Recent content by Akka

The greatest curse and blessing of democracy : it always gets the leader it actually deserves.

It's hard to argue that Bibi isn't leaning national ultra-right and ordering military war crimes. Doesn't make the Iran regime any better regardless.

Seeing Palestinians getting massacred by a fascist regime (which is downright factual) has little to do with rambling about Israel invading Iran, though.

I guess if we are stupid/ignorant enough to forget that Germany was actually invading and genociding Russians, while Israel is doing targeted (if messy) individual asassination, has no army in Iran and has two whole countries separating it from Iran, then yeah it's equivalent. Also if we are...

Talk about throwing stones when living in a house of glass.

This is becoming a (badly) hidden military takeover.

--- It's not really a double standard when it's just about taking degree into account, though. "We need glucose but not too much" is not a double standard. The problem here is that the underlying principle is simultaneously used as the main argument while being denied as unacceptable - and when...

There is also something called "degree". Not all bias is equal, nor in equal amount. CNN and Fox News are both biased, but I'll certainly not say they are equally biased.

Not that I disagree with any of the facts here, but you seem to not realize they are actually just furthering my point. All your arguments are about explaining why such merger would completely change the situation in Canada for current Canadians, with altered politics, new values, etc. - but...

Damn, that was too quick. Let's hope Donald is, for one, like himself, and hold a grudge.

Are you saying that people from a nation are legitimate in refusing the entry of people who want to moves there to improve their life ? Because I'm pretty certain I was told that was not the case and it was all bigotry or somesuch. Well yes it's different in that they already have a culture...

What I meant (and expressed pretty badly in retrospect) is that he's not "going at it the wrong way", he's not going at it. He's just using it as a pretext because the pretext is popular.

It actually doesn't sound really silly that reactionaries tends to get "created" by reaction. (of course it's not really "creation", rather a slow aligning with certains ideas, but I don't believe it happens spontaneously out of nowhere by mere coincidence) He's not "punishing employers of...

Wow, that's pretty racist of you here. Are you really saying you object with your country getting a large influx of foreign population ?

*sigh* Not really. Or to be more precise, only in the "self-fulfilling prophecy" way, which isn't really the gotcha you seem to think it is, but kinda the exact opposite.