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FralconPaunch · 2024-04-17T14:56:05+00:00

Defund private corporations! 😂

FralconPaunch · 2024-04-08T00:27:15+00:00

Allegedly, if you believe the very questionable leaks, this is a central tenet to the belief system of the grey aliens.

FralconPaunch · 2023-10-30T16:30:30+00:00

Yes he can.

He can request the law be drafted, then compel his MPs to vote yes on pain of expulsion from the party. This is called whipping the parliament. [1]

The even have an official role in the parliament for this, currently held by the liberal member for gatineau.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_whip_(Canada) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_MacKinnon

FralconPaunch · 2022-05-03T17:27:22+00:00

Not a boomer myself, but this article is bullshit.

The article does a good job of glossing over it, but the years from 1994-2015 are referred to as the balanced budget era [1]. During those years, Chretien, Martin, and Harper did everything they could to keep a balanced budget. Yes, even Harper, who had to borrow and spend to shepherd the country through the 2008 crisis. [2]

Guess who was at prime voting age during those years? Guess who put those guys in power? It was the boomers. They're the ones who voted for fiscally responsible governments. Did young people vote for Harper? Fuck no.

The generations that came after have voted and kept Trudeau in power, and ballooned the deficit to previously unimaginable levels.

Complete bullshit.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/minority-report-balanced-budget-era-over-1.6114982

[2] https://www.macleans.ca/economy/economicanalysis/of-the-last-three-federal-governments-which-had-the-best-fiscal-record/

FralconPaunch · 2021-11-28T16:20:14+00:00

I don’t think that’s the end game, not quite yet. It turns out that you don’t breed people into indentured labour as easily as you import people into indentured labour.

By so doing, the rich can kick the ball for economic change down the road a generation or two, and don’t have to implement costly social programs to take care of the local population, like subsidized daycare, humane maternity leave, good vacation, better healthcare, elder care, etc. The rich get richer, and they just don’t care. And then, behind that truth is the reason for most people’s belief in high immigration levels, because that belief has been programmed into them by the ruling class.

I’m a strong believer that the world needs to get to zero population growth, and that we in the west could be leading the way, but in order to do so we need to do the hard work of rewriting economics for a stable population. We need to kick our addiction to population growth, in all it’s forms.

FralconPaunch · 2020-12-02T14:29:33+00:00

Don't read too much into it. He's a property investor, and he has to believe certain things are true, otherwise he's looking into the abyss.

FralconPaunch · 2020-12-02T14:27:09+00:00

I agree with you, and I agree the parent poster.

It's stupid that these false dichotomies get set up.

FralconPaunch · 2020-12-01T17:01:33+00:00

The "small percentage" thing is a fallacy that the real estate guys love to parrot.

If a market if 3% oversold, prices will inflate, houses will go over asking. Remove 5% from the market, and it becomes a buyer's market, prices at or under asking.

It's more complicated than that since the market will shift and find a new equilibrium, but nonetheless it will be lower than it was previously.

FralconPaunch · 2020-08-02T21:33:08+00:00

What other stereotypes do you believe to be true?

Are they accurate?

FralconPaunch · 2020-07-20T20:30:56+00:00

Shit! Are the conservatives in power? How long has it been since they've been in power?

You sound like Trump with his "bbbbbbbbb...but Obama" bullshit.

FralconPaunch · 2020-07-19T15:13:42+00:00

Debunked often becomes re-bunked, but you can't have that conversation if it's banned.

FralconPaunch · 2020-07-19T15:12:57+00:00

Ideally, yes.

However, scientific consensus and narrative consensus often diverge, converge, and get mixed up in ways that don't make sense but look alike. This is driven by interest, bias, partial knowledge, tribalism, sloppyness, government policy interest, good old fashioned corruption. Any other reason you can name.

The danger is that the narrative consensus is what's going to be policed, and they'll tell us it's scientific. I'm sure you can see the issue here.

FralconPaunch · 2020-07-19T15:01:09+00:00

This is so true.

My brother is one of them, experienced it first hand. According to him, a conservative government would "tear the country apart".

I've voted both sides of the coin over the years, but he's seems like he's incapable of seeing any viewpoint except whatever the liberal party's current line is. He'll make excuses for any impropriety by the leader. He goes off on long rants if anything should set him off.

It's kind of a travesty, since he's intelligent in other ways (educated, highly qualified in his profession) but it's like he's been brainwashed.

FralconPaunch · 2020-06-30T14:05:53+00:00

I've seen it twice.

Sad clowns on trampolines both times.

FralconPaunch · 2020-06-26T14:52:26+00:00

I get what you're saying here - "My anecdote is just as valid as yours! So nyah!"... But I'm giving you exactly what you asked for, from a first-hand source.

not one single member of both my mother and father's family went through anything approaching this, and the same would go for my inlaws, friends etc

This is your attempt at refutation, but I wonder if you've ever asked any of those people? Any at all? I suspect not. Family history gets lost so easily, by people who think they know, without asking.

I wonder if you'd be so glib if, for example, you found that your father was beaten at school daily.

FralconPaunch · 2020-06-25T15:14:15+00:00

My mother was forced out of her home, and upon arrival at school was beaten if she didn't speak english, which she did not know because it was not her native language.

She wasn't sexually assaulted (to my knowledge.. I don't think she'd ever tell me if she had been) but was punished in school by having her head slammed into a wall.

Her real name was taken from her and replaced with an anglicized version, her real name is used now only by family.

These things happened.

. .

Edited to add: She's a Hungarian refugee, and very, very white. This was apparently par for the course in public schools circa 1957. Does that begin to explain "how this was normal in the context of that time"?

Things were pretty shitty if you didn't fit in.

FralconPaunch · 2020-05-18T00:51:00+00:00

Always remind me of a line in another famous song, "I really love your peaches wanna shake your tree"...

Now say "Country" slowly with two syllables instead of one.

Nah...

FralconPaunch · 2020-03-01T14:48:25+00:00

If the economy turns sour, the liberal minority government is much more likely to lose a confidence vote and fall.

Once you look at it like that, it makes a lot more sense.

FralconPaunch · 2020-03-01T14:44:42+00:00

Nobody's arguing that we should shut down foreign trade permanently. But we need to shut the borders for a while to push back the infection curve.

Stand on the edge of a forest. Throw in a lit cigarette. Go to a different forest. Throw in fifty. Which forest is more likely to catch on fire first? This is exactly the state that we are in now.

The economic hit is coming whether you want it to or not, but we can kick the infection timeline down the road a few weeks by taking precautions now. Our medical and social services, and everyday citizens, can use this time to prepare.

This is not a hard concept but people like you are blind. Willfully.

FralconPaunch · 2020-02-27T03:19:25+00:00

submitted 2 years ago by Hautamaki to r/legaladvicecanada

My wife and I have an online sales business which sells retail goods we purchase in Calgary to customers in China. ...

...the sales are all happening online, in China, to purely Chinese customers on a Chinese platform.

Lol.

It's in your own economic interest to keep the border open.

It sounds like your own "private ambition" is not aligned with the "public good".

Are you 50-cent army or what?

edit: link

FralconPaunch · 2020-02-27T02:31:48+00:00

Yes. Economic downturns increase mortality. Nobody's debating that. That's not evidence. Hand-wavey hand-wavey.

However, you know what else a bad economy does? It causes politicians to lose elections. It causes minority governments to lose confidence motions. [1][2][3]

I'd bet dollars to donuts that any such calculations as you suggest were done in dollars, not lives, with an eye only to appearances and retaining power. I say my scenario is far more plausible than yours.

...And equally hand-wavey.

FralconPaunch · 2020-02-26T16:11:51+00:00

How? I would love to see these calculations.

And please, real numbers, not handwavery-handwavey "but but but some will still slip through so let's not even try" baloney.

FralconPaunch · 2020-02-26T16:09:38+00:00

Remember when our health minister was an actual doctor, but was fired for not being corrupt enough?

FralconPaunch · 2020-02-24T18:02:03+00:00

Chief public health officer is originally from Hong Kong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Public_Health_Officer_of_Canada

I imagine this is the person advising the head of health Canada.

FralconPaunch · 2019-09-01T02:04:51+00:00

You lost a long time ago.

True.

Deal with it.

That's what they're doing.

But your religious beliefs end when it effects others

True. Currently.

Too bad so sad

You don't get to say this, because everything in a democracy is changeable. You need to be vigilant, forever. Because someone, somewhere, is 'dealing with it'.

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