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Some American travelers are ‘flag jacking’ and Canadians are livid (www.cnn.com)
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (9 children)

What if we would rather be Canadian but can't afford to move, and aren't special enough to breeze through immigration? What if we wish BC and the Pacific states could join forces and be a chill, socialist coast? Baja can come too.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    What if your grandmother had balls?

    Fix your country so you don't have to wish you were part of a more civilized one. Don't spread your pollution into our lands.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Sorry bud, I didn't ask for my country to take this turn. I voted and worked against it. But then the election happened and funding got cut and I got laid off. It's really hard to fight the system when you're out of work, running down your savings and faced with literally $3500 of medical bills in the last 2 weeks with more to come and no diagnosis yet.

    You might consider that lots of us are just as horrified at the US as you are, and that being a jerk at those that share your opinion doesn't cast you in the most positive light.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The warning signs of what's happening now started off in the 80s. By the end of the 90s the sounds of the jackboots marching in lockstep were just around the corner. It's now 2025. We're talking over a third of a century (some might argue half a century!) of rising fascism.

    What did you do in that time? You voted? Here's a cookie. Did you primary the fuck out of the old folk's home that is an American political party? Or did you think voting for a pre-fabbed choice was enough?

    Sorry, I don't care how horrified you are at the state of your nation. All y'all had a significant fraction of a century to catch this and turn it around and you did precisely:

    1. Sweet.
    2. Fuck. And...
    3. ...All.

    So don't come to Canada. Clean up the shit you let pile up around you for, and I can't stress this enough, AT LEAST A THIRD OF A CENTURY instead.

    And frankly, if an American saw me in a positive light, that would be something that tarnished my reputation as far as I'm concerned.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well, I was born in the 80s. In the 90s I was a kid, and in the 2000s I became an adult. Since then I've worked for unions, political campaigns and social services nonprofits, along with mutual aid/community organizing in my off time. I worked for young candidates in primaries who got NO party funding with tons of local support get murdered by incuments who got DNC dollars. Most recently it was a food bank, but funding disappeared with USDA's DOGE-ification so I'm out of work, with weird shit going on in my junk and rapidly mounting medical bills. Living in the US can be very rough when you're trying to make it better.

    If you want to pin all of these problems on the random American person who happens to be on your side then that's your business, but around my parts we call that being myopic and prejudiced. If I get Canadian citizenship I'm moving next door to you and being a perfectly polite neighbor.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    You misunderstand. I don't care about the random American person who is "on my side". All y'all fouled your nest. That's on you and on you to fix. I don't need the kind of people who soil their nests moving into my nest, capiche?

    As far as I'm concerned these days, being American is a lethal disease and a highly contagious one at that, as any examination of Alberta would currently show.

    Or the UK.

    I don't want any of you in my nest. For any reason.

    No, check that. Your immigrants? Your black populace? Certain elements of the LGBTQ+ crowd (especially the T contingent)? I'll welcome them, the victims of your increasingly-less-nascent fascism, with arms open wide. But the rest? Get to fucking work and clean up your fucking mess.

    And this applies doubly to America's so-called "left". All y'all spent so much time language policing and infighting, to the point that organized labour, the shock troops of the left, started voting right, that you let the Nazis win. And now that the mess you enabled and you didn't properly fight (but hey, at least you got personal pronouns into the conversation ... just in time for the right to use them against you!) has overwhelmed you, you want to move to MY country and do it all over again?

    Fuck that noise. Clean up your mess. Stay Down South™.

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