Living Person 🇨🇦

The Iranian people just to govern themselves.

They also report that the presence of Russia, China, & USA in their country makes it impossible.

It would seem that the regime’s nuclear focus (if real) is underpinned by their country being the proxy site of battles btwn 3 superpowers.

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uhhhhh Steve
You commented on my 🇨🇦 thread

That’s how we met, right here

Thanks for elevating the discussion

Won’t be responding to you anymore; you’re not able to stay on one point and are a breath away from turning this exchange into something that’s a bit too low rent

#BuhBye Steve-O 🚲

If you’d like to start a separate thread about Canada, feel free. That’s not what we’re talking about in this thread but you can do your own thing, have fun.

I did — I receive your point. My post was intended to add to the discussion.

Darling
We’re talking about American CULTURE

You’re using flawed logic. The “yes but” is feebly used to try to distract or undermine an argument.

American CULTURE is well understood the world over, as is Canadian culture. Since you’re, uh, Cdn, you’ll remember how we’re regarded as being polite.

Loving people while railing against a regime is allowed everywhere — except when it’s Israel.
🇺🇸 has done wrong for many decades but it doesn’t translate to hating Americans.. tho not a fair comparison… but ppl have been taking issue with 🇮🇱 for many years. That should not be called anti-semitism.

Sir

Begging you to make one small, barely discernible but traceable feature each time there’s a lie.

If you’re up to it, a second gesture for state-of-the-past rants and rambles would also be awesome but those are easier to spot.

The Lie-O-Meter is for posterity.

An important addendum:

Americans — even the most frothing and conspiratorially-minded — should send their most cynical representatives to Canada and watch us do elections.

I guess I’m saying that your post may be referring to AMERICAN elections.

Up here, we have hardly any problems.

I won’t be watching, but DAMN

🏆 Massie

Canadians — and many (most) global cultures are able to freely use the word “we.”

Americanism is all about “I” and “me.” When Americans watch intl news (few do) they’re surprised at how The World *really* feels but they are introduced to the self-centredness that is the USA’s trademark.

You’ve missed the point.

The thread pointedly discusses American CULTURE.

Your reply segues beautifully to another point (addressed in the thread but I’ll highlight again): Americanism has weaponized the notion of “individual” — ie. a defensive posture means that you think the post is only abt YOU

It doesn’t happen all that often anymore but Bill Maher is right: the #SOTU is performative; it’s kingley cosplay where the USA treats one man like he’s a monarch and applaud every fart. It isn’t necessary and should be done away with.

Do not watch the #SOTU, America’s kingly cosplay where everyone pretends that having a president nears being governed by a god.

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Hey, yah — where *IS* that (probably white, probably young, probably Christian, probably Republican) would-be assassin ..?!

my GAWD don’t “GET READY”

DO. NOT. LAY. DOWN.

Posting online IS NOT ENOUGH.

You have to be as relentless AS THEY ARE.

Organize. Get members of your church together and rent a van and drive to a state still cloaked in darkness if you have to but don’t hunker down like cowards. GET OUT THERE FFS.

“Donald” is all of you; Donald is the inevitable American, forged in decades of grievance, intolerance, and entitlement.

ps. read Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias.” It’s 45’s face lying in the sand, while none of you remain, and the lone and level sands stretch beyond the horizon.

…ourselves from getting sucked into the vacuum of your toxic addiction to tribalism, within & without your borders, as you descend into civil war. Don’t think for 1min that the global effort to lock you out is well underway & when you try to bully us into helping we’ll have but one thing to say:
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…kiss your gold-plated rings.

So.

Is Canada disappointed?

Yes.

Profoundly.

If there’s a silver lining, it’s that your nation’s tasteless-approaching-inhumane response makes us just not give a fuck about you — collective “you” — anymore. You’re not worth it. We’ve only to protect…
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…whether it’s all the manufactured things available for cheap or all the tasty food that kills but is someone else’s fault; whether it’s the “right” to litigate a child’s right to know themselves or a coast-to-coast requirement that The World kneel before you at a hockey game and…10/

..self-knowledge or self-reflection.

THAT is why some who read this will feel offended. They’ll want to say “but I didn’t vote for him!” & then waddle off to the nearest Target looking for deals made by impoverished hands overseas, & foods high in trans fats.

Yours is a culture of gluttony…
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..illiterate while claiming to know all things is no surprise to us. The surprise is that so many of you look at your leader as an anomaly.

We do not.
We see an inevitability. We see a long-anticipated cherry topping a grotesque sundae of decadence and irresponsibility, wholly lacking in…
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..when you don’t get it, the non-Americans are at fault.

Perhaps never before in human history has there been a culture so absent of grace. We know this: The World knows this & has known it for a long time.

That so many of you are shocked that you’ve a leader who is gaudy, selfish, & nearly
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..is that it is ALL OF YOU, collectively, that create a CULTURE. Not voting for 45 offers no absolution: you — the plural “you” — house a feeling & world view that is discernible on any intl flight or small restaurant anywhere: wherever you go, you demand acknowledgment, reverence, service and..
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The World has never liked you. Your unabashed & full frontal braggadocio is just making it easier for us to be loud about it.

Are there “good” Americans. Well… sure! Of course there are. We’re wise enough to discern the difference btwn ppl & politics but what Americans don’t seem to understand…
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…quietly loathed for a hundred years.

Canadians have long-since stopped feeling a measure of backhanded pride upon discovering yet another American tourist with our flag or maple leaf sewn to their backpack. It’s an open secret that even Americans abroad understand:
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We’re devastated. Truly. We’re proud beyond description of our athletes.. and devastated. This national grieving should inform the human story but the depth of our feeling only serves to propel the anti-Olympic, fully-realized, 100% pure distillation of true American culture that the world has…
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Canadian here.
Professor: THANK YOU.

We, collectively, have been struggling to find the right words. You have found them.

But, for naysayers, who would point & decry “sour grapes!” re: the thoughts that follow, let me first say (prior to addressing the graceless depravity):
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