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  1. On 8/13/2023 at 8:42 AM, eyeball said:

    You're an example of what happens when society eschews transparency in its governance. People can't tell shit from Shinola.  Multiply you by hundreds of millions if not billions around the planet and...yeah. We're pretty much hooped.

    Mass ignorance and confusion is the biggest hurdle humanity faces. 

    we have transparency and you still can't tell shit from shinola. :) 

  2. 32 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

    Yep.  It's not there!  

    Nope, because what you're linking isn't what you're saying it is.  ?

    Well i'll add 'illiteracy' to your other personality defects :) Amazing how text that is unfavorable to the liberal position magically vanishes when liberals read it.  :) LOLOL!!!

    32 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

    Then why are you complaining about what Tiff did or didn't promise?  ?

    Are you really so stupid you forgot that we're discussing this because of YOUR statement?

    I'm not complaining about anything.  YOU were the one who crybabied that it was all the fault of the people who borrowed money believing that rates wouldn't go up.

    All I did was point out that Tiff SAID DEFINITIVELY they wouldn't go up and people can't be blamed for believing the BoC, which sets the rates, when they said that.

    We then spent the rest of our time with you denying that ever happened, pretending they don't set the rates, demanding that information previously posted be posted again, and somehow trying to blame it all on harper.  :)

     

    when you actually use your brain it's not the worst one out there, but when you get defensive about left wing stuff  your braincells all decide to take a safety-break  at the same time.

    Tiff screwed up, the libs created far more inflation than was necessary which meant inflation was NOT transitory and people who trusted them got badly hurt, and they are Victims. It's the simple truth.

  3. 33 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

    I agree with it being wrong for Canada, but not necessarily wrong on its own.  In a less geographically and/or ethnically diverse country (like we see in Europe) it can make more sense.  

    I stand corrected - i should have caveated my statement with "there may be some areas where it's appropriate'.  It's not evil in and of itself necessarily.

  4. 35 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

    It's even more questionable to assess the net-worth of dictators in police states, on account of the blurred distinction between the dictator's assets and the state's.

    Sure.  And lets be honest - the billionares we DO know about like Bezoz probably in many cases manage to hide a good hunk of their wealth - and some like trump have a significantly over-inflated wealth.

    But you take the estimates etc and do your best.  And as near as can be determined the wealthiest people by and large tend to be a result of abuse of socialistic gov'ts or corruption within those gov'ts. Socialism pays big at the top.

     

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    Either way, I think talking about communism is pretty silly in this context.    

    Well you kinda brought it up :)

    But i think you'll find that people who have lots of money also tend to be people that love power.  And power comes from control.  The idea of socailstic authortarian gov'ts appeals to these people.  Look at trudeau.

  5. 39 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

    If he literally did, then you could literally quote him apologizing,

    I literally did. Go read the article.

    So you're back to sealioning are you? Just demand i repost the same stuff again and again.

     

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    remember debating with you some months ago about how you figured Stephen Harper never lied to Canadians.  As an example of him doing so, I brought up the Income Trusts.  Before he was elected PM, he claimed he'd not mess with Income Trusts.  Shortly after being elected, he gutted them.  According to you, that wasn't a lie.  If we apply your logic to this argument, good 'ol Tiff is off the hook

     

    Oh my god - what elementary school grade are you in that i need to explain this?

    Harper did not lie.  Tiff didn't lie as far as we know.  Harper made a serious error that hurt people and  he apologized.  Tiff made a serious error that hurt people and apologized (to the liberals if not the people)

    There's no contradiction here - except that when harper made a mistake you acknowledged it 100 percent while when the BoC does under the liberal watch you pretend it doesn't exist.

    If we use your logic Harper never promised anything!!!  He simply gave a forecast and then the americans forced him to do something else.

    You do thsi EVERY TIME - the moment you make a mistake in  a discussion you  triple down on it and defend it like a 5 year old insisting there really IS a santa clause!!

    FFS -  the liberals effed up badly - the BoC effed up badly - and people are VICTIMS of their mistakes!! It's that simple!  This is NOT complex! Could you PLEASE pretend you graduated grade 3 at some point and get your head around this?

  6. 8 minutes ago, ExFlyer said:

    I flew up and down the west coast for years (low level in a helicopter). There are lots of waterfalls right into the ocean.

    There has even been suggestions that this water be tankered and sent down to California.

    Point is, there are lots of rivers that can be turned into hydro sources.

    Literally thousands, as per that report i posted.   We don't even have to build large dams, we can do all of what we need with run of river.

    throw in a little solar to help out in the summer and we're good for ages. 

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  7. 4 minutes ago, Aristides said:

    So where will people live and grow their food if you flood all the valleys?

    On the moon of course. I mean - seeing as we're just making up fake bullshit at this point. 

    And seeing as you believe that climate change will wipe us out anyway you'd think that would be more of a concern for you - but strangely climate change isn't real the moment we start talking about solutions.

    You're a joke, and you make climate change look like a joke.

  8. 2 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

    Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Berny Arnault, Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos etc are the richest men in the world.  

    Nope.  Those are only the ones who report their net worth (and even that is questionable).

    Putin for example doesn't - he's listed as having a couple of cars and owning an apartment and earning 140 k a  year american. Same with some of the chinese oligarchs etc.

     

    But its' believed he's actually worth 200 billion - far far and above elon musk at 180 billion

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/28/business/vladimir-putin-wealth-sanctions/index.html

    And when you start doing a little research - you realize that's the case for a LOT of the 'wealthy' in the world and most control their wealth through the gov't.  And-or owe their success to connections to the gov't.

    Socialism pays for the people at the top :) 

     

  9. Proportional representation is one of the worst ideas out there.  It reduces democracy, it does not improve it.

    The only people who like it are people on the far left and far right who know there's no chance that they will ever hold real power otherwise.  It also benefits groups like the bloc because it tends to result in minority gov's (not that we have any shortages there this century, most of our gov'ts have been minority).

    There's the insane national debt, the affordability crisis, our lack of competitiveness,  the immigration issue, the housing shortage, the military issues -  If that's your 'ONLY reason' for voting conservative, if it's a deal killer if they don't - you're not much of a conservative AND you're not well educated on the subject. 

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  10. 2 minutes ago, Aristides said:

    The WAC Bennet dam is over 50 years old. Site C is costing over 16 billion. How many river valleys will you destroy?

    4,287..  Next stupid question pls.

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    BC's two largest lakes, Williston and the Nechako Reservoir were formed by dams. How many more valleys will you destroy?

    All of them.   Next stupid question pls.

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    Again. run of river requires a running river and is dependent on stream flow

    a) - no, they often do small dams

    b) -  a shocking number of rivers actually have running water and lots of it. Do you have any scientific proof that all the rivers in bc are going to go dry anytime soon?

    c) - i've already posted proof that we can easily - EASILY - -provide for all our energy needs for the next 30 years and beyond with run of the river alone.


    See - here's how stupid your argument is -   You CLAIM that global warming is going to destroy the planet, or at least wipe out a large hunk of humanity.  It's a serious threat you claim. We HAVE to reduce emissions!

    And yet - you're arguing AGAINST HYDRO POWER - one of the BEST forms of renewable energy, You think that flooding a valley is so  horrible we should destroy the planet instead.  That's your arguement.

     

    And at the end of the day - this is what it's like with all environmental nutjobs.  You don't want carbon power, you don't want hydro power, you don't want nuclear power - you MIGHT consider solar (wind kills too many birds) which of course can't produce the power we need at all.

    So you hate any solution.  You'd like us to just die.  Well... you go first. Go turn off all your power, throw the keys to your car away, don't burn anything for heat, don't eat anything that took energy to grow - i daresay your complaining will die off pretty quick one way or another :) 

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  11. 1 minute ago, Aristides said:

    Name two.

    I literally just named 2. 

    LOL  is your liberal brain stuck on repeat? Are you broken this early in the morning?

     

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    How many river valleys will you submerge?  

    Ohhh look - the crybaby liberal is trying to change the subject now that he realizes he lost :)   Typical liberal.  You're just another lying sack of Grit :)


    As i have already proven - probably none.  I said we'd likely go more with run of the river style projects and smaller dams. And yes - many run of the river projects also invovle dams - they're just not megaproject dams.

    What a loser you are.  No wonder nobody believes you about climate change. If the only thing you bring to the table is dishonesty then it sounds like climate change is a joke.

  12. 57 minutes ago, Aristides said:

    Dam which rivers? I keep asking you.

     

    Show me the report that says there are none.  I keep asking you.

    The problem is you're a lying sack of crap that keeps 'Asking" for things ad nausium.  I"ve already provided plenty of proof that there's tonnes of hydro capacity - now you want more, then it'll be demanding the plans.

    If you had half a brain or any knowledge of history you'd know there are two more locations on the peace river alone which are suitable for dams and we've known that since the 60's. You can find all kinds of reports on them but just to show they exist:

    he name dates back to the late 1950s when a predecessor company of BC Hydro was exploring the hydroelectric potential of the Peace River. While sites had been identified for the future locations of the W.A.C. Bennett and Peace Canyon dams, further exploration was done to identify locations between Peace Canyon and the Alberta border. In 1958, Sites A, B, C, D and E were identified. By 1978, the current Site C location was confirmed as the best option for a third dam on the Peace River.

    And that's JUST the peace river - there are OTHERS as well. 

    So that tells me you have ZERO knowledge of what you're talking about.  The decision won't be "can we build a dam" - it will be "Should we build more mega dams or should we do more run of the river and smaller dams?"

    Figured i'd give you a chance to hang yourself with your lack of knoweldge - and you did.  What an !diot. 

    So - why the hell should anyone  believe a single thing you say about cimate change?  Given  that you're prepared to lie about just about anything apparently?

  13. 48 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

    our desperation is obvious, but all you've posted is his explanation of what he and the BoC got wrong,

    He literally appologized and specifically said he made mistakes.  the desperation is yours kiddo ?

    48 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

    Nobody said they don't set interest rates. 

    You did.     When i mentioned it you claimed that i was wrong due to my "middle school understanding" of economics. 

    Nice to see you've given up on that lie.

    So the guy who's in charge of raising interest rates  says "THERE WILL BE NO RAISE" - not 'unless the us does' and not "unless i feel like it" -  just "NO RAISE". 

    This isn't going to get any less true. You can't twist, like, delude, gaslight, sealion,wish your way out of it.

    People who trusted the liberals and the BoC and are suffering today as a result are victims.  But of course with the liberals, we're all victims at this point.

  14. 5 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

    So you believe that the wealthy and powerful now want communism?

    Sure,  a number of them do.  Well - something sort of similar to it anyway, various forms of market socialism and such.   Who are the richest men in the world? They tend to be part of heavily socialistic or communistic countries.  Putin for example, MANY of his "Friends",  the chinese upper gov't echelon, the saudi princes, etc etc.

    They enjoy the power more than they enjoy the money - and socialism and totalitarianism is real power.

  15. 1 hour ago, Michael Hardner said:

    Calling my argument a skirt, and asking how it smells is not a response.

    Aye...

    It is a response.  And if it isn't then neither was that.

    Covid is a skirt. Lets not forget that the vast majority of the debt he racked up had nothing to do with covid.  Covid isn't why he ignored repeated warnings  from agencies such as the passport office that they desperately needed to use websites to improve service or when covid ended there'd be a disaster.   Covid didn't "Force" him to create the utterly failed 'arrivecan' app.  Covid didn't cause him to reduce funding to the provinces.

    Covid didn't make him bring in immigrants faster than we can build homes and have them live on the streets and create a housing crisis.

    Covid was 2 years out of the 7 years he's been in power.  It sure as hell doesn't excuse the unmitigated disaster we face today.

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  16. 1 hour ago, eyeball said:

    No, I've never voted for you. Not once.

    Of course you didn't.  That would require voting conservative. And using your brain.  And having common sense.  And being able to tell your arse from your elbow. And disapproving of corruption.  And god knows you'd NEVER allow any of that.  :)

    And it would require  me running for office i suppose,  but honestly i think the other things i mentioned are probably the bigger barriers :)

  17. 37 minutes ago, herbie said:

    and who came after?

    Harper - and we had even better services with him.  He stabilized health care funding, something the libs refused to do, ordered gear for the military (which the libs Cancelled),  the airports and customs and passports all ran very well.  Funny that.
     

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    The guy who was in power when all the mills shit down and the doctors all left,

    Uhhh - harper renegotiated the lumber contracts and they were Very favorable to canada.  Mills shutting down tends to be a provincial issue, not a federal one.

    Likewise the doctors - although truth be told that mostly happened under trudeau.  He's been underfunding the heath system (gave less per person than harper)  so i guess you can blame him a LITTLE for the doctors but if we're being fair it's mostly provinces.

    43 minutes ago, herbie said:

    Yet you're only blaming Trudeau for not fixing the problem and implying bringing back the other guys will fix.

    That is 100 percent true. Trudeau CAUSED the problems.  He was WARNED about things like immigration and the airports, he was TOLD that the arrivecan app was horrible and should not be implemented, he ignored the international trade issues, he has driven business away by the bucketload and claims there's  "no business case for natural gas" when europe and japan are sccreaming for it to get out from under russia, he's busy getting into legal battles with Meta and shutting down the oilsands while ignoring our customs issues and housing issues.

    Honestly - i'd rather have chretien and his people back rather than be stuck with this m0ron and that's saying something. Jagmeet would probably be less of a disaster.  Thiis guy is as bad as it gets.  We have NEVER been worse off than we are under him as far as federal services goes.

  18. 43 minutes ago, herbie said:

    You actually believe a Tory govt will deliver better public services do you?

     

    I believe a squirrel who had ADHD and was addicted to cocaine would deliver better public services.  It's not even 'tory ' or 'grit' -  we had half way decent services under Chretien -   its that THESE liberals and JUSTIN are so amazingly beyond incompetent and so uncaring about the people of this country that they have allowed services to fall to the point where we're now an international joke.

    47 minutes ago, herbie said:

    They'll cut your services. They'll privatize your services and try to tell you they're better, even as you get less and pay more.

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    Shows hoe brainwashed people can get.

    LOL - pot, meet kettle :)  LOLOL!

    They will cut useless services we don't need (like the cbc) and deliver services we DO need at a much much higher level.  which is exactly the way it should be.

    We haven't HAD services to cut! Passports?  a joke.  Airports? An international Joke. Csis? Ignored.  Military? Gutted. Justice? He let the criminals out to kill again and again.  Environment?  Polluted even after signing Paris. Energy? Castrated. Internatonal trade? reduced. 

    They literally don't deliver ANYTHING well. 

    PP will without a doubt deliver FAR FAR better services and frankly if he cut services in half he'd still be delivering twice what trudeau is.

     

    Get your head out of your colon you thoughtless automoton.  Your 'masters' are a disaster the likes of which we have never seen in this country before.

  19. 4 hours ago, herbie said:

    Let's ignore the same in private 'services'. Charging you to use machines that don't take breaks, holidays, vacations or maternity leave like banks. Closing tills, laying off staff. forcing self checkouts.
    Laying off 6,000 Telus ppl in customer service at Telus to go to AI.
    All the usual crap.

    And convincing the public this is "good service".

     

    Ummm - that actually is good service.

    Why would we want people doing jobs machines can do? Are you mad at calculators as well? Or automobiles which have pretty much wiped out the farriers industry? ROFLMAO!

     

    Anyway - the answer to the question is simple. Elect bad gov'ts, get bad services.  You want good services don't vote for trudeau or trudeau light (ndp)

  20. 4 hours ago, Moonbox said:

    Economics aren't a perfect science.

     

    So?  You think the BoC doesn't know that?  Let me put it this way - if you are honestly stating that the BoC did not know that when they made the statement 'there will be no interest increase" then you can hardly blame regular people for not knowing they were incompetent.

    4 hours ago, Moonbox said:

    He didn't "promise" anything, nor did he "apologize" after the fact.

    He did and i've potsed him doing exactly that.  Remember what I've desperately tried to teach you - if you have to lie to make a point, it's not a very good point.  I've posted him making that promise, i've posted him appologiing and also acknowledging they made mistakes.

    This isn't even a topic for discussion - that's what he did, it's black and white

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    Your middleschool view of central banking guidance is cute, but dumb. 

    Oh dear.  We're getting to the point where you're about to have your hissy fit because you're wrong and you can't cope with it.

    There's no Middleschool interpretation of it -  the BoC sets the rate.  They set it if you're in elementary school, they set it in middle school, and if you ever go to university -  it'll still be the BoC that sets the rate.

    But please - educate my ass and explain to me who DOES set the interest rates if not the BoC?

    SO when the BoC says there will be NO INTEREST RATE INCREASE ... not 'maybe there won't" or "it's not looking that way" but rather WILL NOT BE...   Then it's normal for people to rely on their promise.

     I know - i get it. You want the financial disaster we're seeing and the suffering of hundreds of thosuands of Canadians to be Someone Else's Fault.  Anyone but trudeau and your beloved libs.

     

    Sorry - it's the libs fault, not the people who believed their lies or the lies of teh BoC.

    Oh - and i'm sure that it's complete coincidence that the BoC insisted interest rates wouldn't go up JUST BEFORE an electtion - then raised them shortly after.  Completely unrelated of course.

     

    4 hours ago, eyeball said:

    Actually, I believe disaster already has struck.  Almost everybody else is still in frog mode meaning it hasn't registered yet.

    Well if what we're seeing now is the "disaster" then it's pretty tame and we were worried for nothing.

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