Moonbox

Not even fair. Groot's not a run-of-the-mill conspiracy clown and likening him to them is the sort of black-and-white us vs them myopia that I'm talking about here. Some of the things he complains about are things I've argued against in the past and I would (at least to some extent) agree with him. It just seems to me like he's drowning in culture war hysterics and losing any sense of nuance or reason with it.

What I always find tragic is how you don't see that you're part of the problem. Russia/China etc have nothing to exploit without over-emotional responses like you provide here: How can you complain about division, when you've fully bought-in to the us-vs-them mentality, pushing absurd hyperbole like the quote above? Whose mind do you think you're changing? Every time you toss out lazy slogans like "woke" or "climate alarmists" etc, you're advertising your emotionality and that you're not worth taking seriously. While you lament the decline of western values, many of the things you're railing against are quintessentially western values in he first place - things like humanism, secularism, the scientific method, equality and *gasp* progress. Any of the topics you brought up in your rant can reasonably discussed (and believe it or not we probably have a lot of common ground). Western values, however, are far more broad and nuanced than you would have us believe, and not merely confined to the ideas that you like. ?

Until you can grasp that "ree MSM fake news propaganda" isn't a substitute for actual reasoning, you'll continue to look like a ******. The Clintons? Why stop there? George Soros Klaus Schwab WEF CIA Satanic pedophile cults and alien mind vampires from Zeta Reticuli....oh and election was stolen! ?

No it's not. It's just something that you've seen repeated over and over in the retardo-sphere and that's all it takes to convince someone as dumb as you about something you already want to believe. That's also why you think the US election was stolen - orange man repeats the lie enough times and the intellectually stunted just accept it. Ukraine doesn't trust a diplomatic solution with Russia that forces them to cede territory, because Vladimir Putin's word is worth less than used toilet paper. Any settlement, they reason, is nothing more than a pause for them to re-arm and regroup before their next bullshit excuse to invade.

and you actually think that's an intelligent point that needed to be made? If Putin once in awhile says something like, "Russia is east of Poland," that somehow improves his credibility and excuses the endless list of frankly absurd lies he tells? You're talking about an ex-KGB colonel whose political opponents keep somehow accidentally falling off balconies, crashing their airplanes, or dying of freak military nerve-agent poisonings. This is the guy whose stories you're slurping, along with those of his allies in freaking Iran and North Korea. ?

Based on what? Are you just saying random things again? Armenians are successful, but the Jews aren't? There are twice as many Jews in the world as Armenians. What's your criteria here? So much of your posting lately has seemed like clueless rambling.

Maybe they will, maybe they won't. The reality is that the Russian army faceplanted into Ukraine, and has exceeded all expectations for operational incompetence. Not since Gadhafi invaded Chad have we seen a better example of military failure. They generally don't do it through tabloids, which are designed for dumb-dumbs like you who fall for clickbait. He's been...shrieking about it? Is that what your brain-dead Twitter feed tells you? ?

You're quoting tabloids. ? You do such a good job making yourself look retarded, nobody else needs to interfere.

Unsurprisingly, you've missed the most relevant parts of this "report", which is that secret plans are being revealed to a German tabloid. The tabloid, of course, is the old-school equivalent of click-bait for retards.

and now they don't, because the democracies in Europe and North America weren't interested in having a 20+ year dictator's naked aggression rewarded. Now Putin and Russia are humiliated, their army has been made a laughingstock and left dependent on garbage-tech from Iran and South Korea. Live with that.

Israel was briefly in the top 20 GDP per capita during the pandemic shutdowns, because it's already an isolated economy on a permanent near-war footing, designed for resilience and weren't nearly as affected by shutdowns. Now they're not even in the top 30. As for other countries who've transformed themselves over 75 years, have you ever heard of Japan, Singapore or South Korea?

I'm pretty confused by how you figure Israel is one of the leading nations in the world. Leading in what? I'd consider myself pro-Israel in most things, but yours is a really curious statement.

There are a lot of dumb people on this forum, but you stand above most of them. To say the above, right after: is a magical journey of mental ineptitude.

Sounds smelly to me. The plant is only supposed to be 2500 jobs, and it needs 1300 foreign temp workers to train them all? I don't buy it.

It usually depends on the size and the scale. If a company is already already close to making a big investment and just needs a little help to get there, that's one thing, but when they're asking the government to drop its pants and bend over to even be in consideration, that's when the gov't should pass. It's gross, but that's how our governments end up doing things. It was never really about doing something that would be good for Canada long-term. It was about having something big and public that you could pretend was a win for the voters - vague and lofty promises about Canada becoming a huge battery hub etc. That'd be great, of course, but if the whole reason we're getting these "investments" is because we as taxpayers are paying for it in subsidies, and we're not even getting the jobs that it was presumably supposed to create, then we got fleeced...again.

Well at least you acknowledge that you're a zombie that doesn't think for himself, and just parrot whatever orange man says. Dance monkey. Dance. ?

Why are you following me, muppet? I can go for days without posting here, but sure as rain, you'll always be there to respond when I do. ?

This is actually something people should be talking about. Forget, for a second, that these massively subsidized corpo investments almost always fail to generate the returns the government hopes for/expects, now they're importing foreign workers to fill basic jobs in a depressed community? This is government incompetence on a colossal scale.

Hahaahahaha yeah that's all that he needs to do. He just waves his hands and the housing crisis that built up over the last 15 years just goes away. ?

MSM FAKE NEWS MSM FAKE NEWS EVERYTHING IS MSM FAKE NEWS ?. When you breathe in as much copium as you do, reality can be whatever makes you feel the comfiest.

If we had a dollar for every time you've invoked "MSM fake news" as the basis for your arguments and viewpoints, we'd all be able to afford new cars. Sadly, the only thing it does is help you cope with reality.

Everything you posted here was "simple". Sadly, the volume of words you pound out on your keyboard doesn't substitute for actually knowing what you're talking about. Removing GST has an immediate and clear effect on prices - period. A $22.60 purchase, without 13% GST, would now be a $20 purchase. It really is that simple. It would immediately increase purchasing on various items, because it would immediately reduce their prices. A sales tax is also fully 100% paid by the end-consumer, so it has little/nothing to do with a business' ability to actually produce what it's selling. Thanks for providing new and novel ways of demonstrating your compulsion for nattering confidently about things you don't understand. ??

I feel bad for the servile peasants conscripted into the Russian army, sent to uselessly die in storm assaults for nothing but Vladimir Putin's hubris and vanity.

Ukraine was goaded into taking on Ukraine...by getting invaded? ? When Putin was last offering peace, his troops were fleeing Kiev oblast after one of the most pathetic military operations of the last 40 years.

I'm not sure if you're just paraphrasing Das Kapital or what point you think you're making here, but it's pretty out of place for his topic. You're not exactly a scholar on this though, are you? Whether or no you've heard about it is kind of irrelevant. A GST cut would have both deflationary and inflationary impacts. It would immediately lower prices, but i would also drive extra consumption. If it weren't matched with government spending cuts, it would also grow the deficit, and over the long term it could drive disproportionate long-term inflation. None of these topics are ever as simple as people make them out to be, and even I've simplified here. TLDR is tax cuts can absolutely drive up inflation, but depending on other market forces at play they may be good or bad policy. Right now, our problem is spending. Spending needs to go down, enormously.