I don’t need to, because my grandfather ran up the beaches of Normandy and fought all the way to the German border, alongside Brits and Americans. But the good Americans, not like you. My country has a proud history of fighting fascists, and we actually participated in both world wars from the beginning unlike you guys who showed up years too late, and then spent the next century bragging about how you won the whole thing. You have no concept of suffering during war. In fact you got a golden ticket after WW2 to tune the global economic system to give you every advantage, so I look forward to the moment of realization when you no longer have the dollar standard and all your TBonds get sold off. You might have to actually pay your debts rather than printing money and spending it all on military hardware to enable your foreign corporate adventures.

Your question was rhetorical and I already explained that he is skilled and experienced in the exact fields required to navigate an economic war. But clearly I need to be specific for you, so economics, banking and actually running two national banks.

I assume you will not fight, and you will not even contribute, but instead sit back and complain about things you don’t understand. Just try not to get in the way of the people who are fighting and who are contributing.

Ok now do economic levers and Arctic warfare capability of Canada + EU. And maybe think beyond the initial invasion.

Have you really thought this through, or did you just add up planes and tanks on one side vs the other?

Bring it on then champ. Nothing will hasten the downfall of American shitpumps like yourself more than going to war with half the world. And if you do, you might as well just hand the keys over to China. I mean you’ve pretty much guaranteed they ascend to world superpower already by shooting yourselves collectively in the dicks, but frankly it would be nice to see it happen in my lifetime.

Hope you live in a northeast state, I look forward to when we cut all your power and you have the distinct pleasure of freezing to death in the dark.

Cheers!

I suspect you have puddle-deep insight into global economic dependencies, the fragility of the US economy, the EU + Canada Arctic warfare capabilities, and the likely outcome of an invasion of a northern neighboring country that looks like you, sounds like you, and can hide in plain sight or hop over the indefensible border to bring violence to your homes. The US has no concept of a war that impacts their home country, and dropping some hardware and troops in a country on the other side of the planet, in a country with no economic connection to the US, is not the same thing. Even when the enemy has different skin and vastly different culture and language, they still end up leaving after decades of slaughter having accomplished nothing but huge debt for taxpayers, huge profits for oil companies and defense contractors, and piles of dead Americans.

So, to you I say - do it. Shit or get off the pot. Nothing will hasten the downfall of the shittiest form of America quicker than trying to go to war with the world. You are fighting for treasure, we are fighting for survival. And don’t be surprised if the strategy is to pretend to be humbled before Trump, who is incapable of seeing when he’s being manipulated, in order to slow play and draw out the inevitable internal and economic collapse.

I’m ready to sacrifice and fight for this country. I was in the reserves and I’m reapplying even though I’m nearly at the age cap. What are you doing? You seem to be itching for war and the fracture of the country. I’m going to be pragmatic about this instead…I’ve gone through my beliefs on all of it many times, and still go in and out of righteous anger, but I temper it against reason.

Unfortunately for you, I’m not part of the left that thinks we need to burn the whole thing down, and thankfully for me, my beliefs align with the majority.

I’m fairly certain I know far more about these topics than you do, but no I’m not willing to discuss them with you. I see where you’re coming from. Cheers!

I don’t have serious discussions with anyone who sincerely believes in American exceptionalism, just like I don’t have serious discussions with fascists. I am particularly disinclined to have any discussions with an American fascist who clearly has no respect for my country or the former alliance we had with the US. My country has literally bled for you ungrateful pricks, among many other contributions over decades, and I can’t think of a single thing you’ve done but bully us.

Discussing with your camp is never in good faith. You don’t believe in words, and there is no evidence or argument that is acceptable. It’s a waste of time to bother. Thankfully I believe you’re not representative of good Americans, who seem to have had enough of this bullshit.

By the way you should know your insults mean nothing to me. I’ve been called worse things by better people than you (I’m sure that’s a low bar to clear), and I’ve seen who you look up to. Get back on your knees for your orange daddy, maybe this time he’ll finish in your mouth.

I’m not convinced the NDP are going to be able to navigate this, and I say this as a past NDP voter.

Carney has skills and experience in exactly the fields and jobs suitable for where we find ourselves right now. Frankly, I trust him over the opinions of a random internet stranger. And, without knowing anything, I expect that our best strategy is to slow play all of this as much as possible, so he’s going to get a lot of leeway from me on economic and foreign policy even though my response would be far more emotional and extreme. Since I know nothing and have no access to information, this is why I’m glad I’m not running things… And why I’m glad you’re not either.

Currently confirmed Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, Finland, UK. Canada has apparently announced but it’s not clear if it will be troops or diplomatic - I hope troops. Finally, Netherlands is possible but not fully confirmed.

Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Canada have substantial combined Arctic warfare capability.

You’re a moron.

Yep, all targets

This part is particularly silly:

while you’ve been letting Americans see your playbooks (hell, write your playbooks) for the last 60 years.

Do you believe that other countries have been training alongside Americans for decades and have never picked up any knowledge of their skills, methods, strategy, tactics, doctrine, weapons, etc? Never learned anything at all about how Americans fight? The Americans are the most visible military on the planet, and the most gregarious, they’re in every country and training with all of these countries, and somehow no one ever figured out how they do it?

To add to this, the US is not that great in the Arctic. To occupy Greenland they need boots on the ground, and they are not equipped or manned to do Arctic land operations. EU + Canada surpass them in that. The US only has the one airborne division that are actually cold weather fighters. They also have far fewer ice breakers and the additional units that they were going to buy from Finland (who makes the best ones in the world) will surely be canceled.

I wouldn’t bother, there is nothing to suggest this person is interested in seriously engaging on this topic. For example they seem to think the number of civilian owned firearms is a determining factor, when it hasn’t even helped the US to avoid fascism in their own country.

I don’t think you’ve thought very deeply or very seriously about this.

Americans and traitors, the latter of which may include MAGA Canadians. There are currently an uncomfortable number of them (including cops, I suspect) that haven’t figured out that announcing your treasonous intentions all over Facebook and Twitter just makes it easier for everyone to know who the enemy is when conflict breaks out. And as the state is usually predisposed during conflict, traitors are typically dealt with by the mob…and the mob has a far less nuanced and humane view of justice.

These MAGA Canadians think it’s an edgy joke.

Hard to believe the (viable) alternative is worse.

For the elimination of doubt, let’s just forget everything I’ve said and give me a concise statement of what you believe to be true regarding AI, specifically large language models.

The discussion is irrelevant. The tech has released, it’s accessible, and as is the case with every technological disruption, you’re not putting the toothpaste back into the tube. We can’t undo the industrial revolution or any other technological revolution.

Which is why I recommend familiarizing yourself with it, recognizing strengths and weaknesses, and upskilling. Or swim on the back side of the wave, as many others have done in the past.

It will change the world in some way, you’re not obligated to change with it.

Edit if you feel the discussion is relevant, I’d like to understand your suggestion as to how to address the challenges or concerns you raise.

Edit 2 I do have quite a few suggestions about how the technology should be regulated, and how new systems need to be created, but I’m curious what your thoughts are.

Joe…?