Meh, disappointing.

I don’t pretend to know anything about international finance. I’m repeating what I’ve heard.

It gives us a “nuclear button” where we can threaten with massive sell-offs that could tank the value of US bonds. To counter it they would have to basically raise interest rates and/or print money. Sure it would hurt us too, but not before hurting them more. Now if you also place this in a context of coordination with other debt owners (Europeans, Chinese), we can really hurt them.

But isn’t this also leverage?

We need to break the back of far right organizing in the military. This is not a joke, it’s an existential threat to our democracy.

Beyond dishonourable discharges of fascists (and banning them from joining any kind of armed force, eg police in the future), we need a serious and aggressive EDI recruitment policy. I know that the MAGAs and the Poilievrites use EDI as a slur. Which is EXACTLY why we should make it a core tenet of army recruitment. Disgust them, keep them out. And in the meantime, train a new generation of Canadian professional soldiers that are comitted to our constitutional multiculturalism and are as diverse as Canada.

We don’t need a majority government. We need national deliberation.

You and I have talked about this exact topic before. You seemed to think my arguments about the financialization of housing were … gaslighting.

Oh I’m not at all against this. I am absolutely for it. What I’m against is the trumpist-smelling anti-immigration rhetoric of the right and the centre.

This kind of shit makes me so fucking angry on so many levels.

Weren’t we just being inundated with right wing talking points about how the population of our country had risen too quickly and we had to severely curtail immigration? And now we do this?

So, one is to surmise that the problem was really that the population increase did not have the desirable… hue?

Chronic Dutch disease…

The article feels like it’s written by ChatGPT.

You mean the last five years during which, the WHO, a major UN agency played a key role in coordinating the international response to a global pandemic?

Or the last five years during which the WFP, another major UN agency has prevented starvation for millions of people, in places like Sudan and Yemen, and was instrumental in the Ukraine Grain deal?

Or are you talking about the UNCHR, aiding about 120 million refugees? Or maybe UNICEF, that manages the immunization of nearly half of all human children?

Is the UN perfect? No. Would the world be better without it? Fuck no.

If daydreaming is what keeps the world from turning into a hellscape, well daydream on brother.

A, a, a, a, careful there. Read what I actually wrote, I was very careful. I said “people ascribe tropes”. I didn’t talk about what people are, I talked about what tropes they ascribe.

At this point, I don’t think I have anything else to discuss with you. Toodles.

Sigh. Multiple things can be true simultaneously. Israel doesn’t represent all Jews. Israel doesn’t have to represent all Jews for people to ascribe to it classic antisemitic tropes. Calling out those antisemitic tropes because perpetuating them hurts all Jews is not spreading Israeli propaganda.

It’s not that hard.

• The Bloods and the Crips do not represent black culture. They don’t have to represent black culture for people to ascribe to them classic anti-black racist tropes. Calling out those racist tropes because perpetuating them hurts all black people is not doing gang propaganda.
• TERFs do not represent all feminist politics. They don’t have to represent all feminist politics for people to ascribe to them classic sexist tropes. Calling out those sexist tropes because perpetuating them hurts all women is not transphobic propaganda.

I can keep going. This is the kind of hair splitting you need to be able to do if you want to call yourself educated.

I’m not going to debate this silliness. Educate yourself.

Pretty presumptuous of you to assume that someone pointing out antisemitism to you needs a lesson on all the ways the genocidal Israeli apartheid regime is a genocidal apartheid regime.

Beyond that I’ve nothing to add to what I previously wrote. It’s pretty clear.

Saying that Israel controls the world’s governments is an antisemitic trope that is entirely unnecessary for condemning Israeli apartheid and the Gaza genocide. I brought up the recognition of Palestine not to say that Canada has a pro-palestinine policy, but to make the simple point that our policy is not controlled by Israel (if we were, we would not have done it).

Does there exist a big pro-israel bias in western mainstream politics? Yes. But that is not *control". Control implies absolute power on the part of the controller and lack of agency on the part of the controlled.

Nah that’s a silly antisemitic trope, refuted easily by the simple fact that Canada recognized Palestine a few months ago.

He could have made a simple statement urging calm and restraint. No need to take sides.