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You pretty much nailed it there. The headline for this article should have been, "Out of touch old boomer rambles bitterly about millennials and how things were better in the good old days." Tell us more about how much you hate the woke and cancel-culture, please. We really need to hear more about it.

You overestimate the support Khadr had in Canada, as well as the backlash against Mitch Miller. Omar Khadr ended up being an embarrassment for Canada and his legal status was never properly established while he stayed in GITMO. I'd have been happy to see him rot there forever, but this has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Mitch Miller. Yep, you get nothing but eyerolls from me on that. Criticizing my morals while you moan and wail that a vicious little turd who bullied and tormented a disabled kid for years actually suffers some meaningful consequences is peak irony. Mitch Miller was given an opportunity with the NHL. He chose to omit a lot of the details of his past, did nothing to make amends and has shown no genuine contrition. Nobody wants him on their team because he was a truly awful human being not all that long ago, and has given the league ample reason to doubt his honesty and character. One day he may still play in the NHL, but it's not going to be before he actually owns his actions and makes an honest effort to show he's learned and changed. He was never entitled to play in the NHL, or for anyone to pay him to work for them. Like a university looking at past history during the admission process, Mitch Miller is going through the same and nobody's liking what they see. Your fixation/obsession over cancel-culture is the issue here. You can't seem to help bringing it up no matter the topic. Mitch Miller? I'd not have given him another thought until you started complaining about it here. Trying to make this little turd your martyr just makes you look foolish, sorry.

I watched a documentary on Afghanistan the other day and it was talking about how the Afghans are totally screwed now. Their economy and infrastructure depended on massive external aid, but now nobody wants to send money or resources to the Taliban, so men are literally selling organs to feed their kids. It's sad to hear.

Unarmed citizens are enough a lot the time. When protest/revolt takes stubborn root and enough people join it to hit critical mass, the army often either steps aside or turns against the leadership.

They are not the same thing, but an education very much helps.

I would be happy to see this turn into a (successful) revolution, but it still seems like just a lot of protesting. I hope this doesn't just peter out like the ones before.

It wasn't disinformation. They were facts that you didn't find helpful for your argument, and although you're right that it requires proper context and further parsing, that's what the other two charts provided. You only came back to them after I pressed you to respond, highlighting how you accuse me of cherry picking data while buffoonishly ignoring the additional data I provided. That's the point you want to try to argue? You think that the chart shows death rates for age 40-50 is lower for unvaccinated folk, and this single data point is somehow more relevant than how hospitalizations and death rates are higher for every other age group? Talk about cherry picking! What's really funny is that you've fallen victim to optical illusion. If you looked at the link I included, the 40-50 age group had 2x the rate of death of people who'd completed their primary series of vaccines, and infinity times higher death rates than people who'd received the boosters. What looks like a smaller bar to you is in fact only so because they used a faint colour that blends in with the graph axis. Whoops! ? This doesn't help your thesis, unless you want to argue that unvaccinated people have more underlying health conditions which skewed their deaths and hospitalizations higher. In 80 plus? Yes, the exceedingly few unvaccinated super-old people could skew that data, but that's why we include all of the other age groups! ? Don't worry. You were never taken off ignore, and you'll get no further responses from me here. Your tedious squawking and self-deluding mental gymnastics aren't even valid entertainment anymore. ?

Energy spent on laughter and entertainment is never wasted ?

Finish your sentence: Better educated voters vote Democrat. Lower education voters prefer the Republicans. This bears out across the country, and has continued a 30-40 year trend. The Republican party thrives on white voters without post-secondary education. You're making a good case for this.

I've heard similar stories from others, and even some who didn't even serve in Afghanistan. I don't think our soldiers are properly supported. I don't think they have been for decades. I wish it would change and we made it more of a priority. As far as Afghanistan goes and what could have been done differently, I'll defer to you on that. I just don't know much about it, other than how this seems to be another example of the region's 3000 years of history repeating itself.

Right right. Going to GITMO for a decade or whatever it was is totally comparably to NHL teams not being interested in having you on their team. His life is OVER. ? These two situations couldn't be much more different. The punishment is that people realize that you were a terrible human being. It's up to you to convince them you've become a better person, not on them to assume you have. It's arguments like these that make people roll their eyes and tune you out when you start moaning about cancel-culture. This story is a loser for you guys. Bullying and tormenting should not be a regular occurrence at schools. It has horrible and long term consequences for the victims. Seeing a vicious little shit like Mitch Miller face some real consequences for his abysmal behavior is fair in my books, and it sends a good signal to all of the other little would-be miscreants out there.

What misleading fact? I posted three charts, you chose to squawk about one of them, while predictably ignoring the other two which pre-emptively addressed your complaints about the first. This is why so many of us have you on ignore. It's like debating a 5 year old. After we dropped almost all mandates and health restrictions. Do you understand that the recorded outcomes continue to prove that unvaccinated people are dying or getting seriously ill at 3x the rate of vaccinated patients? I know these sorts of things are super-inconvenient and dunk on your narrative, but I'm still waiting for your comment on this. Is it...MSM fake news again? ?

That everyone quickly realized was not a Russian missile attack, and life goes on. ?

Which is exactly why I posted the next set of charts, for people like you who want to confuse or cherry-pick the data. The deaths and hospitalizations rates were over three times higher for the unvaccinated in Ontario over the last 120 days regardless of age group once they adjust for vaccinated vs unvaccinated population sizes. It's curious that you had no comment on these charts, though hardly surprising.

A sham referendum. You have to warp reality around you to believe that any of these referendums had even a shred of legitimacy, as few to none of the conditions for a fair vote existed. That's why almost nobody acknowledged or accepted them globally. On Russia's side, North Korea, Syria, Nicaragua, Sudan and a few nearby client states. On the other side? Everyone else.

Not hard to do! https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/cases-following-vaccination.html#breakthroughChart_graphs This is kind of a "case closed" , with nearly 50% of deaths and hospitalizations coming from the unvaccinated despite being less than 20% of the population. For people trying to confuse the issue by cherry-picked time periods or demographics, we have you covered as well! Source: Public Health Ontario, October 2022 https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/ncov/epi/covid-19-epi-confirmed-cases-post-vaccination.pdf?sc_lang=en TLDR: The unvaccinated have over 3x the rate of hospitalization and death vs vaccinated folks over the last 120 days, whether old or young.

I don't really think I'm the best to comment on this, especially to an army vet who served there. Having served there, you know better than most how troubled that area's history has been. I wonder if you have any opinions on how you were going to unite a disparate collection of (often hostile) tribes under a single purpose/identity in the span of 15-20 years. I guess my questions are, what would have made this turn out better? Are we regretting how we conducted the mission, or the resources (and more importantly) the lives that were spent? Yet you're the one arguing that it's based on shallow personal judgements of what individuals do in their free time. I would argue it's based on far more pragmatic concerns. and that last bit is the sort of sentiment that dooms Conservatives to losing election after election. Embracing the LGBTQ community signals that they are welcomed and valued by the Justin and the Liberal Party, growing his base in a minority group (minority groups usually have lower turnout). The Conservatives have spent the last 7 years doing the opposite, convincing social progressives they don't belong. If the screeching on this forum is to be believed, I'm a communist lefty/libby blah blah blah despite only voting Liberal a combined twice in my life provincially and federally. but did it, really? NATO has known since the end of the USSR that the Red Army was not nearly as strong as it made itself out to be. We've always known they have lots of nukes and hoards of ancient equipment in reserves, but we also knew how dysfunctional it all was from expats who'd served and were debriefed abroad. Without the Soviet command economy at its disposal, the Russian army was thought to be a shell of its former self, though it undoubtedly still had teeth. Putin's bluster and machismo, however, were not what led to these perceptions. The tens of thousands of Soviet era tanks in reserve and large fit-for-service population were.

It wasn't "a stupid and thoughtless act". Characterizing it as such is a wild understatement. The fact that Mitch Miller persisted in the torments he inflicted for years shows he enjoyed it. That's cruelty, mon amis. He wasn't a child, either. He was 14, and you know better at that age. The NHL drafted him knowing about his formal record. They were led to believe he did something stupid as a kid, and that he'd made efforts to reform. The Boston Bruins later learned it wasn't just a "stupid" incident, but rather a multi-year campaign of abuse and they determined that both his disclosure and his contrition were severely deficient. Regardless, the worst thing that can happen to this kid now is that his AHL contract gets bought out and he makes half a mil over the next four years. Boohoo for him. I'd suggest your sympathy would be better spent on the developmentally disabled kid he tormented through his formative years but I guess you have other priorities. ?‍♂️ I'm saying the impact hasn't been significant or noticeable. You don't have to know anything about inflation or central banking to see how wrong this narrative is. The global nature of the problem should douse any Justinflation gibbering. The narrative doesn't make sense to start, and the economic data proves it wrong to boot, but I'm not sure how much that matters to you. The narrative is what counts. Justin is bad and inflation is bad, and that's a really compelling fantasy to spin. Okay, but tell me how you really feel.

You're missing the point entirely. Who said it wasn't? ? Certainly not me. You're arguing a straw man, and not really reading anyone's responses. ?‍♂️

Which conflict was that? Afghanistan? You think NATO left because they "got their asses handed to them"??? You were there, weren't you? Were you guys getting your asses handed to you, or were you in a fractious region with no national identity that didn't share our values? Did we lose a war there, or did we finally extricate ourselves from a mission with vague long-term goals and unrealistic expectations? The only baggage here, I suspect, is your own. These regimes don't give a shit what we think regardless of what we do, nor do we give a shit what they think. We do not and should not live our lives according to what a fundamentalist despot regards as respectable behavior. I'd say Justin might have a bit of fun, and maybe he gets some LGBTQ votes. The negative? Some uptight prudes back home who were never going to vote for him anyways might have a hissy, and not vote for him even more. You don't have to tell me that. I started a whole thread pretty much saying everything you do here. My point was that basing your geo-political decisions on projections and perception of their personal values is a recipe for failure. A decade-long campaign by Putin to convince everyone of his and his country's Orthodox manly energy failed to impress anyone, and his own assessment of soft pinko western Liberals collided with reality. Here is now, revealed as the insecure and paranoid manlet that he is and probably wishing he'd been more pragmatic.

Anybody who blames NATO for the war that Russia/Putin started is living in alternate reality. ?

Except for all the times you misquoted or misinterpreted the data, elevated the odd dissenter (or outright charlatan) to the eminent authority on vaccine science and completely disregarded everything the greater scientific and medical community at large said in favor of "DoInG yoUR oWN REsEArcH" at home on your laptop. ?

Of course there is, but I don't think most of them are that way. The broad painting of Republican voters (or people questioning fragile "woke" sensibilities) as racist bigots just makes the problem worse. If that's the only thing that you took out of my post, I don't think you were really reading it.

I'm saying it's pretty easy to make as much money as Trump did, when you start off with hundreds of millions of dollars. He literally could have dumped that money in the S&P 500 and would be worth more than he is now. Not comprehensively. They can make out the words, but not the meaning. That's what FLORIDA sources say. ?

It's just a search engine looking for something specific. That's why I think it's spam/botting. The poster obviously didn't read the previous posts, and hasn't responded since. To me it couldn't be more obvious.