I think this is an argument that doesn’t need to be made. Everybody knows that trading with smaller nations would be a much more collaborative endeavour than trading with US or China given the power imbalance.

“We should be building bridges with smaller players”, well of course, that sounds great. What’s missing is to actually go and look why it’s not happening (if it really is not happening, big if), what are the tradeoffs, otherwise it’s just like saying “we should lower inflation” without adding anything material to the discussion.

the language is called English so by definition, they are correct in everything.

lol linguists hate this one weird trick that killed entire branches of studies

A: No

You can enjoy the art, and remember that the artist is a piece of shit, and that will affect the enjoyment of the art in various degrees, and that informs later decisions on supporting/platforming that art and/or artist - all on a case by case and very personal/individual basis. I don’t even see how there’s a debate to be had here.

I agree.

Letting Russia chew through Europe would mean EU has less influence in global politics, that’s not really a factor with Canada.

And this whole proxy war against Russia has been not that bad of a deal for the US, which is why it’s so regrettable that the US is now withdrawing its support.

But letting Russia encroach via Canada is basically the opposite situation of letting the US (through NATO) encroach via Ukraine. Their stupid golden dome is not as effective if Russia can just move underneath.

The classic old tale of measuring living standards as GDP per Capita.

This is the perfect metric for the US, since deepening inequality means that a few billionaires approaching trillionaire status on the backs of their own working class can create a fiction that somehow the country is working just fine. While billionaires put cars and penises in orbit and their workers are denied SNAP benefits, we can always celebrate their beautiful GDP per Capita graph. Congratulations.

It solves this problem of rich people having too much of a hard time getting ahead of poor people for medical treatment.

And it solves the issue in a way that the middle class thinks they’re on the winning side, but in fact they’re on the losing side, so it ends up solving a second problem: how to further deepen inequality in a way that the mass populace stays under a delusion of fairness.

And it solves the issue in yet another relevant way, in that the poorest segment of society gets to die off without care. What we call politics of extermination, where falling off to the edges of economic activity doesn’t merely make you marginalized, it actually erases you of the surface of the earth.

Triple win for the wealthy, double loss for the working class, and a final loss for the poor - death.

I too feel bad for the kids that are having to detransition.

But then what? What does that have to do with these laws?

You keep dancing around the issue instead of just saying it out loud: you think that, because some kids suffer with detransition, we should make it harder to get access to gender affirming care. Yes or no? If no, then cool. If yes, then you need to inform yourself on the already enormous hardship that is getting gender affirming care and the overwhelmingly positive outcomes it generates.

I’ve tried Diesel and ProteinCo. The latter was the only truly “plain” flavour I’ve found so far, Diesel sent me “vanilla” instead which is not the same thing.

But other than flavour options, I don’t have any strong opinions regarding these two brands. They were both fine.

Super interested too. From BC I often buy from New Zealand but there should be a Canadian brand

don’t you want nazis in the open?

No

I don’t disagree that if we had more and more present family doctors this would have been significantly mitigated.

But it’s primarily the fault of antivax morons. There are populations with fewer family doctors per capita that have higher vaccination rates.

The thing you’re quoting talks about current number of cases, but also talks about the large outbreak in Alberta. Maybe you forgot to remove that second sentence?

Or maybe you think that losing eradication status came from the current count of cases instead of the two outbreaks followed by endemic cases?

Conservative floor crossers are a clear data point that refutes your proposition.

As much as a record snow storm refutes global warming. What would really refute me would be an election cycle where conservatives stop gaining seats while flirting with far right ideology. I yearn to see it, I just won’t bet on it.

Your comment was long so I guess it’s on me for not highlighting which part I was commenting on:

I’m sure part of the hope is that the liberals will shift right far enough, that the cons won’t have a viable path to full control of the government.

I’m saying this hope is misguided. The cons are solidifying as Canada’s far right and the Liberals will never be right of center enough to make the Cons not viable.

similar to how they’d gone too far to the left recently

lol I’ll read this as “too far for their own good” instead of “too far for the common good”, then I could see how that could be a thing

I don’t really see how anything from their current situation or their historic style of government translates to Canada’s electoral stuff

And yet, PP is copying the homework

thinking the Liberals are far right

That’s not what I said

because they tabled a budget based on actual finances and economics

What are you even talking about, I didn’t even mention the budget

How much farther right does the centrist party needs to go before the far-right option drops of the table and the “leftist” option becomes viable as the new center? The southern neighbour has shown us: too much

Canadaland seems to have been going downhill

I understood the context, doesn’t change what I’m saying

The point is that the usefulness of a tool is determined by how people use it, not what it was created for. Downvotes will always be used as “i dont like this” unless their mechanics change

anyone who raises a contrasting opinion is downvoted into invisibility

Also this a great exaggeration. We’re defending contrasting opinions right now and that’s not happening.

Having an issue with “ideology” is like disliking pronouns, it’s a part of everyday life that you can’t just sensibly try to distance yourself from