@Eris @jeffcliff @Natanahel @TinyFern One point, "Does Canada have X" is as bad a question as "Does America have X".
Does America have mask mandates? Some states do, some states don't. Does America have vaccine mandates? Some states do, some states don't. Does America have travel restrictions? some states do, some states don't.
Canada is similarly broken up into a number of provinces and territories that have their own policies. Jeff lives in a province that has had relatively little in terms of covid mandates of any kind, and that colors his opinions.
Does America have mask mandates? Some states do, some states don't. Does America have vaccine mandates? Some states do, some states don't. Does America have travel restrictions? some states do, some states don't.
Canada is similarly broken up into a number of provinces and territories that have their own policies. Jeff lives in a province that has had relatively little in terms of covid mandates of any kind, and that colors his opinions.
@sickburnbro It depends on the perspective. The times that are good for your ideology may be times that are bad for others. The times that are bad for your ideology may be great for others.
The worst moment for the idea of liberty is when some group is doing very well and wants to close the door behind them.
The worst moment for the idea of liberty is when some group is doing very well and wants to close the door behind them.
@sickburnbro It's easy to stop at the last step. People make it easy to stop at the last step. The groups clamoring for you to stop following your ideals often make it really lucrative to sell out, and that's the problem every time.
It's easy to follow your ideals when it's the good times. It's the bad times that prove whether you ever believed in them or not. Unfortunately, many people and most politicians fail.
It's easy to follow your ideals when it's the good times. It's the bad times that prove whether you ever believed in them or not. Unfortunately, many people and most politicians fail.
@sickburnbro I understand where you're coming from, I've spoken before about the megacorp recipe:
1. "Limited government!"
2. Get big under limited government
3. "We need more regulation!"
4. Door for the next big company closed behind them
But that works for any ideology. The keynesians have the same issue, and they're arguably full socialist. The original idea there is that you spend while times are bad and save while times are good. Instead, politicians spend while times are bad, and also spend while times are good, until our kids all belong to bankers in Shanghai.
The key isn't to throw out a good ideology, it's to have your ideology while doing the hard work of making sure it's followed through with.
1. "Limited government!"
2. Get big under limited government
3. "We need more regulation!"
4. Door for the next big company closed behind them
But that works for any ideology. The keynesians have the same issue, and they're arguably full socialist. The original idea there is that you spend while times are bad and save while times are good. Instead, politicians spend while times are bad, and also spend while times are good, until our kids all belong to bankers in Shanghai.
The key isn't to throw out a good ideology, it's to have your ideology while doing the hard work of making sure it's followed through with.
@sickburnbro The key for me is an ideology where you don't need to need to marry the leader who will dictate every part of your life. That's why I've thrown in with the PPC up here in Canada -- I don't need to like everything about Maxime Bernier, because his ideology is that it isn't his job to tell everyone how to live.
@sickburnbro We can't forget that the establishment doesn't only consist of one political party. It makes it more difficult, but we all have to think for ourselves and come to our own conclusions and then act upon those conclusions rather than let us get swept up into a collective that may not reflect our actual beliefs.
@sickburnbro in other words, it was an act of domestic terrorism.
Ok boys, time to start rounding them up!
Right?
Ok boys, time to start rounding them up!
Right?
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@RekietaLaw is on timcast *right now*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srNDcf18iGA
Go check him out, he's got a great show himself Lawsplaining the Interwebs, and he recently had the largest stream on the planet going through the weeks of the Rittenhouse trial, with over 130k viewers at once, videos that have clocked in millions of views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srNDcf18iGA
Go check him out, he's got a great show himself Lawsplaining the Interwebs, and he recently had the largest stream on the planet going through the weeks of the Rittenhouse trial, with over 130k viewers at once, videos that have clocked in millions of views.
@tpostmillennial Frankly, I sort of hope he does the same thing. Start growing a beard, put on glasses, change his hairstyle, and start using his middle name.
Poor kid has been pulled into this crap enough.
Poor kid has been pulled into this crap enough.
The Ahmaud Arbrey trial is ongoing, but it sounds like the two men charged will be convicted, and correctly so given the law.
If and when conviction occurs later this week, I expect the whole thing to be swept under the carpet because it is antithetical to the message of the mass media.
If and when conviction occurs later this week, I expect the whole thing to be swept under the carpet because it is antithetical to the message of the mass media.
@Synergistic Facts have a conservative bias at the moment.
But 1000s of unarmed black people killed by police and 50% death rates for covid *feels* true. It's very truthy.
But 1000s of unarmed black people killed by police and 50% death rates for covid *feels* true. It's very truthy.
@11112011 Damnit, do you know how much these 100 trillion dollar zimbabwe bills are, and now I need to get 10 of them?
Fuckin bullshit, man!
Fuckin bullshit, man!
@erinotoole Problem with people threatening acts of terrorism if we don't stop using so much carbon is that they simply can't kill as many people as if we just stop using carbon.
It would be a genocide. Tens of millions of people dead in Canada alone in the first winter. Can environmental terrorists match that?
It would be a genocide. Tens of millions of people dead in Canada alone in the first winter. Can environmental terrorists match that?
@jeffcliff @Eris @AR-15 I like Jeff. I don't always agree with him, but he's respectful and engages in good faith, and I believe he holds his own beliefs in good faith.
Really wish there were a lot more people like him so we could put ideas into the forge of honest debate.
Really wish there were a lot more people like him so we could put ideas into the forge of honest debate.
@jeffcliff @Natanahel "doing someting" can't go on forever.
The economy is closer to collapse than you think, and we're very close (I expect it starts next summer when interest rates are projected to hit 4% for a 5-yr mortgage and they'll be rising a lot higher than that if 5% inflation persists) to a lot of people losing everything to the results of "doing something".
Unlike 2008, we've gone through all our dry powder, there won't be anything left to stop it.
Life isn't a fairy tale where we only need to do the right thing and everything will be fine. It's complicated, and everything you do to stave off the wolves at the south gate means sacrificing protection from the wolves at the north gate.
The economy is closer to collapse than you think, and we're very close (I expect it starts next summer when interest rates are projected to hit 4% for a 5-yr mortgage and they'll be rising a lot higher than that if 5% inflation persists) to a lot of people losing everything to the results of "doing something".
Unlike 2008, we've gone through all our dry powder, there won't be anything left to stop it.
Life isn't a fairy tale where we only need to do the right thing and everything will be fine. It's complicated, and everything you do to stave off the wolves at the south gate means sacrificing protection from the wolves at the north gate.