Douggie Ford already beat him to that particular low.

https://opencouncil.ca/wind-farms-c.....dered-ontario/

They're two peas in a pod.

Just a couple of Trump's buddies from the fossil fuel industries
calling in a favor, and who is the President of the United States
to refuse, only because it will harm the country's long-term energy security,
environmental management programs, harm thousands of people immediately,
and scare away foreign investors for years?

This is far beyond parody. It's like a loud, disruptive, vicious kid at school
who fails every class, every exam, sneering that he knows better
than those dorks who wrote the textbooks, and somehow
he ends up getting appointed the school's principal,
with everyone around him just shrugging
and muttering something about
how it's all in line with the rules
and how there's nothing that
can be done about it.

His evil nihilism and bullying seem to be able to find no depths to be too deep to plumb. He appears hell bent on destroying the whole world.

Well, there is no world where he is as clever and likable as he'd like to be,
and he must be tired of reality proving him wrong at every turn.
A typical "Never My Fault" grandpa who's somehow
stumbled into the control room of a superpower.

With the help of around 1/3 of the country, who make up his cult, and the far right dominated legislature and SCOTUS.

True. A once-a-century alignment of the disintegrating Republicans betting rallying together,
and the equally down-on-their-luck Dems screwing up in every conceivable way.
I hope the ardent MAGA Trumpers make up only a fraction of the voters,
with the bulk of his supporters being the usual medley
of rural homesteaders and traditional big business,
plus the tech bros and social media reactionaries
the Musk had delivered to his ex-BFF.

And if you'd happen to like to see some of the laughable dodos that I end up in "Discussions" with, see Zerrinth and Archone in particular here:
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11200477/

The Dems SERIOUSLY need to end their failed tactic of tacking to the middle in pursuit of a next-to-nonexistent middle, which increasingly gets pulled to the right, Instead of supporting obviously overwhelmingly popular more left policies if they ever want to win anything.

But that would go against the wishes of their corporate and Wall Street supporters.They're just shooting themselves in the foot.

Sad to see that the only roughly non-villainous sheriff in town
is hiding among the threatened townsfolk and arguing for appeasing
the black hat men with guns and robber masks.

That's one way to put it.

As always, you have my respect for engaging in such exchanges to match falsehoods with facts.
This time, you've done a lot of work responding to all those attacks and setting people straight.
But at the same time, I stand by my shuddering revulsion at this format of interaction.
If you find it energizing and stimulating, you are welcome to keep showing up
for those brawls, but you find it disheartening, I'd advice to let them be.
The only person you could sway there is probably Karno,
if you adopted a slightly nicer tone, the other guys
in the comments thrive on adversity and are adamant
about their misguided positions.

It was nice to see couger there,
and ponyguy weighted in on your side.

There are a few good eggs in Karnos journals.

I only insult those who've insulted me first. I refuse to be a doormat for anyone, and neither do I suffer fools gladly.

I've been dealing with these idiots across different people's journals for quite a while now.

As I've mentioned before, I feel that it's important to show well reasoned opposition to these meatheads.

And of course I don't expect to neccessarily change anyone's mind.

And I understand your revulsion. I find it a bit icky to deal with these ignorant people as well.

Karno's journalls are ALWAYS worth watching for s couple of yuks.

I neither wish nor have the right to scold,
my only sentiment here is concern for you
potentially squandering your considerable
knowledge and passion on arguing
dead end ideologues in dead end backwater if the Internet,
but if you judge such efforts worth your while,
I wish you luck and vigor in those confrontations.

For my part, whenever you correct my often slapdash opinions
with your learned and measured elaborations, I'm grateful
and quick to concede.

And about that story you mentioned about that good lady taking her life
with an over the counter handgun – I feel for you, it's a staggering shock,
to the victim and her relatives. And you are perfectly correct, I believe,
in asserting that the ease and convenience of lethality that guns provide
unavoidably increase the numbers of spur-of-the-moment suicides,
even if the dedicated cases would not be deterred by having
to put more effort into their undoing.

Karno's thoughts on how building up third spaces
and creating a welcoming outdoors environment
make it more difficult to carry out spontaneous crimes
were also good and admirable.

The mindset of some of your opponents equating
their lack of murderous history with firearms
with hundreds of millions matching their exact
life circumstances and choices
is bewildering, however.

As you learn more and become confident in knowledge, the amount of times you find yourself needing to shift your opinion. Will reduce... Ive been this route as i first started researching stuff. Plus sikfox has time to research stuff.

This is true for people like you and this journal's author,
who are diligent and honest with their research and education,
but also for the people who just pile on confirmation bias
on their warped preconceptions until they are as confident
as a lifelong expert in the field, but with none of the actual knowledge.

Thank you for dropping into those skirmishes to show by example
that those arrogantly complacent conservative perspectives
aren't the only ones in society! Take care out there.

Eh, you don't need to worry about me.

What galls me about the way he talked about Mary is that thedidn't know her, so he had absolutely no idea what he was talking about.

Furthermore, his claim that "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" is a really old and tired argument, and complete BS.

The way the both of them ragged on me for not expressing sympathy for him and his friend was ridiculous as well. Boo fucking hoo. Zerrinth showed no real sympathy for Mary.

I think I may have missed that comment from Karno. He's usually pretty reasonable on things except for where it comes to anything about guns.

Yes, all the accusations about not showing sympathy
on the parts of your opponents were utterly disingenuous.
For how much the right rags on the left for virtue signaling,
they themselves engage in it with abandon.

The thing about guns is that they are specifically designed
to kill or threaten in the most expedient way possible,
in the way neither cars nor knives nor baseball bats are.
And there is a deep dark cultural aesthetic to using a gun
to take one's life, it feels like such a dignified and clean way out,
that it's uniquely inviting.

That point about community-friendly architecture is found in the original journal!

Louder for the kids in the back, please!

And I suspected that this was the case. I'll look at that more closely.

Oh yeah, I DID notice that.

Word.

Thankfully some of our green infra is to deeply rooted to go easy.

It's only too obvious how green technology is the way that's best for the economy and jobs moving forward.

All you have to do is look at Texas as a prime example.

The green economy is unstoppable.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74

Expect more to come sir

Thank you for linking this lecture!
Having watched it, I need to warn you
that Prof. Xuequin Jiang's choice of examples
for putting together that unified theory of predictable societal collapse,
specifically his mention of
John Calhoun's experiments with rats and mice.
Those experiments were very shaky and full of inductive assumptions
even in their time, and have since been debunked thoroughly
by modern rodent behavior scholars.

Perhaps the professor is correct in some of his assumptions,
but his own reasoning as seen in the lecture you linked
are too reliant of broad philosophical concepts,
instead of specific data points, so even though
it is clear that the modern world is riddled
with pressing and dangerous issues,
the catastrophic collapse is far from being a certainty
in the future.

A lot of today's great crises stem
from old systems painfully rotting away,
but if our institutions hold out through that process,
the next generations will likely have an easier time
making policies in a world without so many
hardened religious and nationalistic zealots,
and with a new system of ethics instead
of the old ones that have fully discredited themselves.

Have hope!

bro

.................

give practical solution if you will?

1. trump is already sending your own people to venezuela. this is vietnam 2.0. you think american won in vietnam? shame is what they brought back. here half of the population will go to, contributing more to the already declining birth rate, dont matter what race its from.

2. wave of migrants in will clash with core population, lead to civil war. here the other half of the population will go and perish.

and then whats left of the two conflict, will not be enough, because who knew if they could reach 1 million in population? all the corrupt officials need is just a gun and a few ammos, hunting the rest of these remaining people, gone will be the prospect of talking about restoring the system. what system, there is no people. the land is completely owned by the corrupt system. from the west to the east.

and what american do today?
"war with venezuela is important because (enter a shaky reason here that is probably baffled the venezuelans)"

you know, these are the things that saddened me.

in xiaohongshu you can find rich chinese who go to the us for whatever reason, be it for work or just for prestige. they already talk about "how to shoo shoo homeless people who kept sleeping in front of their door"

these are your people. and there are more and more of them every passing day. you might be saying poetic words bro but these peoples stomach wont be filled by it. just baffles me, chinese built more house than they need until ghost cities came into existence and rate of house owning among the youth reaches above 90%

and then we have the rich american who cant even provide simple structure for their own people. its so racist to judge people based on their drug use. and many of these homeless people arent even a junkie to begin with. they are forced to use drug because coffee is less available than drugs, and they have to stay awake at night to protect themselves.

All the things you've mentioned are valid and serious problems,
very immediately harmful and terrifying in the long run,
and you have a good heart for feeling so strongly
about the state of the world.

But for that very reason of us being surrounded by callous cruelty
war and deprivation and deadly ideologies on the rise,
it's important to focus on keeping yourself and your loved ones safe,
and not add to the real problems with catastrophizing about
the possible end of the world.

I have no practical solutions to offer you for the massive crises we're living through, I'm sorry. No one does.

But what I do know is that during a time of fear and uncertainty, we all become vulnerable
to the people who either promise easy and all-encompassing solutions,
or proclaim the world to be doomed, and build up their own cult
of survivalists seeking to be the only ones left after the dust settles.

Even if it is naïve and complacent, having some faith
in the future, in humanity's ability to adapt and find unexpected solutions,
is a good thing, I think.

And I'm not from the U.S., but I watch its political scene closely
because of how much it affects the rest of the world.
The warships near Venezuela is a reckless and stupid gesture
by the Trump administration, but I doubt it would escalate
to anything like the Vietnam War, or any kind of war.

Civil wars don't start that easily, either, although the lack
of a workable policy regarding migration is obviously something
the governments of the world are struggling with.

I don't seek to change your opinion,
only to offer a more optimistic perspective.
I'm wishing you well, in any case.

To be honest,

If illegal immigration is available in indonesia, a lot of american will flood my country instead. Because we already seen surge of american people old and young, rich or backpacker, lived here and earn money by uploading their vlog on youtube, from bali, bandung.

We are seeing this trend and we wished to remind you of what you actually should do as a nation with dignity. As a nation that is said to have power, to send warships to multiple region all over the world, who sent billions to ukraine, to send ukrainian straight to their grave, and never paid their wages to their families left behind.

Please fix your problem. Otherwise one of us will fix it for you.

No one on this site is powerful, wealthy or popular enough
to fix problems of such magnitude, but people are doing what they can,
like this journal's author with his news commentary and promotion of important voices,
and you with your passionate participation.

I wish the U.S. would fix its problems.
I wish my own country would fix its problems, too.
I wish Ukraine peace, and I wish for those invading and torturing that country
to face justice and pay for all the death and suffering they've caused.

But all I can do is watch in horror as history rolls by slowly,
and trust that the upward trend for democratization
and the increasing value of the human rights
will take us all out of this darkness,
eventually.

look.

I am smart, so i can tell the difference between american government, american citizen, and half brainwashed american citizen. But people outside there are not as smart as me, they view all three as one, just american.

And with american waging war all over the world, ww1 (great depression 1920) ww2 vietnam war iraq syria palestine ukraine direct and indirect, we the rest of the world have 2 choice to make :
1) we tell you to man up and fix it yourself. Because there are still good people in the us,
2) god forbid things has passed the point of no return, we will have to come to the us and fix it ourselves, otherwise how would we stop the atrocity american has been doing since forever?

So please. We havent passed the point of no return. If you are that smart you can say that the rat experiment is wrong, prove it! Prove it to us!

And do you know zelenski is supported by nazi banderas? Do you support nazi? Do you know that there are torture camp zelenski made for is own citizen?

Do you know that most ukrainians are actually ethnically russian and actually have extended family living in russia?

Do you know the actual people who caused ukrainians to suffer? Brainwashed them to hate russian, and then sending them to fight their own brothers?

Can you answer that?

when we (one of us, probably russian) finally come and you protested our way of trying to fix your govt,

Never ever said that no one came to tell you to fix it yourself, to give the sign that this has happened and that this is going to happen. Someone has come and warned you, and you didnt do anything.

Silence is complicity, even in the us.

You keep addressing me as if I am a U.S. American, but I'm not.
I live in Russia, and half of my family comes from Ukraine.
I have relatives in Ukraine, fighting in the war.
I have also researched the politics of the ongoing war,
and have been following its developments, and all the propaganda
and rhetoric deployed by all sides of the conflict since 2013.

We can have a conversation about the history of Ukraine
and the very unsavory track record of its nationalistic political movement,
but I can assure you that the primary reason for the start of the war
was Putin's desire to stay in power, same as Netanyahu's desire to stay in power
had lead to the massacre in Gaza, and the same as Trump's desire to stay in power
is casing him to do all kinds of destructive and evil things at this moment.

I am aware of the U.S. history of criminal wars, and I make no excuses for them.
But Russia isn't One of Us, as you put it, not some underdog champion of the Global South,
it's just another big, dumb empire, like the U.S., or the UK and France and Spain in their day.

Tell us about the banderas then.

The "banderas" can refer to either the original nationalist party of Ukraine
that were notorious for collaborating with the Nazi Germany during WWII,
or to the modern far right groups like the Right Sector or the Azov Battalion.

The original OUN nationalists committed many atrocities,
but they were also trying to establish a Ukrainian state
free from the Soviet control in an impossibly difficult situation.
The modern right wing groups in Ukraine, including some government officials,
tried to use Stepan Bandera and other members of that organization
as national heroes at one point – a terrible mistake, in my opinion –
but it was never anything more than a nation-building exercise
that every post-Soviet country engaged in,
in the context of Russia's aggressive attempts
to control Ukraine's view of history where it concerned the USSR,
and to smear all Ukrainians as treasonous Nazi collaborators.

The Right Sector and other far right modern groups, often connected to football groups,
were prominent during the 2013 protests, but never held serious political power in the country.

The Azov Battalion were a largely neo-Nazi paramilitary group that featured in the skirmishes
with the Russian-backed separatists during the 2014 fighting in the Luhanskaya and Donetetskay Oblast's.
Later on, they were subsumed into the regular standing military unit called the Azov Regiment,
and during the defense of Mariupol most of them were killed or captured.

Most of the "banderas" were and are bad people that I don't support, but they never had
the kind of power and influence that the Russian propaganda ascribed to them.
Every country has its far right youth group issues, especially in military and law enforcement.
I'm sure you're aware of the Wagner PMC group that was used by Russia
for a while until its leader got out of hand and was assassinated,
with the remainder of the troops in that group being subsumed
into the larger Russian military.

You know, we see people by the badges, because badges showed where they came from, and at first the badges were obvious, its the swastika

And then the badges recently got updated into this trisula/thick fork swordish thing and they are recently photographed too, proving that this "elite forces" are still active, strong and influencing the people around zelenski, and also theyre the one who do the torture towards anyone, not just russian pow but also russian ethnicity ukrainians. This is reported by an american who infiltrated into ukrainian forces, and later....got interviewed by RT.

I read below that you called for justice towards whoever building up this concentration camp,

But who will do the justice? Lol.

The russian? The american? The nato?

It is super curious that your extended family still hast got sent to front line. He must be quite influential in his rank. To have someone in russia.... But i dont want to cause harm to your family, im sorry for asking... I really am just curious how you view these forced kidnapping turned into conscription, and the fact that you live safely in russia, while supporting nazis butchering russian ethnicity in ukraine

I can see that you will keep your opinion. It's alright. I apologize for engaging and wasting your time.

This is not opinion, this is a fact. But im not putin, if putin allowed you to hold opposing view, who am i to tell you to change your mind.

tell me about this relatives of yours in ukraine that is fighting the war, hes still alive? he held high position in the military or something?

i just want to ask, have you ever took a moment to compare the road in ukraine vs the road in russia, and what is it about putin staying in power that displeased you so much, knowing that you live in russia?

do you know about the corruption in ukraine? how zelenski still hasnt paid wages promised to the now dead soldiers, and that the graves of ukrainian soldier grew bigger and bigger everyday

do you know about the pow exchange between ukrainian and russian

tell us about this, this said by russian ethnicity living in ukraine
https://beboslegion.substack.com/p/.....mps-in-ukraine

because this is serious, this is concentration camp directed towards russian

You are an american soldier....what do you think about isis?

From what i see, im not american, putin is not invading, he is defending russian ethnicity from literal genocide. Do you favor taping ethnic minority into the trees because they dont support nazi?

I have some stuff down below, the concentration camp that i would like you to address.

Yes banderas is relevant to bring up as of today, because his badge is everywhere. What do you think about nazi as a person with moral? Do you have a time to compare the civilian casualties done by zelenski vs done by putin?

How these banderas treat pows

But i guess as an american soldier, you know, doing warcrime is not considered warcrime knowing iraq... I shouldnt have asked.

When suharto took over from soekarno, he got help from cia. When suharto fell from his throne, guess who he got beef with? Very much we all should have the same opinion like that nonexistent agency huh

your govt will say all the sweet stuff, and still butchered others

For lithium. To empty ukraine. Because human are pests.

Soon enough you will be sent again, you say you are out but you are always on their list. The only way you are out is if you went to vacation in a region that is free of american influence. Like in russia or burkina faso.

Otherwise, hope you dont get caught like poor ukrainian that got kidnapped and ended up sitting on the front line otherwise they will be sniped.

Americans cant see the graves. You build school on top of native americans graves afterall. Its soil and nothing more.

You dont tell me what to do. I am not afraid of you and i am not afraid of death. Americans kill us like flies but we will come back. We will always come back 10 times more than before.

If you are against putin and russia so much why dont you be the one standing on the battleground and defend all of these ukrainians, just the way you do with iraq

Thank you for your support!

It is always a joy to meet a U.S. citizen
who has a clear view of the world around them,
and stand by the values of liberty, as much as that word
has been dragged through the dirt by the right wingers.

There are plenty of Russian artists on FA,
I'm not in any way uniquely targeted
by our authoritarian regime, but I have spent
a long time following the rise and the entrenchment
of Putin's regime, and there really is nothing good about it,
no matter how much some people want to portray the country
as some geopolitical challenger to U.S. hegemony.

It's only one vicious and cynical old man with a few thousand big business and bureaucrat cronies,
six million police thugs, a badly battered army, an ailing, but massive economy and a bunch of nukes,
with no ideology or philosophy behind it besides survival at the expense of others.

Wishing you well! Trump is a stress test to the U.S. institutions like no other,
I hope the system will hold out, and the courts, the government and the media
will rein in the hijacked executive branch eventually.

My relative is a common infantryman of uncommon courage.

Roads in Russia are notoriously terrible outside of the largest cities, same as in Ukraine.

Any authoritarian government is fundamentally bad for its people,
because the people have no way of influencing the leadership.
The Western democracies are not too much better, but even
the ailing two-party, first-past-the-post system is preferable
to completely arbitrary and unchecked application of power by the ruling elite.

Ukraine has a severe corruption problem, it is common knowledge.

Any abuses of power and overreach by the Zelenskyy administration
will need to be investigated, and the guilty parties will need to be prosecuted.
However, a country suffering from a brutal invasion will prioritize other issues
until there is peace.

There have been regular exchanges of prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine,
done through intermediary countries, I'm aware of that.

The article you linked is so severely biased in favor of the Russian narratives,
that I must doubt its accuracy. If its is authentic, the guilty parties
must be prosecuted, same as with any crimes. As soon as there is peace.

i personally view putin not as the underdog champion of the world

but i believe in dugins multipolarity, which has already happened, there are not just russia, but there are also china and iran. i would like to tell you that we dont rely to russian, in the multipolarity theory, we are our own champion. putin is just the fire starter. and so far, he did bring prosperity to russia, russia has changed really far. just in 1990s i remembered it was really easy to find russian made porn in which the star is usually underaged kids. now?

what is the criteria of successful leadership in your opinion? is cheap produce and good medical support not enough? do you know that you live in the most independent and prosperous country in the world, better than china, because china is still relying on american market to some extent, and you are still not satisfied by that? what do you want?

"Multipolarity" has been emerging all on its own as the U.S.-European ties are withering away,
and the new world powers like Brazil, India, Indonesia and China are rising to prominence.
A constructive opposition and counterbalancing to the power of the West
is not the same as a bunch of self-interested dictatorships using the anti-Western sentiment
to excuse their abuses of power and their own empire-building.

Russia doesn't fit your glowing description, I'm afraid. Even before the financial black hole
of this war, the majority of our people lived in poverty. There are plenty of well-off people,
and there are shiny skyscrapers and the IT and services industries are fairly good,
and the some of the heavy manufacturing – the Soviet legacy – is still there,
as well as the massive mineral resources and fossil fuel reserves.
But none of that matters to someone who lives
paycheck to paycheck under an oppressive regime
that is waging a horrific war of conquest.

And Putin didn't bring prosperity to Russia, he was put into his position
at the time of the slow inevitable economic boom after the post-Soviet chaos.

I want peace and free international exchange of goods, ideas and support.

are you being forced to defend russia on the frontline, or like, no one has called you to join the military yet, or you think that day will soon come?

I'm too old and frail to qualify for the mobilization or the draft, and I won't apply for a paid service.
And there is no "defending Russia" on the frontline, it is an invasion of a neighboring nation by my country.
There have been plenty of times that Russia fought in defensive wars against foreign invaders,
but this is not that kind of war.

....youre 39.

Ive seen older people on the front. On both side.

And You know

Russian Ukrainian who lived in conflict area might not have the same opinion like you

You lived inside russia. You dont live on the conflict area. You dont get randomly sniped by the nazis. You dont have your apartment randomly blown away by lost ukrainian missiles and drones. Your child doesnt get blown away by warcrime mines. These are all russian, reported by londoners and americans, actual journalist who lived in the area and married local people.

I find your relation with your military ukrainian family conflicting, because even indonesian people knew, for an ukrainian back then to not be on the list, they have to pay, in american $$$, that is why so many luxury car decorated kiev roads, the whole govt is corrupted

But it doesnt matter now, the war will be over soon. Trump has decided to point his fingers on venezuelan now since they lost the precious lithium mine. Hope the war over after zelenski is removed from the office.

or someone actually have called you to join the war, but from ukrainian side?

Did your family in ukrainian military got paid?

I can't tell you more than I have about that part of my family, I'm sorry.

Not freezing is also a real theme for homeless. (I know the homeless well)

its heartbreaking to see it.... Im so angry im not even american