yes if only pesky governments got out of the way the invisible hand would jerk us all to completion

Eric Kaufmann, a Canadian professor at the University of Buckingham in the U.K., says this study aligns with his previous research showing those on the political left tend to be less tolerant of those who hold different views

How noble of the right to be tolerant of people wanting equality and egalitarianism, and how ignorant of the left to be opposed to fascism and racial hegemony…

if only the Canadian natives had the infrastructure to deport, evict, and otherwise hurt your ancestors

dumb fuck doesn’t even realize there are citizens who don’t originate here.

I’m a naturalized Canadian that’s been working and paying taxes supporting this country all my life and I have a damn good income, I’ve very likely “contributed” more than you.

I’m not going anywhere

Our society’s focus on individual privilege and individual rights over the collective well being will be our downfall.

Independent nation states are more likely to go to war sadly

I’m sorry that you find our genocide offensive

Definitely. In the past I hesitated to express my thoughts that Israel is a settler colonial apartheid state and now it’s a very prominent and accepted viewpoint.

Sure there’s a lot of pushback, still, but it’s not an unspeakable accusation like it used to feel like. Even “centrist” eyes can see this viewpoint now

Former Canadian diplomat Colin Robertson said that when diplomats go to observe a combat area, their safety is not guaranteed.

“Things happen which certainly are not probably intentional on the part of the Israeli government, but these things have happened in the past. We’ve had Canadian observers killed, for example, when we were doing peace monitoring in Vietnam and in other situations,” he said.

Fuck off Colin, fuck you

Can you show where you’re getting the information that margins have gone up? Only references to margins there indicate that they’ve been stable

People will do anything but blame corporations for their behaviour.

If we tax them prices will go up! Of course they raised prices, we didn’t make enough eye contact while we fellated the board!

Funny it’s never “raising prices is pointless, people will just demand higher wages!”

That was my point, really. I guess if you’re thinking of military training as resistance training then we agree. I think training our young men and women to immediately blow up in tanks and planes and die in trenches isn’t going to be useful.

I guess I don’t see the Canadian military training a bunch of Che Guevaras.

I’m not sure what you think my comment is saying but yeah United States is a danger and so too might Russia or China be, all are beyond our capabilities.

Our conventional military forces, even with mandatory service, won’t compete against our threats.

If anything the training will be useful for the deserters who then go on to form rebel and guerrilla factions, similar to what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan when the armed forces melted away into an underground resistance.

Canada isn’t going to fight and win a symmetric war with any of our adversaries. I think our able bodied people and military equipment would be better used off the conventional battlefield.

A lot of the spread is in Mennonite communities, another unscientific reason yes but this isn’t that kind of antivax

Brexit isn’t apples to apples.

Just like it didn’t happen with the Confederacy, and that was more than one state.

And that’s what leads to instability and ultimately the collapse of that government. The reality of the situation is that a narrow referendum to leave Canada will be met with incredible resistance and it’s not going to happen.

A supermajority would be harder to resist both internally and externally. That’s the point.

This is a pretty naive vision of democracy, if I invite 4 friends over and 3 of them want to order shit instead of pizza, we’re not eating shit.

Democracy isn’t some magical decree from God that is a law of nature, people must consent to being governed.

Ah yes the most extreme right wing will surely care about law and order as well as indigenous treaties

i hate to say it but lemmy.ca is among the worst servers for bad uninformed takes. The Conservative won with over 80% of the vote share in that riding, PP is a coward for running there but he won’t come close to losing.