Moonbox

Your "senses" and their "reliability" are at least consistent. Not only am I self-employed and run my own business, but this type of discussion is my trade. This was my education and this is what I've spent the last 15 years researching, discussing and planning around. If anything, I'm oversimplifying, but responses like yours make me wonder if I need to dumb it down way more. What do I drive??? Wow... You drive Lambo bro? ?

No, I don't have it backwards. Inflation is macro-level measurement of overall economy-wide purchasing power of the dollar. Your industry-specific supply costs could be affected by any number of factors that have nothing to do with that. While you're increasing supply costs are a factor in CAD inflation measurements, they could also be offset by decreasing costs elsewhere in the economy. This is why we use the basket of goods you maligned earlier. It's not perfect and it does exclude volatile costs like resources and agriculture. If we're trying to measure the overall purchasing power of the dollar, however, commodity prices that regularly swing in price 50% year-over-year are not very useful. That's the whole point of the inflation indexes after all - providing useful, actionable information for policy and decision makers. All of this, of course, goes back to your claims about hyperinflation, which has become a popular term to throw around but mostly by people with poor understandings of how the money supply works and/or those plugging conspiracy theories and crypto currencies. Considering the central banks' quantitative easing only ended recently and that tightening has barely begun, it's awfully premature to press the panic button. As a business owner you surely know how rising interest rates affect consumption and demand (and thus prices), right? We can't ignore how many tools the central banks have to combat inflation, but people who don't know any better just sort of figure this is how the supply works:

I don't think I warned you of anything, but at least you got to ramble about something. Um, the way you put it, I guess I have to say no? ?

Except that's not even remotely true. Inflation is one cause among many that leads to rising prices. Interesting that you say that, considering you just told us that your skyrocketing supply costs are an indication of hyperinflation in Canada. ? Interestingly my grocery bill has not risen in kind. Hmm what's going on??? I really don't think you want to have an economics discussion here. Judging by what you're writing here, it won't go well for you.

Yeah...mmkay. When all else fails, just fall back on DeEP StaTe and CIA. ?

I don't really have much of anything to say about Freeland or the WEF, nor about your silly conspiracy theories regarding them. Yes now you have a big scary bogeyman under your bed to ramble about. ?

I'm not keen on either, but China is most certainly the bigger danger/threat. There's no conspiracy to support Putin, just a lot of duped goofs who read Russian propaganda articles on social media and garbage fringe websites that paint Putin as a champion for justice whilst western leaders are incompetent totalitarian imperialists encroaching on them. With a VPN and a laptop, Oleg from the SVR or Ming from the Ministry of State Security can create all sorts of bullshit stories to rile up North America's conspiracy theorists, and they're so desperate for affirmation of their beliefs that they don't scrutinize any of it.

No. That's the problem. It would be easier for you to actually point out where your "facts" are and for me to refute them than to sift through your raving tantrums for small kernels of truth. I can go through your OP and see that you posted almost nothing other than quotes from news articles followed by your outrage that they talked about things you didn't like. My favorite part was: She's holding up a picture of him, his neck looks like a hot water bottle ffs. "No major health issues" lol. And 70 yrs old. Margaret Makins is dumb AF, and yet somehow she's CBC's posterchild for covid info....... Guess what CBC? Over 1,000 fully vaxxed people died of covid in the last 6 weeks. Did you cover that at all? Do you have any stories about vax-nazis who said: "The unvaxxed should be left to die if they get covid"? Of course not, but for sure they're out there. Let's look at your logic here. CBC publishes a story about an extremely old lady who's 70 year old unvaccinated son died of COVID-19, and you call her dumb AF because...what? Because there's a picture of...what exactly? I watched the video, I read the article. What are you even talking about? What picture and what claim did she make that shows she's "dumb AF"? Forget the utter lack of basic human decency you show here, what the hell are you even talking about!? 1,000 vaccinated people died of COVID in the last 6 weeks? Where? Around the world? Canada? How many unvaccinated people died? The fact that CBC didn't write about that just means they didn't write about it. Who are these vax-nazis? Can you show us to them? Quote them? Can you explain why CBC has to report on them? The only facts here are that you're really upset that CBC and other news groups publish stories that you don't like, and don't just publish whatever bullshit you decide is important.

The "bear" is a third-class state barely holding it together, with a smaller economy than Canada pretending they're still a superpower. The saddest part about all this Ukraine and Russia bullshit is that how our resident conspiracy theorists are so pro-Russia and pro-Putin. It's almost as if the Russians plant fake news on social media and gullible fools lap it up.

This might be true. There were even Liberal-appointed senators who'd made clear their intentions to vote against the measure. Trudeau's justification for the Emergencies act was paper thin and set a bad precedent, and as the place for "sober second thought" I think we were going to see it fail OR at least see a lot more dissent against it.

Nobody gets butthurt by what you declare a "fact". Like I said before, you don't even seem to understand what the word means and appear to think it's whatever opinion you hold strongly, as if you'll make something true by force of will or wishful thinking.

Calling your opinions "truth" don't make them so. You seem to be under the impression that if you invoke the words enough, your posts someone become more credible. "I speak factual truths and my facts are truthful and yours are not" ?

Say whatever you want about the CBC and CNN. I don't like either, but at least they're educated/trained journalists. I don't really like Fox News either but can at least rely on their actual news broadcasts to deliver basic facts, editorial bias aside. It's the circus acts like Sean Hannity that kill the channel's credibility, much like Coulter used to do with CNN. Lauren Summer is another story altogether. She's an overt racist and infamous for her lack of intellectual integrity. Her videos like the "Great Replacement" are a worldwide laughing stock and only the most desperate copers take anything she says seriously. Following jokers like Lauren Southern is itself a form of nursing butthurt - this is just sort of sad coping where you're searching for anyone online who's remotely articulate/charismatic to confirm your pre-existing politics and prejudices. Youtubers get more views laughing at and debunking her made-up bullshit than most of her actual videos. Give that a try and come back to us here if you're so ready to "hear people out".

Too much of what you've laid out has been silly nonsense. What legitimate points you may be making often get lost in the raging hyperbole, which turns people against you.

Your videos are almost never proof of anything. Your standard tactic is to post a video from the media, get upset that they're not telling the story as you would prefer them to, and then ramble a bunch of angry hyperbole that amounts to "they are saying things I don't like." Your quote here is silly. "You're a leftist and therefore everything you say is wrong and spoonfed MSM propaganda, and I am a brave freedom loving Conservative, red-pilled and based and full of justice and truthiness!"

You have a right to protest. You just don't have a right to protest wherever and however you want, or to stop people from being able to earn a living because you're upset. These weren't just protests. The Ambassador Bridge in particular was a blockade and an occupation and cost the Ontario economy billions. If you can't even concede that this was illegal and inappropriate than your bias is too big to overcome. "But but but vaccine mandates are unfair" as an argument doesn't somehow change what was happening at the Ambassador Bridge. If you think the mandates are illegal or unconstitutional, you make those arguments in Court. Your anger and outrage do not make something illegal somehow legal.

The point remains. Only a tiny fraction of that was attributable to actual inflation, if the claim is even true. If it was specific than maybe it would be worth something. If he's a construction/reno contractor and he wanted to talk about the cost of lumber throughout the pandemic, we could talk about why lumber prices skyrocketed, but little of that had anything to do with monetary policy. Hyper-inflation is a bogeyman term that too many people have latched on to without having even a fundamental understanding of monetary policy.

Actually, I used to be a pretty big fan of Jordan Peterson before he sold out to the mob. He's an extremely intelligent man and his arguments are usually very sound, but unfortunately now too often tainted by the hyperbole and rhetoric he spoon-feeds to his audience. Take this clip, for example. While does have a point that the Emergencies Act and the account freezes undermine confidence in the Canadian banking system, his anecdote of "reliable sources" within the Canadian military is vague, spooky bullshit that he figures his audience will find sensational. He's a smart enough man that he know that, but also smart enough to understand how much critical thinking his audience is doing when tuning in (little to none).

I'll consider anything if it's presented reasonably, but that's not what Lauren Southern does. I may as well start posting stand-up satire comedy, South Park videos or John Oliver takedowns if Lauren Southern is what you consider "reporting". She's an uneducated, overtly racist loudmouth and has no more credibility than Alex Jones. Having your prejudices repeated back to you angrily over Youtube is not reporting. Sorry. Honestly I don't disagree with your general assessment of Trudeau. I've said here and everywhere that I think he's a vapid fool that uses a lot of words to say nothing, that he stands for nothing other than what he thinks will make him popular. Sadly he's not unique in that with politics but that's another conversation. Regarding his considering dissenters sub-human, I can agree he's done more to divide this country than any PM in recent memory. The last Prime Minister who was this divisive was his father, who I've long considered to be the worst in Canadian history. It's unfortunate that his loudest critics are just as bad or worse in this regard.

So the input costs of YOUR specific business prove that we have economy-wide hyper-inflation? No. Your supply costs didn't go up 50% because of inflation. Sorry to say.

Nobody fears commentary by someone like Lauren Southern. At best she elicits an eyeroll and a chuckle, but mostly we just ignore her as just another angry Karen. Nobody said they were the same thing. I said that your whining about the trucker's being sweepingly/generally criticized because of a few exceptionally bad actors among them is richly ironic given how quickly you're willing to do the same thing if it's a protest you don't agree with. What on earth are you even talking about now? I don't think you can even keep your own points straight, nevermind what others are saying. ?

Or maybe that actually did happen? Gosh, imagine how silly that would make you.

You missed the point entirely. You're demonizing one protest movement generally over the bad actors among the group, whilst crying foul over the same thing happening to one that you support. I brought up the BLM protests again because your double-standards and hypocrisy were typical and predictable. No, your logic is silly nonsense. You're talking about apparently billions of dollars of damage in looting with BLM, whilst ignoring billions in lost economic output ($300M/day of trade across the Ambassador Bridge was blockaded). You're also comparing 16-30 million protestors outraged by police targeting/murdering/beating civilians based on their race vs a relatively tiny group being mandated to wear masks and get a vaccine against a virus that's killing people. We can both distinguish between the two movements, but the bolded part above is where your logic fails you. This is what you consider reliable journalism? Lauren Southern? You might as well link an Alex Jones video for me. ?

Yeah I mean...it's hard to paint this as anything other than what it is

Speaking as someone who spent the majority of his last 12+ years posting on this site arguing against eyeball, I have to say that his opinions and arguments are at least grounded in rational reality. Whatever ideological disagreements I have with him (which are many), the fact that he's not a deluded conspiracy clown means I have more in common with him than with you. In a weird way, we have you guys to thank for (our) finding common ground (sanity).