Moonbox

For someone supposedly concerned with keeping arguments precise, you're certainly having to do a lot of revisions. First it's "Every Tyrant has opposed religion", then it's qualified by "post Protestant Reformation", now it's "western civilization and law". 🙄 Even so, I gave you examples of 20th century, Christian dictators in Western Europe...What's your next revision? Were Spain and Belgium not "western" enough? For providing us with a chuckle at your expense? Yes. Thank you. 👌

PP doesn't have to differentiate himself from Trump. He's not a degenerate 300-pound blob with a spray tan, and can form full sentences with a healthy vocabulary. Comparing him to Trump is desperate, and it will backfire. The only similarities they share are the sloganeering and the simple messages for simple minds. Drain the swamp! Axe the Tax! It impresses a...certain type. 😆

Oh I see. Post-Reformation... Why didn't you say so? 🙄 after all... Even post-Reformation, it's still a dumb and easily disproven claim. Leopold II, Tsar Nicholas, Franco, Pinochet...Putin...all Christians, all tyrants, and that's hardly a comprehensive list. Thanks for your wondrous insights, as usual...

I'm guess I'm saying that if you understand the principles of falsifiability, you're not likely posting unfalsifiable claims in the first place. Pointing it out to someone who has will likely just fly overhead and right past. This is a place where "certain types" regularly respond to requests for citations/proof of their claims by demands that you disprove them. 😑 I'm not counting Graham as one of those, and I don't say this for his sake, but my TLDR is: dumb it down.

Trump's performance? In the primaries? The GOP is full of cowards and nobody ran against him. As for the border, it's now Trump himself who's holding up any progress on a Bill to deal with the border. This is the campaign issue he wants to run on, and he's desperate to make sure that the GOP and the democrats don't make a deal on it and bring any resolution.

History in the US says that guys who lost elections lose over 75% of their rematches.

I think you're overly optimistic on people understanding this. Falsifiability is a great way to check your own reasoning, or to identify delusions and partisan logic from the outside, but the nature of the beast is that the people who fail this test do so regularly, and confidently.

I think that's funny that you consider it a certainty. 🙃

Without seeing the bill, nobody can tell wtf you're talking about. The only thing for certain is that the carbon tax didn't increase it by 30-50%. 😑 You're absolutely right about this. Most of the solutions we've seen so far have been grifts that funnel money to special interests (usually wealthy investors or landowners) and do next to nothing to fix the problem. All the billions in solar investments Ontario did during the Dalton McGuinty days amounted to nothing. Farmers got subsidized to put inefficient and useless panels on their property, and Samsung investors got a handout, but we generate next to nothing in solar power. The solar manufacturing jobs that were promised disappeared as quickly as the subsidies did. These are the sorts of feel-good but braindead things our governments have done over the years. Mainly because we let them. People are concerned with dumb things instead of real things.

I'm not sure who you think is saying they are. I just watched some videos of Gazans walking openly down the streets holding white flags and getting gunned down in cold blood with Israeli tanks parked nearby. It's possible some of these are false flag, but I suspect at least some of them are exactly what they look like. This is the infantilizing of the Palestinian people that I mentioned. You imply that their bad actions over the years (like the Oct 7th attacks) are consequences of other external influence, rather than the choices they made. You curiously don't apply that same consideration for the Israelis, who've lived under constant threat of attack since Israel's founding and might have some reasoning for the security measures they impose. The Treaty of Versailles was a mistake and made future conflict likely, but only because it was such a compromise. It humiliated Germany and impoverished the German people, but did nothing to curb Prussian militarism or their ability (and inclination) to conduct war. A revanchist war with France, Britain and Poland were perhaps foreseeable. The Final Solution and Lebensraum were uniquely German choices. The Soviets made sure the mistake wasn't repeated. They forced all of the Germans out of East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia and brutally subjugated East Germany for ~50 years. The Marshall Plan wasn't benevolence on behalf of the Allies. It was a strategy to meant to yoke the strength, knowledge and experience of the West Germans and use them as a bulwark against a common enemy in the USSR. Germany unconditionally surrendered and they had no choice in the peace that was made, but that peace lasted.

Something you fail to understand is...well...history it seems. Centuries of Christian tyrants ruling by Papal blessing or Divine Right, and the millions of people who died as a result of their wars, purges and general brutality, prove everything you just said there is totally clueless. 🙃

I am not convinced he isn’t actually just a talking Pom Pom. I’m just not sure how any of that related to NATO enlargement.

I did too, first time i read that term. It was (IIRC) from a Globeandmail article criticizing Trudeau’s nothing-speak, and it was perfect.

You made that up. They didn't say that anywhere. If they did, you could quote it. As usual, you cannot, so you won't. Repeating it in the hope that it somehow becomes real isn't how this works. b. Supply challenges that largely reflect developments at the global level account for another 35% of the rise in inflation. "developments at the global level" only means "internal" in clownworld.

An uninformed opinion is worth less than used toilet paper, and arguing that it's "valid" is just snowflake entitled bullshit. There are lots of topics you can inform yourself on sufficiently to be able to discuss them with some casual research. At the same time, there are also lots for which you simply cannot. Having the perspective and humility to know the difference is the most important kind of open-mindedness you could have. A bored online Karen dOiNg hEr oWn reSeARch at home isn't informing herself when she decides that she knows better than the licensed doctors who spent 10+ years studying medicine when it comes to COVID or the vaccines. Her opinion is worth about as much as the fat armchair general who never left his mom's basement trying to tell you about infantry combat tactics.

I wonder what the consequences are for this. He'll lose the next election, and Freeland will go down with him, but surely it should be more than just a public recrimination and stern finger-wag... I had zero sympathy for the Truckers and their protest (particularly at the Ambassador Bridge), but it was retarded that it needed the Emergencies Act to remove them.

Except...you completely made that up. a. Around 50% of the increase in inflation observed since the end of 2019 can be ascribed to global or foreign factors. These include US inflation, commodity prices and movements in the exchange rate. b. Supply challenges that largely reflect developments at the global level account for another 35% of the rise in inflation. It's 50 + 35 because it says it is. The report never even uses the words external or internal, and your conclusion that: Supply challenges that largely reflect developments at the global level = exclusively internal supply issues is the sort of autistic mental alchemy you're trying to peddle to us here. 🤣

You do this - every. single. time- declare victory for yourself despite the fact that (according to you) it means that the other guy won. 🤡 No you donkey, that was your argument. I kept posting and reposting this: a. Around 50% of the increase in inflation observed since the end of 2019 can be ascribed to global or foreign factors. These include US inflation, commodity prices and movements in the exchange rate. b. Supply challenges that largely reflect developments at the global level account for another 35% of the rise in inflation. and then I kept adding up 50 + 35 = 85% for you. If 85% of inflation is accounted for by global or foreign factors, and then another 35% is accounted for by supply challenges, then Justin can't have been responsible for over half of it, as you stupidly claimed. In summary, not only did you get caught cluelessly bullshitting, but you so thoroughly confused yourself with your mental gymnastics that you ended up disagreeing with your own point and arguing with yourself. That's magnificent.

Try what? Do what? These are bromidic marshmallows - truisms that don't mean anything. Be less lazy? Be smarter and make more intelligent choices? Who's advocating for the opposite?

When you complained it took me 5 days to respond (it was a weekend, but whatever), it evidently never crossed your mind that I left my home and was living offline. It literally was proving my point, especially the paragraph that came right after it. Anyone can scroll up and see Scotiabank's quotes and compare them to your mental gymnastics. It's not surprising why none of the actual quotes ever remotely resemble what you're saying. 😆

There's nothing tautological about it. I said you were being really vague and I asked you some specific questions, and you ignored them and responded with more vagueness. This isn't clarification. It's not precise or objective. Be specific. Give us an example of something you think needs to change, and even one suggestion of how we could improve on it.

Tell me you spend all day every day arguing on the internet without telling me. LOL. I was out and doing things this weekend. Copy-pasting quotes to point out your bullshitting and make-believe wasn't a priority. Sorry? 😆 No they didn't. You just made that up. It didn't say that anywhere in the report. This is what it said: 3. Supply challenges that largely reflect developments at the global level account for another 35% of the rise in inflation. It doesn't say "supply chain and other issues", nor does it connect CERB or transfer payments to supply challenges anywhere in that report. If it did, you could provide a quote, but you're lying, so you won't. 🙃

Natanyahu basically said "From the River to the Sea" himself, so now he's not only fantastically unpopular at home, but Israel's allies are done with him as well. His government isn't going to survive, and even if it defies probability and does, it will have to bow to Western pressure when applied. These are the sorts of checks and balances that exist in Israel, but do not in Gaza/Palestine, where the crazies do what they please. This is absolute nonsense. A serial rapist/murderer isn't the same as a bootlegger, so this is a pretty goofy analogy. Comparing Israeli to Gazan leadership, only one of them deliberately goes out of its way to get its own people killed. Somehow that's not registering for you. 😑 "Broader conditions" is a meaningless platitude, and your view of the Palestinians is infantilizing. You imply/suggest that all of their bad choices over the years (particularly Oct 7th) have been causally determined by Israel's actions, but never the other way around. That's crap. Germany didn't really make peace with anyone though, did they? They let the worst crazies take control, then they got pounded into dust and lost most of their military-aged male population. They spent the next 50 years under military occupation. Miraculously, the next generation didn't grow up to be terrorists and they somehow learned that living by the sword means dying by the sword, and that there was a better way.

Completely made up nonsense, coming from nowhere but Fox's make-believe. 🥱 That isn't even remotely what my quote said. This is how we know that on top of being a belligerent and clueless muppet, you're also blatantly dishonest. How you warped the quote below into the quote above is...bananas. "While the impact of these programs on the output gap is large, the empirical impact of the output gap on inflation is modest, leading us to estimate that government transfers account for around 0.45 percentage points of the rise in inflation we have observed since the end of 2019."