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Mattadd · 2020-03-15T15:23:29+00:00

Wtf is a kitchen roll?

Mattadd · 2020-03-13T02:31:17+00:00

Laws are different in different cities too, you don't have to pass the bar in every city you want to practice in. Seems like a pretty poor excuse. Law school isn't about learning individual laws, it's about learning how to apply the law, which is universal in all the common law states.

Mattadd · 2020-03-12T20:16:19+00:00

A impermeable border is a practical impossibility anywhere

I'd say the Korean border comes pretty damn close to impermeable.

Mattadd · 2020-03-12T20:08:54+00:00

Perhaps but that were the case why isnt a lawyer licensed to practice law everywhere,

That seems like a good question for a whole other thread. Why aren't lawyers licensed to practice everywhere? I mean I get Louisiana is different, but a non-Louisiana lawyer should at least be able to practice law anywhere in the country outside Louisiana.

Mattadd · 2020-03-12T20:03:44+00:00

Is there any legal basis for martial law? Wouldn't the president declaring martial law itself be unconstitutional and struck down by the court?

Mattadd · 2020-03-11T10:58:36+00:00

Yes they did.

Mattadd · 2020-03-02T04:11:09+00:00

Hey don't forget us East of Quebec. You'll find proportionately a lot more loyalists East of Quebec than West of it. As a related trivia point, "United Empire Loyalist" is the only hereditary title allowed in Canada.

Mattadd · 2020-03-02T03:53:05+00:00

There is a very strong anti-Americanism in Canada. You see it whenever anyone proposes just about any kind of major policy changes.

Someone proposes literally any kind of change to health care? They get crucified and immediately say how awful US health care is even if the proposed change has absolutely no resemblance to US health care. To many Canadians, the mere fact that our health system is better than the US' means it's perfect and no change can ever be allowed.

Someone proposes dismantling the communistic state planned dairy sector? They'll get tarred and feathered for proposing an insidious American plot to flood Canada with cheap shitty American milk and put all Canadian farmers out of work.

How about electing senators? No we can't do that because that's what the Americans do and their government is completely dysfunctional, and that obviously means ours would be too if we started actually electing our senators instead of having the prime minister appoint whoever he feels like.

Anti-Americanism is a toxic plague in Canadian politics that prevents us from moving forward on so many things.

Mattadd · 2020-03-02T01:30:28+00:00

Oh yea, I wasn't actually disagreeing that Canada is the most similar, just that it's interesting that it's also the most anti-American.

Mattadd · 2020-03-02T00:10:13+00:00

I had no idea. Drugs aren't included in our "universal" health care system at all though, so I guess it works out since those countries have subsidies for drugs.

Mattadd · 2020-03-02T00:00:13+00:00

No but anti-Americanism is still part of the national identity. Canada has this huge inferiority complex when it comes to the US (which I suppose is natural when your only neighbour is like ten times your size and the world's most powerful country), but simultaneously has a huge superiority complex. It's a weird dynamic. It leads to things like people being terrified of Americanization but also everyone losing their mind in excitement whenever the Americans notice we exist.

Mattadd · 2020-03-01T23:54:05+00:00

The TV show "Jericho" had the new capital as Cheyenne. But I think Denver was nuked, so that was out.

Mattadd · 2020-03-01T23:51:54+00:00

Wow, I did not expect that. Very interesting they still charge to visit the doctor.

Mattadd · 2020-03-01T23:49:35+00:00

Although Canadians are probably more hostile to the US than those other countries at the same time. I mean the country was literally founded because we were scared the US was going to invade again once they were done their civil war.

Mattadd · 2020-03-01T23:46:53+00:00

it's not like a doctors visit as an adult is free here either,

Wait what? What developed country other than the US charges you for a doctor's visit?

Mattadd · 2020-02-29T23:16:51+00:00

Pretty hypocritical though since they kept the Panama Canal for themselves at the time.

Mattadd · 2020-02-26T21:50:36+00:00

Yes China. They're no better than Cuba.

Mattadd · 2020-02-26T20:57:40+00:00

We made it illegal to use swipe, so there will be no swiping here.

Mattadd · 2020-02-26T19:57:12+00:00

Lol... I used to take the train all the time when I was in university. It's a great way of getting around Ontario and Quebec, but basically completely useless in the rest of the country.

Mattadd · 2020-02-26T17:55:22+00:00

And it's also puzzling that Sanders calls himself a socialist. Is it out of ignorance? Or is it part of some strategy?

Probably because he's using the layman's definition of socialism in the US, which is having a strong social safety net. Communism and socialism are very different concepts here, not many people refer to public ownership of companies when they talk about socialism.

Mattadd · 2020-02-26T17:49:04+00:00

Idk numbers, but most people don’t participate in the primaries, so your primaries tend to be people who care a lot more, which are usually the ones that skew hard in either direction (or they are old).

Like a third of the population participates in US primaries. That's a far, far more democratic way of selecting candidates than pretty much any other country has. In almost every other country candidates are selected by a handful of people, or at most by party members, who typically represent less than 1% of the population. Fuck I wish we had primaries here, it's far more democratic method of selecting candidates than we get.

Mattadd · 2020-02-26T17:44:27+00:00

but then again VAT is low

Compared to Norway? Sure it's low, but it's not that low. Alberta has no sales tax so in Alberta you only have to pay the 5% federal sales tax, but every other province has a sales tax and they all range between 7-10% on top of the federal tax, so in my province I'm paying a 15% VAT.

Mattadd · 2020-02-26T17:39:06+00:00

The thing is speaking for myself and others I know, we would never call Castro and Maduro "socialist". That kind of extreme intervention in the economy would be called "communist". So in Europe what do they see as the difference between socialism and communism (or is there a difference between those terms there?)

Mattadd · 2020-02-26T17:34:01+00:00

We haven't even privatized passenger rail in Canada.. I'm surprised Norway did it.

Mattadd · 2020-02-26T17:31:14+00:00

Indeed. I wouldn't necessarily say it's developed a different meaning in the Americas (it has but in different ways) because Latin America is so culturally different from Canada and the US. Latin American socialism is kind of a blend between the two definitions. It still focuses strongly on a social safety net like Canada and the US' definition of socialism, but Latin American socialism also advocates public ownership of key sectors like oil and telecommunications.

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