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Oh jeez how about skipping the wacked out conspiracy shit? China owns a lot of Taiwanes companies. China imports shit loads of Taiwanese products, from computer chips to foodstuffs. If they invade and try to take them, the US & Japanese Navy will be in the way and the Taiwanese will blow it all up before they let it be captured. If they try to do like Russia in Ukraine they'll blow it up themselves. They're screwed either way. China only wants Taiwan for 2 reasons: open naval access to the Pacific ocean, and face saving. It won't be like Ukraine, other countries will not just send weapons, they'll actively step in to prevent the first. On the second, China benefits far more financially with the status quo than saving face is worth. But that's also "Western" thinking... who knows in the end.

That's about the lamest reply an ignoroid could make. Better to remain silent and thought a fool than speak up and remove all doubt, bud.

Jeez not only don't understand politics, don't understand economics or capital;ism either! Here's someone saying they trust US Republicans to save Canadian democracy when they're subverting their own to the utmost. Another who seems to think using tax dollars for social programs is bad. No wonder they like Americans, should we spend it on aircraft carriers instead? Yet another who thinks 'corporate taxes' should mean the revenue the gov't takes off their worker's wages rather than their profits. You pay the bulk of taxes, you choose the gov't that gives as much back to you as it can. the gov't makes the rules and business operates by the rules they make. Not the other way where business tells the gov't what to do and the gov't tells you what to do, which is what these same so called freedumb lovers seem to really want.

No people who are stuck in pre Masters^Johnson attitudes about sex and try to use sophistry pointing out just one word of a phrase in an attempt to make it means something else, now they're the ones that 'deviate' from the norm.

The site is called re:politics and most posters here don't understand politics either.

Yeah they only pay lip service and throw them the odd bone. The GOP and Conservatives right out screw workers in the arse and convince them it feels good. Elect a billionaire he'll have worker interests at heart. Reducing the deficit is more important than dental or child care. That's why I no longer vote for either right-wing party. At least the Dems and Libs don't sacrifice lambs to Satan to include their socially backwards beliefs into practice.

FFS Michael you're arguing with someone who doesn't know the word inclusion means everybody and spouts the usual if everybody gets the same, then that lot gets more than they deserve. On top of with the remnants from 1953 who think homosexuality is sexual deviance. How about we just let this thread die like it deserves to?

You all know that Canada is ruled by the center and Mulroney and Harper were the only successful Conservatives in modern times. Now as a known NOT Conservative looking in who has voted for them (Mulroney & BC's Gordon Campbell) in the past I see this great rah rah that they're not "right enough" for most of you. I'm sorry for those of you that don't agree with August and realize as Canadians you have it better than any humans in any time in history, and with Queenmandy that Charest has the only chance, be it not likely. Take the advice from the other end of the spectrum that's so woke they kissed off any chance of success with the wrong leadership choice, there's over 20% of the voters would could rush to vote Liberal if they thought Poilievre stood a chance.

Just held an event here over the weekend, and this town is 50% native. Many Metis, many other who are Catholic. No one I met was disappointed by the Pope's visit. As a matter of fact 100% were pleased by hearing an official apology from the Pope and truly believe this is the start of Reconciliations. Only a couple non-Catholic non-native people even mentioned the Doctrine of Discovery gripe so widely mentioned in the press. Usual comments were 'who they gonna colonize with it - Mars?' or 'they're welcome to TRY to convert people to the Catholic Church in 2022 - Good Luck at that'

No I don't know shit. I only ran an ISP for 31 years and stupidly sent employees home if they were sick. I should have let them infect the whole office so I was short of staff and lost sales and money. And I'd happily talk about the Pope and genocide if the Russian Trolls would stop repeating their lies in every thread.

After decades of "Poking the Sleeping Bear" it may seem like that. It may actually be that to see exactly how China reacts. It will be more sabre rattling. China isn't ready yet, Taiwan has more and better security agreements and promises from the US & Japan and Ukraine is probably a real eye opener to Peking. I wouldn't want to be an American tourist in China today. Canada knows how that works...

Yeah the "it only works 90% so it's no good at all argument". Like I've said here before: I might get the sniffles, but you might die. You're free to choose. Come meet the lady down the street. She won't go to the cannabis store because you never know what the gov't is putting in the weed. (insert theramin music here)

I created a new thread as the old one regarding these Buy American incentives drifted off into 'how the Glorious Yanks Saved Our Ass' instead. The subject is once again relevant. On this last round -no one pointed out something relevant at the time. Prince Rupert BC, it is not just a major Port, it's also the terminus of the Alaska ferry. Huge numbers of people use it and they travel back and forth along the Yellowhead Hwy to Prince George and then to all over Canada, down to the border in Vancouver and onwards. Traffic was growing and there was a push to expand the facilities in Prince Rupert. To qualify for that program at that time, it would have to be built with 100% American steel and American labour. In Rupert, in Canada, where employment was shrinking at the time. A gross violation of ALL trade agreements between the US and Canada. There was even local disagreement at the time with people arguing at least we can sell them burgers and hotel rooms. (Yet another from the 'we'll settle for the least we can get crowd'. It never came to pass, and thanks to Covid hasn't even grown back to the traffic levels in the Times of Trump. Now here again, Biden trots out the same sorry song about EVs being built in the USA entitled to special rebates. A blatant violation of the latest newspeak name for NAFTA. Looks like someone may have pointed this out to Biden as he's talking about maybe, just maybe if we're lucky 'extending the policy to EVs built in Canada'. Like we should be ever so thankful and throw Mexico under the bus begging for favour. I am not suggesting abandoning Free Trade, nationalizing or anything like that. Make a bloody effort to fix things fairly. Fix the big things first not the petty issues like milk and cheese etc.

Cuz a national history of colonial capitalist exploitation just worked so well for Africa. If they'd just work for pennies for a few more generations they could save up and buy their own farmland, right?

Happy for you. My Granma came from Glasgow and was damn proud to be a Canadian instead of the subject of someone else. The ex's folks were from Dunedin and acted like bloody colonizers to their graves. She and her folks said if I didn't leave here my daughter would end up marrying a 'bloody Indian' and can roll halfway over in their graves when I walk her down the aisle in a couple weeks. I'm sure most of them are, but all of them are so politically ignorant they can't tell WHO is screwing them in the ass.

FTFY

Let's expose another anti-vaxxer LIE. You lost your job if you didn't vax because YOUR BOSS mandated it. Because if you infected another worker HIS worker's comp premium would go up or HE could get sued by the one you infected. Not Trudeau nor the Health authorities who only suggested it. Just like the reasons your Boss can can your ass if you won't wear a hard hat, safety boots and glasses or a string tie if you work at OldTime Ice Cream. 100% free market, capitalist policy. Just as the fact that you didn't wear a mask or get the jab no one made you do it, proves beyond a doubt you lost zero freedumb. If you actually did lose your job you chose to by not following the rules of employment. But I'm sure the same handful of you will waste more bandwidth screaming even louder that black is white and night is day.

None when you're an example of people who think talking is all about blabbing and never listening. My ass! The Canada of yore is no more. Good riddance to bad rubbish, like all the rest of "yore". Are you one of those people who think we should restrict immigration to only England because they're all gonna be white and have Cockney accents?

Let's not twist facts make shit up. The Pope called it like it was, and he sure as hell didn't turn tables on Trudeau who's called such that for years. Genocide does not require all the way to the point of marching people into showers and Krupp ovens. And yes. I was schooled that these residential schools were 'just like' the Catholic schools friends went to and at worst private academies rich parents sent their kids to. It decades tor reveal they actually did pry the kids away. they didn't even get to come home for holidays and their culture was actively extinguished. Not one cousin got beaten in Catholic school for speaking Italian among themselves. It was a blight on our history and a national shame. And AFIC any attempt to belittle it's effects makes a person as deplorable as a Holocaust denier. I live in the North among these people and I can see the lasting effects among survivors and some of the children. I was once told by a local Chief that if he hadn't learned what he did in Residential school, he would never have got the skill to be politically active and become Chief, but at the same time there's no excuse at all for what he endured to get that education.

Blockheaded stubborn morons accuse me of being a Trudeau admirer when I've never voted Liberal since I could vote in 1972. Go ahead, assume everyone without F*** Trudeau on their pickup truck is a moron. The fact you have marked you vehicle so makes it easier to avoid even talking to you.

F*** Trudeau is not a strong statement. It's a declaration you don't have the brains to specify what you don't like. Declares to the world what a simple minded moron you are. Now cover the entire side of the pickup box with detailed reasons and how Trudeau had anything to do with them... that would take commitment and be worthy of respect

As for this thread, I have no idea what the hell myata's talking about.

This forum need a couple more moderators who can delete posts, ban users & their IPs. It also needs to be set so new members must reply to a few posts before they can post links, images or start new threads. All those controls are in the Invision settings.... and it still won't stop the spam. I hosted a few forums on my old server bank and ran a few myself. I gradually booted and closed the all, they're just too much trouble to maintain w/o active moderator help.

Yep. Communism is bad, mmmmkay? And he listened. We just sold the summer cabin, nothing wrong with owning one. Where I'd agree with cougar is if you own 2 residential homes and one sits empty. That's how the Empty Homes Tax came about. If you rent them out, own as many as you can. When we bought our first home in 1983 the BC gov't was handing out a $5000 First Time Home Buyer's Grant - that doubled our down payment. Now you'd PAY the BC gov't $30,000 in 'transfer tax' to buy a $1M home in the Lower Mainland. Almost as much as I bought the place I now live in 10 years ago. Get outa the fucking city FFS!

True, Donald Trump still is.