Anytime literally anything happens, they’re there to spin it to a PR pitch.

Like, I don’t disagree that it’s critical. I want it. FPTP is idiotic.

But the relentless single-mindedness is to the point where I don’t even need to check the username anymore. The fediverse is a small enough space that one person (or small group sharing an account?) can really saturate a channel.

Just to head the idea off at the pass: there is no material version of “90 day fiance” permanent residency for Canada.

If there is one thing I can promise you, it’s that you don’t have to tell Canadians not to fall for it. Annexation is a non starter, there is literally no argument that could be given regardless of validity. The fact that any promises are obvious lies is wholly irrelevant.

I think what people don’t understand is how incredibly petty Canadians can be.

The Canadian population will accept things getting 25% worse for themselves personally if it means things get 5% worse for the people that inflicted it. With these terriffs, there is an asymmetry of effect… But there is also an asymmetry in the amount of pain that can be stomached by the populations as well.

If the two countries find themselves dragged into an “economic winter”, there is one population significantly more familiar and comfortable with the idea of riding out the winter.

I can imagine the typical household plumbis will vex future archaeologists

Initially read as “eaten”. Disappointed when I re read.

For many, the answer is “yes”, because it’s perfectly easy and incredibly comfortable. Why sacrifice the immediate gratification of what they’re doing now with literally anything else.

Accurately count the occurrence of the letters in a word of their choosing

Yeah. I understand the sentiment, but considering the conservative attempts (and limited successes) of creating tiered citizenship in Canada already… This a is real Pandora’s box that we’d be opening, which could actually hurt actual Canadians, to send a message to someone who couldn’t care less.

Some redneck spray painted shit like “go home” on a Mosque in my rural hometown. Like, literally illiterate levels of redneck. I think they literally spelled “Canada” wrong in one of the messages.

When people saw it in the morning, the community SWARMED the mosque with cleaning supplies to scrub it off. All the school kids made posters saying stuff like “You ARE home”. By noon, the mosque was cleaned and windows plastered with the posters the kids made.

Kinda pissed me off that the national headlines neglected to mention the community response.

Made me realize pretty early on that ragebait sells and the media knows it.

There are probably countless instances of communities banding together that you’ll never hear about. Doesn’t mean they don’t happen.