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I couldn't resist this title...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/3/2108163/-My-new-Fourth-of-July-tradition-is-getting-so-stoned-I-think-I-m-Canadian
My new Fourth of July tradition is getting so stoned I think I'm Canadian
Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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Sunday July 03, 2022 · 12:53 PM EDT
I like holiday parties as much as the next guyso long as the next guy is Howard Hughes circa 1975. As such, I was unlikely to celebrate this Fourth of July with anything approaching the requisite vim or vigor.
The fireworks freak out our dogs, I dont eat anything with nitrites, and even before COVID transformed me into a quasi-translucent proto-Gollum, I wasnt much for the kinds of soirees where people show up at your house just because you asked them to. And thanks to the duly prescribed laws and regulations of the state of Oregon, which Ive called home for the past seven years, cannabis has made me lazy and sapped my will to live
within 10 miles of another human being.
But hey, thats just me. Cavorting through elysian fields of sticky-icky bud in lieu of grinding against shirtless louts in Dave Matthews Band mosh pits is my choice and prerogativeand thats what America is all about. Or, at least, what it used to be about.
I have to admit, celebrating the Fourth of July this year feels a bit like breaking a ceremonial bottle of champagne against the half of the Titanic that hasnt sunk yet. The Supreme Courtwhich believes the states cant regulate gun ownership, must regulate women's bodies, and will have to act on their own if were to do anything about climate changehas begun to sap my enthusiasm for our grand 246-year-old experiment. The fact that five current SCOTUS justices were nominated by Republican presidents who originally lost the popular voteand were confirmed by a grotesquely undemocratic Senate that gives Wyomings 580,000 residents the same representation as Californias 39 million residentsisnt helping my mood any. Nor is the very real possibility that SCOTUS may decide partisan legislatures in heavily gerrymandered states have more right to choose your president than you do.
For some reason, the thought of permanent white Christian minority rule isnt thrilling me this July 4. I used to think the U.S. was basically Canada with worse health care and marginally less Alan Thicke, but while were finding hell portals into the dark past, Canada continues to protect its citizens hard-won individual rights.
But hey, Im an Americanfor better or worse. And until the thousand-year Trumpian Reich hangs me for sedition, Ill stay and fight. Its what patriots do. But not on July 4. On July 4, patriots get baked out of their gourds while yearning for better daysdays that, ultimately, hinge on what we do today.
So celebrate in the manner in which youve become accustomed, and then sober up and come out swinging. And maybejust maybewell one day be just as great as our neighbors to the north.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)I've never see that, and I've seen Dave a few times.
Pretty damn well-behaved crowds, and no mosh pits.
Not that I mind mosh pits. Or at least I didn't from 15-35 yo or so, I was in many
Edit: oh, wait, I just got the joke. It was irony.
BTW, great article!
RainCaster
(10,884 posts)That was two weeks ago, best time ever.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)John1956PA
(2,655 posts)It is interesting that the beverage is spelled "Whisky" in Canada, whereas it is spelled "Whiskey" in the U.S.
rubbersole
(6,698 posts)CrispyQ
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EYESORE 9001
(25,941 posts)Toothless louts pummeling each other on ice with curved sticks. Horrifying.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Wild blueberry
(6,636 posts)Thank you.
Lil Liberal Laura
(228 posts)They'll force health care on us and not even allow our Gawd-given, Constitutionally-guaranted right to go bankrupt paying for it!
tavernier
(12,392 posts)Seriously. Waiting for the guy right now.
kedrys
(7,678 posts)Except I ordered mine this past Friday because Canadian person. *puff puff pass*
treestar
(82,383 posts)Do we really know Canada? Why do we think it's a paradise?
I bet they have their own problems.
What is the white population of Canada? Any chance it is an even greater percentage than in the US? (Brexit taught us Britain is 80% white, while we are 60% or so, and that the rural/urban divide is similar).
I've heard it said that if the US had no POC, it would have the best social safety net ever - I think that is true, but would that be why Canada, etc., has that? That they are much more white?
Progressive dog
(6,904 posts)https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/aboriginal_rights/
They've had the right to choice since 1988.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Canada
Apparently,the grass is always greener on the other side.
treestar
(82,383 posts)googling population of Canada by race:
Total population
Canada: 38,436,447 (Q4 2021) Ethnic origins: 72.9% European 17.7% Asian 4.9% Indigenous 3.1% African 1.3% Latin American 0.2% Oceanian
Yes, much whiter than the US.
OMGWTF
(3,959 posts)A Canadian said that living next to the US is like when your neighbor's car alarm constantly goes off. An American replied, "At least you're not locked in the car."