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Canada to vote to change the lyrics to national anthem

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/05/31/ottawa-to-hotly-debate-o-canada-lyrics-in-wake-of-dying-mps-bill.html
i can't believe this. changing the lyrics to our national anthem to be more "inclusive" get me out of this country. maybe i'll apply for assisted suicide lol. maybe the liberals should focus on stabilizing the economy and making the canadian dollar on par with the american dollar so i dont have to spend extra on things i wanna buy.

June 2, 2016

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WontPostMuch

@alwaysthere: No, I called you a dumbass because instead of responding to my original post in this thread, you responded to my joke alluding to a famous copy paste story (kinda like if you had taken a joke about the Gorilla Warfare copy paste seriously) and acted as if me assuming your gender somehow contradicted my beliefs. It was such a lazy response with no merit.

Just look at your most recent response! When I point out you routinely refuse to engage in more advanced talk about your views and opt for snarky comments and echo chambers, you respond with "It's not me that lives in an echo chamber, it's PC people!" That's the lengthier, wordier way of saying "no you!" You know your responses are devoid of any substance when "no them!" is a much shorter but equally descriptive summary of your views.

Reply June 14, 2016 - edited
AlwaysThere

@wontpostmuch: you called me a dumbass for no reason. you can piss off if you dislike me so much. also its the pc people that live in echo chambers. pc people just block people and talk crap to people who they disagree with. yea and you were talking about me in that post. stop trying to downplay yourself.

Reply June 14, 2016 - edited
WontPostMuch

@alwaysthere: No, you didn't really say anything about the points I made. You responded to a joke I made to someone else (lol) and then that I referred to you as a "he." Not that I'm expecting someone who has such a poor understanding of monetary policy to be able to do much more than make snarky comments about people they assume are PC, but you can't act as if you're actually making any meaningful statements or promoting any discussion.

This is why people like you annoy me so much. They just post links to websites that are echo chambers of their own beliefs, make some poorly informed statements like "Why are we focusing on X when it's Y that really matters?" when x has no impact on whether we also focus on Y. Instead of responding to serious posts, you single out specific things, belittle someone (in this case, assuming I'm PC even though I'm not) with bad attempts at being snarky and use this as confirmation that your poorly formed beliefs are validated. I'm not annoyed you "disagree" with me (even though, tbh, you haven't really said anything of substance that I can really disagree with), I'm annoyed you are incapable of having an actual conversation and so rely on mocking people instead of ever challenging your beliefs.

Reply June 14, 2016 - edited
AlwaysThere

@wontpostmuch: lol resulting in name calling. also hate is such a strong word. it seems that you are mad, go to r/circkebroke and vent about how some stranger on a forum disagreed with you. i always wonder why its the pc crowd that results in name calling others.

Reply June 14, 2016 - edited
WontPostMuch

@alwaysthere: I'm not very PC dumbass. That said, I hate anti-PC whiners like you way more.

Reply June 14, 2016 - edited
AlwaysThere

@wontpostmuch: who said that i was against assisted suicide? also lol at you trying to act all pc but are labeling me as a "he" without even knowing my true gender. gg.

Reply June 14, 2016 - edited
natalie

does anyone even know all the lyrics to the song let's be real here

all throughout elementary and high school i just sang what i knew. now i have no idea what comes after the first four lines

Reply June 4, 2016 - edited
WontPostMuch

@chema: There is no doubt that at this point OP wished he had done more than get upset about lyric changes. He wished so much that he could apply for assisted suicide, but he himself had petitioned against them!

Reply June 4, 2016 - edited
Chema

@alwaysthere: "i'll apply for assisted suicide lol"

Please, deliver

Reply June 4, 2016 - edited
WontPostMuch

Lol @ anti-PC people being just as sensitive as the super PC people they loath. Can't go one day without hearing someone whine at how things are changing and they are always super sensitive about anything that is different from their own views. At least PC people have a point most of the time.

Also lol @ thinking that changing national anthem lyrics is somehow preventing Canada from strengthening their dollar when this has been an issue that all countries have been struggling with. Lol @ being unaware that the process of changing national lyrics has next to no impact on national fiscal impact.

Lol @ how due to the American job market report today, the American dollar actually fell and how Canada having liberal politicians had nothing to do with it. Funny how the market has a bigger say than governments as a whole with things like this. But then again, if OP gets butthurt about stuff like this, expecting them to understand what role the Canadian government actually has in being able to impact the strength of the American dollar is being even less realistic than they are.

Funny how people who are irrationally proud of their beliefs end up having the dumbest reasons for supporting their cause, but are so unaware of it, they try to be smug and snarky.

Reply June 4, 2016 - edited
UpcomingNerd

I think Canada has bigger issues in wasting tax payer dollars than this drop in the bucket. Did you see the actual bill for hotel costs, to house the Syrian refugees? Or our pretty boys PM flare for spending tax dollars in style on his trips around North America? The audits they cost the Canadian citizen to police their own corrupt government and ideas.

As far as changing who we are as a country to abide by social standards, well that is Canada in a nutshell. We have and always will be a front runner in making a change for equality.

Reply June 3, 2016 - edited
AlwaysThere

ahh yes the infamous "okay" response. totally normal from people who have nothing valuable to add to the table.

Reply June 3, 2016 - edited
Readers

[url=http://i.imgur.com/YPvlHsTh.jpg]Sounds like something from Futurama.[/url]

Reply June 3, 2016 - edited
AlwaysThere

@mochapk: thats not the point. the point is that the government is wasting money on something so small that doesn't even need to change. inclusiveness my ass lol canada is a first world country not some third world country like north korea or hell even the middle east where ppl get murdered for opposing the government/religion of that country.

Reply June 3, 2016 - edited
MochaPK

"Trying to further gender equality? Disgusting. I can't believe all these PC white knight social justice tumblr activist warrior (did I miss anything?) politicians trying to make the world feel more equal. Pathetic. Grrrr! Angry! Roar!"

Reply June 2, 2016 - edited