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In every war in which people have fought for their freedom, there have been spineless rats like you, who side with the would-be oppressors You take for granted the liberty that better men have won for you, and spit on those with the courage to fight for themselves.

BUT IT'S HIS THREAD!!!!!! LOOK HOW SAD HE IS YOU MONSTER! STOP BEING CHILDISH!!!! 🤣

You need decaf friend.

You're dangerously obsequious and deferential to dictators. Go Trump/Putin go? What a bunch of fu cking homos you people have become.

Trump says Day 1 priority if he wins is releasing Jan. 6 rioters Thus PROVING that they did EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTED. and all the right wingers here are proven wrong that he wanted "peaceful" protest. Just listen to Trump's priorities, dummies.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canadian-air-force-ends-pilot-training The Royal Canadian Air Force announced earlier this month that it will retire its fleet of pilot training jets and put the program on hiatus. Canada’s aspiring pilots will now travel to Texas, Finland and Italy to earn their wings. So ends a proud tradition of pilot training that during the Second World War saw Canada train more than 130,000 Allied aircrew, earning it the epithet “the aerodrome of democracy” from then U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.

Social Justice. Sounds like a reasonable concept, doesn't it? Of course, that depends on what kind of interpretation you put on it. Even the word 'justice' itself can be twisted, if you're of that kind of mindset. What is 'justice' to the Left? Generally, it means everyone gets the same outcomes, regardless of input. This is an outgrowth of the Left's long flirtation and broken-off love affair with Communism. For if the state owns all then all are equally wealthy. No one has more than anyone else. Regardless of effort, skill or talent. The Left applies this to its most recent love affair, which is with identity politics. All groups must be equal in all things, with white people being the base group. Any group that performs less well than whites are not to be seen as inferior, or making different choices due to different preferences and cultural beliefs, but as victims of white oppression. And thus it is the state's business to elevate that group to the point they are equal to whites. This ignores Asians, who generally perform better. Asians do not exist. They are a fantasy race that should never be considered in such efforts. The Left insists that it is the state's business to intervene if the number of men making widgets is noticeably higher than the number of women. It does not, however, care if the number of women making widgets is considerably higher than the number of men. The same consideration is given to various racial groups. The only requirement for social justice is that white people must not perform better than any other group. And since White people earn more than Black people the Left invented the idea of a great, amorphous systemic issue they termed 'systemic racism'. It's the cause of all inferior progress by Black people, you see. No, there's no actual evidence other than statistical superiority in some things by white people. But that will do. The Left seldom requires much in the way of evidence to solidify their beliefs in this or that faddish concept. Of course, the left has twisted other words of late. Like the word 'hate'. They adopted it about ten or fifteen years ago and have since embraced it as their favorite word. Now it used to be you could be prejudiced or bigoted - words well-defined in the dictionary, but no longer used. The Left made 'racism' their default word because it has a more sinister original definition and can be more readily hurled at their enemies (anyone NOT Left). But even racism wasn't enough as the number of groups the Left identified as requiring their protection grew. It doesn't really work for Muslims, for example, or Trans, or the disabled. So the Left decided to switch to "hate" instead. There can no longer be any prejudice or suspicion or doubt about any group. Now all that is gathered together under the term 'hate'. This makes it easier to craft rules and laws against it, like the Liberals' new online hate bill that will ban the expression of doubt or disbelief about anything regarding transgenderism (even though two thirds of Canadians have doubts about elements of the transgender activist demands). Opposing these demands will no longer be permitted. Just as opposing gay marriage, immigration, or open border can be defined as hate and allow for the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to investigate you and perhaps bankrupt you with enormous fines. It doesn't take much to qualify as 'hate', either. One joke will do it. One offhand comment. Hiring the wrong person. Getting into an argument with the wrong person. Disagreeing with government policy. Even disagreeing with government policy that is deliberately crafted to be racist is defined as hate! But that's all part of how the Left changes language, then insists that anyone not changing with them is immoral and must be punished. The word 'retarded' became essentially forbidden and punishable as the Left switched to 'disabled'. Now that's no longer allowed as they've settled on 'differently abled'. You are hectored and lectured for saying 'illegal alien' and told to use 'undocumented alien' instead. You can't complain about the homeless. Now they're 'unhoused'. And once the Left abandons a word it becomes forbidden. Punishable by as much as they can get away with in a still-democratic society. They alone, of course, are the arbiters of what the word means. And that can change over time.

Hitler would never have insulted the nazis like that.

I’m not wasting more time on you. You have too much to learn. I will say that your views illustrate why we’re in these culture wars. God help us if the kids are let into the control room. Actually it’s already happened.

And here i thought it was a "personal" choice to smoke or take opiods, and they even come with colorful pictures and warnings not to mention all the education funding the government spent....this could happen if you smoke, and yet it is the companies fault for making them smoke...when are people going to take responsibility for their own actions...

If you think the Indigenous people of the west coast didn't know how to build house, use tools, or engage in trade until the white man came along, you know less about Canada's history than my toddler.

It'll be a real treat to see Poilievre explaining why we need to scrap the CBC using the very same frank language you guys do. LMAO!

Where the training is done is less important than who does it. As long as RCAF instructors are doing the more advanced training it doesn't really matter where it is done.

I read about thread hijacks. So - i've decided to hijack his thread and sell it. This thread shall now be known as Pepsi Presents: Trump says Day 1 priority if he wins is releasing Jan. 6 rioters

People who oppose 'Zionism' are wigged out by the 500 people killed by Jews during the partition which created Israel, but when muslims in India didn't want to live under Hindu rule, they got their own country partitioned from India, and ethnically cleansed the whole place, killing about 1M people. One million vs 0.5 thousand.... Hmmmmm, which is worse? THE FIVE HUNDRED!!!!!!!! THAT WAS WAY WORSE!!!!!! A MILLION IS NOTHING!!!!! Pakistan committed a second genocide of 3M people. *Yawn* "ZIONISM IS THE WORST!" The Jews are still 900,000 short of killing as many people as Pakistan killed in their first genocide, which was only 33% of the size of their second genocide. Israel would have to kill all of the Palestinians everywhere 4 times to rival Pakistan. They haven't killed 1% of Palestinians, and that's after Palestinians just attacked Israel and killed 1,400 people in their homes, mostly by torturing them and/or burning them to death. Still, Israelis are the worst 🤣

Lol. Why don't you run along, leave the grown ups alone and go back to trying to convince us that rain isn't rain and your special TV can see the future.

No, you don’t understand context. The people of 400 years ago thought that they were doing good and just things, bringing the light of civilization to the world and creating opportunities. Today’s governments and settlers think that they are doing the same thing and will be judged just as unfairly by the Black Dog of 2224 as you’re judging the early colonial settlers. Oh, and my guess is that you would’ve been there among the French missionaries trying to save the “savages” just before the Iroquois barrelled through your door and slaughtered you rather savagely. Self-righteous fakeness and hypocrisy doesn’t sit well. Have some honesty and humility.

The arguments for the CBC are that the content is made by Canadians for Canadians with Canadian content, and to provide it to all Canadians no matter how far flung and small their communities are, but given that the Liberals have declared Canada genocidal, racist and patriarchal, wouldn’t it be better to keep Canada out of people’s living rooms, especially in the boonies? It’s certainly cheaper. Also what does all this protection of monopolies do for consumers? Let in all the cell phone and cable providers from around the world, boost competition and lower prices. Slash the CRTC. Public broadcasters are for countries where the government and its people believe that the country has value and a good story to tell. Otherwise, we might as well watch other stories.

Slavery is awful and we’re lucky not to have had much of it in Canadian colonial history. A good book to read on the subject is The Book of Negroes. The worst of it for Canada was in Nova Scotia, but even there it was relatively small in numbers and ended well before slavery ended in the US. The rest of colonial Canada didn’t allow it, and that’s pre-Confederation. There would’ve been remnants of indentured servants and slaves but it’s close to zero for slaves, apart from Indigenous on the West Coast who kept slaves for thousands of years. We know of the slave trade in Africa and the Caribbean and that colonial powers practiced it along with many parts of Africa. There’s a legacy but barely any in settler Canada. It’s just not an issue for blacks living in Canada today. The Indigenous stuff is messier in Canada, but the sad truth is that it’s messier because Canadians tried to solve it through literacy and the Indian Act, which of course didn’t work well, but the Americans handled it far more brutally, through bounties and wars and slaughter, yet interestingly, you don’t see nearly as much handwringing in the US as in Canada over Indigenous affairs, where the settlers “won”, perhaps because we tried harder to preserve cultures and make peace? And that’s the irony of living in one of the most peaceful and successful countries: The more you solve problems, the more problems people seem to find and the more detailed and frivolous the demands become. It’s reached a point where we’re becoming dysfunctional and self-destructive because of guilt and shame. It’s unhealthy. Meanwhile I think slavery still exists in parts of Africa, or it did until recently. It reminds me of the argument against reporting on the abuse of Indigenous children to CAS. If people can argue that they’ve been victimized, somehow that makes some people feel entitled to victimize others. “Intergenerational trauma” becomes the excuse for child abuse, alcoholism, etc. Well some people may buy that excuse but I don’t, not really. The victim mindset is unhealthy and removes personal responsibility. How many people alive in Canada today really deserve to continue blaming their current circumstances on colonial settler injustices?

What are you even talking about? I think your conflation if immigration and colonization is bizarre and ahistorical is all. I mean, if you want, but my handle has nothing to do with race.

The BC NDP once again spending millions on lawyers for nothing. You can sure tell there is an election in the fall.

But you're really only talking about *some* Europeans here.

Yes, apparently describing behavior that is far, far beyond trespassing and stating that it's not classified as trespassing means that I somehow believe that no one could ever be charged with trespassing for lesser transgressions. Hyuk. It's not pedantic. It's just dumb and dishonest.

And I'm entitled to call that belief racist. Which it is. Anyway there's nothing intrinsic to white people that makes them the greatest makers of doo-dads and gadgets. Yeah white racists love the Japanese for some reason, which is funny to me.

You're making fun of one of your own, stupid. He's out of his mind, just like the hair sniffer is.

Myata's TDS is flaring today. lol Why don't you go take 5, wokejob?

She wasn’t sitting at home doing a crossword when she was shot. This is getting foolishly pedantic. The Jan 6 rioters were trespassing but many of them were doing much more serious things than that.

I fear we’ve systemically forgotten previous harsh lessons on the interaction between retention, recruiting and operational tempo. Each factor effects the other two and any trade (or classification) that places a premium on experience and/or has long training times is susceptible to self inflicted chaos if they allow that equation to get out of balance. IMO, that ship has already sunk and the only thing still functioning is the swimming pool. Mentors are walking out the door faster than recruitment and training systems can produce new ones. As a result, and across the board, readiness and operational tempo is in a spiral dive. To me, it’s not a question of who neglected what, when they neglected it, or even why. It’s here now and it’s a systemic problem reminiscent of a snake eating its own tail. A vulnerability that needs to be addressed if any pretence of operational tempo is to be retained. I’m retired and thus removed from the present situation, but when I left the quality of candidates arriving at OTUs was different than in the OCTP intake days, they are older as a result of obtaining a degree, language training and extended OJT periods due to training delays. That’s huge in and of itself BTW. So, I think that what's being sold as a good idea (be it cost savings or whatever) is actually an act of desperation and the recognition that RCAF pilot production has deteriorated to the point that we are incapable of out training the deficit without a complete loss of operational tempo. In short, there are no trainers left to train others and no mentors left to mentor those out of the training mill. Essentially it’s aerodynamic lock point at low altitude… lower the nose you crash, raise it and you stall, a situation where the only thing that saves the day is drop-off. It creates vulnerabilities with the supply side of an equation incapable of surviving further tampering, we are relying on other nations now. And like sole sourcing your energy supplies from potentially hostile trading partners, like it or not it creates a vulnerability. Remember those German delegates at the UN snickering at Trump for suggesting they were now vulnerable as a result? I think this is that, but at a minimum and regardless of your opinion on the matter, it should be acknowledged as a potential vulnerability. I'll be surprised and delighted if future events prove me wrong. I suspect that politicians and the RCAF brass will sell this as a good idea even if they know it’s an act of desperation. In Career Manager circles, I bet they're praying for layoffs at airlines and the return of those they previously failed to retain. They'll call it good supply management, pilots will call it drop off.

Leaving Canada without the same sort of public broadcaster advanced democratic countries around the world have maintained for over a hundred years and for the same reasons. So how many other countries are scrapping their publicly owned broadcasters because they're biased, woke, and only ever put conservatives in a bad light?

Cite? the polls are pretty clear that people are very hopefull about PP for example - what evidence do you have that they're not hopeful? Of course - it's fair to say that the disasterous leadership of the left HAS left many people desperate

no, the British won the war of 1812 but then in the Civil War, America became a juggernaut which dwarfed the British Empire itself at which point Britain was forced to concede at the strategic level : "if you can't beat them, join them"

Yes and as the article I posted pointed out Poilievre will have a very difficult time doing that without changing the law that created the CBC. Especially after explaining to everyone how simple it will be - its just common sense right? LMAO! No, the same article reported that 40% of CBC's budget is spent in Quebec. I think you're dreaming. The chances are high that Quebec is going to ask PP to maintain the level of spending Quebec has become accustomed to. All of a sudden it won't be so simple, twist Quebec's arm or backpeddle from a signature promise? It was also to have a news service that wouldn't be dominated by American broadcasters across Canada, nobody wanted that. Content has and should still be a factor. Its curious that the loudest voices against the CBC are amongst the loudest who bemoan the loss of our Canadian character. As for access via the Internet, that's how I get it. The guy across the way has a dish, we all had cable before that. I haven't seen a pair of rabbit ears for decades. So what about a discussion about the main reason PP wants to scrap the CBC? Personally I think its because he's a dumb-ass chud who's swallowed the hooey that says the editorial boardroom of the CBC and the PMO are one and the same thing and all we're getting for our money is propaganda from Beijing. Sure Poilievre could scrap the entire CBC across the country including Quebec. But it won't be happening without a lot of attention given to the real reasons he want's to. I doubt they'll go over as well as you think they will.

They really didn’t know what to do. Integration, if it was even possible, meant giving up ways of life. Preservation of the old ways , which wasn’t fully possible, would mean having a relatively prosperous society alongside a much harsher one. The reserve system was a compromise. The topic is too big for a few paragraphs and requires ample reading about the Indian Act, treaty histories, the failed attempt by the Brits and Indigenous allies to create an Indigenous state (which fell apart in the compromise that ended the War of 1812). The people who whine today about colonization are the same people who push current immigration policy, which is colonization on steroids. Basically a society of hypocrites who don’t know their history (and by society I mean every cultural and racial group) aren’t really able to get their heads in contexts that no longer exist.

that is true but in this case, America is providing since the F-35 program dwarfs the separate Canadian training program into irrelevant obsolescence F-35 delivers American superpower capability to Canada, even if the Canadian government doesn't care to include all the training & logistics therein so actually, rather than the usual Canadian diverting of priorities into leftist lunatic nonsense Canada is being forced to buy combat power, simply by Canada signing the Pentagon's contract when you consider that F-35 is the NATO theatre thermonuclear counterforce option with B61-12 it will be by far and away the most powerful weapon system in the Canadian inventory the only thing that Canada could actually threaten the Russians & Chinese with the F-35 being an inherent first strike capable tactical nuclear weapons delivery system the F-35's could in fact fly from Western Europe to Moscow and the Russians would not see them coming nor going so this is as close to the big leagues as Canada is ever going to get Sic itur ad astra : thus is the pathway to immortality

That's because Google does its best to de-prioritize fraud and phony sites that lack a user footprint. Try Duck Duck Go. Your friends will be sending it to you soon enough. Or you can start the trend! Let me break down how this will work. 1. They will set up these phony sites. 2. They will use their Facebook (and other) disinformation networks to spread propaganda to the same suckers they targeted in the last 2 elections. 3. Those targeted suckers will click the links and read the phony articles because they are utterly incapable of vetting and filtering information. If it's on the internet (and confirms their biases) it must be true! 4. The useful zombies will share and promote the phony stories within their social networks packed with similarly inept people. 5. More people will click through until the user base will register enough clicks to make early results on a Google search

Could not agree with you more.

Yes, but this is you telling us what PP will do.

oops... looks like the GOP (and maybe even Trump) are breaking on the Ukraine issue? americans poll in support of Ukraine so maybe they are going to abandon the issue. Trumps comments coming up will be telling. Johnson says he expects to take up Ukraine aid with Democratic votes

There's video of her standing before the broken window trying to ENTER the House chambers, which is why she was shot. Duh And McCarthy is on the same video saying the officer did HIS JOB. IOW, you don't know what you're talking about, AGAIN.

An unarmed woman murdered in cold blood. You can have a hissy fit all you like, that's what happened. An UNARMED woman was shot down and killed. Period. Nothing happened. You people are boring after a while.

Someone's brain is dead, more like it.

Bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit. Not going to judge whether you're dumb or dishonest, but in either case, what you're saying here is wildly disconnected from reality. 1. No one was murdered. You can watch the video for yourself, but it was also established as a justified shooting in a court of law. 2. Babbitt was killed (not murdered) in very hot blood, as she and the mob broke through the last barricade to get to the trapped legislators who had retreated until they could retreat no further. There was literally nothing left between the mob and the people the officer was protecting. There was no choice remaining except to defend his charges or let the mob have them. 3. And there is no honest person--and no jurisdiction in America--in which that behavior is classified as trespassing. Literally none. I'm not just "fine" with the Babbitt shooting, I fully applaud the officer for taking a difficult action that they had tried and tried to avoid through ongoing retreat. It's unfortunate that Babbitt died from her wound, but the shooting stopped the rest of the mob from pouring through and likely saved the lives of the legislators trapped on the other side.

Well the left today are the masters of rhetoric and sophistry. Tell a convincing story of oppression, change the definitions of words, or simply use words that mean the same thing but are new and therefore don’t carry the same stigma or baggage. It’s a game of outrunning careful analysis and facts. I’d go as far as saying that, at its worst, the radical left wants to deny facts, rewrite history, make all interpretations of inequality of outcomes about a Marxist oppressor-oppressed binary, and seek forms of theft and suppression of merit to make everyone equal. It actually gets worse: Facts are labeled offensive. Certain groups are favoured (in the name of de-centering certain groups), and the identities of individuals are reduced to superficial group identities, which become all that matter about a person: black, white, gay, trans, settler, Indigenous, etc. There’s no room for individuals in the cultural revolution. You only matter insofar as you advance the revolutionary agenda of the collective, which is to remake the world in the twisted image of the vanguard ideologues. Sadly, all major organizations, institutions, and governments in Canada are under the influence of these ideologues, even so-called conservative ones. Policies in hiring and admissions reflect these values, which are anti-Canada, as they have defined the nation state as settler colonial, racist, patriarchal, and genocidal. Not convinced? Talk to your equity department.

Death-cultist.

Doesn't count. They were convicted in kangaroo courts of law.

Pfft...

Releasing criminals instead of Border/Ukraine aid is more important to the thug. Imagining he has the authority to do such a thing also show the HE is the one with early dementia and a Dictator complex.

^Super CROOK. Stronger than Nixon.

So now I know what a kidney stone feels like. It feels like that scene in Alien where something was trying to eat its way out of your body, only on the side and back, not the chest. Memorable.

God reportedly monitors what we do all the time, especially with ourselves. If I shake it more than three times am I playing with fire?