I think you’re getting downvoted into oblivion because people are reading your headline and not your post?

There’s nothing to argue with in your message. I don’t know the particulars of your income/tax situation…but, yeah, if the people with all the money paid appropriate taxes…then many actual working people wouldn’t need to, and society would be more healthy. You’d still be paying a ton of excise taxes.

Is Israel ever going to be anonymous?

What do you even call a state that needs massive and ongoing injections of arms and cash? Seems to me that the greater Israel plan is essential, if they’re ever going to be an actual sovereign state.

Palestinians are just the first hurdle…but turning Gaza into a tourist trap isn’t going to pay the bills. They’re going to need to take much more territory from it’s neighbours…nothing short of regions with large oil reserves.

Hmm. Opening new offices and hiring people seems more like a way to keep the cycle of donor money moving, rather than a strategy to win…absent any actual messaging or policy changes from Democratic leadership.

When I read the article I expected the regional initiatives to have some sort of mechanism to change messaging and policy. It doesn’t seem to me that “listening” is what’s needed…we know exactly what these potential voters want.

Indeed. The system is currently set up to prevent people who aren’t already earning rent from acquiring property to earn rent.

instead of encouraging citizens to buy one property to rent it out…at a reasonable price, perhaps…and have a relationship with their tenant…our system punishes small owners or people trying to enter the market and rewards those who already have the wealth.

Bingo. Socializing profits or whatever this is called…”neoliberalism” “private public partnerships” is exactly what destroyed everything good about western society.

I love that.

In Canada the eyecare industry is a capitalist hellscape. We just got national dental care and now the opticians and eye doctors are jealous and revolting against their own system because people are buying their contacts and glasses online and not going to the eye doctor. Less and less people have jobs that cover eye care so the ones I talk to want their industry socialized like everyone else’s in the health industry.

I was being silly…and I thought I agreed with most of your points. I’m really not tying to fight.

Meh…if it’s devolved to complaining about my writing structure…this isn’t happening in good faith.

Rock on, eh.

Not even close.

“Sort of or mostly corrupt” v “Cartoon villain corrupt” are two different things. Better is better.

One will pander to you sometimes, the other hates you. Choose one.

Whether he incites riots or not…he’s going to try and cancel the elections.

Not Minnesota, no. It’s not in the Bible Belt…they love hockey…they endure the cold. I think there’s more in common there with much of Canada than there are differences. It’s not the only difference…but we couldn’t just move the border because we’d get flooded with guns…and half of them would literally revolt if they had to follow our gun rules. It’s a small state…but there’s 6 million of them and they’d overwhelm us.

Yeah…Canada has pretty much lost sight of it’s roots of being distinct and different from the US. We slide more and more into a capitalist hellscape. Most of our stores are American…Canadians consume less and less media that’s culturally Canadian…our right wingers tend not to differentiate themselves from American right wingers…and an increasing number of them prefer American right wingers to Canadian left wingers…and vice versa. It’s happened mostly in my lifetime and it’s depressing. Very recently…20-30 years ago Canadians understood your message: that American left wingers are to the right of Canadian right wingers…but that’s all changed…I don’t know exactly when it happened…but we’ve become more homogenized.

Everybody in my circles is educated about politics, and we generally understand it better because of our education and complicated party system…but yeah…we’re miles from being educated enough

Gotta be careful with these types of protests. Last time I came across an Iranian one they were in support of the government.

Is the Intercept any good any more, generally speaking? Earnest question.

I used to read it when Grimm and Scahill were around…but I realized I haven’t read an article there in years. This one seems OK.

No, I dont think that. Are you just trying to find things to argue about? Sounds like we generally agree but you want to fight?

I wouldn’t say “Canadians are quite ignorant”, speak for yourself…or maybe just conservative Canadians.

You didn’t engage with anything I wrote and just ranted about what you wanted to reply to.

I’m Canadian…and I stayed no opinions in my reply, just the lay of the land as I see it. I agree that the US sucks, agree that Canada is mediocre and getting worse, and I absolutely do not want Americans joining us…especially the gun nuts, fundamentalists etc.

All I was saying is that we’re a lot closer to each other than all this hyperbole and combative rhetoric would have us believe…Minnesota and isn’t some monolith of conservative boogeymen…they’re mostly nice and reasonable people, and there’s many who would appreciate what makes us better than them.

I mean…doxxing them is just going to divide similar people more. Liberals working at conservative institutions will be at risk…but that’s just more of the same, at this point.

I think the reason that Democrats are in trouble is because they don’t represent their voters. There’s a chasm between policy and opinion. That, and they need to win elections by at least 3 and up to 10 points because of how corrupt the US “Democracy” is.

I’m Canadian and I’ve spent some time down in the US…I don’t consider myself to have radically different views…even from many American conservatives…except on a couple wedge issues. The problem, as I see it, isn’t that we’re different…it’s that there are people paying big bucks to convince us that we are.

Oot.

There’s no trailers in CT?

Oh, I agree.

A lot of things just make more sense north to south or regionally.

I’m Canadian BTW.

Hmm. Manitoba is run by Wab Kinew/the NDP…socialists.

Manitoba isn’t right wing…currently has a “socialialist” government. Maybe you mean Alberta?

I don’t think it’s logical to talk about our respective peoples in those terms…we have many Canadians that are right of many Americans…and many Americans that are left of many Canadians.

If we moved the border most normal people wouldn’t notice too much of a change…at the end of the day…but there’d be some irreconcilable sticking points like firearms.