Dougie93

I don't know what it is like now, but in my experience, 1 RCR is not actually one big happy family, 1 RCR is a stress factory and you're getting dicked around all the time and Sargeant-Major's are cracking the whip and throwing people on defaulters all over the place. And if you're in a rifle company, those are the guys you know, Dukes company, Bravo company and Charles company never got along, actually had huge brawls in the parking lot outside of Sassy's So if somebody gets killed in another company, that is tragic, but you probably didn't know them all that well, just saw them in passing, so "devastating" is being melodramatic.

I reject the assertion that 1 RCR was "devastated" by the A-10 blue on blue at Op Medusa. That was just 8 Platoon, Charles Company, that wasn't the whole battalion, and they are professionals, so they just carried on as professional soldiers do, and then 8 Platoon was reconstituted with replacements. Sure, it sucks to take a blue on blue and it was tragic that it killed Graham, but "devastated" is nonsense.

And this is where we get to work is bullshit jobs are jails. Because what governments and corporations are doing is trying to manufacture fake work, it's fake work because it is not due to market forces but rather government forces, so its not growth and it can't stand on its own without Corporate Welfare. The Corporate Welfare regime is an open air prison, the political and corporate classes are afraid that the Industrial Age workers are going to rise up and overthrow them because they can't stop the Information Age waves from buffeting them, so just give them fake jobs and keep them working all the time, keeping them working all the time so they wont rise up, is the definition of a Gulag.

Anyways, it all keeps coming back to the epoch, the Information Age overthrowing the Industrial age. GM lays off 2500 Industrial workers in Oshawa while they hire 1000 Information workers in Mississauga. Yes, Oshawa is an Industrial rust out, but Mississauga is an Information Age powerhouse. It's not that "people" are doing worse, overall people are doing better, my lifestyle is much better than my father's, my father's house was a rickety falling down sort of thing, while I live in a comparative palace. The issue is simply the Industrial entrenched interests. Industrial unions, they are going down in the face of the Information, and they are trying to get governments to save them. Which is folly because the governments are not only corrupt incompetent and as a result dysfunctional, but also governments are tiny little things in the face of the epoch inciting wave, so there's nothing government could do to stop it even if they were functional.

Which is the Millenials. People who actually lived it remember all the bad parts from the collapse of family farms to constant labour strife to the inflation crisis. Millenials pining for something which wasn't as they think, when things are actually so much cushier now.

Seems like a canard; "People don't make as much as they used to." Yeas they do, look simple math; two and half times more inflation adjusted "But, but taxes" What about them?

Whatever. That's how the central narrative gets lost, the knee jerk anti-Americanism. That's why all the Liberals have to do to get the Canadabots to rally around the failing socialist nanny police state, is invoke the American Reb Menace. Hence Canada, despite Canadian pronouncements about democracy and freedom, actually remains a freedom and democracy backwater. /shrugs

Then what happened was, the Fenians, which was a proto IRA, being Irish Catholic veterans from both sides of the ACW, invaded Canada at Niagara, to ransom it for Irish Freedom, and marched up the golden horseshoe to take Toronto. Then the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada were dispatched by ferry across the lake to intercept them, which they did at Ridgeway at Fort Erie. Wasn't much of a battle but suffice to say the ACW veteran Fenian troops fired a few volleys and then the Queen's Own Rifles, having never heard a shot fired in anger, basically fled the field. In the end, Gen. Grant had the Fenians arrested, none the less the fear that the Americans could invade at any moment caused the British, who did not want to fight the Americans, to force the colonies here into a military and trade alliance to defend it for the British. Basically, as an emergency measure in the face of imminent invasion by the Americans paranoia, they put together a shotgun marriage, because the colonies did not want be in federal relationship with each other, they all wanted direct relationship with London to control their own destinies, but this was being imposed upon them by the British so they really had no choice. And in a matter of months they had put the shotgun wedding together and called it Confederation at Charlottetown, and on 1 July 1867 they had the reception.

No they came here so they wouldn't get tarred and feathered by victorious republican hooligans in the newly free Republic, and throwing themselves on the mercy of British Crown was the only real option they had. Moreover, they were in the British Empire but they weren't culturally British, they had no real connection to the United Kingdom and those people other than by law they were still totally connected to the 13 colonies, particularly as to families which were on both sides, there was no border tho so people could go back and forth. Eventually the UEL Americans here began to agitate against the Crown as well, because there was no democracy here, so they were about to stage their own revolution here, Canada being much easier to overthrow . . . . . .just as the Madison Administration invaded in 1812 over impressment. Once attacked by the American republic, public opinion here flipped against the Americans as they rallied around the Crown, not because they loved it, but because the Americans were invading with what was a huge and scary army by British North American standards In terms of the American Civil War there were abolitionists here too, but the Loyalist Canadians were in fact the only real ally the Confederates had, because Britain and France weren't coming to save them, and the reason was not that Canadians liked slavery per se, although they were of course virulently White Supremacist, it was simply a case of the enemy of my enemy, the arch enemy of Canada since 1812 being the behemoth which was at this point crushing the Southrons like a slow motion nuclear strike.

Well PO&GG is a failed state of course, and so what is happening is that it is sliding into a soft Bolshevism in a Marxist paradigm, while the United States is carrying on as the only classically liberal state in North America and the reason of course is; The First Amendment and the Second Amendment. Canada meanwhile is reduced to socialist welfare gulag which would collapse as all Marxist states do, except for the fact that it is propped by special access to the most dynamic economy in the history of the world.

Free in the classically liberal sense but still a monarchy not a republic. Thus, in Canada, there is the inherited Queen's Peace, which is for the protection of the monarch, to include from rabble rousers who might incite an insurrection against the Crown. In the United States the First Amendment is for the purposes of inciting insurrection against the Union in extremis as necessary, whereas your right to free expression is tempered by the interest of the Queen's Peace in preventing rabble rousers from stirring things up, Canada being the fundamentally counterrevolutionary American state in the face of America's revolutionary republic.

Hey, you never know, could be the Deputy at Peterson on duty when the Balloon goes up, entirely plausible a Canadian could end the world. I think it's Lt. General Christopher Coates. TACAMO!

Canadians have also more recently been indoctrinated by the Yankees to believe the it was all for slavery myth of post Antietam, rather than the cause being the technological displacement of the cotton gin which rapidly made the Southron Planting Aristocracy so rich that they could break away from Wall Street and form a competing hegenomy on the continent particularly in the West.

And furthermore, Canadians, their central erased, do not have a grasp of British North America's relationship to either revolution, such as how Canada wasn't settled by the United Kingdom Canada was settled by Americans and Canadians are Americans, or how Canada was vehemently on the side of the Confederacy and allowed them to operate against the Union from here and then when they lost many of them fled here and lived under Canada's protection.

Exactly. But Canadians don't know the central narrative of Canadian history never mind the history of the American republic. To Canadians, it was the same America Pre bellum and Antebellum and so do not grasp that the Original Virginia Seceshe was George Washington and his revolution was overthrown in a counterrevolution at the foot of Cemetery Ridge.

To wit, yes, Quebec is going to separate, yes, your "ally" France is going to help them, and then, yes, the Republic du Quebec will be a Franco-American client state rather than an Anglo-American client state, but it's not going to be the end of the world as the Liberal Party of Canada would fearmonger. People's daily lives aren't going to change, it doesn't matter below the federal level, it will have simply rendered the federal government moot, their Confederation no longer a rubric. And then we can all just get on with things, healthier, wealthier and wiser, with the same relationship to each other as Australia and New Zealand have now, except the bonus is; no more Liberal Party of Canada pseudo dictatorship and associated CBC propaganda arm.

It's also funny how you think France would ever lift a finger for Canadian Confederation when it was France who said "vive le Quebec, vive le Quebec libre", that is in fact France's position as well, they just keep it to themselves for now, because when De Gaulle said it Canadians freaked out.

There's barely any audience here at all so far as I can tell, but your post is a classic Liberal Party of Canada canard, someone points out that Confederation doesn't actually work, never did work, and isn't going to work, the Liberal Party of Canada Academic and Media Elites come out of the woodwork invoking the American Reb Menace and then they run one of those heritage minute propaganda spots about how the Anglos and the Francos are hand and hand looking out at the horizon towards a post scarcity bilingual socialist utopia. Who knew?

I mean, when I hurled that Kathleen Wynnederp bomb at Ottawa, Gerry Butts and his sockpuppet blast penetration device, I thought it would be a hilarious farce, but even I wasn't expecting it to be this farcical. Post National State; thank you HM Queen's Executive for freeing me of any further obligation to your failed state Confederation, other than paying taxes as the landed gentry, and the hockey team. /salutes

Literally the hockey team is the only thing worth upholding, but if there can be a United Athletes of Russia Team should actually be able to retain Team Canada, solely as an ice hockey team, without the rest of the baggage, even if for all other purposes the Canada's carry on in a new military and economic alliance, just not one in the shotgun marriage of 1867 which has corrupted the nation to the point of being a Post National State, otherwise known as the Orwellian Contradiction masquerading as a government propped up by the Americans on their northern frontier. Mind you, even if not, methinks Team Upper Canada would be a heck of a team too. We got Marner, yo.

And remember, when the Government of Canada finally goes insolvent, though that will incite a market crash, it will be brief, so you can short Canada near, making money on the way down, then when it hits bottom basement prices to your liking you can start buying again, and then you ride the wave making more money on the way back, when the market stops panicking and realizes that the Government of Canada is not important and the potential earnings in the Canada's is still there after the Government of Canada goes broke, because the Government of Canada doesn't own Canada, Queen Elizabeth II owns Canada, and she like you also carries on regardless without the Government of Canada too. Thus, don't think of market forces incited national insolvency as a disaster, because really it would just be a once in a generation buying opportunity after an also very profitable big short.

You need to try to relax and let it go, and here's how; consider that you and the Government of Canada are not the same thing, the Government of Canada is at this juncture just a tax confiscating militarized regulatory regime working for entrenched interests. Those are narrow interests, their interest is not your interest. So if the Government of Canada collapses into insolvency, that's not the end of the world for you, you move on without them, because once they are insolvent, the police won't come to arrest you if you just shrug and walk away, not only because there is no real way they can make you pay the government's debt, can't get blood from a stone, but because the police are one of the entrenched interests who are running this government into the ground, and when it goes broke, they go broke, and trust me, the police do not show up to work for free.

But market forces simply flow around those regimes, or bust through the dykes and overwhelm them, the governments are subject to the market, because they owe the market literally trillions, so the governments are forced to adapt, in order to make sure those markets keep propping them up. So regardless of what some politicians puts on paper, it doesn't actually amount to control. It wasn't a lack of regulation which incited this, it is a lack of solvency.

Pretty sure the loon is the talk raging lunatic who is advocating mass murder in defence of the Crown against the subjects of the Crown, mass murdering your own people extra-judicially as you are advocating, needs only Responsibility to Protect invoked, Canada's own contribution to international law, but there are actually multiple statutes which render what you are advocating, not only a war crime, but as I said, Crimes Against Humanity, see; Nuremberg.

Market forces caused those changes, your seeming assumption that governments are actually in control of a supranational global market, is delusional.