Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "VisualPolitik EN" channel.

  1. Did you watch and listen? No measures taken. Wilders will not be PM. The headline is absolutely not true. I repeat absolutely. Please re-watch.
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  2. pwall-YEV(r) is the true French pronunciation, but his family anglicizes it to polly-EV.
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  3. America is the arch 20th-century nation, with one foot back in the 18th.
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  4. Strange, Mr. or Ms. "Rodgers," that you haven't mastered the plural s in English. It's your native tongue, right Mr./Ms. Rodgers?
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  5. Open AI privately owned, Wai-yin. Can to look these up fact easy on global internet. Oh, wait...
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  6. The US debt is about 40x the defense budget. So I think you wanted to say that the annual interest on the debt is more than the defense budget, which it is. (Or that the annual deficit of $1.8trn is twice the defense budget.)
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  7. It was to be expected: Canada went first, tariffing Chinese goods.
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  8. Where r u getting ur news? For decades US-Canada tariffing has been mutual and at similar levels.
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  9.  @isabelhoebel3189  You're completely right. That stuff is typical internet comments b.s.
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  10.  @richdobbs6595  Try reading more slowly. He said outcomes all hinge on whether there's an intact couple (including a father) raising the child/children. You can't agree nor disagree with that?🤨
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  11.  @richdobbs6595  I'd ask if you are a bot yourself, except I know bots reason and express themselves quite a bit more clearly.
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  12.  @homiepiggy  Uh, I agree with the idea you have in mind, but could you please phrase it a little better? 😂 How about "the word West with the word Isl." ?
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  13. False. It's a small group of Alberta residents representing themselves.
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  14. He used to live in Canada and his mother is Canadian.
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  15. I'm puzzled by your assertion that Russia could not move troops and equipment out of Kaliningrad via the Suwalki Corridor. To me it seems unclear whether anyone would stop them.
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  16.  @SOMEONE-yq3bv  Our PM has been walking the political Green Mile for two years. Even when candidate DT was trailing in the polls, zero people were saying he could win re-election. Dozens of his own MPs were asking him to Just Go. The Economist wrote his political obituary. The cope's on u, friend!
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  17. Views and likes updated via differing protocols.
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  18. Another way of putting it: In a private household, when your work hours are cut and your income falls, but you increase your spending anyway and start borrowing to keep it all going, it's considered a mounting disaster. In a national economy when you do the same thing, your GDP goes up.
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  19. Remember at all times that the rouble is starkly undervalued against the dollar. This is an indication that it's not much in demand, primarily due to (rightly) perceived riskiness. But this can be immensely deceiving. A rouble buys about 2.7x more inside Russia than in the West. So $140bn in Russian military spending is more like $400bn.
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  20. Albanese, probably in May, same month as (probably) Trudeau. Will be a fine month. Springtime for Australia and Canada in more ways than one.
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  21. Basket counts and a foul!
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  22.  @rattatatat8507  Exports to the US are around 17 or 19% of Canada's GDP, not "most."
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  23.  @rattatatat8507  Most of Canada's exports, yes. Btw, tariffs on US dairy products were removed years ago under the USMCA on everything (e.g. milk for cheese, yogurt etc.) except for beverage milk.
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  24.  @suburbandystopia4130  Stop it! Both countries have always tariffed each other's goods.
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  25. 49.8%, 1.48 points higher than the opponent.😂
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  26. Just lower the speed to 0.85x.
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  27. *led
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  28. Hear, hear!
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  29.  @tstcikhthys  I'm not sure how much the spending of even twice the money could ever accomplish when most students think that mastering their own language is profoundly uncool, when they hate reading (except the near-gobbledegook on their phone screens), when they listen at home to the dubiously literate speech of their parents, etc. etc. Many emerge nonetheless into adulthood as intelligent users of language in some sense of the word, which certainly is some consolation. But that is hardly enough to maintain America's position as the world's leading country —and a rich one by virtue of that — for very much longer. Improved mastery of English isn't something that would put an end to the country's woes, but people have to get ready for another reduction in their standard of living, a much larger one this time. Anyone who knows about the 1950-75 period in Britain has some idea what it will be like. Except in that instance Britain passed the baton to its best friend, the US. This time the top spot will go to a very, very hostile nation.
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  30. 10th-largest economy out of all 190+. May soon pass 9th-place Italy.
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  31.  @manofzuo  Try asking Perplexity. Usually works for me.
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  32. L'Indépendant, a paper published in the south of France. What's the matter, can't you speak French?😄
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  33.  @guillaumeroy7528  Or just not as French as his.🤣
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  34. Foxtrot Yankee.
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  35.  @TheBalladier  The most common term in the heavily left-leaning and partly state-owned French media, perhaps.
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  36. He made demands in the last week of November; Canada announced its response in mid-December, now 6 or 7 weeks ago. I think it's pretty normal for a new border security program to take more than a month and a half to implement. But yeah, stable genius, so much winning, the Diocletian of America, etc. etc.
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  37.  @visualpoetry3d  As has been said for centuries, the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. (Not a real one in the ordinary sense.) Moreover, it really took shape after Charlemagne was gone. But it's fine if anyone, including the whole Russian nation, has their own opinion.
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  38. Smart. I say that because 8,000 square miles is nothing. The Arab countries have 5,070,000 square miles and I don't see how having 5,078,000 would greatly improve things for them.
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  39. Mexican border seizures in comparison, past 24 months: over 106,000% higher
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  40. Dear outraged English usage experts down in this section: Ever heard of the Oxford English Dictionary? Well, say hello to my little friend: howitzer ɴᴏᴜɴ [2nd sense] 1.b. A shell fired by this piece of artillery. 𝘓𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘻𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭. The OED gives usage examples of this sense with citations from 1761 up to 1998.
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  41. Canada doesn't need that headache. CETA, its free-trade treaty with the EU, is all it needs.
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  42. The Taliban never had a chance either. Oh wait...
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  43. @ It's another instance of the US overestimating itself. Sad!
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  44. Canada's the one ally the US spends zero in cash costs to guarantee its security. It's like the house beside the police station, safe for that reason alone. Europe, Japan, S. Korea: different story entirely.
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  45. Buh-bye.
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  46. "The Secret Service has the best security minds." Uh, why do you say that? Its head, Kimberly Cheatle, was selected on the basis of her preference in intimate partners. The holder of a BA in sociology from a place named Eastern Illinois Univ., she was recruited to the top Secret Service position from Pepsi, where she worked in security.
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  47.  @remco6816  Maybe there could be a constitutional arrangement for autonomy in numerous aspects, i.e., much more than Puerto Rico has.
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  48. @ @ 🤔What if it were just as autonomous as at present (i.e., highly)?
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  49. Hey, your mom told you to make your bed!
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  50. Remember at all times that the rouble is starkly undervalued against the dollar. This indicates that it's not much in demand, primarily due to (rightly) perceived riskiness. But it can be immensely deceiving. A rouble buys about 2.7x more inside Russia than in the West. So $140bn in Russian military spending is more like $400bn.
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