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Things I'm grateful to Canada for: • parliamentary democracy (a better stepping stone towards liquid democracy than the perverted joke of a system in the US) • the comparably limited role in offensive militarism (though that is changing for the worse) • abundance of, and prepensity towards, renewable energy • willingness to acknowledge and try to address historical and ongoing systemic injustices But—and this is crucial—I won't be celebrating Canada Day. Not because of the many many failings of Canada, from the rising corporate corruption of politics, increasing militarism of the police forces against citizens, or unfettered support for a genocidal regime. No, I won't celebrate Canada Day because the soul reason these kinds of holidays is to imbue nationalism into the citizenry. And that nationalism can be used to any means. You should always reject the urge to worship the idol of the state. It is always a revisionist idea of that country anyway. More thoughts below 👇
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A good read. I move to Ontario from London, UK 🇬🇧 in 2 weeks. This post gave me an honest insight. A lot of ppl overseas glorify North America despite it having many flaws. I am going to start a new journey in my career and even though I’m excited I will move with caution.
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Good luck with your move and with your new adventure! I’m sure you will be happy there. My only advice is to take everything the mainstream news media in the UK says with a grain of salt. They are heavily biased towards imperialism and even the preservation of the monarchy/aristocracy.
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