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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

Virtually every jobs report for the past year has been revised down quietly after the headline is released and yet no one seems to be talking about that. I feel like that's kind of an important piece of context.

Your previous point is very poignant.

It's a double standard yet again. "You should not be proud of any of the things that your ancestors did because you weren't them, but you should definitely be ashamed of all the things your ancestors did because you are them somehow"

The way America in general was (both Canada and the US) 120 years ago is a completely different world than anything most anyone today can comprehend.

Gotta admit, Harris on the debate stage would be really funny since she explains everything like it's to a 3 year old.

You are absolutely incorrect that everyone else is supposed to follow these rules.

The biggest companies in the world and of advocating for all of these rules to prevent local competition, then they use their factories in China that are powered by the dirtiest coal to manufacture everything, and ship it around the oceans on ships powered by bunker fuel. There is a big reason why China has grown to burn about half the carbon on the planet.

So with the vast majority of carbon emitting industries just outsourced so that they can be our picture of Dorian Gray for the environment, they come around to further attack the poor buggers who don't get to just outsource all of their carbon consumption to countries without environmental laws.

That's the sort of thing that's really starting to bother me. People advocate for rules that they never have to follow, companies end up calling for things that don't apply to them because they just move their businesses to places that don't have those rules. People who never have to turn their car on in 40 below to drive 12 hours to the next city advocate for cars that simply can't do that, and for sources of energy that won't produce any power for months of the year.

My government spent $500 billion in the past 8 years in debt alone. That doubled the debt. That's enough money to build enough hydroelectric stations to not just power our entire country electrically multiple times over and convert much of our transportation and industry to carbon neutral energy, but the power of a good chunk of our neighbors. We can become the most environmentally friendly economy on the planet for centuries on such an investment. Instead, we spent that money on basically nothing, and jacked up everyone's taxes (for the luxury of heating our homes in near arctic conditions), and have been implementing a bunch of methods to restrict the amount of food available.

All you have to do to find out what they're really up to is look what they are doing and look what they're not doing.

I feel like the instagram ideal woman is proof positive that men have nothing to do with unrealistic beauty standards -- no man alive wants women to look like that.

Testosterone actually has a number of different effects, and one of them is increased teamwork alongside the increased competitiveness.

You know it's funny as I think a month or two ago I was talking about exactly that. Like, there are some conspiracy theories that are so stupid out there that they almost become the go-to for anyone criticizing the official narrative. "Oh, you believe in the tuskagee syphilis experiment? You must also believe that microchips in vaccines cause covid with the help of 5G!"

At the end of the day the right answer is to think for yourself. It's really easy to fall into the trap of "you agree with me that breathing oxygen is important so you must also agree that we must destroy all other gasses on earth" fallacious thinking, which is exactly how all of the approved broken ideologies function.

I think that's a natural reaction to an order that's elitist and globalist coming to it's natural conclusion

One thing that's interesting though is that it is a nationalism in the sense of supporting the current Nations. You've got a lot of groups aiming specifically at dividing Nations, such as the Alberta and Texas separation movements.

"join the armed forces! Protect your country from invaders!"

Considering we're actually talking about and protecting the government from Invaders, it would really have to be on a case by case basis -- which government are you willing to fight to the death to defend your current government?

They might change their mind when they realize poilievre and the conservatices are probably going to sweep the next elections.

tbf, he probably went crazy from banging a prostitute and not from writing too much philosophy.

I think cyclists should be on the sidewalk and just be like "hey, you gotta share the sidewalk with the pedestrians and you gotta treat the road like a pedestrian would".

Being on the road with cars is scary as shit and I never wanted to do that.

It's not a competition because the common man's plate is always the one the rich and powerful will ask for sacrifices from.

We're living it right now, tent cities while we're told by the elites the economy is doing better than ever.

Everyone is all like "If X wins I'm moving to Canada" but to vote in Canada you need to present ID and you use a paper ballot.

Sometimes people ask why I never gamble. To pay for college I worked at a gas station, and I'd see people I knew were making minimum wage come in and spend hundreds of dollars on (government) lottery tickets. It was just "scan, nope. scan, nope. scan, nope" -- burning money but sometimes they'd get a free ticket.

The scariest thing isn't just that it's addictive, it's that the people who can the least afford to be burning money on it are the ones who think it might be their ticket to financial security.

Yeah, acetone and ABS is really interesting. They use acetone vapor to smooth out ABS prints in 3d printing. It doesn't affect other plastics though.

I wish instead of focusing on the common man's dinner plate we'd instead consider maybe ending the global empires. Much more carbon being burned hourly by militaries protecting megacorporate interests.

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