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Aristides

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  1. So when has the CBC done that in reporting the news, not in an editorial?
  2. Everyone has biases. I have them and so do you. Just because someone is telling you something you don't want to hear doesn't mean they are lying.
  3. I never said that. At least they put their name to articles and can be held responsible when they outright lie as Fox just found out. Fact check your sources regardless of who they are.
  4. Hong Kong uses a flat rate. 15% up to $5 million HKD ($874K CAD) and 16% over that. They seem to manage alright.
  5. It is flooding, look at the buildings in the background. The Youtube video is ridiculous but Florence was a Cat 4 storm that had 150 MPH peak winds, killed 54 people and did over $24 billion in damage.
  6. Did you expect that to be in a clip? Really? Damages were expected to be between $1 and $2. Not $2 billion. But your sources don't.🤣
  7. I'll ask one more time, what wasn't factual about that clip? FOX News reporting is no different, factual but selective.
  8. What exactly is your problem with that? They are showing the fires and destruction but he says protests didn't get violent until the evening. Are you saying that is wrong? Are you saying that isn't factual? Based on what? Every news agency selects what they report. FOX news reporting does the same thing. If you don't think your sources do the same thing you are really naive. Sure you are. You know everything about stuff you don't follow. Obviously someone else is telling you what you "know".
  9. I find it hard to believe that the CBC bashers even follow it, why would they? So how do they know it is so bad unless they are just swallowing what others tell them.
  10. Pick any of these subjects and there are exaggerations. I'm not saying MSM doesn't have biases but so does everyone. There is a difference between bias and outright lies. MSM reporting is different from editorial comment. You can't be critical of something like MSNBC's Morning Joe and then accept everything Tucker Carlson says as gospel and claim to be unbiased yourself. For the most part MSM reporting is accurate at the time. At the time, there was no reason not to believe Smollett until police investigation found he was lying, which was reported. The police found he was lying, not your alternative media. At Waukesha there were 6 killed and 62 injured so I don't know what you are talking about. Most BLM protests were peaceful but some were anything but. Are you saying MSM didn't report the violent protests because that just isn't true. There are hundreds of hours of video concerning Jan 6 and those people were there to stop the election from being certified, some by force if necessary. Were not those FBI members held accountable? Did the media not report that? The Freedom Convoy held the people of Ottawa hostage for weeks. The Emergencies Act was overkill but it had to end. Trudeau is not the media but don't you think the media should report what a PM says? MSM reported what government and health officials were saying about Covid and vaccines, they weren't making it up, Should they not report things just because you don't want to hear them?
  11. Yes it is fairly respectable but they make mistakes as does everyone.
  12. Not when it is whatever you want it to be. Assuming alternate news sources are unbiased is very naive.
  13. More a case of people choosing their lies and propaganda in accordance with their beliefs.
  14. Not sure what you mean. If it is about governments paying lobbyists to represent them with other governments, then yes.
  15. 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? History isn't your strong point.
  16. US, World's biggest oil producer.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. I disagree, she had a good record as a minister and think she could have done well as a PM.
  21. Your questions make no sense. You present no arguments that any rights are inherent or granted by any god.
  22. 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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