Moonlight Graham

1. Sure. Some narratives might be based on complete falsehoods. 2. Not sure what that means. 3. Many settlers now honour indigenous peoples with land acknowledgements, that could be seen as thanking, or gratitude. I like the word "detente" that you used. I think some things we can come to peace with. Forgiving past wrongs is easy. The hard part is present politics, where legal battles like treaties/land claims and land rights etc make things real and messy. Politics is power relations amongst humans, sometimes there is no choice but for there to be a winner and a loser. 4. We don't teach a much history in Canada. We are the opposite of Americans like that, we seem mostly indifferent or sometimes ashamed of our history. How odd. 5. Not usually called a racist on this forum since there's fewer progressives here. Been called racist on other forums. I've been moderated on some forums for stating facts. I was recently banned from a popular forum for simply stating pro-choice views. I have progressive friends who get mad at me, and friends of friends who dislike me because I state facts that disagree with their narratives on race and feminism etc. They aren't capable of dialog. People don't like their worldview challenged. I would never post this stuff on my Facebook page with my name attached.

I don't live in America. America provides myself and many other countries with military security, and I'm very grateful, but they don't tell Canadians what do to in terms of domestic policy. They have no rule over me. I do think there's a Canadian identity, even if for some it's weak, but there's other aspects to everyone identity other than "Canadian". I'm an anglo Canadian, for instance. I'm not a French Canadian, but we're both Canadian. I don't think anyone needs to give up their ethnic culture, but politically when a Canadian swears allegiance to the Queen of Canada and their heirs & successors it means that when push comes to shove they should politically support Canada over any other sovereign country. If you have a conflict of interest you shouldn't take the oath, and dual citizenship shouldn't exist. You're free to think of Canada however you choose.

The problem is that different groups of people on each side of the aisle have their own set of narratives they're trying to push that contain truths and/or subjective perspectives that are diametrically opposed to each other because of the reasons I stated (philosophical morality). So people end up just yelling at each other and telling each other how the other's perspective is not complete or accurate, because they typically are indeed missing something. IMO if you are a progressive or conservative you are at least half full of BS and half full of truth. A lot of people are trying to indoctrinate everyone with their selective truth and agenda. Many people are so caught up in their ideology they don't even realize that's there's another set of truths & perspectives out there, and they call the other side evil. Today's progressives and conservatives are so extreme that they often venture into the realm of unreasonable insanity.

In 1492 there was no international law, no UN, no Geneva Conventions, and state sovereignty (borders) weren't even recognized among European countries until 1648. It was an all-out war of all against all, everyone trying to expand territory so a rival country wouldn't become more rich and powerful and conquer them. The indigenous did it amongst themselves pre-Columbus. It was a brutal worldwide situation of warfare and survival and it slowed down after WWII, empires decolonized rapidly, international law was implemented, the UN created. This is Hobbes' "state of nature" on an international scale. And it still exists (no global government) except there's no more territory to expand, and borders are more or less settled for the most part, so peace is more common, but civil war is still common. I don't feel guilty for the British/Canada being stronger than others, because if Africa or indigenous had invented guns and ocean-faring ships etc before Europe they would have done the exact same thing. Those societies were horribly brutal also, and West Africans took war prisoners amongst other African tribes to sell as slaves to Europeans. You have to read history books to learn this stuff, they won't tell you on TV. However, we should have known better about residential schools etc., there's no excuse for that cruelty.

History is one of narratives. A narrative holds a set of truths and perspectives that tell a story, but a story that is incomplete, because it leaves out other facts and perspectives. The left will tell one set of narratives, typically focusing on the bad things the powerful have done and showing the weak to be victims of that power. The right will tell another set of narratives, focusing more on the good things the powerful have done or how the weak have made poor choices that have contributed to their situation etc. For instance: the left will say the rich are greedy, horde their wealth, and take advantage of workers. The right will say the rich create businesses that provide goods/services we all use, create jobs and wealth for society etc. There is truth in both of these perspectives, but the left seems compassionate while the right seem like a-holes. It's easier to seem moral when you're standing up for the weak rather than the powerful. With the indigenous we typically only hear 1 set of narratives. We don't hear how the West brought them medicine and modern healthcare, modern agriculture/nutrition, longer lifespans, tools, literacy etc. We don't as often here that indigenous people pre-Columbus warred, raped, murdered, ensalved, looted, scalped/tortured each other etc at rights far higher than today, or how they had their own violent expansionist empires (Aztec, Incas). Focusing on 1 set of narratives over another is called politics. The guilt for our wrongs is why we focus on 1 set over the other (understandable), while the rest of the truth is inconvenient and therefore downplayed. If you point out other facts/narratives you are silenced and called a racist because these narratives are political & push a certain agenda & policy, which is why you're angry with the OP & want him to leave. It's a conservative's job to tell us what the progressives conveniently leave out, and vice versa. A self-correcting system. Don't fear other facts and narratives Michael, if we listen to them we might find some truth amongst the bullsh!t.

The problem with the yuppies is that they are book-smart but life-stupid. They typically were raised in a well-off middle class or rich family, which means they had almost everything in their life handed to them. Didn't have to work a part-time job during high school or university, their parents paid their tuition for them, and helped them out when buying a home. They do not understand the value of money like the working class does because they never really had to worry about money or work for anything. So the yuppies in government are ok with piling on the debt because they have always had their parents to bail them out of debt or had lots of money themselves from their nice jobs. A lot of teachers are yuppies, they go to university but have no idea what to do with their lives, so they become teachers after they get their English or math degrees but can't get a job with them. They are teaching our kids. Trudeau was also a teacher. The yuppies, pre-yuppies, and wannabe yuppies are destroying society. The conservatives are doing it too by either catering to the rich (like the yuppies do) or by trying to solve problems created by the yuppies but implementing solutions that are stupid. Many conservatives are stupid because they are often blue collar types (low education), or are religious nutjobs. I would elect to government some scientists who grew up blue collar. They are intelligent and logical (evidence based solutions), not educated in the social sciences, and were raised with blue collar values. Yuppie scientists stay away. David Suzuki is an old hippie scientist, a nutjob from the hippie dopesmoking capital of the world: the pacific northwest.

Now where do you find all these demographics? The yuppies live in the rich areas but mostly in the newer suburbs. The pre-yuppies live with their parents in the newer suburbs and rich areas. The wannabe yuppies live with the working class in the old suburbs, which 30-50 years ago were the "new suburbs". Poor urban working class and underclass live in the old suburbs or rental apartments closer to downtown. The older hippies often live urban, either just outside downtown or downtown. The conservative rich live anywhere (could be farmers or urban business people), the white rural types obviously live rural anywhere, and the older working class live in the older suburbs or smaller cities.

I don't think the turn to China has to do with rejection from American business. I think it is as simple as economic opportunity. Foreign direct investment is seen as good for the economy, and it is good for the TSX, but in many ways not so good for the middle class, and especially not the working class. Housing price crisis is a somewhat unexpected occurrence, but also predicable, but the yuppies don't care, they can afford housing and it makes their banker and developer friends very rich, and many of them have investment properties. Making money at the expense of the middle and working class. I do think it's as simple as yuppies, wannabe yuppies (middle class, who can't really afford a BMW or Benz but drive one so they can seem like they can), pre-yuppies, and the working class. Liberals are a party of yuppies run by yuppies for yuppies and wannabe yuppies. There is also the working class who aren't necessarily "progressive" but simply like getting free stuff who vote Liberal, like Atlantic Canada and racist white welfare bums. Conservatives are made of 3 types: the rich, the rural types, and the rest of the working class or older working class. NDP and Greens are for the young pre-yuppies and older hippies who shop at Whole Foods. A pre-yuppy who gets "older and wiser" moves to the right and becomes a Liberal hahaha. The Liberals push yuppie policies while enriching their rich yuppie corporate friends. The Conservatives protect the rest of the rich and push the policies that appeal to the religious, xenophobes, and the blue collar anti-yuppies. The NDP and Greens push policies for the ultra-sensitive utopian idealists. Then there's the Bloc, who are Quebec nationalists. If you don't fall into one of these groups, like a blue collar working class that doesn't vouch for the rich and isn't religious, or a middle class person that isn't a wannabe yuppy, then you have no political representation in Parliament, and you are often a swing voter who are actually deciding elections. You hate Trudeau but don't like Scheer either.

Canada is run by yuppies. That's really the long and short of it. The Liberals are yuppies. These are not blue collar working class types. Immigrants are a lot of things, but they usually aren't yuppies. But sometimes their kids are, or want to become them, because they're raised in a society of yuppies and embrace their values. Yuppies are young well-off smug educated types who think they know better than everyone else.

The Brits defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham. You're our b!tch now. Just kidding. Yeah, getting rid of the monarchy would make Quebec feel more Canadian. But to be honest, Quebec never stops complaining no matter how much anglos capitulate.

What is Usenet? Is that like Freenet? I used freenet on a 2400 baud modem. That's 2.4 kbps. I just realized I've been chatting online since pre-internet. I remember my Freenet was connected to a chat room in Tallahasee Florida and I was chatting to people there. When the World Wide Web became popular you could chat with anyone from anywhere. I remember Yahoo chatrooms.

It was both. Women don't want to tame a wuss. There's nothing to tame. They try to tame the bad boy who will pull their hair in bed.

Have you considered that most people who aren't vaxxed will be young, healthy, and maybe even under 12 depending on what stats you're using? Those people aren't going to die from covid. It will skew the statistics. If you're going to do research you need to account for all variables.

Eyeball was right out the gate. Twice the total covid deaths by vaccinated, but 8x the number of people are vaccinated. That means you're much less likely to die if you're vaccinated. Hospitalizations are also less. Being sick and longterm side effects are also less. Spreading the disease is lessened. So if you want to be much less likely to die, get hospitalized, get sick, have longterm side effects, or spread the disease then go get the shot. Leave the math to your doctor. If you don't trust your doctor then get a new one.

I think that's different. You're talking about multi-nationalism. An American who is from Mexico is still a proud Hispanic, proud Mexican, proud to speak the language etc. They are also proud to be American. A Mexican-Canadian is happy to be in Canada and a proud Hispanic and proud Mexican, but not as attached or proud to being "Canadian". They like being in Canada, they enjoy the rights and privileges and opportunities it entitles them, but how many would bother fighting for Canada? Some I'm sure, others maybe not.

I'm sorry you lost your house. More frequent flooding is anticipated. I wouldn't blame the models.

If you look at NYC, is it much different than the GTA? Labels are just labels. America is multicultural whether they like it or not.

Corona is a hoax. Climate change is a hoax. I also heard that food is a hoax developed by big agri business. We don't have to eat any food so let's all stop for a year and see what happens. I'll report back my findings.

Yupocracy. Government rule by yuppies.

I don't know. I mean, it's not the immigrants fault themselves so you can relax lol, so there's some bad public management going on.

Canada has the lowest # of homes per capita in the G7. Building has not kept pace with population growth.

Tricky issue. 1. I agree, people should be free to wear whatever clothing they want. 2. What if, as a woman, that clothing is forced upon you by the men in your family because your family belongs to a very misogynistic ideological system run by abusive fathers and husbands and they order you not to leave the house without your face being covered, and tell you that you can't shake hands with any male outside the family? Rights vs values.

I'm not talking about just EV rebates. Hybrids seem like a great transitional solution. So you're saying we're on the right track?

Would have you listened to them if they did?

The weather network can predict the weather 2-3 days from now with moderate accuracy using computer models. Models aren't perfect and don't claim to be. They are an educated guess with degrees of accuracy. Climate should be easier to model than weather because weather is much more chaotic and climate much more stable.