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we don't need to. we could annex canada for logging or whatever, but why do that when we can just buy the product cheap from y'all and you pay for their health care
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Jonny 290 posted:we don't need to. we could annex canada for logging or whatever, but why do that when we can just buy the product cheap from y'all and you pay for their health care americans can't even stop killing each other, what makes you think they can annex anything? I mean I understand you've been bombarded with propaganda all your life but come on
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I think you're misconstruing my posts as things that I actually support and believe in. I'm telling you what the positions are of the government that rules us are. if you're just going to keep saying i've been cucked by right wing propaganda there's not much more discussion to be had
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american government couldn't even manage a tariff on canadian aluminium
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canada's crowning contribution to the space race was the big arm on the space shuttle, which was designed to steal soviet spy satellites from orbit
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My settler colonial nation is actually better than yours you see!
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Jonny 290 posted:canada's crowning contribution to the space race was the big arm on the space shuttle, which was designed to steal soviet spy satellites from orbit the soviets won the space race anyway
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Oct 4, 2020 23:12
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great contributions today smoka
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SmokaDustbowl posted:russia could come down from alaska through the yukon and northwest territories lol yeah i remember the battle of anchorage 
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all these things that the american government/military supposedly can't manage are just things they are choosing not to manage, because it doesn't help them get richer or more powerful. but if we want to blow some poo poo up, you better believe we still got bombs and they still work
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Jonny 290 posted:canada's crowning contribution to the space race was the big arm on the space shuttle, which was designed to steal soviet spy satellites from orbit we covered this thing in elementary school and we're supposed to be so proud of it lol
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i wanted to work for SPAR so bad when i was a kid. they had an office in my city too
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:we covered this thing in elementary school and we're supposed to be so proud of it lol hey, you also have the canadair regional jet
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well there was the arrow, and my fil hates embraer and alyays says air canada should stick with bombardier aerospace is cool
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canada used to have a really strong aerospace industry, and indeed a pretty outsized high tech capability in general (nortel, rim, etc) before stephen harper decided that the only canadian industry worth supporting was digging poo poo out of the ground
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rip rim jobs
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Sagebrush posted:canada used to have a really strong aerospace industry, and indeed a pretty outsized high tech capability in general (nortel, rim, etc) before stephen harper decided that the only canadian industry worth supporting was digging poo poo out of the ground
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Bored Online posted:rip rim jobs
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Oct 5, 2020 07:14
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state support wouldn’t actually have saved any of those tech companies. their products sucked and they couldn’t adapt. that is capitalism doing the thing it’s actually supposed to be good at, allocating resources away from terrible money pits and forcing institutions to eventually face reality
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rjmccall posted:state support wouldn’t actually have saved any of those tech companies. their products sucked and they couldn’t adapt. hmm yes i can't think of any cases where the state subsidizes an otherwise unprofitable company that makes bad products, that's not a thing
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obviously the state can keep inefficient companies limping on forever, or just pay them to turn into completely different companies. but then they’re just big government contractors, not part of a large, robust tech sector. and like every other big government contractor they would be shithole money pits where good ideas go to die
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like i get that you have a personal narrative where a big bad conservative pm personally ruined the canadian tech industry by refusing to support it but it actually died because it has never more than a couple companies with temporarily successful niches. those companies calcified around their niches and became market failures. that kind of calcification becomes structural in an institution; it’s not unfixable, but it takes actual leadership and a willingness to break with the status quo. both of those are undermined by someone just throwing money at it specifically to stop anything from changing
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drawing the conclusion "of course we can annex canada" based on the argument "just look how many bombs we have" is very much the recipe for all the american military failures over the past 70 years writ large. otoh i understand the impulse to state the problems in as large a form as possible, since the much more likely outcome, that things will slowly but deliberately get worse without any real cataclysmic events, is more distinctly depressing.
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canadian aerospace was done long before harper. i'm p. sure boeing had bought MD and shuttered their plants by 2003. so was nortel. rim arguably had their heyday during his filthy reign, but lots of other canadian tech sector companies were already flaming out by the late 90s/early 2000s. you can blame him for being a kitten eating monster, but he didn't kill the canadian tech industry
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Canada has a thriving real estate industry.
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it doesn't help that there are like three cities, and only two of them anyone wants to live in if they don't speak french
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Canada has a thriving real estate industry. come buy our oil and trees pls
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Cold on a Cob posted:come buy our oil and trees pls throw in some seal blubber and we’ll talk
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President Beep posted:throw in some seal blubber and we’ll talk look rob ford is dead and he isn't coming back ok?? 
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Cold on a Cob posted:look rob ford is dead and he isn't coming back ok?? his brother is stil around though. god dammit do not hold out on me!
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Bored Online posted:rip rim jobs lol
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President Beep posted:his brother is stil around though. god dammit do not hold out on me! his brother is a vaguely humanoid rat, idk what you want but it ain't gonna be seal blubber
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infernal machines posted:his brother is a vaguely humanoid rat, idk what you want but it ain't gonna be seal blubber 
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infernal machines posted:his brother is a vaguely humanoid rat, idk what you want but it ain't gonna be seal blubber oh lol. i assumed he was a ruddy, amorphous blob too
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rob ford: fat and ugly as gently caress doug ford: gently caress
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canada has dutch disease w real estate exports they cant have any industry because they have their own currency and too much real estate should expropriate imo
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lol kaylee mcenany is dancing the covid jig
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Roosevelt posted:lol kaylee mcenany is dancing the covid jig
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justice continues to be served
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