Matters not, the BQ is still the most proficient at protecting sovereignty. Canada could benefit from using a lot of their tricks and techniques, including their bluster.
Daryl
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No, it is not happening now because of Trump. Trump s happening now because of the way America works. No matter who was in charge, the panic and outcome would be the same. America was at the breaking point, and nothing could have prevented it. Even Obama made that clear. Individually, yes you are correct about 'If I shot''''. The reality is 'EVERYONE collectively in America is doing the shooting, because 'shooting' has become culturally acceptable. So holding the individual accountable for herd action is just insanity. You stop the herd action at the herd level. Changing the action of an individual just does not make a difference in herd action. When Trump is deposed, Vance will be far worse than Trump could ever be. Vance is focused. Blaming Trump just makes it easier for Vance.
The problem is not Trump. America would be in the same predicament no matter who was leading or what party or what ideology they had. Obama hit the nail on the head when he talked about the dangers of financializing America - making money on money instead of making product. A substantia portion of the American GDP has nothing to do with generating tangible wealth, it is a result of inflating paper wealth - the value pf stocks, the price of gold, the value of real estate, the interest payments from other people on borrowed money, interest on your savings account that is only as valuable as the bank that holds the account. None of this wealth can actually buy anything tangible, except more paper wealth. Eventually, the country begins to look like Musk - on paper, enormously wealthy, but in terms of liquid money, unable to buy very much. Musk has to use his paper asset wealth to BORROW real money on, if he wants to do anything big.
Generally, Trump is not alone. All of America is just running around stupidly cuckoo crazy because they realize there is not a single thing they can do to actually stop the decline. They are in pure panic mode, grasping at anything that comes along, and panic is always chaotically unpredictable except for the nature of the outcome.. All they can do is to position themselves individually so that when the country goes 'splat' they have a chance of surviving.
For Canada to avoid the splat, we need to put as much distance between us and the 'splat' as we can, instead of being at ground zero of the impact.
Precisely. Vance will use Trump's erratic behavior as a reason to have him impeached by the mid-terms, and then Vance will fulfill his goal of becoming President.
On the contrary, it just perpetuates the problem. It does not stop the insidious creep, it just pretends it is not there. Like burying one's head in the sand. The trick is to stop it from happening in the first place. Americans are quite adept at doing it in their own country (blocking out and filtering the influences of the rest of the world on their culture) so why can Canadians not do the same thing?
Americans make it so easy to hate them. Part of it is that Americans hate everyone who is NOT an American or American ass-kisser.
Did you know that the University of Waterloo, Canada, is the Western world leader in quantum computing? The trick for Canada is to prevent Google and Alphabet from claiming OUR success stories and accomplishments as their own.
That s the problem. I was desperately hopping that this web site (insrtance?) would be a solution, but t seems that the Americans are so insidious, they will infiltrate ANY website. The solution s not to start a new instance the solution is to police the existing instances to keep the Americans out. As long as the Americans have access, they will dominate, period.
As a Canadian, I am completely resentful that an American would try to tell me what I want my Canadian culture to be. If we want to re-appropriate the term 'woke' and give it whatever meaning and inuendo we as Canadians want, that is fine with me. But to have an AMERICN define the term for us? Not so much. There is nothing wrong with the term 'woke' that getting rid of white supremacy will not solve. The irony of this s that the rest of the world has to be woken up to this realty before this will happen.
An interesting tidbit to highlight my point. The first incandescent light bulb was patented in Canada, and Edison bought the patent. Still, as Canadians, we recite the US propaganda that Edison invented it. We know more about America than we do about ourselves, (and most of what we know about America is false) because we keep highlighting the US instead of highlighting Canadian achievements, even in a community that is labelled 'Canada'. This would never happen to any site in the US. We need to start promoting CANADA on a site labeled 'Canada'.
For example, the largest IBM manufacturing assembly plant in the WORLD for their semiconductors is in Quebec. How many Canadians know that? Part of the insidiousness, Canadians know more about America than we do about ourselves, and this CANADIAN site doesn't do very much to change that. Most posts on Canadian sites still carry the undertone of American dominance in Canadian affairs and economy.
Absolutely, You have the concept down pat. They are like a 'condom' economy - they give you a sense of comfort, security, and safety while you are being screwed. Except for the 'crowd funded health care' - that is an American hangup.