I am Groot

TIL that defending yourself when attacked was 'acting like nazis'. Then again, words like 'nazi' and 'fascist' are just epithets the far left throws at any group they hate. And lately, the number of groups they hate has multiplied, along with the intensity of their hate. Right now, Jews are among the most hated.

Of course, there's still much rebuilding going on!

Gaza is partytown!

Let's not forget the misery of Palestinian 'camps' in the West Bank. Oh the horrors!

The poor starving of Gaza!

We've had the wrong kind of immigration for over fifty years. We've brought in people from cultures that are hostile to ours, with religions that preach violence against us, and encouraged them not to change, not to abandon those cultures and not to integrate. I also disagree about the need for immigrants at all. The idea the population must always expand is a ponzi scheme that is doomed to fail. Let it fail now as we see AI coming on stream and robotics rapidly developing, both of which, separately and together, will eliminate millions of jobs. Countries have lost citizens in the past, their populations dropping, sometimes by half. And you know what happens? Wages go higher, housing costs go lower. Children become valued, and people have more of them. No one can tell me how Canada is a better place to live now than it was back in the 1960s when our population was 20 million. Ireland is importing Muslims from North Africa, and now there are riots in the streets as sexual assaults skyrocket. Just like in the rest of Western Europe. Oddly enough, Poland and Hungary seem to be doing just fine without immigration.

Yeahhhh, no. There's always been greed. Always been demagogues, always been ignorance. Was there less of this a hundred years ago than there is now? The difference was that a hundred years ago, people couldn't vote themselves free benefits because there were no government benefits. Go back a hundred and fifty years, and the government was a shell, with little power to do much, and voting rights restricted to men who owned property. But we didn't have the concept in our collective heads that productive citizens should be taxed to give a healthy man money for doing nothing for an indefinite period. Now we do it for people who weren't born here and weren't invited, who just arrived, sat down and held out their palms!

Note the terror on the children's faces under this not at all staged attack!

The poor starving of Gaza!

Oh yes, the suffering! The poor babies! https://x.com/GAZAWOOD1/status/2055710134026825881?s=20 So many dead! https://x.com/HenryJP55/status/2055389440944607344?s=20 The poor children! Look at the oppression!

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage." - Alexander Fraser Tytler

What planet are you visiting from? I mean, are you mental? An extradition treaty with Palestine? As if the Palestinians would allow punishment of the people they sent into Israel specifically to commit atrocities, and who they now call heroes!! Have you somehow convinced yourself that all these atrocities were done without the knowing support of their leadership?! There was never any famine in Gaza. That was just a lie made up by the Iranian propaganda ministry in concert with Hamas. And war can't be anything but collective punishment, you bozo. God Almighty, there's nothing more determinedly ignorant than the Left in Canada. Credible reports - ie, statements from people who hate Israel. And that's enough for you to justify the 'resistance' of Oct 7? This is how Palliwood works to make the soft-headed, hand-wringing twats of the Left cry and sympathize with them.

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage." - Alexander Fraser Tytler

You say that far too confidently. Canadian businesses refuse to invest in new technology or in training for their people. They survive by bringing in huge numbers of foreign workers from the 3rd world who are willing to work long hours and sleep 12 to a house. Meanwhile, the Carney government has done nothing to free the economy from the jungle of regulations or the heavy taxes burdening and restricting it. I see no likelihood our economy is going to improve over the coming ten years. More likely, it will get worse. What sovereignty are you talking about? The number of foreign citizens in this country will soon outnumber those born here. Most of those new "citizens" are from outside the Western world, and their 3rd world cultures (which we have assured them they should keep) have no respect for the freedoms we hold dear. These cultures and values are what made the countries they fled shitholes. And they will do the same here.

We're only 'under attack' because the Liberals want us to be under attack, and have continually provoked the US while refusing to even discuss trade deals. So growth being driven by the stuff the Liberals are trying to destroy. How ironic.

Nothing can be done to fix Canada's system. It has to be changed to match the better run systems in Europe. But nothing will work until we get more doctors and nurses. Training spaces in medical and nursing schools need to at least double, even if that means bringing in retired doctors and nurses to teach or importing them on temporary visas. We also need more diagnostic machines and technicians. All of which can be solved with more money and willpower. Unfortunately, the federal Liberals have shown no interest in doing anything to solve this, having convinced their gullible supporters that the provinces are entirely responsible.

Hamas recently announced pension payments to the widows of widows of the "Al-Aqsa Flood". Fifty thousand fatherless families will be eligible. Saaaayyy, does that not tell us that most of those killed in the fighting were actually Hamas? And men? You believe everything Hamas says unless it makes Hamas look like liars, then you hand-wave it away. Even now, weak-minded people like you are launching another 'flotilla to bring food to Gaza" where they are allegedly starving. Watch the starving party! https://x.com/GAZAWOOD1/status/2054225083699167343?s=20

EVERYTHING you've said is a lie. You've become a fanatic. Do you drool when you type now? Do your eyes bulge? Are your teeth grinding together even now? Do you have to keep replacing your keyboard because you keep punching it? Well, two billion people are Muslims, so I'd say they were always happy with killing Jews.

You sound very much like 9/11 truthers. No amount of logic or evidence can penetrate your obsession with your version of reality.

What is this propaganda bullshit? GDP growth of 1.2% this year and we're supposed to cheer this? The US predicted rate is 2.4% And please explain this statement to me. How exactly does an increase in energy prices raise factory sales, given that energy is one of the major input costs at factories? with a spike in energy prices driving factory sales

Large-scale change does take a while. But we need to start to get anywhere. And we're not starting. We're regressing. Nothing he's done is going to make any large-scale changes other than driving more business out of Canada through high taxes and high energy costs.

Nobody is 'justifying oppression' against Palestinians based on whatever happened generations ago. Oppression is justified BASED ON THEIR OWN ACTIONS! And what even is 'oppression' when you look around that region? Are they more oppressed than Syrians, Iraqis, Iranians, Libyans, Egyptians, or Moroccans? Before the intifadas began, 42% of Palestinians had jobs inside Israel. There were far fewer checkpoints, fences, and walls. The standard of living in the territories was higher than in any Arab nation other than the oil nations. Then came the intifadas and relentless terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians. As this continued, the checkpoints multiplied, the fences grew, and then became walls. The cruelty and brutality inflicted on Israeli civilians by Muslims is what has sparked the Israeli responses. Not from 80 years ago, but from recently. Your attempt to hand-wave this away with "Muh muh, Jews bad in '48" reeks. Frankly, given their behaviour, I'm surprised the Israelis haven't just physically driven the whole bunch of them out.

Once again, trying to hold up the past as an excuse for the present. "How can we condemn the Palestinians when Jews now long dead, killed a hundred people in a massacre 78 years ago!?! Of course, there were massacres back and forth on both sides back then. Israel wasn't even a country yet, and had no government, and no hierarchy in place to control the various militias. "How can we blame those who slaughter Germans today when the Germans did awful things in WW2!" This makes as much sense as you do about Israel. edit: Oh, and look! Here are Muslim migrants instructing a German woman in what she is no longer permitted to wear now that they are there. https://x.com/Gdams70/status/2054790676840108440?s=20

Here's some reading for you. https://canadiannationalfederation.ca/articles/carney-s-astonishing-approval-rating

Because you seem to be using history as a defense for the actions of the Palestinians today, excusing their behaviour on the grounds that somehow or other you believe Israel's creation was due to a religious reason. How in the hell does that excuse raping and torturing children, then setting them on fire??