The current state of the Canadian Forces
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Haha in so many ways. All my foreign friends get fat here. I'm still fit because I know the evil ways of the griddle haha
Alcohol culture is hard on some people, too. I'm not sure Canada is much different, really, but my European friends had said that the States are more intense and less social about acohol, in some ways. And it throws them.
I was referring more to the media landscape. The States can be poisonous to our celebrities.
It's infinite money but infinite demands, and a shallow, vicious market and that's poisonous to weird, quirky Canadian celebrities. He went from Vice to Fox to making a pretty solid netflix movie, to internet stardom, deplatforming and spiralling.
That could have never happened in Canada. He'd be way poorer but he'd have far more adulation. No one would have turned on him either, Canadian celebrities really aren't important enough for anyone to bother deplatforming them.
Canada's a bit better for alcohol culture but it's still quite solitary due to taxes, zoning, and the echoes of puritanism in our government. The Europeans are used to having a local place where they can expect to encounter a large amount of their community and have a drink, North Americans really don't have that available to the same degree and our alcohol habits tend to be less social as a result.
The lack of the social aspect is what makes it more intense.
Oh, I agree. I was just throwing out multiple ways in which the scale and heterogeneity of America create a landscape that can have unexpected pressures, and often lacks the controls and buffers that tighter-knit societies offer.
What scares me about Canada is that it's going the same way.
The idea of "at least you have your community to fall back on" is going by the wayside with families being scattered due to shocking increases in real estate prices.
You can see that in the homeless crisis and the fentanyl crisis as well. The loss of community is devastating for a people.
The tighter-knit the society, the more effective the society.
I hate to say it, and I know everyone has friends across all kinds of divides, but... This is kind of why all functioning states are ethno-states. Everyone else is living on borrowed time.