TreeBeard

Except the Panama Canal rights were a purchase from the French, not a military action.

@Shady is just Quote mining and fomenting faux outrage. Here’s the actual article which says Maduro described himself that way as part of his propaganda campaign. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2217648/nicolas-maduro-portrait-hugo-chavez

You’re under the impression that the corporations will have to pay for the infrastructure? It’s much more likely that US taxpayers will pay for it. Just like in Canada where taxpayers buy pipelines, or pay to build pipelines and corporations profit from these subsidies.

Did Roosevelt mean invade a country so corporations could profit?

Really? You wouldn’t just chalk it up to Trump lying and his followers following? And once he says something different, they follow that. There’s no deep principle involved with Trump or the American public who follows him. I think the bigger debacle, and more pertinent example, was Iraq Sure. Even when that was proven to be a lie, support for the war was quite high. Virtually no consequences politically for a lie that got thousands of Americans killed and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed.

Have the taxpayers of USA pay billions so a handful of corporations can make millions. Talk about oil subsidies!!

Pretty naive take, no offence. A large portion of Americans seem to love a war. Let’s just take the biggest debacle in recent history, Iraq. It wasn’t for either of the reasons you listed, but got strong support from American politicians (296-133 in Congress, 77-23 in senate). Why? Because they went with how the winds of the public were blowing, and the American public were in favour.

Sounds like you attended Putin University.

Wasn’t it you going on about how Trump doesn’t start wars?

It’s a fake photo.

Reductio ad Hitlerum Always the argument for someone who has no rational argument.

American regime of Trump is not far from doing the same thing. https://youtube.com/shorts/Xc6aKQHFGnQ?si=6VqiLOAB0hXjQAqq

Would you support a Chinese invasion of Taiwan?

There are currently limits. I agree there should be. Now you’re lying and saying I don’t actually want limits. I’m taking a page from @Michael Hardner You’re on ignore until you can be honest.

You ok? You’re not refuting anything I said in my post. And yes, most Canadians are in favour of dying with dignity. https://leger360.com/medical-assistance-in-dying/

The ones in charge of seniors’ homes and palliative care units already offer MAID as it is a right for Canadians to access it. We don’t have military hospitals in Canada, unless you’re counting small medical clinics as “hospitals”. 🇨🇦 Are you just pretending to be Canadian on this forum?

There are already limits. Of course there should be. No one said there shouldn’t. In your opinion. But in actual medical ethics and morality, it makes perfect sense. But you don’t think it should’ve been. You would have rather seen him suffer. Yikes.

Having the option to buy alcohol is coercion to drink? How weak minded are you guys? And the answer is to not allow that “coercion” by not allowing it? Of course not. So it shouldn’t be available for your friend if there is any potential for abuse?

What happened to the slippery slope?

Funded by taxpayers does not mean “government media” as if it’s a propaganda machine. Stop framing it in the manner that the silly weirdo conservatives want it framed.

Under their own direction and choice. Those two things are often the same. It’s compassionate to let someone end their own suffering. So you would leave it up to God if you got an infection and not take antibiotics?

He showed the numbers. That’s good. It gives us actual facts to discuss. Otherwise we’re just discussing the poster’s “feelings”. I didn’t downplay it. The numbers are the numbers. Why should we pay to keep someone dying alive against their will, and take up valuable medical resources to do so? I’m the compassionate conservative here, it seems.

Actual numbers! Un-cited, but let’s assume they’re correct. That’s a drop in the bucket in terms of health budgets. It also allows doctors and nurses to treat other ailments when someone can choose death with dignity rather than waste away taking up a hospital bed. We call that a win-win. A win for rights of the individual and a win for the system. I’ve seen nothing to object to in your analysis of MAID.

So you made up the numbers…. Based on your “common sense”. Can your “common sense” ever be wrong about something?