SpaceCowboy

Still very committed to being uncommitted, even while other people are facing hardship. Will you still be uncommitted when you're facing hardship from the MAGAs?

Don't know how it is in Europe, but here in Canada we have marketing boards to ensure that we're always producing more food supply than needed. Because it's kinda bad to have less food than needed, so we want to have a little bit of margin to ensure that doesn't happen. BTW this is why food is a contentious trade issue with the US, we don't want to be dependent on food production that has no safety margin.

Anyway, it's very possible countries are producing more than they need and could supply the US with the excess. It may not meet all of the demand in the US, but it would help bring down the price a bit. Yes the prices wouldn't be the same as it was before the Avian flu outbreaks, but it would be lower than it is now.

It's something that could happen if Trump didn't burn all the goodwill with all of the allies of the US. According to Trump "We don't need anything they have." So you will pay more for things, because Trump thinks you don't need them.

Yeah they cast a lot of guys like Peter Graves and Robert Stack that normally appeared in the over-serious thriller type movies. So Leslie Nielsen was just one of that group of actors they cast to have guys deliver silly lines in that stern serious tone that they did in actual serious movies.

But of course Leslie Nielsen was amazing at it, and didn't need to do those over-serious movies anymore. And don't call me Shirley!

And then they made Blofeld to be James Bond's brother which was never a thing in any Bond movie before. That was just a thing they did in Austin Powers.

Dr. Strangelove was released before Fail Safe. The story goes that they were both being filmed around the same time and Kubrick used his pull with the studio to make sure Fail Safe was released later in the year.

Seems a really odd thing to insist your parody is released before the movie it's parodying. And I don't think there were all that many movies about the terror of nuclear war until after the Cuban missile crisis. It takes a couple of years to make a movie and Dr. Strangelove came out less than two years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, so it was pretty much the first of it's kind.

Seems to me like Dr. Strangelove is a black comedy, not a parody.

Religion provided people with a sense of community. Without it, they've been finding community on the internet which has resulted in people believing in all kinds of strange things. Significantly stranger than there being a metaphysical consciousness in the universe.

Religion, while not perfect, often tries to encourage people to be better. Of course religion can be corrupted by politics at times, and we're certainly in one of those times. But the general concept of people coming together and encouraging each other to be better isn't a bad thing.

Internet groups are worse than religion, many of them are devoted towards hating an enemy and unlike religion, make no effort to encourage people to better themselves. Religion can often fail at this goal, but most internet groups make no attempt to be better than a failed religion. Case in point: [email protected]

So it's a bet that Trump will someday have stable economic policies. How much money are you betting on that?

How does the Tienanmen Square massacre fit into Marxism-Leninism ideology?

And who wrote about this "stage" of Marxist-Leninism that makes capitalism is legal and labour unions are illegal? Would that be the ruling party that's dominated by billionaires?

Splitting hairs is what tankies do when they get called out for their bullshit. Also giving bullet point lists that are thinly veiled propaganda and are exhausting to debunk.

Have you served your military? Or are you an American armchair soldier?

If you served in Afghanistan you'd know Canadian soldiers was there. My cousin was involved with diffusing IEDs. So if we know how to diffuse IEDs you think we might know how to make them? We have knowledge of effective tactics to use against the US military because we were in the same war you were. That's what being an ally means, but you wouldn't understand that because you only care about money.

Ukraine builds drones with a range up to 2000KM. You know Ukraine, the country Trump is trying to betray along with Canada? I'm sure they'll build some for us. How far away from Canada do you live? Americans shit their pants when there's a couple of civilian drones flying around in New Jersey LOL.

How willing are you to get out of your armchair to fight in a war of betrayal? Here in Canada, we won't have a choice. How long will you want to see young people being brought back from Canada in body bags? A year? Five year? Decades?

There is no enemy like a friend betrayed. We know your strengths and we know your weaknesses. You obviously know nothing about us.

Is your brain so twisted you don't see the President of the USA saying he wants to annex my country?

That's real, it's not propaganda. He said it. I'm looking at the words of the of the President of the USA, what are you looking at? Fox News?

And the only scenario where I'll be going to the US is if there is a war, and I'd only be going there to blow shit up. I don't give a shit about how nice you think your country is, if your president betrays us (as he's constantly saying he wants to do) I'll be doing everything in my power to destroy your nice comfortable life. That's what war means and you need to start looking at this for what it is. This may be a game for you, but it's our country for us. We will defend our country through every means available to us.

That "half of NATO" has nuclear weapons.

The US hasn't experienced a war on it's own soil in living memory. Americans shit their pants when they see a couple of drones over New Jersey. And Americans don't have the will to endure a long drawn out occupation even when there's an ocean between them and a war. Canadians will endure it, because we would have no other choice.

This would be a war of betrayal. Trump would need to have Elon Musk purge the US military of anyone with even an once of honour and courage. Currenttly Trump is demanding Canada to defend the US border for him. The US would need to defend it's border, and that's a long border. You'd also need to have checkpoints in the US where soldiers will check your papers because Canadians would be trying to infiltrate the US and hit the soft targets everywhere. There would be raids on your houses to find and Canadians or any sympathizers. How willing are you do have these things happen?

Because it would be betraying an ally, the US would have zero allies in this war. Canada would get lethal aid from Europe and likely from Asia too. And Canadians know how to make an IED. Because our soldiers served in Afghanistan. Alongside the US military that's going to betray the soldiers it fought alongside a few short years ago. And why? Because of the whims of a deranged old man? So you might have a slight morale problem.

While you're looking at troop strengths on spreadsheet, we're looking at the willingness of Americans to do what would need to be done for decades to succeed in occupying a neighbouring country. We only need to outlast you, while you need to have the will to watch young people coming back from the north in body bags. For decades.

The chance of the US winning a war like this is basically zero.