Canadians sure haven’t!

And the fact that it was actually British regulars…

That’s exactly how long you can stay in the country under the visa waver program.

If you have to stay longer you can get a B1/B2 visa.

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The thing is I don’t drive unless I’m carrying stuff, so a car without cargo space isn’t useful.

Minivans are the best. I own a DGC built in Ottawa. Reliable AF. Huge cargo capacity. Gets 21MPG on the highway. Basically use it as a truck, but it’s way more practical than a truck because the cargo capacity is more and your stuff doesn’t get wet when it rains.

Only real downsize is tow capacity.

That’s the thing, Canada is mostly a raw materials exporter and the main importer is US industry.

It’d basically be like when China tried to “Wolf-warrior” Australia and ended up with coal, pork and grain shortages.

When Canada sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us.

Nazis called themselves national socialists as opposed to the ruling democratic socialist party.

It would have been impossible for a non-socialist party to get any kind of popular mandate in 1933 Germany. Nonetheless, the democratic socialists had discredited themselves by being feckless and awful.

Socialist policies that the Nazis supported were mostly superficial and quickly abandoned. Those included:

1. Making May Day a national holiday, which they did do but then they used the following day to arrest all the trade unionists and confiscate all union property or use by the the party
2. A public stimulus/building program, where all projects were quickly abandoned except those that were seen as valuable for war, like the autobahn.
3. “People’s products” subsidized consumer goods like radios and automobiles. Only radios were ever delivered through this program by the NS regime mostly so people could hear Gobbles’ propaganda.

The Nazis did not support land reform preferring to sidestep/triangulate with their “leibensraum” theory: they will not reform the large landholdings in Germany but they will give land to peasants from conquered land. In general the Nazi’s socialist/materialist promises came with an asterisk that the people will be compensated after the war by redistributing the spoils of the conquered lands.

Americans fleeing to Canada in 2024 gives Germans fleeing to Austria in 1934 vibes.

The great lakes compact is pretty aggressively supported by the Great Lakes states. There would be a pretty massive domestic fight if the west tried to take any water.

In fact the Great Lakes Compact was created after Canada tried to start shipping Lake Superior water to Asia in the 90s.

https://youtu.be/rXOzV1o0uhM?feature=shared&t=191

What the hell is wrong with Canada? Everything I’ve heard out of there for the past year or more has been horrible.

Goldbugs have a lot of nostalgia for the Gilded Age, so they put the face value it where it would have been in 1896.

It’s just a suggestion.

Quebec is also where I learned the phrase “No cop, no stop.”

But I think they were arrested for not saying arrêt.

Some of them are flying the Confederate flag in Alberta!

Historically Europe (and the British Empire) sided with the confederacy because they saw a united USA as a potential industrial rival, whereas the south was more of a resource colony. Interestingly there was a major class divide in Europe where the working classes were anti-slavery and therefore anti-confederate wheras the upper classes saw the confederate cause being in their interest. There’s a book about this called A Cause for All Nations by Don Doyle.

My understanding is that nowadays the confederate flag is used by people outside the USA who are on the fascist end of the spectrum for whom Nazi or fascist symbols are too extreme (or just illegal) in their countries.

He ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed. That’s for sure. I think the world is gonna roll him. The ice is getting pretty thin, the water’s warm. Do you think he can swim?

I think I’m beginning to understand how Trudeau keeps winning.

Probably had CTE TBH.

I always heard “Canada is three mining companies standing on eachother’s shoulders in a trechcoat.”

Although that one applies equally to Australia.

It’s cool that you’re in the well-insulated house business. But we’re still cooking the planet and jet aircraft are bad.