If that’s true, then they’re dumbasses too.

I’m not sure who you are letting influence you about what Palestines want. But they would certainly prefer democrat’s ME policy over Trump’s. It’s that simple.

Luigi time!

That was great. I wonder who made it?

I can live with that.

Patient walks into a psychoanalyst’s office and asks, “So, how does this work? Do I just lie on the couch?” The psychoanalyst responds, “Actually, it works much better if you tell the truth.”

With proportional representation, the liberals would likely form minority governments for the foreseeable future. Small groups would be king makers. Except they wouldn’t - all they’d do was cause the government to fail and then a new election would again always give us a liberal minority.

You may not think they did. But they did - then they dropped it, which was weak, I agree. I’m not sure proportional representation is all that great, but he should have followed through with a referendum.

Not really what happened. Trudeau and the liberals wanted preferential ranked ballots as election reform. They formed a committee to do research and establish facts on this. The committee said they’d never get it off the ground. The other parties, and other players wouldn’t accept it and it would be a disaster. They didn’t want proportional representation, so they gave up. Their messaging was terrible, but they would have gone with ranked ballots if they thought it would be reasonably doable. It wasn’t, so instead they concentrated on other things.

Hell yes. Power to the people … so long as my Amazon delivery doesn’t get delayed (/s)

Yeah that sounds bad. But it’s completely untrue. Like the skin on a knuckle? Haha. If you have to make up stuff why even bother? Conversly, if your dick is really like a knuckle, you should really see a doctor about that.

It creates stability which is good for the economy. And Canada needs that.

Mainstream approval is kinda important to win elections. It would be great to have a more progressive dem in power, but if it means they lose the election it doesn’t help. That said, as much as I hate it, a white old man is what’s needed to win. One with a face of compromise, but a desire to root out corruption, play hardball with the previous administration cronies. One that can frame progressive ideology within economic prosperity. And one that will pushback hard on Isreal without calling for its destruction. It’s a tough balance. And the progressive left would still probably fuck it up and give power to the right,

Yes but they’re victims of crime too. So even if the absolute number of crimes goes up with immigrants, citizens will each experience less crime.

Sushi is raw fish. Cookie dough is raw cookie. And some people eat raw cookie dough as a thing; there are cookie-dough ice cream flavors, for example.

I think the mechanism in question is more on the brain side. Where certain sets of nerves are processed, if some are missing that area of brain simply adjusts the input strength of others. I suspect adult amputation is different from amputation of a newborn since the brain elasticity is so different. But all we can do it make educated guesses anyway since we can’t do controlled experiments. Studies involving watching brain activity can only go so far to really reflect experience. So we can’t know. I’m just pointing out that the common sense approach you indicated isn’t matched by some clear data. So it’s not cut and dry. It could even be that men circumcised at birth experience more sexual pleasure.

Solution: We give trump to Iran as a show of good faith, let them torture him to death. Remove the US military from the area. Start paying reparations for damage to civilian infrastructure and supply humanitarian aide immediately. Cut all funding to Isreal until they back off completely from Lebanon, Gaza and wb (remove all ‘settlements’), and allow all aid into Gaza.

There’s plenty of signals coming from the nerve bundles in the area. Phantom pain seems to need larger sets of nerve bundles removed/unstimulated. Is s not fully understood, but that seems to be how it works. People who lose fingers often do get increased sensitivity on other fingers and they can also get phantom pain.

It’s bribes / pay to play. People lose as a way to funnel funds without traceability.

The brain is weird and whacky the way it works. It has a sort of auto-gain. The less nerve stimulus over time leads to a higher sensitivity of remaining nerves. Often when people lose a limb, they still feel pain in it - the lack of nerve signals causes the remaining nerve endings to be amplified so much that despite not even having pain receptors, the noise signals are perceived as pain. So a human growing up with a cut forskin simply adapts and the brain perceives more sensitivity from the other nerves to produce the same levels of sensation.