August1991
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1 minute ago, robosmith said:
Trump supposedly demanded....
Bush Jnr flew to Nebraska.
Trudeau Snr stayed in 1968.
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4 minutes ago, CdnFox said:
LOL - it will be basically no different than it is now
Sorry to burst your echo chamber
CdnFox,
I am a real person.
robosmith is an AI poster.
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Bush Jnr was in Florida, and then boarded Air Force One to fly to Nebraska.
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In similar circumstances, what would other world leaders have done?
IMHO, Churchill, de Gaulle, Thatcher and Trudeau Snr would immediately insisted to return to the capital.
Putin? No doubt in my mind. He would not have flown to Novosibirisk.
Stalin was afraid to fly but he stayed in Moscow. Hitler died in Berlin.
I suspect that Biden, like Bush Jnr, would follow the advice of his handlers - flee.
Trump? Crazy like a fox, huge ego, he'd insist on returning to Washington.
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On 4/12/2024 at 12:32 PM, Perspektiv said:
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That's a very low standard to set, which is why there aren't any self help books on advice by crackheads sold at Barns and Nobles.
Yet you Americans are successful.
You Americans are successful as individuals - but as a country, you cause so many problems.
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To me, the US/America works/is rich because it is in fact 50 small countries.
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On 4/12/2024 at 12:01 PM, CdnFox said:
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There won't be any to harvest this time. That was a covid thing. They won't be doing the mass mail outs this time around as far as i've heard.
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Disagree. 2024 will be no different.
Biden will win the key counties in the swing states - and he'll be re-elected.
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OTOH, I think that the Dems will lose the federal Senate.
I reckon that it will be 52-48 - so Kamala's vote will not matter.
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On 4/12/2024 at 6:45 AM, Michael Hardner said:
Your belief that a massive system, with oversight from both parties, can be corrupted like this is mind-boggling given the wisdom you post here otherwise.
Do you really think that Republicans are so stupid that they couldn't fix this?
No, this is just Trump relying on the natural suspicion of the establishment to gin up support.
For many years, the Republicans have lost urban counties in California, Illinois and New York.
These counties belong to Democrats - and the Democrats get the electoral votes.
Why? How?
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In Canada, we vote in person - show who we are, scrutineers check: one ballot, we check one name behind a screen
In the US, voting is different.
Americans have zillions of names on a ballot. They can even write a name on the ballot.
They have to register before voting.
Americans have to vote every November or in primaries.
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2 minutes ago, herbie said:
Found anyone who has?
In this Instagram world?
Anyone with a purple finger held high - more than a Rolex - it signals "I live in a democracy."
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11 hours ago, Nationalist said:
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And that's the way it is, this 13th day of April, 2024.
I just now read your post.
I strongly disagree.
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On 4/12/2024 at 10:47 AM, WestCanMan said:
Probably awww-ree lol. Too funny. Makes sense though.
Close.
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Imagine how we now integrate foreigners.
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Robosmith,
I polltely disagree. Whether the US chooses Biden or Trump - or even RFK Jr, America will survive.
Moderators,
I think Robosmith is a robot.
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On 4/5/2024 at 11:12 PM, herbie said:
You know the difference between ballots and census forms? You don't have to fill in every part of the ballot.
That's why Single TranSferable ballots failed here. I have to pick 3 and rank them? Duh, that's too hard.....
I favour permanent purple ink on the right thumb.
Around the world, this would be a signal of voting in a democracy.
You can't vote twice.
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On 4/12/2024 at 9:19 AM, Aristides said:
You mean like all the Scandinavian countries, Finland and Switzerland?
Good old Canadian sense of entitlement. We have a right to be defended. By someone else
Entitlement? If you want it, pay for it.
Canada has never had conscription because of Quebec.
To my knowledge, older Swiss men (not women) serve.
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On 4/12/2024 at 8:41 PM, Army Guy said:
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Leave ancient european history in the past, it's not coming back, today according many smart people in NATO, most countries foreign affairs departments , any western intelligence agency if ask who was the new emerging threat all would tell you it is China, with Russia in second place only due to nukes...
1. Ancient Europe? Why NATO?
2. China? Look at Singapore.
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On 4/12/2024 at 8:29 PM, Army Guy said:
No , we defeated no one. The west out spent the warsaw pact, Russia decided to pull back and broke up the warsaw pact.
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However.
Truman, Nixon, JFK, LBJ made America's win possible.
In 1991, America won.
Then, during the next 20 years, Clinton and Bush Jnr f*.ed up.
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On 2/14/2024 at 1:12 AM, CdnFox said:
Trump didn't run in those elections. And biden wasn't the opponent in those elections.
We'll see. As i've said many times it will come down to the campain, and trump is not a great campaigner. But biden can't hide in his basement this time.
Disagree. Trump is a great campaigner. But he will lose.
The Democrats are far better at collecting, harvesting ballots in a Covid world where some people help other people to vote.
In several key states, in several key urban counties, the Dems will win.
Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan. Because of urban staged voting, all will go Democratic.
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OTOH, the Republicans may win a majority in the Senate.
IMHO, Trump has no chance to win. I am more curious to see what happens in the federal Senate.
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With all that said, wars usually involve foolish young men, between the ages of 17 and 21.
Who is in Gaza now? In Donetsk?
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Misleading title.
With Navy, Air Force -our military has about 50,000.
By comparison, the US with 10x our population has about 1.4 million active military. IOW, the US has about 3x our numbers.
I favour our way of doing things.
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In Canada and the US, soldiers now choose to join. (In Canada, we have always had a voluntary military. Since Nixon, the US has not had conscription.)
IMHO, when a State resorts to military conscription, its leaders are imposing a tax - a weird tax.
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On 4/10/2024 at 9:09 AM, ExFlyer said:
Yeah but the last thing Labrdorians (Labradites?) wanted is to be part of Quebec so they chose Newfoundland and Newfoundland chose them. Wise decision on both parts LOL
The British government in the 1920s (when Newfoundland was still outside Canada) decided that the division would be the headwaters. It decided that Labrador was not part of Canada.
At the time, most people in Labrador were indigenous. Newfoundlanders fished on the coast.
Moreover, most people in the lower north shore (Canada, Quebec) speak English with a Newfoundland accent. They live in places with French names. Blanc Sablon.
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There are places in the world we know with two names: St-Pierre et Miquelon, Bosnia and Herzogovina, São Tomé and Príncipe etc.
Newfoundland is a distinct place. Labrador is different.
I have no problem with a provincial government of Newfoundland within a federal Canada.
There is no such place as "Newfoundland & Labrador".
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On 12/12/2023 at 6:21 AM, Perspektiv said:
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I personally feel they shouldn't be taken seriously.
Its like a crackhead telling you about morals and Jesus.
I see it the same as someone who uses a helicopter to avoid traffic, and flies everywhere lecturing me about the waste I create.
Someone that out of touch deserves to be dismissed.
But sometimes they should be. Sometimes a crackhead says something wise.
And Churchill had special protection when he flew - to avoid traffic as you say.
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IMHO, when Bush Jnr in September 2001 did not fly back to Washington from Florida, the Western world lost something.
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First, I was expecting a bank robber movie lead by a woman. And this movie starts this way! But then it goes awry.
In fact, it's a 1940s female prison movie. I recommend it to 21st century feminists.
It has Jackie C. Gleason (as Jean Chretien, the getaway driver). And Paul Drake (as DeWolf Hopper, son of Hedda Hopper). You can't make this up.
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On 4/10/2024 at 10:48 AM, WestCanMan said:
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I know what you mean though. There are words like "assuaged" and "truculent" that come up often in books, but which no one ever uses in real life.
I probably saw "misshapen" and blazed right by it about 3x before I realized what it was lol. Had a bit of a chuckle at myself.
Laughing - good examples. In a very public way, I once mispronounced "awry". (Imagine how I pronounced the word.)
In English, their and there, or its and it's, are not distinct when speaking- but evidence of education when writing. In French, tu and vous are very distinct - and verb conjugations in particular.
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On 4/10/2024 at 8:45 PM, Army Guy said:
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Yes China is now the new world bad guy, it's NAVY has already larger than the US, meaning it has more ships, but lacks in certain ship types...So yes NATO and other defensive organizations have come into the picture to counter China...
You seem to have no answers...and yet you have already formed your opinion...why is that ?
China? It used to be, for Americans, Japan. IMHO, China is now Singapore. Xi is Lee Quan Yew.
AG, I have some answers and many opinions. I am reminded of Keynes famous response:
"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”
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On 4/10/2024 at 8:45 PM, Army Guy said:
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But Russia still is a combat power that can and will project military strength when ever it feels like...like in Ukraine, Syria etc...and it is not that ukraine is of some strategic importance to the globe, well to most of the world it is just another war saw pact country looking for a home...to Russia it is important, hence why the need to cleanse Nazis or what ever excuse they are using this week.
Now to Europe it represents a threat,....
True. Except for the Warsaw Pact (which no longer exists), you describe a 19th century world of counterweights. A multipolar world.
In 1815, Russia was not a threat to Europe.
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In 1914, this multipolar, multicultural civilized world collapsed not because of Russia or an external threat. It collapsed because a clueless elite lead ordinary people into folly.
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On 4/10/2024 at 8:45 PM, Army Guy said:
Yes there is no more wall, the sun and the moon are that much more brighter, because of it, Russia pulled back
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No. We in the West defeated the Soviet Union. (Russia is not the Soviet Union.)
Kissinger worried about how to create a structure of peace. One key point that he made is that the Soviet Union followed a Marxist ideology - it was intent on dominating the world.
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Let's decide - the Turing Test.
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