u/Enkers — enkers

“They put a tax on companies that were American companies that they shouldn’t. A very, very severe tax,” Trump said. “And, yeah, I guess they could remove it. They will. But I mean, it doesn’t matter to me.”

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“We have all the cards. We have all the cards,”

So, if I'm understanding this correctly, you hold all the cards, but it's up to Canada to decide whether or not they remove the very, very severe tax, and you have no idea if they will or not? How is it that you hold all the cards? 🤔

After Trudeau self-sabotaged electoral reform, I decided to never vote for them again until they fulfill that promise. Lying is the norm for the Liberals, so fuck em.

Could we maybe focus on infrastructure that makes people's lives better, like robust public transportation and cycling infrastructure? Is it crazy that maybe we could focus on reducing our oil dependency before building more pipelines?

"Look what you made me do!"

Pretty sure they'd give them a standing ovation and a medal. The American right seems to *loathe* cyclists.

Yeah, so give Palestinians right of return. There's plenty of land there to share. Make Israelis pay reparations.

Like how is the land I'm living on not functionally stolen? My entire country used to be Indigenous land, and it became as it is because it was "allowed" (forced).

The Jewish children who were born there aren't colonists, and they shouldn't have to suffer for their parents' colonial acts.

The main imperative is to end the ongoing colonialism and genocide.

I'm firmly against the Palestinian genocide, but, isn't this a little ridiculous? Shouldn't we just focus on ending the killings and stopping further colonization?

Like, as a 4th generation Canadian, do I need to go back to Ireland to make up for my great great grandparent's generation's gross history of colonial genocide?

You don't need to evict Jewish people to end Zionism.

I know she'll be fine, but I'd also prefer that future career politicians go study at places that still have a shred of integrity left.

They're really hoping this to be the final solution.

This honestly doesn't make much sense. The implication would be that all citizens are culpable for their government's actions once they start paying taxes.

Funding your government isn't a voluntary act, so your last parenthetical already invalidates most of what you said.

Some people are just fine being horny on main, I guess. And hey, what's wrong with a bit of free advertising? 😏

It definitely takes a bit more guts to do it under an oppressive regime, though.

Sure, but now the shit-taker wants a favour from the shit-reciever who is having none of it until the shit is cleaned up. So now we get to watch the shit-taker squirm and writhe while they try to figure out how to untake their shit without looking like the complete idiot that they clearly are.

My point is that acting out of self interest doesn't constitute being "nice". They're still willing to meddle in the internal politics of other nations if it benefits themselves, just like the US is.

While I appreciate what China has been doing in the green energy sector, let's not pretend it's out of anything other than self preservation. They're just prescient enough to realise that they need to move away from fossil fuels to not destroy their own future.

Wish I could say the same for other Western democracies. We're too hellbent on maintaining materialistic consumerism to properly invest in our own future.

There are plenty of forageable mushrooms with no look-alikes. If you're cautious and thorough, it's not particularly risky.

And by thorough, I mean:

* actually learning to properly identity mushrooms before you *ever* consider eating them

* learning from someone else with experience

* verifying that what you're learning is correct in a book (for your specific region) and on the internet

Is he trying to neg us by threatening our sovereignty and then asking for a favour??? Most high schoolers know better than to fall for that. Like, get real.

[This change] would also make candidates in elections liable to criminal prosecution for making any false statement to win votes.

While I think this is amazing and should be the standard everywhere, it's also quite hard to prove intent beyond a reasonable doubt in this sort of scenario. It just means politicians need to maintain some amount of plausible deniability.

As much as I'd like to see corrupt politicians in jail, I have to wonder if somehow making it a civil offence rather than criminal wouldn't be better, since it would only require proof on the balance of probabilities, rather than the higher standards of beyond reasonable doubt.

At least the criminal liability seems to also be on top of code of conduct violations which could lead to retractions or a suspension.

If by "negotiate an end..." you mean carve Ukraine up for mineral and land rights, then I suppose that's probably accurate enough.

I can't decide if I should block them so I don't have to read their nonsense, or not so I can down vote their neolib propaganda.

You've got quite the interesting comment history. Is Lemmy your full time job, or something?