Michael Hardner

If Zelensky agrees, Trump gets the credit for this. I have to own my own understanding of the world, whether or not Trump gets credit. Changing the meaning of words is what THEY do, not me.

I did a deep dive after the last big release... Years ago. As I recall. The only new information was the names of CIA agents who had been working on this in any respect. Oswald was the lone gunman. Conspiracy culture flourished, though, after this event. Event. It did more damage than the actual assassination.

1. Sorry, I'm a coy boy. 2. Suuure... I suppose that's true but maybe a broader answer is "whatever works"... Blue sky question, in the decades immediately after WW2 were any leaders pushing for our own nuclear option? I honestly don't know the answer...

I was coyly invoking your name, that is true, but really talking about what a nationalist would generally value. Such a small country like this cannot defend itself against two bordering superpowers, so presumably we would be invested in an international framework that prevents imperialism, or at least mitigates against it

What games? I said something and you hopscotched around it, which is a game.

Weirdly, you answered another thing I didn't say.

Stop making sense.

I think we're better off with a pact against invasions. I think that a Canadian Nationalist would likely agree with me, my guess.

More like four years ...

1. People say that, but I don't know if there are examples that either support it or refute it. 2. When it comes to people there's always change. Texas and Alberta were once solidly left wing. 3. We'd need to look at inside information to make a decision. 4. I'd welcome something like a true public forum for such discussions. 5. Lots of institutions die for good reasons too. Like the great telegraph companies, Honest Eds, the Catholic Church. ...

It was the whole UN that time. And because it's an international pact.

I was talking about Kuwait not the second war. The US funded Iraq in the 1980s in their war against Iran.

The populists hate bankers and anything representing order and stability. They're revolutionaries.

Old school... Iraq won its war against Kuwait, then we liberated Kuwait. That was a precedent set by conservative leaders that we wouldn't stand for adventures from rogue states.

I think I was working at their headquarters at Brampton for a while. There was a lot of old Canadian Legacy at play, clearly, in the stiff bureaucracy and the plodding slowness of their decisions. They were doomed anyway. I want to add, pointing fingers such as trying to examine philosophy of causality and free choice is kind of a waste of energy. HBCs management failed. Musk kills children. Some things just are. You can scratch your chin and contemplate the universe all you want but it's not helpful, any more than over-moralizing does.

Pretty sure there is a recession coming.

Yeah maybe? I've all missed the obvious part....

Trusting any politician, especially with something that can't be verified, is a naive activity.

I mean it's a matter of numbers. As I said lots of people did better with freer trade and now when it's at risk of pulling back we see a recession so....

Excuse me? My premise? I don't think I posted a premise on this topic here in the thread. Maybe you intended to reply to someone else like eyeball.

1. More pedantic nonsense. I'm going to move on now.

1. Removing funding for programs that save lives. 2. It's wordplay. I think we know what I mean. One factor in a set of events leading to death. 3. That's a straw man isn't it? Sorry I don't have time to engage in days long pedantic arguments, such as what does "what" mean? These changes have trade offs, and that's obvious. So if you are preparing for a later argument by nitpicking, then just start that argument now and save us time...

No, that it's a crisis 🤣

1. You already stated that and I already responded. 2. Not killing people but causing deaths... 3. ... he is part of the causal change that leads to their deaths but not responsible in all senses. 4. The devil is in the details. If there is a single death that comes as the result of USAID cuts, then my point is true. Then we can talk about how much care should be taken when reviewing operations on this scale. Suffice it to say, as a caveat, that nobody will have the answers on these things, either here or in the room where the decision is made, either before or after the decision.

I guess that's what the architect is happy about then.