• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    23 hours ago

    If Canada is smarter than America, they will deal with this decisively. It’s one think to be a big dickhead online, screaming for revolution. It’s a whole other thing to be meeting with representatives of a hostile government who has made many threats of invasion. That’s fucking treason, and Canada should deal with it right the fuck NOW, and send a clear message to future traitors. Don’t wait to see if it gets worse, like we do here in America, deal with it preemptively.

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      20 hours ago

      Their leader is an international banker.

      They definitely are not smarter than we are, just a few years behind the enshittification curve.

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          11 hours ago

          And yet, still going down the same path as the US with regard to their political and economic situation.

          • RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca
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            10 hours ago

            We have concerning overlap, but what the last decade has shown is that Canada is culturally, politically and economically different from the US. And we want to remain so.

            Your facile comparisons have all the insight of a high school bong session.

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        19 hours ago

        Our current party is currently lead by a former international banker who is now PM. We don’t have a “leader”. And by all metrics (I’m assuming you’re an American from your use of the ‘Royal We’ in this case, since everything is about America to you) “We” are smarter, and not a few years behind.

        Let me use the ‘Royal We’ from our country. “We” say, fuck you you fucking hoser and get bent. America bends, Canada won’t.

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          19 hours ago

          Their leader is an international banker.

          … in a trade war. Stupid like a fox.

          They definitely are not smarter than we are

          We do present differently, though.

          Do we think that more than 46% of us read above a 6th-grade level? Yes, at 87% ‘scoring PIAAC level 2 or higher’, so that’s one metric. Most tertiary education? We’re doing a little better there, too (65% vs 51%). Electing pedos? Still eking ahead; and I’m calling that an intelligence test.

          But you can surely find areas where Canadians don’t score highly, and that’s going to be okay. We don’t need to be the winner.

        • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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          11 hours ago

          Canada won’t.

          Yeah, that’s what we said back in 2008, when we elected a guy who gives good speeches but is making sure his rich golf buddies get the lion’s share of the wealth.

          But I’m sure that won’t happen in Canada. Totally.