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  1. 6 hours ago, robosmith said:

    Which is the student being "blocked"? I don't see anyone trying to get past the "chain."

    Too bad you have NO EVIDENCE for your gratuitous claim that ANYONE is protesting FOR HAMAS instead of the for Palestinian victims of ethnic cleansing.

    Leaving aside who you think is right or wrong in the regional conflict between Israel and Palestine on the other side of the world, that still does not excuse forming a chain to block a person from entering a school because of their heritage. 

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  2. On 4/19/2024 at 8:17 AM, WestCanMan said:

    Keep in mind that the majority of people who are reading/loving Hitler's screed are muslims. Mein Kampf was never banned in the ME and has always been popular there. 

    Hitler is old news, anyways. There's a new breed of hate-mongers who are just as bad:

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    Which is why it's a good idea to be implementing a Muslim ban from the middle east

  3. 4 hours ago, Deluge said:

    Not to worry. Joe's handlers will unleash rainbow power on all of them. They'll be coloring their hair and gender affirming in no time. ;) 

    Affirmative action hires have consequences

    3 hours ago, Aristides said:

    Do you think countries should be able to arbitrarily freeze Canadian assets? 

    If Canada was running around using money to kidnap and rape innocent civilians then why not? 

    2 hours ago, robosmith said:

    Iran has never threatened to attack Israel like Israel has threatened to attack Iran.

    Then Israel DID attack Iran in Syria.

    Israel should have considered (and probably did) the consequences of attacking Iranian soil (consulate) in Syria.

    Of course Netanyahu knows that widening the conflict to include Iran takes some pressure off him for his ethnic cleansing in Gaza. 🤮

    ^DELUGINAL TROLL.

    Iran and Hamas are one in the same. The US has effectively funded both sides of this thing. 

  4. 6 hours ago, robosmith said:

    In REALITY, the only money given to Iran was ALREADY THEIRS and it was held mostly in FOREIGN BANKS.

    Of course you never knew that cause they never told you on FOS LIES.

    Tell that to the Israeli people who have rockets shot at them by Iranian terror proxies and now Iran themselves.

    Like giving Hitler money then saying "oh well"

  5. 21 minutes ago, Aristides said:

    What do you suggest he do?

    1. Muslim ban

    2. Not float a terrorist state 6 billion dollars

    3. Not turn your back on an ally

    4. Not attack a former president when he took out a general of said terrorist state

    Two significant wars have started under Biden and thats related to his weakness. Crazy people chanting "death to America" while YOU are called out for opposing crazies infiltrating your country's boarders. 

     

  6. On 4/5/2024 at 7:32 PM, BeaverFever said:

    Correction:  criminal charged by law enforcement for crimes, only given misdemeanour due to age. 
     

    You must be under the mistaken belief that elderly criminals are above the law due to age. I thought you guys were against “affirmative action.”  

    Nah I just hold to the belief that there's a thing called "public interest" and kicking up a 70 year old for prayer is not in the public interest. Though Joe uses law enforcement like his private hitman. 

  7. 18 hours ago, Nefarious Banana said:

    Nutty university students are not way down on the list . . . they will be running the remains of Canada soon enough.

    Your hatred of everything not left-wing is disgusting actually . . .

    Exactly. Who were first nutty university students who didn't realize that more production is the only way you are going to improve QOL indicators, not slicing the same pie in different ways, are the same clowns whove pushed bizarre DEI policy in every major institution in our society. They are now trying to take over religious organizations thru lawfare in the US now. 

    4 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

    Or a moral sphere that cares about such things.  Ever wonder why conditions for working people are better in Scandinavia or France?

    It's because they regard trickle down economics as fakery, and will crucify governments who go against working people.

    They also remember things over there.

    Smaller landmass and production spread across hundreds more years than Canada probably plays a bigger role in that.

  8. 1 hour ago, Michael Hardner said:

    1.  Well, kind of.  But the big gains in prosperity for the Europeans came when money-lending was allowed, to be used in funding exploration.  And money lending is against the bibles, they had to work on that one.

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_banking

    So - yes Christianity was the foundation for prosperity but after protestantism initiated capitalism as the dominant social force.

    2. I said as much above, yes.  The populists seem to all be calling for 'reform'.  First step might be to figure out what that means.

    The Torah introduced the first measures of the "safety net". The early church did this on a smaller scale as well. Up to that point you sacrificed your child to the gods. 

  9. 24 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

    I'm going to speak over the religious zealots for a second, then come back to them:

    Secular humanists: although you disagree with "the bible" as a source, I have pointed out that a formalized and coded moral code was & is instrumental in establishing a basic roadmap for a cooperative society.  I would assess that many of you believe that "the bible" is being contorted and used by manipulative agents right now, but that you agree that some form of common moral code is helpful, especially where influencers have sucked the air out and created a vacuum of trust.

    Bible likers: you DO realize that "the bible" was not readable until the dawn of the Renaissance, and spawned decades of strife and war once it was PRINTED in the local language for the few literates to read, yes?  "The bible" was only instrumental as a social tool when used by community leaders who were clergy.  They would provide a counter balance, sometimes fractious, to the governing powers of nations.

    There is no such arbiter of morality today.  If you pine for the days of old, then you are pining for a time when there were non-political leaders who would provide moral leadership on issues of the day.  As religion faded, the clergy gave way to academia and other disparate voices.  Today we have performance artists - comedians, actors, musicians - who are providing something like this but with nothing close to the influence, nor the cohesion of a common moral stance that a religious sect would give.

    So I think we're agreeing more than we see.  I would say cultural bubbles prevent us from merging our outlooks and making politics work in the way they did many decades ago.

    While true, once the Bible was translated to a native tongue it was used to teach literacy and everything else The degree to which biblical principals have been implemented in nations is the degree to which these nations have prospered. 

    Loren Cunninghams book "The Book that Transforms Nations" is a good source as it presents case studies ie South Korea. 

    I do appreciate your point and would argue the Bible is the foundation for alot of things, not just morality but concepts in health sciences etc. Of course there's been a progression in those areas but the foundations were laid by the Bible

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