Hate speech is pretty narrowly defined. Unless there’s tiny print there that says “kill all the Dutch” you should be good.

So you must be worried about the Americans, then. /s

I mean, not in relative terms, and in absolute terms 0.01% is still quite a lot of money but won’t defend anything.

I know.

You want to rebut the idea, then?

Have a look at the list. Most won’t even get through the top 10 before finding a guy that just quietly enjoys having unfathomable wealth, and that you’ve never heard of.

A few use their wealth for (attempted) good or evil, and they tend to get noticed more. You might know Peter Thiel, but he’s all the way down at like 170th or something.

Usually “I’m an expert” gets followed by “here’s why your question is stupid and I won’t answer it”. Non-powertripping experts just answer the question, or ignore it if it really is dumb.

Mmm, I recognise you. Pretty sure you are.

But sure: Borders are imaginary. True, yes? Then why does crossing them change whether an action is right or wrong.

I have. Even Kapital, through my bleeding eyes. You and me have conversed about it before.

No you didn’t, you basically reached for a canned insult, and then made an unrelated claim about something you’d prefer talking about. If you’re going to be evasive, you clearly aren’t very proud of your ideas, and you’re right that it’s a waste of our time.

He was pretty clearly not just writing about the English proletariat, or the German. Except there wasn’t really a Germany the same way at all at the time, because borders are imaginary.

Well, alright then. He does love a good hype technology for sure.

Yeah, he was expecting there’d eventually be a global revolution… that would disregard borders.

I guess it depends by what you mean by “bad on” in “bad on climate”.

You can dislike how he’s going about it, say how he balances the issue against other things in a specific decision, but he’s devoted a good chunk of his professional life to it and won’t shut up about it in his book, at least to the point I’ve read.

Am I wrong? You definitely can’t see or touch them.

The USSR also initiated a few invasions.

Exciting stuff! Carney said we weren’t on the path to joining the EU early in his term. Maybe this is what he had in mind instead.

We’ll see if Trump is going to respond. If he tries to fight it, a new CPTPP-EU bloc only gets more likely, but if he’s feeling TACO-ish and lets the WTO work he could delay things.

Trump likes words and gestures, and will forgive a lot of somewhat-hostile actions if presented the right way. This is exactly how you fight him.

Why? Borders are imaginary.

Marx knew that.

Yes, but have you considered the world is perfectly split into good and bad guys? /s

OP is Canadian, even. Since WWII we’ve only really fought in the NATO-mandatory wars. Before that whatever Britain was fighting.

Accept. Any war Canada fights before I’m too old is going to be for a very good reason. (Not technically Europe, but we’re trying)

It’s true. We unironically can’t be sure it was all the feckless third world ally making feckless third world military things happen, this time.