Well it’s supposedly hard to do the right thing when doing the bad thing is going to be cheered by your peers and put hefty sums in your pockets
Even if they do give a little of shit sometimes, they’re ready to look the other way.
Being managed by the central bank is a major advantage though. All banks immediately adopted it, and all financial institutions were in on it pretty quickly. In a matter of 5 years it went from “what’s that?” to a guarantee. Brazil is one of the very few places I’ve been where it’s totally practical to never carry a wallet and pix is a major part of it.
I think the real problem with the world right now is aging demographics
Is this even a sensible framing? To seek the one main thing wrong with the world right now?
It's a variation of that silly debate game of choosing "money, sex or power" as the thing that "moves the world".
Did I say otherwise? If you can get in touch with Mr Ahmadinejad maybe yeah you can find someone to answer your question, but still, everything I said stands.
No friendship required to get them to build the fleet we need, just capital
Okay? Point still stands. Would take years to build that capacity. By all means let’s do it, but BC Ferries can’t wait.
some (strongly) believe they should be wiped off the earth. Why?
I don't know if you'll find devil advocates willing to entertain such a hyperbolic frame of reference.
There are people out there who also think that Arabs should be wiped off the earth, but I don't think it's worth asking why. Makes more sense to shun those people off than giving them space for discourse.
I would see this more like that if Rustad actually presented environmental and human rights as the reasoning behind his preference, but we actually know that it a combination of racism and just run of the mill anti-China (from red-scare) because it's Rustad. He never showed signs of caring about China's emissions or Uyghurs or anything else that might actually be valid criticism.
No ship builders in BC presented a bid because they're all busy. So saying that these ships should be built in BC is effectively saying that we should wait for it them to be buildable in BC, and with that you're telling the people who depend on BC Ferries that they'll have to suck it up being served by a derelict fleet because we don't want to do business with China.
This is all pretty silly to be honest. Chinese shipyards presented a bid. They won the bid. That's all there is to it.
That’s how you end up with Fascism
It really wasn’t how we ended up with fascism in the actual instance of fascism so…
they are called coops
No they are not.
Of course coops exist in Canada but it’s not the same thing
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It was definitely something that came out of conversations with Macron and friends. I think it’s a part of closing ties with key figures of the EU, but can’t honestly say if it’s playing out well because the gram of goodwill acquired in the EU has to balance against the ounce of aggression, bullying and pettiness coming from the USA