Canadian Politics

[Bristol-Cruiser]

Lol…. you racist moron , we here in the greatest country in the history of mankind have by far the largest and most diverse population, the only complaint is the illegal border crossings.
6 million in 2022
and not as in the highlighting in your hateful post
By the way are you still trying to sell your piece of shit boat ?

Do you take pride in your ignorance of, well, facts. Greatest country in the history of mankind is a very subjective concept and the US certainly does lead in things like military expenditures. If you look at more quantitative measures like GDP per capita, happiness rankings, etc it is far from the top.

You may think the US is most diverse but that is certainly not the case. One decent measure of diversity is the percentage of the population that is foreign-born. We find:
USA 15.4%
Germany 15.7%
Canada 21.3%
Sweden 20.0%
New Zealand 27.4%
Australia 30.0%
So US is about half that of Oz. Immigration, done properly builds a country.

 

[SloopJonB]

Too many of those lefty facts for the dimwit to comprehend.

 

[Bristol-Cruiser]

Nice try. @Bristol-Cruiser is right. You must truly be a moron if you think anyone here would view his post as racist. Your post, however, implies that immigration to Canada is somehow a bad thing. Well, Canadians certainly don't see it that way, especially since all but our aboriginal population are either immigrants or are descended from immigrants.

And my wife is of the non-white variety (one of the many, many Chinese immigrants in the past few decades. She brought a PhD in engineering physics and became a first-rate sailor (circumnavigator). I suspect she has contributed more to Canada than V^3 has to the US (and to sailing).

 

[basketcase]

Lol…. you racist moron , we here in the greatest country in the history of mankind have by far the largest and most diverse population, the only complaint is the illegal border crossings.
6 million in 2022
and not as in the highlighting in your hateful post
By the

way are you still trying to sell your piece of shit boat ?

you really are a clueless twat, living in a third world shithole.......
What defines a 3rd world country?


The modern definition of “Third World” is used to classify countries that are poor or developing. Countries that are part of the “third world” are generally characterized by (1) high rates of poverty, (2) economic and/or political instability, and (3) high mortality rates.

 

[veni vidi vici]

you really are a clueless twat, living in a third world shithole.......
What defines a 3rd world country?


The modern definition of “Third World” is used to classify countries that are poor or developing. Countries that are part of the “third world” are generally characterized by (1) high rates of poverty, (2) economic and/or political instability, and (3) high mortality rates.

Bingo !

 

[SloopJonB]

Did the dimwit actually get it?

Naaahhh - couldn't be.

 

[spankoka]

It's developing world now, because the Second World was the communist nations. North Korea would seem to be the actual last communist nation left, given that Cuba runs on tourism.

 

[Gong Show]

I love this. You say you disagree with my assertion, then go on to argue about something completely different. My assertion is about what we have done to the environment. Here in BC we are running out of fibre, wild salmon are no longer abundant, the SRKW are endangered, biodiversity is being lost at an accelerated rate, and our neighbors to the south are asking us to sort out our tailings ponds because they fear a big breach. We have polluted thus country from one end to the other. But yes, our aboriginal people have modern clothing.

My sense is that it will be the aboriginal people who ultimately save us from ourselves.

Noted above that there are now reasonable demands for more pipeline capacity - but only because some stupid fuck in Russia wants a legacy. Without that war, we could hardly justify TMX.

I feel I live in a different BC than you.

Look out the window on your next flight, we are nowhere near running out of fibre, we are running out of common sense.

Lots of factors with salmon, I have been intimately involved for multiple decades. Many issues upstream of the Mission bridge. Farmers and ranchers are not salmon friendly, nor cars and trucks.

Resident orca pods adjacent to larger population centers are phuqued, period. Orcas not adjacent to BC urban centers are doing great!

Not sure about accelerated loss of biodiversity in BC, there are many good news stories like humpbacks.

Glad you believe the world burning Russian natural gas is better than Cdn natural gas.

As to the saving us from ourselves, I can only conclude you have not traveled the province outside the urban centers, lots of evidence to support all humans suck.

 

[SloopJonB]

It's developing world now, because the Second World was the communist nations. North Korea would seem to be the actual last communist nation left, given that Cuba runs on tourism.

NORK is not and never was communist. At least since the war it has been a brutal hereditary dictatorship.

Calling it communist doesn't make it so.

 

[spankoka]

That is not unfair, I guess the point is we are talking about an almost %100 state run economy.

 

[Gong Show]

Our government thinks it can pick or make private sector winners, with $15 billion.
Despite previous failed attempts.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jo...cBKg8IACoHCAowmdaOCDDj-3U&utm_content=related

 

[veni vidi vici]

Our government thinks it can pick or make private sector winners, with $15 billion.
Despite previous failed attempts.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jo...cBKg8IACoHCAowmdaOCDDj-3U&utm_content=related

Hard to beat a good 5 year plan

 

[Bristol-Cruiser]

It's developing world now, because the Second World was the communist nations. North Korea would seem to be the actual last communist nation left, given that Cuba runs on tourism.

The use of the traditional First, Second, and Third World makes little sense today. In one of my books I addressed the question of how to divide up the world. Thomas Barnett is an American writer who has written about new ways to divide the world, in particular from the perspective of the US and the US military. The one I like has a group of countries that are fully globalized (think US, Japan or EU), a second group moving toward being globalized (think Chile or Viet Nam) and a third group that is not globalized (e.g. most of Africa, the 'Stans', and Nork). He called the globalized nations the 'Functioning Core' and the non-globalized nations the 'anon-integrating Gap'. His premise is that countries that are fully-globalized do not end of fighting each other because their economies are to linked ad have too much to lose in war. This is reflected in Tom Friedman's 'Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention' which stated that two nations that have McDonald's will never fight each other. This has not always worked in the 25 years since it was posited (Ukraine-Russia being thee clearest example) but it is pretty reliable. Later Friedman modified the theory to say that two countries that are part of the Dell computer supply chain would never fight.

Based on this and Barnett, the problem is that Russia was never sufficiently globalized to make a war undesirable. China is in a very interesting situation. Economically they may be the most globalized nation in the world, but, especially under Xi's leadership, they have fought against too much cultural globalization. It is almost as if they want their cake and to ...

You can read more Barnett at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_P._M._Barnett
and about Friedman at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexus_and_the_Olive_Tree#Golden_Arches_theory

EDIT: I forgot to mention that after the Russian invasion, McDonald's permanently closed down its Russian operations. Sort of like the Golden Arches theory in the reverse position.

 

[Rain Man]

I feel I live in a different BC than you.

Look out the window on your next flight, we are nowhere near running out of fibre, we are running out of common sense.

Sure we could cut down all the forest including the remaining old growth if we wanted. There may be consequences. The people in Merrit are certainly aware of that.

Take a look at the province on Google maps. Here is my favorite spot. Ok this is one of the worst but there are quite a few others like this. An RPF told me that they have made great strides in preserving biodiversity by increasing the number of tree species required when replanting clearcuts to three! Yeah that's gonna fix it.

Glad you believe the world burning Russian natural gas is better than Cdn natural gas.

I think we have an emerging climate crisis. We need to have a plan to severely limit the burning of fossil fuels down the road. Fuck Russia. They started a war when we have some really big problems facing us and made solving them more difficult.

 

[Gong Show]

This is a summary from our government regarding BC forests and biodiversity,

https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/docs/mr/mr113/forests.htm

Despite authoring this, the province seem intent on destroying the forestry industry.

 

[Rain Man]

This is a summary from our government regarding BC forests and biodiversity,

https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/docs/mr/mr113/forests.htm

Despite authoring this, the province seem intent on destroying the forestry industry.

I'll see your government propaganda and raise you the Old Growth Strategic Review

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/farming-natural-resources-and-industry/forestry/stewardship/old-growth-forests/strategic-review-20200430.pdf

I have flown a lot over the Alberni Valley and still do. The entire valley is a patchwork of clearcuts and monoculture managed forests. The clearcuts are great for us glider pilots, because they heat up and produce thermal lift, but the land is now just a giant tree farm.
I'd be interested in any science you have on biodiversity in BC. I will look too.

 

[Bugsy]

we here in the greatest country in the history of mankind

I assume by that 'we' you mean Americans. Care to provide a creditable source for your assertion? Cite please.

I have earlier provided references showing how the US is on the path from 'developed' to 'developing'. By just about every measure the USA is NOT number one, except things like gun ownership, incarceration rate and defence spending.

 

[Ishmael]

I assume by that 'we' you mean Americans. Care to provide a creditable source for your assertion? Cite please.

I have earlier provided references showing how the US is on the path from 'developed' to 'developing'. By just about every measure the USA is NOT number one, except things like gun ownership, incarceration rate and defence spending.

Let's not forget COVID death rate.

 

[SloopJonB]

VVVidiot apparently hasn't seen this bit of truth & fact.

He's such a simpleton that "USA... USA... USA" is all he's got.

 

[Laker]

Truth hurts , alas it is a virtue signaling self inflicted wound to your country. The world needs natural resources and you are a natural resource rich country, same with Australia, should have kept your guns !

Are these not "ad hominum" attacks? They do not encompass criticism of policy, such as the restriction of fire arms which are supported by the vast majority of citizens. As such, a reasonable person would reject them.