Michael Hardner

1. No but the UN cares and we usually protest such things if not take military action. 2. I mostly hear that argument from hardcore Marxists, so... I don't think it's real. 3. A defense treaty that the West created to protect us from invasion is a cancer ? The metaphor doesn't make sense, even... It's not clear to me that he is. If peace comes out of it, then great. But I don't think his methods are sound in either case.

Do you think Might Makes Right though ? Should we just shrug and accept these things ? The US can withdraw without grandstanding, and keep their international relations intact.

Maybe ? They seem to now be off the negotiating team. People are starting to plan around them, which is exactly what I would expect to happen without clear messaging.

It's aligned with what Project 2025 had documented. The problem isn't Trump, it's the people who elected him. They remind me of the 'proles' in 1984: “If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflection of the voice; at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it.”

Maybe Trump will learn that bringing the used-car-salesman persona into the arena of international diplomacy doesn't quite work.... or maybe the world will learn something. Changing your mind every week isn't conducive to planning, when it needs to be done on a large scale.

I'm zero and one in trying to get to the bottom of it, this year anyway. Honestly, I don't care if it's patronage or if it's glad-handing... If they deliver a good product for Value then I am in.

I'm not sure that it's wielded as a political tool for anyone's benefit. You seem sane, so I would accept any evidence you have... But they don't seem capable of anything like that. And any insight into the management structure would also be informative. It seems to me I asked a similar question long ago with someone and they came back with talking about Marxism. Something about the globe and Mail being a leftist organization etc.

That's where I stopped reading. The newspaper that is owned by the richest family in Canada, is never that has never not endorsed explicitly the conservative party in federal elections, is not leftist. It is not. As such, trying to lay the blame of a center left politics infecting the CBC is not a point I'm going to strain to see in the rest of your post. The CBC television network just doesn't resonate with people, neither does CBC or Global much either. The big hit Canadian shows came from cable startups, presumably run by young people who could see value in proposals that came to them. This point is obvious to me. The idea that people refuse to watch because they are center left doesn't make sense. Sorry.

Might makes right. That is a moral. But it was abandoned because democracy gave people the agency to defy that moral. People eventually determined they didn't want to be pawns on a chess board for Royals.

I don't agree with the framing here. But if I went into details as to what I disagree with, it would have meant to equip all I would just say they misunderstood where they stand. And I don't think that contradicts what you're saying. The last paragraph, I'm not sure of. Harper tried to fix it, and they ended up with with some changes happening. The toughest not to crack, being CBC English television, came close to producing some hits. I think most of us would like for that to happen. I don't think Harper wielded it as a tool of politics, although if he had been successful then that would have been a feather in his cap. I work in information technology, and was interested in working point there at one point... But with no knowledge for how things work internally. A mutual friend hooked me up with someone on the inside, to explain it. Sure enough it was a mess. It just wasn't run in an organized way. Now I do hate it when people say that things need to be run as a business... Because a lot of businesses are run. Horribly. I think things need to be organized, and especially aligned to the people who fund and use the organization. I would wish the same thing on Rogers, as I do on the CBC. I interface with revenue Canada, for a business I run, and I never have a problem with how they do things. They're definitely better than Rogers. However, I suspect they do throw money at problems in order to run as they do. Good conversation, I like talking to you.

I think that I answered. I said I agree with the 'mature minor ' designation.

Say it twice.. 👍

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I don't think they ever felt entitled. I don't think they're that smart. I think they wanted to be relevant and fashionable. The former quality should be almost guaranteed given their position, but I'm sure they could see its slipping away. And they were never fashionable. With the resources they have, they could be Central to our culture, the public forum of record, a source for our entertainment. There is only one thing stopping all of this: management. Management culture for a large organization is pretty hard to change, if not impossible. The inventor of the geodesic dome....R. Buckminster Fuller: Buckminster Fuller A... Visionary could create a new Branch of the CBC, reporting only to the top person. Low overhead, digital, locally produced. Hire young people, young journalists, young content producers. Cbc4 Calgary, produced by Young calgarians. Keep the politics out of it, just cover local news and make interesting content. Cheap and cheerful. This is just one idea. Try it, fail, improve it, repeat. If conservatives and normal folks like it, then you've succeeded. You've created what the CBC is supposed to be. And you didn't spend an arm and a leg.

Does it? If the question is whether the CBC is putting a shine on Carney.. A lot of people only read the first paragraph or so...

I don't think it matters anymore. Greg has responded, it doesn't exactly match what black dog said. I encapsulated the latter's version in the OP. There are many people on this board who know each other on other boards, via email, or otherwise. That's all I will say. There's no point in pursuing this anymore as far as I can see. There are two accounts, and they're not aligned.

We will have to see.

Nothing is worse than death. Fight to live another day. No, I only read the first paragraph. As far as I could see, the thread was not about Carney, but about the CBC. I concurred with the poster based on that first paragraph.

That opening paragraph is a doozy, though. But CBC is going to pull out all the stops because the CPC is an existential threat. If this whole process was being done above board, I might be somewhat upset. But as it is, they're amping up the culture war from their end. Not much point in commenting, even.

I'm being dead serious. He insinuated I had access to some network, which one could reasonably assume was Mossad. Once we put search back I can find the post. The asexual guy who disappeared was Perspektiv... thanks CP.

taxme has some issues... he was, I believe, banned in an earlier incarnation... he uses a VPN to log in, which he accused me of being Mossad when I revealed that.... yes... marginal types...

Basically ACCUSED me of being a Jew, as if that's a crime. I did report that one, I think.

Wow. Good thread 🧵

Well sure, but it would also be interesting to be in a plane crash.

Yes, but this phenomenon IS a problem. It was pretty clear that he'd try to cut Medicare and likely implement Project 2025. People really didn't understand that connection.