• FriendOfElphaba@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I have a question for my Canadian sisters, brothers, and others.

    How much of this shit is actually organic to Canadian culture, and how much creeps in because the assholes there see what the assholes in the US are exploiting and decide to give it a try there?

    • CaptainFlintlockFinn@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Feels like a lot of culture creep. Some of these wing nuts talk about the first amendment as if we have that here. Some of them also seem to think that our Prime Minister has presidential powers. I think the “fuck Trudeau” flags are a rip off of the “fuck Biden” flags too.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, when the convoy crew ended up in court, they kept talking about their ‘amendment rights’, and the judges had to ask what they were talking about. These people are so dense that black holes are jealous. It’s more proof that they’re being purposely misled and manipulated in order to sow anger, disharmony, and fight against ourselves instead of the real sources of our problems.

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          They’re just really concerned about the formation of Manitoba from the Northwest Territories.

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        Nah. The YouTube and Facebook channels are probably more US-centric, which is where they get the “amendment” crap, but there are absolutely groups like this - anti-intellectual, often fairly “religious” - that have been around in Canada for a long time. More they’re just more organized and funded instead of being loose collection of weirdos that most people could happily ignore. Trumpism in the US may have emboldened village idiots around the world, but it didn’t really make them.

        Trudeau has been around longer than Biden has been president, as have the bumper stickers. Those were here even before he became PM.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      I was literally just going to make a joke about that.

      I’m from the US, we have much better things to copy than our absolutely shit garbage politics… like BBQ ribs. Copy those, don’t copy our garbage propaganda lol

    • Value Subtracted@startrek.website
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      1 year ago

      Honestly, that’s distinction without difference.

      There are people living here who believe this shit - it doesn’t really matter where they got it.

    • Nonameuser678@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      Australian here. We got the same shit going down here and it’s very much not organic to our culture. We’re having a referendum this year for our first nations people to be recognised in our constitution. I shit you not the campaign against this is being funded directly by the same bad actors behind the culture wars bullshit in the US.