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u/SuperCharged2000 · 1 pointr/metacanada

VI. Logrolling and Vote Trading


The public choice concept of ‘ logrolling ’ denotes the exchange of favors among the political factions in order to get one’s favored project through by supporting the projects of the other group. This conduct leads to the steady expansion of state activity. Through the ‘quid pro quo’ of the political process, the lawmakers support pieces of legislation of other factions in exchange for obtaining the political support for their own project. This behavior leads to the phenomenon of ‘legislative inflation’, the avalanche of useless, contradictory and detrimental law production.

VII. Common Good


The so-called ‘ common good’ is not a well-defined concept. Similar terms, such as that of the ‘public good’, which is defined by non-excludability and non-rivalry, misses the point because it is not the good that is ‘common’ or ‘public’ but its provision when this is deemed more efficient by collective than individual efforts. However, this is the case with all goods and the market itself is a system of providing private goods through cooperative efforts. The market economy is a collective provider of goods as it combines competition with cooperation. Any of the so-called ‘public goods’, which the government supplies, the private sector can also deliver, and cheaper and better as well. In contrast to the state, the cooperation in a market economy includes competition and thus not only economic efficiency but also the incentive to innovate.

VIII. Regulatory Capture


The term ‘ regulatory capture ’ denotes a government failure where the regulatory agency does not pursue the original intent of promoting the ‘public interest’ but falls victim to the special interest of those groups, which the agency was set up to regulate. The capture of the regulatory body by private interests means that the agency turns into an instrument to advance the special interests of the group that was targeted for regulation. For that purpose, the special interest group will ask for extra regulation to obtain the state apparatus as an instrument to promote its special interests.

IX. Short-Sightedness


The political time horizon is the next election. In the endeavor that the benefits of political action come quickly to their specific clienteles, the politician will favor short-term projects over the long-term even if the former bring only temporary benefits and cost more in the long run than an alternative project where the costs come earlier and the benefits later. Because the provision of public goods by the state severs the link between the bearer of the cost and the immediate beneficiary, the time preference for the demand for the goods that come apparently free of charge by the state is necessarily higher than in the market system.

X. Rational Ignorance


It is rational for the individual voter in a mass democracy to remain ignorant about the political issues because the value of the individual's vote is so small that it makes not much difference for the outcome. The rational voter will vote for those candidates who promise most benefits. Given the small weight of an individual vote in a mass democracy, the rational voter will not spend much time and effort to investigate whether these promises are realistic or in a collision with his other desires. Thus, the political campaigns do not have information and enlightenment as the objective but disinformation and confusion. What counts, in the end, is to get votes. Not the solidity of the program is important but the enthusiasm a candidate can create with his supporters and how much he can degrade, denounce, and humiliate his opponent. As a consequence, election campaigns incite hatred, polarization, and the lust for revenge.

u/woodenboatguy · 2 pointsr/metacanada

I know why everyone is so excited. There's only a couple of copies available at the Guelph library.

For your convenience, here is where you can get your own copy - and at a great price! Published May, 2016. Thanks dead-guy author for coming back to bring us the new adventures of the man in the yellow hat!

>It's the first day of Ramadan, and George is celebrating with his friend Kareem and his family. George helps Kareem with his first fast and joins in the evening celebration of tasting treats and enjoying a special meal. Then, George helps make gift baskets to donate to the needy, and watches for the crescent moon with the man in the yellow hat. Finally George joins in the Eid festivities to mark the end of his very first Ramadan.

Lovely book to share with the kids while fasting!

u/Numero34 · 2 pointsr/metacanada

>If a four year old decides one day that they're a "Demi-gender Transmission-fluid Omni-Xoy", and the parents try to straighten the kid out, the state will take the kid away from the parents?

I just started reading this book A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America

and the author mentions that the Boomers upbringing was different than previous generations with the use of permissive parenting, which was encouraged by Dr. Spock

From his wiki

>Addressing the connection between pediatrics and political activism, Spock responded in 1992:

>>People have said, "You've turned your back on pediatrics." I said, "No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics."

Sound familiar.

Excerpt:

>The Common Sense Book treated every imaginable topic, but its core injunctions were always the same: that parents rely on their own instincts and accommodate children’s needs wherever reasonable. In a radical departure, the Common Sense Book even strove to comprehend a child’s worldview from the perspective of the child himself, a task conservatives viewed with apprehension. In the preface, Spock stated that his “main purpose in writing [his] book was to help parents get along and understand what their children’s drives are.”6 Older traditions could not have cared less about understanding a child’s motivations.

>...

>Part of Spock’s relative leniency came from his radically optimistic views on human nature, his belief that children would grow up well so long as their parents provided a good example. Spock wrote that “discipline, good behavior and pleasant manner… You can’t drill these into a child from the outside in a hundred years. The desire to get along with other people happily and considerately develops within [the child] as part of the unfolding of his nature, provided he grows up with loving, self-respecting parents.”7 Two thousand years of parenting experts would have disagreed; parents most definitely could drill habits into a child, with the notion of relying on a child’s good nature to achieve the desired results being the very definition of insanity.

u/kayjewlers · 1 pointr/metacanada

Canadians might not have an identity now but that has not always been the case. Before 1971 Canada, of course, had two main groups Anglos and Quebecois.

Quebecois to this day have a strong identity because they are a largely a distinct ethnic group. While the original Quebecois did emigrate from France, the women who colonized Quebec had a huge birthrate of 5.6. With little immigration after the 1760 "The population of New France ... was almost wholly a native born population and distinctly Canadian." SOURCE

The English speaking population of Canada, while more reliant on immigration is still defined by common ancestry. Nearly all of the non-francophone immigrants came from the British Isles or the British colonies in America. In fact the largest non-British immigrant group from 1760-1815 was Germans with a measly 1500. SOURCE

You are correct that I have no right to choose the credentials that determine who is what nationality. However, Nations are and have always been defined by heritage, by DNA. I hope my assumption, that you support cultural nationalism by rejection of heritage, is correct and I will continue as if that is the case.

Lets assume that only culture defines a nation and that everyone who behaves Canadian is Canadian. Certainly is uncontroversial to assert that a person's personality influences their behavior. Well behavior is, in no small part heritable SOURCE. At the very least I hope you can see that ethnicity, nationality, DNA have an impact on culture. If you take into account that the environment a child is raised in is chosen by their parents, then the effect of DNA on culture compounds.

If you insist that only culture defines nations please answer this: If Nations are defined by culture and values, what values should Justin Bieber adopt to become Chinese?

u/Strangeteeth_ · 1 pointr/metacanada

Not really interested in doxxing myself but I can tell you from first hand experience, education, training, and work in the field of medicine, what you are saying is completely incorrect.

Children are exposed to hundreds of antigens everyday, exposing them to 26 different antigens over the course of 6 years is the equivalent to adding a drop of water to an Olympic sized swimming pool. Alternate vaccine schedules aren’t recommender by any health organization. anti-vaccine theories and “science” is one of the most widely debunked subjects in medicine, every single study has been debunked by per review. Flat earth, moon landing conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers all use the same tactics to justify the beliefs they hold. It’s pseudoscience

This is a list of resources from the scientific community, public health officials and immunologists. They all agree on this stuff, it isn’t questionable science.

https://www.publichealth.org/public-awareness/understanding-vaccines/vaccine-myths-debunked/

In particular I’d like to direct you to this quote
> Myth #5: Better hygiene and sanitation are actually responsible for decreased infections, not vaccines.
Vaccines don’t deserve all the credit for reducing or eliminating rates of infectious disease. Better sanitation, nutrition, and the development of antibiotics helped a lot too. But when these factors are isolated and rates of infectious disease are scrutinized, the role of vaccines cannot be denied. One example is measles in the United States. When the first measles vaccine was introduced in 1963, rates of infection had been holding steady at around 400,000 cases a year. And while hygienic habits and sanitation didn’t change much over the following decade, the rate of measles infections dropped precipitously following the introduction of the vaccine, with only around 25,000 cases by 1970. Another example is Hib disease. According to CDC data, the incidence rate for this malady plummeted from 20,000 in 1990 to around 1,500 in 1993, following the introduction of the vaccine.

WTO
https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/95/10/17-021017/en/

Health Canada
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/vaccination-children.html

Book written by vaccine scientists and Pediatrician
https://www.amazon.com/Vaccines-Did-Not-Cause-Rachels-Autism/dp/1421426609

Joe Rogan interviews the books author Peter Hotez
https://youtu.be/dodsGp37M50

I could literally spend the day linking you study’s, reports and books that have all held up to the peer review process but it’s pointless because you won’t care, the information isn’t something you care about, you aren’t coming at this topic objectively.

u/redpillobster · 3 pointsr/metacanada

You have really great focus, decent analytical ability and decent writing skills. If you stopped wasting your time on Reddit and put your life in order, you might actually find something more fulfilling than trolling subreddits where you don’t fit in.

I used to be a lot like you. I’m much happier now. I recommend you start where I started:

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Changing-Magic-Tidying-Decluttering-Organizing/dp/1607747308/

https://youtu.be/kjMRTC5EiQE

Good luck!

u/Rosalie8735 · 2 pointsr/metacanada

I think you touch on several very salient points and that your concerns have a lot of merit. Who cares that your post was long, it took me 2 mins to read. You can see in the comments you're already getting some pushback on these ideas. People care about them and they're absolutely worth discussing.

Here's a few things that explore the topics you've touched on further:

Sex:
https://youtu.be/aWM4bJNpch0

Religion:
The Face of God by Roger Scruton

Culture:
https://youtu.be/bHw4MMEnmpc

The aim of Conservatism is to, quite literally, conserve:

>"Progress may be either good or bad, depending on what one is progressing toward. It is quite possible, and not infrequently occurs, that one progresses toward the brink of a precipice. The thinking conservative, young or old, believes that we must all obey the universal law of change; yet often it is in our power to choose what changes we will accept and what changes we will reject. The conservative is a person who endeavors to conserve the best in our traditions and our institutions, reconciling that best with necessary reform from time to time.
source

I am not sure whether you will find any of the above links useful but regardless, don't let people bat you down for questioning these things or thinking they're of concern. There's plenty of people who care about this too, we've just stayed rather silent for too long.

u/thelasian · 1 pointr/metacanada

Just a reminder that this is Bullshit.

Netanyahu also claimed that the Palestinians had advised Hitler about the Holocaust only to be smacked-down by actual scholars

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/world/middleeast/netanyahu-saying-palestinian-mufti-inspired-holocaust-draws-broad-criticism.html?mcubz=1

Many Middle-Eastern peoples liked to see Germany rise up and challege the British Empire not because they had Nazi sympathies but because they wanted to not be under British colonialism

Furthermore many Western govts collaborated with the Nazis too, the British king used to go there and give the Nazi salute to Hitler, and there was a large and popular Nazi party in the US


In fact the US and Canada turned away Jewish refugees, while Iran welcomed them

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005267

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007498

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10008210


Furthermore Zionists actually collaborated with the Nazis to promote immigration to what would be Israel
https://www.amazon.com/51-Documents-Zionist-Collaboration-Nazis/dp/1569804338

u/BigSnicker · 1 pointr/metacanada

> You just confirmed your attitude that you are in the right before you even begin.

That's how debate works. You have to start with a position. Sure, I always do it confidently and clearly sourced... but honestly a home run is when I find someone smarter than I am who can teach me things about the subject that I didn't know. It happens and it's happened here.

> This schtick is getting pretty old don't you think?

Long as I'm still learning, it'll stay fresh for me... and the only place you can really learn is outside the echo chambers.

The people who stick to echo chamber circle jerks just get their biases and blind spots reinforced until they disappear into a post-factual world (not coincidentally, almost the name of the interesting book I'm just starting). Not my thing.

u/TrollaBot · 1 pointr/metacanada

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u/Jack-in-the-Green · 6 pointsr/metacanada

Well just take a look at some of their Pulitzer Prize award winning journalists...

https://www.amazon.ca/Stalins-Apologist-Walter-Duranty-Timess/dp/0195057007

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u/woke_sikh · 5 pointsr/metacanada

I understand most Canadians would not know much about the history of india and sikhs during the 80s. But IN MY OPINION the attack was carried out by the Indian government as a false flag during a time when Sikhs were being killed in india. There is a reason that Sikhs have migrated out of india in such large numbers. They did not feel safe in their home state located in India.

The book linked below (not written by a Sikh) goes through the discrepancies in the investigation and how the Indian government had a role to play in the attack. The Canadian government could not rightfully blame the Indian government for the attack due to international politics.

There is no call for violence in the Sikh religion. Historically Sikhs have only ever taken up arms for self defense. The idea of Sikh extremists is absurd and was a narrative pushed and still pushed by India.


https://www.amazon.com/Soft-Target-behind-disaster-Second/dp/1550289047

Product Description

A provocative look at one of Canada's biggest tragedies 

On March 16, 2005, almost twenty years after one of the biggest mass murders in Canadian Aviation history, the Air-India Case concluded with a verdict that authors Zuhair Kashmeri and Brian McAndrew predicted sixteen years ago when Soft Target was first published: not guilty. 
In this second edition, the two offer a detailed foreword that brings readers up-to-date with some startling new information surrounding the twin bombings on June 23, 1985 in the air over the Atlantic, and on the ground in Japan, which left 331 people dead. They offer key details from the trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri that took place in a specially-built Vancouver courtroom, leads that were not followed up, and more details of India's intelligence service's clandestine interference in Canada. They explain how their own prediction that justice would not be found because of a botched investigation came true, and that only a public inquiry will offer closure to the families of the victims.

Review

Praise for the first edition: 
"There is much documented and useful information in Soft Target, which often reads like a spy thriller. The authors weave Sikh politicians, RCMP officers, CSIS agents and Indian consuls into a fascinating story." ( Calgary Herald) 

Praise for the first edition: 
"The book deals with a difficult subject and does so honestly and painstakingly. ... Its strength is that is presents the results of its investigations. Unless these are refuted, or some one comes up with a more credible explanation of these events, the book would remain as the most useful document on the subject." ( Ottawa Citizen)

About the Author

ZUHAIR KASHMERI is an award-winning journalist and author. For more than a decade, he was a reporter for the Globe and Mail. He is an editor, writerand broadcaster and lives in Toronto. 

BRIAN McANDREW lives in Toronto where he is the environment reporter for The Toronto Star. Originally from Niagara Falls, he has won several awards for his environmental coverage, including two from The Canadian Science Writers' Association.

u/asuras1357 · 3 pointsr/metacanada

"Why Men Earn More" by Warren Farrell, PhD

A self-described feminist wrote a reasonably unbiased book exquisitely sourced... on why 'Men Earn More'. The book sums up 25 reasons.

> Farrell clearly defines the 25 different workplace choices that affect incomes–including putting in more hours at work, taking riskier jobs or more hazardous assignments, being willing to change location, and training for technical jobs that involve less people contact–and provides readers with specific, research-supported ways for women to earn higher pay.

Source: Cato Introduction to 'Why Men Earn More'

Because the man is a feminist, he also adds prescriptive lessons for how women can earn more. However, by the end of his book, it becomes clear that there is more than mere misguidance that leads to the pay gap. Men and women make different choices, have different temperaments, and different desires for sociability, which all make them unlikely to heed the author's advice. This is discounting the tail-end men who put in absurd hours and years of commitment to rise to the top of their respective industries, wherein this inclination is far less often seen with women across cultures.

u/irwin08 · 2 pointsr/metacanada

Wait this is actually a thing? Oh good god. I may be wrong but doesn't most of the democratic world have a similar system where a party can be elected with a majority? In fact the first government ever elected in Canada was a majority! It certainly wasn't and still isn't a one party state.

u/aSLJDGHASDf · 3 pointsr/metacanada

>It must really befuddle mass migration proponents that are usually also environmentalists. They have to pick a side: mass migration, or a cleaner environment.

Not for most of them. Most lefties don't actually care about either issue, they just want to be "on the right side of history". Since they don't care about either issue, they never think about either issue, so no cognitive dissonance.

For those who are interested in how the environmental movement which openly stated population control was the #1 issue in the 70s was co-opted by immigration proponents at the expense of the environment there's a really good book about it:

https://www.amazon.ca/Man-Swarm-Overpopulation-Killing-World/dp/0986383201/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=man+swarm&qid=1572178268&sr=8-1

u/RenegadeMinds · 1 pointr/metacanada

And one fellow wrote the book:

https://twitter.com/PeterTownsend7

https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Islam-Investigating-Wests-Dangerous/dp/1533336008

Got it in my cart right now, but waiting to find another book or 2 so I can get the free shipping. :D