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Saw a video on Reddit where some MP brings this up and the other MPs laugh and ridicule him :(
Our country’s finance minister was asked about the high price of onions - a key staple in the Indian diet - and she quipped that she doesn’t care because she doesn’t eat onions. Our rulers are cruel, intentionally so.
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Are onions considered vegan in India ? Is it a caste-based dietary restriction?
Where on earth are onions not considered vegan?
Indian "veg" cuisine disallows eggs (unlike western vegetarian) but allows milk (unlike western veganism).
There is also a stricter form in which garlic and onions are disallowed, because they are said to inflame the passions.
There was a time when some Westerners believed similar things, which is how the world got corn flakes. And some other things I won't go into here.
Is the money printing catching up to us? I feel like there has been a huge misallocation of the nation's resources towards top of the pyramid endouvers like gig apps, banks, "tech", estate etc rather than base infrastructure and manufacturing/agriculture. All due to the easy money for these sexy sectors. For a long time.
> I feel like there has been a huge misallocation of the nation's resources towards top of the pyramid endouvers like gig apps, banks, "tech", estate etc rather than base infrastructure and manufacturing/agriculture. Any reason the government allocated it to those endeavors?
Did you want a less boring, more easy to fix reason?
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It's the same logic that allows him to suggest that the "Freedom Convoy" was-- fake, or something. Disinfo? On my HN? It's more likely than you think!
no the freedom convoy scare was fake, he said- and it was. They were labeled terrorists and had donation funds seized. Re 200k/yr down from 1mil was a bit hyperboic, but he literally referenced buying power. Ie what one million got you before has essentially been cut to 1/5. Again hyperbolic but not wrong. Funny that a comment that didn't even properly read the one its refencing is itself disinformation.
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> It's worth remembering that this problem is structural. Canada is what the US would look like if it had no Constitution, Canada has a (written) Constitution. You are probably confusing Canada with the UK, which does not. Same ceremonial monarch (and more purely ceremonial in Canada than the UK), different (though broadly similar, both are Westminster-style systems) system of government. > and the House was supreme:…
>Canada has a (written) Constitution. It is functionally useless in a way that the US one isn't. >Canada has a Senate that can reject and initiate legislation. The operative word being "can"; but in practice the overwhelming majority of legislation makes it through with no change. It's functionally a ceremonial role.
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It's the same logic that allows him to suggest that the "Freedom Convoy" was-- fake, or something. Disinfo? On my HN? It's more likely than you think!
no the freedom convoy scare was fake, he said- and it was. They were labeled terrorists and had donation funds seized. Re 200k/yr down from 1mil was a bit hyperboic, but he literally referenced buying power. Ie what one million got you before has essentially been cut to 1/5. Again hyperbolic but not wrong. Funny that a comment that didn't even properly read the one its refencing is itself disinformation.
>>>>the "Freedom Convoy" scare which was, as far as I could tell talking to friends who live/work in Ottawa downtown, a fabrication by the media - which would explain why it was covered to such great degree. I don't want to turn this post into a conspiracy theory type thing, just calling it as I see it. A nothingburger that was spun for some purpose unknown to me
Fabricated how? Spun how? A "nothingburger"? One can tell this guy didn't actually know anybody from Ottawa. Trumpy dogwhistles without context, without an explanation of what exactly is being called a fabrication or spin or "nothingburger"...
It was covered so extensively because it was a right-wing protest whose goal was to overthrow the sitting government and somehow couldn't receive any attention from the cops (despite functionally shutting down the capital's downtown).
You're disinformation, too -- your role is to make the handwaving and prevaricating sound more reasonable. Reading anything [0] about the convoy's political fallout should make non-extremists see that -- unless CSIS is part of the nothingburger. Maybe they are!!!1
[0] https://www.lavalnews.ca/freedom-convoy-2022-advocated-civil...
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no the freedom convoy scare was fake, he said- and it was. They were labeled terrorists and had donation funds seized. Re 200k/yr down from 1mil was a bit hyperboic, but he literally referenced buying power. Ie what one million got you before has essentially been cut to 1/5. Again hyperbolic but not wrong. Funny that a comment that didn't even properly read the one its refencing is itself disinformation.
Suuuuure. I didn't "properly read it". >>>>the "Freedom Convoy" scare which was, as far as I could tell talking to friends who live/work in Ottawa downtown, a fabrication by the media - which would explain why it was covered to such great degree. I don't want to turn this post into a conspiracy theory type thing, just calling it as I see it. A nothingburger that was spun for some purpose unknown to me Fabricated how?…
Bad faith, bullshit, and disinformation to boot.
Length!=salient points.
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Suuuuure. I didn't "properly read it". >>>>the "Freedom Convoy" scare which was, as far as I could tell talking to friends who live/work in Ottawa downtown, a fabrication by the media - which would explain why it was covered to such great degree. I don't want to turn this post into a conspiracy theory type thing, just calling it as I see it. A nothingburger that was spun for some purpose unknown to me Fabricated how?…
This comment and your previous one are both bullshit ad-hominem. Bad faith, bullshit, and disinformation to boot. Length!=salient points.
Perhaps CSIS is wrong and you are right, because you say so?
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This comment and your previous one are both bullshit ad-hominem. Bad faith, bullshit, and disinformation to boot. Length!=salient points.
But you can't explain what aspects of my claims are "bad faith, bullshit, and disinformation to boot", and you suggest I don't have salient points -- but you can't describe them, and you haven't advanced any. Perhaps CSIS is wrong and you are right, because you say so?
You are a troll and not worth wasting more time on.