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I don't know your age (or anything else about you really so I do not know what generational cohort you are a member of. What policies that have been enacted by any government over the last 20 years that you consider to be a moral failure?

So you are saying you believe in socialism as an organising principle for this country? What other things that other taxpayers do should be vilified in the pursuit of Canadian pastime of always bringing down anyone who might be getting ahead.... Maybe we should attack the game and not the...

How else do you force "MFer seniors" to sell their assets in order to fund their retirement? No cottage, boat, etc for anyone who has retired?

So if I'm not okay with student loans for students who have parents with million dollar assets (often called the family home). All people who own a home should be forced to sell it to fund their child's education. Not taxpayers. That doesn't make much sense.

By they, you mean voters? And one gets to chose which policies apply to them? So policies enacted now that affect the previous year's voters should not apply to last year's voters? Huge cognitive dissonance going on here. But I guess if one (anyone) perpetually has a pitchfork and a...

False. DB pension oncome is income period. No OAS for most of them.

Why are so many of you convinced that government intervention into ownership of personal assets is appropriate, but not the intervention onto ownership of restricted weapons?

You will likely not be eligible for OS based on your pension income.

So Canadians who have had a successful career,, and have paid taxes on their earnings are MFers? Because they are enjoying the fruits of their labours? And there should be a revolt? Do you think the Government should strip the assets of those Canadian taxpayers to somehow level the playing...

yes. Like a war that only China is prepared for...

Must everything be viewed through a falsely zero-sum lens? I don't care if it is good or bad for the opposition. I don't' care if it is good politics. I only care if this is good policy. On that, my feeling are mixed, as the offset will of course have to be borrowed, but that will...

Quite insightful. I highly recommend this book, to complement any reading of Jared Diamond that you my have already done:

As hard as it is to fire any PS, it is orders of magnitude harder to push out an EX-05 - indeed any EX.

I usually revert to the quote from Philip Caputo's A Rumour of War - "ambush is killing and killing is fun....", but that is a rather draconian tactic that I am realising does nothing to engender productive discussions. Having said that, I still consider a throat punch (or implied threat...

Mistaken certainly. It seems to be q common mistake - leaders staying on too long. PMJT enters the room, followed by Elisabeth May and Jagmeet singh

Warning. What follows is my personal opinion. Not intended as a slight on people who identify as Christians or Mormons, or any other belief system It could be that religious belief requires a suspension of credulity - also called faith. Once one is prone to making "leaps of faith" in the...

Masterful use of exclamation points. Lovely adjectives. Objective. Insightful. Everything that media used to be.

As obvious (and perhaps even as pretentious) as your conclusion that this is a just war and Trump is the answer. Are there any of the potential second and third order effects that are listed that you think inaccurate or flat out wrong? Faulty assumption. I do in fact think that the status quo...

....and deprives him of the insights he could garner from a more nuanced understanding of the context and background. In short, he wants to -charitably - be able to assess and explain the situation to his audience using no more information than that available to all. Less charitably, be as...

No understanding of second and third orders of effect, no stated plan to limit the length of this deployment, no compelling case in order to secure support of Americans as well as Allies..... I would not be surprised if he started talking about an Iron Dome style bubble over the...