• i_love_FFT@jlai.lu
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    22 days ago

    Anyone who’s not at least a bit disgusted by their own country needs to learn more about their country’s history.

    Fuck the Catholic Church and old Canadian governments creating boarding school for indigenous people! It’s impossible to be blindly proud of Canada, but it’s still an awesome country.

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      22 days ago

      No. It isn’t. I don;t know why it is so hard to distinguish that the country is the government, The people are just people.

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        22 days ago

        Because that’s simply not true. A country is not its government. Look at literally any revolution in the entirety of human history and that’s an obvious fact. The peoples, the cultures, the social norms that give a country the distinct feel that defines what it is survives beyond any given government.

        The Canadian government works for, or at least is supposed to work for, Canada. It is not Canada in of itself. I’m so sorry that you feel so disenfranchised that you seem to believe otherwise, but we collectively decide what out country is. No elected official gets to decide it for us.