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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.

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.

Biden Was So Good, Trump Is Accusing Him of Performance-Enhancing Drugs Just like one of the TROLLS who posts here, of course, cause Trump IS DERANGED.

Hitler would never have insulted the nazis like that.

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.

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 🤣

One of the best lines on this board in the last year

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.

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.

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.

Repeating something ^^this incredibly stupid doesn't make it true--or any less stupid.

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

Canada has been supporting the F35 program since 2010. To set up training and all the facilities, infrastructure and support for 85 aircraft would be a monumental waste of money....by any party in power The F35 can fly around the world with in flight refuelling... so your comment about here to Moscow is nonsensical.

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.

Talking about other countries... the anti CBC people never mention that every developed country has a publicly funded public broadcaster. Almost all of our foreign correspondents in Canada are CBC.

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.

never mind that the whole Pretendian "Indigenous Reconciliation" dogma is really just the paternalistic Victorian "Residential Schools" of the 21st century Canadian Victorians just can't help themselves from trying to "civilize" the "indigenous" in this iteration to turn them into Woke Progressive Marxist Leninist lunatics at the Universities

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

Of course she wasn't murdered, you buffoon. There are few clearer-cut cases of self defense. Babbit was a conspiracy kook, just like you, and decided it was a good idea to break through a barricade to reach people who had nowhere left to run. She got exactly what she deserved--and demanded. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. And there was no serious court packing attempt, dumbass. Biden has actively and vocally opposed the idea all along. This is another of your nutball conspiracies. We're stuck with the justices who are there, including those sitting in their stolen seats--including the thoroughly corrupt, bought and paid for, Clarence Thomas.

Could not agree with you more.

Z, that's a great opening line for me to introduce something I just found out on the news tonight. Unless you have a very young child, you probably haven't paid a ton of attention to the federal government's daycare subsidy rollout. Maybe you just thought, well, it will cost billions, but it's probably a good thing, and paid no more attention to it. What I found out on the news is that this daycare subsidy is available to parents earning up to $180,000 a year. Like, WTF!? Why is it so high!? Also, it's not really for white people. Did you think otherwise? Oh well. It's not like they broadcast the fact. "The federal government has made a requirement of the provinces to focus their growth on underrepresented groups that have historically low number of spaces relative to their population, so we are prioritizing our growth," said education minister Stephen Lecce. Which means, unlike the first year of the program, not all centres who want to opt-in can do so. According to a letter from the City of Ottawa obtained by CTV News, some daycare providers are being told they cannot opt-in as the province prioritizes spaces for Indigenous, low-income and diverse communities. https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/universal-childcare-not-so-universal-according-to-ontario-government-1.6808204 Not if you say it online. They can file a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, at no cost to them. They can even do it anonymously. Well, he could rescind the bill. Or he could just abolish the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. I can't see where it's really needed anymore in this day and age. There are no such organizations in the US and they get along fine with just a court system to redress the same issues.

How Trump Fumbled his Attack on Biden's Age

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.

You are LYING and have been from the beginning here. NO ONE was convicted of murder in Babbitt's shooting. Duh So your OPINION of what happened is WITHOUT BASIS IN FACT.

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.

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.

JFC could you imagine if we all agreed on something.... I would have to disagree just to keep people hatin' on me..

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

Pfft...

What I understand is that you want to dismiss your embarrassing defense of CRIMINALS with ^this meaningless DEFLECTION. LMAO

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.

You're TROLLING AGAIN. 🤮 I knew we could count on you to defend CONVICTED CRIMINALS getting a pass on their CRIMES. 🤮 Just like you continually defend FRAUD.

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.

Monitoring isn't Communism. China is/was a hybrid model with heavy government involvement. Jordan Peterson is a former therapist who is popular because of an audience thirsty for old timey moral lecturing and oblivious to his poor scholarship. He opines on many things he's not trained in.

Yeah, I'm just as upset with being monitored as you are no matter who is doing it.