Aristides
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56 minutes ago, User said:
Of course the Biden administration is forcing this debacle on Israel and I am sure part of that included Israeli forces providing the security element so that it will not be American forces in harms way and getting egg on Bidens face.
So you are saying no one should be trying to get food into Gaza and you approve of Hamas trying to stop it? Or is this just about Biden and not about stoping the people of Gaza from starving?
1 hour ago, Fluffypants said:Worst genocide ever.
History isn't your strong point.
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On 4/17/2024 at 8:43 AM, Nationalist said:
Hopefully Trump will "drill baby drill" and so will Polievre. THEN, once fuel prices subside to a normal level, Iran can be surrounded and cut off. Any attempt to do so at this time will result in oil prices skyrocketing. With that, global inflation.
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On 4/24/2024 at 2:54 AM, August1991 said:
Winston Churchill was born in 1874 - about 60 years after the Napoleonic wars.
Millenials, people born some 60 years after 1945, are like Churchill.
Churchill was a war monger in spring/summer 1914.
https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/did-churchill-want-world-war-i/
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Modern American politicians remember Churchill as a lone guy who, in the 1930s, stood against Hitler. In the middle of the disastrous three decades after 1914, Churchill was correct.
This current world of the 2020s is not like the 1930s. We are not in the middle of a maelstrom.
Rather, we are living in a world like the 1910s. We have had decades of peace, few remember what war is, and we are struggling to create a new structure.
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.
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43 minutes ago, ExFlyer said:
Well, i do not see anything she has not done that has not come from the PM.
Freeland has been a parrot at best and normally just a ventriloquists dummy. She does not speak unless she is looking at the PM (when he is there) and off a script if he is not.
I am sorry but I feel she is Liberal Justins version of Ontario's McGuinty and Wynne, same person wearing different clothes LOL
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.
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On 4/23/2024 at 12:52 PM, CITIZEN_2015 said:
Her biggest mistake was to acknowledge in the middle of her campaign that unemployment will remain double digits in Canada till the end of century at a time that the nation needed hope not despair.
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.
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On 4/23/2024 at 1:02 PM, ExFlyer said:
Kim Campbell was Muloney's version of Christia Freeland....waaaay up the Pm's butt to know any better. No mind of her own, just a PM's hand puppet.
She would have been horrific.
I disagree, she had a good record as a minister and think she could have done well as a PM.
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Drinking the Trump Kool-aid can land you in jail.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/arizona-trump-fake-electors-indictment-1.7184276
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34 minutes ago, Yakuda said:
None of that answers my questions.
Your questions make no sense. You present no arguments that any rights are inherent or granted by any god.
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38 minutes ago, Yakuda said:
Who invented the rights? How were the rights identified and how was it decided which rights would be granted? Id love to hear about the origins of this process.
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.
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5 minutes ago, Yakuda said:
How do humans grant rights then if they have no authority to do so? So if you have no guarantee of any right then you have no right to defend your rights being taken away from you.
Rights are something humans agree to give each other and make them into law. They are a human invention. All of them have conditions.
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23 minutes ago, Yakuda said:
You think you do but you really dont. Where do you get the right to defend against your rights being taken away from you from the people you say have the authority to grant them to you?
Who said anything about authority? You have no guarantee of any rights.
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3 minutes ago, Yakuda said:
According to you have no right to defend your rights since humans give them to you and can take them away. You only have the rights humans give you. To think you could defend your rights yourself is to suggest you have rights not given to you by humans. It's amazing how blind you are to your own biological argument.
Nonsense, I say exactly the opposite. You have no rights other than what you can defend.
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14 minutes ago, Yakuda said:
But by your logic unless humans give you the right to complain you have no right to complain. To assume you can complain about your rights being taken away is assuming you have a right no should be able to infringe upon. It's actually funny to watch you. You enjoy the benefits of a society based on the principles.of God endowed rights but you've bought the nonsense that the govt gives them to you. You seem like a smart person but it's hilarious that you can't see your own dilemma.
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.
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6 hours ago, August1991 said:
Trudeau Snr was born in 1919.
Rich, he travelled in Europe. He saw Europe in the midst of catalcysm.
Kennedy too.
Even Nixon served,
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Our leaders nowadays don't understand war.
But you do.
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1 hour ago, August1991 said:
Disagree.
There is eastern Ukraine and western Ukraine. Like the Balkans,
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IMHO, Russia did not start this March 2022 war.
It started because of a failure of diplomacy. Like August 1914.
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.
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56 minutes ago, August1991 said:
I believe in taxes. To have a civilised society, we must force people to pay.
I just don't think that a civilised society imposes such a tax where only young men pay it.
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But to return to my OP, I am terrified that so many in the US elite - Republicans and Democrats - want to start a war.
They want regime change in Russia.
This is madness.
Russia wants regime change in Ukraine. They already started a war.
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1 hour ago, Yakuda said:
But you are against rights. If humans create rights then they can destroy them and by your understanding if rights come from humans you have no cause to complain about it. To even think you have a right to complain about it would suggest humans don't actually create rights. It's not surprising you cant see the flaw in your own logic.
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.
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2 minutes ago, Yakuda said:
So then it what you say is true stop whining that women no longer have a right to kill babies. Don't whine if slavery is reinstituted or the right to bite is stripped away. They are man made and you get what you deserve. You don't even have a right to complain about not unless humans tell you you can. Your position is untenable but you can't even recognize it. It's sad to watch.
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.
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Just now, Yakuda said:
I'll type slowly for you. No person wants to be a slave not even a person who is in favor of slavery. This would suggest there is an inherent desire to free. It's not taught to anyone but it exists in everyone. Unless you're brain damaged it's a truth that exist across humanity. To observe that fact and to write not down is the same as saying human create that right. It's pure idiocy to think that.
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.
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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.
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1 minute ago, Yakuda said:
So again if I write on a piece of paper, "I saw a cow." then my writing was the cow. Got it.
If you write on a piece of paper. "God said this" doesn't make it the words of any god. Got it.
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Just now, herbie said:
Tax dollars for consumers to shovel more money to the banks? I'm sure they'd love that.
Tax dollars go to government, not banks. Banks actually pay taxes.
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1 hour ago, Yakuda said:
So a human puts a monkey in a zoo, therefore the human created the monkey.
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.
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Just now, Yakuda said:
That's has nothing to do with our God given rights. What right? Sure there is. It's already been pointed out to you. The fact that humans violate the rights of others doesnt mean they are no inherent or God given rights. You're conflating two different ideas.
Who wrote "God's rights" if not humans?
Is it ethical for government entities to become paying members of lobbies?
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Not sure what you mean. If it is about governments paying lobbyists to represent them with other governments, then yes.