• chris@l.roofo.cc
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    9 days ago

    Why does everyone think that their culture is so great that they need their own country. We don’t need more borders but less. Culture is for sharing and if some tradition falls into obscurity maybe wasn’t that important after all.

    I’m all for abandoning stupid traditions anyways. Our absession with traditions has reached a point where it is getting stupid. Just because someone somewhere started doing something doesn’t mean we it’s worth preserving and doing forever. A lot of traditions are not even that old and we didn’t have the luxury of so many traditions when most people couldn’t read or write.

    It’s a shame that we are clinging on to what makes us different when we should instead stand together to halo and support each other. We are all more similar that different, hurtling on a rock through space. We are all human.

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      9 days ago

      Quebec independence is less about closing itself off and more about opening itself up to the world, just no longer under canada’s wing.

      Also realistically independence would come with a schengen-like border accord.

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        9 days ago

        Do any of these provinces that want to leave Canada have the military might to fight off the Americans? Cause there’s a nearly 100% chance they’d be taken over, especially with the current admin down there.

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          By that logic canada would also be taken over, an independent Québec would still be part of NATO.

          I will say alberta would get vassalised though, they’re already offering mineral rights and stuff to the US for help seperating.

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            7 days ago

            To be honest, there’s a pretty good chance that Canada is taken over if things continue on the path they’re on now.

            It’ll be bloody as fuck, but lets be real, right wing politics here is not different than it is anywhere else. And since all we really have is Far Right and Right and Center-Right parties, we’re plenty close to it happening for real.

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      9 days ago

      and if some tradition falls into obscurity maybe wasn’t that important after all.

      “Some of you will die and that’s a sacrifice I am willing to make”