IcyToes

Idk. Not Canadian. Some countries have first ministers. Premier could have been a similar term.

Thanks for clarifying.

I'm not Canadian and was genuinely curious.

The problem is it's done by folk that don't pay and probably covering their face. The fact the company thinks it's cheaper to lose bikes than pay rent for land for stations to secure the bikes between customers is the problem. They don't care.

Want to tell me the playbook for how FPTP goes while avoiding one of the main parties.

Primary them by all means but not supporting an alternative against the current gov is supporting the fascist status quo.

Need to support AOC and Bernie to overall that party while the stupid FPTP system exists.

What on earth could Ukraine do that would crater oil prices though? Without a viable options, I think refineries going pop is the best option they have.

I ain't defending Iran, they ain't good guys. They just got attacked by worse guys. Probably as a distraction from the ethnic cleansing going on in Gaza.

My personal stance is all war is bad, and I will call out aggressors, because it's always civilians that bear the brunt of it. Nothing good ever comes from it, and it'll just harden people and if any bad folk are killed, they're inevitably replaced with worse.

The UK media did not. It was mentioned they were used but with no judgement one way over another. The amount of UK weapons used to execute civilians, to them this is state normal.

Myanmar are Ethiopia are doing much worse to civilians. Saudi are horrific for rights. Those countries are barely mentioned. It's not about atrocities. It's about Western foreign policy.

I didn't say no problem, I said tolerable. You really need to read the dictionary and understand words. You cannot just interpret things how you feel, rather than what the words mean.

Did you not see how quick policy and media narratives switch. Recently they tried to rehabilitate the Syrian leader, who's group was allied to American enemies, and all of a sudden, he wasn't that bad, let's drop sanctions.

You have to realise that, what is good and bad, and what the media tells you is good and bad are two different things. You have to critically challenge the narratives you're fed.

I said a few months ago. I'm pretty sure 24+ months doesn't fall under the categorisation of "a few". Iran has been barely touched upon for years, and now the headlines are rolling about how horrible they are now there is a war to justify.

Basically nothing for 2 years (the protests ended), and the first term for Trump ended in 2021, so 4 years ago. The only thing I have seen is about arms sales, occasionally and it doesn't express any opinion other than an Iran drone was used.

In the last few days since the attack, it's quite a lot about nuclear weapons that may be 2 months, 2 years or a 20 years away, and now about journalists. Basically, the strategy has changed to bumping them up the enemies list to justify the attacks.

We don't see much about the Syrian leader, as he's not much of a terrorist now he's working with the West.

It's interesting how media can pivot their narratives about who the heroes and villains are at any time, and it's always in line with government foreign policy.