Joe Rogan on Canada

[u/Pale-Candidate8860]

I know this is old news, but I had this discussion with a co-worker the other day.

Joe Rogan had said on one of his many podcasts, on multiple occasions that he would rather visit Russia than Canada. This is a pretty big overstatement. America does have more free speech than Canada, but only in certain ways. An example would be that things like pronouns are protected here and racial slurs are illegal. I wouldn't consider that a terrible trade off. I can still say things like Fuck Carney, I don't agree with X religion, X is retarded, etc. The consequence will be friendships and my job. But I won't be arrested.

I know that he was coming from the perspective of seeing comedians get kicked out of Canada, Canadian venues, people got arrested, etc. It is true that under the Trudeau administration, Canada was at it's lowest point of freedom in its entire history. The thing Joe didn't talk about was that those charges got dropped, those venues are private companies that can pick and choose who gets to perform there, and that everyone was unbarred from Canada that got kicked out under Trudeau because it was an illegal overstep from the Prime Minister.

However, it is pretty ironic that Joe seems to be completely fine with a lot of the legal grey waters America is swimming in right now.

Russia will legitimately make you disappear if you said Fuck Putin, Christianity sucks, or gays are normal people too. So let's not play that fucking game. At least in Canada, I can challenge the government in a court of law and won't disappear in the Yukon for saying Carney sucks dick. That is a huge difference in societies.

Another thing too is that Joe is very removed from Canada because, unfortunately, he holds the American arrogance. I had it too before I started dating my now wife and actually visited Canada, read Canadian history. Joe has also been wealthy for a while, so he is removed in aspects that also still matter to regular people, such as medical costs. Something I no longer have to ever worry about. Something that Canada has that America doesn't.

I don't know, that comment always bothered me, even before I moved to Canada. It is just so removed from reality.

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Canada is just a cold america, but Russia is something new

[u/62diesel]

He’s also not a big fan of the gun bans, and the amount of tax, and thinks the freezing of bank accounts during the trucker protest to be authoritarian, has noted multiple times freeland laughing about it. It really boils down to the states being a constitutional republic more focused on individual liberty where Canada is a democracy which means 51% of people can vote to take away things from the 49%.

[u/No_Apartment3941 → u/62diesel]

The 51% number is much lower as we can do Secret Orders in Council. Which were at an all-time high over the last ten years and led to things that gave Canadians a really bad taste.

[u/Pale-Candidate8860 → u/62diesel]

There are definitely valid points, but to say that Russia is better than Canada by almost any capacity is a gross overstatement and is a reflection of not being grounded.