Dear Canadians,
You are not special. If the United States is coke that makes you our diet coke.
While we have massive totalitarianism you just have totalitarianism lite.
The only difference between our totalitarianism and yours is that the Canadian one is more socialist. Socialist totalitarianism. Whatever.
The United States influence in Canada can be found everywhere. Canada’s economy is very much ingrained with that of the United States.
The only thing special about Canada is its women.
Even Canada’s ugly women look beautiful in contrast to the ugly women within the United States. In contrast to a United States woman I’d rather nail a Canadian.
So you’re not just racist and sexist, you also hate other countries?
You prefer totalitarianism as a system. You wish you were the totalitarian, but you can’t whine about the system itself.
Not really. When the financial crisis was happening, and the housing crisis, and the banking crisis, and whatever other crisis… we chugged along just fine for the most part. Here’s an analogy. You are Norm McDonald, we are fat guy. Watch the video.
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Unfortunately, that’s just not true either. There’s no reason for it to be.
Canada has free healthcare. I think he’s just jealous.
I’m not racist. I acknowledge racial and cultural differences, but I don’t obsess over them. I also have a thing for different types of ethnic women.
Sexist? Very much so. As it should be.
Am I making fun of Canada? No, I like Canada.
Been to British Columbia twice over the years.
I just don’t like this prevailing attitude that Canada is somehow a better place, less authoritarian, less corrupt, and so on.
The reality is that Canada and the United States are very similar minus The United States obese population.
For someone who is struggling to get by, it’d be free at a basic level. But for the rest, it’s not technically free. Every so often an authority from Her Majesty’s Government orders me to strip down, with a scrutinizing and distrustful stare, shoves a probing device up my rectum, cuts up my bed mattress, and then leaves with a piece of my dignity in exchange for a “hmph, is that so”.
But yea, other than that…
Say what?
Could you explain that over a cup of Tim Hortons?
Well, taxes. That’s sort of what they feel like. I might have embellished a tad.
All human societies have had taxes. In places with free healthcare, at least some of those taxes are doing good.
What an absurd thing to s… no, no you’re right.
A society should find some way to establish a basic level of health care for people. Just as you’re not really a society if you let foreign attackers come in and abuse and kill some number of your population, you’re not really a society either if those foreign attackers just happen to be microbes or bacteria or disease.
If a terrorist blows up your house, and your neighbours couldn’t care less, then you’re not really living in a community. And you’re not really living in a community, either, if your neighbours couldn’t care less that paying some hospital bill took away your house. That seems like a decent analogy to me.
Von I think it’s wrong to tax rich factory owners who earned their billions just to take care of sick factory workers who 1) weren’t ambitious enough to be anything but a factory worker, 2) didn’t care enough about themselves to save up in case they got sick, 3) can’t be productive in a factory once they’ve gotten sick and until they’ve recovered and 4) may not even have a skill that’s marketable for enough of anything to even afford to go to the doctor.
I mean…there are charities and churches and stuff to take care of those people. They could ask around and find jobs raking leaves or something and take care of themselves. Maybe they could sell all their possessions, (which they obviously could not afford), and go back to live with their families or something. Maybe family values might make their way in and the person may end up better off.
If you let them go to the doctor for free…all you’re teaching them is that they don’t have to earn what they consume and that it’s ok to steal something so long as you think you need it.
Why are you trolling, Smears?
Way to address my argument Von.
Don’t talk shit about Canada.
It’s one of the best countries around.
I’m proud of it, too.
Buncha socialists!
You say that as if it were an insult.
It is. I suppose that it’s better to mooch off each other until no on in the world has a thing? Is that your view? You think it’s better for everyone in the world to have a bowl of rice than for you yourself to have a lobster and a couple people not get their rice?
Humans are social animals, all societies that function are therefore socialist.
There’s a difference between being social, and socialism. If I go to a party, I am being social. If I insist that we all share ownership of the house and the food and the booze and the music, then I am being a socialist.
In reality, ‘socialism’ is a matter of degrees.
For Smears, it’s a bit ridiculous to call other people socialists while he lives in a society with welfare, subsidized housing, social security, food assistance programs, publicly controlled industries, some version of health care—(even if it’s just the hospital not charging poor people), public transportation, public investment in business/research/development, and so on… it’s ridiculous to have all of those things and think you’re not to some extent socialist.