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Well, it's less the Opium Wars themselves and more opium itself because holy poo poo did that stuff wreck China. Though I guess there's a parallel in that it's the But yeah, it's not so much a grudge specifically but the historical awareness of how opium was so devastating for China.
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PT6A posted:This is good roughly 2% of the time and bad the remaining 98%. Much like your posting.
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Helsing posted:Well, first of all, are we talking about 'communism' here as a vague yet to be realized end state that Marx and others described in only the vaguest terms or are we talking specifically about Leninism and its off shoots? Whichever is momentarily more convenient for my argument.
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Jun 27, 2018 02:35
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The Cheshire Cat posted:There's more media dedicated to just being explicit right-wing propaganda, basically. It doesn't matter how bad they actually are because there is a deluge of spin and flat out lies coming from sources telling people that only THEY can be trusted, and the government has completely dropped the ball on the issue because clamping down on massive, deliberate campaigns of misinformation would be anti-"free speech". Although I don't even know how much that would help to be honest - one of the biggest problems is how much of our culture is affected by US media. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of Canadians were just watching Fox News rather than a domestic source. There's also the liberal idea of the marketplace of ideas. That if you just let all these different ideas out in the open to coexist, people will choose what's most rational and you can debate about what's better, etc. People are not rational and giving hate a platform was a mistake. Right-wing media preys on exploiting these opportunities that are given to them in good faith but they will never, ever reciprocate because they are not interested.
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Furnaceface posted:Didnt they even offer to have the parts made here in Canada so we could fully maintain and support them? Like, how is our government this corrupt/dumb? The short answer is because Canada is joined to the US at the hip. Every time the "oh maybe the F-35 sucks, we will look into it" comes up there's absolutely nothing because Canada isn't going to pull out of this.
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zapplez posted:Why ? If we just want to be cheap and not follow interoperability with the USA why dont we just get a bunch of new f-22s? Because that's not up for export.
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I think the Gripen is probably the right size/capability for Canada but that Dassault Rafale offer was insanely good.
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The hilarious thing is that the F-35 can't even do what it was originally meant to do, which was to save money by making three planes that were similar enough to share components to cut down on parts. Even without the 35B the others sacrifice so much that they're mediocre at best and have a limited payload...unless they carry more poo poo on external hardpoints and severely impact their stealth.
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http://reappropriate.co/2018/05/reconnecting-heart-and-head-racism-immigration-policy-wechat-and-chinese-americans/ I mean, it's not Canada but it's be stupid to say this isn't happening here too.
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Aug 3, 2018 23:51
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A Typical Goon posted:Hilarious that we are having the Yeah but you see that's the USA, here in Canada we
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argument today, on the one year anniversary of Heather Heyer’s murder
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I'm cynical and don't see a practical path towards halting or reversing climate change too but I sure as gently caress don't post to defend oil and gas.
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Perhaps it's the company/society/capitalism's fault.
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Pinterest Mom posted:His electoral base is outside Toronto, and people outside Toronto might not think it's "For the People" for the premier to spend his time nursing petty grievances inside the city rather than governing the province. Hahaha if you think they aren't also nursing petty grievances. Hell, his base has probably just conjured up being angry at Toronto all the time for no reason than because Ford is also mad.
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PT6A posted:Well, yeah. It's a poor choice for the reason you describe, which then gives ammunition to gun nuts to say that our laws are stupid. I wouldn't worry about giving ammunition to gun nuts because their outlook is already one of distrust for everything that would even dare reach for their guns. We do need to worry about people in the middle who don't like guns but go "gosh, why can't we just let them have their hobby?" etc. We need useful legislation we can point to when reasonable people, gun-owning or not, want to take a look at the issue.
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Why, they don't even regulate your ability to walk
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pokeyman posted:I can’t think of the word for how I feel that nobody cares about this. It’s not a surprise, but I thought we wouldn’t be so... indifferent? I mean we can’t even fund one commission? Really? It's just a quiet strategy of not acknowledging the poo poo that happened in the past. Plus, defunding studies like these cuts off the road to reparations. They can just make a fuss over not knowing how much it'll cost and they just don't want to punish people (as if individuals are going to be paying for reparations) while quietly making sure the studies don't get done.
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What was it, liberals hate leftists more than facists?
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Sep 24, 2018 05:59
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infernal machines posted:Hey guys, guess what? I guess working to keep the NDP out is going well.
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I remember there being some hilarious scandal with the Kwantlen student association because of similar stuff, except they went as far as hiring a relative/friend of a friend's security company to intimidate students during voting.
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ChairMaster posted:Anyways I don't have a family or any economic privilege at all, but I'm white and mentally healthy enough that I can probably get out of this country before it's too late, which is a way more realistic goal than trying to put the brakes on this hilariously obvious downslide. Maybe it's just me but that sounds like family and economic privilege.
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Sep 30, 2018 21:09
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Terror Sweat posted:Destroying the world for your descendants to trigger the libs Look they love their children, and even their children's children. But they don't love them that much. And they don't love their children's children's children.
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infernal machines posted:You have to admire the hubris of being a representative of a visible minority population, aligning yourself with a group that consistently works to kill support for visible minorities, and then being shocked that they did in fact kill government support for your particular minority group. Face-eating leopard etc.
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Baronjutter posted:Actually there's a lot of people that are saying a limited nuclear conflict, like between India and Pakistan or China, would actually grimly offset a lot of climate change by throwing tons of poo poo into the atmosphere and getting rid of a ton of resource eating humans. Sure, if we nuke all the rich.
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The other thing about donating to Conservatives is that you have literally no control or influence here. If you're really determined to have the Conservatives gently caress themselves over, it'd involve infiltrating them and rising to a level of power and/or influence that'd give you the levers you can use to gently caress them over. Donating money to them and then patting yourself on the back is even more low-effort than voting against Conservatives.
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I mean, it's fine to wish you were born into better circumstances but the times I've considered those what-ifs, it's usually how well my family would be doing. We'd sure be completely hosed if my parents went to America.
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Arcsquad12 posted:"Also, they tell me they're not racists." "I'm not racist, I just have common cause with racists."
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Utgardaloki posted:is it worth mentioning that we're on this subject because somebody quoted a basically ancient post by Helsing to call him out for, ironically, being obsessed with the subject? Well clearly the fact that this topic keeps coming up conveniently means that Helsing is orchestrating people to bring it up again.
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Helsing posted:I think the fact half the thread loved CI whereas most people complain endlessly about ChairMaster implies something unpleasant about the inner psychological lives of many CanPol regulars.
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Baronjutter posted:I'm not an anarchist, but I think you have a really unfair straw-manish opinion of what they want and believe. Same.
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priznat posted:I hate how the Canada Food Guide is now controversial for some idiots. It's not really controversial. It's just the usual idiots making noise because it's from a group they don't approve of.
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Jan 22, 2019 23:07
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Baronjutter posted:I know everyone says its a lock for the NDP but they've hosed up locks in the past. My stomach gets uneasy with the realization Horgan could be out and the liberals back in over this if it goes sideways. Decorum.
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Femtosecond posted:Vancouver's socialist Coalition of Progressive Electors councillor Jean Swanson joined with the arch-NIMBY Councillor Hardwick in voting against a motion to support the proposed Skytrain to UBC. That this vote came after an impassioned speech at the public hearing by a UBC area Safeway manager who described how hard it was for her low wage earning workers to commute into work with the existing insufficient bus is incredible. Swanson has betrayed the workers that voted for her and discredited herself. God drat it, and I voted for her too.
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Syfe posted:So why do we have to act like private business is an efficient way to do it when the opposite is in fact true. Because the Liberals and Conservatives are not that different and the NDP doesn't care to challenge the narrative.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Yeah just like how they definitely won't cancel the UBI pilot. Because they can relate to the Cons and think that works both ways so the Cons surely won't hurt them.
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BGrifter posted:ChairMaster was right. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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