@Oakmanbearcow@shortmagsmle Bro, it's the same thing that caused people to go to northern CA for the gold rush. "Here is ok, there is maybe a fortune." Yes, many also sought things like religious freedom.
Are you claiming a significant number fled nations ruled by literal gangs? What's your thesis?
@Oakmanbearcow@shortmagsmle Not a counterpoint. Seeking opportunity while leaving an advanced civilization is not the same as fleeing a hellhole. Apparently nuance is dead wherever you are.
I’m a Canadian, and one who may never return except for funerals. My schools as a kid were pretty good about trying to form a Canadian identity, albeit one rooted in British roots. My classmates were all but one European descendants, and perhaps had the trend continued long enough it would have come to something.
Every effort of that time has been obliterated by endless waves of never-to-assimilate nons. Every level of society serves to facilitate the portfolio growth of the Laurentians at any and preferably all costs. The nation building of Confederation chucked in the bin in favour of real estate prices and the Century Initiative, because 90 million bomalians is exactly the same thing as Germans and English, or even Portuguese and Polish.
Last time I lived there you could conflate finding a product made in Canada with winning the lottery, or at least the fruits of a luxury lifestyle. Why exactly does one need 100m people when one makes nothing? Raw unfettered consumption does not form a healthy nation. At best it gets you an economic zone, and prerhaps in this regard Canada is a success.
My country has already died. The body is being scavenged for GDP. I still don’t know what to tell my son when he asks what nationality he is.
@sofiquiet59@mkhammer Try making any connection at all. You can't because it doesn't exist. Complaints about capitalism fall into 2 camps: 1) Things that exist under every economic system; 2) That it's not perfect, based on whatever the speaker things should exist
On a personal level, I am about as anti-gun as you can get. But I have clients who face years of mandatory minimum time in prison because they possessed (not even used!) a gun after having stolen $1001 dollars worth of stuff from Target, often years before—