Poor, Poor Americans ...

[taxme]

On 12/29/2018 at 6:41 PM, cannuck said:

Trying not to feed the troll, but it is very hard to resist.

I will grant you that one of the principal failings of the US socio/economic model is that it believes EVERYTHING is a business - including sick care.  In the rest of the G7, it is a social service with some business services provided.

Now, I will be the first to admit I have a big mouth, and I will run it off in criticism of ANYTHING or ANYONE I feel is deserving.   Try doing that regarding Uncle Vlad in downtown Moscow, or on the TV, the radio or in print.  You won't likely live long.

I don't know where you went and what you did in the USA, but you got most of it dead wrong (yeah, that's another Putin pun).

So, just where or how does Putin pose a threat to free speech in Russia? Just curious.  

[taxme]

5 hours ago, Dougie93 said:

Furthermore, there are many states and people's within Canadian Confederation who feel no particular affinity nor allegiance to "Canada", to include the First Nations, most of Quebec outside of Montreal, and increasingly, Alberta.

Is there any allegiance to Canada anymore? I don't see it these days. All I see is that most Indians and Quebecthe French. Canadians will only show concern for themselves and not their country. Canada lacks national patriotism as far as I am concerned. When Canadians just stand by and watch as their first prime ministers picture is taken off our ten dollar bill without a whimper and is replaced with some unknown figures face placed on that new ten dollar bill shows and tells me that Canadians could careless about their history or their country. And with no melting pot in Canada anymore there will be more of Canadian history going down the tubes. Canada has become the sucker country of the world thanks to our who gives a crap about Canada politicians. At least Americans have no problem showing patriotism.  Your posted topic should have been called "poor, poor patriotic Canadians. 

[bush_cheney2004]

16 minutes ago, taxme said:

Canada lacks national patriotism as far as I am concerned.

.... At least Americans have no problem showing patriotism.  Your posted topic should have been called "poor, poor patriotic Canadians. 

 

Even when it does display such allegiance, it is often based on the usual pathetic anti comparisons to the United States.

Here is a perfect example of a typical Canadian media (state funded CBC) mindset that "trolls" America while heralding and defining Viola Desmond as Canada's "Rosa Parks", an American civil rights icon.   Poor, poor Americans...their antiquated dollars with dead presidents only dominate the entire world (dollar hegemon)...unlike the Canadian peso.

 

Canadian currency evolves while the U.S. is stuck in the 1700s

Edited January 7, 2019 by bush_cheney2004

[Dougie93]

10 minutes ago, taxme said:

Is there any allegiance to Canada anymore? I don't see it these days. All I see is that most Indians and Quebecthe French. Canadians will only show concern for themselves and not their country. Canada lacks national patriotism as far as I am concerned. When Canadians just stand by and watch as their first prime ministers picture is taken off our ten dollar bill without a whimper and is replaced with some unknown figures face placed on that new ten dollar bill shows and tells me that Canadians could careless about their history or their country. And with no melting pot in Canada anymore there will be more of Canadian history going down the tubes. Canada has become the sucker country of the world thanks to our who gives a crap about Canada politicians. At least Americans have no problem showing patriotism.  Your posted topic should have been called "poor, poor patriotic Canadians. 

Again, you're viewing Canada as if it was a republic, but it's not, Canada is a confederation, there is no central patriotic narrative because there is no central nation, a confederation is a collection of nations, so for example Mohawks are plenty patriotic about being Mohawks and Nova Scotians are plenty patriotic about being Nova Scotians and of course Quebecers are fiercely  patriotic about being the Quebecois.  

Canada is not a unitary nation, it's a product of two shotgun marriages, the first was 13 September 1759 when the British Crown seized Nouvelle France as a war prize at Quebec, the second was when the Fenians frightened the colonies into Confederation on 1 July 1867.    Then there's the West, which was settled after, mostly by flood of ex-pats from Britain at the turn of the 20th century.

[Dougie93]

18 minutes ago, bush_cheney2004 said:

 

Even when it does display such allegiance, it is often based on the usual pathetic anti comparisons to the United States.

Here is a perfect example of a typical Canadian media (state funded CBC) mindset that "trolls" America while heralding and defining Viola Desmond as Canada's "Rosa Parks", an American civil rights icon.   Poor, poor Americans...their antiquated dollars with dead presidents only dominate the entire world (dollar hegemon)...unlike the Canadian peso.

 

Canadian currency evolves while the U.S. is stuck in the 1700s

Most of the fodder for knee jerk Canadian America bashers is coming from your own domestic self hating America bashers, the Hollywood Liberal Panty Waists et al, the Canadian Liberal media is just the farm team for the American liberal media, they're all looking to get a job down there, every Canadian media hack aspires to be the next Peter Jennings

It's like, I've spent hours on American dominated web forums defending America against ceaseless and vicious rhetorical assaults from American lefties, exact same sort of sneering contempt you see round here, and far worse, because the America bashers on this forum are pretty pedestrian and totally unoriginal, the American lefties are much more aggressive in their trolling of other Americans, and they're constantly updating their material.

Blue State liberals have essentially been Canadianized, they want America to be Giant Canada, and they lash out at it for not being so. 

Edited January 7, 2019 by Dougie93

[bush_cheney2004]

1 minute ago, Dougie93 said:

Most of the fodder for knee jerk Canadian America bashers is coming from your own domestic self hating America bashers, the Hollywood Liberal Panty Waists et al, the Canadian Liberal media is just the farm team for the American liberal media, they're all looking to get a job down there, every Canadian media hack aspires to be the next Peter Jennings

 

That's true enough...much of Canada's anti-American bile is imported directly from the United States, just like other cultural playthings.

 

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It's like, I've spent hours on American dominated web forums defending America against ceaseless and vicious rhetorical assaults from American lefties, exact same sort of sneering contempt you see round, and far worse, because the America bashers on this forum are pretty pedestrian, the American lefties are much more aggressive in their trolling of other Americans

 

Well that is to be expected....they may be self hating lefties, but they are still Americans....First Amendment and all that comes with it.    Most Canadians abhor conflict at home, praising the virtues of "unity" instead.   Easier to bash Americans.

 

[Zeitgeist]

Canadians are very proud of their country, which was never a melting pot.  That’s the point.  I’ll explain it at a more grass roots level.  There’s an American way of doing things and there are more social pressures to be the American way, which in a way is limiting.  The US is more about its sports teams, which is at the centre of its education system; and more about its military, because there’s usually some foreign war and there’s an associated super power mentality that expounds assertions of power.  There’s a relationship between these activities that relates to empire and its circuses. Canada has a proud military heritage, but it’s more related to peacekeeping and protecting allies and people. Immigrants are freer to be themselves, and make no mistake, multiculturalism can impact national cohesion if people stay in cultural ghettos, but that isn’t actually what happens. By the second generation immigrants’ kids are playing hockey, hanging out with people from all different backgrounds, sharing music, etc.  That doesn’t make Canadians commie snowflakes or whatever derogatory term you want to call us.  Don’t get me wrong, the differences from Americans aren’t dramatic and we all enjoy much of the same music, films, professional sports, etc.  Just stop characterizing us as lesser or weak because we’re not exactly like you and don’t have identical views.  Do I know Canadians who would fit in with Republicans? Yes.  Do I know Americans who would be at home with the Liberals or NDP?  Yes.  Everyone just relax.  

[bush_cheney2004]

22 minutes ago, Zeitgeist said:

Canadians are very proud of their country, which was never a melting pot.  That’s the point.  I’ll explain it at a more grass roots level.  There’s an American way of doing things and there are more social pressures to be the American way, which in a way is limiting.  The US is more about its sports teams, which is at the centre of its education system; and more about its military, because there’s usually some foreign war and there’s an associated super power mentality that expounds assertions of power.  There’s a relationship between these activities that relates to empire and its circuses.

 

Great for Canada, but America doesn't have to define itself in terms of what it is not.   BTW, the United States was never a "melting pot", more like a gumbo or salad of many different cultures and lots of conflict.  The United States is actually more diverse than Canada, with more spoken languages, if only because of its population size and number of immigrants from around the world.   The U.S. has more #1 rated post secondary educations institutions than any other nation in the world.

Canada was very much associated with a world superpower, and celebrated that status with military force.   Now, not so much....that royal party is over.

 

 

Edited January 7, 2019 by bush_cheney2004

[Zeitgeist]

47 minutes ago, bush_cheney2004 said:

 

Great for Canada, but America doesn't have to define itself in terms of what it is not.   BTW, the United States was never was a "melting pot", more like a gumbo or salad of many different cultures and lots of conflict.  The United States is actually more diverse than Canada, with more spoken languages, if only because of its population size and number of immigrants from around the world.   The U.S. has more #1 rated post secondary educations institutions than any other nation in the world.

Canada was very much associated with a world superpower, and celebrated that status with military force.   Now, not so much....that royal party is over.

 

 

Canada is defining itself in better, post-colonial ways than in the past.  We still support our traditional allies and are adding new allies.  America is very diverse. Toronto may be the most diverse city.  We have 100’s of Indigenous cultures and languages, many French speaking communities outside of Quebec, and some quite Celtic communities out east.  You should experience a Ceiledh.

Royal party?  That sounds like a drag. 

Edited January 7, 2019 by Zeitgeist

[bush_cheney2004]

1 minute ago, Zeitgeist said:

Canada is defining itself in better, post-colonial ways than in the past.  We still support our traditional allies and are adding new allies.  America is very diverse. Toronto may be the most diverse city.  We have 100’s of Indigenous cultures and languages, many French speaking communities outside of Quebec, and some quite Celtic communities out east.  You should experience a Ceiledh.

 

Again, that's great...but America has been doing it bigger and longer, attracting far more immigrants.   

Canada's long history is still part part of its identity, no matter how hard some choose to ignore or hide it.  

 

[Zeitgeist]

1 minute ago, bush_cheney2004 said:

 

Again, that's great...but America has been doing it bigger and longer, attracting far more immigrants.   

Canada's long history is still part part of its identity, no matter how hard some choose to ignore or hide it.  

 

Yes and America’s history is part of its identity.  So?  We changed our $10.00 bill while you’re clinging to aggression man Andrew Jackson.  I don’t really care about that.  Removing Sir John A is also problematic, just in a different way.  

Your assertions of bigger and longer are just reflections of your empire mentality. We don’t care.  I’ve had some of the best times of my life in small town Muskoka.  Build a giant phalus and have a party.  It’ll be like New Year’s at the CN Tower. 

[bush_cheney2004]

8 minutes ago, Zeitgeist said:

Yes and America’s history is part of its identity.  So?  We changed our $10.00 bill while you’re clinging to aggression man Andrew Jackson.  I don’t really care about that.  Removing Sir John A is also problematic, just in a different way. 

 

I am not running from America's past...I embrace it.   I do not hide from America's failings...I have lived them.   More immigrants in the world have voted with their feet for the United States than for Canada...sorry (not sorry).

The CBC story about Viola Desmond's new bill is only interesting to me because of the very repetitious CBC-style story arcs that invoke American history as a defining foil. 

 

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Your assertions of bigger and longer are just reflections of your empire mentality. We don’t care.  I’ve had some of the best times of my life in small town Muskoka.  Build a giant phalus and have a party.  It’ll be like New Year’s at the CN Tower. 

 

You may not care, but Canada most certainly cares.   The poor, poor Americans' culture dominates Canada....tonight Canadians will watch the Golden Globes hoping for some attention and recognition  it so desperately seeks from the "poor" American culture.

Edited January 7, 2019 by bush_cheney2004

[Zeitgeist]

1 hour ago, bush_cheney2004 said:

 

I am not running from America's past...I embrace it.   I do not hide from America's failings...I have lived them.   More immigrants in the world have voted with their feet for the United States than for Canada...sorry (not sorry).

The CBC story about Viola Desmond's new bill is only interesting to me because of the very repetitious CBC-style story arcs that invoke American history as a defining foil. 

 

 

You may not care, but Canada most certainly cares.   The poor, poor Americans' culture dominates Canada....tonight Canadians will watch the Golden Globes hoping for some attention and recognition  it so desperately seeks from the "poor" American culture.

You keep telling yourself that if it makes you happy. The Golden Globes are the most PolCor drivel to date.  The Republicans must be going apeshit while Democrat-Hollywood celebs preen like Trudeau. 

Edited January 7, 2019 by Zeitgeist

[bush_cheney2004]

2 minutes ago, Zeitgeist said:

You keep telling yourself that if it makes you happy. The Golden Globes are the most PolCor drivel to date.  The Republicans must be going apeshit while Democrat-Hollywood celebs preen like Trudeau. 

 

Sure is, and that's why state funded broadcaster CBC is fawning over them right now....a Canadian must have won something.

[cannuck]

14 hours ago, taxme said:

So, just where or how does Putin pose a threat to free speech in Russia? Just curious.  

Putin did not get to be the de facto wealthiest person on this planet from his meager couple hundred bux a month KGB salary!   ANY attempt at expressing political opposition to Putin, or ANY attempt to compete with "his" business (mostly Rosneft, but he reaches into virtually EVERY pocketbook in Russian business) will be met with persecution, prosecution, imprisonment or disappearance.  He makes Joe Stalin look like a rank amateur in the business or dictatorship.

There is/was some documentary(ies) about Uncle Vlad, and they are not even close to how severe he is.  One of my business associates had been working at a very high level in the oil business there from early Garby to after Yeltsin.  When Putin turned his attention to his client company, he packed up his entire office and staff and got them the hell out of Dodge literally overnight.  He explained to me that it was out of real expectation of none of them living through the forthcoming "business takeover" by Putin's people (almost everything he does is through shadow companies theoretically owned by a handful of close friends).  This was at the time that the bunch of new billionaire oligarchs started getting involved in politics, but all seem to end up in jail (usually for "tax evasion"), out of business or just plain gone.  When the smoke cleared a few years later, there was only one gunman standing (pun very much intended).

 

Edited January 7, 2019 by cannuck

[taxme]

20 hours ago, bush_cheney2004 said:

 

Even when it does display such allegiance, it is often based on the usual pathetic anti comparisons to the United States.

Here is a perfect example of a typical Canadian media (state funded CBC) mindset that "trolls" America while heralding and defining Viola Desmond as Canada's "Rosa Parks", an American civil rights icon.   Poor, poor Americans...their antiquated dollars with dead presidents only dominate the entire world (dollar hegemon)...unlike the Canadian peso.

 

Canadian currency evolves while the U.S. is stuck in the 1700s

Welcome to the new Canada where our British history is slowly going down the drain here in leftist liberal french controlled socialist Canada. The CBC will always go about looking for some non white looking western person to praise over unless they just happen to be a white liberal. They attack Trump all day long but leave the Chinese communist leader, Kim Jung Ill, and the Shiek of Arabic in Saudi Arabia alone to carry on with their putting in prison dissidents and beheads people and treats women like crap. For a CBC who believes in fighting for human rights they sure like to pick and choose as to who they will go after and fight for and attack and mock. I am pretty sure that there have been many women in Canada in the past that would be much worthy of having their pictures put on a Canadian ten dollar bill. Why was this Rosa Parks never talked about in the days when I was going to school if she was supposed to be some hero in Canada. But pop, there she is! They could have easily put her on some Canadian coin instead rather than put her face on a ten dollar bill. 

I wonder if one day the presidents of Washington, Lincoln or Jackson will have their pictures removed for some unknown person like Viola Desmond? With all the hatred going on in poor old America these days over racism and anti-American riots it has to come sooner or later. 

You have that right, alright. The Canadian dollar should be called the Peso for what it is worth these days. Deplorable. 

[Zeitgeist]

44 minutes ago, taxme said:

Welcome to the new Canada where our British history is slowly going down the drain here in leftist liberal french controlled socialist Canada. The CBC will always go about looking for some non white looking western person to praise over unless they just happen to be a white liberal. They attack Trump all day long but leave the Chinese communist leader, Kim Jung Ill, and the Shiek of Arabic in Saudi Arabia alone to carry on with their putting in prison dissidents and beheads people and treats women like crap. For a CBC who believes in fighting for human rights they sure like to pick and choose as to who they will go after and fight for and attack and mock. I am pretty sure that there have been many women in Canada in the past that would be much worthy of having their pictures put on a Canadian ten dollar bill. Why was this Rosa Parks never talked about in the days when I was going to school if she was supposed to be some hero in Canada. But pop, there she is! They could have easily put her on some Canadian coin instead rather than put her face on a ten dollar bill. 

I wonder if one day the presidents of Washington, Lincoln or Jackson will have their pictures removed for some unknown person like Viola Desmond? With all the hatred going on in poor old America these days over racism and anti-American riots it has to come sooner or later. 

You have that right, alright. The Canadian dollar should be called the Peso for what it is worth these days. Deplorable. 

I hope Jackson’s image gets replaced by someone like Viola Desmond on the $10.00. 

Edited January 7, 2019 by Zeitgeist

[taxme]

50 minutes ago, Zeitgeist said:

I hope Jackson’s image gets replaced by someone like Viola Desmond on the $10.00. 

It's too bad that our dollar is not worth chit. How does a supposed great country like Canada end up with a 65% dollar? I have my suspicions. No one ever tries to explain that honestly to Canadians.

They should put on our bills ten dollar Canadian/seven dollars American like they do in bookstores. 

I do not believe that the Americans are about to change the face on their ten dollar bill anytime soon and replace it with a picture of some obscure person that no one ever heard about until a year ago. I would like to change the topic from "poor, poor Americans to poor, poor Canadians. 

[taxme]

10 hours ago, cannuck said:

Putin did not get to be the de facto wealthiest person on this planet from his meager couple hundred bux a month KGB salary!   ANY attempt at expressing political opposition to Putin, or ANY attempt to compete with "his" business (mostly Rosneft, but he reaches into virtually EVERY pocketbook in Russian business) will be met with persecution, prosecution, imprisonment or disappearance.  He makes Joe Stalin look like a rank amateur in the business or dictatorship.

There is/was some documentary(ies) about Uncle Vlad, and they are not even close to how severe he is.  One of my business associates had been working at a very high level in the oil business there from early Garby to after Yeltsin.  When Putin turned his attention to his client company, he packed up his entire office and staff and got them the hell out of Dodge literally overnight.  He explained to me that it was out of real expectation of none of them living through the forthcoming "business takeover" by Putin's people (almost everything he does is through shadow companies theoretically owned by a handful of close friends).  This was at the time that the bunch of new billionaire oligarchs started getting involved in politics, but all seem to end up in jail (usually for "tax evasion"), out of business or just plain gone.  When the smoke cleared a few years later, there was only one gunman standing (pun very much intended).

 

Are you trying to tell me that Putin wants a piece of everybody in business action in Russia? I find that hard to believe. From what I have noticed on the internet and on TV is that Putin is loved by millions of his Russian people. Documentaries produced can make up fake stories about someone if that producer of that documentary does not like someone and will try to no doubt make that someone appear as bad as a Stalin. Not all documentary's are telling it like it is. Many are made up documentary's and are full of lies to again make someone or something not look so great. Every documentary or story about Hitler is not all true. Plenty of them are made up lies like Hitler supposedly using Jewish corpses and turning them into lampshades. C'mon, really?  I could be wrong in what I said but hey what do I know. I can never seem to get the truth from anywhere these days. Just lies and propaganda. Lol. 

[cannuck]

14 minutes ago, taxme said:

Are you trying to tell me that Putin wants a piece of everybody in business action in Russia? I find that hard to believe. From what I have noticed on the internet and on TV is that Putin is loved by millions of his Russian people. Documentaries produced can make up fake stories about someone if that producer of that documentary does not like someone and will try to no doubt make that someone appear as bad as a Stalin. Not all documentary's are telling it like it is. Many are made up documentary's and are full of lies to again make someone or something not look so great. Every documentary or story about Hitler is not all true. Plenty of them are made up lies like Hitler supposedly using Jewish corpses and turning them into lampshades. C'mon, really?  I could be wrong in what I said but hey what do I know. I can never seem to get the truth from anywhere these days. Just lies and propaganda. Lol. 

Putin's viscousness is well known by everyone in the oil business, everyone in politics, everyone in security and every diplomat out there.

You are right, though - MILLIONS of Russians DO love him.  It is Russian nature to favour the "strong man" and Putin is a pro at the politics of his country and people.

Edited January 8, 2019 by cannuck

[Iznogoud]

12 hours ago, taxme said:

Welcome to the new Canada where our British history is slowly going down the drain here in leftist liberal french controlled socialist Canada. The CBC will always go about looking for some non white looking western person to praise over unless they just happen to be a white liberal. They attack Trump all day long but leave the Chinese communist leader, Kim Jung Ill, and the Shiek of Arabic in Saudi Arabia alone to carry on with their putting in prison dissidents and beheads people and treats women like crap.

 

Do you actually watch the CBC News?  I have never seen Trump attacked or any other world leader for that matter.  I suspect that simply reporting what Trump does is an attack from your point of view.  The sad thing is that Trump is wrong so often and acts so stupidly it is very difficult to report anything positive about him.  And exactly what is the CBC supposed to do about vile dictators like Kim and MBS?  It is a news organization, not a police force. 

And you never heard of Rosa Parks?  Well, she would hardly be part of any Canadian history course so your ignorance is excusable.  And since she was an American she would be unlikely to be reported as a hero. 

[bush_cheney2004]

1 hour ago, Iznogoud said:

...And you never heard of Rosa Parks?  Well, she would hardly be part of any Canadian history course so your ignorance is excusable.  And since she was an American she would be unlikely to be reported as a hero. 

 

But that is exactly what happened in Canadian media when they announced the new $10 Viola Desmond bill.   A perfect example of cultural dominance and deference, Rosa Parks was invoked as the brave reason and example for Desmond's honour on the new bill, even though Desmond did it years earlier !

Can't make this stuff up....Canadian media often defines things in American terms to help Canadians understand their own country.

Edited January 8, 2019 by bush_cheney2004

[taxme]

19 hours ago, cannuck said:

Putin's viscousness is well known by everyone in the oil business, everyone in politics, everyone in security and every diplomat out there.

You are right, though - MILLIONS of Russians DO love him.  It is Russian nature to favour the "strong man" and Putin is a pro at the politics of his country and people.

That is because the people in the oil and other big businesses are probably crooks and so Putin does not put up with their shenanigans just like Trump does not put up with democrat shenanigans either. The only reason why I do not believe what others say about Putin is because it is the same old gang that constantly attacks Trump. The globalists. Trump and Putin appear to be the enemy of the globalists and thus they will always be put in the limelight of being very viscous people which I do not believe that they are. People must try to understand that the globalists have a lot to lose if Trump and Putin keep on winning. I do not see Trump or Putin as the enemy, but I do see the democrats/globalists as the real big enemies of America. 

Millions of Americans love Trump also. They favor a strong man like Trump and Trump is learning fast as to how politics works in corrupt American politics. Contrast that to our prime mistake of Canada who really is no strong man at all but is more like a weak pro feminist, pro gay silly ass child. My opinion.  

[taxme]

10 hours ago, Iznogoud said:

Do you actually watch the CBC News?  I have never seen Trump attacked or any other world leader for that matter.  I suspect that simply reporting what Trump does is an attack from your point of view.  The sad thing is that Trump is wrong so often and acts so stupidly it is very difficult to report anything positive about him.  And exactly what is the CBC supposed to do about vile dictators like Kim and MBS?  It is a news organization, not a police force. 

And you never heard of Rosa Parks?  Well, she would hardly be part of any Canadian history course so your ignorance is excusable.  And since she was an American she would be unlikely to be reported as a hero. 

Oh, I watch the CBC every day just to see what they are going to say about Trump today. They cannot allow an hour to go by without talking about Trump when they are reporting the news. I can guarantee you that the CBC despises Trump and Scheer also although I do not know why because Scheer appears to be a liberal. The CBC just cannot wait for the next newscast hour to start talking about nasty old Trump in a negative way. The CBC has nothing ever good to say about Trump.  The CBC just repeats and goes along with the American liberal lying media that always says bad things about Trump except for FOX News where you can get the other side of the story about Trump in a positive manner. You need to read between the lines to be able to see that the CBC has no love for Trump.  

It is the American and Canadian media that creates the lies and bull chit about Trump and they all try to take his words out of context so as to try and make him look stupid and that he lies all the time. When the leftist liberal media goes after someone whom they do not like then be prepared for the attacks and the mocking of that person. This is why the leftist liberal lying media in Canada and America should never be listened to or trusted to report real and truthful news. They lie like hell all the time.

The CBC can be anything they want to be and these days they appear to be in favor of being a politically correct media enforcement wanna be police force because they never appear to be for freedom of speech but appear to be more against freedom of speech. What the CBC should be doing is quit talking about Trump so much for a change and start going after communist and archaic religious 10th century regimes like China, North Korea and Saudi Arabia. They have committed more crimes against humanity then Trump could ever do in his lifetime. That is what the CBC should be doing but they won't because Trump is their enemy of the day and what they want all of us to believe is that Trump is behind all the problems of the world and the one who is committing crimes against all of humanity.

I have heard of Rosa Parks. She may not be a part of Canadian history but the Canadian media have no problem with trying to tell us that she was one great American hero woman and now the Canadian media have found their own Rosa Parks and are pushing her into the Canadian limelight a woman that we never heard of until a year ago. Your ignorance astounds me as to how the political world turns in Canada. But hey, what more can I say. Chuckle-chuckle. 

[taxme]

10 hours ago, bush_cheney2004 said:

 

But that is exactly what happened in Canadian media when they announced the new $10 Viola Desmond bill.   A perfect example of cultural dominance and deference, Rosa Parks was invoked as the brave reason and example for Desmond's honour on the new bill, even though Desmond did it years earlier !

Can't make this stuff up....Canadian media often defines things in American terms to help Canadians understand their own country.

Canadians are just followers of America. If the Americans do it on TV then we must also do it in Canada. Desmond was a nobody up to a year ago. Now she is a hero. Go figure. 

Canada likes to compete with America on everything. I prefer to watch American TV rather than Canadian TV. Sad to say but Canadian productions are mostly boring, with maybe a couple of exceptions, and I believe that I am not the only one that thinks like that. Otherwise if Canadian TV was all that great than Canadians would have got rid of their American TV channels decades ago. I mostly watch Canadian TV for the news and that is it. Sad, isn't it?  Canadians are very good at making things up and trying to make it appear as though Canada is better than America and that Canada is the greatest nation and show on earth yet Canadians enjoy watching more American TV than Canadian TV. I remember the old days living in Montreal and had I had a french friend who's family always watched American TV and that is where they learned how to speak English and quite well all six of them. Even in Quebec, the french watch more American TV than Canadian TV other than their own french TV channels for their news. Poor, poor old Canada. It tries to compete with America but it is not working out all that well for Canada. Don't get me wrong here. I love my country but I do not enjoy watching our politicians trying to destroy Canada every day of what once was a great proud Canadian nation. Poor, poor Canada. Just saying.