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YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.

If you’re really gung-ho about it, go and ask a Veteran of Iraq or Afghanistan about it and see what they think. If anyone will know about it they will.

My uncle that served in Iraq still wakes up screaming in the night. He's a shell of the man he used to be. Another vet my age I knew was absolutely erratic after serving. He couldn't hold a job and ended up homeless and assaulted someone for their spot under a bridge.

My whole family bears the scars of the PTSD from what my grandfather saw from WWII. He also woke up screaming for years afterward.

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Could this Lemmy be shut down by bill C18?

Nah, if you look at the text of the bill, it's written to only affect big players: https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-18/royal-assent

This is the relevant text in my mind:

6 This Act applies in respect of a digital news intermediary if, having regard to the following factors, there is a significant bargaining power imbalance between its operator and news businesses:

(a) the size of the intermediary or the operator;

(b) whether the market for the intermediary gives the operator a strategic advantage over news businesses; and

(c ) whether the intermediary occupies a prominent market position.

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Canada has no intent of pursuing free trade deal with China, says PM after Trump threat

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Canadians should not want free trade with China. It's reasonable to protect domestic industries. China has massively invested in their productive capacity; free trade would destroy any domestic Canadian businesses that compete with their Chinese counterparts. Canada should be purchasing cheap factory equipment from China and reshoring lost industries via heavy investment or creating state-owned businesses. But, Canada should also stop cutting funding for its public health system, enact laws to prevent capital flight, and tax big businesses and the ultra-wealthy heavily, and we know that a fucking banker would never do that.

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Trump to Macron: Join 'Board of Peace' or Face 200% Tariffs on French Wine and Champagne

This article is poorly written and the terms are confusing, so just to clarify:

  • There are TWO "Boards of Peace" floating around in the headlines.
  • They were both created by point 9 in the "Gaza peace plan".
  • By "Gaza Board of Peace", the article actually means the BoP's Gaza Executive Board. This seems to be what Trump is trying to extort Macron into joining.
  • The 60 nations, $1 billion permanent seat cost BoP is the top-level BoP that the Gaza Executive Board is under.