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Except the public pays the public sectors wages, they are the employer. If they feel like the public sector is screwing them over on pay and performance then they might demand change to that. Public sector can keep demanding more and will pretty much always get it, private sector is a much...

Why can’t it be both? The public sector needs to watch, if the grass gets too green when the tax payers are paying for it they might burn it to the ground at some point. Pensions? Substantially better. Wages? Generally higher. Expectations? Generally much lower. Benefits? Higher. Job security...

The US (and it’s allies) had a almost complete monopoly on violence for several decades against basically any non-peer enemy (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.) which they used to their benefit. Technology has shifted again making it so that monopoly no longer exists. They still have superiority by a...

This has always happened, in many fields it makes complete sense and there is nothing we can do to prevent it other than putting up a wall and preventing people from leaving. Tech/engineering? Much bigger sector in the States so there will be much more money to be made. Doctors? Yeah they can...

They keep saying that, and then they don’t. The rich don’t make most their money as income anyways, it’s all about assets.

Sometimes you need to cut off diplomatic relations to prove a point. When you reach a red line (and suggesting annexing your country is one of them IMO) you need to make it very clear they passed it and not to again. Otherwise why even have persona non-grata? Why not just let anyone walk all...

With what money?

Not declaring someone who represents the largest potential threat to your country, actively threatening your sovereignty persona non-grata is dumb. I think it’s a bit late to kick him out, but the day he made those comments or the day they learned of them he should have been sent packing...

The solution exists, it isn’t how you elect people, it is the fact you can’t control them once elected. Direct democracy allows you to control them and if they act against your interests you can force them to act in them. If you have direct democracy you can hold them accountable much better...

My favourite was when the Götheborg (a reproduction tall ship) responded to a distress call in 2023. Can only imagine what the people being rescued felt.

They potentially could, depending on the parties rules for removing the head of the party (for example Trudeau had to resign they couldn’t boot him). By the same regard the house republicans or senate republicans could just not go along with his nonsense and Trump would be hamstrung as well...

Pros and cons. If Trump was PM of Canada he would be able to do a lot more than what he is doing in the states thanks to having no any safeguards (theoretical safeguards mean nothing if they aren’t used). Having the house and senate being equal partners prevents consolidation of power in the...

He is personally profiting from all of it, this is his leverage/gravy train. Hard to make someone go against their personal interests.

Fascinating psychological stuff there. Marrying people for money isn’t new though. The last US Civil War widow died in 2020.

He can control the provinces though. You think they will keep the bans going if the feds threatened to cut provincial transfers? Potentially they could, but it is much harder to explain to your constituents why you need to substantially raise taxes to pay for the province than it is to drop...

You don’t even need a payload for a brutal attack, Nice was done with just a lorry truck and killed 86 and wounded 458 just by driving into a crowd. Obviously one can get creative but it isn’t hard to cause a lot of damage if one wishes.

Not so much lesson learned as we don’t have any alternative at the moment and have to pretend to do something. Don’t get me wrong, I love shotgun shooting (5-stand is my preference at the moment and likely would be the best practice for drone shooting as it covers so many different directions...

Still pay taxes though, there is more taxes than just income tax. Sales tax, etc.

They also hadn’t been feeding Ukraine and Israel their stockpile for the last 5 years at that point without doing much to ramp production up.

Based off how many tax loopholes exist for the wealthy, likely still the middle and bottom. I think people shouldn’t be forced to vote, I am not a fan of compelling any action which isn’t required. You should have the right to. And you should want to. But if you don’t wish to that is also...