Ah, good old DARVO.

Judges start as lawyers, sometimes defense lawyers. The typical lawyer demographic is also not much like the demographic of the typical cop. And, you can just check for yourself that cops do lose in court.

Well, there’s safe seats elsewhere as well. Saskatchewan is basically the same thing.

Wow, the judge is going to laugh the cops out of court.

It’s less “pick”, and more “always vote mindlessly for the candidate presented”, if you’re thinking of Battle River-Crowfoot. And they complained bitterly about the old guy being forced out.

Poilievre is a product of Ontario politics, otherwise.

The first two are safe seats, though. OP might get their wish, barring more crossings soon.

Labels are stupid, though.

Poor people get sick faster, generally speaking and in the West. It’s the same diseases, though.

In the third world, tropical diseases, diseases of poor sanitation and infant mortality are disproportionately huge killers. On the other hand, if you’re talking about a rainforest tribe, they might be in top shape until they’re ancient, because once they survive childhood they’re basically living the lifestyle humans were designed for.

Yes. The combined effect is maybe not great, though. A news source that just covers everything in proportion to some measure of impact would actually be neat.

A disproportionate amount, anyway. And then there’s homicides that only get covered locally as well, because it’s just some poor person.

Climate change headlines do come through sometimes, when a grim new milestone is reached, or something is discovered that was worse than expected.

Ah yes, cardiovascular disease, which famously has no major risk factors. /s

That’s not why they cover this stuff, they’re not activists.

Yeah, it’s not a conspiracy. They sell clicks, or “public interest” if you want to be generous. It’s just that in doing so, they present a scary, distorted version of the world.

I mean, if you ignore history, the West hasn’t done anything bad ever.

What? Really? I guess it’s in the Elections Act, then.

Yup, checks out. There’s certain ridings and they all have to produce one member, but it doesn’t say how. Wonders of living in a country that wasn’t really a democracy originally, I guess. One member representing each riding limits options quite a bit, but there are proportional systems that could be made to work that way.

It doesn’t mention parties either.

Which isn’t necessarily unusual. It wasn’t a designed part of the US system, for example - if anything it undercuts the original intention of it. Proportional systems have to recognise them at least a bit, though.

Wow, it’s amazing a few bombing survivors could completely change a province of 25 million. That makes this genocide okay. /s

Mind you, Western news tells the story slightly differently

Also a family member of mine who was there several times.

Edit: Maybe I’m misunderstanding your point. You were just arguing against a “everyone against the West is good” guy.

Once the robots are able to maintain and fully operate themselves I’ll be worried (like, massively). AFAIK these are basically an RC car with a gun and some target tracking, though, which isn’t so different from an AFV at a purely tactical level, and actually could be improvised, to some degree.

Civilian rebels not having big supplies of other kinds has proven to be an obstacle, but not decisive. You just move to where the fancy weapons aren’t, and mess with the supply of items and labour they need to keep running.

Out of everything going on, digital surveillance networks seem like the biggest threat to the age of guerillas, by far.

The USSR would have too, if they had any - they weren’t just faking it.

Since you’re clearly just trolling for a reaction now, I may or may not respond further.

I’m not worried about that either. It just comes down to who can produce more and better robots, which is a version of large-scale warfare as it’s been since WWI, at least.

Probably there will be qualitative differences this time, although I can only guess in what way. If it ends up being robots vs. robots maybe war will get less deadly. Then again, some of the WWI artillery pioneers said similar things, and that certainly didn’t work out.

China is on track to achieve this by 2035.

Sure, and Everbody Loves Marineland™. Or some other such marketing copy.

Happy lunar new years. I’m celebrating, you may or may not be, as a poser.