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I think there's never been a time that a young generation wouldn't have blamed the generation above them for their problems. Or that the old generation wouldn't have thought that the young generation is bone idle lazy.

No, stand your ground and try finishing what you started for a change you pathetic little chicken shit.

It's in your genes.

You guys are afraid of Mr Socks? ? You really need to get a grip.

I would say no. First, there is no single source of information such as the Bible or Koran. Therefore, it differs greatly from person to person. Do they seek the company of like individuals? Hmmm... Yes and guess what? So does everyone else.

Anyone who follows principles is better situated than a populist reactionary to make themselves and others happy. Populists just engage in the pursuit of angryness...

Is destigmatizing depression ok?

That's ridiculous. That's like saying it's tribal and judgmental to say that Islamists are theocratic. If that was true, then they'd support policies that reduce classism, which is the biggest barrier. And homophobia? Then why are they against gay people having the same representation as straight people? A lot of them are even still against gay marriage. The history of America has basically been conservatives being dragged kicking and screaming into supporting things they hate in order to stay politically relevant. It was like that for suffrage too. But by "traditional values," you mean not allowing women and minorities to have equal rights. When conservatives say "traditional marriage" what they really mean is gay people shouldn't have their marriages recognized. That's not removing a barrier. So then you're okay with gay couples in children's media, yes? See, this is why I have to call bullshit. On the Left, we have random people who might be too quick to boycott someone over something they said. On the Right, we have actual politicians banning books, banning protesting, and trying to end democracy. Even if SJW cancel culture was real, that would be nothing compared to right-wing politicians actually banning speech and democratic elections.

I think today's younger generations are justified. Our boomer generation should definitely be faulted for having only complained. That's not to say some didn't try to turn things around but given the respectability that dictatorships enjoy, the fact CO2 emissions are still increasing and wealth and income gaps keep get wider with each passing year...future generations will probably have a lot more to complain about.

Why do you care? Seriously?

Sure it is. You're just not very aware and don't realize it

Well first off you're kind of a whiny biatch so people may not have realized it was an ACTUAL complaint...

Politics as religion applies to anyone left or right who is so partisan that they never hold their "side" accountable and blame everything on the other side.

No, the argument is that it is a religion. Make the case for that.

In my internet forum days, it is usually the Conservatives who claim that college/university should NOT be a proxy for job training. You should attend college purely for the generalized education experience and not as the conduit to a higher paying job. As for myself, I think too many attend college with this idea that they should do so because the only way that they will get the "Good" job is attending university. Thankfully, the 16-24 age bracket is current pushing back on this idea.

Why did Wonder Woman do good at the box office? Terminator? Who was one of the strongest non robotic characters? A woman. Alien? Rey from the Star Wars franchise? I could go on for days, on iconic female characters. You're trying to present an argument but are missing the mark. What many people dislike, it isn't a conservative thing, is that when being a woman takes precedent on being strong. Rey was just a very strong person. Sarah Connor, was an incredibly strong person. She happened to be a woman, which made her awesome. Them being women didn't matter. Really shouldn't matter. A lot of movies now, instead of entertaining, are lecturing. Being a woman takes precedent to how good a movie is. Being gay. Trans. Black, etc. I remember the producer of movie Bros, lambasted homophobia for his paltry box office numbers. Uh, no, your movie looked like it sucked, and most see movies on them looking like they are really good. Most of the advertising focused on the room com involving an unprecedented gay couple. I heard more about them being gay, than any of the characters in the movie. That I should see this, as it represents progress. Again. I watch movies to entertain myself. Not go make a moral code check on myself. Most do, too. This isn't an inert attempt to suppress gay voices. I know tons of liberal people who didn't nor would watch that movie. What does it make them? You need to think outside of your tribal box you have locked into, which limits you to thinking conservative = bad and liberal = good. Critical thinking is your best friend. Means you can have a heated debate and avoid personal insults. A sign someone doesn't have an argument to bring to the table. Also the irony is lost on you, in that you question the validity of an opinion based on the political alignment pushing it, ignoring a lot of black people, including myself, consider themselves as conservatives. How is that any different than someone thinking a woman couldn't lead a role in a movie or that a black person couldn't carry a franchise? Focus on the data, and point, and skip the political talking points. Thank you. #everybody on this website

Duhhh what???? I think you have thoughts developed in your brain but do not have the abiltiy to get it down on paper LOL

1. Sorry - if it wasn't clear I do accept that it was difficult. I was around back then and the unemployment situation was dire, for one thing. 2. Millennial excess is a generational red herring. The millennials I know are forced to live very prudently indeed. The ones that are cited in media are, to my mind, offered up as confirmation bias for boomers who spoiled their children perhaps. Anyway, as you said we have discussed this one now perhaps to the end. I stand on my statistic - "In 1970, a house cost about 4 years' wages in Canada. In 2023 the average house price in Canada is $660K and the average wage is $60K meaning it now costs 11 years' wages."

Two minues earlier..... ROFLMAO Man - you just keep painting yourself into a corner don't you "It's not that she was a woman, it's that she was a woman!!! And you still can't find a single example of conservatives actually being mad about it HAAHAHAHAHAHA And why would we be - as a pointed out conservative men rarely complain about being able to see a sexy girl in spandex. And most of us grew up with her as a very popular character from the 80's on. Could you fail ANY harder! Ohhhh IIIIII Gotcha - their sexism is SOOOOO well hidden that it's completely invisible!!! Nobody can see it!! But let me guess - you've got super secret glasses that you put on and ONLY you can see it, and thus began your quest to expose these even aliens living amongst us!!! Yeah - i think i DID see THAT movie Conservative guys love tough women. We love action heroines. And we love well told stories. It's when the script OBVIOUSLY attempts to shoe horn in something in the name of woke politics and it ruins the story that we get angry. Sorry sweeie - looks like you done messed yourself again on this one LOL!

Yes totalitarianism, like what Trudeau did to protesters in the Freedom Convoy. Biden’s regime of course has censored government criticism in social media, calling it misinformation. There’s so much censorship of criticism during Covid and now on Ukraine that it’s laughable to pretend otherwise. Your denial is so deep. Get your head out of Don Lemon’s arse.

The men who wrote the US Constitution wanted to restrict control/power. Our own PM said famously "create counterweights".

The Avengers is not merely the title of a few movies. It's a whole franchise containing everything from Superman to Spiderman to Thor. https://www.wionews.com/entertainment/hollywood/news-mcu-had-a-terrible-2022-what-went-wrong-540467

When things were good, you mean? The less government interference and involvement in the economy the healthier that economy is. Unfortunately, Canadian governments at all levels have been pushing their control, regulations and requirements like tentacles into every nook and cranny of private life. It's not just Trudeau, though he has been more enthusiastic about government growth than any of those who preceded him. Doug Ford's government is spending more money per person than Kathleen Wynne or Dalton McGuinty did - or Bob Rae, for that matter. Why? And government itself, as it has bloated, has not exactly gotten more efficient and effective. Quite the contrary. In the case of the federal government the senior people I know are exhausted and on the verge of burnout. Micromanaging every single aspect of every single thing the public service does in order to cover their asses from any accusation of wrongdoing or error has become the core of their institutional culture. And that mentality flows into the need to micromanage industry and the economy. And so it takes years and years to get anything done in Canada. Why? Because no one in the bureacracy who has to say yes dares to say yes without 'consulting stakeholders' and filing away copious amounts of documents and voluminous reports saying that decision is the right one, and getting 'buy in' from other departments and agencies, and then fobbing the final decision off on political appointees or the politicians. And so business is drowning in the paperwork needed to satisfy the government, entrepreneurship is strangled at birth, and trying something new is frowned upon.

You don't care to know if this one in particular or any part of it, was created artificially, and if so, establish strict checks and controls to make sure it never happens again? Wow... good luck (and we'll need it).

Concerns... population and demand growth, and a stable political infrastructure.. The concern I have is that a sizeable chunk of the public thinks that our economy can and should look like it did in 1960.

Yep could have said as much three posts earlier, nothing new. Who is the "main" expert by the way? Who defines and declares, in what process? Do main ones have to bother with the process or just cut to the fun part, the conclusion that they already know being the (self-appointed) "main" ones? That sure will work better than the method tested and verified in millennia and generations. Or you'll just get another of those blowbacks. One or the other. Good luck.

Hannity on John Edwards VERSUS Hannity on Trump AKA, it's only a crime when Democrats do it. ?

Wisconsin flipped because young voters got out. Will the GOP try to woo those voters over? No, they will just try and make it harder for them to vote by doing things like removing poling stations far away from college campuses and not allowing student cards to be used as voter ID.

Stand back and watch your democracy disappear. That is what you really want. You don't give a shit about democracy or rule of law, it is win at any cost, regardless of what that may be. Gerrymandering, voter suppression and cancelling democratically elected members, all it a days work and the only way you can win anything.

But that wasn't a protest - it rarely is. Anytime a guest speaker with an opposing view comes to visit one of these looney bins, the guest is either verbally threatened, physically intimidated, or campus security is called because someone's mobile safe space has been invaded by a visitor's opposing point of view. The trans community is insane, and it needs to be treated as such.

That's hardly a point against me given that you feed from the same political trough as they do. Disagree? Then perhaps you should teach these tranny activists how to behave like civilized human beings.

I literally just said that an actual leader of a country does speak for the country, while a fringe politician, like May, does not. May is part of parliament, not part of the government. I’m not sure why that’s such a difficult concept for you to grasp. So, go ahead…. Name the leaders of countries who spoke out against the emergencies act. The “head of state” stuff is a strawman too. I never mentioned that, and it’s irrelevant. As if the GG is the only person who can speak for Canada! LOL

If E. May says something, it’s not speaking for the country. You’re simply wrong. She doesn’t have the authority as she’s not a sitting minister of any stripe. No, you made up a strawman to argue against. Obviously a leader of a country can speak for the country. Which leader of a country spoke out against the Emergencies Act?

The are elected to speak for their constituents, period. An MP from St. John’s does not speak for the people of Whitehorse.

AOC, MGT and Boebert do not represent the United States. May does not represent Canada. They do represent enough people to win their respective constituencies.

She is not parliament, she is not the people, she is one member. Saying she represents Canada is like saying MGT, Boebert or AOC represents the US. Government is the Cabinet.

OK....the U.S. actually helped to develop several COVID vaccines....Canada not so much (Trudeau's deal with China bit him in the ass.).

Honestly - i was absolutely stunned. I never thought we'd see each other as canadians turn on one another like we saw then and still see now. it destroyed families and ended long term relationships. Honestly - i feel like canada died during that stretch. I have seen disaster and hardship strike canadian communities and always people came together to help out. Hell there's a play about it for what happened during 911. It's literally our thing. Not this time. People at people's throats. Firing people. And my personal favorite - a COMMON position that "We'd rather see people get no medical treatment and die than be treated by an unvaccinated nurse". Like - oh my GOD you MUST be kidding. Personally i'm in a high risk group so vaxxed and boosted. But - i would never condemn ANYONE who felt it wasn't the right idea for them. Covid tore us apart as a culture and a people and i just don't see that ever healing again. Justin managed to literally kill the Canadian identity we all knew best - that Canadians stand together in tough times. We don't anymore.

Its a double edged sword. CERB turned Canada for many, into a country of slackers who either didn't want to work and get paid, or didn't want to work in office and permanently wanted to work from home. This ended, but these behaviors remained. Good luck finding mechanically skilled workers. People ghosting in interviews is a major problem for those already struggling to find staff in a now fully reopened economy. I don't see how we could do anything but allow more immigrants into Canada. Especially if they are educated, skilled and ready to work. These people will gladly take the jobs vacated by a now pickier and younger work force. I fail to see the problem with this, personally. Wages are out of control. I'm seeing employers being forced to offer heavy handed bonuses, just for showing up and outlasting your probationary period. This isn't a win. Its sad.