Politics

[Brent in Az]

Not good...pushing the cashless society.....wonder if international cards will have same limits....

New Banking Regulations: Card Withdrawal Limits Changed Starting From May 15th – Here’s How They Impact South Africans

New Card Withdrawal Limits - Starting May 15th, 2025, new banking regulations issued by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will change the

www.ipiafrica.org

Cashless society. Social credit scores. One world order. Mark of the beast(666).
They start by controlling our ability to buy and sell.

 

[WAB]

Approximately 46% of US citizens have a passport.
70% of Canadians do. That was my point. And facts confirm. If o it want to tilt at that particular windmill, have at it

By your numbers, 98m Americans traveled. Out of 340m
30m Canadians traveled. Out of 40m

The math is left as an exercise to the reader, as the old, before the fancy new curriculum, schoolbooks used to say.

I'm not sure it's the damming indictment that you imagine it to be.
And I certainly don't dispute that there is a preventative of Americans that are well traveled (look at the forum we're on). But to claim its a norm is folly.

I'll cut through the chaff and ask directly, do you believe that the average American is as well educated or informed on international matters, or as well traveled as their first world Canadian or European counterparts?

My position is that they're not.
Demonstrably.

I agree with you on this. When we moved to the US we were shocked at how ill informed most Americans were at events occurring outside their borders. This site is an obvious exception as most of the Americans represented here are well above the norm. The average Canadian is much more aware of international events and tends to travel far more.

I like to joke that the average Canadian is very well informed on international issues but does nothing about it, while the average American is clueless but is going to solve the problem anyway.

 

[Red Leg]

This site is an obvious exception

Not entirely.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

I like to joke that the average Canadian is very well informed on international issues but does nothing about it, while the average American is clueless but is going to solve the problem anyway.

I’m going fishing again at midnight and me and the skipper argue politics to past the time on the water if you feel your ears burning it’ll be because I used the above.

 

[mdwest]

Longest sniper shot in history? A Canadian took it..

That used to be true.. but not any longer…

Viacheslav Kovalsky of Ukraine holds that record now… 3800 meters on a Russian during the current war…

The previous record was held by Canadian JTF2 sniper Dallas Alexander… 3500 meters… who now lives in the US (Nashville)… he doesn’t have a whole lot of good things to say about the Canadian military and what it’s become these days.. he cites wokeism, political correctness and other liberal policy changes as the motivation for him leaving the Canadian military.. he’s pursuing a career in country music these days…and appears to be making some headway…

Also key to note..he trained extensively with US SOF and Tier 1 units prior to making that shot.. as most JTF2 personnel do…

FWIW JTF2 is an excellent unit.. everyone I’ve worked with that spent time there were solid, professional, highly capable soldiers..

But they get a lot of support from their US and British (and Aussie and Kiwi) counterparts… with dwindling Canadian budgets I suspect JTF2 relies more on those relationships than ever before to remain mission ready and capable..

As another aside, the International Sniper Competition for 2025 just concluded a few weeks ago… 9 of the top 10 teams were US military…South Korea took 10th…the Netherlands took 12th…Sweden took 14th.. Ireland 16th.. Denmark 27th.. Brazil 28th…UK 31st.. Germany 34th…

Canada attended.. but didn’t place…which is a huge shame.. the Canadian SOF guys have historically done really well at that competition…

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1074811728010626&id=100064454272005

 

[Brent in Az]

Thanks to DOGE, a news outlet is claiming that the IRS has lost almost one third of it's auditors.
This, after Biden hired an additional 67,000 agents to go after all of us, small business, and waitress tips.
Cry me a river.

 

[Brent in Az]

I’m going fishing again at midnight and me and the skipper argue politics to past the time on the water if you feel your ears burning it’ll be because I used the above.

If you don't catch anything, Im sure you'll be back around to blame it on Trump, and the MAGA faithful.

 

[WAB]

That used to be true.. but not any longer…

Viacheslav Kovalsky of Ukraine holds that record now… 3800 meters on a Russian during the current war…

The previous record was held by Canadian JTF2 sniper Dallas Alexander… 3500 meters… who now lives in the US (Nashville)… he doesn’t have a whole lot of good things to say about the Canadian military and what it’s become these days.. he cites wokeism, political correctness and other liberal policy changes as the motivation for him leaving the Canadian military.. he’s pursuing a career in country music these days…and appears to be making some headway…

Also key to note..he trained extensively with US SOF and Tier 1 units prior to making that shot.. as most JTF2 personnel do…

FWIW JTF2 is an excellent unit.. everyone I’ve worked with that spent time there were solid, professional, highly capable soldiers..

But they get a lot of support from their US and British (and Aussie and Kiwi) counterparts… with dwindling Canadian budgets I suspect JTF2 relies more on those relationships than ever before to remain mission ready and capable..

As another aside, the International Sniper Competition for 2025 just concluded a few weeks ago… 9 of the top 10 teams were US military…South Korea took 10th…the Netherlands took 12th…Sweden took 14th.. Ireland 16th.. Denmark 27th.. Brazil 28th…UK 31st.. Germany 34th…

Canada attended.. but didn’t place…which is a huge shame.. the Canadian SOF guys have historically done really well at that competition…

Precision, Grit, and Glory: 2025 International Sniper Competition - SOAA

At Fort Bragg, the world’s top snipers went head-to-head in the 2025 U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) International Sniper Competition. Over five intense days, 21 elite teams from U.S. Special Operations and allied forces pushed their limits in precision shooting, fieldcraft, and...

soaa.org

I need to get a report written on the long range school @cbvanb and I just attended. By far the most impressive system I have seen for first shot kills at distance.

 

[BSO Dave]

I got to say you never fail to disappoint Dave, I’m glad your here you give view into the mind of the maga faithful.

Even though your reference to "MAGA faithful" is meant to be a slight or a half-assed inference that the MAGA ideology is some sort of extreme cult mentality, I wear it as a badge of honor...

I was of the MAGA ideology long before Trump came into power and coined the phrase... The thought of making America great again is actually one of the most patriotic aspirations any real American should have regardless of party affiliation... Anyone, left or right, that blindly and unconditionally opposes everything Trump does even if it is against their own self-interest tells you everything you need to know about them... The problem here in the U.S. is that the true extremists and communists of the democratic party no longer share those basic, common-sense aspirations. ... Their aspiration is supporting fantastical, utopian ideologies at the expense of turning America into a 3rd-world shithole via race baiting, wealth redistribution, identity politics, open borders, the abolition of the rule of law & law enforcement, and the poison of DEI policies...

Luckily, a small majority of Americans are not ready to allow that to happen just yet... If MAGA dies and the left regains control, America dies along with it albeit a slow, painful death...

 

[mdwest]

I need to get a report written on the long range school @cbvanb and I just attended. By far the most impressive system I have seen for first shot kills at distance.

Would love to read it!

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

If you don't catch anything, Im sure you'll be back around to blame it on Trump, and the MAGA faithful.

And if I make a fortune tomorrow I’m sure you’ll be here to give trump all the credit.

 

[Brent in Az]

And if I make a fortune tomorrow I’m sure you’ll be here to give trump all the credit.

Nope. If you make bank on a good haul, I would be happy for you.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Nope. If you make bank on a good haul, I would be happy for you.

It’s not likely to happen but i honestly appreciate the sentiment, we’re 2-3 degrees of water temperature away from much moving. It’s real a moot point anyway we make our years wages in December if we happen to catch a few weeks of warm water in the spring it’s gravy.

 

[CJW]

That used to be true.. but not any longer…

Viacheslav Kovalsky of Ukraine holds that record now… 3800 meters on a Russian during the current war…

The previous record was held by Canadian JTF2 sniper Dallas Alexander… 3500 meters… who now lives in the US (Nashville)… he doesn’t have a whole lot of good things to say about the Canadian military and what it’s become these days.. he cites wokeism, political correctness and other liberal policy changes as the motivation for him leaving the Canadian military.. he’s pursuing a career in country music these days…and appears to be making some headway…

Also key to note..he trained extensively with US SOF and Tier 1 units prior to making that shot.. as most JTF2 personnel do…

FWIW JTF2 is an excellent unit.. everyone I’ve worked with that spent time there were solid, professional, highly capable soldiers..

But they get a lot of support from their US and British (and Aussie and Kiwi) counterparts… with dwindling Canadian budgets I suspect JTF2 relies more on those relationships than ever before to remain mission ready and capable..

As another aside, the International Sniper Competition for 2025 just concluded a few weeks ago… 9 of the top 10 teams were US military…South Korea took 10th…the Netherlands took 12th…Sweden took 14th.. Ireland 16th.. Denmark 27th.. Brazil 28th…UK 31st.. Germany 34th…

Canada attended.. but didn’t place…which is a huge shame.. the Canadian SOF guys have historically done really well at that competition…

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1074811728010626&id=100064454272005

Don't worry @Tubby’s Canteen we'll start another war so you can regain the record.



That's a joke btw.

 

[CJW]

I was just reading a discussion on reddit about Canadians traveling abroad. The concensus was that lots of Canadians do indeed travel abroad because it's cheaper and just as time consuming as traveling within Canada. Also, most respondents said they have either never traveled outside their home province, or to maybe only one or two others. Makes sense.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Don't worry @Tubby’s Canteen we'll start another war so you can regain the record.



That's a joke btw.

Excuse me if I don’t laugh

 

[Tundra Tiger]

"The fact that you cannot differentiate between serious policy issues and Trump's trolls is an intellectual deficit."

Because I possess the cognitive ability of rational thought I can look at Trump's frequent tirades and recognize those as behaviors exhibited by Kindergarteners - not adults - and also recognize that as the leader of the free world he should be more circumspect and not resort to trolling. His juvenile bullying rants come across to me as an intellectual deficit.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Oxfordcat , many here on the political thread have strong feelings, beliefs. You make some valid points. On your “what is a conservative” topic. I think people move in and out of different definitions and levels of liberal and conservative . For example people look at Teddy Roosevelt and think (staunch conservative) was actually turning into a social liberal. He had many liberal
Leaning ideas. Not left how we view the left now. But how I wish the Democrat party would return to.


Also
Many on AH are the Alpha in their respective local circles. So we tend to think our way is the correct path.

But, It’s not a good idea to argue with mdwest or RedLeg regarding world affairs. Someone may catch them on the back foot occasionally or off guard. But on average they are a wealth of knowledge and add a lot of value to these discussions.

 

[Brent in Az]

Dick "Douchebag" Durbin, has asked the DOJ and FBI, to investigate the anonymous pizza deliveries that have shown up at Judges homes, as well as some of the Judges families.

You just can't make this stuff up

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Dick "Douchebag" Durbin, has asked the DOJ and FBI, to investigate the anonymous pizza deliveries that have shown up at Judges homes, as well as some of the Judges families.

You just can't make this stuff up

your going to have to explain why that’s a bad thing? I don’t know the political leanings of dick Durbin.

I’m not sure why you wouldn’t want that investigated? Someone is sending a message to judges that they know where they live and their families live. Those pizzas could have been envelopes of harmful chemicals.

I freely admit I could be miss reading this one and am seriously asking for an explanation, but wasn’t mailing anthrax a thing for awhile? Fentanyl is supposed to be readily available and highly dangerous even through skin contact.