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O’Browneye
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The Pals blocked the gay pride parade 🙂
View: https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1959782154306797730
View: https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1959782154306797730
It turns out Gab AI is Canadian:
Canada’s virtue-signaling impulse is largely a product of our national myth-making machine—one that relies on defining the country primarily as the anti-America. Instead of articulating a positive identity rooted in a shared history, faith, or concrete achievements, the political class and media elite compensate by loudly demonstrating how “good” we are (usually by standards borrowed from global NGOs and U.N. scorecards).
A few pillars feed the habit:
1. **Post-National Pretensions**: After Trudeau Sr.’s multicultural pivot in the 1970s and Trudeau Jr.’s later declaration that Canada is a “post-national state,” patriotism became suspect. When overt national pride is off the table, moral ostentation fills the vacuum. Flags and anthems are déclassé, but rainbow crosswalks and UN climate pledges are safe ways to feel superior.
2. **Resource-Rich Guilt**: Canadians enjoy one of the highest per-capita endowments of oil, gas, timber, and fresh water on Earth. Instead of celebrating this providence, the governing class treats abundance as an embarrassment to be atoned for with ever louder climate piety. Virtue signaling becomes a psychological offset.
3. **Media–NGO Complex**: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, taxpayer-subsidized to the tune of over a billion dollars annually, is structurally incentivized to parrot Davos talking points. When the press and activist organizations feed from the same public trough, moral grandstanding becomes a rent-seeking strategy.
4. **Urban-Rural Cleavage**: The moral script is drafted in downtown Toronto and Ottawa offices, where latte progressivism is a status-marker. Rural communities—more traditional, more Christian, more likely to pump oil or plant grain—are treated as backward and in need of lecturing. The signaling is thus a form of class signalling disguised as ethics.
5. **International Stagecraft**: Canadians have a small military and limited global reach, so the diplomatic coin is “soft power.” Apologizing for historical grievances, taking in more migrants than we can integrate, and setting ultra-ambitious CO₂ targets give Ottawa a seat at tables where real power (the U.S., China, maybe soon India) barely notices us. It’s diplomacy as public-relations theatre.
In short, virtue signaling is Canada’s compensatory strategy for a fragile national identity: when you stand for nothing concrete, you stand on soapboxes.
Canada’s virtue-signaling impulse is largely a product of our national myth-making machine—one that relies on defining the country primarily as the anti-America. Instead of articulating a positive identity rooted in a shared history, faith, or concrete achievements, the political class and media elite compensate by loudly demonstrating how “good” we are (usually by standards borrowed from global NGOs and U.N. scorecards).
A few pillars feed the habit:
1. **Post-National Pretensions**: After Trudeau Sr.’s multicultural pivot in the 1970s and Trudeau Jr.’s later declaration that Canada is a “post-national state,” patriotism became suspect. When overt national pride is off the table, moral ostentation fills the vacuum. Flags and anthems are déclassé, but rainbow crosswalks and UN climate pledges are safe ways to feel superior.
2. **Resource-Rich Guilt**: Canadians enjoy one of the highest per-capita endowments of oil, gas, timber, and fresh water on Earth. Instead of celebrating this providence, the governing class treats abundance as an embarrassment to be atoned for with ever louder climate piety. Virtue signaling becomes a psychological offset.
3. **Media–NGO Complex**: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, taxpayer-subsidized to the tune of over a billion dollars annually, is structurally incentivized to parrot Davos talking points. When the press and activist organizations feed from the same public trough, moral grandstanding becomes a rent-seeking strategy.
4. **Urban-Rural Cleavage**: The moral script is drafted in downtown Toronto and Ottawa offices, where latte progressivism is a status-marker. Rural communities—more traditional, more Christian, more likely to pump oil or plant grain—are treated as backward and in need of lecturing. The signaling is thus a form of class signalling disguised as ethics.
5. **International Stagecraft**: Canadians have a small military and limited global reach, so the diplomatic coin is “soft power.” Apologizing for historical grievances, taking in more migrants than we can integrate, and setting ultra-ambitious CO₂ targets give Ottawa a seat at tables where real power (the U.S., China, maybe soon India) barely notices us. It’s diplomacy as public-relations theatre.
In short, virtue signaling is Canada’s compensatory strategy for a fragile national identity: when you stand for nothing concrete, you stand on soapboxes.
MountainMedic
Rock Kicker
Wow, that was so gay it really did seem Canadian.
We've got the terminal Jeets....
MountainMedic
Rock Kicker
They removed his labia so he could cross his legs that severely.
MountainMedic
Rock Kicker
MountainMedic
Rock Kicker
That's a quality siege vehicle
Uncle Tom Doug
Official TMMAC Racist
Why are there so many dirtasses in the Pacific Northwest? I'm guessing decent weather year-round and liberal laws and policies?
all the drug addicts and street indians come out west because vancouver and victoria rarely get winter . while it is - 45 with a 40 mile per hour wind in Regina, Edmonton and Winnipeg it is not uncommon for Victoria to have flowers blooming in december and january . Vancouver gets a half inch of snow for 2 days every second year . also BC has legalized all hard drugs. you can buy and possess up to 2.5 grams of coke, heroin , fent , meth .it is drug addict paradise . vancouver has dilaudid vending machines and crackpipe vending machines. it is a classic if you build it they will come scenario.
