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

Excellent article. Good to see parts of the European centre-left stirring.

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…

It cannot be the case that cycling infrastructure is discussed pracemeal like this. Would the public be asked about installing a new pedestrian sidewalk? No because it’s considered normal for a street to have a sidewalk. If a national safety standard for multi-modal infrastructure were in place, these kinds of questions would become uncontroversial.

The moment the US used the NATO deterrent as trade leverage, that ship sailed.

To move towards solutions that respect both human dignity and the law, and given that human dignity is non-negotiable, the law would have to respect human dignity.

Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.

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Oh no, a country that takes a moral stand on one thing is not a completely moral country on every other respect?! How dare they!

Iranians are not a monolithic bloc. Bizarre eh?

Are they being used?

Your claim is not uncontroversially factual. I am not going to argue history with you, only say this: if that’s the case, any party wanting to initiate war, should get a Security Council resolution under Article 42. Without that, sit the fuck down.