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Kinda early to speculate, but I was a bit concerned about the Argo kickoff return, but the Bomber D looks to have settled in and picked up where they left off.

I think the 1% now have the same attitudes towards the average person as did the nobility of the middle ages who, in their opinion, ruled with absolute power by divine right. There was and still is an attitude that the masses are disposable and useful only so far as they serve a useful purpose.

Agreed, but if you have been living a bloated lifestyle for generations, why would anyone believe its coming to an end?

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If we persist in this mad, destructive pattern of consumption and unchecked population growth, sooner or later Mother Earth will hit the reset button. The obscenely rich are gambling that they will be able to insulate themselves from this.

Agree. The Stumps tried to let the Als back into the game, but Adams had little time and his receivers had dropsies.

Still a Thor-ax. So there.

Switzerland and Iceland are two current examples- both socialist democracies.

And, to be anatomically thorough, below the waist are what are referred to by the medical profession as "naughty bits"

Now you've gone and ruined it.

If you were paying attention, you would know that a thorax is a cleaving tool wielded by a mythological Norse god. You would have seen it in the "Endgame" movie. And the Bomber should not take the Argo-nots lightly. I am expecting a much tougher game today from them.

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I am NOT a libertarian- that works only in small, tribal communities. I can agree that there have been societies and governments (almost the same thing) which have tried to institute a socialist government but instead have degenerated into dictatorships, but I believe that right-wing parties and governments have been shown repeatedly by history to be far more probable to become autocratic. The prevailing attitude of right-wing adherents is that they know what is best for everyone and have given themselves the right to manipulate, lie and rule by fiat. The most stable and enduring societies are both democratic and with strong socialist policies and practices. Disagree. Societies defined by individual or group greed have inevitably imploded.

Plus a whole armory of stuff that ought to serve the Taliban well in Iraq, which will be the next stop in their tour.

Democracy is still the best form of government to date, if you assume that we need government. As Winston Churchill said, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other forms". Socialism and democracy are or rather, should be, mutually inclusive. Capitalism does not need democracy and several American industrialists have said that it actually a detriment to their goals. Monocultures in both agriculture and societies lead to stagnation and entropy, and the corollary to that is that societies and thus governments ought to evolve, so long as the welfare of the society takes precedence over the wealth of the few.

I did say that there were downsides to this. Oriental toilets, for example.

But we can take the best of those societal concepts and incorporate them, much as the Japanese incorporated much of western societal concepts but kept much of their traditional culture. Not that all of those traditional concepts were good, but the example is valid, IMO.

There are egalitarian tribal societies where individual greed is suppressed through societal mutual consent. In these societies, the concept of individual proerty is very limited and things that we take for granted such as addiction, poverty, substance abuse, familial violence, mental illness and crime is nearly nonexistant. The sense of "we're all in this together" offsets the sense of exclusion and isolation that are the hallmarks of many modern societies.

Disagree. There are those among us who are driven by self-interest and the desire to aggrandize self at the expense of others, but the vast majority of people are considerate and caring of others. The problem is that thise who are of the first order are abrasive and demanding with little regard for others, driven to positions of power and very noticeable. When you drive accross a city, you do not notice the drivers who are driving according to rules- you tend to notice the drivers who are aggressive.

If I follow your line of thought, then democracy is flawed because it led to Donald Trump- would be dictator. Any system of government can be corrupted, and most have been. Once you get into rigidly controlled, centralized governmental or industrial control of the processes of society, then you have problems. The concepts of Marx/Engels/Trotsky was that local processes ought to be controlled by localized committees and national processes such as manufacturing, defence, resource extraction, energy production, and distribution ought to be under the control of a democratically elected government. Stalin absolu. tely corrupted these concepts. You can argue that it was out of necessity due to the attempted interventions of America (yes, they invaded Russia) and Britain and the looming war with Germany plus the deeply entrenched tsarist interests, but after these were over, things got worse in Russia. Those in power almost always (literally) fight to keep it- one of the few exceptions being Garibaldi in Italy.

He was favouring his throwing hand a few plays back after a pass.

Looks like the Als have the Calgary offence figured out.

Much as I detest his showboating, I would take Wilder jr.

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As of Stalin's rise to power, Russia could no longer be legitimately described as socialist/leftist, thus cannot be cited as an example of socialist extremism.