Independent nation states are more likely to go to war sadly

lol that’s not how value works. If you add $1 million worth of mods to your civic and then remove them for a similar cost, you still have an old civic

I’m sorry that you find our genocide offensive

Definitely. In the past I hesitated to express my thoughts that Israel is a settler colonial apartheid state and now it’s a very prominent and accepted viewpoint.

Sure there’s a lot of pushback, still, but it’s not an unspeakable accusation like it used to feel like. Even “centrist” eyes can see this viewpoint now

Former Canadian diplomat Colin Robertson said that when diplomats go to observe a combat area, their safety is not guaranteed.

“Things happen which certainly are not probably intentional on the part of the Israeli government, but these things have happened in the past. We’ve had Canadian observers killed, for example, when we were doing peace monitoring in Vietnam and in other situations,” he said.

Fuck off Colin, fuck you

Can you show where you’re getting the information that margins have gone up? Only references to margins there indicate that they’ve been stable

People will do anything but blame corporations for their behaviour.

If we tax them prices will go up! Of course they raised prices, we didn’t make enough eye contact while we fellated the board!

Funny it’s never “raising prices is pointless, people will just demand higher wages!”

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This assumes that everyone is equally politically informed and engaged, and that everyone has given governance as much thought as one another.

The sad reality is a huge portion of people sleepwalk through life and they’d get by the same in a democracy vs. feudalism vs. socialism.

If we raise prices consumers will just demand higher salaries and we’ll pay for it anyway, there’s no point.

I’m going to take some credit back away for not easily verifying

Oh hey it’s once again the “freedom advocate” who is always spouting off support for the most fascist oppressive shit going on in the world. I should learn how to block in this new app

That was my point, really. I guess if you’re thinking of military training as resistance training then we agree. I think training our young men and women to immediately blow up in tanks and planes and die in trenches isn’t going to be useful.

I guess I don’t see the Canadian military training a bunch of Che Guevaras.

I’m not sure what you think my comment is saying but yeah United States is a danger and so too might Russia or China be, all are beyond our capabilities.

Our conventional military forces, even with mandatory service, won’t compete against our threats.

If anything the training will be useful for the deserters who then go on to form rebel and guerrilla factions, similar to what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan when the armed forces melted away into an underground resistance.

Canada isn’t going to fight and win a symmetric war with any of our adversaries. I think our able bodied people and military equipment would be better used off the conventional battlefield.

A lot of the spread is in Mennonite communities, another unscientific reason yes but this isn’t that kind of antivax

Ah yes “taking jobs.” Capitalists just leave the jobs lying around waiting to pay white people lots of money locally but then evil brown people come and take them.

If you’re so concerned about the economy why don’t you focus on the Lords and dictators sucking the wealth out of you and your fellow man rather than picking a fight with people trying to make a better life for themselves.

You’re such a little brainwashed peasant that you’re turning your anger towards those that have less rather than focusing on those robbing you blind.

What a good peasant

“freedom advocate” arguing for strict border regulation and the ultimate authority of nation states lol.

If you had plural brain cells you’d probably read into what actual freedom oriented philosophies have to say on the matter.

Freedom to lick that boot

Electronics are an interesting case. In our capitalist global economy we use extortion and threats to secure rare earth metals so we can use them for critical green technology and warfare while also using them to pump out televisions and phones for people to buy to replace ones that work fine (or could be kept working fine if we avoided software bloat).

Plastics are similar, they’re essential for medical applications but we also use our limited fossil fuel resources for cars and to wrap bananas at the store.

You could ask the question of how we could afford to let capitalism distribute these resources.

Working in the software industry I see tremendous waste, absurdly inefficient technologies being used because they’re cheap, etc.

We could all work less, work on the more important things, and make better use of our resources if not for the unnecessary inefficiencies introduced by duplicating effort, hiding technological advances from one another. We should be moving towards a cooperative rather than competitive economy.

that’s liberals for ya