SpankyMcFarland
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37 minutes ago, CdnFox said:
Canada hasn't done anything to the planet. It's not doing anything to the planet now. In the last 10 years alone china has polluted more greenhouse gases then Canada has in its entire history.
So I don't know what you thought you were talking about but basically that's completely full of crap. China has done more to harm The planet than we ever have, and they benefit is usually as well. Very fact that you would give the largest producer of greenhouse gases on the planet a free walk tells me you know it's not a serious issue
This is the only place we know of where our species can survive and we humans, among whom I take the liberty to include Canadians, are dramatically altering its atmosphere.
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5 minutes ago, CdnFox said:
Canada hasn't done anything to the planet. It's not doing anything to the planet now. In the last 10 years alone china has polluted more greenhouse gases then Canada has in its entire history.
So I don't know what you thought you were talking about but basically that's completely full of crap. China has done more to harm The planet than we ever have, and they benefit is usually as well. Very fact that you would give the largest producer of greenhouse gases on the planet a free walk tells me you know it's not a serious issue
The US and Canada are far more advanced and wealthy per capita than China. When our emissions are lower per capita then we can lecture the Chinese.
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1 minute ago, User said:
What are the consequences of China continuing to produce more and more coal?
More global warming, of course, but you would have to possess a neck as tough as a jockey’s scrotum to pretend outrage at that after what we have done to the planet. At least they are charting a new course for the world in that regard.
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The Chinese political system is ghastly but they do think long-term and have been setting the stage for what is happening now with battery technology for decades. They can see the world is heading for a renewable energy future. If we deny that reality in North America and take the easy route with fossil fuels we will be left behind. On this occasion Mr. Musk is correct.
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4 hours ago, CdnFox said:
And? That's utterly meaningless.
For something that's actually relevant there's no question as to which country is leading in the production of greenhouse gases
China is a rapidly industrializing country with a lot of people. I presume you are taking all that into account?
By the tenor of this debate, I presume I am talking to mainly older people here who won’t have to face the consequences of these decisions by the US.
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14 hours ago, taxme said:
Carney is just another lieberal globalist greenie loser, and as a lieberal globalist greenie loser, Corney will never win against Trump. What Trump is doing is he is fighting globalism, while Corney is trying to keep globalism in Canada alive and well here in Canada. 😇
The tech companies who oppose the DST and forced Trump’s hand look pretty globalist to me. They make a whole lot of money outside the US and like to keep a fair bit of it there too.
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There is no longer any question which country is leading in the export of lithium-ion batteries, solar panels and electric vehicles:
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The churches of Italy remain the gold standard where beauty is concerned. The Anglican ones aren’t bad but my goodness things go down from there.
Any fair description of Luther has to mention his peculiar obsession with the Jewish people. In that respect he certainly didn’t do the causes of progress, tolerance and secularism any favours.
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We’re in unprecedented times. Our leaders are facing an almost impossible task dealing with a neighbour that used to be a close friend. I would support anybody representing us against someone who wishes us as ill as Trump does.
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3 hours ago, Deluge said:
Spanky's so excited about Mamdani, that he's already got his prayer rug picked out.
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14 minutes ago, User said:
WTF are you talking about?
The Americans were fighting the North Vietnamese in South Vietnam, and the North Vietnamese were engaging in guerrilla warfare there.
It was not the people of South Vietnam who were standing up to the Americans. It was the people of South Vietnam fleeing by the millions as the North fully invaded after the Americans left, and it was the people of the South being killed in droves as the North Vietnamese purged anyone in any position of authority or anyone who might dare dissent.You think this guy was from North Vietnam?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thích_Quảng_Đức
Or all these guys?
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50 minutes ago, User said:
Saddam was not coming there to liberate them... Saddam was just as bad if not worse.
Yeah... those soldiers were not fighting for love of country, they were fighting because they stood a better chance fighting the germans than they did otherwise.
Russians were literally forcing their men to charge the front lines at gunpoint and shooting their own people. They employed blocking units behind their men to catch anyone that ran.Stopping the mighty Wehmacht was just as much a matter of poor logistics on the Germans part as any military might on the Soviets.
Also, yet again... the Germans were not coming as liberators.
Random thought of the day...
50 minutes ago, User said:Saddam was not coming there to liberate them... Saddam was just as bad if not worse.
Yeah... those soldiers were not fighting for love of country, they were fighting because they stood a better chance fighting the germans than they did otherwise.
Russians were literally forcing their men to charge the front lines at gunpoint and shooting their own people. They employed blocking units behind their men to catch anyone that ran.Stopping the mighty Wehmacht was just as much a matter of poor logistics on the Germans part as any military might on the Soviets.
Also, yet again... the Germans were not coming as liberators.
Random thought of the day...
In history, foreigners are rarely seen as liberators because they very rarely are. In Vietnam the Americans naively thought they would be seen that way, failing to understand how despised, sectarian and corrupt the South Vietnamese regime actually was.
And as to my random thought…which I would regard as obvious, do you really believe countries that combine the roles of head of state and government are in general more free than those that do not?
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Mamdani is a brilliant communicator. Making pitch perfect political videos on a daily basis isn’t as easy as it looks. There’s no doubt PP needs rebranding, though. More footage of him actively listening to the public and party members would do no harm at all.
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When a relative unknown with no money thrashes a big beast like this it is well worth asking how it was done. Something dramatic happened here. Chris Hayes and Ezra Klein have quite a few thoughts on the matter:
QuoteThe Democratic primary that just wrapped up in New York was a collision between two very different candidates on almost every level: ideologically, outsider versus insider and name recognition. But it was also a collision that I think matters, for much beyond New York City politics, of two very different theories of attention.Andrew Cuomo ran a campaign that was based on a tried-and-true strategy of buying attention. He had this gigantic super PAC with tens of millions of dollars purchasing all the advertising money can buy, absolutely dominating airwaves with negative ads about Zohran Mamdani.And then you had Mamdani, who was running a campaign on a very different theory of attention, a theory of viral attention, a campaign built on these vertical videos that, if you opened Instagram, if you opened TikTok, and you were in any way connected to his ideas or to New York City, this was all you saw.
Hayes has just written a book on attention. He thinks the outcome is significant far beyond New York.
QuoteTo level set, this is someone who had zero attention on him who went to monopolizing attention in the race. I think the way he did it was viral videos. It’s the first time I’ve seen a Democratic candidate be totally native to the medium of our time, which is short vertical videos in the algorithmic feed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/opinion/ezra-klein-show-chris-hayes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Mamdani’s skill at making videos is hardly surprising given that his mother is a brilliant film-maker. -
How much support the mullahs still have is completely open to debate but it’s probably significant among blue collar, traditional Iranians with limited education. I’d be surprised if it’s less than 20%. Maybe 30% are willing to actively and openly campaign against the regime. That leaves 50% who might like to see change but are more focused on getting by.
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15 hours ago, User said:
Either way, Iran leaders hold power through fierce dictatorial control over their people, not because the people love their leaders.
Who is denying that? I took examples where many people clearly didn’t love their leaders and still fought for their country, eg Iran itself in 1980 when the ‘Shah’s pilots’ helped halt Saddam’s invasion.
QuoteDespite the organizational collapse of the Iranian military and the departure of American military advisors at the onset of the revolution, the Islamic Republic Iranian Air Force (IRIAF) displayed remarkable performance during the first year of the war. In fact, the IRIAF managed to quickly respond to Iraqi attacks on Iranian air bases on the same day of the Iraqi invasion of Iran. The Third and Sixth TABs launched Operation Revenge within a few hours of the Iraqi attack. Accordingly, eight Iranian F-4 Phantoms from Hamedan and Bushehr attacked two air bases in Iraq. Iran lost one Phantom, marking the first Iranian combat casualties. Brigadier General (Ret.) Rouholdin Aboutalebi, then a junior officer in Shiraz Seventh TAB, remembers: “I put on my flight suit as I was running in the street, wearing my boots.” He hailed a colleague and he was airborne in less than six hours for a Combat Air Patrol (CAP) mission. Similarly, General Namaki recalls that, “When the war started, we all became united in defending our motherland.”
Or 1941 when the Soviet Army, still reeling from Stalin’s murderous purges, stopped the mighty Wehrmacht in front of Moscow. I’m sure many Vietnamese weren’t too keen on communism either but people will naturally unite to fight foreigners who attack their country whatever the state of internal politics.
One of many mistakes America made in its constitutional order was to combine the roles of head of state with head of government. The executive du jour and the nation should always be clearly distinguished.
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America after this Bill will resemble any Trump business, headed for negative territory on the financials. He sure loves debt.
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Any tax on corporations can end up being paid by customers. Does that mean we should give up taxing corporations? We are a country with an economy, not an economy with a country.
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What will we get for being right about this? Not much.
Just now, User said:I am looking at the actual direction they are going, not using them to falsely wishcast on the rest of the world.
You think I want the CCP to win? This is one of the central delusions of the fossil fuel crowd.
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America under Trump seems to be offering a retrofuturist fossil fuel alternative to China’s renewable tsunami. It’s a form of denial as pathetic as it is worrying.
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3 hours ago, User said:
You think they lead the way there, you should check out how they are completely destroying the world in how much coal they are continuing to use!
I know they lead the way in those technologies and I suspect you do too. Of course they still use a lot of coal because China is still a rapidly developing country with 1.4 billion people. You have to look at the direction they are taking to assess where they will soon be.-
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Trump’s own campaigns for the presidency criticized the forever wars in the Middle East that his country embroiled itself in which is why some of his supporters were disappointed by this new development.
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14 minutes ago, User said:
LOL, yeah, sure, I bet his attempts to conquer all of Europe and Russia, to isolate and weaken Britain, didn't have anything to do with folks trying to defeat him...
Nope, not that!
In your backwards history revisionism, poor little France hoisted up their hero and they were just minding their own business in their newfound utopia.We are getting a little off track here. Unfortunately, English speakers have generally received a lopsided education in Napoloeon through a British lens of yesteryear that equated him crudely with the likes of Hitler and ignored the way in which he transformed France, and European law. One example would be the emancipation of Jews in his empire and what happened to many of them after he fell from power, eg in the original ghetto of Venice. Needless to say, there were wars in Europe involving the great empires before and after Napoleon.
That’s another day’s work. My initial point was that a young French corporal was given an opportunity to seize power in France because of a foreign invasion of the country.
To reiterate: foreign ‘liberations’ rarely work because they are usually not aligned with the interests of the invaded nation.
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4 hours ago, User said:
And yet... Napoleon was eventually defeated. Napoleon came to power through a military coup... he was not merely held up as hero, but thus became the ruler.
He was defeated eventually because he became a despot himself and also because the emperors of Europe hated the dangerously meritocratic example he offered their oppressed subjects, especially their ethnic and religious minorities, thus conspiring against him for years with the British who didn’t care one whit about absolutism on the European mainland. The ideas of the French Revolution lived on.
The point I’m making is we are all tribal creatures first. France was divided by the Revolution but rallied around the flag once foreigners invaded the country. The same thing happened in both Iran after Saddam’s invasion and the USSR during Barbarossa. Uncle Joe may have been a tyrant but he was their tyrant.
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So you’re suddenly outraged by coal plants when other people are building them.
This forum is beyond hope.