The U.S. boycott remains strong. Why many Canadians are digging in their heels | CBC News
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Seriously. I have too many American friends who are confused when I tell them I have and will have no interest in going down to America, even if it’s just to visit them, for the foreseeable future and they wonder why.
Could it be because your country was having open public discourse on the merits of annexing us? Or maybe that I don’t want to get thrown into an ICE concentration camp for no reason?
My inlaws are dual and living in the US. Very surprised and confused why I was still upset about it.
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Not just the threats, but the deafening silence from Americans in general about it (outside Lemmy) is something we will not forget for a generation.
What gets me is that no one seems to be mentioning exactly what it means that US is entering their ‘Papers please’ phase, and that supporting a fascist state isn’t a very Canadian thing to do.
Not wanting to be hassled at the border, or having our sovereignty threatened is an understandable reason for avoiding the US, but it’s also pretty selfish.
I wish I see more people, and Canadian news media talking about the bigger side of it as in ‘We don’t support fascism’
That should be an integral part of our identity, especially if we want to ensure the Conservatives stop trying to normalise maple maga ideals.
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Is lemmy.ca redacting naughty words now?
When instances block words, I normally see it as “removed”. I think that @lost_faith@lemmy.ca might’ve self-censored?
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Is lemmy.ca redacting naughty words now?
not that I know of, I just rather let the reader inject their own word there
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When instances block words, I normally see it as “removed”. I think that @lost_faith@lemmy.ca might’ve self-censored?
exactly, you fill in the word that best fits for you
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Is this “us tech” in the room with us now?
Yes.
There is likely a device running US software in the room you are in.
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Yes.
There is likely a device running US software in the room you are in.
It was a psychiatric question. Zoooom.
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Brudda, it’s a geniune question. The article talks about physical products.
It wasn’t only tactical whataboutism, it was literal verbatim whataboutism.
That is the very specific method to get me to dismiss you.
I’m wondering how it going on other fronts i.e the non-physical.
No, you’re not. You’re attempting to undermine the central message of the story.
A real answer would be appreciated instead “I’m on high alert and will interpret any answer I see as malevolence”.
Something that you could have looked up. But oh no, you had to deliver a whataboutism turd of a comment.
You’re fooling absolutely no one.
Brudda.
What? There’s absolutely no way we can interpret intent in this case - this could genuinely be a fair question asked in good faith.
“What about US tech?” could be interpreted a number of ways, from “are Canadians also divesting from US tech?” to “But Canadians aren’t divesting from US tech, what about that?”. There’s no reason to believe this person is going after the latter case here when “ok that’s retail, how’s tech doing?” is equally likely and imminently reasonable.
I’m fine to get dog piled here but I think you’ve assumed bad faith where there is no reason to make that assumption, especially after the user attempted to disambiguate in exactly the way I’ve described.
I’m also curious to see how Canadian usage of American tech companies has changed. I wonder if it got more people to quit Twitter finally.
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Interesting that they would be confused at all. I have an interest, because Canada is cool, but I won’t be visiting anytime soon because I know we are the worst and nobody is going to want us there. I also don’t want to deal with assholes at the border, even though I’m a US citizen they have carte blanche to do anything they are in the mood for.
Honestly, we’re generally fine with individual Americans that are respectful. Not many of us, if any at all, will be rude towards you unless you’re an openly hateful Trump supporter.
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Why? Because it got personal. Trump can verbally shit his policies all over the place but once he started talking about annexing (invading) Canada then the citizenry took notice. This is not a boycott hand in hand with the government of Canada. This is a boycott by the people at a grassroots level and it needed no organizing whatsoever.
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Brudda, it’s a geniune question. The article talks about physical products.
It wasn’t only tactical whataboutism, it was literal verbatim whataboutism.
That is the very specific method to get me to dismiss you.
I’m wondering how it going on other fronts i.e the non-physical.
No, you’re not. You’re attempting to undermine the central message of the story.
A real answer would be appreciated instead “I’m on high alert and will interpret any answer I see as malevolence”.
Something that you could have looked up. But oh no, you had to deliver a whataboutism turd of a comment.
You’re fooling absolutely no one.
Brudda.
You’re like the caveman who thought they saw eyes in the bushes only for there to be a clearing behind it.
Stay on high-alert all the time. I’m sure it will do you good.
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I divested from US tech decades before it was cool.
Pepperidge farm remembers! (Is there a famous canadian farm one could use in this meme?)
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You’re like the caveman who thought they saw eyes in the bushes only for there to be a clearing behind it.
Stay on high-alert all the time. I’m sure it will do you good.
You’re like the caveman who thought they saw eyes in the bushes only for there to be a clearing behind it.Stay on high-alert all the time. I’m sure it will do you good.
Translation:
You’re not engaging with my whataboutism on my terms. Whaaaaaaaaaaa!!
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Honestly, we’re generally fine with individual Americans that are respectful. Not many of us, if any at all, will be rude towards you unless you’re an openly hateful Trump supporter.
I’m finding all Americans distasteful these days. They have a taint these days.
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I totally understand the boycott and cheer you guys on, but do ya’ll not watch/play any American media?
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Pepperidge farm remembers! (Is there a famous canadian farm one could use in this meme?)
Uhh… Probably don’t want to use that one.
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I totally understand the boycott and cheer you guys on, but do ya’ll not watch/play any American media?
Sometimes, though I have been prioritizing CBC originals lately I’m still finishing Handmaids Tale
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I totally understand the boycott and cheer you guys on, but do ya’ll not watch/play any American media?
Yup, and I set up a Jellyfin server.
I started it before all the Trump stuff and was using it for stuff that couldn’t be found on streaming services, but since Trump decided to threaten Canada those are all cancelled and it’s a full-on pirate’s life for me.
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I totally understand the boycott and cheer you guys on, but do ya’ll not watch/play any American media?
Only sort of facetiously, it’s all filmed up here anyway.
Yes, the tech and media giants are harder to avoid. Ali Express has left a lot to be desired as an Amazon replacement, although I haven’t quite given up. For streaming, CBC Gem is publicly funded. The boycott is mainly targeted at physical products.
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I totally understand the boycott and cheer you guys on, but do ya’ll not watch/play any American media?
I steal my US media, I have ad blockers blocking ads.
