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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Clickbait headline and first paragraph

    Begin met with Biden, and vague reports described some sort of angry exchange. Begin’s recollections of that meeting were reported at the time in a mainstream Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Aharonot. Some of the details of what Begin recalls Biden telling him are genuinely shocking, but they seem to now be largely forgotten in Israel — especially a hypothetical Biden floated about the United States bombing cities in Canada. “If attacks were launched from Canada into the US,” Biden remarked, “everyone here would have said, ‘Attack all the cities of Canada, and we don’t care if all the civilians get killed.’”

    It seems really clear it was an argument against using an absurd example.





  • Gordon Berry, the founder and leader of the Save the Children Convoy, recently gave a speech at the convoy’s Casselman base camp where he advocated jailing police and politicians, replacing Canada’s system of government and referenced themes associated with QAnon conspiracy theories.

    You’re not “guilty by association” when you’re officially representing a group calling for treason and sedition. You’re just guilty of treason and sedition.

    And fuck Arnold Viersen, the guy should lose his status for inviting known extremists to parliament for not reason other than causing a disruption.



  • The mortgage stress test should have helped with this, but I also think banks took advantage of locking people into obscene debt that they realistically shouldn’t have been able to do. The evidence of that is new private mortgage insurance that all the banks favoured because the CMHC thought too many buyers were too risky.

    Banks also took on a lot of correlated debt by turning a blind eye to buyers using leveraged assets to secure additional mortgages. Correlated debt is bad, it’s the thing that turns your risk analysis models into piles of dog shit.











  • If you only look at it as “the ends justify the means” and ignore the slaughter of hundreds of families, sure.

    What happened to Palestine over the last 80 years isn’t just or fair, but what happened last week sure as shit was not okay or reasonable. It’s not something to be encouraged or cheered on or supported, and it’s not something that they should call for here or anywhere else to make up for past injustices.

    What Israel is doing now should be stopped (blocking food and water and medical supplies, forcing a million people out of their homes under an unrealistic timeline, and the bombing the designated exit route), but that can all be said, even discussing the plight of Palestinians, without praising fucking Hamas and calling them brave.