. The very reckless people who would divert $70 million to BLM and pledge $5 billion for “sustainable finance” double as the very reckless people who would scoff at hedging once monetary policy tightened. Willie Sutton robbed banks because that’s where the money is. A similar rationale motivates Democrats. Sutton spent decades in jail. After looting the coffers of Silicon Valley Bank, social justice crusaders receive indemnification from the federal government. Blue staters, find someone with an education to read this and simplify it for you.

And send billions more money? After the earthquake, Haiti has gotten nothing but help and money from the UN and many many other countries including military and RCMP form Canada and has become the most corrupt country in the world.

the Declaration of Independence is not legally binding it is not the law, it is above the law same with the Emancipation Proclamation : an unconstitutional act of war we have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel free all the slaves everywhere, or die trying, regardless of the law as necessary

Since the 1950's, gangs and other armed groups (such as the Tonton Macoute) have played active roles in politics. Politicians have used them as resources to intimidate political opponents and as a means of holding the army at bay. Today with an un-elected leader in place, a constitutional crisis, and an overall vacuum of power, these well armed gangs and groups (that outgun and outnumber the army and security forces) have decided to take over the country for themselves. It would be interesting to see if they would willingly hand back power to any future elected officials. What you're witnessing is a phenomenon, a product that took over 60 years in its making. Governments should work in cooperation with political opponents, and not make enemies of them.

It’s not a debunked claim, trump signed the bill that deregulated banks like this. Deregulation didn't cause SVB to kill itself. The BIDEN INFLATION did that. https://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2023/03/svb-bank-collapse-bidens-mad-inflation-was-a-big-factor/ So what caused the rapid rate hikes? The worst inflation in 40 years. And what caused that? Profligate spending and money printing coming out of Washington — all while Joe Biden, Janet Yellen, and Jerome Powell assured us inflation was “transitory.” I warned two years ago that pumping trillions of dollars of stimulus into an already hot economy was an unprecedented and likely dangerous experiment. But this was Bidenomics.

the Declaration of Independence preamble beckons you inalienable rights endowed by God Himself no man nor office between you & the Almighty

You certainly HAVE NOT "debunked" the FACT that Trump signed the bill deregulating Dodd-Frank standards for SVB size banks. Dodd/Frank helped cause the crash of 2008, along with Obama's ACORN in the 90s. SVB failed because of bad investing decisions as well as the WOKE crap this article points out. And it's ALL Unelected Joe's fault, as well as the MOe ronz at the Treasury. TWO YEARS of a stolen presidency. Only a downs syndrome child would blame Trump for Biden's actions.

Dodd/Frank and Obama's ACORN are responsible for the 2008 crash. Those are FACTS, which educated people recognize.

If it weren't for the requirement that you be born in the US I wonder how many Republicans would vote for Putin to be their candidate if he submitted his name.

I think from the media sources we already know the majority are liberal candidates, but there are a couple of conservatives... either way they should all be hunted down and investigated and if found guilty should be fired and if criminal charges can be laid have them down to the fullest. pensions forfeited, all benefits given up...perhaps treason charges are a little over the top... but something needs to be done...

UN is a civilian organization, that has control over some military assets. Those assets are picked by the nations involved in the crises, so in Yugo, it was the Serbs, Croats, Muslims, etc they chose what equipment each UN nation could bring , including small arms... the next problem is the chain of command, at the top is a civilian structure so after 5 pm NY time the big guys go home and the juniors man the radios, to get permission to do anything you need permission for these big guys at the UN, and by the time they answer the crises is normally over.. they failed to understand how the military works or the urgency of troops in contact, meaning bullets were being exchanged...to them it was all diplomacy...The rules of engagement are very different, A soldier had to be directly targeted to fire back, and just that one soldier....to say during NATO operations if i felt my life or the life of my fire team was in danger i could use deadly force... NATO on the other hand cut out most of the diplomacy and in doing so managed to get results on the ground through the use of force... I did one UN peace keeping mission, it was a complete goat rodeo, the worst deployment of my career, where we did nothing to stop any war crimes, from murder to rape, we were ordered not to get involved just file reports or take video if we could...I and others for the first time felt ashamed of our country, UN for not being able to step in and stop some of the most horrific war crimes that i have seen or heard about, being a military historian of sorts that covered a lot of horrific incidents. To have to listen to the sobs and cry's of those victims begging for help while i stood by and did nothing but record with tears in my eyes will stay with me forever...Ask the Dutch how that feels like when they were forced by Serb military forces to hand over all males over the age of 12 in a UN protected refugee camp, they were boarded up on buses taken into the mountains and executed and buried in a mass grave, and no one was held accountable... Those things did not happen under NATO control...

You are still a shameless liar. Yes, the mob sought explicitly to overturn an election and overthrow our government. That's not even a controversial statement. Chansley is on record, you thick fark, as are others. Do you think they were there to deliver girl scout cookies? Jeebus. Nick Quested, a documentary filmmaker, captured the mood that morning. Jacob Chansley (a.k.a. the QAnon Shaman) proclaimed “this is our 1776,” vowing “Joe Biden is never getting in.” 7 An unnamed woman from Georgia, who said she hosted a podcast dedicated to a new so-called Patriot Party, also proclaimed January 6th to be the new 1776. She added an ominous warning. “I’m not allowed to say what’s going to happen today because everyone’s just going to have to watch. Something’s gonna happen, one way or the other.” 8 Oh, I'm fully aware. Without a shred of evidence, you concocted a stupid conspiracy theory about the FBI "using" retirees to release a statement on the Hunter Biden laptop. And if that weren't dumb enough, you are simply lying about the signatories. Not a single one of them is retired from the FBI. Signed by, Jim Clapper Former Director of National Intelligence Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Former Director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Mike Hayden Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director, National Security Agency Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Leon PaneSa Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency Former Secretary of Defense John Brennan Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency Former White House Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor Former Director, Terrorism Threat Integration Center Former Analyst and Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Thomas Finger Former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis Former Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research, Department of State Former Chair, National Intelligence Council Rick LedgeS Former Deputy Director, National Security Agency John McLaughlin Former Acting Director, Central Intelligence Agency Former Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director of Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director, Slavic and Eurasian Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency Michael Morell Former Acting Director, Central Intelligence Agency Former Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director of Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency Mike Vickers Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Former Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Doug Wise Former Deputy Director, Defense Intelligence Agency Former Senior CIA Operations Officer Nick Rasmussen Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center Russ Travers Former Acting Director, National Counterterrorism Center Former Deputy Director, National Counterterrorism Center Former Analyst of the Soviet Union and Russia, Defense Intelligence Agency Andy Liepman Former Deputy Director, National Counterterrorism Center Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency John Moseman Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director of Congressional Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency Former Minority Staff Director, Senate Select CommiSee on Intelligence Larry Pfeiffer Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director, White House Situation Room Jeremy Bash Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency Former Chief of Staff, Department of Defense Former Chief Counsel, House Permanent Select CommiSee on Intelligence Rodney Snyder Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director of Intelligence Programs, National Security Council Chief of Station, Central Intelligence Agency Glenn Gerstell Former General Counsel, National Security Agency David B. Buckley Former Inspector General, Central Intelligence Agency Former Democratic Staff Director, House Permanent Select CommiSee on Intelligence Former Counterespionage Case Officer, United States Air Force Nada Bakos Former Analyst and Targeting Officer, Central Intelligence Agency PaSy Brandmaier Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former Deputy Associate Director for Military Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency Former Deputy Director of Congressional Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency James B. Bruce Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former Senior Intelligence Officer, National Intelligence Council Considerable work related to Russia David Cariens Former Intelligence Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency 50+ Years Working in the Intelligence Community Janice Cariens Former Operational Support Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Paul Kolbe Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former Chief, Central Eurasia Division, Central Intelligence Agency Peter Corsell Former Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency BreS Davis Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former Deputy Director of the Special Activities Center for Expeditionary Operations, CIA Roger Zane George Former National Intelligence Officer Steven L. Hall Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former Chief of Russian Operations, Central Intelligence Agency Kent Harrington Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director of Public Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency Former Chief of Station, Central Intelligence Agency Former Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency Don Hepburn Former Senior National Security Executive Timothy D. Kilbourn Former Dean, Sherman Kent School of Intelligence Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency Former PDB Briefer to President George W. Bush, Central Intelligence Agency Ron Marks Former Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Twice former staff of the Republican Majority Leader Jonna Hiestand Mendez Technical Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Emile Nakhleh Former Director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program, Central Intelligence Agency Former Senior Intelligence Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency Gerald A. O’Shea Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Served four tours as Chief of Station, Central Intelligence Agency David Priess Former Analyst and Manager, Central Intelligence Agency Former PDB Briefer, Central Intelligence Agency Pam Purcilly Former Deputy Director of Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director of the Office of Russian and European Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency Former PDB Briefer to President George W. Bush, Central Intelligence Agency Marc Polymeropoulos Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former Acting Chief of Operations for Europe and Eurasia, Central Intelligence Agency Chris Savos Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Officer Nick Shapiro Former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the Director, Central Intelligence Agency John Sipher Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former Deputy Chief of Russian Operations, Central Intelligence Agency Stephen Slick Former Senior Director for Intelligence Programs, National Security Council Former Senior Operations Office, Central Intelligence Agency Cynthia Strand Former Deputy Assistant Director for Global Issues, Central Intelligence Agency Greg Tarbell Former Deputy Executive Director, Central Intelligence Agency Former Analyst of the Soviet Union and Russia, Central Intelligence Agency David Terry Former Chairman of the National Intelligence Collection Board Former Chief of the PDB, Central Intelligence Agency Former PDB Briefer to Vice President Dick Cheney, Central Intelligence Agency Greg Treverton Former Chair, National Intelligence Council John Tullius Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency David A. Vanell Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Winston Wiley Former Director of Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency Former Chief, Counterterrorism Center, Central Intelligence Agency Kristin Wood Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former PDB Briefer, Central Intelligence Agency If he was convicted? Jeebus, it's not a hypothetical. He was convicted. And excellent work rebutting a point that no one tried to make. Also true, the Oath Keeper convictions also don't mean that Ben Affleck is guilty of sedition. Or Heidi Klum. Any other individuals we should list? Seditious is an adjective, jackass, not an adverb. It necessarily describes the mob and the people in the mob, but not necessarily the act of rioting. You are the only one who has used the word "seditiously." Many in the mob were indeed seditious and are on record encouraging actions like storming the capitol. And indeed, some have been convicted of sedition already. And again, there's an argument to be made that the very act of storming the capitol was itself a call and encouragement for others to overthrow this government, ala the Boston Tea Party.

And yet the liberals are still in power and still hold a fair chunk of the Canadian voter share, which really say a few things either they don't really care about the consequences of all this spending, they will continue to support this government including it's increasing spending tommorrow and the day after, as long as there is something in it for them...good old fashion Canadian greed...or we are to stupid to know what is going on, and are happy with the tidbits we get from all this spending...Thinking one day they are going to wake up, smarten up is a fairy tale. They are terrified the taps will be turned off, and they will have to start paying some of these bills... which is going to happen, taxes are going up across the board, federally, and provincially, I find it a little ironic, that despite all the fuss about climate change the main thing keeping our economy afloat is fossil fuels...every level of government is posting surpluses due to income from fossil fuel prices, and all the extra taxes on them...

^ Those headlines are just more fake example idiocy for people who can’t think critically. They don’t call it The Daily Fail for mo reason. That headline is like saying ”America had NO SECURITY on 9/11 as simpleton President was busy reading kindergarten book “My Pet Goat”

Rwanda was a failure becasue the world sat by and refused to take action of any sort, Canada refused to send troops at the desperate request of one of our own Generals, UN forces there at the time were quickly overran , with the forces from Belgium being slaughtered in the streets, mostly becasue the Belgium forces treated the locals very poorly it was a case of karma. What does the UN when things get out of control, they are suppose to leave... anything else ends up like Yugoslavia with UN troops forced to record war crimes for later prosecution, to which very few were brought to justice. Armed factions controlled the areas by force, with one exception the Medak pocket, where Canadians soldiers took on the Croat military to prevent more ethic cleansing, Croatians pulled back after multi day fighting and taking on to many casualties... Another battle honor for PPCLI and a heavy reserve component. That being said there were lots of failures in stopping war crimes by all that were there. It was not until NATO took over the mission that the fighting stopped, as NATO was not under the same mandate and NATO had already told all the sides it would use force to stop the fighting , and in a lot of cases did so...Yugo was a total UN failure, that victory goes to NATO and its peace making abilities.

Well… both Russia and the USA are signatories, but they both rescinded their signatures. Trump pulled out because he didn’t want any US soldiers prosecuted for war crimes in Afghanistan. Personally, I think that US service people who commit war crimes should be prosecuted. We hold our soldiers to high standards and we should not protect soldiers who rape or torture civilians.

Justin is being pressured by Biden to do something, after he said Canada could contribute including manpower... todate we have sent some old armoured vehicles to help local police... Justin is hoping it will all go away... This would turn very ugly in a very short time, if troops get involved.... it would make Afghanistan look like summer fest on the front lawn in Ottawa... It is not a mission for a couple hundred troops, it would be atleast a full brigade or more to make a difference and the carboards are bare at the moment... This is not a UN mission this would be a Peace making mission at the end of a gun barrel. This is the exact mission we should avoid at all costs, the military is not equipped or trained to this level, the military does not have the support of the people so getting new equipment and training is not an option, this would devastate any head way the military has made in regards to budget as this entire affair would be cut from DND budget, it would throw them back another 10 to 20 years.

He's learned a lot about Republican voters from watching Trump. ?

Not only ^this, but Russia was signatory to the Budapest Memorandum guaranteeing the SECURITY OF UKRAINE in return for nuclear divestiture. Putin VIOLATED that agreement with his invasion and put a stake in the heart of nuclear non-proliferation. He cannot be trusted.

How can anyone trust a politician who is so mealy-mouthed? For years he said that the US should defend Ukraine by supplying weapons, and just as fast, he’s changed his mind. DeSantis has no moral beliefs, just an incessant quest to do or say whatever it takes to win the next election.

IT CAN BE A LIE. Plausibility does not make it true nor mean that the advocate actually believes it. Policy requires them to escort any prisoner to a particular place for BOOKING thereby removing them from the battle. Nope. She broke in ILLEGALLY as the spear head for a dangerous MOB. Unfortunate but killing her SAVED LIVES. That's your job. Licking the boots of the FASCISTS who tried to OVERTHROW the election.

Folks want affirmation not information. Affirmation comes with a certain style to it hence why Trump, Tucker Carlsen, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, and Ann Coulter are popular.

Stay the eff out. The un is there to govern how nations deal with each other, it's not some sort of universal gov't police force. Close the doors, lock 'em in and let them fight till they get it sorted out someday.

Wow! I didn't know that.

This smells like bs! Fake news all the way. Next please.

"Every generation tends to think, “The people before us were primitive. We’re smarter now.” Which proves we’re not smarter now. The Bible bluntly declares, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9). Obviously, we still don’t." God Calms Our Sexual Insanity: The Seventh Commandment for Today | Desiring God I don't know how many times I've heard the claim that the Bible is ancient written by uneducated ignorant men. Implying of course that we know more today than the ancients who wrote the Bible (under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God). Well, the way the world is heading proves that the Bible is true and modern man is wrong and is in denial and ignorance generally speaking.

Isn't that what everyone wants? Spending money on Canadians. Getting stuff for free. Not having to pay and just having government give? Everyone should be more than happy to hear "government has spent most money per person per year in Canadian history", it is the ultimate government action. Give, give, give, so we can take, take, take. /s

This thread illustrates to me a truth I've realized a long time ago - men (in general) place little VALUE on the work women do. Until they stop doing it, of course. One of the least paid jobs is that of PCWs - Personal Care Workers. They look after the elderly at nursing homes. It's mostly women who do this type of work. It's low paid, low respect - which is a shame in a society. Men generally have no respect for this type of work, as shown by Eli's comments - it wouldn't be considered a valued "work" by him. Yet how many men would want to be shunted off to a nursing home in their golden years, ignored with no mental or emotional stimulation, no working with dexterity and physio, and left sitting in a wheelchair or laying in a bed wearing dirty diapers every day. Anyone can swing a hammer. Not everyone has the patience and compassion to care for our seniors, who deserve the best of our care.

If it were only that it would be bad enough. But - it's not just that. They also drive us into insane debt and taxes by inflating the bureaucracy. Both trudeaus Radically increased the public service and number of civil servants and put their people in a number of key positions . That means when they're out of power for a while they will STILL have huge control over the gov't and can slow up or stall a lot of inititives and do some effective lobbying work. It takes many years for the conservatives to reverse that when they get in as a rule and by then the libs are ready to be elected again. Meanwhile the bloated bureaucracy costs us billions of dollars.

Silicon Valley Bank Is Gone. We Know Who Is Responsible.

Ok so maybe it's just extreme angst when you say we're all doomed and that the west is being destroyed AKA going to hell in a handbasket. In any case a lot of people seem to be experiencing pain and suffering including mental or spiritual anguish. Traumatized is an entirely appropriate descriptive term for many people in this state.

Just in the new age, since 20th century Russia has invaded and taken land from these neighbor countries: Finland; Norway; three Baltic states; Poland, Romania, part of Mongolia; Georgia; Moldova; and now, Ukraine. The list is likely incomplete. I can almost bet that there's no other country alike on the entire planet, that makes invasion and robbery its mode of existence, that cannot exist any length of time without robbing and killing someone. You know the word for that, right? A troll here peddles an idea that "a land adjustment" (note the word, means "robbery" in any human language) would have brought us "peace". But it takes a minute to find and read Putin's ultimatum manifesto in the days preceding the aggression. It was not to Ukraine, not so much about Ukraine but to NATO itself; at the height of his delusion he thought himself some king of the planet to give orders and directives to free nations. It takes another minute to find Russia's lies that it had no intent to attack. What "peace" would we be talking now if peaceful, soulful and smiley Russia didn't attack anyone, treacherously and brutally? Now trolls are left to their lies working their jobs as Russia's brutal, criminal ass is going to be kicked again; and again till it wriggles away crying sorely for being "deceived" and punished unjustly having robbed and killed uncounted scores of people, human beings. It always does that, routinely, nothing new there; but folks here who choose to cheer for it out of their own volition have such a deep problem with reality and critical, objective view of it I couldn't even put a word on. Imagine a world where Putins are rewarded for their horrible crimes and grow to dominate. You know another word for it, see it? Not even Hell it's the apocalypse, not possibility and probability but guaranteed and assured, not if, then. Still looking to have your wish?

Spineless DeSantis was for supporting Ukraine until 5 seconds ago Now that he wants to rap up the MAGA vote for his presidential run he’s flip flopping 2014 The U.S. House in 2014, then controlled by Republicans, passed the Ukraine Support Act, which authorized then-President Barack Obama to provide assistance to the nation after Russia occupied Crimea. The bill included sanctions against individuals in the Russian government supporting President Vladimir Putin. The legislation passed overwhelming bipartisan support, with a 399-19 vote. DeSantis, then a Congressman, voted in support 2015 As most Republicans demanded Obama offer stronger support to Ukraine, then-U.S. Rep. DeSantis told conservative radio host Bill Bennett he wanted the administration to do more. CNNunearthed the interview for a report last month. “We in the Congress have been urging the President, I’ve been, to provide arms to Ukraine. They want to fight their good fight. They’re not asking us to fight it for them. And the President has steadfastly refused. And I think that that’s a mistake,” DeSantis said at the time. “I think that when someone like Putin sees Obama being indecisive, I think that whets his appetite to create more trouble in the area. And I think if we were to arm the Ukrainians, I think that would send a strong signal to him that he shouldn’t be going any further.” 2017 “A couple years ago, Obama was refusing to provide lethal aid to Ukraine, they were trying to do a reset. The Democrats lauded that. They viewed guys like me who are more of the (Ronald) Reagan school that’s tough on Russia as kind of throwbacks to the Cold War.“ 2022 DeSantis refused to comment on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year until it was five days in. When he did, he praised Ukrainian leadership. At the time, he said President Biden needed to act tougher and bring sanctions against Putin and Russia. “This is a guy who basically is an authoritarian gas station attendant — OK? — with some legacy nuclear weapons from the old Soviet Union,” DeSantis said of Putin. “Their whole society is hollowed out except for that energy. Hit him where it counts.” He again offered praise to Trump and lamented Obama’s failures. “The media spent four years saying that Trump was some type of agent of Russia,” DeSantis said. “And yet, when I was in Congress when Obama was President, Obama refused to send weapons to Ukraine. When Trump was President, we sent weapons to Ukraine. Putin didn’t like that very much. When Obama was President, Putin took Crimea. When Trump was President, they didn’t take anything. And now Biden’s President and they’re rolling into Ukraine.” https://floridapolitics.com/archives/595218-over-a-decade-ron-desantis-went-from-a-ukraine-hawk-to-opposing-u-s-support/

Did I miss something here, because you people are still talking about this. From what I've seen they are talking about using a municipal bylaw, naturally, to enforce against public harrasment. The maximum penalty is a 500 dollar fine. But hey. Carry on blathering, ye dunderheads ?

don't worry hard times are coming to forge better men by crucible

I have said the same thing in not such a succinct fashion as that of the OP many times. I spent summers in a very remote corner of eastern Idaho. No public utilities, no paved roads, and very limited phone service. Compared to my hometown, Boise, it was a step back in time. I got a unique insight into how life in the modern urban life is fairly easy. There is no grand oppressor to rail against but there is still this drive to rail against something, someone. I find it pointless to be a "slacktivist". Instead of desperately finding causes to fight for or against... I focus on my kids and my immediate life.

Geez, I wonder... - where a leftist would get the impression that all cisgender white males have something wrong with them, - how does gayness cure their perversion of white males, - how I would see the world if I had the morally superior DNA of women, or of gay or coloured men, coursing through my veins?

There are no neutral, unbiased media in Canada that I'm aware of. And I don't think you get a better picture by ignoring everything the 'biased' media put out. You have to take everything with a grain of salt, realize they probably won't outright lie about anything, though they'll only mention the facts that support their narrative, and browse them all to get something like a true idea. Yes, the postmedia papers all have to carry the publishers recommendation at election time. But in their day to day coverage they are not nearly as uniform as American conservative media, or even the outfits like the Star. I routinely find stories and opinions in them which are what right-wingers would call 'woke' Here's one from a few days ago. Basically saying we should welcome all the migrants at roxham road and more besides. https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/penny-canadas-refugee-issues-can-be-managed-with-sufficient-political-will

It's even worse than this because when comparing us to most other nations we're ignoring much of the high cost of the public healthcare system. That cost is at the provincial level and provincial debt is not included in the calculation and comparison to other nations. Yet most other nations' healthcare expenditures are at the national level and are included in their numbers. On total government debt Canada is at 134% of GDP. That's not quite as bad as the US, but they have a lot of financial options, levers and abilities we lack. The UK is at 120% and they don't seem to be doing well. Australia is at 84%. Germany is at 77%. And those wonderfully efficient Swiss are at 41%. Of course, the Italians and Greeks are worse than us, as are the Japanese. But all the well-run Nordic countries are much lower than we are. And yet the Liberals brag about our low debt to GDP level. We're the 34th best out of 41 developed nations! Woo hoo!

Translation: Hodad can’t answer my questions and always meekly accepts the dictates of our exalted bureaucrats. Do you always lick the boots of statist goons?