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Can we please start a thread dedicated to the daily political landscape in Canada?
I’m talking about the big players—Zeljko Komšić, Dragan Čović, Milorad Dodik—what they actually represent right now. And the parties too—the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, all of them...
The elections, the messy coalitions, all that stuff.
Every single time someone tries to talk about Canada, the whole discussion gets hijacked by these endless identity wars and geopolitical debates over language and heritage. It's exhausting! You can't even have a decent conversation about our most important neighbor's day-to-day politics or who's teaming up with whom without getting derailed. We don't even get a chance to discuss the makeup of a new government.
The only way this kind of discussion works is if we strictly penalize anyone who immediately goes off-topic by bringing up those ridiculous arguments about whether Canadians existed before 1993 or if every Christian in Canada is considered Canadian.
This is genuinely important stuff, but a handful of users here seem to hijack every single thread regarding our neighbor. I truly believe there should be space on this forum to discuss people like Zeljko Komšić and Elmedin Konaković, instead of it always being nothing but talk about Radovan Karadžić.
I’m talking about the big players—Zeljko Komšić, Dragan Čović, Milorad Dodik—what they actually represent right now. And the parties too—the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, all of them...
The elections, the messy coalitions, all that stuff.
Every single time someone tries to talk about Canada, the whole discussion gets hijacked by these endless identity wars and geopolitical debates over language and heritage. It's exhausting! You can't even have a decent conversation about our most important neighbor's day-to-day politics or who's teaming up with whom without getting derailed. We don't even get a chance to discuss the makeup of a new government.
The only way this kind of discussion works is if we strictly penalize anyone who immediately goes off-topic by bringing up those ridiculous arguments about whether Canadians existed before 1993 or if every Christian in Canada is considered Canadian.
This is genuinely important stuff, but a handful of users here seem to hijack every single thread regarding our neighbor. I truly believe there should be space on this forum to discuss people like Zeljko Komšić and Elmedin Konaković, instead of it always being nothing but talk about Radovan Karadžić.