Victor Villas

Nah DOGE has never been about efficiency, it’s just plain old cutting services by making institutions dysfunctional.

Not that the results of replacing public servants with AI with give wildly different results, but at least it’s going to be ridiculously slow and expensive so it’s easier to rollback

Nah, the real Arrow EV that should revolutionize the industry is this one: https://urbanarrow.com/en-na/

Yes, it always has been propaganda. Central and South America has suffered at the hands of American exceptionalism and propaganda for generations. The difference is that now the gaze of imperialism is pointing inwards and to the north as well, which is unusual.

I don’t disagree that it makes people lose trust, I’m just saying that a practicable straight answer would also make people lose trust

I think he’s right to deflect on Brookfield though. Governance of asset management is very complicated, so it’s very easy to misrepresent an honest answer to an objective question. If the question is not relevant and has high potential of being used for misinformation, I think it’s best to deflect. The only other option is to openly say “I could objectively answer this question with a 2 hour long explanation that you’re probably not educated enough to understand” and that’s not going to fly well either.

In theory, nothing. In practice, half as much of what’s wrong with conservatism. But I was referring to “enlightened centrism” is more specific: the tendency to position oneself in the middle of two ‘extremes’ because it’s a comfortable position, to play a role of enlightened by always taking a both-sides stance. That’s what I’m referring to as a fantasy, because we know that in practice, for the core issues of politics, almost always there is a wrong side of history stance.

You know I find the nominal political viewpoints of conservatives(small c) just.

Why even bother creating a steel man for conservatism? Free yourself from this enlightened centrist fantasy.

All the people that thought Poilievre would not continue as the opposition leader need a wake up call. You still don’t understand what you’re fighting against. Cult of personality is a major pillar of fascism, and loyalty (to the leader, not to the country) is the most valuable trait. Poilievre had a few humiliating defeats but he’s still gaining grounds for the CPC, and the conservative wave is still on it sway, bolder and with lots of resentments piled up.

Take this seriously. The enemy doesn’t have to be smart or competent, they just need to amass power. https://www.antihate.ca/40ways

What are you even talking about lol there are all kinds of Canadian outlets out there, why are you even talking about government?

Maybe you’re getting confused when people say “Canadian”. They don’t mean “owned by the government”, it only means that it’s an organization that is headquartered in Canada. Like Rebel News, a wacky outlet that is based on Toronto. It’s garbage, but it’s Canadian garbage.

So if there’s an worldview out there that not even the shittiest Canadian outlet is platforming, it has to be the most insane fringe stuff.

If there’s absolutely no Canadian source that fits someone worldview, I’d say that’s pretty damning evidence that said view is propaganda

? Yes Switzerland and a few others have high gun ownership, but how does that help the thesis?

oh man, you two agree that the RCMP are assholes, why die on this hill

If you do that, your government will never respect you

What does this even mean? Are countries with high gun ownership examples of societies high in “respect”? Like Japan, South Korea… no wait

angry at the idea of not drinking and catching the bus… lol damn these useless city people, subsidizing fuel for everyone

I claimed that legal gun owners rarely commit the crime, i made no claims on the origins of those guns.

The fact that you’re trying to bring legal ownership to this discussions means that you are claiming that the origin of guns is an important detail. But at this point we already know that reducing the presence of guns in this world is good, and we already know that making it harder and harder to acquire guns helps reducing the presence of guns. So while true that legality matters in crime statistics, the main point still stands: gun laws can and should be more strict. There’s never going to be a point in time where this sentence is not true, unless guns stop existing.

lmao what

“making oneself difficult to invade” is quite an understatement of pursuing nuclear weapons but point taken

lmao thank you for the analysis and so valuable sage stoic advice

OK stupid Trump comments aside, I do think it’s a diplomatic blunder for Trudeau to say that the tariff would kill the Canadian economy. Even if it would, better not to admit it, because pleading with a demon is guaranteed loss while at least a bluff could get some result. So I just hope this is hearsay and not really how things went down during those talks.

If to protect ourselves from our enemies we have to become like them, I prefer to give up on Canada and go somewhere else.