
Aristides
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Aristides replied to WestCanMan's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
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Poilievre to Win: Wrap yourself in the flag
Aristides replied to August1991's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
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Interesting but like the US, China will act in its interests. Building cars in Canada might be in China's interest if it means excluding the US from an export market. Not because of what it will do for us but for what it will do to the US. We need to be very careful when it comes to dealing with China.
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All you can do is make assumptions about people you don't know based on your own prejudices. I've never expressed support of Carney, as a matter of fact, I'm as uncertain of him as I am of PP. They are both unknowns for different reasons. You are the one who has made up their mind, not only about the election but what is in my mind and you have no f*cking clue.
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Your own loyalty is so blind that you can't understand how anyone could vote according to their own principles instead of blind party loyalty. Just because I'm not a fan of the Conservatives under PP doesn't make me a Trudeau loyalist, which I never have been. The one time I voted for a Trudeau led party was for his old man the first time during Trudeamania, the first federal election I was eligible to vote in.
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Can't imagine what it must be like to be so paranoid.
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Like I said, the US would be a closed economy. The US is not and cannot be self sufficient in everything. No country can
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Bullshit. I always support whoever wins because I want them to do a good job for the country. That's all that really matters. I've voted for enough losers in my time not to get upset about it or take it personally. I'm not too concerned if either one of them wins. As far as an election being fixed is concerned, no party has ever made that accusation, ever. And this bullshit about pencils. FFS we have been using pencils since Christ was a cowboy regardless of who won. A Trump supporter accusing others of supporting fascism. That's rich.
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He trying to do it by keeping other countries out with tariffs. They will do the same to the US.
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Everyone is dependent on foreign nations for something. To become independent in electricity you will need a bunch more nuclear plants or burn a lot more fossil fuels to generate it because you don't have large amounts of hydro power to generate it. You will end up paying more because you decided to threaten your neighbour for no reason. There was never any threat to your electricity supply until Trump decided to invent one.
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Meme/Cartoon of the Day
Aristides replied to WestCanMan's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
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If your industry is protected by tariffs it has no incentive to improve and compete. This has been shown over and over again. The rest of the world will not lower itself to your level and pay more in order to buy your stuff. There was no threat to shut off electricity, it was the threat of a surcharge in response to threats made by your country to destroy our economy and annex our country to the US. A 25% surcharge was a pretty mild response compared to the threats being made by Mango Mussolini. BTW, it isn't "your electricity", it's our electricity which we sell to you because you need it.
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I’m saying you wind up with backward inefficient industries because they don’t have to compete in the rest of the world. This isn’t 1952 where Europe and Japan were bombed flat, China and Germany India were still 3rd world and the US was the only game in town.
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What you are talking about is a closed economy. The USSR tried that and we saw the result.
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Democrats & Aliens vs. the USA.
Aristides replied to Deluge's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Our birthrates are low so we rely on immigration. We benefited from European immigration during the 19th and 20th centuries but Europe is now peaceful and prosperous so there is little incentive for them to immigrate anywhere. It's not engineering as much as how the world has changed.