It’s blatant extortion now.

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    6 hours ago

    Bro calm down.

    Life in canada is legit not that different from life in the USA. You guys would be blue af anyways so it’ll mostly stay the same.

    I swear, most of you people make it obvious how little you know about the US. It’s as though all your ideas about it come from news articles that exist to make money off of your anger and misconceptions.

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      6 hours ago

      I don’t know a lot about America. I’ve only visited maybe a half dozen of your cities and maybe been on American soil maybe 10 times in my whole life. I’ll tell you what I do know, please feel free to correct me if I make a mistake:

      I know you don’t have universal healthcare. I know you don’t have a specific carve out against hate speech or calls for genocide in your first amendment. I know you have no limit on money in politics. I know you have 2 year election cycles instead of laws that prevent campaigning for more than 12 weeks before an election. I know you have school shootings. I know you have laws restricting abortion. I know you don’t legally recognize the existence of Trans people, never mind their rights. I know we had legal gay marriage on the books 10 years before you did, and the way things are going we’ll have it another 10 years after you overturn Obergefell. I know your banking system sucks, putting profits before people, and couldn’t protect you from the 2008 crash as well as ours did because we have actual regulation. I know you don’t have the same environmental protections. I know you want people to assimilate and “become” American in a melting pot instead of honoring everyone’s right to embrace their history like our mosaic.

      And I know you don’t allow your conquered territories like Puerto Rico and Guam to vote, so who gives a shit how liberal we are?

      I like America, and Americans, fine. But you were right there, a short drive away if I wanted to live like you. I don’t. Why is it not a big deal that that choice might be taken from me? (edited this last line to not jump the gun. Not like fighting has started and the whole point of this was to show I wasn’t overreacting)

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        5 hours ago

        So, you know everything that the news outlets have told you so they can make money off of your anger and sense of superiority.

        When you were in the US, realistically how different was it from being in Canada? Be honest.

        I can say that when i went to Canada as an American, it felt pretty much the exact fucking same. Lol.

        I didn’t get sick, though. I would absolutely support taking over Canada so you guys can help us get universal healthcare.

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      6 hours ago

      You’re the one being overly influenced by social media when you’ve been so brainwashed by extreme American exceptionalism that you don’t even understand the concept of countries anymore.

      Just think about what you’d do if a foreign military invaded your country. That’s the same as what other countries will do.

      We’ve heard Americans say “we’ll be greeted as liberators” before. No you won’t. You’ll be greeted as a foreign military invading a country. Americans will die if you don’t get with reality about this. There won’t be an ocean between you and this particular war. There would be a probability that you’ll become collateral damage in a drone strike.

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        5 hours ago

        You’re the one being overly influenced by social media when you’ve been so brainwashed by extreme American exceptionalism that you don’t even understand the concept of countries anymore.

        Holy crap 😂

        Cognitive dissonance is insane among you people. It’s like you get physically distraught over the crowd being wrong because you can’t rise above your herd mentality.

        Anything to avoid admitting you let other people do your thinking for you.

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          3 hours ago

          What are you going on about? Are you saying the word of the president is worthless and therefore should be ignored? It’s just a joke?