Moonbox

That your first reflex was to proclaim the forum was "compromised" because your post didn't go through is...telling.

Russia is apparently retreating from Kherson now, tails tucked and fleeing to the other side of the Dnipro. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63573387 The only regional capital they managed to capture since February and part of the announced "annexation". Oof.

Sure, but when your arguments are based on rhetoric, there's not much to respond to. I can't comment on those awful wokes yelling at truck owners, nor emotional rants about getting cancelled (which is such a dog-whistle at this point). I've told you lots of times I agree that political correctness has gone too far. That doesn't mean that people should just expect to be able to say whatever ignorant, racist BS they want without consequences. If people focused on the absurd overreach rather than rail generally and hysterically about getting cancelled, people would take those arguments more seriously. I've told you that I agree our climate action has been a combination of wasteful, impotent and corrupt. That doesn't mean that the planet isn't warming. It means we should focus on useful, productive and long-term solutions rather than pissing money away on projects that we already know won't work (see Ontario's Green Energy Plan from the McGuinty era). You're still complaining about Trudeau and inflation, when he's had next to zero to do with it thus far. This is a distraction - something that you don't like (and nobody does) but that's too complicated for most people to understand and thus an easy target for scapegoating. Here are the numbers for the USA. Ours would be near-identical. You can blame the Trudeau government for overspending. That's easy/fair. It is not, however, what has caused recent inflation. That's not how the economics work. You can blame the Trudeau government for a heavy-handed COVID response if you disagreed with it. That's also fair. That doesn't make COVID a hoax, or mean vaccines don't work, that mandates were ineffective or that your freedom was being stolen. The point I'm trying to make is that there are reasonable arguments to make on these topics, but people are choosing to descend into tribalism and hyperbole instead. That is what Canadians rejected in the last federal election. Look to Ontario for the opposite, where a (surprisingly) rational conservative crushed the out-of-touch Liberals and buried them without hysterics.

I mostly agree with everything you say here. I don't know enough about the asylum seekers. I think like most cases, sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad. The Vietnamese refugees from the 1960's and 70's turned into highly productive members of society. That's unfortunately not always the case. The problem is that it's hard to codify it into law and policy without being overtly racist and you rarely have empirical data that suggests, "these people turn out largely as deadbeats, and these people do not". The filtering of skillsets and education, I think, would really help.

Yeah his pragmatism and cynicism got the better of him ?‍♂️

What I meant was Harper as PM made a point of antagonizing China and pointing out it’s not-so-friendliness, and he was right.

first article offers some interesting numbers. Second article is pretty biased and loaded, though it also has some interesting points. family reunification as an immigration policy is dumb (imo). If we’re bringing elderly parents along then there’s no point. You are absolutely right on that. I don’t, but if 30/500 is the ratio we’re obviously netting positive on increased workforce, aren’t we? 470,000 younger immigrants is a large city worth of potential workforce. As I said earlier, we can absolutely have a debate on who we allow to come to Canada, but actually needing people is not really in question, is it? That’s a good post though and does bring up some things that we can actually have a worthwhile conversation about.?

Look at what I was responding to, genius. ?

Oh wow. Totally clueless.

It’s not well-known. It’s an absurd claim that you and the russian circus have repeated a lot. Repeating things don’t make them true, but we know that doesn’t actually matter to you. You know what is well-known? The incompetence of the Russian army. How many generals have been sacked now? 15? 20? How many more months does this have to go before the special operation is acknowledged as a fairy tale and that it’s actually a war? ?

Was time 10 years ago, back when Harper tried to pivot Canada away and highlight their abysmal human rights record. The experiment failed. Trade integration doesn’t build democracy. The less we trade with or have to interact with them, the better.

When you wrote this out, were you having an aneurysm? ?

Who's really upset here though? I'm not the one starting a thread every other day to complain about the latest thing to get my panties twisted. ?‍♂️

When was the last time you saw someone screaming at their neighbour for buying a big ass truck? Honestly? If you want to have a reasonable argument and talk about stuff, stay away from this sort of silly rhetoric. Green energy and climate action has been high on the list of election priorities for probably a decade now or more. The tech is maturing and you're being silly if you're saying nothing of importance has been done. Has enough been done? Probably not. A lot of stupid/wasteful things have been done too. Your take is pretty weird considering how unsupportive you've typically been of environmental causes (IIRC), but now you're complaining that not enough has been done?

I'm promoting a woman's freedom to choose whether or not she has a child, rather than ignorant and backwards trolls whose business it is not.

I have trouble keeping track of what I am. You can't seem to keep it straight. One day I'm a communist, the next I'm a fascist. The only thing that I know is that I just freaking hate freedom! ?

and you're of course basing your assessment on visible demographic trends such as (but not limited to) a generation representing 25% of our population all retiring between 2015-2030, leaving millions of jobs to be filled and subsequently requiring elderly care and health support into older ages than we've ever seen, right? ?

Projection. ? If you spent even 1% of the effort you did warping reality around yourself towards questioning the silly garbage you read on 4chan and reddit, your posts would be 99% more reasonable. Yes. Zelensky is well-known to be Jewish. That's what makes calling him a Nazi ridiculous. Are there Nazis in Ukraine? Answering would require you to define what qualifies as a Nazi, which I highly doubt you're prepared to do but I'd love to see you try. The problem you'll have, of course, is that pretty much any definition you come up with would paint the entirety of Russia's higher leadership with that descriptor. Being an anti-Russian Ukrainian nationalist doesn't qualify, nor does displaying Ukrainian national/historical symbols. The symbol Z after all, is known and banned in many places around the world as the "zwastika" - this is what Russia has been painting their vehicles with. ?

Freeeedom for women to not be allowed abortions. It's the best! ?

I'll see you on the streets protesting, comrade. Down with passport TYRANNY! Those Service Canada FASCISTS are stealing my Freeeedom.

@herbieThis is brilliant. Did you write this yourself or get it from somewhere. Definitely copying it anyways.

It's obvious Michael. We need to get rid of the things that make us MAD and then have more of the things that make us feel GOOD!

So...what are you referring to here? Is there a backlog and delay on passports being issued? This is what qualifies to you as tyranny? Oh boy. or maybe they are dealing with pent-up travel demand from a population that's stayed home since early 2020 and all of the sudden are all coming to get their passports renewed at once. I don't actually know, but the first thing that came to mind for me wasn't that I was being oppressed (and I need to get my passport renewed for the Spring).

I think it's time to walk away from hysterical hyperbole, and start talking and thinking like big boys and girls rather than pretending everything we don't like is TYRANNY or EXTORTION looking to COMPLETELY DESTROY our way of life.

If you want to complain about western MSM, don't peddle a Russian blogger as a reasonable alternative. Here's a middle-eastern perspective: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/7/wagner-group-founder-admits-to-us-election-interference Here's a SE Asian perspective: https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2432002/buried-phones-bribes-and-paranoia-life-under-russian-occupation Meanwhile your silly blog cite refers to "Washington's Waterloo" as Russia army faceplants itself into Ukraine, loses tens of thousands of soldiers, fires a half dozen of its generals in failure, all while accomplishing basically nothing since February. Maybe perspective is your problem. ?