Moonbox

It's the same thing every time. Whatever you say, he'll interpret it in the stupidest way possible so he can argue against strawman points that no reasonable person would actually make. He then shits the thread up gloating about "winning" debates he had with himself. What's especially funny is how many of his own threads he ends up derailing with these fragile-ego performances, and it's over and over again, repeated in almost every thread he joins/creates. ?

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We’re all generalizing here, but I highly doubt the profile for the archetypal bud lite drinker was millennial/genZ post grads, okay?

Nobody said it wasn’t legal, or whether collective bargaining was “legitimate”.

He's not obligated to say anything. He (or Canada rather) are only obligated by the treaty to not use them. It's virtue signaling because it's nothing but a platitude. His words carry no weight, and Ukraine's use of cluster weapons will not alter Canada's support. The idea that Ukraine should abstain from using weapons that Russia has been freely using against them, on their own territory, is beyond goofy. It's hard for me to keep track of whether or not I'm a lefty or a righty with so many folk here falling into lazy reductionist framing.

Sure, it's stupid, but then I wouldn't say the folks buying/drinking Bud Lite in large quantities generally profile as exceptional academics, would you? They tried something dumb, and it didn't work because it was dumb. Whether or not the the backlash was intellectually sound isn't the point.

I'm saying it's retarded for you of all people to criticize anyone, or any group, for their lack of empirical/academic evidence, when you're so allergic to providing your own when asked. I'm still waiting for those estimates on food inflation, if you recall...

All I'm telling you is my own personal experience. No doubt the universities rely on foreign students for higher tuition, but I'd argue that the tuition cost increases have far exceeded inflation (and the proportional decrease in government vs private funding), so there's something more to this. I think you need to read the article that Groot posted, because you're missing the point. The universities and colleges set their own parameters and policies, but as government-funded institutions, they are a matter for open public discourse, especially as it concerns the monetization of permanent residence.

It's a meaningless position - just empty virtue-signaling. With Ukraine trying to penetrate 30km-deep minefields, the question of unexploded ordinance in Ukraine is sort of moot. Ukraine can't tell anyone to shut up, else they risk losing material support. The best we can hope for is that the Americans or our own politicians scold Trudeau for his vapid platitudes.

Yes you did. You brought up "the concept", but then wouldn't explain what you were referring to hen asked. Speaking of dumb, nobody derails his own threads like you do. ?

Pay attention to me! PLEAAASE! What a joke.

Maybe? I don't know or care, at any rate, because I didn't bring it up. I was just responding to the hysterics/hyperbole. They have their freedom of association, but that doesn't mean anyone has to accept their holding economically critical infrastructure hostage in order to press demands for way-above-market wages and benefits. I get it if you're a crane operator or something specialized, but we're talking about a $100,000 base general pay rate here for the lowest schlub, before benefits. There's nothing fair-market about that.

No, my argument is that you made a good point about numbers, but then your characterization of “typical libbies” is ironic given how allergic you tend to be about providing your own numbers and references. Nice projection again though. ?

We can pass laws, or at the very least set up systems, to mitigate their effect, no? Say whatever you want about how much or how little the Chinese influenced our elections, Trudeau's handling of the issue thus far is a good way for him to lose the next election, even against a shrill like Poilievre.

I don't think I've ever seen a woman order a Bud Lite at a bar, to be honest, but I have seen lots of cases of it brought for after hockey, at cottages, golfing, etc. While you have a point about the numbers, you're hardly one to talk about echo chambers and partisanship, are you?

Orban will fall in line, because Hungary is a speck in NATO and it can't afford to isolate itself from literally all of its neighbours. Regardless, chalk this up as another big win for Putin and his quest to halt NATO encroachment. ??

Right...someone who's looking for work is the lowest, most toxic substance on earth. ? A fair deal is what they could negotiate on the open market, without a union monopoly. ?

No, but I think there are 50,000 who could learn and be trained reasonably quickly. These guys aren't exactly splitting the atom. Great, so why are you bringing up CEO pay then? ?

This isn't a supply and demand relationship. You could find 50,000 people in Vancouver right now who would work for those wages. These sorts of unionized labor monopolies are more akin to medieval guilds than any sort of free-market environment. Uh the CEO, who's climbed as high as he/she has, with the presumable skillset, knowledge and experience they have, should make substantially more than the average dock worker, don't you think? Otherwise...just go be a dock worker.

Russia has nothing to double down with, and they've been threatening to ESCALATE from the start. "Now we're REALLY mad and REALLY going to try to conquer Ukraine." This sort of dimwit take, of course, supposes that Russia wasn't actually trying hard in the first place, and that 95% of their armed forces aren't already committed in Ukraine.

Their base general pay is over $48/h. They can kindly stfu and they should be legislated back to work.

Trudeau should keep his dumb mouth shut and let smarter people tell him what to say. Worrying about using cluster weapons in Ukraine when Russia has used them liberally is nonsense.

So? I'm not seeing what your point is here. It's the victimhood and the whining that distinguishes the fossil fuel industry and the farmers etc (especially the latter). I don't love the idea of big subsidies for battery factories either, but crying about that when billions of direct subsidies have been going to the farmers and fossil fuel industry who are complaining about it is always rich. We'll deal with less impact, and still have more resources to adapt than they will. There's a reason that the Chinese are leading the way on renewable investments - they can see where this all leads, but they don't have to worry about all the whining.

Sanctions are a half-measure and there is a limit to their impact. Read up on Autarky, as an economic/political theory, if you don’t know what it is already, We waste money on far less useful things than defence. If you agree with the idea of sovereign nations having a right/responsibility to defend themselves, it’s no stretch to extend that to our allies and partners and to share it amongst each other. Pretending that we have no reason for defence spending because we have oceans on either side of us is, IMO, silly.

The nature of this sort of conversation is always coloured by hindsight, but that's unavoidable. It's not like I was part of the marketing team that greenlit or put this faceplant together. Doesn't matter if it's new. It was loud and out there before the ad campaign and Bud Lite was always a blue-collar brand. I've said it before elsewhere, but cheap and interchangeable brands don't have the luxury of being able to safely make political statements on highly divisive issues. If the Dallas Cowboys had used Mulvaney as their spokesman, there would have been next to no backlash. The culture warriors would have lived with it. With a cheap beer with hundreds of competitors offering the exact same thing, those culture warriors can loudly repeat their statements and reverse-virtue-signal to one other at no cost.