Out of sight, out of mind. Same as it ever was. Catering to agri-corps costs a lot less political capital than trying to restructure the system.

No, I’m saying it’s rational. I’m not suggesting it’s right. It doesn’t solve anything, killing more people won’t bring his family back and ultimately will only justify more violence. It’s an embrace of nihilism by someone who has nothing left to care about but petty vengeance.

What I’m saying is, if you start from the assumption nothing matters, then it is perfectly reasonable. I reject the premise, but the conclusion is logical for someone who doesn’t. Strip a person of everything that matters to them, and they have no reason not to seek the cold comfort of vengeance against whomever they can access.

No one gave a shit that his family were innocent bystanders. Why should he care that these victims were. The people making the decisions are wrapped in layers of security. These people are why they have the power to make those decisions.

I’m not defending violence, but it does make more sense than you give it credit for. In the end violence will only breed more violence, but when your reason to care is gone, when justice is never coming for the guilty, people will take their vengeance out wherever they can reach.

They didn’t move there. They were conquered. That’s called cultural genocide.

It’s a little bit different in that most of the ethnic groups in China were conquered by force. The didn’t “move to China” China came to them.That would be like the US conquering Mexico, Haiti, Venezuela, etc. and then forcing everyone to speak American English.

He pointed to the laptop’s 8GB of “unified memory,” or what amounts to its RAM, and how customers can’t upgrade it.

Given the price of RAM, you’d need to sell a kidney to upgrade it in a Windows laptop these days, so that’s not much of a difference, although 8MB is a little skimpy, I’ll give him that one.

I’m afraid describing what the appropriate way to deal with that disgusting little cretin would be considered a war crime… thankfully I’m Canadian and creative. Someone tell Brussels to dust of the Geneva conventions, they’ll need an update.

No one should trust the US at this point, but they can clearly be manipulated for advantage. Never trust an American offering support, but always be willing to use their mistakes to your advantage.

This is exactly what conservatives want. To make Alberta unlivable for anyone but riggers.they know that if there’s no jobs for anyone but the oil patch, people who don’t support them will leave.

Worked for Portugal.

No, it’s a start, but you’re probably right, he won’t take it far enough to bring back the hybrid solutions that made this country a G7 nation, let alone advance it into the future. Still, managing the decoupling from the US is a strong start. We’d never get anywhere with them basically having veto power over our entire economy.

What does slash dotted mean?

Old term from the dawn of time. Slashdot is quite possibly the largest tech forum in history. It was fairly common for small sites to get mentioned or promoted on slashdot, only for the overwhelming traffic to crash whatever it was that was being discussed. A mass surge in traffic that causes a website to fail became known as being Slashdotted.

Political influence accretes where treasure is. Same as always. Right now a bunch of old rich men are trying to buy their way into heaven with a sacrifice of human blood, that’s all.

… Yes… That’s it… Pay no attention to the fact that we are one of the money-laundering capitals of the world. Shhh… We’re very nice…

Thus far, surprisingly few. Actually alarmingly few when you think about it. Either our corpos are shockingly straight laced, or Epstein had a competing network in our zone.

You are so full of it. Median Income outpaced rent for a grand total of 6 months, he spent a decade claiming he had a path to a balanced budget and never even got close, he wanted the Americans to build pipelines, not us. You are a liar and and a traitor.

Harper took us from a budget surplus to the previously single highest deficit in history, created both the housing crisis and the TFW program Trudeau accelerated, sold our national assets to foreign owners, including China, created the Pheonix Pay crisis, gutted our national science programs, and sent our troops to fight in foreign wars while fighting to throw veterans off their medical benefits.

As bad as Trudeau was, Harper was worse, and Poilievre would make them both look like minor inconveniences. Anyone who thinks voting for a Tory is going to make things better either doesn’t understand history or is willfully ignoring it. That or they hate Canada so much they want it gone. Which are you?

Said like someone who never lived through the Harper regime.

The military budget needed to be tripled. The rest is a problem. Literally nothing could be worse than Poilievre so I’ll take it, but I’m not happy about it.

Excellent summary. The US has used and abused the Kurds over and over again. While they’d be crazy to not take their opportunity to establish some territorial autonomy, they’d have to be utter fools to trust the US not to stab them in the back again.