Comments by "Mighty One" (@mightyone3737) on "TLDR News Global" channel.

  1. There is no way in the world in which it makes sense to tie your future to russia, russia is in the process of complete economic collapse, and literally the only thing it has going for it is a small number of still functional nuclear weapons (if you believe the russias they still are capable, others disagree) and oil money, oil is itself a dying industry, and the russias are struggling to make enough profit off of it's oil. The russians can't give money and they can't provide supplies anymore, these are more examples of sabotage of non-white countries, not of anything rational or reasonable. Acting like these coups 'joining' russia makes sense is like arguing that there were good reasons for brexit, there weren't and it has been an unmitigated disaster.
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  2. Don't forget the US stealing their fertilizer reserves, so the country would never be able to be food self-sufficient with it's badly damaged soil (due to the heavy clearing of land to pay to french). Haiti was literally sabotaged over and over to punish it for refusing to embrace the role the whites who had power had assigned it.
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  3. I've talked to a bunch of people who really hate Trudeau, so I'll list off a few reasons why people complain. One reason a lot of people don't like Trudeau is his persistent need to tax not the ultra wealthy, but the mildly well off, hitting farmers with the carbon tax when most of them are producing food in one way or another seems batshit when almost all of the carbon is being produced by industrial manufacture, one way or another, and farmers do not make a great deal of profit per year, their real gains are in equity over time in most cases. Farmers should have instead been rewarded for making green choices, rather than being punished for just doing business. Now I guess they're adjusting capital gains to start pinching people at relatively low wealth levels, again missing the whole point of 'eat the rich' because 'the rich' are his personal friends and allies. That brings me to another reason he's not very popular, because Trudeau can be pretty smarmy, and is very ensconced with the wealthy elites. People know who he's personal friends with, and most of us wouldn't be willing to piss on those people if they were on fire. I think the final (and easily the biggest) reason is that Trudeau supports LGBTQ rights somewhat vocally, while Polly will definitely not, regardless of what he says (I'd be happy to be wrong, but I can see what similar conservatives do elsewhere in Canada if given a majority), and a LOT of people still hate the LGBTQ movement, and find public Pride displays to be salt in the still raw wound of merely having to tolerate these superficially different human beings. I personally don't particularly like Trudeau (and wonder if he should step down before the next election and give someone else a proper go, rather than drag the party down with him), but I don't think he was as bad for Canada as harper was in a plurality of ways. Why is it the Conservatives can't run another Joe Clark type?? While I didn't think mittens with the string through the sleeves were cool as a kid, I now understand and kinda wish I had something like that, so I think everyone's biggest complaint about his type is now done, why do we have to run creepy looking guy who's so far right? Canadians don't want far right, and they've been clear about that, but the problem here is the party is run by the far right and it's money, so they keep choosing candidates that are incredibly far right and losing to centrist Trudeau. Run a center right smart guy who's nerdy enough to wear his mittens on a string through his sleeves during the winter, I want to see sensible footwear and comfortable and decently cut (if not exactly stylish) suits, not more far right guys who look like they were adopted as a child by a far right Think Tank and raised on a steady diet of propaganda.
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  4. It's been weirdly disappointing (but not really unexpected) to see india elect a right wing populist who hates farmers and any sort of minority (in a country that is better understand as a subcontinent, it, like china, is somewhat like if you had all of Europe in one country, with all the baggage that would come with), be they racial or religious, and the US just glomps right onto his fascist self, they can't resist a brutal fascist for some weird reason. On topic, xi seems to have the foreign policy of a perpetually embarrassed murder hobo, so it's not a surprise when he alienates other countries that his predecessor had better relations with. Remember xi's reaction to people pointing that out? He tried to publicly shame his predecessor, an act of such stupidity it is on par with getting one's head stuck in a honey bowl. I think china makes more sense if we think of xi as their trump, a populist with strong fascist leanings who is constantly trying to appear more capable and confident than they are. It'd be nice if he could learn actual diplomacy (china used to be good at the stuff, and was in process of gaining major clout in the world because of it) rather than just machismo and posturing. He's also not enough of a feminist, china has a serious habit of under-utilizing (a bit under... see, that's why feminism is important people!) half of it's citizens potential (and has rampant harassment it seems). Note, if women are happier they are more likely to be willing to risk having a baby, if they are miserable they only have them for reasons beyond their control (lack of choice, desperation, poverty etc), xi is very concerned with the birth rate, yet he allows women to be treated as an underclass!
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