My use of "Marxist" there was not in reference to my own politics or desired immediate outcome, but an allusion to right wing weirdos decrying anything and everything as socialism/marxism. I will take full blame for that misunderstanding but I don't see how it obscures the rest of my point.

There is no longer any meaningful left in the US or Canada... I think you meant to say there is no longer any meaningful left in the US (was there ever?) and no meaningful right in Canada. Canada is left wing as fuck these days. Budget deficits sky high, free money for everyone and the answer to an...

Nunavik is a semi-autonomous apology Inuit special administration zone the size of California located in Québec.

There are, so far as I know, no statues of Lenin there.

There are two Canadas (both alike in dignity!), anglo- and francophone... What is the origin of the stereotype that Canadians are overwhelmingly friendly and polite and Americans are not? Is it psychological, is it dialectical, is it financial, is it the liveability factor, is it artifact of its Eu...

This isn't quite what you asked, but I am still useless with imperial units and anytime I have to convert hogsheads to furlongs or whatever damn nonsense I feel like I am trapped in a Terry Pratchett novel. 16 ounces in a pound, 14 pounds in a stone, 8 stone in a hundredweight, 20 hundredweight in ...

There are two Canadas (both alike in dignity!), anglo- and franophone, the latter being significantly more metricified. We even have 24-hour clocks, a thing that apparently exists and you are allowed to use. This isn't quite what you asked, but I am still useless with imperial units and anytime I ha...

I believe the subsequent political implications of this altWWII ending in ~1950 with the same victors would pale in comparison to those of the subsequent decades of an isolationist US without the super charged manufacturing industry or the infinite political capital and influence to reshape Europe a...

@ashi: More banjo music: Look, if I wanted to get my banjo jams from Nordic novelty acts (Steve 'n' Seagulls are Finnish, Ylvis are Norwegian) I would listen to this bluegrass version of Ylvis' The Fox. [this is not mockery or sarcasm] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWp5K7JtNuo Speaking of madcap ...

Dear stereotypical ethnic urbanites please don't knock it until you've tried the right version of Country. A problem that he and I (and perhaps you as well) share is that we have an affinity for a "country music" that no longer holds any sway and is no longer evolving. Dead art forms and the termin...

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