Basically the latter. Canada does tariff a lot of Chinese goods to promote NAFTA goods, especially in the automotive market. China’s not dumb, so this is just striking while it will do the most damage to remind Canada that they could be completely independent from the US overnight if they life import bans and tariffs on Chinese goods; even just the ones that don’t compete with Canadian goods.
Fun fact this is also against .world’s tos.
Good, now to eliminate the other eyes and not have loopholes like five eyes allowing countries to illegally spy on their own citizens.
Not if you’re in the US or other failed state that removed the majority of their parks staff.
It’s the natural result of a century of anti Russia and anti Chinese propaganda. The entire western world lost its damn mind and is likely to go full nuclear warfare before realizing they’ve been manipulated by a few wealthy people.
…Bernie said the US supported democracy. This is, in every conceivable way, a complete and total lie.
It’s such a ridiculous lie that you wouldn’t be able to say just those words after the year 1805.
Yeah but most people on earth get hot, as the vast majority of humanity lives closer to the equator than Europe.
I added the part about humanity’s aversion to suicide for a reason. To counter this silly part of the argument.
It’s incredibly difficult to choose to commit suicide as a human. Every one of our drives and instincts is against it. An extremely rare number of us can do it in as a sacrifice to others, and only a few more than them can choose to do it as an escape from their own pain. Even amongst them, those that manage to survive the attempt will usually never attempt it again. It’s an incredibly rare number of humans that can try to commit suicide repeatedly.
But it’s not their fault or virtue, any of them. It is logic either winning against or failing against instinct.
Some of us are here today solely because we cannot overcome this instinct and have decided to let fate decide. Some still have embraced fact we lost against this instinct and have decided to make light of life until our misery is over.
But there are plenty today, and I think the up votes reinforce this, that would take a painless death in a heartbeat even if they aren’t clinically suicidal. Life is that bad for most people.
Life is so bad that we had to come up with a divine justification for our suffering. A meaning to this existence beyond anything we can find on earth, because earth has no such justification for the suffering of life. Nothing excuses it.
The only parents I forgive are teen parents whose hormones fully overtook any thought process. If you’re an adult and have a child, you’re a selfish bastard that chose to damn another life to 80 years of suffering.
I’ll do the unpopular argument today…
Creating life is always a selfish action and cannot be morally justified. There are no reasons for it that do no begin and end in pure self interest.
Even if you’re infinitely wealthy with all the free time to care for and guaranteed friendly people to support your child, it would still be a selfish act to force a being into existence to experience joy as much as it would be to experience sorrow.
You never got their consent and the human species has a ridiculously strong drive against suicide. There’s essentially no ‘out’ for them if they don’t like whatever you prepared.
Human lives are only worth living if they aren’t destined to a life of pain and hardship without any clear path to peace and love.
Abortion is almost always the moral choice.
Good news! Winter is probably going to be over for most people on the planet by the end of the century.
They weren’t bullied, they were shut down for have transphobic views.
If they left the fediverse over being told to stop being transphobic, that’s a good thing. Someone’s gender or sexuality isn’t a shield to abuse others.
Cool, why are you the one posting about it then?
And to your second point then stop fucking complaining. they dont want you near them. That’s all the ban is. Stop whining you can’t spread your ideology to people that have settled the matter amongst themselves.
They aren’t driving you off the fediverse, they just don’t want you near them. Take the hint.
That’s great and all, but your criticism needs to be redirected at yourself. Gay people aren’t gods. Neither are Jews. Neither are disabled people.
They are not ubermensch to which we should sacrifice our children to unwillingly.
They are not special. No one is.
If your cause is great you’ll have no problem finding volunteers for your war. If not the cause wasn’t that great. You don’t get to tell others how they should die or what they should fight for. The right of life and death over themselves is the only true right that humans have, and violating that right is the most evil thing; whether it is murder, genocide, or conscription ending in either.
Nazis are awful, they deserve to die. I’ll probably die fighting them based on my class and characteristics. But forcing someone in front of their bullets for my life would make me as evil as they are.
Victims of communism was created by the CIA to spread anti communist propaganda. There are few if any facts in any of their ridiculous statements.
The only real victims of communism were Nazis, kings, and people that aided those groups. Any monument with random names from ‘victims’ will only realistically have Nazis on it.
Guns. The advent of firearms revolutionized warfare to the extent that no other military arms mattered, and no other training mattered.
Before firearms were adopted, it would take a good ten to twenty years to raise a standing army, and retinues would still need a few months of training to not be slaughtered within the first battle. With firearms you just need a week or two and any peasant with two arms became an effective soldier.
Contrasting this, bowmen weren’t peasants. They did not return to their family when there wasn’t war. They were trained from around the age of seven to around the age of 15, and after this would be a professional soldier until they retired or died; training every single day (except Sundays or Saturdays depending on religion). They were paid to be bowmen, nothing else. Even if a peasant could use a bow, say if they were a hunter, they would never qualify for military service. Its that big of a difference in skill.
As to their differences in effect, range and force.
The weakest powder musket equals a ~80lbs draw war bow. Both can pierce plate armor on a good day, but the former can do so from a longer distance and again with decades less training. As guns get more advanced, their range and penetration increases massively, whereas most archers will be unable to draw a 120lbs or higher bow, meaning there is a maximum distance and effectiveness of bows that is almost comically lower than weapons.
To keep with freedom units, a deadly long range bow shot tops out at around a quarter mile with a high draw weight long bow. That’s about the absolute max, assuming the victim is wearing no armor. The current record for a sniper with a gun is around 1.5 miles, with the target wearing body armor.
No, I value freedom over something as stupid as a country. If the country is worth defending, people will volunteer.
Kidnapping them and sending them to their death is pure evil regardless of the reason. There is no justification. If your country does that, it deserves and needs to be wiped off the face of the planet.
It’s not naive to value human life over a nation.
Ripping apart a baby to bring the rain is a bad thing regardless of whether or not it rains. Kidnapping kids under threat of decades of torture and telling them to kill or be killed is bad regardless of whether or not it stops the Nazis.
Forced conscription is a crime on the level of genocide, because often that’s what results.
A north amer*can defending genocide? Must be a day ending in y.