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Are you effing kidding? Pull your head out of your Torified arse.

So if we wish that govt acts like responsible business and Quebec and N&L aren't a good ROI we should sell them off. I'm sure Russia would be real interested. That would force the USA to bid even higher. You do post the weirdest things. What the hell is the point of this thread?

And a majority will oppose cutting spending on anything that affects them.

States rights to enact laws written when they weren't even a state. Maybe they can rule the laws from the cornfederate yeehaw part of Arixona and make slavery legal too. BTW just how do you entitle yourself to decide what a woman can do to her own body? Wanna outlaw tattoos and nose rings or too short skirts and shorts while you're at it?

No laggard, according to a wallet. People who want to see action on climate change are not alarmists. Those that don't think we need to are f*cking dinosaurs.

Oh it's scare crap so we can keep our thumbs up our asses for another generation. Like we pretty much did after Al Gore tried to get thing moving. It came from the UN and we don't "like" the UN so we can do squat. China as something to do with Canadian efforts to reduce Canadian CO2 emissions, so let's steer all conversation to China

So gather a mob of like minded people and storm your town's School Board meeting to demand they make china and India do better. ^China is actually doing way more than the USA is...

States Rights to determine women are slaves. Yee haw!

Yes I'm one of those "entitled" that actually believes I deserve a pension. Wring your hands, I don't have to work and you have to pay. Such injustice! [/s]

So your solution is to force poorer nations to go further into poverty because they are the bulk of the problem while we, a nation that can do nothing because you don't want to pay and we're less a part of the cause. Once again by invoking "wealth redistribution" as some sort of Satanic Bogeyman,

No! No! Hillary is a Nazi! She was a woman she must be. That's why reason10 supports a genuine c*nt instead. One that tells people what they can and can't do and will remove the foreign vermin that oppress the workers while he surrounds himself with only the rich and powerful.

It is impossible for ultraconservatives to imagine a Premier or Prime Minister as a CEO, Chairperson administrator. They can only view them as Kings or Emperors as that is the 'classical' concept of leadership. On top of that we're bludgeoned daily with the saga of Donald Trump announcing what "he" will do and his party cowering and falling in line like the sycophants they are. What's needed here is a demonstration of the difference where like the UK and some other Parliamentary democracies, the leader is removed by the Party itself if he/she strays to far from policy. The biggest problem here is that the ultraconservatives have convince themselfes they are mainline conservatives and themselves wander all over the political map on conservative economic policies and only congeal like willnuts* on 'traditional' social issues. *look it up if you don't know

Speculative science, used to be a fan. Larry Niven, Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, etc. That was a long time ago and I never got so freaking senile I confused it as a part of actual science. Many people these days actually believe fiction rather than reality. Too much breathing lead from car fumes and exposure to advertising most likely.

Back in the days when even people who called themselves conservatives had one....

Letting smaller groups of people make decisions is not democracy. It's using the ridiculous concept of 'states rights' that works against nationhood, a historic remnant from pre Civil War times.

The usual "Why should "I" have to pay for someone else (no matter how imaginary)?" Ignoring for the fact you already do and you will pay less this way.... (borrowing the #1 American whine over public healthcare)

Because I live in the province that has it's own climate plan that has its own shortcomings, like zero push for geothermal in the most geologically active place. Also because I have enough sense not to expect instantly shutting off gas and oil, but in reducing CO2 step by step and earning revenue helping other countries at the same time. Got it? There is no black or white, there's only shades of grey. If there's mountain in front of you you climb it one step at a time, you don't sit down beside the guy who gives up or pretends it's not there and mope that Scottie can't beam you to the top.

6 decades of reading and studying with my eyes open is not brainwashing, Listening to what someone SAYS the contents of one book means without thinking yourself is brainwashing.

You mean they were the REAL conservatives that accepted slow changes that must be made, not neofascists that insist things used to be better and want to move backwards. Most people lived through the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s so they f*cking knew they weren't the "good times". Poverty, war, open racism & discrimination, blacklists & political repression. Not the glossed over propaganda that Happy Days and Little House on the Prairie led them to believe. How many black kids in Richie Cunnigham's social circle, school or congregation? Did J Edgar have a dossier on him because he got voted Shop Steward at his first real job? Did the Fonz get drafted? How was life on the farm when someone got the flu or got to old? Conservative meant you believed in the power of the King and the status quo (the rich and the companies) and of the Empire when it existed. But realized change was inevitable and people must adapt slowly. This adoration for what things used to be, the worship of nationalism and church and "order" are by definition fascist ideals, not normal 'conservative ones'.

Just how bloody thick are you? It hasn't been doled out, it has been announced as something in the upcoming budget. THEN it gets debated and voted on and if it fails to pass it causes an election as it's a confidence issue. The exact opposite of a dictatorship.

Announcing things before the Budget is tabled is authoritarian to you? Or do you not know how thing work?

I think the winner remains (from BC Solidarity protests in 1983) "Lesbian Mothers Against the Budget". Queers for Palestine is a good 2nd. Christians For Trump doesn't rate, just so wrong on so many levels.

Repeat: and that is a valid excuse not to even try to do our part? The tiny part we pay vs the cries of abject poverty out the windows of our $1M homes and $60K cars.

Christians for Trump. Hypocrisy has no limit.

Evidence does not matter to people who refuse to believe it. Even if they do, the accepted 1% reduction figure of the carbon tax will be pooh-poohed as insignificant. These are people who've decided that Canada's overall contribution is insignificant so why even make an effort. They need the money from that increase to buy a coffee with their fillup