RaiderOfALostTusken
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RaiderOfALostTusken
6mo ago
All I could think about was if a ended with a musical dance number praising Abe Lincoln, Roosevelt, Grant, every american hero with big statues of guns, it would be the most conservative movie ever made.
I thought it was fun!
RaiderOfALostTusken
7mo ago
Your story feels like one of my favorite Mr. Bean bits where he has to write a test - down to the material neurosis to the doing the wrong test. I'm sure you've seen it but if not
RaiderOfALostTusken
10mo ago
I'm fine with separation but only if we become a part of the USA. A landlocked province would be disastrous, no?
RaiderOfALostTusken
10mo ago
Essentially this took place about the time Donald Trump was elected. It coincided with an inevitable election that we knew was going to be called. Trudeau (polling at catastrophically low numbers) dipped out, and Mark Carney took over the (floundering) Liberal Party. He successfully pivoted and ran on a very nationalist campaign (in opposition to USA/Trump), successfully outflanking the previously ascendant Conservative Party. Rallies were full of Canada imagery, flags (a hate symbol during the trucker protests), colors. He invoked concepts of monarchy, John A McDonald (previously, a genocider). And the NDP (our leftist party) collapsed enough to hand him the victory. (Cons only win if the left is split).
Canada exists as a nation only in opposition to what happens in the states. We have very little national identity to begin with - funny that the old rich white guy who won the election by tapping into boomer nationalist fervor was a liberal, but these are strange times.
RaiderOfALostTusken
10mo ago
It's even worse - we had our flags at half mast for like 6 months because a ground penetrating radar found "disturbances" under ground. We now know it was roots, rocks - no excavation has or will take place.
The whiplash from "celebrating canada day is evil" to "elbows up! I love Canada!" has been a lot to take in
RaiderOfALostTusken
11mo ago
I like "stop the count!" In the context of sports, I use it uncommonly
I still think that Justin Trudeau might be a Castro. There was an attempted debunking, but i read a debunking of that debunking and, well, how hard would it be to get a little Trudeau DNA and a little Castro DNA? A rich person could surely do it.
I am sort of fully in on the "certain things get invented to ruin bad SEO". Like this recent "Dubai Chocolate" fad. Surely it was started to detract from certain nasty scatological rumors about high end treatment of escorts in Dubai. This is along the same lines as Disney creating the movie Frozen to take cryogenic search results away if you looked up famous old Walt rumors, aka googling Disney Frozen no longer takes you to snopes.
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