RaskolnikovsAxe

Ok but we're talking about Nazis, and the principle stands.

I have to look him up on Wikipedia, so he doesn't really matter to me. He's not a Nazi though, so maybe?

Sorry it's just the way it is with Nazis. The only good one is a dead one. Just accept it.

Every life matters

You started from a faulty assumption. Nazi lives don't matter.

Because AXE THE TAX, LIBERAL CUCK!!

The problem with this quote is that everyone thinks they're the strong men. In other words, it's mostly useless rhetoric that doesn't really identify the problem.

All of this bullshit because some fucking guy couldn't properly set his windage.

Yeah, a carbon tax that results in perhaps a percent of price inflation is just nowhere near as serious - neither in kind nor degree - as 25% across the board tariffs. And if we need to have emission reduction measures in place to trade with the EU, and trading with the EU is now an existential priority, then frankly he can sit down and shut up. The adults are talking.

(the above assumes all the talk of economic annexation is bluster, which is no longer a foregone conclusion)

both leaders here keep talking about how we Canadians fought hand in hand in , took in Americans in 9/11 etc.

I agree they are all saying this, but I sense a difference in intent between Poilievre and the rest.

Maybe it's my bias, but I feel that Poilievre is saying these things with the intent to convince the Americans - i.e., it's for the American audience. By contrast, Carney and others are saying these things more for the Canadian audience - to explain why it's justified to be angry at the Americans and we need to grow up and kick them to the curb.

For Carney and others, it's a rallying cry; for Poilievre it's an attempt at appeasement.

This is a good observation. He wants to change his messaging because he sees the writing on the wall. Running around yelling about how shitty the country is, insulting his fellow countrymen, riding a wave of animosity towards minorities, etc. - this is the opposite of unifying. It's reinforcing the teams. He sees it's failing now, but he can't bring himself to actually attack Trump or the GOP. He has to lean into platitudes and empty shows of strength. At the end of the day, it makes him look like he's not angry enough at the US...probably because he's not. He doesn't have an affinity or an understanding of this country beyond narrow political gain, because he's never spent a day of his adult life outside of politics.

Billionaires should not exist. You don't get to be a billionaire without exploiting people - for that matter once you get over about 10M you're probably stepping on people, or exploiting systems, in order to continue growing your wealth. And why, exactly? It's a sickness that gets worse the richer someone gets. It's been studied and confirmed that people who have excessive wealth convince themselves that they deserve it, they earned it individually, and that they are special and more valuable than others. So instead of riding off into the sunset, they feed their addiction by buying outsized and unearned power in order to shape the laws so that they can make more money. Just fuck off already - you won at capitalism, now get the fuck out of the way and stop screwing over everyone else and making our lives miserable.

Beyond 100M we should just take it all for the state. 100% tax rate. If you want to keep earning beyond that, then great, you will have the glory of contributing to the public good.

But since billionaires have convinced idiots to advocate against the idiots' own interest, and argue that the billionaires can't be constrained in any way, then this will never happen in the current social context. So next best thing is to do as Bill says. Put the fear of God into them.

I suspect you grossly underestimate the dependence of the US economy on other countries, and I believe that you grossly misrepresent Carney in regard to the carbon tax (which you also misunderstand) and the WEF (which you assert to be a secretive global cabal of communists, ignoring the real and blatant fascist oligarchy in the US).

Putting all of that aside, Carney is by far the most experienced candidate we've had in decades, and I say this as someone who has lived 5+ decades in this country. And if you don't see the US as an existential threat then you're not seriously considering the magnitude of these events. Whether or not Trump decides to go through with any of it, he has destroyed the US reputation and our alliance for generations. The die is cast, and things will be different. The US is not our friend and may even be considered an enemy now but they are for sure unreliable, unpredictable, and possessing of malicious intent.

And any treasonous Yank sympathizers should just get out before they're put out.