theacharnian

I don't know about "bashing" Canada. I think criticizing the government is the patriotic thing to do when the government is doing shitty things. But I mean, we are in !canada@lemmy.ca not in, for example, !world@lemmy.world. I would assume the context here is Canada. If @sepia@mander.xyz wants to discuss China's role in the UAE, I would assume a more generalist community would be the right forum, unless there is some particular Canada-specific angle.

Can you expand on how that's related to what Canada is doing?

We should kill off the oil and gas industry before it kills off human civilization.

What a douche.

Gangster state.

You're clutching at straws. If anything these laws would be further proof that Canada takes Jewish safety seriously.

You also don't get to say what I "want to pretend". That's just bad faith, rude, toxic and inflammatory behaviour.

Jews are not "welcome in Canada" because Jews are not foreign to Canada. Canada is home to Jews who live their lives openly and safely as Jews to the full extent they wish to practice their identity. Our free liberal and multicultural Canada is a promise that Jews don't need a "Jewish" apartheid genocidal state to live free and safely as Jews. No militaristic ethnostate shithole bunker of a country can be a better choice for Jews than our country and it's a disgrace and offence to Canada to imply that there is a place safer for Jews than our modern Canada.

Any peace loving Israeli is also welcome to our free country, same as people of any other foreign nationality. The only thing democratic minded Canadians demand is that we don't let in war criminals. Nothing more and nothing less than applying to Israelis the exact same standards we apply to others. Anyone advocating genocide and apartheid should expect Canadians to stand tall against them.

Something something Charlie Kirk.

Hey look, whataboutism!

This feels like walking down the national focus tree as the world tension meter in HOI4 is ratcheting up.

So the American Otto Strasser is a woman.

There are a couple of things to be said about "judging the past".

The first is that we can absolutely judge the past on its own terms and arrive at a scathing condemnation of the Founding Fathers as slavers at the terms of their own time. This is what contemporaries of Washington did in the case of Ona Judge, the runaway slave for whom Washington stayed salty all his life for not being able to get back because of actions of New Englanders who basically decided to tell him and his nephew to fuck off. Then there is of course the small issue of the Haitian Revolution and what it reveals about what was morally possible at the time.

The second thing to say is that "judging the past" is not an abstract thing, it is a thing we do today and that has political implications today. Every "originalist" fuckface is also "judging history" and accepting the founding daddies as basically fundamentally right and righteous. That is a political function of today with very real implications today. We can choose to counter the "originalist" judgements with "fuck your founding daddy issues" anti-judgement and that way create a new political reality for now.

History can be academic, in which case nationalist desires about proving these or those people noble founders of a superior system are just plain unscientific, or it can be public history in which case it is about meaning creation for the today. And such meaning creation has to judge the past with our own morals, because it is a meaning that is about us and our future.

And by the way, when I say "us and our future", I need to clarify: I'm Greek-Canadian. My interest in US history and political culture is that of the keen interest of the neighbour to the internals of the crack house. If you guys keep fucking up, that has real consequences for both Canada and Greece/Europe, so it matters.