Moonbox

Labradoodles and Komodo Dragons also have similarities and differences which can be outlined. The reason nobody compares them is because it's absurd. The same is true for comparing Trudeau and Putin, but lazy thinking and emotional bias can make this an appealing crutch. Uh, yes? They get assassinated.

Almost impossible. Ask John Tory or Tim Hudak from Ontario if you need to find ways to lose impossible-to-lose of elections. I think the idea that the Liberals would call an election is farcical. Trudeau is so deeply unpopular now, and has show himself to be so incredibly out of touch and ineffective, that this would be the worst time possible to call the election. The Liberals need something to change before an election, and I suspect it's just a passive and desperate hope for something external. Maybe Trump wins the US election and changes sentiment here. Maybe Poilievre says/does something spectacularly dumb. They can only wait and hope, because after 9 years it's doubtful that Trudeau can win over new minds. At best all he can hope is that someone disgusts the voting population even more than him...somehow.

Hahahahaha...you're talking about approval ratings, in the coming election pageantry that Russia holds, where Putin is guaranteed to win and only approved stooges are allowed to "run" against him. But sure...Navalny is a CIA plant, Zelensky is a Jewish Nazi, Trump won the election and mind control vampire-aliens from Zeta Reticuli are pulling the strings on all of it. 🤡

Communicating with you on this forum is like talking to a primitive AI chat-bot. Your outputted responses have little/nothing to do with whatever inputs I provide, and you repeat variations of the same phrases over and over and over and over again. Why do you keep saying, "You Americans" for example? It's unintelligible nonsense, and you're making a very good case for just going on ignore. Gosh, who else is surprised that Nationalist is criticizing Navalny, top critic of his hero. 🙄

People who draw comparisons between Trudeau and Putin are being lazy thinkers, in my estimation. Acknowledging that Putin is "much worse" is a pretty flimsy qualification whilst trying to say they're similar. "Yeah, like, Putin's critics all fall out of balconies, get shot on the streets, die of nerve agent and radioactive poisons, or their plans hit the ground prematurely, but Justin Trudeau demoted JWR from her cabinet position!" Oooof.

I don't know. Presumably you have thoughts, if you're saying we should watch what happens to it...🤔

What do you think will happen to Japan? 🤔

I did answer your question: You obviously didn't like the answer, and had no response to offer beyond falling back on your default-state of limp jackassing. He says, with his 40th battle-post of the day, and his 14000th of the last 12 months...🤣🤣🤣

There was no subject to change. Nationalist was talking about emotionalism, while being emotional himself. I never said Russia was collapsing, but rather it's army. I started this thread less than a year and a half ago, and did so while the Russian donkey-peasant soldiers were fleeing en-masse out of entire provinces from the much smaller Ukrainian army. Russia's "attacks" since then have consisted of little more than attritional meat assaults, whilst most of their soldiers hide like rats in trenches. Is it an army? I guess so.

Maybe you should ask yourself that? We were talking about rights to protest, peaceful assembly, and the trucker convoy. Now you're avoiding that topic, and instead asserting the absolutely "vital" fact that bank accounts can indeed be considered assets, and that I absurdly disputed it. Did the apparently necessary change in subject come out of a desire to save face, or general confusion?

Yes, everyone else is emotional here, not the smooth-brain spamming caps and exclamation marks. 🤡

The fact that both Biden and Trump are still alive and running against each other in a free election answers your retarded question for you.

Everyone can see that you're absurdly insisting I argued a bank account isn't an asset. Says Supreme Court Justice Mosley, in his ruling against the Liberal government: "I considered the events that occurred in Ottawa and other locations in January and February 2022 went beyond legitimate protest and reflected an unacceptable breakdown of public order". I never said Justin didn't do anything wrong. In fact I agreed that the Emergencies Act invocation was wrong. This is just you arguing with yourself again. 🤡 The protestors needed to be removed. It was right to remove them. The problem is how they were removed, which was wrong.

No, the quote's still there and unedited. Whether you choose to misinterpret it again so that you can argue with yourself about another point that was never made is up to you. 🥱 The legal peril Justin faces is his use of the Emergencies Act, which was reckless, unnecessary and unconstitutional. Whether or not the protestors should have been removed is not in question. They didn't have the "right" to blockade the Ambassador Bridge, or gridlock Ottawa for weeks, and that is a simple fact, established by Canadian case law. Even the Justice who ruled against the Liberals specifically stated the protests "reflected an unacceptable breakdown of public order".

I wasn't commenting on your entire quote. I was commenting on one part of it, specifically the part about you trusting alternative sources more, and not trusting the MSM. Not only are your alternative sources usually junk, you also post MSM links frequently, thereby suggesting that the MSM is trustworthy enough to repost. The implication of this is obvious...that the MSM is untrustworthy, unless it's saying something you agree with. 🥴

I didn't say their bank accounts weren't assets. I said the donations were refunded, rather than seized, and what little wasn't was held in escrow (again, not seized). and there's both a criminal trial and civil lawsuit against the protest organizers/members at the same time. So what? I know they froze them. That's different than seizing. Part of the reasoning was large amounts were coming from the States. Surely you can understand the problematic nature of foreign countries sponsoring and promoting protests at home? Wrong. Judges have already established, through substantial Canadian case law, that the right to peaceful assembly does not include the right to physically impede or blockade lawful activities.

Donations (not assets) were mostly refunded from the various platforms, and funds that weren't were held in escrow pending civil lawsuits against them. As for their right to protest anywhere they like, however they like and for as long as they liked, they never had that, so they didn't lose it.

The ability of the average Canadian to parse and interpret public financial data goes about as far as their ability to parrot whatever (insert online personality or politician) says on twitter etc. Neither Justin Trudeau, (who I'm convinced is economically illiterate) or Pierre Poilievre (who probably knows better but understands that the average mook doesn't) are offering fair or reasonable pictures to Canadians. They're just selling talking points and slogans, and the bobbleheads that follow them slurp it up. I'm not sure if there's anything that can be done about the entrenched opinions and willful ignorance of Boomers etc, but we could definitely be trying to make sure the younger generations are better equipped.

Good parents will teach good money habits to their kids, but few will provide much financial literacy. An hour or so in class is only going to do so much as well. This should be a full-fledged course in high school, before kids get into the workforce and start accumulating debt. This should be a compulsory credit to ensure we have financially literate adults graduating, rather than children who cash-advance their first credit card on their way to an R9 at age 19. 🥴

The school system should teach financial literacy. It's crazy that it doesn't. You might learn about basic things like compound interest, but with very little context. One of the best courses I took in high school was an "Entrepeneurship" elective. The teacher was a hot mess and a drunk, but he was smart and he actually taught us about real-world things and how the economy worked.

The problem with the auditor general is that the federal/provincial budgets are esoteric concepts to the average Canadian. For all of the talk about how kitchen-table economics are the #1 issue in every election, voters have a terrible grasp of how public finances work and how they are affected by them. Having worked out of university as a financial advisor for a Big Bank, it's shocking to me how little even well-to-do Canadians know/care about markets, debt or even basic personal finance. Outside of their little households, most people know almost nothing.

Until they're saying something you like. Your version of reality rarely conforms with theirs, which is why you usually post garbage links from Redacted, or state-controlled Russian news etc. When the mainstream media posts something you think supports your worldview, however, you've demonstrated you're more than happy to cite them. 🙄

Her power? She was never anything more than a loud and angry fool, and that she remains - alive and breathing. Your comparison is ridiculous, and the fact that you can reach for similarities doesn't change that. You're like a big black gay drag-queen, because you both have buttholes and opinions. I'm not saying you're exactly the same, but the similarities are clear. 🙄 Very good. We have laws that prevent what's happening in Russia. We also have free elections, freedom of speech, free media, an independent judiciary etc... The point is, that you really don't have much of a point. You're just drawing a dopey false equivalence.

It's not even a push to silence dissenting voices. It was a push to move out nuisances. Nobody from the Freedumb convoy was silenced. Tamara Lich is still yap yap yapping away. Alexander Navalny is dead. That you're even trying to draw the comparison is pathetic. The other controls the media, has near-absolute power, and murders and jails anyone who dissents. In Canada, we have a dopey mop-head who has no idea what he's doing, and who goofed up spectacularly. He doesn't have more control after the Emergencies Act. He has less.

You don't know law, and the folks who actually do keep ruling against him. The folks deeming all his malfeasance "politically motivated" are only right in the sense that his shitty behavior gets scrutinized more. You're talking about a man who's trying to argue that he has full immunity from criminal prosecution as a former president. Somehow that doesn't compute for you, and it's only because you don't want it to.