• @JamablayaOP
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    -162 months ago

    No. It isn’t. I don;t know why it is so hard to distinguish that the country is the government, The people are just people.

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      Because that’s simply not true. A country is not its government. Look at literally any revolution in the entirety of human history and that’s an obvious fact. The peoples, the cultures, the social norms that give a country the distinct feel that defines what it is survives beyond any given government.

      The Canadian government works for, or at least is supposed to work for, Canada. It is not Canada in of itself. I’m so sorry that you feel so disenfranchised that you seem to believe otherwise, but we collectively decide what out country is. No elected official gets to decide it for us.

      • @JamablayaOP
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        -62 months ago

        This one is. We don’t even have a culture, they made sure of that.

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          You’ve got a lot of vague disdain for the state of Canada, but offer next to nothing when it comes to specific issues. Who is “they,” and what culture is it that you perceive “they” have taken from us?

          • @JamablayaOP
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            -32 months ago

            Gee. I wonder why that is. Maybe I’ve explained at length and you’re kinda fucking stunned to be asking that at this point.

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              You certainly have not explained anything beyond showing a vague hatred for the government, and a deeply held belief that they’re somehow responsible for killing any sense of a national body. Perhaps you’ve explained yourself in detail in another conversation, but I was certainly not aware of it.

              Maybe I can ask more directly: What do you think makes Canada uniquely Canada? Ignoring the whos, whys and hows, what do you believe we have lost, culturally speaking?

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                  32 months ago

                  I guess I just assume you’re a troll and move on with my life. At least I can say I tried to understand. Have a good one.