• @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    Canada is, surprisingly enough, not part of America.

    We’re not America’s hat - you’re Canada’s asshole. /s

    • IninewCrow
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      191 year ago

      Just because we do our best here in Canada to not be like our American cousins … it doesn’t mean that a good number of us think, act and believe like our southern relatives.

      Honestly, I live in northern Ontario where we shouldn’t have so much American influence but it’s so strange to meet and talk to outright Trump supporters with ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ stickers, don’t trend on me and Confederate flags. It’s especially strange when some back woods people I know barely have any knowledge of Canadian politics but enjoy mentioning their second amendment rights and the right to bear arms (both of which is an American thing and not part of Canadian history)

      • Poggervania
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        61 year ago

        That’s extremely strange. I’m curious - in your experiences, are these usually Canadian-born people or do they sound like they could be from America?

        • IninewCrow
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          91 year ago

          It’s just the side effects of news media like Fox news.

          They probably had a bit of conservative bent to their politics to begin with but when you toss in daily hourly propaganda to these people, their ideas start to sound normal and even necessary to them.

          I also have a bunch of friends in southern Ontario around Hamilton and Haldimand region and you can’t believe the number of boomers down there who just leave Fox News on all day in the background. They watch more American news than they do Canadian and they are the same group that will call the pubic broadcaster CBC as communist or socialist. It’s amazing how powerful propaganda can be to a whole group of people. It may not fool everyone, but it fools enough of them to make difference.

          • magnetosphere
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            41 year ago

            I hate the fact that my country infects Canada with that filth. You’re wonderful neighbors, and we were already enough trouble before Fox “News” came along.

            • LucasWaffyWafOP
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              41 year ago

              I share the same sentiment. We’re a bad influence, we are.

              • magnetosphere
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                31 year ago

                Right? And not even in a “cool kid who plays by their own rules” kind of way.

                • @AngryCommieKender
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                  21 year ago

                  Well we didn’t have the best parents. Those two had been bickering do so long they have a “hundred years war”

        • @[email protected]
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          81 year ago

          There’s a significant number of them that are Canadian born. Honestly, it speaks a lot to the influence of fox news and other right wing propaganda outlets… these people weren’t the target - the propaganda isn’t even relevant to them - and yet they’re just as brainwashed as maga idiots.

    • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres
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      51 year ago

      We’re grateful for the Canadarm too. A tip o’ America’s hat for that program.

    • Maestro
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      51 year ago

      You’re not part of the United States of America, but you’re still part of the continent of North America.

    • Jo Miran
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      41 year ago

      If you are going by approximate anatomy, Canada’s asshole would probably be the Panama Canal. Y’all poop boats.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      Canada is the younger brother of the United States of America… you do everything with an eye on them… And this is not a surprise to anyone

    • @doppelgangmember
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      31 year ago

      Hey we’re both the assholes of the world, there’s enough room for two on this throne

    • LucasWaffyWafOP
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      31 year ago

      Big love to our northern brothers across the border! That said, we can’t be just y’all’s asshole. You’re forgetting that we got the perfect dangling phallus of Florida that cannot be ignored (despite our best efforts.)

    • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶
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      01 year ago

      Nice to hear from Europe-America in this thread.

      Now go play with Exotic-America and his juguetes in the corner and let the real countries talk.