warning: embarrassment alert!

It should be obvious that The Beaverton is satire, but a lot of people seem to miss the obvious, so here's the warning.

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[–] 22 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Its not far off though. They claim Canadian sales were a tiny percent of their market, yet they are all begging for it to stop

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    “…also we’re going to tariff you even more because your forest fire smokes wafting over our border (instead of helping you fight those fires).”

    God I hate my government.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    To be fair, I’m boycotting everything from the US. Alcohol just seems to have a disproportionate impact. Perhaps because it’s one of the few things where it’s easy to find Canadian alternatives?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Layman’s understanding with half an American education: After prohibition broke, alcohol was made a key flow point in our economy, so the stagnation of export is a huge drain. You see the same happening right now with cannabis as that becomes more accepted socially.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    It's more the fact that that title sounds exactly like something the actual us government would currently say.

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    [–] 22 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Satire or not, boycott the fuck out of my shitty country wherever possible! I would if I didn't live here!

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    boycott kentucky alcohol, which is home to LICH mcconnel and rand paul.

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 4 months ago

    You mean the Kentucky bourbon boycott that damaged bourbon producers so badly that one of them is basically out of business while two more have shut down production? That boycott of Kentucky alcohol?

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    Bwahahahhahahh...no.

    Honhonhomhong...non.

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago (17 children)

    Canada should be able to make their own good whisky as they have places at least as desolate and depressing as the Scottish Highlands and islands.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Or we could make other kinds of liquor. Whisky isn't the only (nor even necessarily the best) liquor in the world.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    You know whiskey is several types of drink, right?

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  • [+] [S] -10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    No. No I didn't know that. I had no idea that scotch, bourbon, rye, etc. etc. etc. were different.

    Here's a thought, Sparky, in the future don't be an insulting jackass, K? Buy-bye.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Projection is a bad look, my dude. See where the guy wasn't stepping on your dick even a little bit and you responded like he cut off your Camaro.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    There's some good stuff coming out of shelter point and a good bourbon from near Vernon, but the latter especially is hard to get even in the same region.

    We have a distro problem even when the trade barrier problem is fixed.

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  • [+] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    There are seven types of whiskey, not just bourbon, but Canada makes Bourbon style whisky that actually wins awards over that shit from Kentucky.

    https://okanaganspirits.com/products/brbn?srsltid=AfmBOopDg-udxXAGzphXcQbET4kAFzHHTZG4MGmdMUXWrqIYpVrak483

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    [–] 8 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    Americans just placed Tariffs on Canadian mushrooms. Folks need to boycott Mastercard and Visa in response.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago* (10 children)

    We need our own "Nationalized" version of the service, or maybe we can grass roots croudfund it. Frankly any basic middle man services should be in the hands of the gov. This shit isn't rocket sciance and those service funds should go to them and not some POS stakeholder

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Maybe we can name this nationalized service something like "Interac"

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    Do they do credit and similar services? Honestly I straight up forgot it was a Canada only thing

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Well you could hook it up to your bank line of credit and get all of the benefits of a credit card without the high interest rate and fees

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Yes this, Interac works very well and should be expanded to include credit, or as described by another person, link it to a line of credit.

    Screw the Americans, we need to continue the push to decouple our economies.

    There is no use waiting till the Orange Turd is gone, the elite working behind him is the real ruin of the U.S.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    our own "Nationalized" version of the service, or maybe we can grass roots [crowdfund] it

    Nope. We can't afford the dev and maintenance of our own setup, clown-funding or no. Go with whatever Europe is using, as it's like 50 countries already.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    Dev costs?? Bro the groundwork is already known this shit won't cost billions (assuming fuckery doesn't happen) , it provides us jobs and funds our gov, Fuck giving other people this money, it should pay back into the country. I like the EU but I see no reason we can't just copy existing systems and pay Back into ourselves.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    This is what Australia needs to do as well, with our eftpos system.

    The only difference between it and the American two structurally is that it hasn’t been verified or implemented for credit payments, only debit.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    The tip is in Canada. Now shove the rest in. Hard.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Would have eaten the onion.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    He is shit at poker.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Man, it sure would be funny to drive around Lynchburg, TN in one of those billboard trucks that says "DRINK CANADIAN WHISKEY."

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Not working? For who? Because Canadians buy their own alcohol+foreign and it's a win for them.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I am pushing my 9th week without alcohol. I won't be drinking any time soon, but if I do it won't be American piss beer or liquor.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago*

    I hate living in the timeline where I have to read half the article before making up my mind on whether this is satire.

    Edit: Oh, there's a warning. Good call.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Canada was our greatest ally. You don’t threaten your friends. This is the consequences of our own actions. Centrist democrats should have had this moron in prison it wasn’t a game and now the entire world is cutting ties.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (2 children)

    It should be obvious that The Beaverton is satire

    At least on mobile, there's no header that says this is the beaverton. And it wasn't until I got a third of the way through the article that I started to realize that this had to be satire of some sort and then had to look at the website name in the address bar.

    Edit: I just took another look and there is a header but it is incredibly hard to see. And I'm not entirely sure that that's not on purpose. I'm beginning to really fucking hate these satire sites.

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    And perhaps you could have read the text underneath that told you it was a satire site?

    I mean come the fuck on! Basic due diligence here! I FUCKING TOLD YOU IT WAS A SATIRE SITE! And yet somehow, in what passes for your mind, you blame the satire site for you not reading the thing that told you it was a satire site.

    Not to mention the headline is so obviously satire you have to have the reading ability of a tin of sardines to miss it.

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