I pirate them

Also why? (You probably said this but wanted to add my words) Unless you want your country to be batted around you need to stand strong. Is it for the best? Maybe not. Can we win? Probably not. But fighting authoritarian despots is needed to be a proper democracy. We can’t bow down to fascism.

I’d rather pay more (or way more) and give the middle finger to the US government, fucking despot ruler. We need strong allies now and not our neighbors.

I do understand how some could not afford this luxury and I hope our government would help them through these times, because I think that’s part of why I pay taxes to help the people who have less. I only wish it was more inclusive to help us grow as a country and tell others we helps others.

This is not the way things work. I don’t think there is a dislike of the population in general, and in real life, if you’re spending your money, no business is going to refuse or mistreat you.

Cutting everything that we can identify as American. UK has better TV. Foreign films are often better than the “blockbuster” junk out of Hollywood.

Trumpi America can go fuck itself!

Fuckin’ right! Trailer Park Boys!

I’m boycotting them for life. ♾️♾️

The quarterwit Muricans have no fucking clue how petty and grudge-holding we actually are.

Yeah the stench of Trump lingers on 70 million Muricans.

Lemmy is Canadian so there is that. My next phone will be a nothing or fairphone.

I’m not visiting canada because I’m afraid to come back. American border security gives 0 bucks about citizenship anymore

I believe it was someone on Lemmy that suggested it to me, but no problem in passing it on.

we are?

It’s usually italicised, I.E removed

Lemmy.ml has a long list of no-no words, so a fun way to wind them up is to actually type an italicised removed, and let them think you said something entirely different.

I cut Netflix years ago when they started filling it with self-produced content. We don’t watch Disney or Amazon. TPB is fine but there is a lot of other Canadian content that you might not have been exposed to. There’s a ton of great Quebec cinema for instance. In fact Denis Villeneuve is one of the top director’s in the world atm.

We’re going through a backlog of asian movies at the moment. Watched a bunch of Bollywood recently and Tamil cinema. On Hong Kong cinema at the moment. Will be moving on to Korean cinema after that. We don’t watch that much so we’re set for the moment.

When all of this started it became clear that the US media, owned by billionaires/millionaires, was supressing the Canadian identity (just look at how the attacks against Canada are laughed at on Colbert/Kimmel who are supposed to be on the left). We decided to excise US media for the time being. It wasn’t difficult and we’re happier tbh

Pettiness and grudge-holding are more of a human condition than a national one, yet I agree with you.

Ew.

No.

Considering what consuming American culture has done to Americans, it’s probably better not to ingest any of that fucking swill.

Look, fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain, and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger, and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy, he thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and a tiger had him for dinner.

And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations—and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there weren’t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do.

And from those humble beginnings we learned to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favors the paranoid. Even here in the twenty-first century you can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now, we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.

All that is to say, categorially, no shit Sherlock. Way to summarize our inheritance with a snarky comment. I hope your brain released endorphins on your behalf when you post this drivel - then at least someone can appreciate your hard work, but you’re neither clever, original, kind, or creative. You’re just also seeing eyes somewhere in the bushes that aren’t there too. OP had every reason to call you out for your asinine response; you’re a nexus of singularly offensive manners accompanying a lame username. Probably a good idea to take a mental health day from the internet.

Why many Canadians are digging in their heels

Because every level of american government has failed to do it’s job of maintaining stability and have instead allowed a handfull of racist, bigoted, psychopaths to start wars, disrupt trade, and directly deal pain and death to their own people.

Is the news so slow that the CBC even needs to ask?

Canada first, rest of the world second, US never.