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https://overtheedge.unbc.ca/7-reasons-to-be-afraid-of-pierre-poilievre-the-new-conservative-party-leader/

get that as well-known as you can, people..

it's IMPORTANT, now..

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They amalgamated Nepean into Ottawa, some years ago: they're not separate cities, I don't think, anymore..

helps?

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India can't rival China's productivity: its culture is too different.

( dad was of India, but Anglo-Indian/British. I've more understanding of India's culture because family talked about it, than most North Americans, but never lived there )

I've been told that India is the ONLY country in the world, where bribery is normal to get the government-official to actually do their job, whereas normally it's to get them to not do their job..

The caste-system's entitlement conditioning, of the upper castes, compared with the abused-all-the-time lower-caste people..

that caste-system is itself the enemy of Indian competitiveness.

You can't just stick makeup on some random animal & claim it's actually some completely-different kind of animal..

The reactions, the instincts are different.

There are books on offshoring work, & the dangers of doing-so, with different cultures..

In Japan there is now a "loud American" job-position: the person there makes certain that the operation doesn't keep quietly accommodating corrupt-management or wrong-strategy, until they're sunk/dead: the loud American's job is to speak what the conforming Japanese want said, but wouldn't ever say, because they aren't gaijin.

India's famous for power-distance: inferiors won't be tolerated to speak truth to superiors, ever.

That is produced by their caste system.

That isn't competitive.

It's deeply cultural.

Modi's Hindutva India isn't likely to lessen that, is it?

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There already is a death-sentence for being Palestinian & being a child, while the IDF is pointing a rifle in your general direction, as the statistics prove ( & video of their children being killed for sport, too )..

Even more dangerous being a Palestinian child than being a journalist, in Palestine, when the IDF's around..

Scroll down to the bottom of this, & get to finally get past all the .. shit "web interaction" of their site, .. to the graph..

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/FATALITIES/byvrxlqeqve/

13,320 children's lives destroyed by "Israel" .. that wouldn't be the same "Israel" as the one that Isaiah was of & loyal-to, would it ..

( no, it wouldn't )

& these gaslighters want to pretend that they were all armed combatants??

I'm sure..

No matter: their Continuums/Souls/CellsOfG-D will reincarnate into more of the hell-mess they make/enforce, to continue that "religion", until some other world crops-up with opportunity to outgrow it..

Their opportunity to outgrow it among this world is pretty-much gone:

population-polarization's only going to be increasing, from here until the end of The Great Filter, in the 2070's or 2080's, now..

Churchill's "never argue with drunks or fanatics" rule is pertinent, to any aliens considering opening-discussions with our species: don't bother, there's no intelligent life down here.

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The whole REAL reason that Trump wants to possess both Canada & Greenland is so that between Trump & Putin, in a pincer,

.. they can DESTROY Europe's capacity to compete against them,

& then they get to be the only "kings" left in the West, carving-up all who they want..

So, some of Europe for Trump, some of Europe for Putin.

See?

They spoke factual truth .. !

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Much truth in what you say..

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It's treason, not mere election-interference..

MAGA's intention to possess/consume Canada for itself..

You DON'T back that religion, & get to call yourself an honest Canadian.

Here's what she was pushing be helped to own Canada:

https://overtheedge.unbc.ca/7-reasons-to-be-afraid-of-pierre-poilievre-the-new-conservative-party-leader/

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I'm willing to bet that they get a "2nd wind", where some kind of tipping-point removes obstacles to their dismantling of our world's civilization..

It was Richard Stutely's book "The Definitive Business Plan" which identified that there is ONE thing that startups & businesses planning a market-expansion NEVER do:

understand the opponent's countermeasures.

Is anybody looking into the right-wing discussions, to see how they are going to rally/adapt/evolve?

XOR is this just "looking at the foam on the sea & making pronouncements on the rip-current's 'not' existing"?

Further, there is a tipping-point crossed, in the US, whereby it's irreversible: there simply is no way for the US to get back into representative-republic territory, now: too much got dismantled, already, & it isn't slowing-down.

In Europe, they're still working-on getting that far, right?

& the Heritage Foundation, the original puppetmasters designing Trump's whole operation..

https://www.project2025.observer/

( that tracks their breathtaking accomplishment-speed )

now working on Europe..

https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/14/heritage-foundation-project-2025-allies-mcc-ordo-iuris-discuss-dismantling-the-eu-european-union/

that is about their plan to dismantle the EU for themselves..

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/09/a-guide-to-project-2025/

for 1 window into what their plans are.

Do the anti-fascist-"society" forces within the countries outside of the US have enough pragmatism, enough objectivity, enough uprightness, to resist the Combined Arms ( attacking from ALL angles possible, until the opponent fails ) assaulting of the far-right, for their converting-the-Western-world-to-a-bunch-of-Russias-owned/ruled-by-them??

.. I am not betting on it, tbh.

Responsibility & accountability are both their enemies, but both responsibility & accountability are the enemies of .. ALL political-entities??

Politics itself opposes responsibility & accountability, doesn't it?

Which sets the underlying problem thus:

IF politics opposes both responsibility & accountability, because it wasnt ONLY authority-on-others,

AND ALL the political-factions are working to have political-authority-on-others,

THEN .. how the hell could anybody get what political-motivation doesn't want, accountability & responsibility, to be the core of any political-"answer"??

The political basis for any countermeasure hamstrings its trueness-of-aim!

To me, this identifies that politics, itself, has to be removed from ruling our world: its nature won't allow the integrity required to keep us alive, during The Great Filter, when political-tantrum, religious-tantrum, ClimatePunctuation, food-chain-degradation/collapse, panic-migrations, totalitarianism, etc, all vie for being the "ruler" of the world, while we try to NOT face our own unconscious-mind's bulling-ignorance ( which created this whole mess, & which would rather kill us completely-off than force-grow-up ).

Find 1 country which has the integrity to remove political-motivation with successful machiavellianism, from being significant in its representatives' government..

I don't believe there is 1 on this world.

Yet it would require a majority-of-NATO to do exactly that kind of thing, to survive what's gradually blowing-up-in-our-faces..

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That is the correct definition of actual-sadism.

"the cruelty is the point".

I promise you, he will execute the 3 former Democrat presidents, before he goes total-war against Canada.

Biden, Obama, & Clinton, he will have executed.

This is just a minor escalation in the way of his Purge, this ISN'T anywhere-near what it is going to be, in less than 3y.

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There is a simple method for solving actual intractable-problems of things like urban-planning & civil government, as identified in "The Heretic's Guide to Best Practices".

It is issue diagramming.

They wrongly call it dialog-mapping, but dialogs are of people, & so political-possessions, whereas issues just stand on their own, & so can be independent-of-political-possession.

Also, they have a deranged infatuation with doing it sideways, calling that a "Capitola Pathway", but .. they're ivory-tower people, so that's fine for them.

Take a portrait-format page & lay it down at one's toes, & where does the "next step" part of the page happen to be?

Right above one's toes, right?

Where does the far-end-of-the-path, the Goal, happen to be on that page? The far-end, the top, right?

THAT is the right orientation for an Issue-Diagram, not sideways.

IF every issue gets solved as an externalized ( didn't Stephen R. Covey identify DECADES ago that the top-3% most-effective people ALL externalized their goals?? that isn't "mere coincidence"! ) Issue-Diagram,

with the structure of the problem displayed as a visual-spacial diagram, showing the connections and dependencies & showing IF this, THEN that connections..

THEN people gain much more complete understanding, much quicker.

People's keeping it in our heads, & just trying to muddle-to the "right" answer through our feelings, can't work for either entrenched-political problems OR for too-complex problems.

This method-for-getting-past-our-innate-unconsciousness-and-inability was cracked years ago!

It works, too.

( visual-spacial cracking-of-problems has been discovered to be not only key to cracking urban-planning, civil-problems, it has also been proven to be able to convert a massive-failure-rate among complex software development problems, to an actual-success-rate, instead.

Wrong-representation for the required critical-thinking is a fundamental error that we keep making.

I think it may be related to the fundamental-error of doing-the-same-thing-harder when what the actual-context-requires is changing-what-we're-doing, that was identified as a race-wide mental-defect in the book "The Design of Everyday Things", a book which is partly responsible for the instigation of the "Mythbusters" franchise, when Savage discovered, through that book, that if a system's operation wasn't intuitively-obvious, it may well be its user-interface was engineered-wrong, & ALL the users have the same problem, because of that.. )

Anyways, it was an English mathematician whose video, on software development, clued me in that the visual-spacial cracking of problems & communicating what they are, is THE key to actually succeeding, in ALL such cases..

& then I understood that "Heretic's Guide to Best Practices" was actually just doing a variant of that, in a specific domain..

The method's sound.

Have every component-decision identified,

have what brings the decision's result contributing to the goal be identified on 1 side of it, as a + ( or above it ),

have what variant of the decision would obstruct the gaining of the goal on the other side of it, say below it, as a -

& let people see the tradeoffs, & decide for themselves how these tradeoffs should be managed,

instead of just "authority decided for you", ( it should be obvious that the contempt-of-the-population inherent in that stance has political-consequences ) & never bothered including all the required perspectives anyways ( which is the political status-quo, globally ).

CHANGE the METHOD to change the results!!

A sentiment of Einstein's "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

While it's unlikely that people will choose to survive if that requires us to stop letting unconscious-habit rule our world, .. it's possible that somebody will actually do-so, for some small portion of this world..

Otherwise, nonlearning .. has fatal consequences.

Globally, now.

Political-parties, though, why shouldn't they just continue obliterating our viability?

Nothing competes against the political-party-system, right?

Therefore the political-party-system doesn't need to learn, or change, or adapt, in any way, right??

Only when something is competing against a something, directly, CAN it learn?

Not as-in when the Trump-cult is competing against the Democrat make-belief, obviously that changed nothing..

but as-in when something's competing against the current system of misgovernment-by-political-parties, then the political-parties might temporarily show a little integrity .. until they removed the threat..

( anybody remember when the banks in Canada were temporarily behaving in an upright manner, because the trust-companies were competing against them .. until they were all bought-up by the banks?

this is what I'm talking about: inter-bank-competition changed nothing, but outsiders-competing-against banks did, until they were obliterated from significance.

I expect exactly the same results with political-parties.

No change due to inter-party-competition, ONLY possible-change when something threatens the political-party-regime-system )

Anyways, IF you value your municipal, or federal, or any between-level viability of some government, PLEASE use externalized, visual-spacial, Issue-Diagram style depiction of problems, leaving-out nothing-significant, to SHOW the actual decision-structures that have to be decided-between, & let the entrenched politically-motivated non-thinking fail to compete with your work.

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I'd bet that in many countries, the "census" cares more about its status as a gov't official, than it does about accurate-counting, too..

While I'd been unconsciously assuming that the world population-count was somehow accurate,

my KNOWING of how rural people work to evade being counted contradicts my own assumption,

& your identifying that entire villages that aren't counted.. damn, damn, damn, have I ever been being ignorant/naive..

Thank you for pointing this obvious-in-hindsight behavior out, for us!

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For youngsters not knowing "penny-wise & pound-foolish",

the modern equivalent is "cent-intelligent but euro-idiotic".

Pennies & pounds haven't been encountered by most of the world's population for .. generations, now?

& yeah, PugJesus nailed it spot-on.

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and it's global, and it's concerted, and Murdoch's remapping of Leninism from left to right, from "proletariat dictatorship" to "populist dictatorship", has been one of the elegantest misuses of effective-world-power in the last century.

Why bother being surprised?

The left won't compete against the prejudice being pushed in the "manosphere", so .. Natural Selection's going to be pruning lives based on the intentionally-established prejudice .. same as always.

White "taliban", is all that's winning, here as Down Under.

There was some article in the FT, iirc, identifying that under-40-males were swinging HARD right, & this is exactly what the ideology-pushers want: to "return" to the male-supremacy of "biblical" life, or of the caliphate, or of any of the major empires of the last 2-ish millenia: narcissism's "glory" is all it is.

REAL honesty's hard, REAL growing-up's hard, REAL earning-human-meaning's hard, but that is exactly why ideology has an easy time of winning when nobody's doing honest competing against it..

The opportunism you're identifying ought be expected..

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I think it's oblique to what you said:

I think that it's actually cultural-narcissism based, and I'm saying that as a person who discovered that class-narcissism is a cultural-narcissism, at the end of a 25-day hard-line-fast to crack an obstacle in my unconscious-mind..

Cultural-narcissism seems to be a root-rabies in .. all? .. I think so .. of our cultures.

All the "it isn't G-D that is The Only Savior, it is OUR RELIGION that is The Only Savior" narcissisms are examples of cultural-narcissism..

but the US of A made narcissism into its banner, to some extent..

& I think that that, itself, betrayed your culture, & certainly your people..

Remember what the TV-footage of people in the US was like, after Sept 11, 2001?

All the people wearing "superhero" outfits?

Their unconscious-minds asserting through the outfit they were wearing that reality wasn't allowed to treat them as mere-humans?

Their symbol-outfit, or symbol-culture, was supposed to be sufficient?

They were supposed to be inherently immune?

I think it was one of the most-blatent expressions of unconscious-mind's delusion-about-non-equality in recent history.

& I think that ALL national-narcissisms are doing the same thing, in different ways..

I think cultural-narcissism knifes-in-the-back the country it grows-in, inevitably.

"The world doesn't need us" Hoomin, the world needs good people, no matter what country you're in.

The world doesn't need machiavellian nationalism, not ANYone's, right?

But the world NEEDS good people, now, everywhere.

& we need to not break or give-up, until we win..

no matter how many decades this takes.

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Trump needs to smash/possess both Canada & Greenland for the simple reason that to crush/destroy the EU, in a pincer, with Putin, the staging-ground is required.

Canadians would be either slaughtered, enslaved, or whatever.

The US is going to declare war on Canada in 2-2.5y.

The world has changed.

Relying on assumed-entitlement & making-believing, as the US's Democrats did, is suicide.

I hope that Zelenskiy isn't as foolishly-trusting/naive as "it's all just maga bots yapping" is, xor Ukranians are going to lose much more, permanently.

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Security is ALWAYS contextual: in the current global mess??

Yes, Japan NEEDS to go nuclear.

Probably within 3y, possibly as little as 2, China will have the US rampaging on "NATO", with Putin, backing that as much as it can, from the shadows..

but it will be taking-advantage of the absence-of-NATO to be rampaging/smashing/possessing all of Asia that it can.

Including Japan.

Arm TO THE TEETH, IMMEDIATELY, & fight to the death, exactly as Canada needs to do.

The US only needs to smash Canada & Greenland so as to be able to destroy Europe in a pincer, between Trump & Putin.

The world's "game" is not even on the same "board" as it was, last year.

Survive!

HAVE the means of forcing your own survival.

Please don't obliterate yourselves, the way the Democratic-party did within the US of A.

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in all cases?

I knew a guy who got tweens hooked on crack, for fun..

He's dead, now, but sometimes one has to wonder if there shouldn't be more-immediate, harsher, enforcement, for some crimes..

( I'm considering the difference between clean-room principles, vs actual-on-the-ground situations, involving real fucked-up-human-reality: sometimes harsh correction seems to be required.

I know that now there are people who are not allowed to leave prison because they're too-much threat to the population, in some places..

also, it depends on one's culture, doesn't it?

In the West, maybe some drugs are culturally OK, & others are not..

& in other cultures, the configuration is different..

We seriously hold that Western moral-assumptions are universal, still?

Has our "White ego" or "British Empire ego", or whatever it ought be called, still so much "centrality" that it cannot understand self-determination of other-cultures?

I'm only using the British Empire example because it was the empire before the US Empire, btw.

I hold that executing people for drug-trafficking is daft .. but then I read about the gang-ruled portions of Mexico .. and wonder .. how can trafficking be dis-entangled from all the other-crimes involved in organized-crime?? )

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ttbomk, they need about 10,000 executions per year, for sake of the harvested body-parts, & I've read that for years there seemed to be a quota on executions, to provide the required body-parts..

Having skimmed the article, now I believe that Hamas's strategem was unconscious, not conscious: they seem incapable of objective strategy?

Tactics, but not strategy, & even in tactics, it seems that objectivity isn't high-enough on their priorities to clue them in.

.. shruggeth ..

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