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Moonbox

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  1. What a great coping mechanism. Any time something comes up that challenges your worldview, "It was fAke neWs dEep-staTE pLant." ? That black-and-red "Glory to Ukraine" banner that was pushed in front of Chrystia Freeland? Those were well-known KGB agents.
  2. about as remarkable as a confederate at the trucker protest. Of course one you'll blow out of proportion, and the other is apparently harmless. What's really telling is that you actually convinced yourself the censors were scrubbing the former from the internet, when it's painfully clear that they are not. It's a fantastic example of how you manage to delude yourself on such a regular basis. I'll assume it was an honest mistake, and that you just don't know how to internet.
  3. Take it as a point of pride that he doesn't. That's one of the few people on this forum I've muted. I've yet to hear a reasonable thing come out of his mouth.
  4. Right!? It's almost like you were completely full of BS when told us those awful Libby ISP's were scrubbing it from searches. To see that on CBC of all places must have short-circuited a few people here! ? You've demonstrated at best a very shaky grasp of history, especially when it comes to Ukraine. Oh here we go. ? "____ is well-documented" or "____ is well-known" is the trumpet blast signaling the launch of a foolish conspiracy post. The fact in question is generally not well-known or well-documented, but that doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is that the goofs squawking to each other on 4chan etc have repeated it among themselves enough that at least they believe it. "Darn you fact-checkers! It is WeLL-kNOwn." ?
  5. Your truth, your "alternative facts". At least Contrarian isn't dogmatically following a brand like you. Your positions are as predictable as they are lacking in nuance or objectivity.
  6. Unless people start having more babies, we need the immigration. Canada's entire economy relies on constant growth and we're still very underdeveloped. We can talk about where that immigration comes from and who qualifies to get in, but not allowing the immigration isn't a realistic option anytime soon.
  7. and again, here you are with your silly, emotional hyperbole. Next time you want to complain about the poor truckers getting "smeared", remember how consistently unreasonable your own language is. ?‍♂️
  8. People care about gun control, but it's not high on the priority list. I'm not sure how you take that comment and pivot into a general whinge-post about nothing/everything at the same time. That sort of looks like a myata-post. Sorry.
  9. It is, huh? https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/freeland-nationalist-scarf-1.6372995 That gosh-darn MSM and the woke mob big tech are out there scrubbing the interweb to hide the fake totally real Nazis. ?
  10. That part is true, but at that point in time nobody cared about gun laws. I'd argue even now that gun legislation is very low on the list of average Canadians' prioroties. Maybe I missed something, but I don't recall Trudeau anything but fully supportive of mandates once they got over Theresa Tam's myopic and incoherent handling of the early days of the crisis.
  11. Maybe you're asking the wrong questions, about the wrong things, because suggesting Jewish Nazi leading Ukraine is foolish beyond words.
  12. You're breathing different air than the rest of us if you think Trudeau won the election over guns, which was way down the list of voter priorities during a pandemic lockdown. ?
  13. I agree 100%, but there is noticeable overlap between the Republicans and the more right-wing part of the Conservative base. Those are the politics that the rest of Canada firmly rejects, has for a long time, and will likely continue to reject. There's always middle ground. It's a question of who is willing to accept it. There are those willing to compromise, and those who are unwilling. Agreed, but what the centre looks like is up for debate. Judging by the squawking on these forums, I'm a far-left Libby, which I've never heard in my life up until the last couple of years. If a lifetime (but not diehard) conservative is what folk consider a lefty/libby, I don't really know where that leaves us on compromise.
  14. You can do or say whatever you want my man, but crying foul about unkind media attention when your own hysterics and hyperbole are so regularly on display makes you look kind of silly.
  15. This is the sort of hysterical rhetoric I was talking about in the other thread bud. You can't complain about how the trucker protestors were portrayed in the media and then slap these sorts of gems down on the forums. Maybe pull some quotes from the article or something, rather than just a one-liner and a paywall link.
  16. You're only making yourself look foolish, so yeah, I'll be okay. ?
  17. That's how Justin won the last election. Just deciding that the science isn't real because it doesn't fit your worldview isn't really how it works. Canadians watched what happened in the USA 2016-2020 and they decided they'll bear 4 more years of Trudeau instead of that sort of nonsense. The last election was a referendum on the approach to COVID-19. You have a Liberal government backed up now by an NDP minority. Of course they're to waste a lot of money. I'm not saying he didn't influence it. I'm saying that the effects of his overspending have no yet reverberated or trickled down. He's kind of just putting his head in the sand and pretending it won't have a significant cost down the road. Yes. The left is very guilty too. The problem you and others seem to have is that you don't recognize any middle ground. It's as if not supporting far-right conspiracy nonsense means you automatically support overbearing wokeness.
  18. I think it's 4 years. I'm always confused by the terminology they use in the news though. They'll say stuff like 11.7% annual raise over 4 years, which means an added ~3% per year and below inflation probably over that time IF that's what it means. That's pretty reasonable, so if the apparent offer from CUPE is 6% now over the same time span, I'd say Ford looks pretty bad shutting that down. The raison d'etre of labour unions isn't in question. It's the militancy of the public sector unions (with the Ontario Teacher's Union being one of the worst offenders) taking advantage of a labour monopolies to gouge taxpayers for compensation packages, job security and lifestyles that most similarly educated private sector workers could only dream of. Again, the school support workers are not the problem. We only need to look at what they're earning to see that. It's the Teachers that are making more than double what they do. The ideal solution here is CUPE gets their raise, teachers get nothing, but, like, that's just my opinion man.
  19. Sort of like how the FBI announced further investigation/evidence against Hilary immediately before the 2016 election? Oof.
  20. It's not a positive thing, for sure, but there is a gaping chasm of difference between briefly freezing bank accounts of protestors vs imprisoning them in their thousands, or outright murdering them and/or making them disappear like in Iran, Russia, China etc. The USA's hypocrisy is more than apparent to most people with a brain. We could go through a long list of US blunders on the foreign scene, the most visible of which is Iran but also recently Afghanistan, Iraq etc. Those failures, however, do nothing to justify Putin's invasion of Ukraine, nor does it make Europe and North America's multi-lateral support for Ukraine any less worthy.
  21. Fair enough, and I agree, but it's hard for everyone. They've already dropped their demand to 6%, which is at least getting reasonable. I suspect they'll end up getting something approaching that, but the brinksmanship we're seeing now is probably not about the CUPE support workers, but rather the teachers themselves, who will certainly use whatever they get as precedent/comparison for what they think teachers should get.
  22. Okay, but then you're not even making a fair comparison between the two. You are presenting BLM in the worst possible light, while trivializing the impact of the Freedom Convoy. If you can't avoid spinning yourself, how can you complain about the media bias with a straight face? Right, but what are you complaining about, exactly? I've already agreed with you that the EA was unjustifiable. I thought we were talking about media biases now. No, they were deeply and broadly unpopular protests and surveys across the country confirmed that, with almost 50% of even conservative party voters disapproving. Whether or not you agreed with the medical experts is irrelevant. This is where you and the truckers lost support and sympathy, because when you start making medical arguments you're no longer arguing about individual freedom of choice, or the economic cost of mandates, but rather broadening it into conspiracy theory, anti-science and culture war garbage. Who said nobody supported them? 20-30% of the population is a lot of people. No, these are two separate issues. A lot of Canadian media has questioned and criticized the EMA. That doesn't mean that they can't still be deeply critical of the freedom convoy protestors. If the inquiry finds that the EMA was an overreach (and they probably will/should), that's not a vindication of the protestors, but rather official censure of law enforcement and lawmaker's incompetence in dealing with them. These protests should have been ended sooner, and they shouldn't have required the nuclear option.
  23. This really isn't how this comparison should be made. I don't know why we would use the average price of a two-bedroom apartment in the most expensive market in Canada and weigh that against low-skilled single-income professionals. If we're talking CUPE support workers, presumably they'd have two incomes supporting a two-bedroom apartment, and we'd at least be looking at the lower-end of prices and/or probably things on the outskirts and suburbs. Regardless, housing and shelter costs are a separate problem altogether and one not limited to school support workers. This, as I've said before, is the bigger issue. CUPE school support workers getting a noticeable raise isn't an outlandish request. That the Teacher's Union will use these increases as the low-water mark for their own negotiations is the problem, and that's the calculus I think that Dofo and his government are running.
  24. or it doesn't, and you just ignorantly power through reality and on to your next delusion, scratching all of the times you were wrong out of memory Or they prefer to listen to the doctors and actual scientists, rather than the inarticulate high school grads doing their own REEesearch. ?
  25. It's not the "Libbies" making "Reee Nazi!" claims. Vladimir Putin is, and his sycophantic admirers are parroting this absurdity. Calling Zelensky a Nazi because of Azov militia volunteers or whatever is like calling Vladimir Putin an Islamic Extremist because of his partnership with Ramzan Kadyrov, or his recruiting of Syrian volunteers. If the she fits indeed. ?
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