In the times of uncertainty sane people should stick together. Canada should consider a closer integration, eventually joining the European Union

[herbie]

Goddam it, how hard is it to see a military alliance is not based on cash expenditure?

Just keep singing the same song and turn a blind eye to WHAT'S the only country that's actually threatening us at the moment. It sure as f*ck isn't China, Russia, Iran or N Korea.

 

[Army Guy]

It is hard to have a military that can respond to most threats without a healthy expenditure...1.38 % of GDP is not the line in the sand...2 % is...

well you listed a good portion of them, already, check where our troops are deployed and that might tell you where the threats are....there are more threats out there than your aware of, cyber threats, screwing with our elections, threats to our power grid, terrorism, internal threats, enforcing our foreign policies,peacekeeping, peace making,  ...the list is long .....you really did not think this all the way through...the fact that our military works 24/7 24 hours a day, has to tell you there is threats that your not ware of...

[SpankyMcFarland]

The problem with NAFTA is that it leaves the other countries utterly at the mercy of the largest one. In the EU, Germany doesn’t have anything like this power - Trump even changed the name of the deal to an unpronounceable acronym and most of us went along with it! Unfortunately, I don’t think we can join the EU. As the US retreats from the world and grows meaner we may be in for a very rough time. 

[myata]

4 hours ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

The problem with NAFTA is that it leaves the other countries utterly at the mercy of the largest one.

Exactly. When one partner understand the word as "I can get my way any time" what would be the point? Better to look for more reliable and meaningful relationships.

[Army Guy]

 

[Political Smash]

On 1/25/2025 at 3:49 AM, myata said:

Two different models of democracy are right before our eyes. Big buck, the number of zeroes rules or the people think, discuss and decide. It's difficult to find an alternative without cutting into the essence. This project makes sense and I think the time is right not only to talk about it but to make real, practical steps.

Your medications should cost a fortune yes of course it makes all the sense for you, we have the right to pump lies about smoking, guns, crazy conspiracies with no accountability. Or great transit, high speed trains, low cost food and medications, low cost or no cost education, great diversity, unified rules, thriving business and culture - a staple people expect it across the continent. This is the realities they can set side by side and examined. Eyes and brains, only two things.

Sane minds do not join EU insanity. Lobbyist / WEF dictatorship is not a democracy.

[Moonbox]

16 hours ago, Army Guy said:

 

You do realize you're quoting a video from the WEF, right?  😑

[herbie]

Oh so the EU is an evil entity but bowing to every American wish and whim is democracy is it?

[Army Guy]

1 hour ago, Moonbox said:

You do realize you're quoting a video from the WEF, right?  😑

Does that change the message ? I mean he is the head of NATO right, whether he is talking at the WEF or here in Canada...That and i thought it would be a more acceptable source than if it came from US media...

[Moonbox]

2 hours ago, Army Guy said:

Does that change the message ? I mean he is the head of NATO right, whether he is talking at the WEF or here in Canada...That and i thought it would be a more acceptable source than if it came from US media...

Nope, I just thought it was weird seeing you quote WEF attendees how awful the group apparently is.  

[Army Guy]

14 hours ago, Moonbox said:

Nope, I just thought it was weird seeing you quote WEF attendees how awful the group apparently is.  

Wrong guy, i really don't care one way or the other about the WEF....

[Moonbox]

46 minutes ago, Army Guy said:

Wrong guy, i really don't care one way or the other about the WEF....

It's too bad for you that we don't all have goldfish memories and can't quickly and easily find examples of you ranting against the WEF with uninformed conspiracy garbage.

It makes it more memorable, and thus very easy to find, when you mistake Klaus Schwab for George Soros in your super-well-informed and regurgitated conspiracy rant and you dig your heels in over it even after being corrected.  

But sure...sometime over the last couple years you went from them apparently wanting us to eat bugs to not caring about them one way or the other.  Okay buddy boy.  

 

[Army Guy]

13 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

It's too bad for you that we don't all have goldfish memories and can't quickly and easily find examples of you ranting against the WEF with uninformed conspiracy garbage.

It makes it more memorable, and thus very easy to find, when you mistake Klaus Schwab for George Soros in your super-well-informed and regurgitated conspiracy rant and you dig your heels in over it even after being corrected.  

But sure...sometime over the last couple years you went from them apparently wanting us to eat bugs to not caring about them one way or the other.  Okay buddy boy.  

 

Get to your point here moonbox, I said i don't pay to much attention to the topic....below is some of the things i said do they sound like i am a conspiracy theorist over some organization made up of the world rich elites, Or are you trying to paint me as one....Out of the hundars of posts there i might have responded maybe 10 times..If your looking for a fight sorry not interested...

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My point is this organization has influence over Canadians politics and policies...is it good or bad, there is many that think the WEF is on the down fall, judging by turn out this last event.. I think some of their ideas are out there, like some of the examples below, kind of reminds me of some cult... What ever happened to our nation and doing what is in our best interest... 

Some of the ideas that come out of the WEF, are a little on the wild side like no more personal property, the state will own everything, and you will be happy according to them...oh it gets better...say good bye to meat for the most part, we are going to be able to have a meat snack if we are good every blue moon...there is more... the ideas are out of an Orwell book...

 

 

[suds]

On 1/26/2025 at 4:32 AM, myata said:

Exactly. When one partner understand the word as "I can get my way any time" what would be the point? Better to look for more reliable and meaningful relationships.

Right. We're blessed with resources and live next door to the world's #1 economic powerhouse and leader of the free world. We should be thanking our lucky stars. But no, let's reject the U.S. and look for greener pastures elsewhere because Trump's a mean person or whatever other stupid reason you can think of. Get your head out of your ass.

[Moonbox]

50 minutes ago, Army Guy said:

Get to your point here moonbox, I said i don't pay to much attention to the topic....

I guess my point is that it doesn't seem like you had one when you dropped another irrelevant video link with no commentary. 

I watched it, and the only interesting thing that struck me was that it was straight out of Davos/WEF, which was funny coming from a guy who's argued they're trying to make us eat bugs.  

 

[myata]

52 minutes ago, suds said:

and leader of the free world.

Seriously? Your leader comes to you at night with a knife to ask to sell your possessions or else? In your "free world"? Or you've been visiting other, alternate universes of late?

[Army Guy]

1 hour ago, Moonbox said:

I guess my point is that it doesn't seem like you had one when you dropped another irrelevant video link with no commentary. 

I watched it, and the only interesting thing that struck me was that it was straight out of Davos/WEF, which was funny coming from a guy who's argued they're trying to make us eat bugs.  

 

That's a you problem not a me problem, I thought the video was relevant, this is a discussion forum, and it spoke for itself really...

Are you suggesting that they did not discuss eating bugs, because it was a topic of discussion, something they were looking into, ........And i had said they had some crazy ideas...eating bugs is one of them....

Regardless of where the conversation took place the message is the same and at the time fit into the conversation i was having with someone else....

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/07/why-we-need-to-give-insects-the-role-they-deserve-in-our-food-systems/

 

 

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My point is this organization has influence over Canadians politics and policies...is it good or bad, there is many that think the WEF is on the down fall, judging by turn out this last event.. I think some of their ideas are out there, like some of the examples below, kind of reminds me of some cult... What ever happened to our nation and doing what is in our best interest... 

Some of the ideas that come out of the WEF, are a little on the wild side like no more personal property, the state will own everything, and you will be happy according to them...oh it gets better...say good bye to meat for the most part, we are going to be able to have a meat snack if we are good every blue moon...there is more... the ideas are out of an Orwell book...

 

 

[Moonbox]

2 hours ago, Army Guy said:

That's a you problem not a me problem, I thought the video was relevant, this is a discussion forum, and it spoke for itself really...

You thought the video was relevant, but didn't care to tell us why.  Okay buddy- boy 👍

2 hours ago, Army Guy said:

Are you suggesting that they did not discuss eating bugs, because it was a topic of discussion, something they were looking into, ........And i had said they had some crazy ideas...eating bugs is one of them....

No, I'm just recalling how you argued (at length) that getting people to eat bugs and own nothing was their platform.  I can pull up that quote if we need it as well. 

Regardless, for someone who doesn't care about the WEF either way, you sure have a lot to say about it.  🙄

[Army Guy]

Sure , OK...

[myata]

On 1/25/2025 at 5:50 PM, Army Guy said:

No it has not escaped me, you on the other hand think joining the EU is a magic pill, swallow it and poofd we are going to be in paradise...

This is exactly what I wasn't saying. I'm getting frustrated or else you're reading it in some other universe.

[NAME REMOVED]

On 1/25/2025 at 10:06 AM, Army Guy said:

 

US is our allied, and is doing Canada a huge favor by forcing us to get our sh!t together, and start taking our global responsibilities seriously...

Spoken like a Quisling. 

[Army Guy]

10 hours ago, DUI_Offender said:

Spoken like a Quisling. 

Spoken like a liberal who does not even see the mess his government has put this nation in....nose blind to everything except when it comes to hand outs or social programs...you are what is wrong with todays canada...thanks for your support....or lack off.

[Dougie93]

9 minutes ago, Army Guy said:

Spoken like a liberal who does not even see the mess his government has put this nation in....nose blind to everything except when it comes to hand outs or social programs...you are what is wrong with todays canada...thanks for your support....or lack off.

DUI is one of these wannabe civilians who never served a day in uniform

yet none the less fancies himself as being some kind of "warrior" for Canada

they're all coming out of the woodwork now,

these NeverServed Canadians with their fantasies about blowing Americans up with IED's

 

[myata]

It's a fact that U.S. has become a volatile neighbor and a logical conclusion that the situation cannot improve reliably in the medium to long-term future. Canada and the free world need to ponder these facts seriously and think forward. It's impossible to satisfy an self-centered narcissist who every day invents new reasons and ways how the world wronged them. Again, this just isn't possible. Doesn't work. We have to look for and find more stable partners and relationships.

Edited January 31 by myata

[blackbird]

I don't think Canada joining the European union would be good for Canada.   The UK left the union with Brexit because it created serious problems especially with immigration into the UK.  The same thing could happen to Canada.  If a country joins the EU, they lose their sovereignty and are forced to take massive immigration from the third world.  Canada could not afford that and it would destroy what little we have left of our culture.  It would seriously threaten health care and other social services. The EU would also be dictating our use and extraction of fossil fuels which would be a disaster.  

Edited January 31 by blackbird