Canadian Truckers Convoy 2022 - The Leaf calls you a Nazi as he gasses you

[Super-Chevy454]

Last few pages are historical sperging and debating forms of government. I'm guessing that means there's been no new developments?

This or it might be only the calm before the storm or even a hurricane.

 

[Goofy Logic]

Last few pages are historical sperging and debating forms of government. I'm guessing that means there's been no new developments?

I think people are waiting for what the senate says.

 

[Matt Damon]

Last few pages are historical sperging and debating forms of government. I'm guessing that means there's been no new developments?

We're just ironing out the last few details of the coming glorious Kiwi Utopia.

 

[Meat Target]

Last few pages are historical sperging and debating forms of government. I'm guessing that means there's been no new developments?

Should there be a new thread for the US convoy?

 

[Sperghetti]

BUT IT HAS A SLEEKER DESIGN! WHY DO YOU CHUDS HATE SCIENCE SO MUCH!

It's like when AliExpress listings have those CGI renderings showing the product to be impossibly glossy and hovering in a dimension made of pure obsidian.

 

[Ndnd]

Last few pages are historical sperging and debating forms of government. I'm guessing that means there's been no new developments?

Looks like at least one of the Trudeau appointed senators is going against the motion because he recognizes that these measures are indeed unconstitutional.

https://twitter.com/anthonyfurey/status/1496571217955934216

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[Super-Chevy454]

Looks like at least one of the Trudeau appointed senators is going against the motion because he recognizes that these measures are indeed unconstitutional.

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How long before he got a call saying "Hi, nice family you have, it'll be sad if something bad happen to them"?

 

[Gar For Archer]

The consideration we have are property rights and we were the first adopters of many of such infrastructure projects.

Yes, China has very nice and modern airports. It also helps that most of their land by their cities were rice patties just 30 years ago. In most US cities urban sprawl has already taken up all available land where one could build new major infrastructure projects. Further diving into this topic, it has been stated that most these airports and rail lines have already been built. Such with all available land already taken the only option is to renovate the existing airport built in the 1970s. If you want to address Europe and Japan, both those countries were bombed to shit in WWII allowing a clean slate for infrastructure development.

Additionally, we can look at how many of these projects are funded. With the US being a Federal Republic, most of the republics (states) are responsible for it's infrastructure funding with the Feds assisting. In Europe and other nations, many of these projects are funded nationally, that means my ass in semi-rural Idaho is funding some Bugman's modern train station in Los Angeles or New York. Bear in mind that the smaller stations for less populated cities still look like shit.

Finally, let's look at our rail system vs China's. China had about 3.02 trillion ton kilometers in 2019 compared to the US 2.53 trillion ton kilometers in 2018. With that in mind Chinas population is 4.5 times that of the US yet we are only .50 trillion ton kilometers apart in freight traffic. Now one possibility is that our rail system is more focused freight vs passenger traffic.

I really do hate this simplistic view on such matters. Christ, I am a fucking cop in Northern Idaho and I can come up with factors that challange the infographic, perhaps you can exercise some critical thinking.

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How does it feel being a bugman?

The whole “building from scratch” thing is actually a major factor.

First-world countries are in many ways stuck with old tech, because it was built long before the new shit was invented and even if they had the budget (which they don’t), it would be straight up impossible to, say, completely shut down the New York subways for a decade overhauling a new system from scratch. Such is the cost of being an innovator and early adopter of technology that was highly advanced for its time.

 

[Keystone]

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Sure it looks ugly as shit, but the structure on the right will only collapse if it gets hit with a literal tornado or earthquake. Meanwhile those fancy, sleek looking Chinaman buildings will quite literally get toppled by a stiff breeze.

 

[PhoBingas]

Sure it looks ugly as shit, but the structure on the right will only collapse if it gets hit with a literal tornado or earthquake. Meanwhile those fancy, sleek looking Chinaman buildings will quite literally get toppled by a stiff breeze.

Ethan Ralph armed only with a zippo lighter and an empty stomach could cripple China's infrastructure in a week.

 

[Least Concern]

After everyone (justifiably) calling out China for pulling shit in Hong Kong, it was only a matter of time until they started their whataboutism. The most embarrassing part is China actually has a point in this case. And it fucking pisses me off to agree with those savages about anything.

Oh, absolute whataboutism. Is there any doubt that this sort of protest would have been quashed the same way, if not worse, if it took place in Beijing?

But that the comparison between Beijing's and Ottawa's responses to peaceful if inconvenient protest no longer seems ridiculous…

And of course these images are an example of whataboutism's kissing cousin; cherry-picking. Look at this other image of China's high-speed trains I've found! It's just as representative of its system as a whole as the other one.

 

[Cilleystring]

We're just ironing out the last few details of the coming glorious Kiwi Utopia.

The exact quote is somewhere in the Greer thread, but grift lord Nick Rekieta once drunkenly stated that kiwi farms must be what heaven is like, where you are just looking down laughing and commenting on lolcows for all eternity.

The Kiwi Utopia is basically heaven on earth.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

The whole “building from scratch” thing is actually a major factor.

First-world countries are in many ways stuck with old tech, because it was built long before the new shit was invented and even if they had the budget (which they don’t), it would be straight up impossible to, say, completely shut down the New York subways for a decade overhauling a new system from scratch. Such is the cost of being an innovator and early adopter of technology that was highly advanced for its time.

Well, than and the fact that rich countries have the morals that they think they can afford, and take a look at how California is turning out to see where this ends. Berkley was just denied a campus expansion over an "environmental impact study." Do you think we could build the Hoover Dam, or the Interstate system, or the Panama Canal in [the current year?] Fuck no, we can't even build a fucking oil pipeline.

It's sort of an applied form of the curse of abundance: getting to the top and stalling out there, even as the rest of the world rises past you.

 

[Flan Handler]

This thread has devolved quite a bit off topic, I will get back on track but first a boring story:

10ish years ago my friend was completing an executive MBA, and the class took a trip to China to meet business people and see what’s up.

He had a few good stories about Shanghai, this was my favourite: his class contained a bunch of banking, mining and construction executives. They were getting toured around, and the construction guy was pretty quiet, watching construction cranes and crews from horizon to horizon.

Eventually he asked “where are the cement trucks?”. Their hosts proudly explained that they mixed small batches by hand to generate employment and GDP. That guy refused to enter any more high rise buildings.

It was also explained that the Chinese consider it a benefit that they expect all this infrastructure to last less than 25 years, as construction generates more GDP. Somehow rebuilding roads and bridges constantly will make them all rich.

I have basically not taken China seriously as a long term threat since. Yes they suck but if the west falls it will because we self destruct.

 

[mold]

I just looked at their GNP and compared to Spain. They had it better, objectively. If you want to sperg about how it wasn’t perfect, it’s up to you but communism was not a better alternative and is disingenuous to think so.

What other choice did Spain have? Be ruled by commies and completely destroyed or Franco.

Sucky life was preferable to death and none other took the mantle to deal with the commies so tough shit.

you really might want to improve your reading comprehension in what is clearly your only language

 

[An Avenging Bird]

Looks like at least one of the Trudeau appointed senators is going against the motion because he recognizes that these measures are indeed unconstitutional.

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So what's the deal? Combined with speculation that there will be "unfreezing" of bank accounts occurring, the digital ID being announced, and now seemingly the Senate showing more reservation than the House did, is this Parliament attempting an about-face wherein I would expect within a week to hear Trudeau say, "If you like your bank, you can keep your bank."

There must be a hell of a lot of pushback via pressure on banks, showing people still have a lot of power.


Edit: Incidentally, just came across an excellent Sundance - who I enjoy as he is detailed but not droning - piece addressing this very thing:

A Major Backfire – Is the Canadian Financial and Banking System in Serious Trouble as a Result of Their Attack on Private Bank Accounts?​

Has there been a massive exodus of capital out of the Canadian financial system?​

Spoiler: Piece Text

A few obscure but interesting data-points seem to indicate Justin Trudeau’s unprecedented use of the federal government and intelligence apparatus to target the bank accounts of Canadian citizens has just created a serious problem for their financial institutions.

If I was a betting person, I would bet half my stake that something very serious is happening in the background of the Canadian financial system, and it appears the leaders inside government, as well as leaders in the international financial community, are reacting and trying to keep things quiet. Stick with me on this and stay elevated…

BACKGROUND – When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he was invoking the Emergency War Measures Act to seize bank accounts and block access to the financial system for people who were arbitrarily deemed as terrorists to the interest of the Canadian government, i.e. the Freedom Protest group writ large, many people immediately thought about the consequences of a government taking such action.

Indeed, the first response to many who witnessed the gleeful declarations of the Canadian government as they expressed their intent to utilize their emergency power, was that this was seriously going to undermine faith and confidence in the Canadian financial systems. The RCMP is the Canadian equivalent of the FBI.

If the government can work with the RCMP to target people based on an arbitrary political decree, and then control your bank account while simultaneously giving financial institutions liability protection for their participation, the confidence in the banking system is immediately undermined.

What might seem like a great tool for political punishment has long term consequences, especially if people start withdrawing their money and/or shifting the placement of their investments to more secure locations away from the reach of the Canadian government. Considering the rules of fractional banking and deposits, it doesn’t take many withdrawals before the banks have serious issues.

DATA POINTS – In addition to being Justin Trudeau’s deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland is also the Finance Minister of Canada. Yesterday, a very twitchy, nervous and gasping for breath Freeland was noted in a very agitated state when she attended the press conference of her boss. Factually you can watch the video and see how stressed she was and incapable of keeping herself stable [SEE HERE].

Watch that video from the perspective that someone in the international financial world, IMF, World Bank or other affiliate in the world of collective finance has just had a very serious talk with Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.

♦ Shortly after that very awkward performance, Finance Minister Freeland’s assistant deputy, Isabelle Jacques, informed a parliamentary committee that all bank accounts frozen by the federal government’s use of the Emergency Act, were immediately being unfrozen.

( VIA CBC ) – […] More than 200 bank accounts worth nearly $8 million were frozen when the federal government used emergency powers to end a massive protest occupation of downtown Ottawa. Federal officials report most of the accounts are now in the process of being released, a parliamentary committee heard Tuesday.

Isabelle Jacques, assistant deputy minister of finance, told a committee of MPs that up to 210 bank accounts holding about $7.8 million were frozen under the financial measures contained in the Emergencies Act. (read more)

Obviously, many people realized from the outset what the Canadian government had done was tenuously legal at best, provided no legal due-process or right of challenge, and likely would not pass any serious legal scrutiny. Unfortunately, in the echo chamber that is far-left liberalism, such matters are not as important as the ideological political motives; but there are people who realize the consequences of power-lust in this application.

Without a doubt, just as you were likely stunned, amazed and then angered by the financial punishment declared by Trudeau, there are people aligned with Trudeau –outside his government– who could see a bigger picture of consequence than those inside the echo chamber.

Central banking finance ministers around the world obviously would pay close attention to what Trudeau just announced, and there are certainly people in the World Economic Forum (WEF) group, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and central bankers who would not be happy about the Canadian government showing just how easy it is to snatch money out of the hands of citizens.

These tools of citizen control are things well known to the central bankers and control agents of finance, but they are never spoken about in polite company – let alone publicized, promoted and openly bragged about.

Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland essentially broke the financial code of Omerta, by highlighting how easy it is for government to seize your bank accounts, credit cards, retirement accounts, insurance, mortgages, loan access and cut you off from money.

Worse yet, the short-sighted Canadian government via Minister Freeland announced their ability to control cryptocurrency exchanges in their country and block access within a financial mechanism that exists almost entirely as an insurance policy and hedge against the exact actions the government was taking.

♦ A very nervous Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland, appears with Trudeau to talk about Ukraine.

♦ Freeland’s underling, Deputy Minister Jacques, is simultaneously telling parliament the bank accounts are being unfrozen.

♦ The CBC then reports that RCMP officials are taking a 180° reversal in position, about asset seizures.

Then there’s this supportive data-point from Jordan Peterson (Direct Rumble Link):

Is the Canadian government now experiencing a serious financial problem as the result of Trudeau and Freeland’s totalitarian lust for power and use of finance to crush their political opposition?

Apply Occam’s Razor here and the result is akin to: ‘How couldn’t they“.

Once that tool is deployed, there’s no putting the toothpaste back into the tube.

A Major Backfire - Is the Canadian Financial and Banking System in Serious Trouble as a Result of Their Attack on Private Bank Accounts? - The Last Refuge

Has there been a massive exodus of capital out of the Canadian financial system? A few obscure but interesting data-points seem to indicate Justin Trudeau’s unprecedented use of the federal government and intelligence apparatus to target the bank accounts of Canadian citizens has just created a...

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[Hippopatumus]

So what's the deal? Combined with speculation that there will be "unfreezing" of bank accounts occurring, the digital ID being announced, and now seemingly the Senate showing more reservation than the House did, is this Parliament attempting an about-face wherein I would expect within a week to hear Trudeau say, "If you like your bank, you can keep your bank."

I'm guessing they got more pushback than expected from their team, in addition to some panicked phone calls from banking executives who are seeing widespread account liquidation.

 

[A Logging Company]

It was also explained that the Chinese consider it a benefit that they expect all this infrastructure to last less than 25 years, as construction generates more GDP. Somehow rebuilding roads and bridges constantly will make them all rich.

And they wonder why they are on the verge of a debt crisis.

 

[mold]

I'm guessing they got more pushback than expected from their team, in addition to some panicked phone calls from banking executives who are seeing widespread account liquidation.

yeah people who actually run the financial system are trying to tardwrangle members of the political class whose total lack of experience with reality has once again led their mouth to write checks that their countries' ass cannot cash

this is such a regular feature of current year it needs a pithy name

 

[Sperghetti]

It was also explained that the Chinese consider it a benefit that they expect all this infrastructure to last less than 25 years, as construction generates more GDP. Somehow rebuilding roads and bridges constantly will make them all rich.

Isn’t this the reasoning behind the “ghost cities”, too? It’s like they can’t grasp the idea that these things need necessity behind them, and instead, the idea of urbanization is just sort of an underpants gnome scheme to them:
1. Build thing
2. ???
3. Profit!