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NO, sorry but yet again you are incorrect. And i think i touched on this before - apologies if i'm remembering that wrong. China allows some individual ownership of it's industries BUT the gov't is SO heavily involved and controlling of the industries that it is far closer to socialsm than capitalism. As you say - it's not about the name its about the reality. THe state is required to own either directly or by proxy major shares in everything and control exactly what can and cannot be produced and what can or cannot be exported or imported. Capitalism requries a free market. in the real world nobody does pure capitalism because it would have issues, they have a slightly regulated free market to ensure a level playing field. The chinese have no free market. SO what they've got is a socialist economy with capitalistic elements. VS something like ours which is capitalistic with socialistic elements. But you coudln't say china had a capitalist economic model.

Define it yourself. You will anyway - whatever definition i provide you'll claim its something else

Well then i guess there's no nazis anymore because these days nobody thinks its the jews. No, you're not. That's not how logic works. In fact - based on what you've said it wouldn't even be CMCT anymore. It's like saying if you think the gov't should have some control or regulation over industry then you must be spreading communist propaganda because communists think the people should own production. NO - that's not how it works. It's just SO wrong it's disappointing that i'd need to explain it.

No. That's dumb. Faith shouldn't be a substitute for reason for ANYONES reason or fact - facts and reason stand on their own divisible from the individual. Sigh. and the dumb continues.... Well that's great but it's still no substitute for reason or facts. If you came to me and said "the sun will rise in the west tomorrow because my bible said so", i would point out if that's what your bible says your bible is retarded. You can say "no no no no - it will because that's the truth as i understand it" to your heart's content but it won't change the facts. Biblical faith is not a replacement for facts or reason. AND in those cases where what we are talking about is about belief rather than facts or reason'd logic then - you have to recognize that it's YOUR belief and everybody else's beliefs are JUST as valid if 'belief' is relevant. First - the liberal world view has NOTHING to do with facts and very very little to do with reason. Second - 'world view' is not relevant. A fact is a fact regardless of your global stance. Gravity is a temporal distortion which causes objects of mass to move towards each other. That's a fact. It's the same fact no matter how you look at the world. Look at it any way you like, that's still what gravity is. Do not confuse opinion and belief and facts and logic and reason. They are not synonymous. Opinion and belief do occasionally have a relevant spot in discussions but you cannot substitute them for reason or facts.

Awww muffin - considering how often you crap yourself here i'd expect you'd be more than used to the smell Sigh, No brains AND no sense of humour. You must be the life of the party.

The lower mainland in bc. It's a chronic problem. There was an article in the paper just before the pandemic about one hospital taking over the starbucks and keeping patients in there (I'll have a colonoscopy and a late pls. I mean the jokes write themselves. ) This time it was pretty bad, only those who needed specialized care were in rooms, or people who were going to be there longer term, but those who were there for 5 or 6 days were in the hallway. Well the problem is we've got some of the funding coming from the feds, who can turn down the taps whenever they want, but it's the provinces who wear the political heat for it. Before we had "universal health care" we still had it - it was just entirely provincially driven. The federal plan was supposed to make sure everyone could get the same services in all provinces and would fund it because that way it helped provinces who weren't doing so well and shared the cost a little across all the provinces. But they raised the taxes to pay for that - then stopped paying for that. NOw the provinces can't really raise the taxes to cover it because the fed taxes are so high but they don't have the money to provide the services.

It really varies. Some places that's true, some the opposite is true entirely and some lack both. I recently had to spend time in the hospital and the hallways were absolutely lined with gurneys full of people because there were no rooms. It's like that in most of the hospitals around here these days. So - what that tells me is the real problem with our system is it can't adequately adapt to the needs of the communities. They don't hire enough staff, over here they don't build enough facilities, over here they don't have enough seats for training so there isn't staff, over here, etc etc etc. Private healthcare is much more flexible and tends to produce the right amount of care and the right staffing levels with much more accuracy. Which is why you tend to see a bit of a blended system in most places around the world. We're actually in the minority - most places have some private care mixed in with their public care.

But in this case the school was NOT open to debate, or even discussing it with him. So all they had left to force discussion was protest. I'm not a big fan of protest as a method of change at the best of times. I don't think it's been an effective tool for the most part with a few exceptions. But - if it's all you got left ... Kennedy had a saying - "if you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable". And that would seem to apply here. Denying him the choice of having a discussion about it forced them to more extreme lengths like a protest in order ot be heard.

You did not explain it at length in the slightest. Or at all. It cannot be done. Brilliant minds have tried for generations. The states tries harder than anyone else ever has and even THEY admit it's not possible to make sure it NEVER happens. It does happen even tho them. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/sentenced-to-death-but-innocent-these-are-stories-of-justice-gone-wrong And the COST of trying to prevent it is insane. No rational or intelligent person can look at the facts and suggest there's a way to make sure it never happens, other than not doing it at all. Lock them up, throw away the key, let them die alone and out of society. THat's the best we can do. And i did not forbid you talking about your faith. But if you bring it into the discussion, you're going to get made fun of and not taken seriously. Your faith is not a substitute for reason or facts.

Which turned out to be true Which has been posted. Sorry for the inconvenience Who. The vast majority of stocks are down, and as i pointed out the number that have lost 50 percent is at an all time high. So the vast majority have lost money. Yes - but yours are just lies made up in your head with nothing to back them up. I'm talking about real people and have posted the stock market reports that prove that this is happening to people. So sure you can lie. we knew that about you already. Sooooo - i was right. More than 25 percent. Imagine that. And bitcoin has vastly outperformed stocks many many many times. Both assets can go up, or down. Bitcoin actually has the better history for going up. Ahhhhh - actually, YOU chose nasdaq. That was YOU who decided that's what we'd look at. Remember? Now some how YOUR choice is MY fault. Not if you look at the 5 year performance. Many times bitcoin outperformed stocks by a longshot, Take a look for yourself: https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/price/ if you bought bitcoin 5 years ago, your investment is doing much better than the average for the stock market that's for sure. It's still up higher than it was in 2020, and its climbing. Soooo - yeah. Actually a good performing investment over all. And it's going up again. Real estate prices are down to right now - but up since 2019 or so. Is real estate a cccrrraaaazy stupid investment too? Sorry kiddo - any way you look at it you've lost this one. Bitcoin has done very well for those who've invested in it for the most part, and it's performance does go up and down just like stocks and other higher risk investments. It's no different. No you're not. There's no requirement for most of those companies to do an audit, and there is ZERO guarantee they'll share their profits. MOST go without declaring dividends in any given year. MOST of the value in the stock market is in speculation. FURTHER - there's ZERO guarantee the company will have profits to share. WE're about to go into a recession, so many of those companies will be taking a loss. And not only will you get no money for the 'profits' but safe bet your stock values will go down. This is NOT some sort of secured loan. It's high risk speculation. Well you could say the same of a dollar bill. What does it do? PUt it in a drawer and 10 years later guess what you've got - a dollar bill. Yet - people trade in currency all the time speculatively. And bitcoin is becoming a lot more standardized as a unit of actual payment, which gives it a special value. So just like anything out there, because it is limited in amount and actually does have some value it's perceived value is high. Sure - stocks are not a currency. BItcoin actually is a currency so that would make more sens but i've never heard anyone suggest we should change bitcoin to our nations currency and get rid of the fiat dollar. Have you? You sure didn't hear that from PP. He DID say it could be a hedge against inflation and in fact RIGHT NOW that is actually true - it's going up faster than the rate of inflation. But like the stock market it's speculative and volatile so really it's no better than the stock market as a 'hedge' over time. Real estate seems better for that.

the ultimate moderate Oh no doubt many people are prioritizing it differently. But - if we're JUST talking about whether you save money renting vs owning, then what i suggested holds true. And to each their own - but what does anger me is that those same people who DIDN'T care about owning a home and securing their living space will often be the first in line to scream about how nothing's affordable and homeowners don't deserve the equity they've built. Well it gets worse even than that in most areas - there's no money in building a rental building anymore. The only time rentals get build (aside from some specialized luxury rentals) are when govt's force the developer to do so as part of a zoning deal to let them build more strata condos for sale. And that' s very limited. So most rental construction is ACTUALLY condo construction that then gets sold and then THAT person rents the unit out - so all the costs associated with the condo PLUS the developer's profits PLUS whatever the homeowner wants on top get built in, and rents go up accordingly. Not really. Housing prices were actually considerably lower 5 years ago. In additon most people's incomes have gone up at least a those 5 years. The people who are in trouble are the ones who bought 2-3 years ago - those guys are screwed. Their mortgages will be coming up right in the middle of the high cycle and they paid more money than they can get these days if they sell. And they've had no time to pay any significant amount down on their mortgage, s0 they won't be able to remortgage over a longer term.

LOL - you appologize for being arrogant and then go on to be unbelievably arrogant. YOU BELIEVE that god is the one true god. And that's fine. But you DEMAND others accept that as truth. That is not fine. Even god didn't force people to believe in him. Apperently you know better. And it would seem you aren't the slightest bit sorry for your arrogance or rudeness.

Of course you require the obvious stated to you. It is in question as to when a fetus becomes a human being. Prior to it being a human being there is no 'baby' to "kill". So with no real compelling evidence it becomes a moral issue. And what i'm saying is the moral issue should be left to the mother or at least the parents. Not "me". Or you per se. The law. or it doesn't and i can't. Ownership. If i own nothing else in this world i own my own life. The question is - is it moral to make that decision for other people? Now the way you've explained your brain thinking i'd guess you'd say "well it's in the bible", take some verse out of context and demand that we force everyone to convert to your religion because their beliefs are wrong otherwise. But - history doesn't look fondly on such things as the spanish inquisition. So i question how moral your views are or if you're actually able to speak to morality effectively considering .

And has already been pointed out, no it can't. And when improvements that CAN be done to LIMIT mistakes are suggested you freak out at the cost and the time delays. Yet you keep repeating this as if it were true. SO much for 'god's wisdom'.

I'm told jesus and god are related it's literally like the Godfather, it's a family business! Oh and yes, we should wipe out the philistines too.

Pharaoh. The answer is always Pharaoh. Or everyone. Take your pick, Joking aside regardless of whether god is real or not the principles of the christian religion are a pretty reasonable and rewarding creed to guide your life with. As long as you don't substitute it for reason and as long as you don't demand others subscribe. Anyway - i got distracted, are we kicking pharaoh's ass or what?

Because historically you didn't have public washrooms. If you had to go to the washroom in public you just crapped in the ditch or the like. When they DID have them they were more of the outhouse single person variety for most of history. And frankly - i can't think of any parts of history where if a man was recognized in the woman's washroom where it would have been ok with the gents at the time. Edit - side note, for huge hunks of history women weren't allowed far outside the home anyway because they were frequently 'unclean' (periods) and had other 'womanly issues', so it's not like very many of them were attending schools for much of history, and neither would the trans females)

Apparently the girls complained that they had issues with it. Seriously dude, read the stories.

Well obviously that's what we're going to have to move towards as a society.

Two actually, according to the reports. And they both use the female washroom which is what started the whole discussion

Man this guy is just out to ban everyone tonite Don't say anything he doesn't like or he'll bury his head and ignore you

Your words made it fairly apparent, both here and at other times. An unmitigated arrogance about your religion, your illogical and fallacious stance that your god rather than any one else's or any other source is the source of all wisdom, your frequent use of that religion as a crutch you lean on when you don't have a logical argument. Generally speaking i leave people to their faith. I've seen you make many highly questionable religious statements on this forum but as a policy i don't comment on people's faith beliefs, they have their right to them no matter how batty. Seriously i woudln't normally bug even a dedicated pastafarian. So i let it go without comment. But you seem determined to rub your faith in my face today and use it as a pathetic and needy substitute for a rational argument and demand... DEMAAAAAANNNDD that i acknowledge your god as a valid and existential dataset. It isn't, and you're being insulting. So - now you get a talking to about it. There are lots of people that are of true faith and belief. You are not one of them. You are a faux christian who's ideology is a crutch to help him cope with life and arguments he can't get his head around instead of someone who actually has a well founded belief in god. So i will thank you to keep your ridiculous religious rantings out of my face and out of our discussions. In return i will continue to not comment on them generally and leave you to them.

It's kind of a cute saying in the right context, but honestly you're ruining it. We want a gov't to get in. I assume you're not an anarchist Reality and history. Leaders do change countries, and thats a fact. Harper made a number of positive changes. Justin has made a MASSIVE number of VERY negative changes. A new leader can easily make a bunch of positive changes to correct that. Pretending the gov't has no influence or power or that there's never been change after a new gov't got in would just be silly.

Well you need to make up your mind then, because you're flip flopping faster than a pancake cookoff, Your first position was that the chart doesn't show Conservative values increasing because otherwise they wouldn't consider universities something that makes canada better - and when i point out that conservatives DO like universities and WOULD say they're something that contributes to canada you claim that's not what the chart is about. China is a corporation now? Sounds like someone watched 'easy rider' and thought it was a historical drama. You're in the wrong country for crap like that. The right wing never blamed the police for anything to do with any of that stuff anyway - if there was a beef to be had it was with the politicians. Same thing it always has. Police are frequently over stepping and people on the right don't like that. They don't like it when they do it to the left either - many right wing groups spoke out against the kettling at the g7's. I guess you forgot about that. Or just ignored it because it didn't fit your narrative. THey were pissed at the pepperspraying for Chretien's visit to vancouver, and were horrified at his 'pepper steak' joke. It was clear he ordered it and it was unjusified. The difference is the left is ONLY angry when police overreach affects the left, they applaud it whne it affects the right. We were pissed about the things above but we were also pissed at the police breaking into homes to steal guns at High River. Etc etc. So - looks like your memory isn't just faulty, it's also a bit selective.

Or germany for that matter. Of course - they could just declare an emergency and suspend people's rights.