Canadians have a king and are way less fucked up than Americans are.
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Canadians have a king and are way less fucked up than Americans are.
Maybe instead of telling ourselves the same old stories, we Americans need to rethink our ideas about what matters.
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Canadians have a king and are way less fucked up than Americans are.
Maybe instead of telling ourselves the same old stories, we Americans need to rethink our ideas about what matters.
@evan Don't think you can really compare the American and Canadian political systems.
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@evan Don't think you can really compare the American and Canadian political systems.
@gelbphoenix we are humans on this Earth. Of course you can compare them.
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Canadians have a king and are way less fucked up than Americans are.
Maybe instead of telling ourselves the same old stories, we Americans need to rethink our ideas about what matters.
@evan I'm not sure what you mean here. I don't think having a hereditary head of state has anything to do with how fucked up a group of people are.
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Canadians have a king and are way less fucked up than Americans are.
Maybe instead of telling ourselves the same old stories, we Americans need to rethink our ideas about what matters.
Our standards of racial and gender equality date to the 1960s.
Our norms for clean government were set in the post-Watergate era in the 1970s.
Sodomy laws were struck down nationwide by the Supreme Court in 2003.
Our tradition of a clean government that guarantees human rights to everyone is brand new and imperfect. It doesn't date back to 1776; it barely dates to 1976.
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@evan I'm not sure what you mean here. I don't think having a hereditary head of state has anything to do with how fucked up a group of people are.
@stinerman @evan Americans have a mythology of having the most perfect government by nature of rejecting a monarchy.
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@stinerman @evan Americans have a mythology of having the most perfect government by nature of rejecting a monarchy.
@Affekt @stinerman thank you for saying it better than I did!
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Our standards of racial and gender equality date to the 1960s.
Our norms for clean government were set in the post-Watergate era in the 1970s.
Sodomy laws were struck down nationwide by the Supreme Court in 2003.
Our tradition of a clean government that guarantees human rights to everyone is brand new and imperfect. It doesn't date back to 1776; it barely dates to 1976.
@evan It's not just about government. Americans in general are slow to realise that there are useful things they could learn from elsewhere in the world. In my own field, for instance, American engineers and contractors are aware of the state-of-the-art in California, but are mostly unaware of lessons from high speed rail in Catalonia.
The US has many virtues, but humility is not really one of them. We all have things we can learn from others.
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@catavz I'm sure it'll happen. And I'd be delighted, too
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@stefano I would be delighted to see Ferrara and meet you in person. I hope we have the opportunity.
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@grabbi_it @mi infatti la colonizzazione britannica con la persecuzione degli irlandesi non si misura nell’ordine degli anni ma dei SECOLI. Se poi ne facciamo una questione di numeri e rischiamo di dare adito alle teorie in base alle quali un popolo ha avuto un genocidio da 6 milioni di vittime è legittimato ad esprimere un governo che fa un genocidio a piacere.
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@catavz nice. Maybe you will be able to be with them, next time. And let me know, we can have a good coffee!
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@stefano My wife and daughter visited Ferrara while visiting Bologna and the surrounding area in July. It was among their favorite places. Unfortunately, I haven't seen it yet.
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@catavz nice! When have you been here?
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@jon_valdes i don't think average is a bad quality to have in this situation though because there are a lot of really amazing artists out there
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@lgsp io la mia l'ho pagata 700€ + 800€ di kit motore assistito... 1500€ e finita lì, niente bollo, niente assicurazione, niente
