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Aristides

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  1. Did you bother to read your own link. It states that Churchill's statements before the war have been misquoted or taken out of context. His job as first lord of the Admiralty was to make sure the British fleet was prepared to counter the massive buildup in the German High Seas Fleet, which he did. The security of Britain's empire and being an island nation, its own survival depended on command of the seas. By 1910 Churchill had seen action in three wars including taking part in Britain's last meaningful cavalry charge, being captured, escaping and crossing 300 miles of enemy territory to safety on his own. He also commanded a battalion on the Western Front for a short time during WW1. He did know what war was about.
  2. I guess you could say that of any minister, the PM is their boss. She did a good job as justice minister and her proposed firearms legislation was far superior to the long arms registry fiasco and current bans with the supposed buy back that the Liberals are botching.
  3. Her tendency to speak her mind was one of her failings as a politician. Telling people things they don’t want to hear won’t get many votes.
  4. I disagree, she had a good record as a minister and think she could have done well as a PM.
  5. Your questions make no sense. You present no arguments that any rights are inherent or granted by any god.
  6. Humans over a period of centuries, we are still trying to define what should be rights and what shouldn't. They didn't magically appear out of the ether.
  7. Rights are something humans agree to give each other and make them into law. They are a human invention. All of them have conditions.
  8. God didn’t give you the rights you have today, humans did and they can also take them away if you are not prepared to defend them yourself. Humans could take any right you have away and god wouldn’t lift a finger to help you get it back. I have no dilemma, I live in the real world. Next you are going to tell me god wrote the second amendment.
  9. It started because Putin wants a bunch of Ukraine if not all of it. He annexed Crimea in 2014 and had been fighting a proxy war in Donbas ever since. They even shot down a Malaysian airliner. You would sell out your grandmother to avoid standing up to a tyrant. This is more like 1939 than 1914.
  10. Russia wants regime change in Ukraine. They already started a war.
  11. Sure you can complain about it. Why wouldn’t you complain about losing a right. You can only keep the rights you are prepared to defend. God has nothing to do with it and religions have been more likely to restrict rights they don’t agree with than defend them.
  12. I'm not against rights, I just know where they come from. You go on about women killing babies but all you are doing is removing one persons right and giving it to something else. That's you doing it, not a god so at least accept responsibility and not palm it off on some god.
  13. Every right you have came from legislation written by humans and can be changed by humans. God has nothing to do with it. Equal rights do not exist across humanity. Your truth is your own.
  14. Would't hurt. I think Campbell would have made a pretty good PM but she inherited the Mulroney government baggage and put too much trust in the incompetents running the Conservative campaign. Not Freeland though, she would just keep spending us into bankruptcy.
  15. Tax dollars go to government, not banks. Banks actually pay taxes. https://financialpost.com/news/election-2021/this-is-how-much-the-big-six-banks-would-have-to-pay-if-trudeaus-tax-goes-through
  16. Of course not. I'll ask again, who wrote "God's Right's"? What does god's hand writing look like. Let's see his signature on a piece of paper. Rights are continually being re defined by humans because humans created them.
  17. Humans only have the rights other humans allow them. Women just lost a right when the SCOTUS overturned Roe vs Wade. There is no such thing as an inherent right.
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