Moonbox

Sure. Where did I say we didn't need any foreign workers? There's no question that farms wouldn't be able to afford wages for berry-pickers etc. That's why there were no suggestions to ban foreign workers...at least from me. It's definitely about people caring about profit, but it's also about worker wages, competition, regulation, tariffs and a great many other things. Car companies could pay high wages to union members, make shitty cars that broke down all of the time, and still rake in big profits...until they were subjected to foreign competition. I'd say we're all better off for that, but the key there is that we have fair competition

I mean, sure, blame it if you want, but what good does it do? It makes a lot more sense blaming the guy for putting the scorpion in your boot, or for not informing you that he lives in a open-range scorpion den before you take your boots off. As you say, the consequences were predictable. It's the same with capitalism. It's basic human self-interest applied on a meta-scale. That's predictable, and therefore can be (to an extent) controlled and directed. Government plays a big role in that. The extent to which they do that is the debate.

No, that's the thing. This isn't an opinion. I'm objectively describing exactly what's happened. Putin has ranted and threatened nuclear escalation and warned about red lines every step of the way. NATO has crossed those red lines over and over again, and there have predictably been no consequences. There are all sorts of reasons why the West and NATO have not been supporting Ukraine sufficiently or reliably. We've talked about those elsewhere, but none of it addresses the reality that Putin's threats have consistently born out as limp-dick posturing, that NATO has repeatedly called those bluffs. Nonetheless, here you are unwittingly arguing on his behalf and regurgitating his tired old rhetoric. Now the red line, I suppose, is super-super-duper, totally-absolutely-serious-this-time, right? 🙄 As I said, that's a wrench in your logic that you just can't bring yourself to acknowledge.

Yes, but boneheaded decisions by the Liberals set the conditions to make it worse. Capitalism is great because of its inexorable drive to get more efficient, more productive and better. That drive, however, is predictably cynical and fundamentally unconcerned with society at large. The people and the government have to set up guardrails and incentives to direct this force of (human) nature so that it benefits society, or at the very least doesn't harm it. Blaming capitalism for doing capitalistic things is like blaming the scorpion for stinging.

I already acknowledged it's popular in the Prairies. Part of that might be that there aren't many alternatives. If you say so. I don't agree, and statistically neither do the majority of football fans in Canada. An NFL fan has 32 teams and more games and more variety of games to watch than he can reasonably consume. The CFL fan has less than 1/3rd the action. It's more likely he flips on the NFL than the other way around.

My neck? I worry about yours, bending your spine backwards to lick your own butthole, and presenting that as your argument.

I'm smart enough to know that laws grant rights. You? We're still waiting to see what the floor is for how dumb you are. 🤡

I did, which was after he told us that tenants have no rights. 🫠

It's the main reason I don't like the CFL, but with the wider fields and the bigger endzones, I'm not sure how great it would be. Either way, I'll be probably still be watching the NFL.

...by showing how deluded and generally confused you are? Okay. 🤡

Fair enough. Probably some confirmation bias on my part. Like I said, it's a matter of perspective. I don't have any opinion about the CFL other than I find it less entertaining, as do most of the football fans in Canada outside of the Prairies.

"You Americans won the war" ...is on my bingo card. I'm almost there guys.

Where did I say that? 😆 The problem with Punt-FL rules is that they're boring, not "too difficult". 2-and-out, 2-and-out, 2-and-out...

There's nothing to add. All I have to do is poke, and you melt down into deranged ranting, digging up months (or even year) old debates in which you clowned yourself, but re-imagining them here for a non-existent audience. Go outside. Talk to a woman (or a man, if that's your thing - no judgement here).

Predictably, one line sets you off on yet another deranged, useless ramble that nobody is going to read. 🤡

Evidently not, since they've repeatedly called Russia's bluff, crossed a series of Putin's balogna red lines, and the nukes have predictably not been launched. That inconvenient fact is something that throws a pretty big wrench in your logic - one that I'd be stunned if you actually tried to address.

and his threats of "red lines" have been crossed over and over again, and revealed as impotent. Bullying with nuclear and chemical weapons is an actual red line for the rest of the world (including China). It's not going to happen just for the sake of a murderous dictators' vanity.

You figure what you're doing here is making reasonable arguments? 🤣 Go outside, incel.

Folks, this is what a 40+ year old virgin looks like:

Spastic compulsive emoji spamming engaged...

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.