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Eroding democracies: Turkey, Hungary, Georgia... Canada?
Moonbox replied to myata's topic in Federal Politics
Where did I admit that? Are you literally trying to argue that BLM had absolutely nothing to do with the millions of people that protested in 2020? George Floyd never happened? 🤡 aaand the projection again. You and Nationalist, the Trumpy election denier - what a great combo. 👌 -
Eroding democracies: Turkey, Hungary, Georgia... Canada?
Moonbox replied to myata's topic in Federal Politics
BLM as in what? The actual specific organization? Is that your problem? The FBI didn't crash Alicia Garza's door in or something? I'm sure if she'd videotaped herself in tactical gear storming a government building, they might have done that. There were over 120 federal convictions with an average sentence of 27 months by summer 2021. -
Eroding democracies: Turkey, Hungary, Georgia... Canada?
Moonbox replied to myata's topic in Federal Politics
My god. That's what the nation-wide protest movement was about, you absolute clown. I don't know why I bothered providing a source to you in the first place, given how rarely you're willing/able to provide your own and how predictably clueless your response was. -
Eroding democracies: Turkey, Hungary, Georgia... Canada?
Moonbox replied to myata's topic in Federal Politics
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/over-300-people-facing-federal-charges-crimes-committed-during-nationwide-demonstrations If you haven't heard of any, it's because you didn't want to. -
Eroding democracies: Turkey, Hungary, Georgia... Canada?
Moonbox replied to myata's topic in Federal Politics
14,000+ arrests, hundreds of federal convictions (by summer 2021) and declassified reports of misuse of surveillance powers by the FBI fishing for links between BLM protestors and terrorists. This information was a 10 second Google search away, but since it didn't show up on your Twitter feed so how were you ever supposed to know? 🤡 -
Eroding democracies: Turkey, Hungary, Georgia... Canada?
Moonbox replied to myata's topic in Federal Politics
I suppose I'm the kind that prefers to think of how to improve things, rather than b*tching uselessly and generally to everyone and nobody in particular. 🤷♂️ -
Eroding democracies: Turkey, Hungary, Georgia... Canada?
Moonbox replied to myata's topic in Federal Politics
My reading test? What does that have to do with mocking the latest of dozens of near-identical threads you've posted over the last year whining generally about the state of the country. Everything is bad. Everything is wrong. Solutions? Suggestions? "Don't worry about it. Just read my word-vomit of complaints." -
Eroding democracies: Turkey, Hungary, Georgia... Canada?
Moonbox replied to myata's topic in Federal Politics
EVERYTHING is BAD. We have to do SOMETHING, by myata. Chapter 103 -
British Cycling bars transgender women from competing in female category
Moonbox replied to myata's topic in Federal Politics
I think that’s a good point about reasonable accommodation. We can and should aim to make reasonable accommodations for people. It’s when they stop being reasonable and accommodating them overrides common sense and becomes onerous that it’s a problem. -
British Cycling bars transgender women from competing in female category
Moonbox replied to myata's topic in Federal Politics
Fair enough but that does go both ways. Merely suggesting restrictions can incite disgust and judgement - not so much here but in the greater outside orld. -
British Cycling bars transgender women from competing in female category
Moonbox replied to myata's topic in Federal Politics
Maybe, but I suspect the criteria and how this is determined is not going to be something that anyone will be done objectively without a lot of tears and yelling. -
British Cycling bars transgender women from competing in female category
Moonbox replied to myata's topic in Federal Politics
This is one of those areas where PC culture definitely DOES get really silly, and I think it's right that trans women shouldn't be allowed to compete with other women. There has to be some line, somewhere, where the desires and feelings of a microscopic portion of the population doesn't get to impose on everyone else. -
News reports Emergency Rooms are failing Canadians
Moonbox replied to blackbird's topic in Federal Politics
Right...because there were so many of those. That's why we have a problem right now...that existed long before COVID, but nevermind that. Let's make it PARTISAN. -
Federal Liberals planning to change Canada's museums to woke museums
Moonbox replied to blackbird's topic in Federal Politics
Sometimes it really does go too far and gets really silly - like cringeworthy, completely out-of-touch and worthlessly guilt-laden. Even things like freaking bathrooms are ridiculous. You can barely open a low-key food joint now without the feelings-police coming out and forcing you to do 5 digit bathroom renovations (up to very specific code) so that someone's 105 year old grandma doesn't have trouble pooping. The culture-warrior hysterics, however, have taken whatever kernel of reasonable sentiment there might be around this and turned it into an angry clown circus. -
I would suspect that's the least of the problems. A good interpreter/translator solves that problem. The F-16 is the most widely exported US fighter in the world, so I imagine they have the apparatus to sort that out. Zelensky will last until he's murdered or until the war is won. You don't axe your wartime leader. I do think you're probably on to something here though. I suspect that there is a fair portion of the US administration (both Republican and Democrat) who want to make sure that there is enough political and material commitment sunk into Ukraine's survival that another flaky US withdrawal is untenable.
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It could be a lot quicker than that. If you were trying to train pilots and maintenance crews from scratch it would probably that long, but for trained pilots who already know how to fly, you're just learning systems and the nuances of the plane. They don't need to do anything to ensure Ukraine is reliant on them. That's fait accomplit, and it has been since 2014. Maybe. It's a much better theory at any rate than the previous one posted.
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"Interesting" 1. The US isn't fighting anyone 2. The US has proven it's very good at fighting ground wars 3. The Russians can't even suppress Soviet-era MiGs 4. Your hunch is not very well-informed.