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the proper air force for canada is a bunch of helicopters rusting out in halifax
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Jan 29, 2018 01:06
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How about we strap on lasers on a flock of Canada Geese?
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Jan 29, 2018 01:23
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now im a broken copter on a halifax piiiiiiiieeeeeer
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Jan 29, 2018 01:47
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... The last of Irving's privateers.
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Jan 29, 2018 01:52
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gently caress yeah seaking
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Reality Loser posted:gently caress yeah seaking The Canadian one evolves into Goldsink
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Jan 29, 2018 03:33
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ive been to canada
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Jan 29, 2018 03:36
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Reading this article about how ICBC just lost a billion dollars in 9 months, how does insurance work in that province? Like, I know there is pretty well no way I'm making a claim on anything less than severe damage to my vehicle, since I'm likely going to pay say a replacement bumper multiple times over in a rate increase over the amount of years it takes for my insurance to drop back down. Does it work like this over there? Or is ICBC just very soft? Avg. Ontario insurance isn't that much more than BC's, so I don't get how they can be eating this much poo poo.
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Jan 29, 2018 03:41
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Squizzle posted:the proper air force for canada is a bunch of helicopters rusting out in halifax every time I see one buzz the harbour I can’t take my eyes off it, thinking it’ll fall in
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Jan 29, 2018 04:04
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EvidenceBasedQuack posted:How about we strap on lasers on a flock of Canada Geese? They would turn on us in a second They're already waging a bombing campaign of poo poo
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Jan 29, 2018 04:15
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Ill Peripheral posted:Reading this article about how ICBC just lost a billion dollars in 9 months, how does insurance work in that province? The BC Libs were using it as a piggy bank for a little while, so I'm sure that didn't help. My understanding is that rates are going up to try and plug the gap now.
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Jan 29, 2018 04:16
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Tochiazuma posted:They would turn on us in a second Can't we mind control them with chemtrails, GMOs, or wifi signal? Ask EMay
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Jan 29, 2018 04:18
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Ill Peripheral posted:Reading this article about how ICBC just lost a billion dollars in 9 months, how does insurance work in that province? Like, I know there is pretty well no way I'm making a claim on anything less than severe damage to my vehicle, since I'm likely going to pay say a replacement bumper multiple times over in a rate increase over the amount of years it takes for my insurance to drop back down. Combo of a fuckload of expensive cars getting wrecked that don't pay an appropriate and proportionate amount into the insurance system, no cap on personal injury claims, and the BC Liberals stealing from their coffers.
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Jan 29, 2018 04:24
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Hand Knit posted:I mean the dude who wrote eight increasingly-syphilitic autobiographies does seem on brand for Professor Peterson.  I forget is syphilis one of the darwinian truths or is it not because you go insane and die from it
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Jan 29, 2018 04:26
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Ill Peripheral posted:Reading this article about how ICBC just lost a billion dollars in 9 months, how does insurance work in that province? Like, I know there is pretty well no way I'm making a claim on anything less than severe damage to my vehicle, since I'm likely going to pay say a replacement bumper multiple times over in a rate increase over the amount of years it takes for my insurance to drop back down. quote:Because as Rob Shaw reported, some seven pages of controversial recommendations from a December 2014 draft Ernst & Young report, which were aimed at addressing ICBC’s rapidly escalating fiscal crunch, were arbitrarily “scrubbed” from the final report that went public.
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Jan 29, 2018 04:33
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canada's motto should be "we have no creativity and are very unambitious"
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Jan 29, 2018 04:54
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if you read about the history of nationalism you will find that by far one of the most potent forces for forging a national identity is having an other to define yourself against, it doesn't matter if the things you think about the other are true or not as long as you can stereotype them and say "i know im british because im not one of those loving french people" and this toxic exceptionalism sinks in to your culture and before you know it presto you're a nation mostly defined by reifying whatever it is that sets you apart from the people you hate there is no better poster child for this than canada we could be 192/193 on some UN ranking and as long as america was 193rd we would see it as a huge accomplishment
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Jan 29, 2018 04:57
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vyelkin posted:canada's motto should be "we have no creativity and are very unambitious" This fits the voyageurs too well to not be real IMO
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Squizzle posted:the proper air force for canada is a bunch of helicopters rusting out in halifax i mean we've seen how having an actual military worked out for america, i think we should stick with our poo poo one
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Jan 29, 2018 05:01
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i mean yes we're not really helping either the usa or whoever they're turbofucking when we're sitting off to the side making plane noises in a cardboard box but we're not making things worse either, for once
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Jan 29, 2018 05:03
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Yinlock posted:i mean yes we're not really helping either the usa or whoever they're turbofucking when we're sitting off to the side making plane noises in a cardboard box but we're not making things worse either, for once remember how it was supposed to be a big scandal that trudeau withdrew our six planes that can barely fly from bombing isis lmao
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Jan 29, 2018 05:04
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vyelkin posted:we could be 192/193 on some UN ranking and as long as america was 193rd we would see it as a huge accomplishment That'd be the "Who is least like the Americans" index.
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Jan 29, 2018 05:18
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My identity!
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Jan 29, 2018 06:36
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Dreylad posted:
"Death isn't real," I repeat to myself as I prepare to win yet another argument with my lobster-style kung fu.
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Jan 29, 2018 13:42
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Nice to see the CBC finally doing something productive, helping Peterson sell more books http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1147971651734
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Jan 29, 2018 14:06
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oh. canada?
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Jan 29, 2018 14:08
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Here is an interesting article https://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/viewFile/4218/3416 Roots Nationalism: Branding English Canada Cool in the 1980s and 1990s WE THE NORTH BABY WOOO
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Members of the Waffle, a socialist movement within the New Democratic Party, believed that nationalism and socialism would go hand in hand to create a radical new nation.9 Fun footnote facts: Roots operates out of Canada, but is owned by two Americans. In 1995 the American conglomerate Wendy’s purchased Tim Hortons. Molson is actually Molson Coors, the fifth largest brewery in the world.
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paul_soccer10 posted:Members of the Waffle, a socialist movement within the New Democratic Party, believed that nationalism and socialism would go hand in hand to create a radical new nation.9 fun fact: 'NDP' is also the initials of germany's oldest neonazi party
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paul_soccer10 posted:Here is an interesting article idk how on earth you could write an article like that and not cite michael billig but somehow they managed it
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Jan 29, 2018 15:37
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http://ottawacitizen.com/news/polit...be-f21defec7900 Just introduce the superdelegates already Trudeau. "What about your constituents???" quote:Now, there are 183 Liberal MPs and they’ve been lobbying hard for a reprieve from nomination contests, arguing that they shouldn’t have to waste time fighting off potential challengers while they’re supposed to be in Ottawa working on government business — particularly when a 2016 change in party membership rules has made it much easier for an individual to mount a challenge. "Im too tired, im like done, just done, so done right now. *shitposts on twitter*"
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vyelkin posted:if you read about the history of nationalism you will find that by far one of the most potent forces for forging a national identity is having an other to define yourself against, it doesn't matter if the things you think about the other are true or not as long as you can stereotype them and say "i know im british because im not one of those loving french people" and this toxic exceptionalism sinks in to your culture and before you know it presto you're a nation mostly defined by reifying whatever it is that sets you apart from the people you hate reading 19th century american history, it's remarkable how america then is canada now, except america constantly defined itself as Not Britain. It wasn't until the US became a global power and it could cast itself as a world leader (now in opposition to non-Wilsonian democratic ideas) it left that behind.
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"we the north" is a banal nationalistic slogan that says the most fundamental thing about canadian identity is our geographic location relative to the united statesDreylad posted:reading 19th century american history, it's remarkable how america then is canada now, except america constantly defined itself as Not Britain. It wasn't until the US became a global power and it could cast itself as a world leader (now in opposition to non-Wilsonian democratic ideas) it left that behind. yeah that's really interesting another thing I found interesting reading Linda Colley's Britons recently was how she situated British exceptionalism as particularly toxic because Britain was never forced to confront the evils it inflicted on others by losing a war and/or being occupied by a hostile power, whereas almost every other European country faced defeat and occupation at one point or another, whether in whole or in part, and usually in the 20th century, which tended to have a hugely humbling effect on myths of national power and superiority. Even when Britain lost wars, they lost them overseas and never suffered the humiliation or severe civilian casualties and repression of countries that lost land wars on their own territory, which meant they could perpetuate the myth of British exceptional glory and nationalist chauvinism without consequences, leading to continuing present thoughts that Britain can do everything on its own and doesn't need anyone else she wrote the book in 1992 but the parallels to both Brexit and contemporary American nationalism stunned me while I was reading it
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vyelkin posted:"we the north" is a banal nationalistic slogan that says the most fundamental thing about canadian identity is our geographic location relative to the united states yeah but the raptors are really good this year. vyelkin posted:yeah that's really interesting That is interesting! Does she touch on the Falklands War? That's contemporary American foreign policy to a T, except far more explicit in its attempt to remind everyone of British imperial power, but was perfect for taming domestic strife over the fact that a good chunk of the country's industry was gutted by greed. Dreylad has issued a correction as of 17:01 on Jan 29, 2018 |
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Dreylad posted:yeah but the raptors are really good this year. they are and its funny trying to watch them from here in the us because american commentators are basically like "lol who are these guys and why are they 2nd in the east ahead of LeBron?????"
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vyelkin posted:"we the north" is a banal nationalistic slogan that says the most fundamental thing about canadian identity is our geographic location relative to the united states I will say that broadly speaking "the north" as imagined place within Canadian nationalist mythology has always resonated with post-1918 Canadian nationalists. despite the fact that 90% of canadians live within 100k of the American border, we identify ourselves as a nordic people, and the north exists in our culture and history the same way the wild west exists for American history and culture, complete with cowboys and indians. my favourite example of this is the NFB's City of Gold narrated by Pierre Berton.
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Dreylad posted:I will say that broadly speaking "the north" as imagined place within Canadian nationalist mythology has always resonated with post-1918 Canadian nationalists. despite the fact that 90% of canadians live within 100k of the American border, we identify ourselves as a nordic people, and the north exists in our culture and history the same way the wild west exists for American history and culture, complete with cowboys and indians. I would argue that a substantial portion of this is because our culture is so similar to American culture that one of the few things we have to define us as a people is our existence north of an imagined line, so "north" in Canadian nationalism isn't solely the frontier idea of the outdoorsman and pioneer and voyageur, it's also the idea that we're essentially the northern fringe of the united states, as you say, clinging to the border, but we try to differentiate ourselves culturally by defining ourselves as northern compared to southern based on the political but not really geographical border, much the same way many europeans define themselves as western rather than eastern (you could easily imagine an alt-right type white nationalist using the slogan "we the west", for example)
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