Good for y’all. A bunch of absolute dickheads were booing the Canadian anthem at a hockey game down here recently. Sorry you guys are forced to be our neighbors
Kinda lame to boo someone you’re bullying. Loser behavior if you ask me.
Well, it’s America. Kicking someone we’re bullying is our national past time
It’s kinda the definition of bullying…
We’ve always known this. Look at all the houses with the flags in front. Look at the military parading everywhere and the jets flying overhead during sporting events. The country is the epitome of “little dick energy”.
A weak person punches down and yet this is what America is doing.
They are unburdened with self reflection. At least it proves we’re bothering them with it.
That was probably in response to us booing your anthem, we’ve been (rightfully) doing it at every hockey game I’ve seen since Trump’s first tarrif announcement. Fuck America.
I’m sorry to all of you down there who didn’t vote for this shit. I hope you guys can make it through this, and try to fix things afterwards
Thanks. I’m hoping we can, but also I’m hoping I can get tf out of here
I’d say I want to go to Canada, but somehow yalls real estate market is worse than ours
We managed to piss off some of the most infamously nice people on the planet for no reason whatsoever.
Yep. As an American this hurts my heart, but I totally understand. The USA I grew up in is dead.
Yeah, the US is dead. I don’t see a path forward from here for the US as an intact nation. Overall, that’s probably a good thing. I’m hopeful that the different US regions can just all peacefully agree to part on friendly terms. The only real strain point I see is California being like “so, we get to keep all the water in the Colorado river basin, right? Right?” But I really think we can work that out without bullets.
While I agree with the general sentiment and am firmly in the camp of wishing for an amicable breakup, I just dont see the mass movement needed for a country to formally split. The prevailing public opinion seems to be that the country is in danger and needs saving, with each side having vastly different ideas of what that means.
Personally, I foresee the US transitioning more akin to Rome. A Republic and then gradually an Empire. I think we are in that transition now. The republic is already dead in all but ritual and I think the goal of Trump/Elon/Republicans is to begin the phase out of those rituals so that the new Empire can stand.
We have been a republic, and arguably we’ve been an empire in a republic’s clothing since the cold war. We’re speedrunning the mid-late imperial stage at this point where we stop pretending we’re still a republic (mid) and sell off the government’s administrative capacity for scrap and hand it all off to wealthy elites (late). That’s significant because along with the government blowing up it’s administrative capacity to hand it off to elites, it also destroys its legitimacy and opens the door for new, local governments to spring up. The cool thing about the US is that we already have pre-fabricated local governments ready to go, complete with their own state constitutions.
Modern power is based on more than having a bunch of people carrying swords. It’s based on having the economic capacity to build more advanced fighters, tanks, ships and having some soldiers to work it all, while maintaining the infrastructure to advance the technology that all those toys use.
The US didn’t crush USSR in the jungles of Vietnam. It crushed it in the kitchens and living rooms of Europe and much of the rest of the world.
Now Trump is attacking the very source of the US’ strength. The US never needed to occupy any of their allies capitals, to put tanks on the streets of Toronto, Manchester or Munich. NATO countries (despite Kremlin talking points) willingly joined NATO. Now, Trump wants to destroy all that because he doesn’t understand it. A real estate developer of the worst kind.
The real nail in the coffin is that about 1/3 of the people of the US are cheering him on right now. Another third don’t bother to vote. And Presidential authority is now akin to that of a monarch.
The conflict isn’t state vs state, it’s not really urban vs rural. The population is mixed. There are tons of Trumpsters in California, tons of rabid Democrats in Florida or Alabama.
I don’t think a geographic split would work.
I disagree. The US is basically 14 geographic subregions being forced to all agree on how they’re all governed. Conservatives and Democrats aren’t monoliths, and I’ve known plenty of California (and for that matter, Georgia) republicans who move to Texas or Idaho thinking it’ll be political paradise for them and end up getting called woke pinko commie scum. I think as long as things fall apart with relatively little violence, a lot of folks will self-sort into the kind of regional government they want to live in.
That’s not my experience. I have Trump hating family that retired in Florida, or work in Texas because that’s where their job is. I have raging southern “Trumpy Christian” family doing work in California or other liberal states.
I’ve seen a lot of mixture in both.
Moving is not easy. Opportunity doesn’t just pop up. And it doesn’t align with politics.
Besides, underneath I think everything is really just a class war, and the giga-rich want to maintain the Republican vs. Democrat facade. So they won’t let everything split into regions.
most infamously nice people on the planet
Do the First Nations know this?
Yeah, you got me there.
Well sure except when it comes to hockey.
The American anthem was booed at the OHL game I was at last weekend. I’m not sure why it’s played in the first place, my understanding is that we only play the American anthem when we play an American team in the NHL. The OHL is Ontario only. Maybe someone with some more knowledge can explain that part to me.
Flint Firebirds, Saginaw Spirit, and the Erie Otters are American teams that play in the OHL.
Ah, it was a Guelph vs Saginaw game. That makes sense thanks! I didn’t realize there was a few American teams.
I normally find this kind of thing petty, but there’s nothing normal about this mess… go Canada! Yay to the boo!
Yeah, but Canadian beer sucks!
Edit: it’s a reference from a movie called “Canadian Bacon”
Objectively false. Canadian beer, especially from BC, is some of the best on the planet.
I’m Canadian/British and when I visited friends in Vienna we got drunk like every day. Anyways, one of those days there a beer festival and all of us had this one beer and we were like: this is obviously our favourite and we’d like to buy lots of it. They said, sorry you can’t buy it here, it was from BC. We were so upset, we were like “why did you even show up if you’re gonna just torment us like this!” Man, I really wish I wasn’t so drunk that I forgot the beer name. I swear I asked the nice person like five times and telling myself I’d remember, lol.
I was living in London, UK for a long while and wasn’t planning on going back to Canada any time soon which is why I couldn’t just smugly taunt my friends.
A lot of beer is brewed in Canada. It’s not all good.
I hate all beer, bleh.
Rick Hillier was also trying to encourage Canadians not to boo their closest neighbour’s anthem.
Rick Hillier can fuck himself with a rusty pipe.
I’m in the US, and this is the first thing my coworker said to me this morning lol. “Did you hear what happened this weekend?” I was like, good for them.
Growing number of us Americans say to keep the Boos coming.
We need more and more of it. We need every one of these clueless dipshits who didn’t vote. I have no hope for the magats. They are a lost cause.
This^
Boo us!
I want united, seething hatred of us to permeate every bubble Americans are hiding themselves in.
Oh shit, did Canada finally remember the US are the bad guys again!?
