Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "RealLifeLore"
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Yeah he did embarrass himself, even if the voiceover is a cringingly over-the-top hired person instead of him.
Actually this guy is himself Canadian, or at least he lives here, or he used to. I keep spotting the stock photos and video clips of Canada, plus the subject matter of his uploads frequently includes Canada, or centrally concerns it. For some reason he seems to think it would be a bad idea to mention it, and also that no one will figure it out if he doesn't.
Weird dude, makes a lot of errors, including factual ones. Especially crazy is the way he thinks the St. Lawrence Seaway is truly important on a world scale, like it really developed Chicago, Toronto, and the whole North American economy. It certainly is not, and it certainly did not, in that order.
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His counterparts today, now that ISIL apparently is rooted out, are the Western stooges who say we can perfect humanity. All we have to do is take away all its rights, deluge it with commands, arrest and imprison the disobedient, and strike terror into the hearts of the rest. Like ISIL, but out of Yale and Berkeley. (E.g. no men, no women, no races, but it's all about race and there are really 100+ "genders".) Stalin, from hell, 2021: "Oh, these guys are good. Really good."
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It took intelligence to come up with that thought, but in my view no megalopolises straddle the border.
BosNYwash is the only real American megalopolis aside from LA-San Diego, and no Canadians are very close to it. A few people in southern Nova Scotia are fairly near to Boston, but they're separated by ocean, which negates the nearness.
The Great Lakes megalopolis is phony. There's too much rural space between all the cities, unlike BosNYwash. Look at the south shore of Lake Erie between Cleveland and Buffalo, for example. It's a long drive. And you could point out other examples all day long.
It's too spread out. If you can call the Great Lakes area a megalopolis you can call nearly the entire continent of Europe a megalopolis. Call it an economic zone, call it a climate zone, call it an ecosystem, call it whatever, but it's just a heavily populated region, like northern France-The Netherlands-Belgium.
And never mind megalopolises, the only US metropolis abutting Canada is Detroit, next to relatively small Windsor, and the rest aren't very close. It's 2.5 hrs from Seattle to Vancouver. Again there's Cleveland, only 40 miles or less from Canadian soil, but the lake makes it seem quite far away. Trust me, next to zero Ontarians have been ever there and vice versa.
The Niagara Falls-St. Catharines region is close to Buffalo and the two areas are sort of integrated in some ways a little bit, I'll give you that.
So no, I don't see it your way, although I understand perfectly well why you thought that. I don't speak for all Canadians, but I think to most of them Canada just doesn't feel as close to the US as you would think.
You're onto something with the island idea. Canada is made up of widely separated population islands along the southern temperate belt. (Australia is similar in that way.)
Cheers and best wishes.
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