I’ve been hearing about the imminent collapse of the Chinese economy for years now, though. For some reason it seems like American newspapers aren’t great at forecasting what’s going on over there.

That person is definitely being sarcastic.

They gave Kissinger a peace prize so it was already a joke tbh. I would take it as a slight to receive one.

Donald Trump is basically the Luigi Cadorna of the War on Christmas. The left could never dream of doing this much damage to the season, lol.

Yeah. Shut the fuck up, Bill.

I never talked about political extremism. The entire breadth of our conversation was limited to how you didn’t see how a billionaire thinking more wealth ought to be distributed to them was political. But that’s a silly position and I think you see that in hindsight, so you are trying to widen the conversation to include the extremism angle, which I never commented on.

Ok … but there is more context on the comments preceding that one.

I’m not responsible for the comments of others. I replied to something you stated directly where the previous context really doesn’t make a difference. Particularly considering you are doubling down on that comment with

Well, they don’t think they are withholding resources, probably think they are helping with investments, trickledown and bullshit. So it’s literally not a political position they hold. It doesn’t even make sense as one as all it does would paint yourself as the problem.

Except if they believe more wealth should be distributed to them because they believe in trickle down economics… Uh, that’s political.

Well, no, the comment I replied to was you saying how you don’t see how a billionaire withholding resources they don’t need from society is a political position. Which I found surprising, since distribution of resources is one of the primary concerns of politics.

Really? You don’t see how wealth distribution relates to politics?

Finally. This motherfucker got a heart transplant in his 70s. Some poor SOB got bumped down the waiting list so this asshole could make the world worse for a few more years.

I live in northern BC and there are a lot of those types around here.

D’Souza dated both Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter so I think being hated for his ethnicity is his kink.

Contrarianism can be taken to the point of a mental disorder.

Sounds good to me. Our strategic goals relating to trade should involve as many trade partners as possible and avoiding over-reliance on any one export market. We’ve recently been taught a lesson on the folly of that, let’s learn it.

Food insecurity is currently decreasing in China (source) while it’s increasing in Canada (source). So maybe there is a lesson on central planning and land distribution for us to learn.

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/reports-publications/health-promotion-chronic-disease-prevention-canada-research-policy-practice/vol-44-no-11-12-2024/distribution-hunger-canadian-youth.html

Overall, one in six (16.6%) survey participants reported experiencing hunger.

But they didn’t literally die from it so we’re in the best system. Please.

Wealth inequality is at the highest level it’s ever been in Canada. Our system is currently failing.

What’s not to understand? Please, justify to me why an orphan and the child of a billionaire who will receive a land inheritance being made to compete for resources is the best system that we shouldn’t try to get away from? As for what life “gives” us, who cares? We aren’t bound by that, else we should throw away all our tools and return to monkey. We have brains and we can design better, fairer systems than, “Well that’s just the way it is.”

Boy, when that AI bubble pops it’s gonna pop like a nuclear explosion.

Uh, nowhere? That’s why private, inheritable land ownership is unjustifiable. There is no way to make such a system fair when tomorrow you will have a child who is born who will be orphaned and another who will be the beneficiary of land inheritance, neither child being responsible for the conditions they were born into. Yet both are expected to compete for the same resources. We can do much better.

Uh, no…? You are aware the USSR collapsed in '91 and the modern Russia is very much not left wing in any sense? Ostensibly or otherwise. There was that whole Shock Therapy thing where they went capitalist in the most destructive way possible.