Moonbox

He's done that off of Justin's brutal losing performance. The ground doesn't get more fertile than this for an opposition leader, so if anything I'd say it's remarkable that Poilievre is still as disliked as he is. I don't think you know much about him, if that's your synopsis.

If Pierre Poilievre behaves as Prime Minister the same way he has so far, Mark Carney would wipe the floor with him in 4 years. If Pierre can tone down his performances and stop clowning for the dumbest common denominator, the Liberals could be in the stinker for a decade. I would agree that no Liberal has a chance in the next election though.

Uh...didn't you start a thread on this exact same topic with the exact same info like...a week or so ago? Did you forget? 🤔

No, I would say starting a thread would be about promoting a new or interesting discussion, rather than using it as your personal venting space. Your need to make sure strangers on the internet know how you feel about the same things over and over again is silly, but keep doing if you insist. Sometimes it's good for a chuckle.

I think I understand what you're trying to say, but they are two separate arguments. Productivity doesn't automatically mean better standards of living for everyone, but if it doesn't then that's a problem of its own, with its own causes and effects. It's almost never a bad thing when your productivity is going up, and almost always a bad thing when it goes down. This is always relatively speaking and in comparison to peer nations as well. Why it matters is because it's a competitive global economy, and the effects of productivity gap aren't felt right away. You could, for example, prop up wages and living standards by lavish government spending for a time, but the long-term consequences could be disastrous. I wouldn't spend too much time on this. Fair warning. 😄

Doesn't hurt me, because I don't believe in Divine Revelation, nor do most thoughtful, intelligent and reasonable human beings. Clinging to that frankly absurd belief (especially as an Anglican) is contradictory to begin with, but the point remains: You believe that if people don't think the same way as you, and believe the same things, then they're going to Hell. As an Evangelical message, that's about as bad as they come, and it's why your Church is dying. 🤷‍♂️ It's not against the rules, but there can be all sorts of things "wrong with it". Starting a thread for the sake of starting a thread doesn't have much value. If all you're here for is to shake your fist at the clouds and rant about whatever is grinding your gears on that day or whatever Twitter told you to get upset about, you're not going to be taken very seriously.

A terrorist is an enemy combatant. Puerile reasoning, and I think you know it. Would Canadians hide, help and support these terrorists? Would they enlist in the mission to destroy America, and would they allow them to take over our government? 🙄

Inflation was/is global. Canada's economic laggardness is a problem we've had for decades, and that Trudeau has managed to make worse. I don't think anyone ever argued that this was a global problem.

No, they absolutely didn't. This is just more of your clueless and revisionist history.

Yes, you are. That's why you start a half dozen threads every week on this forum to rant about all of the things you don't like. He says, obliviously, before immediately contradicting himself: 🤡

For Israel, probably. Certainly not for Hamas and its supporters in Gaza, which is kind of the point of deterrent force. So enemy combatants should be immune to counter-attack as long as they hide behind women and children? Everyone has a right to defend themselves, so who's really guilty when a rocket site next to a daycare gets blasted? Is it the people who decided they'd rather knock out the rocket site than let it kill them, or is it the people who put the rocket site next to the children they hoped to leverage for public outcry from naive bystanders? 🤨 It was a rhetorical question: It is prohibited to seize or to use the presence of persons protected by the Geneva Conventions as human shields to render military sites immune from enemy attacks or to prevent reprisals during an offensive (GCIV Arts. 28, 49; API Art. 51.7; APII Art. 5.2.c). It is hence prohibited to direct the movement of protected persons in order to attempt to shield military objectives or operations. Many categories of persons are specifically protected by humanitarian law, such as civilians, the wounded and sick, prisoners of war, and medical personnel. Such acts are clearly established as war crimes under international humanitarian law. https://guide-humanitarian-law.org/content/article/3/human-shields/

I agree it's a problem overall, but I don't think it has anything to do with girls or boys - it's everyone. I don't think it has anything to do with home-ec classes either. I guess it could, but I think the more important factor is that the alternatives are so easy. McDonald's is easy. A boxed meal is easy, and you can have it delivered straight to you from the grocery store, and so the fat get fatter. Cooking was never really a chore for me, and it's even less so now with big-screen TV's and iPads and stuff that you can have running while you prepare your meals. If someone has time to sit on their ass and watch TV, they have all the time they need to cook. They just don't, because we're in this weird race to the bottom as functional human beings or something.

I just did. Selectively quoting the Bible isn't a substitute for for knowledge or reason-based thinking. You work backwards. You decide what your opinions are based on nothing but how you feel about them, and then wave the Bible around as if it somehow proves your point. It doesn't, and 99.9% of the world understands the absurdity of Divine Revelation. Even if give you a pass on that one, you still aren't worth listening to because you don't even understand the message in the Bible in the first place. Being angry about stuff and telling people they're going to hell for disagreeing with you is decidedly un-Christian - full stop. As I said, you don't use the Bible to provide comfort and spread peace or happiness or forgiveness. You misuse it as an accusation against anyone who doesn't agree with you, and you use it for every single topic on this board. You're not actually worshipping or promoting God in this. You're worshipping your own thoughts and opinions. There's something in the Bible about vanity and pride, right?

Being able to quote the Bible isn't the same thing as being able to understand its message. You're a thoughtless demagogue, preaching nothing but accusation, fire and brimstone. Yes, because the Bible isn't a substitute for independent intelligent thought. There are lots of smart, educated and charitable Christians out there, whether they be Anglican, Catholics or any of the other denominations. You, on the other hand, have decided that being Godly or even Christian is exclusive to people who share your uninformed opinions, in which case you're not really worshipping God at all. You're just worshipping yourself and your own opinions. 🙄

Is it better to just complain and do nothing, and hope that someone else takes pity and solves your problems for you?

The specificity is irrelevant. If they knew about all of the bombings, kidnappings, murders, rocket attacks etc over the last 15 years, they obviously knew what Hamas was about, what they get up to and what they're capable of. That they scaled up their terrorism and atrocity changes what, exactly? A nothing-point. That's always the case.

I'm not an opponent of the Bible. I grew up with it, and my grandfather was a Minister for (get this) the Anglican Church and it's wonderful King James Bible. My father grew up in a rectory. That's how I know that you're not actually a good Christian trying to spread the Word, but rather a clueless buffoon pretending to be.

There are lots of Gazans who do. The more secular Fatah was far more willing to negotiate on a proper settlement, but Hamas and its supporters would have nothing to do with it. Even if it's only 40% of Gaza that supports Hamas, what difference does that make to Israel? They don't exactly line up an announce they're Hamas militants, so as long as the Gazans let themselves be human shields, that's what Hamas will make them into.

You realize you're contradicting yourself then, right? They're aware of all this, but were somehow unaware that they'd be drawn into conflict with Israel by supporting, fighting for and hiding the terrorists that were bent on its destruction. Oof.

So you're saying you're like Jesus. Got it. 🤣

Did you even realize that this site you're referencing is a cryptocurrency shill site, and that convincing dumb people that the USD is doomed so they lose their money investing in zero-sum ponzis is the whole point? Of course you didn't.

I think that's just your own observation, and while nobody can argue with you on that, the generalization you draw from it is probably wrong overall. There's a pretty wide range of cooking skills and knowledge, sure, and some things need more of it than others. In the end, however, I'd say that even the lowliest mook can follow a recipe and make something better than McDonald's or whatever else they decide is the alternative. Not my experience, and I actually spend time with 20-something girls and guys on a regular basis. Some of the guys I know can cook well, but almost all of the girls can.

The Biblical facts you speak about aren't actually facts, to start, and you don't understand the lessons contained within regardless. You are the definition of a bad Christian, fully lacking in the grace and charity the Bible teaches. You don't spread the Good Word. You just shout and rage against people who don't think like you.

What a travesty. Get those girls back in their aprons and make them complete their pre-requisites! (somehow I doubt there are more 17 year old boys than girls that can cook) 😑 If you don't do the stuff you should unless it entertains you...isn't that just lazy? 🤔 I hope the pizza guy can still feed his kids.

Especially girls, huh? Are you basing that on anything in particular? 🤔 Learning how to cook is a pretty basic life skill, and it's ridiculously easy to learn. Whether you do it or you don't is a lifestyle choice akin to exercising or becoming a slob. When someone says, "I'm a terrible cook," what that really means is, "I'm too lazy to go to the grocery store and follow simple directions."'