Those comments. Liberals think they're so witty. 😔

Wouldn't be surprised if the US uses all this to block Chinese ships coming up the Red Sea, trying to weaken and provoke China before the BRI is quite ready to properly supplement the sea trade with overland trade. Then pincer Chinese sea trade via it's SEA vassals, hoping to deter Egypt and SA from following through with joining BRICS. Subtly and slyly, of course. The US already has a presence in the Med. I don't want to get carried away but this could be the spark for a rather large fire. Especially if there neighbours get involved.

Remember to be saving your receipts (screenshots, pdfs). There's going to be a lot of 'editing' as this goes on. Like we saw with Ukraine.

It's like Michael Hudson wrote his book about imperialism to show how bad it was and they used it as an instruction manual except Orwell's wasn't an accident.

The mind boggles.

learn history

Good advice.

I don't think it's that clear cut.

It's subservient to the US. Like provinces were to Ancient Rome. More complicated and technical, perhaps. But it's all one empire.

Seems to be, but it'll take a long time to go completely. It's easy to over estimate the speed at which these things happen.

I don't understand what you're trying to say.

This is a little ahistorical.

So the creators of AI learned nothing from Asimov. First rule, never harm a human. Who tf programmed this to be allowed to dox someone on the basis of incomplete information without any judicial oversight. So much for the liberal rule of law. Even threatening to dox someone is potentially harmful. Did the creators of this not consult lawyers?

I'm a little skeptical that the screenshot is real, though.

Absolute tragedy.

Grassy Narrows was the site of mercury dumping for nearly a decade after 1963, when a paper company released more than 20,000lb of mercury into the Wabigoon and English river systems. … A single gram of mercury is sufficient to make all fish in a 20-hectare radius unsafe for consumption – but the Grassy Narrows dumping was 9m times larger.

A corporate crime on the grandest scale. The paper doesn't say whether there were any repercussions. Meanwhile…

For years, Grassy Narrows has battled the provincial and federal governments to have their water system cleaned. In 2021, the federal government agreed to fund a $C90m “mercury care home” to help those living with the effects of poisoning, a project that faced repeated delays.

How long do you think the delay would be if it concerned the families of the government officials 'responsible' for cleaning the water or building the care home? So much for transparency and accountability in Canadian government.