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Culture War Roundup for the week of March 10, 2025

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but no one can provide a coherent explanation as to why

I don’t know if they teach about “manifest destiny” in Canadian public schools, but did you ever wonder why the US never went ‘up’ like it did West?

Let’s face it, nobody would ever in a million years make Canada it’s own faction in Civilization games. Really, the logical thing would have been for the United States to annex Canada in the 60s when the British Empire was falling apart. No strong, self-respecting America would allow an independent Canada to exist, just as no strong self-respecting Russia would allow an independent Ukraine to exist. Any coherent nationalist ideology demands the annexation of contiguous homoethnic and co-linguistic territory.

Yep. I have plenty of reasons to hate trump but wanting to annex canada isn't one of them. The actual process by which he is attempting to impose sovereignty is just a complete failure though, and in fact is doing more to bolster canadian seperatism than ever before.

A smarter operator woould have gone with divide-and-conquering, treating the various canadian provinces as being separate entities and levying tarriffs on a province- y province level to negotiate with their premiers specifically, bypassing the canadian national government. The only way forwardis to convince people that they're Albertans, ontarioans, new brunswickans, etc. before they're canadian, so that eventually they might see it in the best interest of their province to leave canada and join the united states.

It wouldn't happen during trump's presidency though, and I'm pretty sure he's old and jaded enough to no longer have long-term goals.

We are taught about it as one of the reasons for the War of 1812, when the US tried and failed to conquer what would become Canada.

Rather the opposite, North America has too few countries. Quebec should be independent, California should be independent, The south should be independent as a minimum. Giant states are hard to keep together and don't work well. There is too little cohesion, decisions are made too far from the ground and the interests are too different.

There used to be a British colony, it split in 1776, then fought a war against itself in 1812 and then split again in the 1860s. The current state is that American politics is a mess with people living in completely different realities.

Am I missing the joke here?

The ACT article joke has a "no DLC" qualifier, but Canada is not in a DLC, but rather in a full expansion. It meets the criterion.

That distinction doesn't really exist anymore. Look on the Steam store page, Gathering Storm is under the DLC section.

Steam doesn't distinguish between expansions and DLC, but I take that to be a limitation of the Steam storefront. Firaxis in producing and selling content for Civ VI clearly distinguish between expansions and DLC packs. The store page for Gathering Storm reads, "In Gathering Storm, the second expansion to Civilization VI, the world around you is more alive than ever before." By contrast, the store page for Vietnam and Kublai Khan describe it as a "content pack".

The US was rather close to getting Newfoundland in 1948.

Civilization 6 has Canada as a faction. Released 2019

WHAT!?

I knew the franchise had gone downhill, but I didn’t know it had gotten this bad. Apologies to Canada I guess.

The have Australia as well, IIRC.

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