When parody becomes reality.
Our existence is a refutation of the idea that the whole world aspires to be American. We speak the same language, eat the same food, play the same sports, and have more opportunity to voluntarily become American than any other group of people on Earth. The fact that we’d rather “Freeze in the Dark” than pledge allegiance to their flag contradicts the foundation of their ideology. Of course they hate us, because we are a threat to their national myth. This was inevitable. The question is, do we have the courage we need to respond to this threat?
Some of us do. I fear that far too many of my fellow Albertans are cowards who would rather squander our fiscal leadership whining than actually build a nation. The fawning over the boots of foreign owners is really sad. We were raised better than this. A fact we might remember if we hadn’t accumulated the trash that washed out of every other province for decades now.
Why the hell would we want to be part of that shit hole?
Alberta would love it.
cf. “Gilead”
play the same sports
No we don’t.
Canadian/American football became a gay sport here precisely because of the association with the US.
Football/soccer the reason anyone invested in it calls it football is because the Americans call it soccer.
We also don’t eat the same food that’s pretty self explanatory, and we speak French or the King’s English.
There’s nuance, but it’s a distinction of degrees, not of kinds.
-Canadian football is actually more challenging than American football, but it’s always had some… overtones.
-We call soccer football because the sport is called football. I was never entirely sure why they called the other game football since 95% of the time the ball is in your hands. They also have tried to learn hockey. It’s very kind of all our best players to go down there and help them not embarrass themselves.
-We both have rather eclectic food tastes (a brown English gravy on cheese curds and fries? Les Parisiens sont choqués et alarmés), although I will grant we don’t stick corn and/or corn syrup in everything and are less obsessed with tacos. We’re rather fond of maple anything and a good donair is lovely though.
-Their Cajuns speak something vaguely resembling French (let’s not get into the reason for that too deeply) and the rest of them speak something vaguely resembling English. It’s not polite to make fun of them just because they can’t spell or speak clearly, their education systems are deeply backward.
Of course. Big orange rapist sheep says baaaaaa and all the other govt sheep jump in line and baaaa baaa it goes.
They’re slowly laying the groundwork to say that Canada has lost the privilege of sovereignty and that their invasion is needed to save us. I have little doubt they’ll eventually find some silly reason to justify needing Canada because in American exceptionalism, they always deserve to get whatever their whims demand.
Then again, it may not be. Now that’s News!
