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twopi

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  • gotta step up our game fr

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  • I agree. But if a person commits a white collar crime, they are no longer citizens.

  • Just another Ayn Rand loving sociopath

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  • He gets shot and composted. The matter in his body goes to the plant planted on top of the composted corpse. I eat said plant. That is resource allocation along the lines of survival of the fittest. In a different world, before he gets shot someone stops him. Both he and and I are alive. This is the forced equality of being alive. This is tyranny and oppression.

    The problem is I can opt out of Pokémon. I never played Pokémon in school but I cannot opt out of eating.

    The CO2 that is the result of my body burning sugar goes to a plant. The plant uses the sun to turn the CO2 to sugar. I eat the plant to burn the sugar to do what I want. I am harvesting the sun's energy through a cycle.

    What the "entrepreneur" does is to enclose land and chooses which plants to grow. But the plant still needs the CO2 from my body to grow. So I still breathe and help grow his food. However, he prevents me from getting the sugar (and nutrients) from the plants that I help make and tells me I have to pay for the food. How do I pay for the food? By working for the "entrepreneur". I then spend some of my energy, gained by burning sugar from the plant to do what the "entrepreneur" wants for money with which I buy plants to burn more sugar to do more of what he wants. This was way the "entrepreneur" is not creating wealth, he is harnessing a sugar burning furnace for his own gain. This is the same way a hydro-dam does not create a river but harnesses it. A more efficient hydro-dam makes more electricity, but a hydro-dam by itself does not create wealth, it harnesses it.

  • Campaign period for city election kicks off Friday | CBC News

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  • Vote Greg!

  • [Opinion] China is knocking at the trans-Pacific trade door - Canada must not swing it wide open

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  • The TPP was never merely a tariff-reduction exercise. It was a strategic initiative—one conceived in large part as a counterweight to China’s growing economic dominance in the Asia-Pacific region and its serial violation of the rules-based international trading order. Let us be honest about that, even if diplomatic convention sometimes discourages saying it plainly.

    Thank you for this quote.

    In essense: when I do it, it is called freedom and rule of law, when they do it, it is called tyranny and oppression. i.e. I am the definition of freedom, I am the international rules-based order and if you oppose me you are against freedom and against rule of law

    China's consequences on "theft of intellectual property" will be the same as Britain stealing tea and silk and big tech stealing from other companies.

  • Ottawa @lemmy.ca
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    Parents call for action on high levels of lead in water in Ottawa schools

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/ottawa/parents-call-for-action-on-high-levels-of-lead-in-water-in-ottawa-schools-9.7177760

  • Poilievre demands Carney cap federal deficit at $31B ahead of spring economic update

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  • It's frustrating but I understand why the impulse is there

  • Lawyers urge federal ban on U.S. forced labour imports, cars built by prisoners

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  • It is very clear that it is you.

    We have to reckon with the fact that the "middle class" is based on slavery. American prisons don't just make cars, they also make jeans. Why is this action happening now with cars in line with Chinese car imports instead of a principled stance?

    Whataboutism by itself is only a fallacy if it is used to deny the validity of a claim. There is no claim that since the US does it, therefore slavery is acceptable. The claim "slavery is bad" is valid and not in contention.

    What is in contention is the claim of hypocrisy. Hypocrisy can only be shown through whataboutism, that is the definition of hypocrisy. The charge of hypocrisy is of one of not being honest and genuine in one's stance and the application of a moral stance selectively, which you do. I would also extend this to the majority of the "middle class".

  • Lawyers urge federal ban on U.S. forced labour imports, cars built by prisoners

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  • The fact that this take of upholding US slavery to the same standard as Chinese slavery is done by a professor as opposed to being a part of the law to begin with tells you that there is a double standard in the law.

    The problem is not defending slavery but rather it is "If we do slavery, it is good. When they do slavery, it is bad" nature of the law and stance of users.

    If you're opposed to slavery why do you use an iPhone?

    A lot of the current "middle class" is built on slavery. I agree we should abolish it but I do expect the majority are in favour of slavery as soon as removing it reduces access to cheap goods. So to keep the venier of anti-slavery, the stance is to say only big bad China does slavery.

  • Um, Yeah

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  • Noe it's grokopedia

  • Canada: MPs question delay in Taiwan trade framework as diplomat says ball in cabinet's court

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  • OK. Uderatamd your position.

  • Canada: MPs question delay in Taiwan trade framework as diplomat says ball in cabinet's court

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  • Then a question? Can there be any armed civil unrest that is not rogue?

  • Canada: MPs question delay in Taiwan trade framework as diplomat says ball in cabinet's court

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  • However you're right that it makes little sense to risk deals with PRC when ROC wouldn't go to war against the US on our behalf.

    This I agree with. Then why bother interfering in internal affairs of another country?

  • Canada: MPs question delay in Taiwan trade framework as diplomat says ball in cabinet's court

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  • What about the government of the Qing dynasty from before 1911? The name Qing is where we get the name of China.

    If the US continental congress forced the traditional Royal government off the colonies, does that make the US a rogue government?

  • Canada: MPs question delay in Taiwan trade framework as diplomat says ball in cabinet's court

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  • What about the people who opposed the government or "went rogue" in 1911?

  • Canada: MPs question delay in Taiwan trade framework as diplomat says ball in cabinet's court

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  • Do you know about the civil war of 1911-1912 where the rogue republic won against the Qing monarchy?

  • Canada: MPs question delay in Taiwan trade framework as diplomat says ball in cabinet's court

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  • Which civil war? In the US there is the civil war, in China there are many civil wars. Which one are you talking about?

  • Canada: MPs question delay in Taiwan trade framework as diplomat says ball in cabinet's court

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  • Taiwan will loose it's silicon shield. It is a matter of time.

  • China trade deal has Canadians looking forward to cheaper electric vehicles

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  • It's very clear you don't know how things work.

  • China trade deal has Canadians looking forward to cheaper electric vehicles

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  • Federal transparency law changes could shield government emails, text messages

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  • Then answer the question. China existed before 1949. Why do you say unaccountable government only started in 1949 coviently the year CPC declared the PRC and the ROC, declared in 1912 and since then, under the rule of the Kuomintang fled to the Province of Taiwan?

    Are you saying both the PRC and ROC became unaccountable in 1949 when ROC was declared in 1912 and was under one party rule until 1989?

    You're just against the CPC, a Chine political party.

    Get lost you Chinese partisan hack. Not even being a Canadian partisan hack but a Chinese one.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    List of suspected Nazi war criminals welcomed in Canada should stay secret, information watchdog rules

    www.theglobeandmail.com /politics/article-list-of-suspected-nazi-war-criminals-welcomed-in-canada-should-stay/
  • Ottawa @lemmy.ca
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    Looking for Fairphone Users to Buy Spare Parts

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    Unable to Connect to Internet Without VPN

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Unable to Connect to Internet Without VPN

  • Debian @lemmy.world
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    Unable to Connect to Internet Without VPN

  • Ottawa @lemmy.ca
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    City of Ottawa (@en.ottawa.ca) is now Blue Check Verified on Bluesky

    bsky.app /profile/en.ottawa.ca
  • Web Development @programming.dev
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    Question: Can I create a CNAME record to point a subdomain to a webpage e.g. blog.example.com -> example.com/blog?

  • privacy @lemmy.ca
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    Which to choose: GNU IceCat or LibreWolf?

  • Pixelfed.ca @lemmy.ca
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    I cannot log in using Lemmy account

  • Ottawa @lemmy.ca
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    Looking for New Moderators

  • Buy Canadian @lemmy.ca
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    Looking for Stainless Steel Insulated Bottle (recommendations please)

  • Embedded programming and micro controllers @lemmy.ml
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    What are the dev boards in the sublemmy's picture?

  • New Democratic Party @lemmy.ml
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    Should the NDP community move to lemmy.ca?

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  • Ontario @lemmy.ca
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    There is now a community for the City of Ottawa on lemmy.ca

    lemmy.ca /c/ottawa