Moonlight Graham

I am nothing. I am everything. I am the alpha and the omega and all the letters in between that i don't know cuz i'm not Greek.

Obama and Biden's foreign policy has been pretty weak. I think they'd be better ambassadors than foreign policy decision makers, but pretty good at domestic policy. I think Trump's foreign policy was actually pretty decent (compared to other POTUS's that is, and minus the Putin-admiring), while his domestic policy was often horrendous because he had zero diplomacy skills. Biden/Obama: soft power (chewy, sweet) Trump: hard power (crunchy, sour) Hillary Clinton: Cold and cranky Trudeau: How do you like my socks?

Well you missed the 1000 lies the Russians make every day. Why do you FOX-heads always parrot Tucker Carlson and Trump's Russia propaganda BS? You on the side of the US or Russia? Putin compromised Trump, maybe the Russians gave Tucker a boatload of cash to parrot their PR. Or maybe Tucker is just an idiot.

COVID is just a small blip in natural selection, whether it was made from a lab or came from a food market. It's quite possible God is smoking a heavenly reefer right now and doesn't give a hoot about COVID. If were a God and created an ant-farm the size of the universe I probably would only have a passing care only some of the time.

Do we believe the Russian gov or the US gov if they are both liars?

Sure please do that. If that happens Canada will just align with China and Russia and let them station missiles and nukes on Canadian soil and point them at America. Canada will also build a giant spy headquarters for them too so they can direct anti-US espionage. Your move ?.

Definite "sell" if you have them. More like luck, but good timing is everything.

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1. Maybe so. 2. Well how would the gov know themselves whether or not to join TPP unless they had reasons it was a net benefit? Our politicians work for us, they're literally our employees and we pay their wages and make most of the hiring/firing decisions. We should be able to demand anything we want from them in terms of justifications for the work they're doing for us. If they want to lie to their bosses (us) or refuse to answer we can show them the door. 3. That's CPC "trickle down" talk, so not necessarily. The devil is in the details. 4. Agree to disagree. 5. It's done all the time, including in the US re: illegal immigration. 6. I expect our employees to tell us the truth. I will vote for liars and swindlers to be fired come next election. 7. Government corruption shouldn't be a left or right issue. 8. Agree to disagree. 9. Maybe. Forums and blogs allow people to discuss things anonymously, which is valuable because there's less fear of being shamed, so there can be more open exchange of ideas. Maybe if you were anonymous you'd be more willing to discuss them. Journalists and politicians have their jobs and reps to worry about. People don't like being accused of being a racist. #CancelCulture.

Mostly national security issues. Vietnam doesn't have the means to buy off our politicians at their level, nor the means to flex global economic and military power over us. Many Chinese actors (gov, private companies etc) don't have good intentions. They steal our IP, infiltrate our govs etc. Why should we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of? It doesn't mean we can't trade with them, just be careful and strategic about it, and maybe not put all our eggs in that one basket.

1. Sure. But were there any anti-NAFTA parties? I probably voted for them. 2. Well maybe explain to the public what we want to join, how it would benefit and not benefit us, and then wait for the responses. I don't remember this being done for TPP. We just sign up, and our gov's contribution is to have it renamed the "Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership" to signal the virtue of our dear leader. Or something. This is supposed to "sell it" to us? Does our gov think we give a rip about titles? It's crooked because our govs do what they can to help out their rich corporate friends. We sold out the country to China and elsewhere for decades. Caring about national security doesn't get you votes or backroom donations through the Trudeau Foundation and Clinton Foundation i guess, or whatever greasy schemes the CPC and GOP use. 3/4/5. How do we "move past this" when our governments are paralyzed with fear by it? Our gov leaders are afraid of being called names. It's shaming our public policy. You're asking us to put our heads in the sand. Are you paralyzed by fear with these conversations? Is it the guilt or the shame? I'm not afraid of uncomfortable but necessary conversations, but our government is, and so are most people. If the gov wants to increase immigration numbers from 275k to 400k+ maybe they should explain how it benefits the country and sell us on it. "Diversity is our strength" is an emotional appeal, it's not a logical argument explaining the national interest. If it's an economic argument, then show us the numbers, we might even agree. People are too emotional to have these convos. They are filled with anger, fear, and shame. 6. Yes these are the corporate interests the crooked politicians bow to. Corporations will always seek profit, we can't change their nature, we can only control gov policy so it benefits us instead of just profit. "But even this is not an issue of consequence...", again you're burying your head. What are you so afraid of? Sure there are other issues, even bigger issues, but that doesn't make other issues illegitimate to talk about, it's a red herring.

What is "my side"? I'm not an economic conservative, i've never been a neoliberal a day in my life. I, like I assume you, don't represent big corporate interests but instead the average working Canadian. I'm also not an authoritarian type who wants to enforce my view on others using the state as the club to ensure compliance, or cancel famous people whose opinions I disagree with. Canceling people who commit rape and sexual assault and start wars is another matter entirely. I'm not a defender of Harper or Trudeau or their vile parties. They're both neoliberal China butt-kissers as far as I can tell and the reason we've gotten into this mess.

Sure. And we were never really given a choice. We were told certain things would be good for the country and then our politicians went ahead and did it. Were the people ever consulted? Did the major parties have much difference of opinion on it to give us a choice about it? A bunch of globalism is just crooked capitalism. Now you can't support exiting the EU to regain sovereignty without being called a racist, or feeling terrible guilt that you yourself might be a xenophobe. All of a sudden the left are a bunch of neoliberals lol. Any sense of acting in the national interest if it hurts the interests of people outside the country is "xenophobic". You can't even close our borders at the beginning of a pandemic without being accused of racism. What a country of cowards and losers. Canada doesn't owe any foreign national or foreign company a damn thing besides following the law. Apparently this is a racist statement. The guilt ridden leftists in the US can't even stop illegal migrants pouring into the country or send the ones they catch home without flogging themselves in shame. There's no reason to hate these migrants, again this is illogical negative emotions. But rule of law and national interest matters.

If he doesn't flee they'll build statues of Zelensky. And then in 50 years some college kids will tear it down.

A bit of globalism is fine, but not to the point of undermining your own country. A typical leftist leader like Trudeau is deeply consumed by emotions like guilt, fear (of offending), and compassion (towards certain people anyways). They want to be the white knight who saves the world, and applauded for it. They won't stand up for the interests of their country if it might make an oppressed person somewhere "feel bad", and they're far too afraid of the potential backlash from being called a racist or sexist or whatever even if it's the right call. Again, there's room for some guilt and compassion, but turning it into an obsession that cripples rationality is simply cowardliness and weakness.

Emotions like guilt, fear, etc can have their place. But when emotions are pervasive to the point of trumping reason, you have a problem. You can see many people all over the political spectrum suffering from this problem, people on the right are certainly not immune. You can have compassion without being paralyzed by weakness. Irrationality is the enemy of rationality. Leftists are paralyzed by compassion/guilt/fear, and conservatives are paralyzed by fear also, and both succumb to anger and hatred, which leads to a dark place. The problem with our politics is that its become so emotional, and therefore illogical.

I think it's a 3-way battle between Batman, Spider-Man and Wolverine. As a kid i would have said Spider-Man. As an adult i shine towards Batman. I think Batman works very well on screen, kind of a film noir. In comics i think Spidey shines brighter than film, due to the bright colors of the costumes of the villains and hero that never quite translate on screen with the same charm. For instance, Green Goblin's costume in Sam Raimi's films was terrible.

Quoted for truth.

Some conspiracies might be true. There's been all sorts of false flags to start wars throughout history. The problem is the layman getting good evidence on theories. Things kept behind the scenes will often be kept there. The bigger problem is not going nutty from paranoia buying into all this stuff when you can't prove a lot of it. Following politics is almost a fools errand. We don't know what's real, and we can't change policies anyways so WTF is the point? We get a vote every few years and that's it. We are all useful idiots, sad to say. We'll be controlled by someone one way or another, it's always been the case. Democracy gives us some choice, but a lot of it is also an illusion of choice.

Gotta buy gold if your money isn't worth anything anymore and you have to pay off your men somehow to keep them from doing a coup on you when all their assets have been frozen in the West.

Fun fact: Chrystia Freeland has a master's degree in Slavic studies from Oxford University. Nice to know at least someone in our gov leadership is educated about the world.

Well Rempel might be right it's just a think tank and the Liberals, Democrats and other govs have been sold on some of the ideas and as a good way to brand them and market them to the public. I don't know of any evidence that WEF actually has any leverage over our government, i assume our politicians choose to use these ideas because they like them. It very well could be some kind of international discussions going on at these meetings among leaders at the highest levels to coordinate policy, who knows. Why should we trust Rempel? Personally I think it's really lame to do international branding like this. Just shows us how elitist and trendy our gov is.

He's not a centrist he's an unapologetic conservative.

Well, at least people who believe in liberal democracy and "freedom". A lot of people come to Canada because they can't practice their religion in their old country. Like Sikhs, minorities in China etc

Going up about another 10 cents on April 1 due to carbon tax. Personally I think they should just tax gas-powered autos and leave the gas alone.