Moonbox
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Just now, Queenmandy85 said:
I meant the CPC doesn’t need to have an election this fall. They are guaranteed a big majority so what is the rush? They have loads of money and support. Use the time to refine their message into realistic policy.
If the outcome cannot improve by waiting, then why would you? A guaranteed win now is better than a probably guaranteed win later, especially when the status quo is guaranteed incompetence.
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22 hours ago, DUI_Offender said:
Considering how many social media political personalties that have been found to have been paid off to spout disinformation of various social media campaigns, i find it highly likely that this is also the case with political commentating forums.
We have already caught paid Russian trolls posting here, copy-pasting the same goof content across different country's forums. They are pretty rare, but we do have a lot brain-dead monkeys who nod and "Yup yup yup" with what they're posting.
22 hours ago, DUI_Offender said:I find it impossible that this is a Canadian political forum, and that most posts consist of ideas consistant with Russian disinformation, and pro-Trump posts, in spite of most polls indicating that about 75% Canadians have a somewhat to negative view of Trump.
Thoughts?
Angry, disillusioned losers tend to end up complaining a lot on the internet. Trump is the Lord of this Manor, and his mooks are very vocal.
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On 8/30/2024 at 7:33 PM, herbie said:
Y'know those that are gonna comment how JT's recognition that there are problems amount to failure or weakness because he changed his mind a little instead of 'doubling down'.
He already doubled-down. This wasn't a problem that crept up on him and only became apparent recently. Giving him any credit for this policy reversal is like appreciating the driver for taking his foot off the gas AFTER he crashed through the convenience store window.
I don't agree with Groot on his overall attitudes towards immigrants, but he was absolutely right criticizing 500,000 new immigrants a year, and the TFW program has been a debacle he was also correct about. The fact that this exacerbates a crippling housing crisis that everyone ALSO saw coming and that Trudeau did nothing but encourage for his entire term shows everything we need to see about the man's general incompetence.
He deserves to lose. The Liberals deserve to lose. They deserve to lose badly.
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They can collect. How much energy they put into it is another question. They know how much money you're making, so they're not going to spend effort chasing you down for tens of thousands if they know you're broke and can't pay.
If you're screwing them around and it's a decent amount of money, they'll come, and they'll make you miserable.
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21 minutes ago, Queenmandy85 said:
The NDP has no reason to force an election. They have no money and little support. Neither does the CPC.
The CPC has plenty of support, and I imagine ample money.
21 minutes ago, Queenmandy85 said:Mr. Poilievre needs time to pivot from his tendency to issue glib but stupid one liners and mature out of his student politician personality.
I don't think time is going to change him. This is who he's always been and what he's always done, and he's never had a real job in his life.
21 minutes ago, Queenmandy85 said:He should enjoy the rest of the year as leader of the opposition. He is guaranteed a large majority but then he will have to deal with a Trump administration and all of the other nightmares that comes with actually having to govern.
I don't think a year helps him at all. I don't think it hurts him, but whether the NDP actually withdraws support (rather than pretending) and they put this pitiful government out of its misery, or they let it suffer it out to the end of term, it's not Poilievre's decision. He'll be there to assume government and we'll see what he's actually capable of at that point.
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On 9/4/2024 at 5:44 PM, Army Guy said:
This is your Problem, I fully 100 % agree with what i've posted and backed it up with sound sources,
You fully agree with what you've posted? Wow! No kidding!
On 9/4/2024 at 5:44 PM, Army Guy said:it is obvious to you that you've interrupted those sources in a much different way...which is fine, you do you...
This isn't about interpretation. This is about you bullshitting. No only have your sources frequently not said what you claim they said, they often contradicted you. All of those maps you posted in this thread were from ISW, and it couldn't be any clearer that you haven't read their write-ups or what they were actually saying about them.
When someone disputes what you claim a source or citation is saying, the intelligent way to clear that up is to show where it did. It's not like you weren't given plenty of opportunity to do so. The fact that you chose instead to ignorantly and persistently plow forward, trolling about how we just didn't like what your source was saying, or that we couldn't handle it/couldn't get over it, is deliberate garbage-posting .
You don't get to pretend you were arguing in good faith when you do that.
The worst thing I've said about you personally (after earlier defending you) is describing your tendency to settle on strong opinions before knowing anything about a topic. Your opinions are worth as much as wet farts if you can't reasonably support them, and that's some real snowflake thinking if you feel otherwise.
This board is full of obnoxious, ignorant opinion-shouters who only see black-and-white. If that's what you're here for, you do you, I guess. Just don't expect any respect for it, because it's not deserved.
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On 8/30/2024 at 9:29 PM, Army Guy said:
Look, it may be a game to you, but when i post something you are interrupting wrong, when i correct you you revert back to your original statement which was wrong, we continue to do this over and over...It is frustrating for both sides to have to continue to retrace the conversation, while still tackling a new post...the conversation is just one huge circle...or it seems that way to me...It gives me the impression that you are doing it on purpose to derail the conversation or your not following
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black...
When I respond, I do you the courtesy of actually addressing specific points you're making. I don't just full-quote your entire post and then ramble off the exact same thing I've already said dozens of times before, not even acknowledging your arguments.
How many times did you link us maps of Eastern Ukraine showing Russia "advancing", despite the fact that nobody ever argued they weren't? How many times did you claim I "didn't like your sources", that I somehow disputed them, or that I needed to "get over" what they were saying? How many times did I explain that I have no issue with them, but rather how you use them - your poor logic, your contradictions and bad conclusions, and how these sources don't share those with you?
If this nonsense gets addressed a half dozen times, and you don't acknowledge that and persist with the behavior, how can we possibly believe you're interested in an honest, back-and-forth debate? Spare us the whining about marshmallow insults about other people trying to derail the conversation if you're going to troll us like that. Some of us have tried to debate with you here, but if you're not acknowledging our points then we may as well be talking to a brick wall.
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6 hours ago, Army Guy said:
Still can't get over the fact that Russian forces have been and still are advancing, those are just facts, facts you can not deny...
I've nothing to get over. I know it's happening. I'm not disagreeing with that. This line of argument is as dopey as all your others on this topic.
6 hours ago, Army Guy said:Debating without personal insults is not your strong suit is it...i don't recall judging you let alone insulting you or your opinions, I think i'll end this conversation on that point. Thanks for the talk.
Such a thin skin.
If you don't want people to mock your reasoning then don't argue yourself into a corner and make yourself look silly.
If all that matters to Russia is the amount of territory they gain, and if their casualties and material losses don't matter, then the Kursk incursion is a catastrophic setback, isn't it? Ukraine has just cancelled out a year's worth of Russian "progress" in three weeks. I'm using your logic here, so if anyone needs to get over anything, it's you.
Thanks for the talk. 🙄
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23 hours ago, Army Guy said:
An argument that is backed up with sources that don't see it like you do...The fact remains Russian troops are advancing and doing it in several areas of the map...some of those same sources have described those advances as substantial...SO no i would not describe it as foolish but factual...
Those sources argued that advancing is advancing, or that hundreds of thousands of dead and irreplaceable equipment losses were worth creeping forward ~20km in a year, in isolated sectors of a ~1000km front? 🤔
No, they did not. That was just you.
As I said, it was a foolish argument to begin with, and it looks doubly foolish now that Russia's given up the equivalent of a year's worth of their grinding, wasteful offensive.
23 hours ago, Army Guy said:Russia's chain of command is not worried about the cost in manpower or equipment...but rather in every meter of ground taken...
Then losing an equivalent of one year's worth of creeping gains over a few weeks must be a catastrophe for them, right? 🤣
This is yet another foolish argument that even a moment's consideration would discard. That doesn't appear to be your strong suit though. The opinion always seems to come first. Any consideration of the facts or reasoning behind that opinion is a distant afterthought...
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I think we should try to understand where some of the resentment against experts comes from, and also how they themselves are not always above politicizing issues.
Doris Grinspun didn't just come out and say that safe injection sites save lives - an objective analysis she's qualified to offer. She went political and came out swinging with an accusation that this was a death sentence (by Conservatives). There's an implied maliciousness to the decision, with no acknowledgement or analysis of the costs or the repercussions these sites have on their communities (something she's probably not qualified to offer).
It's definitely not helpful when you have dinks like Poilievre doing everything he can to undermine experts for cheap political points, but out-of-touch academics and biased/self-affirming public sector reps do a lot to undermine their own positions.
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43 minutes ago, User said:
But of course, that is exactly what he thinks Ukraine should have done... just throw those troops back onto the front somewhere...
I don't really know what he thinks. The stuff he's saying here has been nonsense.
43 minutes ago, User said:Some of the best strategy you can do in warfare is force your enemy to respond to you. Keep them having to guess and have to move resources around.
Ceding ground, inflicting heavy casualties and stretching an attacker's supply lines and logistics is another time-tested strategy. I guess these sorts of concepts are taught only to the officers and planners in Canada's military...evidently not the enlisted.
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On 8/19/2024 at 4:29 PM, Army Guy said:
Funny i thought i had already proven that fact to you, even gave you colorful maps so you could follow along...
Funny indeed, because all you "proved" was that you had to zoom in so far we were looking at individual villages and streets to see any progress at all.
Your argument that "advancing is advancing" looks pretty foolish now, considering Ukraine's captured an amount of territory in Kursk in a few weeks equivalent to what Russia struggled to take in Eastern Ukraine over a whole year. It's almost like throwing away manpower and material on attritional frontal assaults that accomplish next to nothing is bad military strategy...🙄
On 8/19/2024 at 4:29 PM, Army Guy said:What brand is that ?, let me guess the Russian cheerleading crowd that brand....or perhaps the the i'm a disgraced soldier brand, i'm not sure what brand it is any more...
Nothing like that. I give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you don't actually want Vladimir Putin to win.
I'm talking about the low-info brand of easily-shaped populist whose opinions are informed not by knowledge or even curiosity, but by whatever the talking heads are saying on TV or online. Knowing next to nothing about something doesn't seem to stop you from having a strong opinion on it.
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8 hours ago, Perspektiv said:
Paid? That is disturbing.
Thats like renting a car that doesn't have a muffler or brakes.
Same question comes into play: "You're going to pay for that?!" "Can't you just walk?".
He was caught red-handed posting the exact same posts on Australian and UK forums. The guy who discovered it quit the forum and deleted all of his posts, but those of us who saw it, remember. He's textbook troll-farm, and let's be honest...the people working there aren't the world's best and brightest.
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On 8/17/2024 at 10:33 PM, DUI_Offender said:
You just used a YouTube video, of a twice convicted pedophile. He is a disgraced man, who hates the USA.
athos doesn't warrant any actual response, beyond mockery. This is a paid Russian troll, and he sucks at his job. 🤣
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On 8/16/2024 at 8:57 PM, Army Guy said:
At what price is it going to cost Ukraine....this incursion is not going to change anything...not for Ukraine, not for Russia, at most it is a temporary moral booster for Ukrainian troops, which will be short lived...and completely forgotten in a few months. In the big picture it was a waste of time and lives....
Funny. Maybe we should talk more about Russia's phenomenal progress in eastern Ukraine .🙄
More and more over the last couple of years, your opinions seem to just fall in line with whatever the rest of the "brand" is saying.
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2 hours ago, User said:
"Even prevents food and medical aid from getting in."
That is a lie any way you want to dissect it.
Israel is not preventing food or medical aid from getting in. Go look up the definition of prevent. He doesn't have to include "any" in the sentence.
For your absurdist interpretation of what he said, and for it to qualify as a "lie", he definitely does. You can prevent "all", "most", "some" or even "none" of something. You've assumed and now insisted on the absolute dumbest of these options.
By your boolean logic, Ex Flyer is a liar if a single cookie or Tylenol tablet made it through the blockade. A rational human being would therefore toss that logic aside and quickly contextualize what was actually being said. Since nobody would seriously argue that literally no aid whatsoever was getting to Gaza, a rational human being would land on a more reasonable interpretation.
Not so, for the blind idealogue.
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32 minutes ago, User said:
You tried to claim Israel was not letting in any medical aid or food. Its just an outright lie or spoken with no regard for caring about the truth... a lie.
No, he didn't. What he said was:
"Israel has Gaza completely surrounded, no way in or out., Even prevents food and medical aid from getting in."
Once again, you're so ideologically blind that you're left arguing absurdities. Unless Israel's blockade is not preventing any food or medical aid from entering Gaza, then the above statement is true and your accusations of lying are nothing but limp rhetoric.
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22 minutes ago, Nationalist said:
An article from March…
It’s amazing how reliably you’ll make a fool out of yourself when prompted. 🤡
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3 hours ago, Nationalist said:
We? Are you going to fight?
One step closer to the Russians seizing Odessa, right? 😂
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12 hours ago, CdnFox said:
They don't tho. In fact the reports from CSIS suggest they overwhelmingly favour the liberals in canada. We had a bot on here for a bit and he pitched the hell out of the left wing.
I don't suppose you have a citation for that, do you?
The Chinese influence case we were talking about earlier this year, that certainly seems to be the case. Otherwise, I've not seen or found anything from CSIS saying anything remotely like that.
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On 8/7/2024 at 3:25 PM, sharkman said:
The recession that Warren Buffet has been preparing for since the beginning of 2023. He currently has 278 billion pulled out of the markets waiting for the drop. While the masses are saying, “what recession?”
You don't understand why Warren Buffet pulled money out of the market, nor do you have any clue what he's actually saying, or what his strategies are. You like referencing him, but you're only regurgitating garbage-takes off social media that, rather than quoting him or having any understanding whatsoever about what's going on, make their own uninformed conclusions based on little/nothing.
What's Michael Burry saying these days, by the way? 🙄
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On 8/5/2024 at 12:56 PM, sharkman said:
It’s funny, I seemed wrong a couple of years ago when I first started warning about a serious recession. Today everyone knows about the danger.
No, you've been vaguely warning the sky is falling for years, copy-pasting twitter garbage, and citing charlatans and crypto-bros. Nothing you predicted has come to pass.
Recessions are inevitable, so eventually you'll get one, but the financial apocalypse you were hoping for has unsurprisingly not arrived.
On 8/5/2024 at 12:56 PM, sharkman said:The EV market is in upheaval of sorts, for various reasons. In a few years, hydrogen technology may have become the answer, and you may be on the wrong side of history again.
In a few years, the EV industry will be bigger than ever, hydrogen will have not yet taken off, and this will just be another feather in that wrong-headed cap of yours.
On 8/2/2024 at 1:00 PM, CdnFox said:I wonder. It really does seem like the ev market is relatively niche and that niche has been largely serviced at this point.
Right now it's too expensive, and it will be fore some time. Things like Trudeau's 2030 targets are pipe-dreams especially in the context of Canada's overall affordability (housing, grocery etc).
EV's are not going anywhere though.
On 8/2/2024 at 1:00 PM, CdnFox said:There seems to be a lot more interest in going back to plug in hybrids, which do make a lot more sense as a general use vehicle till the tech makes that last jump
Yep.
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On 7/31/2024 at 9:36 AM, Nationalist said:
You know a nerve has been struck when the Libbie hoard react in unison like this.
No nerve. This is just useless copypasta. The only people falling for this sort of tripe are geniuses like you.
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16 hours ago, taxme said:
The company halts that project because they have finally seen the light. The EV industry is over. No one is buying those EV vehicles any longer. They are a pain in the butt and after owning an EV for ten years, a new EV battery will cost the owner around $10,000 or even more to have to buy a new battery.
You're going to look really silly in a few years, lol.
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Federal money for the CFL
in Federal Politics in Canada
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My comment was from a year ago, when they had the second-lowest attendance in the CFL behind Toronto.
If the CFL isn't struggling, then they don't need federal money though, do they?