They are subjects and they like it that way.
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Freedom is not a binary. Americans cede a lot of personal autonomy to the government.
The degree to which they do is contained in all the laws and regulations of the land.
Small example, I was surprised to find out how much autonomy land developers had in the Canadian suburb of a major metro that I grew up in. My dad made all the design decisions in the houses we grew up (hideous houses). But you can’t do that in any of the places I’ve lived in in the US.
Let’s remember eminent domain exists in the US.
@xenon said in They are subjects and they like it that way.:
Freedom is not a binary. Americans cede a lot of personal autonomy to the government.
The degree to which they do is contained in all the laws and regulations of the land.
Small example, I was surprised to find out how much autonomy land developers had in the Canadian suburb of a major metro that I grew up in. My dad made all the design decisions in the houses we grew up (hideous houses). But you can’t do that in any of the places I’ve lived in in the US.
Let’s remember eminent domain exists in the US.
No, the author makes a very good point in how Canadians and Americans look at freedom.
I'm past the point of being mildly irritated with the U.S. Federal government and how much freedom has been taken away from our citizens. I'm not to the point of a shooting war, but I think we'll get there sooner rather than later.
As Americans, we are born with our rights. No principality or government can confer those on us. That's why so much if our Constitution and Amendments explain what the government cannot do. As we have aged as a country, it is a natural and destructive nature of man to ascribe more power to government and no government is ever content with the amount of power it has. It's why a wise man once said the Tree of Liberty needs to be watered occasionally with the blood of tyrants.
And as an American, I bemoan the loss of much of our state power to the Federal government. The Founders never meant for us to have such a powerful centralized government. As an old farmer once told me, the Feds ought to defend the shores, deliver the mail and stay the Hell out of people's lives.
As for eminent domain, I understand the concept and have no problem with the concept. The problem comes when the basic concept is abused by government, again, in an usurpation of authority and power that should not have been given to the government.
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Canada is a constitutional monarchy - so all power, on paper, has to come from the sovereign. Even though in practice they have none.
But the guy in the article says something to the effect of, let’s not be surprised when the government decides to go totalitarian in an “emergency” because of that.
Recent U.S. President’s have even pretty quick to make up their own rules because of an “emergency”.
Sure, the origin story Canadians and Americans tell themselves are vastly different - I don’t see that much daylight in how they operate though.
My day to day life has been pretty similar in the US and Canada.
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Canada is a constitutional monarchy - so all power, on paper, has to come from the sovereign. Even though in practice they have none.
But the guy in the article says something to the effect of, let’s not be surprised when the government decides to go totalitarian in an “emergency” because of that.
Recent U.S. President’s have even pretty quick to make up their own rules because of an “emergency”.
Sure, the origin story Canadians and Americans tell themselves are vastly different - I don’t see that much daylight in how they operate though.
My day to day life has been pretty similar in the US and Canada.
Canada is a constitutional monarchy - so all power, on paper, has to come from the sovereign. Even though in practice they have none.
More accurately, Canada is a Parliamentary Democracy.
We ceased being a Constitutional Monarchy during the 1920’s in the aftermath of the King Byng Affair.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/king-byng-affair
The United Kingdom is a Constitutional Monarchy but the former Dominions of the Empire, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, are Parliamentary Democracies that recognise the British monarch and her/his representative as their nominal head of state.
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The US has a plenty long record of denying various folks their supposedly inalienable rights. Ask any interned Japanese or Native American.
It's a nice ideal, but it is not consistently practiced.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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Yeah, but at least we're ashamed afterwards and often try to make amends.
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Oh, I see the lad is ready to start again.
TNCR rules?
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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The US has a plenty long record of denying various folks their supposedly inalienable rights. Ask any interned Japanese or Native American.
It's a nice ideal, but it is not consistently practiced.
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@Jolly said in They are subjects and they like it that way.:
Oh, I see the lad is ready to start again.
TNCR rules?
Like I said, think again. My point is that feeling ashamed and making amends to aboriginal peoples and Japanese internees and their descendants is not exclusive to the USA.
So you can put your sabre back in its sheath.
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We don’t obey in this country.
How many of you know someone who died needlessly from COVID because of ignorant 'Murrican values?
Fuck this guy. From the morons who invoke their "rights" to eat dewormer paste and get deathly ill instead of get a damn shot to the morons who invoke their "rights" to have safe spaces and get co-workers fired because they consider height a micro-aggression, we don't need any more rights in America. We're children run amok and breaking shit in Pier One because our parents have a soft touch. We need responsibilities, personal and social.
Show me what you're doing to practice responsible citizenship out there in the world. If you are, please double down, because we have a shortage. If all you're doing is demanding your "rights" be honored, shove your exceptionalism and your rights firmly up your ass.
Please love yourself.
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We don’t obey in this country.
How many of you know someone who died needlessly from COVID because of ignorant 'Murrican values?
Fuck this guy. From the morons who invoke their "rights" to eat dewormer paste and get deathly ill instead of get a damn shot to the morons who invoke their "rights" to have safe spaces and get co-workers fired because they consider height a micro-aggression, we don't need any more rights in America. We're children run amok and breaking shit in Pier One because our parents have a soft touch. We need responsibilities, personal and social.
Show me what you're doing to practice responsible citizenship out there in the world. If you are, please double down, because we have a shortage. If all you're doing is demanding your "rights" be honored, shove your exceptionalism and your rights firmly up your ass.
@Aqua-Letifer said in They are subjects and they like it that way.:
We don’t obey in this country.
How many of you know someone who died needlessly from COVID because of ignorant 'Murrican values?
Fuck this guy. From the morons who invoke their "rights" to eat dewormer paste and get deathly ill instead of get a damn shot to the morons who invoke their "rights" to have safe spaces and get co-workers fired because they consider height a micro-aggression, we don't need any more rights in America. We're children run amok and breaking shit in Pier One because our parents have a soft touch. We need responsibilities, personal and social.
Show me what you're doing to practice responsible citizenship out there in the world. If you are, please double down, because we have a shortage. If all you're doing is demanding your "rights" be honored, shove your exceptionalism and your rights firmly up your ass.
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I’ve always felt that way too many Americans focus on “rights” and I have long championed a “Bill of Responsibilities” to temper people’s perceived “rights”.
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Personally? I know4 people that have died from COVID. 3 had Type II Diabetes and all had Vitamin D deficiencies.
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And you’ll agree when you get older… When the shit hits the fan is the moment when you most need to hold to simple and basic ideals and is not when you suspend your ideals for the “common good”.
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Rights that can be rescinded on a Governmental whim aren’t rights.
Love ya, Aqua, but I feel Hunter nailed this.
The Brad
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@Aqua-Letifer said in They are subjects and they like it that way.:
We don’t obey in this country.
How many of you know someone who died needlessly from COVID because of ignorant 'Murrican values?
Fuck this guy. From the morons who invoke their "rights" to eat dewormer paste and get deathly ill instead of get a damn shot to the morons who invoke their "rights" to have safe spaces and get co-workers fired because they consider height a micro-aggression, we don't need any more rights in America. We're children run amok and breaking shit in Pier One because our parents have a soft touch. We need responsibilities, personal and social.
Show me what you're doing to practice responsible citizenship out there in the world. If you are, please double down, because we have a shortage. If all you're doing is demanding your "rights" be honored, shove your exceptionalism and your rights firmly up your ass.
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I’ve always felt that way too many Americans focus on “rights” and I have long championed a “Bill of Responsibilities” to temper people’s perceived “rights”.
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Personally? I know4 people that have died from COVID. 3 had Type II Diabetes and all had Vitamin D deficiencies.
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And you’ll agree when you get older… When the shit hits the fan is the moment when you most need to hold to simple and basic ideals and is not when you suspend your ideals for the “common good”.
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Rights that can be rescinded on a Governmental whim aren’t rights.
Love ya, Aqua, but I feel Hunter nailed this.
@LuFins-Dad said in They are subjects and they like it that way.:
Rights that can be rescinded on a Governmental whim aren’t rights.
Post of the day.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in They are subjects and they like it that way.:
We don’t obey in this country.
How many of you know someone who died needlessly from COVID because of ignorant 'Murrican values?
Fuck this guy. From the morons who invoke their "rights" to eat dewormer paste and get deathly ill instead of get a damn shot to the morons who invoke their "rights" to have safe spaces and get co-workers fired because they consider height a micro-aggression, we don't need any more rights in America. We're children run amok and breaking shit in Pier One because our parents have a soft touch. We need responsibilities, personal and social.
Show me what you're doing to practice responsible citizenship out there in the world. If you are, please double down, because we have a shortage. If all you're doing is demanding your "rights" be honored, shove your exceptionalism and your rights firmly up your ass.
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I’ve always felt that way too many Americans focus on “rights” and I have long championed a “Bill of Responsibilities” to temper people’s perceived “rights”.
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Personally? I know4 people that have died from COVID. 3 had Type II Diabetes and all had Vitamin D deficiencies.
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And you’ll agree when you get older… When the shit hits the fan is the moment when you most need to hold to simple and basic ideals and is not when you suspend your ideals for the “common good”.
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Rights that can be rescinded on a Governmental whim aren’t rights.
Love ya, Aqua, but I feel Hunter nailed this.
@LuFins-Dad said in They are subjects and they like it that way.:
@Aqua-Letifer said in They are subjects and they like it that way.:
We don’t obey in this country.
How many of you know someone who died needlessly from COVID because of ignorant 'Murrican values?
Fuck this guy. From the morons who invoke their "rights" to eat dewormer paste and get deathly ill instead of get a damn shot to the morons who invoke their "rights" to have safe spaces and get co-workers fired because they consider height a micro-aggression, we don't need any more rights in America. We're children run amok and breaking shit in Pier One because our parents have a soft touch. We need responsibilities, personal and social.
Show me what you're doing to practice responsible citizenship out there in the world. If you are, please double down, because we have a shortage. If all you're doing is demanding your "rights" be honored, shove your exceptionalism and your rights firmly up your ass.
- I’ve always felt that way too many Americans focus on “rights” and I have long championed a “Bill of Responsibilities” to temper people’s perceived “rights”.
I hear ideas like that from a whole lot of people who only mention it after I bring it up first. Just sayin'.
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