Moonbox

Ukraine is one of the areas you can distinguish between just a partisan Republican and a die-hard, window-licking MAGA chud. The former remembers the Soviet Union and understands that Vladimir Putin is just as bad or worse. The latter just slurp whatever batshit nonsense the opinion clowns on Fox News or Twitter etc are saying, and couldn't form a nuanced thought to save the lives of their children.

That's really a matter of perspective. Football is my favorite sport to watch, but the CFL is pretty much unwatchable for me. The rules are a problem for many (particularly 3 downs, the low-score games, the bigger field and the punting), and there is a chasm of talent between the NFL and the CFL. The contrast is stark, but even if the NFL didn't exist I'm not sure I would be interested in the CFL. 🤷‍♂️ I've lived and worked in Toronto (45 minutes away now) and I never saw anyone making fun of it or bullying it. It was just completely irrelevant - something nobody even mentions or thinks about.

Not just vague - often just really dumb. Ooh wow great. You're not going to participate in the WEF. That will solve so many of our problems. 🙄

I wonder the same thing, but at the same time it's probably smart to keep things policy-light. There have been a lot of politicians over the years lose what look to be unlosable elections by making themselves the centre of attention on deeply unpopular issues. John Tory and Tim Hudak ran masterclasses on that, so Poilievre is probably better sitting back and watching the Liberals hit the bottom of the ocean without any assistance.

He's just digging his heels in. To say landlords and/or tenants don't have rights when those rights are enshrined in the Residential Tenancies Act (in Ontario) is absurd, but he'll never admit it.

If the only reason they're not produced in the United States is because domestic industry is stifled by production overseas with no environmental or worker standards, it very well could make sense. Part of the silliness with environmental policy (at least in North America) is that we impose standards on carbon etc here that cost our industry money, and then companies offshore that production to Sri Lanka or somewhere where they don't apply. Those industries are fair game for tariffs, IMO. Trump's a buffoon and his policies are buffoonish. What he does understand, however, is the resentment people feel about situations like the one above. I don't for a second think he'll solve anything or he gives a shit about helping anyone but himself, but there's a low cunning involved in acknowledging and amplifying the anxieties he speaks to.

Don Lemon was always the worst of CNN - not much better than the opinion clowns at Fox News.

There are all sorts of reasons when tariffs make sense. Trump's understanding of macro economics (and almost everything, really) is too simplistic to understand when and where they make sense. Tariffing China is one of the few things I think he was right about - ahead of the curve. It might be inflationary, but that doesn't mean it's bad for the average American worker. Let's be real - most of the money saved offloading jobs to Bangladesh etc doesn't end up as a discount on the average person's grocery bill. Some of it does, of course, but just as much or more ends up improving the margins for corporate profits. That's the reality. That's why the middle class is disappearing. Ultimately some of the stuff Trump complains about is valid, in its own way. The problem is that he just takes those complaints and amplifies them and represents them in the dumbest possible package.

and that's always the dishonest conceit of these complaints. This isn't about worker's rights or anything of the sort. This is about the public sector demanding and demanding, and never conceding anything. In my mind, it's not even just about them demanding more when they don't deserve it, it's that they're already objectively getting much more than they're warranted. Every disingenuous complaint always boils down to the money. As you say, the union is supposed to be for the little guy, but that's not how it works in the public service ones. Folks complain about the corporations swindling the people, but they're just one side of the coin. The other side is our monolithic public service - now ~25% of the workforce and a domineering political class of its own.

1. It's not necessarily a bad political decision, and definitely not as black-and-white as you make it out to be. 2. Not everyone can be saved (or is willing to be saved). 3. Resources are not infinite, therefore priorities need to be established on their most effective use. Resources to one group mean resources don't go to another. Someone will die as a result. Kind of a straw-man there, isn't it? Why don't we talk about removing hospitals altogether? I'm not trying to police anything. I pointed out that the topic isn't nearly as cut-and-dry as the opposing tribes make it out to be.

That’s really the crux of the matter, isn’t it? They’re already significantly overcompensated (counting their benefits) and it’s almost impossible to get rid of low-performers. While Canadians overpay for unproductive PS employees, they are going to battle for even more entitlements? Justin and the Liberals sold Canada out to the Public Service Unions, a huge voting bloc they know they can count on. Now the consequences for that come home…

Sorry, but you proved once again you're a clueless donkey in the plainest language possible: You explained, when we tenant "rights" are laid out in official Acts of the provincial parliament. Here's the brochure for you, genius: https://tribunalsontario.ca/documents/ltb/Brochures/A Guide to the Residential Tenancies Act.html 10/10 Dumb. Way to go, you absolute clown. 🤡

You're saying this as you reference randoms on Twitter, just like you've cited Facebook claims in the past. Way to play to the trope, Karen. 🤡 Here's the thing: There was plenty of stuff that Kamala said in that debate that was bogus. She just didn't say anything that was utterly, mentally retarded. I don't need the government to tell me that the idea of illegal Haitians kidnapping and then snacking on house pets is batshit crazy - that realization only requires a few synapses to fire. Alas, that's a hurdle too high for the likes of you. 🤣

I saw it on the interwebs! 🤡🤡🤡

The electorate? THEY’RE EATING THE DOGS THEY’RE EATING THE CATS

Why would you think that retarded propaganda targeting gullible right-wing fools was targeted at you? Yeah...and if you believe that was genuine, then you're one of the donkeys described above. I'll leave it to you to make your position clear on that. 😉

Yes, so feel sympathy for them. Like I said, the problem is that fighting for your rights is difficult. It takes forever. The bureaucracy is oppressive, generally unhelpful and proceeds glacially to sort out any disputes, if they bother at all. The whole scheme of renovictions is something that could shut down with proper enforcement, but like so much else in Canada, is left to fester by mostly worthless regulators and public service bureaucracies.

https://www.ontario.ca/page/renting-ontario-your-rights What are you even talking about? 🙄 The only parts of the contract that are legal are the ones that comply with statutes and contract law. You can put whatever bullshit you want in a contract, but the only parts that will hold up are the ones that the Courts will recognize. They don't just make up rules on the fly. I know from current experience how shitty it is to be a landlord, but I also know from past experience how shitty it can be to be a tenant with a predatory/useless landlord. Most of the problems with being a landlord aren't really about the statutes or regulations, but rather how glacially slow everything plays out when you have a problem tenant. That's more a problem with an overbearing, underperforming bureaucracy and an overloaded court system than it is with the actual rules. Cash for keys is a thing now because it can take the better part of a year to get rid of a non-paying tenant, and that's only IF you fill out all of your paperwork perfectly and there are no hiccups. It works the same the other way though too. Tenants get bullied, ripped off an abused, and it's very difficult for them to get any sort of timely response. The only recourse they usually have is to withhold rent if the landlord is being a scumbag. The sorts of stuff my landlords tried to get away with when I was in university were comical. Fortunately I grew up in a family of landlords and knew how not to get f*cked around.

lol I forgot about that clown.

He didn't say it wasn't political. You clowned out in your first post on this thread. Well done. 🤡 Why can't you post without making yourself look like a donkey? See below: CBC is the most corrupt broadcaster in the world people. You heard it here, from our resident genius. 🤣

"Useful id*ot" is a term that Russian intelligence has been using since at least WW2, and they've continued ever since. Most of these donkeys aren't actually traitors (though some are). They're just too unintelligent to know how easily they're being manipulated. "MSM FAKE NEWS ITS ALL FAKE" *proceeds to link a garbage site off the interweb with anonymous or fake authors*

At this point it's pretty clear that you only see what you want to, and only hear what you want to. You called someone retarded in this thread (among other things) and later cried foul over insults when people mocked your reasoning. The absurd hypocrisy of that complaint is yet another example of your shitty, one-directional reasoning in this thread. You're "over it, and you've moved on", though. Cool. 🙄 Hopefully that spares us any more of this kind of foolishness.

What brave crusaders. They're all fighting for ME and my KIDS and the future of WORK! I totally believe that public sector workers who are almost impossible to fire for poor performance and whose pay is based on seniority are more productive from home. 🫠

This is exactly what I'm talking about here, lol. After just explaining how your sources DO NOT validate your position, you thought the wisest response was to repeat that your your sources validate your position? What a joke. If we'd already rejected your points and explained why the first time, what bricked logic convinced you that repeating them back to us dozens of times was intelligent? For a conversation to go anywhere, you have to address what the other person is saying. That you just sort of ignore and blow past what other people are saying is something that's been brought up to you by multiple people on multiple occasions in this thread, and the absurdity of it is highlighted by the fact that this too is something that sails over your head and doesn't register. Get over yourself, buttercup. You've been unreasonable, dishonest, rude and obstinate for most of this thread, and you've thrown your own insults as well. Don't expect or demand respect from people that you weren't willing to give yourself.

My comment was from a year ago, when they had the second-lowest attendance in the CFL behind Toronto. If the CFL isn't struggling, then they don't need federal money though, do they?