BCBoy911

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[–] BCBoy911@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Have you paid attention to whats coming out of western countries? They've doubled and tripled down on oil in America and Europe still has its pathetic addiction to Russian gas. Oil still rules west of the Urals, green energy transition is nowhere to be found. I've been hearing "Europe will wean itself off Russian gas this year" for over 3 years now, likely will not happen as long as Arab countries keep the price of oil at basement prices, at Israel's gunpoint.

[–] BCBoy911@lemmy.ca 35 points 20 hours ago

Mainstream media has lost all its credibility. It had been hemorrhaging for at least a decade, but the Gaza genocide was the last blow. Even my boomer mom is sick of American broadcast TV news and calls it propaganda.

[–] BCBoy911@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

In short, it's just because of oil. And American interests, which is a longer way of saying oil. Israel is an American outpost in an oil-rich region and serves its purpose of keeping the other Arab countries weak, divided and corrupt by constantly dishing out violence, bribes and blackmail in every direction.

And yes, the UK is doing this in America's interests and not their own, because the UK is not a sovereign country. It is a colonized puppet state of the Americans and has been since at least Tony Blair.

[–] BCBoy911@lemmy.ca 3 points 21 hours ago

I dont get why the government is blocking sending the whales to China tho. If the choice is the government bankrolling Marineland, the whales being killed or the whales being sent to China isn't selling them to China the obviously best choice? Are they worried that the big bad Chinese will steal our Whale IP?

[–] BCBoy911@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago

I don't support forcing our values onto other countries, at least to a certain extent. The NDP definitely lost its way under Singh and became blinkered by identity politics. But I have hope that they can be rejuvenated with a strong economic populist and leftist message for the next election.

[–] BCBoy911@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Calling Japan a full democracy is a stretch. They've been ruled by one party for over half a century, and definitely not b/c they're good at their jobs.

[–] BCBoy911@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There are no Canadian-made panels because we don't tariff the panels coming in from the US and other Asian countries. Only China is singled out because Canada is playing second fiddle on the US's new cold war strategy against China - sucks that we aren't a sovereign country that can make our own policies and forge relationships with whatever country we want, but it is what it is. 51st state, baby!

[–] BCBoy911@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It costs our politicians nothing to say the truth - that this is the modern day Holocaust and that Israel should be boycotted, isolated and sanctioned. Your comment just makes excuses for cowardice and sells it as pragmatism.

[–] BCBoy911@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Counter-tariffs just raise prices here. They were a terrible idea to start with, just like tariffs are in general

No they aren't, blanket tariffs the way Trump is doing it is stupid, but counter-tariffs on American products that can be replaced with made-in-Canada products works and helps keep jobs in Canada.

The digital services tax was on its way out even before Trump was elected

This is also wrong... the Digital Services tax was introduced as a Liberal priority all the way back in 2020 and passed in 2024. It probably would have been repealed by Pollievre if he won, but Liberals repealing their own years-in-the-making policy, a day before going into effect as an act of appeasement to Donald Trump was definitely not inevitable.

China likes kicking people when they’re down so we got restrictions on ag products just to twist the knife.

Their tariffs on us are counter-tariffs in response to us imposing a 100% tax on Chinese-made solar panels.

[–] BCBoy911@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

The ultimate irony here is that Brianna Wu is a fascist, zionist genocide supporter. So you should really listen to none of the people in this image.

[–] BCBoy911@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

True, it's like a hostage situation. Conservatives threaten to harm trans kids, or immigrants or whatever, and Liberals say "you'll have the vote for us if you want $(minority group) to live, but don't worry, you can vote your conscience next election", then never do anything to actually protect those minority groups in law, so the cycle repeats next election.

Liberals will never give real protection to vulnerable people because they want them to be constantly under threat of the Conservatives to keep the left from voting for the actual left-wing parties that WOULD give those groups protection that isn't subject to the whims of whatever party is in charge. Diabolical.

[–] BCBoy911@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Liberals will ALWAYS end up siding with the Fascists to try to suppress the Left. Happened in Germany in the 1930s, and the dumbass liberals eventually ended up lined up against the same walls the communists and socialists were lined up against. If you're a liberal today and defending this fascist suppression against Palestine Action: you're next.

 

Micro$hit and Xbox Game Studios was added to the BDS list for high-priority boycott a few months ago - now that Micro$hit is feeling the pinch, they say they won't take Israel's blood money any more. KEEP UP THE PRESSURE.

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