Wtf is wrong with you Ontario? I thought you guys were mad at Doug Ford, and now you’re preparing to vote for crypto-Pierre?

Tell me your didn’t watch the video without telling me you didn’t watch the video.

This thing where Jews are being deplatformed for criticizing Israel must be called out as antisemitic.

Fast track the recognition of the credentials of foreign trained healthcare professionals. Do it yesterday!

Of course not. But I’m not a Bulgarian voter that needs convincing. I’m someone who believes in the European project. I’m on your side. And I am pointing out that the other European countries are not doing enough to make the case to Bulgarian voters. Pro-european forces in the Balkans need a win. Calling the voters a basket of deplorables is not a winning argument. Getting Austria and the Netherlands to stuff it and finally accept BG and RO in Schengen is.

It’s politics, not a morality play.

And then when you satisfy the requirements, Austria or the Netherlands will change them to make sure you don’t get in so that X right wing populist can placate Y régional election. This happened.

So, Putin stooges will then stand up and say that the European promise is all a lie. And they will be sounding reasonable, whereas the pro European ones will be looking like idiots who gave faith to a false promise.

Western Europeans have not treated the east Balkan countries fairly. This undermines the European project. I’m not saying anything bizarre.

When you string people along for decades and still deny them entry to Schengen, are you actually surprised they are a bit alienated from the rest of you?

Taxes or guillotines. Pick one.

Raise taxes on the rich.

Related issue: Canada has ridiculous barriers to recognizing the credentials of foreign-trained health professionals. So we are increasing the demand for healthcare without increasing the supply. There is zero reason a more open approach, such as in the UK for instance could not be taken.

This thing you’re doing, calling the ANC communists, that’s an apartheid era white Afrikaner thing.

Lol, this guy here just wrote off South African history of struggle against apartheid and of Palestinian solidarity as “allies with Russia”. Mandela, Tutu and others have spoken out on the Palestinian issue. Israel was one of the only countries cozying up to the apartheid regime and used those ties to develop its nuclear arsenal. The lawyers involved in drafting the ICJ submission are summits of anti-apartheid litigation. Israel has a long history of making Putin-like statements denying the existence of a Palestinian people. And yet, here we are FrooBooteR69 made the call: “SA is grandstanding to score points with Putin”. I mean, roflmao, dude.

Trudeau : we must double down.

Doubling down on what? Inaction??

It takes a very fearful settler mentality to interpret “will be free” as “murder the Jews”. In particular the kind of mentality that would write something like “the establishment of a “Palestinian State,” jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population” (same manifesto).

On the other hand “between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty” is very very explicit.

Talking points? I don’t know. When someone says who they are, believe them.

For sure. I will scream fuck Hamas until my voice goes hoarse.

The problem is the grey zone where it there is no clear line. Is using the word “genocide” crossing a line? Is using a rhetorical inversion of that line from Likud’s 1977 manifesto (“from the river to the sea”) crossing a line? Is “free Palestine” crossing a line? I don’t think so. But the article has examples like that.

Awesome!!

There are two entities that embrace “from the river to the sea” politics and that employ war tactics that kill innocent civilians : (a) Hamas and (b) Israel.

So I don’t know what the fuck these MPs are going on about. If we want to condemn genocidal and eliminationist rhetoric and war crimes, this Israeli government is guilty and so is Hamas.

The only legitimately moderate party in this conflict is the Palestinian Authority, which stands firmly on the Two State Solution position.

Arguably, after these many thousands of deaths, we can call the “retaliation” part of the equation satisfied.

Maybe if the NDP actually put forward an inspiring social democratic program that goes beyond “we will negotiate with the liberals to save you some money per year”…