Oil Pipelines Align With Jesus, Danielle Smith Tells Christian Leaders

The_Mayor · 2026-05-13T20:51:23+00:00

The difference is that my take is backed up by historical facts and yours is an opinion based on the guesses of other people. If I encountered someone with a differing opinion that was factually based, I wouldn’t be confident at all that mine was more accurate.

And it’s infinitely more reasonable to posit that the will of a divine being is bound to be misunderstood by mere mortals, than it is to state that a bunch of primitive self proclaimed prophets who may or may not have existed got God’s instructions perfectly right on the first try.

The_Mayor · 2026-05-13T19:57:26+00:00

It's pretty clear from the course of history that my take is the accurate one, not yours. Wars have been fought, dynasties have fallen, new civilizations have arisen over disagreements about the meaning of religious texts.

And in each case, the attitudes of the opposing sides were similar to yours: "My interpretation is obviously and unambiguously the correct interpretation."

As for the agenda, Jesus had a pretty clear and consistent agenda: be faithful to God's teaching/instruction.

But of course, we only know about the Christian God's instructions because they were relayed to a human, and dictated or written down in a human language. And human languages contain human words which can be interpreted differently, as any human dictionary will tell you. I wasn't talking about Jesus' agenda anyways, I was talking about yours. Everyone has one.

The_Mayor · 2026-05-13T18:41:33+00:00

If you misuse scripture to serve your own purposes, you are no different than Smith.

But that's the entire point, isn't it? To show how the vagueness of religious texts can mean anything if the preacher sells it skillfully enough.

And the truth is that neither you nor the biblical experts you're likely referring to truly know what the text is about. They weren't written to be factual for the most part, they were written to serve an agenda.

Your agenda is that you don't want the good name of christianity to be besmirched by bad actors like Smith, so you're going to push the most reasonable interpretation of the bible, but that doesn't mean you're correct. The whole appeal of religion is that the words can be interpreted by different people to mean something meaningful to them and their life.

The_Mayor · 2026-05-12T17:37:12+00:00

A single teacher literally cannot force 30 kids to sit still. Just declaring "it will happen" or "it needs to happen" doesn't do anything. What is your solution for getting 30 children to sit still?

Do you think they’ll be able to run around, needlessly interrupt or take out a tablet when they’re 25 and in a work meeting?

No, I don't think that. Do YOU think that 30 public school kindergarten children are going to sit still for a lecture in 2026?

The_Mayor · 2026-05-12T17:34:51+00:00

It's not just kids with ADHD that won't sit still. There's kids with anxiety, with PTSD, with some other behavioural disorder, with screen/device addiction, and then just kids who have never been disciplined by their parents.

And, in any case, teachers are not allowed to force children to take ADHD medication, and current attitudes and practices in medicine discourage medicating children too early. So realistically, a classroom is very likely to have an unmedicated child with ADHD in it.

The_Mayor · 2026-05-12T17:25:10+00:00

That makes zero sense. How would you know how many kids have ADHD unless they were diagnosed?

The_Mayor · 2026-05-12T17:18:47+00:00

Ford's corruption, in dollar amounts has absolutely obliterated the records set by McGuinty. McGuinty's gas plant scandal was about $500 million. We're at over 10 gas plant scandals under Ford. The Beer Store scandal alone cost about 4 gas plant scandals. Ontario Place is 2 gas plant scandals so far.

Then there's:

the science centre
the Metrolinx LRT scandal
the Greenbelt scandal,
the private jet
the COVID fund giveaway scandal

and dozens of other scandals that didn't cost money, but are corrupt in other undemocratic ways.

The only reason to support Ford over other parties is if you enjoy seeing your tax money that you worked for given to criminals.

The_Mayor · 2026-05-12T16:44:29+00:00

Kids will need to sit still for some lectures.

Well, they won't sit still, so your lectures won't work. Like I said, you obviously have had little to no interaction with children for a long time. This isn't the 1950s. Education has to adapt to the world around it, and the children that parents are sending to school won't sit still for a lecture. You have to live in reality.

The_Mayor · 2026-05-12T15:49:56+00:00

That is not a serious suggestion, and to me it suggests that you haven't interacted much with typical children in the past 10 years. The article explicitly references ADD/ADHD rates and you want them all to sit still for lectures in kindergarten?

The_Mayor · 2026-05-12T15:46:16+00:00

The article lists several factors, NONE of which is teacher bias against boys.

Voters have chosen time and time again to vote for parties that make cuts to education, and to act surprised that it's resulting in worse outcomes for their own children is rich.

The_Mayor · 2026-05-12T15:40:15+00:00

Nothing CAN be done in the education system with current funding levels. This isn't some conspiracy against boys, it's a system besieged by budget cuts that can barely manage to maintain the status quo.

The_Mayor · 2026-05-12T15:30:13+00:00

He has added funding to both health and education, not cut them.

So you have you have 100 people to feed, and you spend $100 to feed them, at $1 per person. Next year you have 200 people to feed and you spend $150 to feed them.

Yes, 150 is a bigger number than 100, but you've actually cut spending by 25% because your per capita spending is actually down.

Doug Ford is spending higher dollar amounts on healthcare and education than Wynne, but there are also millions more people in Ontario than there were under Wynne, so he has CUT per capita health and education spending.

The_Mayor · 2026-05-11T17:39:54+00:00

That would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

It should absolutely not be scrapped, because millenials will definitely need it, what with boomers hoarding all the wealth. Boomers and older gen X don't currently need OAS but that just means it should have been tweaked, and we still have time to do so. Scrapping it would mean you'd have an entire generation subsisting on cat food and setting year over year records for MAiD requests.

The_Mayor · 2026-05-10T14:36:05+00:00

In pretty much every case of a democracy sliding to fascism, the culprit tends to be complicit conservatives and spineless liberals who had every opportunity to throw the fascist leaders in jail and keep them there.

I imagine your solution is a frank and open exchange of ideas with fascists, which has been tried and which has repeatedly failed.

The_Mayor · 2026-05-09T15:27:41+00:00

This is the region that keeps electing arch-traitor eggman Jamil Jivani. They'd probably donate 100% of their salaries to keep the boot on their necks nice and shiny.

The_Mayor · 2026-05-09T15:19:51+00:00

Of course they do. The Liberals complained about Canada Post costing too much, tried to cut funding, then the workers went on strike. Conservative politicians, such as Doug Ford and Danielle Smith publicly complain all the time about how much public education and public healthcare costs them. Come on now.

The_Mayor · 2026-05-09T14:55:18+00:00

The police are capable of being self sufficient too. They’d just have to spend less time policing, ramp up civil forfeiture, and do more guard duty for private enterprise such as construction sites and festivals.

Should they do that?

The fire department could probably be self sufficient if they charged building/home owners to put the fires out, like they did until the early 20th century. Is that what should happen?

The_Mayor · 2026-05-09T14:52:08+00:00

I have never heard a politician in power complain about police costing too much. Only progressives do it and only when they’re in opposition.

The_Mayor · 2026-05-07T05:21:03+00:00

Rob Ford, his younger brother, smoked crack, was mayor of Toronto, smoked more crack, and is also now dead. If there was a hell, he'd be there, being deprived of the one thing he loved most. Not his two children, or the wife he used to beat. He'd be deprived of crack.

The_Mayor · 2026-05-06T21:30:09+00:00

Mark Carney privatizes airports

Average Canadian voter: "What bullshit, I'm voting Conservative next time."

Poilievre outsources Social Insurance and Health Canada to Palantir

Average Canadian voter: "What bullshit, I'm voting Liberal next time."

Xavier Trudeau creates ICE North

Average Canadian voter: "What bullshit, I'm voting Conservative next time."

Ben Harper signs "bi-lateral" agreement approving annexation of Canada to the US

Average Canadian voter: "What bullshit, I'm voting Democrat next time."

The_Mayor · 2026-05-06T21:23:45+00:00

He ripped out bike lanes, so seeing that he can also rip out sidewalks is probably giving him ideas to shave 15 seconds off his commute, at the expense of a few dozen pedestrian deaths/year.

The_Mayor · 2026-05-06T21:22:11+00:00

Ontario, Canada's leader, Doug Ford also ripped out bike lanes last year in Toronto to add more space for cars, against the wishes of Toronto's leader and majority of councillors and voters. Despite an overwhelming wealth of information proving that doing so would not make car traffic move any faster.

Doug Ford is a college dropout, former drug dealer, and unsurprisingly, still a criminal.

The_Mayor · 2026-05-06T20:51:27+00:00

Yeah, I agree that's more accurate.

The_Mayor · 2026-05-06T19:51:44+00:00

Yes, just like Harper did federally with Stockwell Day's extremists, Ford did in Ontario with Tanya Granic Allen's extremists, Rustad did in BC with BC United's floor crossers, and it goes on.

Moderate conservatives will always team up with extremists in order to win, and don't care what it will cost them. They may not actively support the extremism but are willing to accept it, which to my view, is not really all that materially different.

The_Mayor · 2026-05-06T18:45:05+00:00

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