Moonlight Graham

If you're a greedy rich person and don't care about the less fortunate in society, you could label that narcissism. However, if you're a greedy poor person and just want the government to give you lots of free money and don't care how its paid for you or that other people are paying your way you could also label that narcissism. People gravitate to parties that further their own interests, generally. Economically, if you're independent or a rich business person you're usually going to gravitate to the right, if you're poor or prefer depending on others (like the government) you'll vote for the left. It's not rocket science. Young people lean left economically because they are typically not independent financially and still often rely on their parents. Getting free money and services from the government isn't much different than getting free money and services from your parents. As you get older you become more financially independent, and you also tend to get more conservative economically as you get older. Until you retire, then a lot of people want the goodies lol and you start becoming a dependent again.

One will be the least rotten. If you let someone else choose your apple for you it could be the most rotten.

Iceland is not a sustainable society. Their population growth has decreased every year since 2009.

They don't care. The "message" isn't going to actually make anyone do anything. 50% of people vote now, they don't care. Elect someone you like or run for office and start your own party. These are the choices. Not voting is giving your power to other people.

I suggest moving to the prairies or to the USA.

So nothing. Got it.

Wowee...the gov is getting tough on China now. Good job being proactive and not reactive there feds! If you see any Chinese espionage happening don't bother reporting it to the authorities, just report it to the media: https://globalnews.ca/news/9280974/china-interference-canada-election-investigation-toronto-businessman/

I have a book coming out about how drinking paint is bad for your health. I don't dislike her, I just don't understand why anyone would care about what she has to say. She has no expertise about anything, she's literally a random person like you or I. We should be listening to scientists not teenager activists. Her economics expertise is also zero. She doesn't mention that western capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty and saved countless lives. It's not as black and white as most college kids think it is, who tend to only see the negative in anything that has power. USA, capitalism, rich people, western civilization, whitey, men...we know the drill.

Self-hating teenager has the answer to all the world's problems, blames the west and capitalism. What else is new? Greta now has a book deal. Where was my book deal when I was 19? Would have been just as cringe and useless.

Guess it takes a media leak of major security concerns that JT was long ago briefed about to get Trudeau to discuss it with China. #leadership https://globalnews.ca/news/9278560/canada-funding-pledge-g20-summit/

OP, now account for age. Most of the unvaccinated are kids or young adults.

Yeah it was just purely coincidence. ?

Canada has a lot of economic assets in China due to decades of trade and manufacturing growth there. Now China is in a powerful enough position to use these economic ties as leverage to scare our government into taking action against them when they commit espionage and other crimes. The solution is to decouple economically from China in order to remove their leverage over our government. Our government is I imagine scared to do this because we'll take an economic hit, which they fear will make them unpopular. The CCP may even have more leverage on our government as the recent CSIS leaks suggest, they may be compromised with money or whatnot who knows. Look at John McCallum, he was a former minister of national defense and then ambassador to China with a China-Canadian wife and was covering for the CCP publicly and making public suggestions for the US to drop the extradition request, and was removed from his post for these comments. The man was very likely compromised. The recent CSIS leaks make this a very real possibility.

Harper wasn't hawkish, he was taking panda gifts from the CCP and licking their boots while selling of our natural resources to them.

Really? It seems pretty clear what happened here. This gov wasn't doing enough about CSIS reports of serious CCP espionage and foreign influence concerns infiltrating our federal government and democratic processes so CSIS got fed up and leaked the story to the press. Why else would they leak it? Then within a week the RCMP makes an arrest and makes it public to the press, the first public Chinese espionage arrest I can remember since 2019 when the Chinese scientists (who received an award from the GG ?) were escorted from the national virus lab in Winnipeg. This government should not need CSIS leaks and NGO leaks about CCP "police stations" in Canada used to intimidate Canadians before they act on very serious national security issues. This government is incompetent. CSIS is doing its job and this gov is not doing theirs.

Wow look who suddenly and conveniently has balls: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/rcmp-arrests-hydro-quebec-employee-on-espionage-charges-1.6152169

America dumped Trump in the 2020 election. They did it again last week. Now it's just up to the GOP supporters to realize that he's done, he's not going to get them the W, especially post-Jan 6.

Desantis is polling a bit higher than Trump right now among GOP and right-leaning independents for 2024 GOP nominee. This would be good for the party and America. Looks like he's going to run partly on the "anti-woke" message, which will appeal to a lot of Americans.

Inflation is prices rising. Price is determined by supply and demand. Recent inflation is largely a supply issue but demand has increased on certain goods/services too. But if you just give people cash you will raise demand because they will want to buy more things with that new money. The inflation will stop when supply chains get back to normal IMO. Housing prices are a different problem pre-dating the pandemic, but still based on supply/demand.

Lots of false assumptions here.

Thanks. My teacher friend said a white teacher in her school told a black student to take off their doo rag because they looked like a gang member. So it happens, however generally all kids should be treated by the same standards of decent behaviour/rules and my guess is black students will typically get reprimanded more than white kids due to economic backgrounds. Edit: (which correlate to behaviour and how well they were raised etc).

What's the evidence that Florida has the best public schools?

I think sometimes teachers from a different ethnicity/culture can misinterpret things due to lack of understanding. Like they don't know what a doo rag is for.

I don't care about this story. But he never gives up a chance to signal his virtue. His entire life he's had VIP access to the healthcare system, hasn't had to worry about money, or a job. Frat boy has the political priorities of a college student. Legalize weed dude.

1. It's not his personality so much as his values. If he's the PM and his values are largely self-serving then he's not good for the country. Canada's highest office shouldn't be a vehicle for someone to feed their ego because daddy didn't give them enough attention. If I find an MP who is in it to serve their country over serving themselves I'll let you know, might be a long wait. The Liberal caucus sided with JT over JWR because JT had been a winner for them, 'nuff said. 2. The big parties in Canada and the US are in the pockets of the big corporations and neoliberalism is fantastic for them but not so good for workers and in the case of China, national security. I've never been a big fan of neoliberalism. And the west has known for decades that they were enriching a beast in China, but it was good for corporate profits and GDP so why would they care? Who knows how many palms the CCP has greased within our legislators, and enough of these careerist traitors in Parliament take it. 3. If certain trade is a threat to national security then sure the government should step in. China intervenes all the time in their own economy. You can label it whatever you wish.