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Are you asking us to lie, why would we compromise our integrity by pretending he's not an idiot?

Dont get me wrong, I like when people make themselves miserable by hurting each other. The easiest way to destroy any group is to turn it against itself and watch it slowly devour itself and destroy itself. But I really cant understand why you guys do this. Its like watching those group suicides.

The criticism about Trump is *why* he wants a third term, the answer is because he's actively trying to rewrite our constitution for his own personal benefit.

Seriously, guys... stop insulting Mall. These insults are really only going to turn into an insult fight which no one will win. I dont understand why I am forced to be a hypocrite here just to calm things down.

Proves Trump does not know that adding Canada to the US will be bad for Republicans.

Trump thinks it's totally unacceptable that we buy a lot more from other countries than they do from us. The only thing that proves tho, is that other countries sell stuff so cheap. And, mainly, it shows that the usa has a strong dollar, which indicates its more cost effective to have a negative trade deficit with other countries. Which means our economy is strong. 

Trumps underlying premises r screwed up

Yes, in 2019 A judge ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2 million to an array of charities as a fine for misusing his own charitable foundation to further his political and business interests.

If Canada did become the 51st state, the Republicans would never win another election, Canadians are overwhelmingly liberal. 

Canada has about the same population and leanings as California, so yes, Republicans would, as a party, end. Politics will then be between moderate Californians and Radical Californians. Adding 54 left-leaning Canadian members to the Congress is enough to practically rewrite the constitution. Adding 54 electoral votes for the left means they can win every election with the support of 15 blue states. No swing states needed.

My soon to be wife is Canadian :)

All Canadian arguments against annexation are either rebuttable or emotional.

Did Canada ever beat America?

American armies invaded Canada in 1812 at three points, but all three campaigns ended in failure. One army surrendered at Detroit at the western end of Lake Erie, a second army surrendered at Queenston Heights at the other end of the lake, and a third army withdrew after little more than a skirmish north of New York.

On Thursday, the tables turned. It was Canada that scored first – again – and last. Canada won the game narrowly 3-2, after the US left Connor McDavid, the best player on the planet, open in the slot in sudden-death overtime. He made no mistake.

How about Canadians can concern themselves with their Constitution, and Americans can concern themselves with theirs.

Lets be realistic, over 90% of people from both nations don't have their constitution memorized.

The idea that there must be parity between the two nations is inane.  They are different countries, with different cultures, and different needs.  

The, "Culture" part is vague.  Most Canadians are fluent in English (even in Quebec).  They ARE different countries, however there is no reason why this status quo has to stay this way (NY culture is way more like Ontario culture than NY culture is like TX culture; but NY is with America and not Canada).

For instance, we have the right to bear arms, but in Canada, it's just too damn cold for bare arms.

Guns are not only legal in Canada, but people in Canada are more likely to have guns than I think ANY European country.  

Out of 230 countries worldwide for gun ownership per capita, America is #1 (no surprise), AUS is #51, England and Wales is #127, Scotland is #117.

Canada is #7.

Estimated number of civilian guns per capita by country - Wikipedia

At 37 guns per 100 people, it basically blends right in with the US:

US gun map

Americans are more likely to have multiple guns; but this wouldn't really matter; you can only hold one gun at a time.

Does anyone actually have a reasonable defense of Democracy

That's what I meant by a losing battle. Bad use of the phrase

The problem is when I do, I always end up fighting a losing battle against people like Mall

And since a hunter-gatherer's quality of life is nowhere remotely close to that of even a poor American today, whereas it would've taken them at least several thousand more years to build a modern society in isolation, any value that our ancestors took from theirs must be weighed against the value added by their inclusion into and right to live in the America that the colonial-settler population (and the descendants thereof) built.

Actually it represents creative and sexual energies. Wink,wink.

According to the stats, what they are doing is 485 times more effective than what Mexico is doing, and I know that a trade war with Canada will have absolutely no effect on the problem.

Ok, well I don't think 43 pounds is enough. I think they could do a lot more than 43 pounds on both sides of the border to stop 20 Canadian kids from dying every day.

US Customs does the seizing, not Canada, and they have found that less than one fifth of one percent of the illegal fentanyl comes in through Canada.

I wasn't exactly blaming Canada or the USA, I was just asking you if you thought they were doing enough. Apparently, you don't care enough to answer that question.

Yes, I have, several in fact, and I don't blame Canada because...well, because I'm not a fucking idiot. 

X to doubt.

There is literally no non-rebuttable non-emotional reason for RemyBrown to be opposed to peaceful extradition to North Korea.

This is a bad opinion, but I'll present 1 argument:

1. It would be bad for the US economy to do that.

Canada makes up just 0.2% of US border fentanyl seizures

Yeah, do you think that's enough? Or do they need to seize more?

 Jewish Space Lasers.

All those tens of thousands of dead Canadians can't laugh at your dumb memes.

The poorly educated

Have you had anyone young and close that died from drugs? I have.

Children are banned on debate art.

From the Code of Conduct:

• All users must be a minimum of 13 years of age when creating an account, or older to help comply with any local laws pertaining to Internet usage
  

You can still be under 18 and a user here, you just can't be a pre-teen.

You remind me of this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

Quantum mechanics famously has a measurement problem where physicists debate the extent to which conscious observers determine reality, or if they do because it seems the particles are not there as particles until they are measured or observed by the experimenter which causes the system's wave-function (representing a figurative cloud of probabilities instead of a particle, a manifold of so called superpositions) to "collapse", i.e. being instantly transformed into a classical object now with definitive physical properties such as location and momentum that we can identify, such as a particle, which didn't exist as such until that instant.

Some people have already alleged this could be a way to prove God's existence because God as a universal observer will sustain reality, and a casual web search with the keywords "quantum mechanics god" shows how widespread the idea is.

However it seems to me that the exact opposite is true; because if there was a God who observes reality before or beyond human observers then we wouldn't have a measurement problem at all: the continuous ever-present observation of God would cause all wave-functions to have already collapsed or otherwise all quantum systems would have already decohered before we made our observations

and we would experience a classical world at all times, never detecting a quantum superposition.

The fact that we can cause any quantum system's wave-function to collapse at all is proof that there is no such universal observer such as God. Our observation came first before any other observer, but this should be impossible if there was an ever-present conscious observer such as God.

Therefore, Quantum mechanics implies atheism.

It's not supposed to be. It's real talk that a lot of college students/grads aren't told. OP, I think, is going to be fine, but the mismatch between the average young person's post-graduation expectations and their lived post-graduation experiences is pretty big.

You build a rocket that can do better please. Show him how it's done.

Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down.

Today, March 6, a 40-day boycott of Target kicked off. This event was declared by majority-Black churches in protest of Target's cancelling of its DEI policies. Presumably, most participants will be Black, while at the same time, the average Target customer in Feb. 2023 was "a woman who is 39 years old, White, married, with a household income of $80,000."

https://www.businessinsider.com/typical-target-shopper-demographic-white-millennial-woman-earning-middle-income-2021-7

What are your predictions of the boycott's impact on Target's quarterly profits? What, if any, social ramifications of the boycott do you anticipate?

The bible is what it has become.

Who knows if it is an accurate reinterpretation, transcription, translation of historical fact, folklore or fanciful hypothesis.

Constantine and his cadre of translators were 300 years too late.

So context is unachievable unless the Big Guy does a fly by and puts the record straight.

And I was simply pointing out that modern Christianity and Trinity are clearly of much later European production.

Trinity is a middle English word, derived from the Latin trinitas.

Nothing remotely Semitic or Hebrew about the word.

So clearly made up later by Europeans.

As was most of modern Christianity.

And the US is Canada's arse.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear, as the saying goes.

Well, it wouldn't be the same thing  would it.

And I'm sure that Canada is reasonably self sufficient and well connected enough, to not worry too much about a trade war with the US.

I don't know about your IQ, but mine is 142.

I don't know about your IQ, but mine is 142.

Wow, that’s impressive. This will challenge the idea of “the hard problem of consciousness.” What exactly is consciousness, what causes it, and can humans create it? If we can create it, intentionally or not, is it really that hard of a problem? I remember reading about an experiment where robots were given a program which was designed to evolve and mutate on its own. What resulted were robots which acted heroically and selflessly and others which acted selfishly out of pure self preservation. It was a mind-blower.

The movies which come to my mind which have raised and explored these concepts are 2001, AI, and The Matrix.

I'm guessing that there will be more than one Interventionist Super-Intelligence cruising the Universe.

Possibly three.

Maybe more.

That's what everyone thought about Germany in the 1930s.

Germany didn't have nukes, so they could be conquered.

Khrushchev was right.

 “We will take Americawithout firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy youfrom within”. - Nikita Khrushchev 1956

I think it's underestimated how much leeway America has to screw up and not collapse. The country survived some pretty awful leaders, slavery, the Jim Crow era, Civil War, and basically throwing money in a hole every year. Some things are too big to fail easily.

"Don't tell us what to feel, you are in no position to dictate to us how to feel"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8JU80hBIE

My favorite quote.

I think 5 people will buy the Gold card. How many people do you think will?

I am not basing this off of Trump. Literally every Cold War President knew that compromise is key when opening peace talks with a capable enemy. It’s kind of common sense that when you’re dealing with an opponent who is just as powerful (if not, more) as you, you need to make sure that they feel that they’re getting something out of it, too. If we vote to directly condemn Putin, he’s just going to walk away from the negotiating table. I personally would have abstained, but this vote might be what we need to get Putin to finally be rational and become open to peace talks.