Moonbox

Hardline fundamentalist Islam does, but if you actually knew any Islamic girls ages 15-40 in Canada, you'd know they're living how they please rather than under the heel of Shariah like you'd want us to believe. While we're talking about hardline fundamentalism, let's not that Christians have fundamentalists of their own. That's because you don't understand them and you're sublimely ignorant on that which you speak of. That you're even asking the question like that is a testament to your foolishness, ignorance and closed-mindedness.

This forum is so full of donkeys now it's mind-boggling.

and Judeo-Christian tradition has supported slavery, witch-burnings, pogroms and global-scale genocide. Your moral compass is driven by absolute ignorance and cluelessness about the world and its history. Thump that Bible some more Bobby. ?

The international courts have no power there, especially considering Russia would just veto any resolutions against Iran. The problem with rogue states is that they don't much care about global institutions, or what the bleeding hearts say. Our politicians can and will voice their support for women's rights in Iran, but real change in Iran is going to come from within, rather than without. This time the protests do seem different though, so let's see what happens. The fetus is a fetus until it's born, so that's a rather vague/meaningless distinction that you draw, but at least you support a woman's right to chose in principle. The consistency is nice to see.

Sure, but immigrants are generally leaving bad/broken systems to escape them, not recreate them. That's been the case for North American immigration from the very beginning. Maybe they do, maybe they don't, but I'd argue they're turned off by ignorant white-trash rhetoric from those who support the alternatives. This is sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy that will continue, and the racial makeup of the country will continue to evolve until you can convince all of the white Judeo-Christian women to have 4-5 children each in order to maintain our economic growth. I do. I think China and Japan and India and the Middle East and Russia etc are all extremely racist, far more than we are. I just know that it doesn't help them and makes them weaker, rather than stronger.

As I said, I do feel the regime is a bad actor and do agree it's a (regional) danger, though far from the worst (even regionally). I do agree that it's a disaster for women's rights, but that whole region of the world is and I'm not sure what my local MP is going to do about it, especially considering how we just abandoned all of the women in Afghanistan to an even worse fate than those in Iran. How do you feel about abortion rights in the USA? I'm not throwing shade. I'm genuinely curious.

So we write to our MP's and suggest they do...what exactly? "Hold Iran accountable?" That's a very Trudeau-esque platitude, isn't it? Though Iran is far from a benevolent state, it's also most certainly not the primary hotbed for Islamic terrorists. I suggest you read a bit about the differences between Shia and Sunni Islam and their respective extremist wings. Then go investigate how the former operates on a more discrete and state-oriented scale, with narrow objectives, while the latter sees itself in an existential battle against pretty much the entire world. It wasn't Iran backing Al Qaeda, or the Caliphate or Boko Haram. Those were all enemies of Iran, as a matter of fact.

So you believe that Indians are immigrating to Canada to let their cattle roam our streets, to overpopulate our towns and and pollute our rivers, and to let zoo monkeys take over? They're leaving those conditions because they want to recreate them here, rather than escape them? ? and here we are again, with your astounding ignorance highlighted by your explicit racism. While you're roleplaying Mississippi trailer park resident, there are Chinese and Indian people laughing at how you believe that Jonah was swallowed by a fish and survived in its belly for 3 days and 3 nights, or that Moses talked to a burning shrub. While they're not doing that, they're Googling "Florida Man..."

No, you just suggested in numerous different ways that European/Western/Judeo-Christian culture/faith was superior and more desirable to anything out of Africa, Middle East or Asia, and outright stated that mosques being built in London(istan) was bad. You don't pass the sniff-test because you didn't explicitly slur skin colors. You did a good job of that just pointing out how undesirable the "alternatives" are from specific regions. It doesn't take a genius to connect the dots!? My grandfather was an Anglican Canon and my father grew up in a rectory. I've had a healthy religious education, thank you, and actually often defend the Church (and other faiths for that matter) against atheists who scoff at belief by default. What they're actually mocking, however, is loudmouthed buffoons trying to shove scripture down their throat as indisputable fact rather than the allegorical and heavily edited stories they are.

It is correct. That's how they decided which books went into the Bible, which were omitted and how to interpret various matters of faith. These were far from unanimous, and whether you're talking about Christianity, Judaism or Islam (or any other faith for that matter) there were disagreements, schisms and even wars to figure out whose version was best. Given that until recently only the wealthy and educated could even read/write, we can determine the Holy texts were very much driven by the privileged. Regardless, there's nothing wrong with having faith and believing in something, but when you're proselytizing to people who aren't interested and claiming one faith is superior to the others, you're showing a total lack of class. In your case, I'd add baffling ignorance and overt racism to the description.

You don't seem to know what fallacy even means. The universe exists. We know this. The only question is whether it had a beginning, or if it's always just been. If you believe it had a beginning, and that there was nothing before, you have to rationalize what created any of it. God is the explanation, but where did God come from? If he was just always there, as you'd argue, then there's no reason the Universe couldn't have just always been there too. The fact that it's infinitely vast and complex explains nothing. Regardless, a theological debate is a waste of time. You're not wrong for believing in God, or even in Christianity or whatever. What is wrong is that you think the scribblings and proclamations of a bunch of wealthy, privileged clerics and bureaucrats from 2000 years ago in one small part of the world is preferable/truer/wiser than those from other parts of the world, or even worse, should be followed before observable science. Oh my. The Earth is also flat, I suppose?

I mean, if you can convince every woman in Canada to have 3 children, then sure, we can talk about immigration. Until then, there's really nothing to say. Our economy and our nation is based (at present) on expansion and growth and it has been since colonial days, and we're still highly undeveloped compared to most of the rest of the world.

Uh excuse me, but the fact checker are just spooks controlled by Big Pharma, Big Tech and/or the monolithic world-spanning authority of Klaus Schwab.......................

This is pedestrian logic, peddled for ages. If the universe needed a creator, then the the creator would need a creator too. There's can't be nothing. If you have faith in something, there's really nothing wrong with that. It's in many cases a good thing. It's just foolish when one group decides that their beliefs are more important than others, or that their beliefs are more important to uphold/enforce than other people's freedom and rights. That you think mosques being built quicker than churches is a problem is very telling of where you fit on the spectrum.

I guessed you missed it, but the destiny for Canada is secularism. The churches aren't being replaced with mosques. They're being closed down because codified superstition is progressively becoming less and less appealing to a highly educated Western World. That a bunch of muslims are immigrating here and building mosques is hardly something to be worried about. Let them. In a generation or two their children will mix with the general population and join the rest of the country in secular living.

but not at all. That's just your aggressive ignorance speaking. We've heard it all before though. You're a broken record.

Why not everyone take the bus? That's even greener!

Problem is that you've now priced out lower income families from the car market, which is always the Achilles heel of feel-good green plans. Economy cars are not our carbon problem. Truck driving suburbanites and city-folk are.

In two whole years? That's doesn't really mean much of anything. The USD's strength is based on its reserve status and little more. If you paid your mortgage off over the last three years, it was probably mostly paid off anyways. Your car loan was likely fixed rate, so these anecdotes aren't exactly remarkable. Most of the people saying "they saw this coming" were predicting inflation would spiral out of control. By next year it will probably be back close to normal, and all of the crypto-bros and conspiracy clowns will conveniently forget how wrong they were in their proclamations. *edit* This post seems aggressive against you groot and it wasn't meant to be. As far as spending sending inflation out of control, we're not at a point where it's really hitting yet. The government hasn't been printing money to pay off the debt. Our credit ratings haven't tanked (yet). The problem is that this is the trajectory Trudeau-style spending has us on. It will become a big problem, and much sooner than he'd have us believe.

Thanks for your input Dougie. ?

Because frothing up the furthest reaches of your "base" is how party leaders get elected. It's same for the Liberals. Pierre told the Bible-Thumpers, the libertarians, the crypto-bros and all of the folk out west who are angry at Trudeau (and let's be honest - they have some reasons to be) exactly what they wanted to hear. As you say, reality starts to sink in now. Now he has to pivot from just repeating people's sentiments back to them to actually forming a winning identity. I don't like the guy, but if he can muzzle the donkeys in his party like Harper did, and if the bullshit about crypto and the truckers etc was just making noises they wanted to here, I could see myself giving him a chance.

No joker. You're not getting it. PP's getting criticized for dumb comments about bitcoin. That's perfectly justified. To then pivot to Trudeau and pipelines, as if one has anything whatsoever to do with the other, is foolish. That's nothing but whataboutism. Feel free to criticize Trudeau for botching the pipeline file - you're fully justified there. The difference between the two situations was that it was perfectly reasonable to believe a pipeline could get built and operational and profitable in Canada, whereas proposing bitcoin as an alternative to central banking is not.

I already DID comment on it, at least a couple of times. PP's crypto talk is moronic, but I think he knows that. To complain about "Justinflation" whilst lauding Bitcoin (which dropped -50% in value over a year) is totally ABSURD.

Get the freaking pipelines built already. If Pierre does nothing but that as Prime Minister, he'll have accomplished more than Trudeau ever did.

I never said you mentioned it, but you can obviously acknowledge that it has been PP's primary talking point over the last few months. Folks are quick to blame him for it, though it has practically nothing to do with him. Government largesse absolutely has a role in causing inflation, but it's not an immediate effect and what we've seen thus far has very little to do with Justin's policy. It's the same everywhere in the world. It's when the government starts having to print money to pay back and service the debt where we really land in hot water. That's where Justin has us headed, and quickly. That's the Trudeau way. Like his father before him, he'll torpedo our public finances and set the country back 30 years financially.