Dougie93

I'll take the drama teacher as well, but as he is not Liz Windsor, I'm not bound to defend nor uphold him, and as he asserted Confederation to be Post National State, I'm not bound to defend nor uphold one of those neither.

They all have to take their supply from the LCBO via the same structure with runs OCS, they are not actually free market, what the government is doing is picking winners, which is did by lottery, for only 25 retailers, for the entire province, those retailers entirely subject to the same draconian rules imposed, Ford didn't cancel the LCBO as the government's dealer, the LCBO is simply running the supply chain by its OCS subsidiary, which is the same one which will run the retailers. Same as what Kathleen Wynne did with LCBO sales in grocery stores. The grocery stores still have to get the product from the LCBO supply chain, and they are directed as to what they can have and not have, and the prices are set by the LCBO not the retailers. So that is not actually private retail at all.

If you say the 19th century Temperance Lady dictated policies underpinning the LCBO which owns the OCS, is not nanny, then we are at an impasse, because you are immune to evidence apparently, and likely aren't even aware of the nature of it. Ergo, I'll just stand by my posts at this juncture /shrugs

The main difference being that the Kremlin, not being propped up by the Americans, has to do a better job of running it, which they do, because their dictator is a KGB trained paramilitary oligarch who survives by his whit and guile alone in a Hobbesian law of the jungle environment. Whereas your dictator really is just a substitute drama teacher.

This by the way is exactly how the Russian Federation works from the Kremlin, to a tee, exact same Reb Menace Conspiracy, exact same federation by kleptocratic bribery,

Idealpolitik; so they can save you from the looming Reb Menace of the American Conspiracy against Canada! Which is an inherently fascist position. realpolitik; they just want to rule so Ontario can bribe Quebec with Alberta's money, to prop up a Confederation which actually has no national interests but rather its interests are opposed.

Idealpolitik they are the world's First Post Soviet Marxist State. Realpolitik, it's just Liberal Elites from Toronto and Montreal stealing the NDP's Post Soviet Marxist platform, to box the NDP out, which then boxes the Tories out, because the Tories can't win unless the left is split, resulting in another de facto Liberal dictatorship for another generation.

As to the competence of the Canadian Ambassador to China, John McCallum PC, I've met the man and spoken to him at some length, when he was Minister for National Defence, and he seemed an eminently reasonable fellow to me, and very advised, particularly to the mechanisms of government, trade, and associated diplomacy, so I find him to be quite capable, and that's probably why they chose him. But he didn't make any of this happen, because this was sprung on Canada no notice, by the Americans. My assumption is as part of a FVEY operation inclusive to the ongoing Huawei information war between FVEY and the PLA.

It's too late now anyways, they've already lost the face, so you can't make them whole by giving her back now. PRC ambassador Lu Shaye just went on tv and said it "giving her back will have no effect on the status of the Canadians detained".

What he is saying tho, is that most of us only do business with China through American companies who are at the NYSE and NASDAQ in Manhattan, and so take profits in US dollars under US jurisdiction and so protected from the Chinese. For example AAPL in Cupetino contracts to Foxconn at Taipei, who then have subsidiary on the mainland. But you takes your profits from that activity in China, in US dollars at New York, so China only matters as it matters to Chimerica, ergo what the Chinese are doing to people in China, is of no particular concern to the American Hegemonic market.

They allow it to run by free market for profit with comparatively light regulation, and as a result have more product, better product, and they make more money, both the private owners, and the public state by way of economic activity and associated taxation.

But the American states rights legalization is way more dynamic, profitable, fair and free. The Canadian Nanny State version pales in comparison.

Indeed, and also the purpose is to trap more people in the work bullshit jobs are jails gulag to keep them working all the time to keep them down.

In fairness, this is not Canada here, AFAIK the server is in the CONUS, so this is UKUSSA, being the realm of the internet which China is prevented from censoring by FVEY

For instance they don't need aircraft carriers at all, that's a vanity project, and they don't need cruisers to fight American carrier strike groups because American carrier strike groups can be engaged by more adaptive and dispersed means, so those are vanity projects too.

Moreover I tend not to underestimate Ivan in terms of him figuring things out in the end, so I don't file Borei/Bulava under total failure non effective for all time. Mostly they're trying to be all things to all people, they need to get rid of some stuff in order to keep the more effective and important stuff, and then double down on that. It's an asymmetrical confrontation, they don't need to be a carbon copy of Western forces, they just need to be good at nukes and fighting for the Near Abroad.

Agreed on apparent Borei CONOPS, but they don't need Borei to reduce the CONUS tens times over so Borei whatever the status, is not the point.

The Sovi. . . Russians reconfigued their submarine CONOPS to under ice and then pop up through and fire from the surface without warning, negating the need to hover at launch depth, while escaping the detection of SOSUS under the ice.

The resulting sad and failing gridlock, inciting the Donald J. Trump creative destruction blast penetration device, to break the logjam and take the SCOTUS

More significantly Obama blew his wad on Obamacare and then was a de facto lame duck pretty much for the next six years, having spent all his political capital on one thing.

Nuclear weapons modernization is not optional so long as we are launch on warning. The reason for America to adhere to INF 87' was that it didn't cover submarine launched, but now the Russians are deploying so much SLCM's the edge it imparted to America is less significant. In terms of INF's over the trace in the Baltic and Black, if you're going to go BMD, then you're into de facto counterforce, so need to go all the way with the INF's and LRTNF's

Not me, I've moved on. No tribe but classically liberal limited government conservative free marketeer in defence of the House of Windsor.

Trumps purpose being first and foremost to solve the problem of the SCOTUS War, which, with a Gorsuch to replace Scalia and a Kavanaugh to replace Kennedy, is mission accomplished already. Taking RBG down would simply be the cherry on top.

The way to protect yourself from totalitarianism is to stop identifying with the state and its interests as being the same as you and your interests, which is all totalitarianism really is.

Trump is not the one doing it, the Constitution and associated Declaration of Independence preamble is doing it, by inspiring millions to defend and uphold it. Trump is another thing, creative destruction of a fundamentally gridlocked status quo by peaceful transfer of power by way of the electoral college.