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[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 114 points 2 days ago

This headline is subtly dismissive.

"Angry" and "right now" both suggest a transient state. That's not what we're seeing.

"Canada has finally had enough of the USA" would be a more apt title; or "Canada reaches its breaking point."

Alongside of the #Never51 hashtag is an almost equally frequent #NeverGoBack. Canada, as a nation, as a people, are making the decision to go their own way, and never be so beholden to any country as we have been to the USA since 1959.

Never. Go. Back.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 2 days ago

I hope you're right, but the public's memory is short.

[-] HonoredMule@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Some of the public are people like me. I stopped giving any money to Blizzard back when they made StarCraft (II?) require a Battle.NET account...or was it patching out already present offline LAN support? It was also hearing about shitty labor practices and workplace harassment at some point. My memory of why is pretty spotty, but the "don't give Blizzard money" part has stayed crystal clear for decades now. I genuinely don't remember why I first blacklisted EA games (might be commitment to DRM, might be just because they're such a shitty company), but it's on that list for life.

Heck, between 3rd-party DRM, loot boxes, and everything from "crunch time" development cycles to transphobia, I've been all but done with AAA gaming for several years. I could hardly be a gamer at all any more, if not for the rise of indie gaming, but that's not really my point right now.

The point is I remember the important, actionable bits. And I think most other Canadians will also retain their simple conclusions that won't need re-evaluation. After this, they'll have a solitary pedestal in their mind palace just to store one special conclusion from all of this:

Fuck the U.S.

And after floundering around for a bit, Canadians will find the indie trade they love; in a few years, they won't even miss AAA trading.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Congratulations on being part of the minority who keeps track of things like that. A lot of people just kind of go by their gut on every individual purchase.

As usual in politics and generally anything public facing, it's not that people are literally incapable of remembering and understanding, as much as just not interested enough to do so.

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