Aristides
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1 hour ago, eyeball said:
Carney still had to scrap it.
It will be back eventually.
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22 hours ago, eyeball said:
Perhaps Carney's U-turn on the DST is easier to understand in the context of his past occupation as a tax avoider and making the world safe for capitalists.
The fact the DST was the sharp point of an international effort to negotiate a tax system that curbs multinational tax avoidance is a telling one. That's the real reason Trump objects to it. It probably took a couple of lobbyists to talk Biden into objecting but not Trump.
All the tech giants contributed a million each to Trumps inauguration. This was the payback.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illegal-immigrants-us-jobs-economy-farm-workers-taxes/
QuoteIn 2017 research conducted by the Cornell Farmworker Program, 30 New York dairy farmers told us they turned to undocumented workers because they were unable to find and keep reliable U.S. citizens to do the jobs. That's in part because farm work can be physically demanding, dirty and socially denigrated work. More importantly, it is one the most dangerous occupations in the U.S.
A study commissioned by the dairy industry suggested that if federal labor and immigration policies reduced the number of foreign-born workers by 50 percent, more than 3,500 dairy farms would close, leading to a big drop in milk production and a spike in prices of about 30 percent. Total elimination of immigrant labor would increase milk prices by 90 percent.
It's depressing how many Canadians are so quick to shit on their own country without bothering to ask why American producers can operate with lower prices.
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18 minutes ago, User said:
You just contradicted yourself.
How?
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On 2/24/2025 at 8:02 AM, User said:
This is so backwards.
Canada forces quotas to control prices, which drives up the cost of all dairy products. They have import quotas and pretty much outright block US from selling any dairy at all.
What the US does is buy excess production in America at going market rates so the dairy industry doesn't completely collapse due to insanely cheap prices.
Not even saying what America does is great, but it is certainly vastly better than what Canada is doing and that is why your prices are higher and why all the Canadians I know near the border purchase a ton of dairy products down here when they do along with picking up all their packages they have shipped to border communities...
The import quotas were negotiated by Trump in the last FTA. Tariffs are charged on US product above those quotas. There no tariffs on Canadian product above the quotas because they are outright banned from entering the US. US exports to Canada have never reached those quotas and Canada imports almost twice as much dairy from the US than it exports to the US.
Our quota system ensures user pay, Canadian farmers receive no subsidies from government.
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8 minutes ago, User said:
Is there anyone on the left here who has any integrity?
Don't care. Better than you wanting to keep the garbage here.
By they way... how much of this garbage are you letting live with you? You keep hiding from this question...
Once again... this was not what you claimed before. So what is your point?
They get whatever "due process" they get and off they go.
You might want to grow some yourself. It’s like debating a chameleon.
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5 hours ago, User said:
That was AFTER you first tried to claim they said no. Now you shift the goal posts to arguing they are OK with it after negotiations with the administration.
That is called diplomacy.
Lets review how many stupid, wrong, dishonest comments you have made and run away from so far in the last day:
Miller is white supremacist - Stupid and dishonest
Trying to say Miller and I should be deported too - We are not here illegally, another stupid comment by you
Said the law was not being followed - Failed to cite any such law when asked, you RAN AWAY
Made the stupid "reputation" argument - You RAN AWAY from my showing how it was ignorant and dumb
Claimed there was a court order being violated - failed to cite any such order, you RAN AWAY
Tried to ignorantly argue what if I were in violation of the law and sent off to some other country
Tried to ignorantly argue about shipping US nationals off to other countries
I never said anything of the sort. Trump has banned travel from these countries and now he wants to use them as his garbage can.
The court order forbade their deportation pending a decision whether they would be in danger of death or torture if sent and they were entitled to legal representation to argue their case. -
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You can tell Monopoly is an old game because there's a luxury tax, and rich people go to jail.
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1 hour ago, User said:
That is not exactly what you said. You said they refused to take them, now you are changing your argument to they did accept them.
Not changing anything. I said several posts ago that Trump was using the political chaos in these countries to use them as a dumping ground. If these people are as bad as you say, why would anyone else want them.
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8 minutes ago, User said:
You were the one who asserted they did not. So, what did you base that on?
My comment is IF they accept them, what is the problem?
From your own link:
"Libyan officials reached out to Trump officials in January and February, offering to accept deportees in return for political support for the fragile government in Tripoli, which is threatened by economic stresses and rival militias, according to a senior Libyan official."Maybe read the whole article. It says exactly what I have said. Trump is taking advantage of the political chaos in these countries to use them as a dump.
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5 minutes ago, User said:
So... which was it, were they accepting them or not?
Like you always do, you just throw crap at the wall and if it doesn't stick, you just keep throwing more crap.
However, following your analogy, you want the United States to keep this crap and argue if we don't then that hurts our reputation.
So, how much of this crap do you have living in your home?
Show me where they have agreed to accept them.
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51 minutes ago, User said:
OK, so what are you complaining about then if those countries don't want them? Then they won't go there.
Why do you think we can't send them if they will take them?
The US is trying to take advantage of the fractured political situations in these countries to dump their undesirables. Literally using them as your trash cans.
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26 minutes ago, User said:
Who is the US refusing to take back?
Once again, you dishonestly ignore the context of everything happening here and the facts.
Sudan and Libya both have said they don't want them. Why do you think you have the right to send people who have committed crimes in your country to third party countries? Why shouldn't other countries ship their foreign national criminals to you? Fair is fair.
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17 minutes ago, User said:
What court order?
There are some 8+ billion people in the world. If a country's reputation is based on how it treats them all in not letting 8 billion + people overrun its borders, then the American reputation is no worse than anyone else's.
You clearly have little understanding of how the deportation to third countries works. The vast majority of deportations are to the deportees' home countries. However, some of those countries refuse to take their own people back because they are criminals.
The tiny few, like Garcia, who feel it is too threatening to be sent back to their home country... well, guess what, there are other options!
Too bad, so sad. America doesn't have to be a shit hole landing ground for criminals around the country. If those criminals don't like it, they can take control of their own fate, self deport today.QuoteThe lawyers revealed these details in an emergency motion to a federal judge in Boston who hasalready forbidden the Trump administration from sending foreign nationals to so-called “third-party countries,” rather than their country of origin, without providing “meaningful” notice and a chance to raise concern about torture.
Obviously you would have no issues with other countries shipping US nationals to anywhere they chose rather than back to the US.
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10 hours ago, User said:
You must have missed the part about him not being here illegally.
Im not here illegally either.What law is being violated?
If you think a countries reputation is built on open borders/illegal immigration, go push your own country to have no limits and how many illegal immigrants are you harboring?
A country’s reputation is built on how it actually treats people, not what it claims to be. The court order didn’t prevent them from being deported, it was against having them sent to any old shithole that was convenient. How would you take it if you ran afoul of the law in some country and they decided to ship you to Sudan instead of.back to the US? I take you think that would be acceptable.
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12 hours ago, Army Guy said:
I have no problems with farmers making a living, it seems you don't like a free market, or support the little guy just trying to scratch out a living, most of the quotas are going to big farm cooperation's. W5 did a big story about the milk and egg cartels, and the waste they over produce that gets dumped down the drains,...And we the consumer pay for that in jacked up prices....
if your in favor perhaps every industry should have pricing control to ensure they make a profit , and you pay the higher price just so they can make a living....
And if the Canadian dollar was a little better, and fuel cheaper i would be buying most of my food in the US...
It isn’t a free market when some are being subsidized by government and relying on undocumented labour and others aren’t. The US pays farmers to produce more than they can sell domestically so they want to dump the excess on us because we are the only market for liquid milk close enough that it won’t spoil in transit. So stop the BS about free markets.
One would think a country’s ability to feed itself would be some kind of priority but not for you. You want to hand that to the US along with everything else.
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1 hour ago, Legato said:
How come, did the natives call themselves Americans?
The natives have never owned any land, that's a European concept from the way back when.
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If they did who did they steal it from?
FFS do you actually believe they called themselves American’s? At least Canada is a bastardization of what some of them used to call eastern Canada.
America come from the first name of an Italian explorer. Who by the way, never saw what became the United States.
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I wasn’t happy to see Carney crater on this one but I think we will have to wait while this shakes out and judge the result.
For better or worse, he’s our guy so let’s hope he knows what he is doing.
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55 minutes ago, User said:
Why? Miller is not here illegally.
If folks don't want to be deported there, they can take control of their own destiny today by using the CBP App!
Why don’t you obey the law and not ship people to third party countries.
These creeps are destroying your country’s reputation and everything it claimed to stand for.
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51 minutes ago, User said:
Why? Miller is not here illegally.
If folks don't want to be deported there, they can take control of their own destiny today by using the CBP App!
He is a white supremacist scumbag. The people he deported to Sudan aren’t Sudanese either so why not ship the Ahole to somewhere he has never been, that’s what he is doing to others. You can join him awhile you are at it.
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A friend of mine spent a lot of time in that region maintaining aircraft on UN missions. Millar and co plus his cheerleaders here should be dumped there for a month and see how they like it. Who cares whether they have ever been there, let alone are from there.
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On 6/26/2025 at 10:40 AM, Shady said:
What if somebody is from Sudan or Libya?
They weren’t dumbass. Read much?
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25 minutes ago, Army Guy said:
I know lots of people that travel to the US just to purchase food and gas, i use to travel 45 mins there and back and still save enough to make it worth my while....and for me US milk products taste much better....Canadian producers buy their quotas, and pay huge wads to produce milk, eggs, and milk products, all that quota money goes to the government....and it is worth bils...it restricts who can produce milk, and how much they can produce, over produce and that milk gets dumped wasted....Prices are inflated here in Canada to make it profitable for Canadian farmers....there is no competition, just buy a quota and start milking....it is illegal to sell milk in canada without a quota... you can use it for personal use, but not sell it or barter with it...
You seem to have a problem with farmers earning enough to make a living without government subsidies or using undocumented labour.
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