JohnnyCanuck

That all being said, it's probably bad optics for Carney right now. It's probably in his interest to delay this until after the election.

Absolutely. The Chinese ambassador pretty much said that too by saying that Carney's current stance is a posture for election... Basically giving Carney room to flip the other way after the election without China holding a grudge. At least, that's how I read it.

Yes, I absolutely think we should prioritize deals with the EU. I think this is the perfect time for it. I worry that it won't be enough to make up for the US though and we'll need other deals to make up the shortfall.

This really feels like a huge opportunity for Canada. But I don't know enough on this to argue for making a deal with China - or against it. This is all just spit balling and I'm ready to be set straight!

I mean I know Carney has come out against China on a number of things, calling them a geopolitical and foreign interference threat. I think he also mentioned their human rights record in the past. Does that change if we increase or decrease trade with them? I genuinely don't know. Can we exert more influence over China if we work with them? Can they do the same to us? The timing of this particular announcement is interesting. It seems like they find PP more desirable than Carney....

When you look at progress in tech, science and space, China really looks to have a lot of momentum and is poised to take over leadership in these areas. I would hate for Canada to be left in the dust because we hitched ourselves too tightly to a collapsing America.

Maybe we can make an automotive deal with China that helps our own industry? Diversifying away from the US seems interesting.

It would certainly piss off Trump if we made some big trade deals with China.

Not if it's a Pixel 6 Pro!

Sigh. This was already explained by someone else. It's called cynical sarcasm, (or bitter sarcasm, rhetorical provocation, hyperbole, provocative irony, etc.) It's meant to express outrage by drawing an extreme comparison, not agreement with it. The "just made" phrasing is part of that - they don't actually think history was undone and revised, and its a bit disingenuous or outright obtuse to interpret it that way.

Maybe you're misunderstanding DarkCloud's comment? DarkCloud is not saying Hitler was right. DarkCloud is saying the Israeli supreme court just ruled that Hitler was right, and that doing that is completely fucked up. Which I think you agree with.

A bit clickbaity.

Reminiscing about his childhood in the Pennsylvania city on Tuesday, Biden said, “I remember pulling in, pulling into the parking lot and I had never seen– I had never seen hardly any Black people in Scranton at the time, and I was only going on fourth grade, and I remember seeing the kids going by, at the time called colored kids, on a bus going by.”

He recalled, “They never turned right to go to the Claymont High School. I wondered why, asked my mom, ‘Why?’ She said in Delaware they’re not allowed to go to school, in public school, with white kids.”

Emphasis mine. He was trying to make a point about how they were treated differently.

Yes, but I'm saying the algorithm for layoffs factors in "performance", which can be factored from past bonus allocations.

The algorithm isn't going to lay off 150's, but might preferentially select 100's.

I don't have inside info, I'm just making assumptions that the data has to come from somewhere.

Based on how this has gone somewhat viral, it seems like a lot of people are having trouble with it.

I skipped over it at first too, but was suspicious of the language and when I saw CWWN described as "authoritative" I stopped reading and started trying to figure out where it was coming from lol.

Look above that. It says the full text is a reprint from a Soviet newspaper. The line you're quoting as being confirmation comes from a Russian/Ukrainian newspaper, not the CIA. The hint is the "authoritative" in the description of "Canadian weekly world news".

SUBJ*SUBJ: PAPER REPORTS ALLEGED EVIDENCE ON MISHAP INVOLVING UFO

TEXT TEXT: // ((REPRINT FROM THE NEWSPAPER TERNOPIL VECHIRNIY: "COSMIC REVENGE" -- FIRST PARAGRAPH PUBLISHED IN BOLDFACE)) ((TEXT ) AFTER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV DISSOlVED, IN 1991, THE KGB TOP SECRET INTELLIGENCE ADMINISTRATION, A lOT OF MATERIAL FROM THAT DEPARTMENT FOUND THEIR WAY ABROAD,' IN PARTICULAR TO THE CIA. AS REPORTED BY THE AUTHORITATIVE MAGAZINE CANADIAN WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, *U.S. INTELLIGENCE OBTAINED A 250-PAGE FILE ON THE ATTACK BY A UFO ON A MILITARY UNIT IN SIBERIA, THE FILE CONTAINS...

If you mean "confirmed" in that it shows that the CIA knew this article had been written and kept a copy, then yes.

Or if you mean they are confirming the contents of the article, well yeah, I guess they are confirming that this russian(?) newspaper wrote about an article some tabloid rag wrote, then yeah, I guess that's true, too.

But if you're saying they're confirming the contents of whatever the Canadian world weekly news might have written, then no, not by any means is this file a confirmation of that.

CWWN made up a story that involved soviets; Ternopil Vechirniy picked it up and wrote their own piece on it; the CIA kept a copy. That's it.

Uh, Canadian Weekly World News was like the Inquirer. Edit: maybe I'm remembering the name "The Inquirer" wrong, but in any case it was tabloid schlock

This is a made up story from the 90s.