Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
It's unfortunate. There's some great architecture in DC.
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It's unfortunate. There's some great architecture in DC.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Bravo!
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
79% of Israelis see no problem in starving Gazans. www.newarab.com/news/poll-ne...
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
If god exists, it is time for her to listen to our prayers.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
#TourismUSA
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Poilievre has no ideas. He's very good at complaining, though.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Cuban Americans left Cuba because it is socialist. Many have no problem with American-style predatory capitalism.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
"Antisemitic" means criticizing Israel's genocide. That's not a bad thing.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Special envoy apparently doesn't care about nazis. Her unwritten mandate is to silence criticism of Israel's genocide.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Israel tries to buy off opposition politicians. This isn't about antisemitism. This is about Israel wanting complicity in its heinous acts.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Lynching.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
So this is what schadenfreude feels like.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Just stop the genocide
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
We're making our own.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
They should be out raking the forests.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
He could say "They are two women who love each other". Not that difficult, really.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
They should be out raking the national forests.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
They should be out raking the forests.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Shomrim reeks of threat, like ICE. Look at them. This is not Neighbourhood Watch.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
It's not about Jew hatred. It's about Israelis slaughtering Palestinians.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
ooops
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Canadians first.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Canadians first. If we have some left over, we might sell it to foreigners.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
You're advocating for extermination?
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
In another incarnation, she supports vigilantes.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
"Screw the courts. I'm a dictator and I do what I want."
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
He's never expressed a single constructive idea. He's very good at complaints, though.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Guns.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Protect yourself. Don't go to USA.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Agreed. Lots of Americans seem to find it difficult to imagine that you can't just waltz in and buy everything you want. As far as vaccines go: Canadians first, of course.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Respectful tourists are always welcome. MAGA hats and MAGA ideas are not.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
You need a Canadian health card to get a vaccine. Once it has been determined there's enough vaccine for Canadians, you *might* be able to pay to get a shot at a drug store. Phone ahead.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Canada's health care system does not operate on an entrepreneurial model.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
--bad link--
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
As MAGA destroys the social fabric and social supports, and spreads cruelty throughout the country, it is inevitable that American crime will increase over the next few years. It's very much about the guns, but it's also about other social conditions.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
You're not my high school teacher. You do this.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
"Biblical landmass" is irrelevant. My DNA shows I have ancestry from France and Italy, but that doesn't give me any right to go to Paris or Rome and murder people so I can take their property. Everybody's ancestors came from someplace else.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Netanyahu needs to be gone, and Ben Gvir, and Smotrich and that Nazi Daniella Weiss.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
PHAC is an excellent agency.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
It's easy to blame their leadership when your side wins and controls the media. History is written by the victors.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
"Good morning, ladies, a-kidnapping we will go."
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Israelis continue to murder Gazans and evict West Bank Palestinians from their property every day. I used to support Israel, but I can no longer support its absolute cruelty. Israelis don't even seem to acknowledge Palestinians as human beings. I have no more tolerance for genocide.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Why would the Arabs agree to giving up half their land? It was a ridiculous expectation.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
These threats are made specifically to women, and the tone certainly implies sexual violence.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Disgusting. Shame on you, America.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
There will be military in every major city by the time 2026 elections come around.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Other countries, including Canada, are ignoring him, at least on trade issues. There's no point in getting all riled up. Once you engage with him, he starts telling lies and changing his mind every 24 hours. We're busy doing other things, like working together without USA.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Better deals are available on Temu or Alibaba.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Gestapo. Such cruelty. And Noem is bragging that there have been 5000 arrests in Los Angeles alone. American society will pay the cost in PTSD and moral injury for decades to come.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
You could say the same but it wouldn't be true. There hasn't been an election in Gaza since 2006. Gaza had a very young population and half of Gazans were born after 2006. They certainly didn't vote for Hamas.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
The problem is that most of the American population is irrelevant and expendable. Appeals to logic and values are doomed to fail.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
That's not a king. That's a dictator.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
There you have it, folks. Trump has just announced that he is a dictator.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
I didn't say that was the reason Israel was chosen. You're deflecting.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
My DNA shows that I have ancestry from France and Italy, but that doesn't give me any right at all to go to Paris or Rome and murder people so I can take their homes.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
@road2lexington.bsky.social You are sliding into ad hominem comments, so obviously you recognize that you have lost the argument. You are now muted.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Anti-zionists hate genocide. Anti-semites hate jews. See the difference?
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
For 75 years, Israel has been murdering Palestinians so it can steal their land. Zero sympathy for Israel.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Anti-zionism is not anti-semitism. We need two different words because they are two different concepts.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
There would be less anti-zionism if Israel stopped murdering all the neighbours.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
You may be in more of a peace-making attitude than I am at the moment, and for that you should be commended. I am a humanist. All humans are equal. No one should be harmed. I don't know how to manage my anger at Israel.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm so disgusted I think Israel should be dismantled, so I may not be a good candidate to contribute to a solution. Israel has never honoured UN Resolution 181, which created Israel and envisioned two populations living equally side by side.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
There hasn't been an election in Gaza since 2006. Half of Gazans weren't even born, so they certainly didn't elect Hamas. I believe you already know this.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Why did you leap to killing all of a sudden???
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Germany was not a democracy during WW2. (Sort of like the USA now.)
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, Americans are responsible for the actions of their government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
The ones wearing yarmulkes are probably jewish.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
The ones wearing yarmulkes are probably jewish.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Every Israeli peace protest i've seen is predicated on the demand for return of Oct 7 hostages. How can feel sympathy for 20 hostages when Israel continues to slaughter dozens of people every single day? And no one ever mentions the 80,000 Gazans who have been murdered.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course, you are correct, and my answer is extreme. I am angry that I ever supported Israel. However, the vast majority of the Israeli population doesn't even think starving Gazans is wrong. Israel is a terrorist state. www.newarab.com/news/poll-ne...
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Other countries have SSRI drugs. They have fewer shootings, because they have fewer guns.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Israel is full of hypocrites and liars and racist bigots who don't even believe Palestinians are human.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
USA has been dumbed down to such an extent that it is being ruled by people who don't even know how science works.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, America, this is who you are. Time to face up to the truth.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Why don't people want to go to DC? It has stunning architecture.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't go. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
USA loves war. No one really needs education or health care anyway. That's just a waste of taxpayer dollars.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
mcc.ca/news/welcomi...
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
I can't understand why no one wants to visit DC. The architecture is amazing.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Israeli supporters always lie.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
That tells me that California has the biggest population.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Billions, not millions. www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
It's impossible to reason with people who support genocide. I have muted both.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Poilievre probably gets support from USA. Another reason he won't try to get a security clearance.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
USA probably supported Poilievre's presser in an American-owned gas station in PEI today.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
He really is that stupid.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Great photo of the Supreme Court bldg. It epitomizes American "freedom".
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
PP standing in front of an American-owned gas station. Tone deaf. Also: He still doesn't have security clearance.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
I just saw a TV street interview where a random American named Idaho as a foreign country. Perhaps we expect too much.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
www.uhn.ca/corporate/ne...
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
PP has no ideas. He's very good at criticizing, though.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Well suited to the trailer trash occupying the WH.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Palestinians have been trying to defend their own land. www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/...
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
RFK Jr is not a scientist. Any questions?
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Hahaha. Sure. If Americans want to believe that, fine.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, Israel is the only villain. Palestinians are defending their homeland. www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/...
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
You can get a much better deal on Alibaba.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
There are over 800,000 Israelis living illegally in the West Bank, in violation of international law. Gaza has been obliterated and Israel is committing ethnic cleansing. Zero sympathy for Israel. It is a terrorist state.
Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 (@charlescooper.bsky.social) reply parent
Israel won't allow foreign journalists to enter Gaza, and murders Gazan reporters. 75,000 people have been murdered by Israel in 22 months. Israel doesn't care about murdering civilians. Zero sympathy for Israel. www.nature.com/articles/d41...