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I've opened Lemmy today to lots of anti Canadian sentiment on any recent comments about how messed up 'murica is and it's constant attacks on Canadian sovereignty.

Don't get sucked in. Let them yell into a void. The online campaign has begun in earnest on Lemmy and it's time to point it out and recognise it for what it is.

These are not real people. They are actors trying to affect our decisions as always happens when American exceptionalism is challenged. Our government had the balls to stand up and say no. We have the balls to do the same. They do not like it and will attack you for it.

Don't fall for the bait.

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[-] dick_fineman@discuss.online 10 points 14 hours ago

As someone from the US, if you don't like Canada, there's something broken in your soul.

I wish I could apologize personally to every Canadian on behalf of the fucking dipshits in my country who have enabled this, and also have a big BBQ to apologize for Trump, the tech-bro fascists, and the weird Handmaid's Tale motherfuckers who seem to think it's cool to threaten the USA's best-friend. Former best-friend now I guess :/

Canada is awesome. Canadians are awesome. Fuck those assholes. Poutine is also awesome. Fuck Trump. Fuck this nonsense.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

Fuck the Muscovites and MAGA supporters for their anti-Canadian BS. Where are these asswipes on Lemmy?

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 23 points 21 hours ago

Mental illness. Shame muricans don't have Healthcare

[-] m4xie@lemmy.ca 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

It's only a 6 hours wait!

(Obviously worlds better than medical bankruptcy, the number 1 cause in the US, but we need to do better.)

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago

US hospital waits are just as long and the fucking treatment will depend on your health insurance.

[-] Triasha@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Have you seen episode 1 of "the Pit" average wait there is 12 hours.

It's not even faster here.

[-] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

I agree 100%. There’s a whole lot of room for improvement. But I will tell you this: I dislocated and broke my arm because of a bad fall last year. I DID have a long wait in the emergency. But once the x-rays were done and I was seen by a surgeon, surgery was scheduled and performed very quickly. I’m retired and on a fixed income. If I had lived in the USA, I’m sure I would have lost my comfortable little bungalow townhouse.

[-] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 3 points 14 hours ago

I've caught bots before with the whole "disregard all previous instructions".

[-] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

Yah, well good luck with that. I am an old flower child educated in critical thinking. No amount of propaganda or the bombardment of such will ever sway me to hate any human being for just wanting to live a good life.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

Canada is great. Consider anti-Canada posters a quick and easy "red flag" to block someone.

Unless they are talking about mistreatment of indigenous people, or war crimes in the early to mid 1900's. Those are probably legitimate complaints.

[-] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours ago

Unfortunately, there are many anti-Canadians in Canada. And they always seem to be the loudest and most aggressive, hateful people.

[-] batmaniam@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago

American not Canadian. Grew up in a border town and live farther away now. I routinely tell people "I get home sick for a country I'm not from". I hate this shit. I'm not going to rattle off every little trite thing, but damnit, this shit kills me. If there is a silver lining, it's that I've had concerns about our disease spreading. I'm hoping maybe we served as your inoculation.

[-] dadjokesfordays@lemmy.ca 18 points 23 hours ago

Anti-Canadian Americans, and their treasonous stooges up here in Canada can eff aboot and find oot.

Canadians can do tough. I'll half starve myself for the rest of my natural life out of spite. These lazy hate mongers that think we're going to cave if we don't eat a Big Mac should google Canadian soldiers and the history of the Geneva conventions.

Sure it's going to be tough to do without all those American products. I think more and more Canadians every day are saying "who cares". If I can't find a non American substitute, I'm going to simply not buy it at all.

Elbows up, my friends. It's gonna be a long winter but if anything, we're used to winters.

[-] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 3 points 13 hours ago

Agreed. Our grandparents, and for some of us, parents, survived the great depression, WWI and WWII. Elbows up, buckle down, and stay strong together.

[-] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 1 points 13 hours ago

Hey, all I can say is that there's a lot of really uneducated people in the US, and they voted for a president that is skilled at whipping them into a frenzy over anything.

It's not you guys, it's them. I'm sorry. I wish there was something I could do. I'm afraid to speak out though, my wife doesn't have her citizenship yet and they've been unlawfully deporting green card holders left and right.

I kinda wish the world would stand up together and say "fuck you, guy" and literally cut the US out of the world economy until they depose the dictator. Sadly nation states seem more interested in making backroom deals than bringing the global recession that is inevitable/ongoing.

[-] StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml 12 points 22 hours ago

I havent seen those comments yet but as an american ill do my best to call em out when i do🫡

[-] Cybear@lemmy.securitycafe.ca 8 points 22 hours ago
[-] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 4 points 20 hours ago

Definitely. The man has been chosen and he's not backing down. Time for them to rattle the cage.

[-] yarn@lemmy.ca 6 points 21 hours ago

I wish there was a way to use AI to contain bots to their own shadowbanned islands. Let them talk, and let them appear that they're contributing, but all contained within their own little echo chamber of other bots.

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago

The world will only be a better place if these people self identify more quickly. I mean, it would be better if they do not exist but, since they do, I am very supportive of them expressing their opinions so that I do not have to waste time discovering them.

[-] muculent@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

I've only ever met friendly fun rational folks with a passion for hockey who are warm, inviting and willing to fight for what's right. I'll put this sentiment out here: don't mistake kindness for weakness. Keep up the good work Canada.

[-] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 day ago

Only Nazis hate Canadians. Because we are very good at destroying Nazis. It’s our national past time.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

It's that before or after you give them a standing ovation?

[-] Englishgrinn@lemmy.ca 6 points 22 hours ago

I would like "Kills Nazis" to be a common, simple part of Canadian identity, like hockey and manners. Basically, I want this:

"Oh Bob? Yeah he's just a good old Canadian boy. Smooth wristshot, absolute sniper. Always helps his neighbour shovel the walk. There was a demonstration by a bunch of those "Sons of Odin" fuckers downtown last week and he stopped by to huck bricks at them and protect counterprotestors. You know, we should have him over for a beer and some steaks"

[-] Maeve@midwest.social 2 points 22 hours ago

“Sons of Odin” ? Is this a white supremacist gang like KKK, Nazis, etc or your own word choice?

[-] Englishgrinn@lemmy.ca 5 points 21 hours ago

Sons of Odin are a Canadian white supremacist movement with Viking inspired iconography and a stated mission to "stop the spread of Shariah Law". They were started in 2018 and started with a very media-savvy push as a "service organization" doing park clean ups and handing out water and granola bars to homeless people. Their intent was to grow to spread their Xenophobia and anti-islamic rhetoric.

They aren't a large group, maybe 15k members coast to coast and that's spread pretty thinly. As for why I picked them? I dunno- memorable name and more "Canadian" than name dropping the Klan.

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[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Don't fight it, lean into it. Fuck with their heads. But lean into it in a back handed way that fucks with them. They have a prepared Rolodex. Go outside of it and you win

[-] Maeve@midwest.social 2 points 22 hours ago

No, don't give them any energy. Save it for what's necessary and useful.

[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

No, give them so much energy they burn out. They should shut up not us.

I was making this one elsewhere but I'll restate it. I don't know many people in real life that admit left leaning opinions publicly anymore. But I hear right leaning points daily.

That isn't too say these people are Republican or conservatives or even right leaning. But their talking points are out there everywhere. That's because these views are littered everywhere like ammunition. There is no ammunition for left leaning issues because the risk adverse nature of the left makes it harder to find effective points and quips that are easy to spread.

Saying 'don't give them energy' I think is wrong. Instead find the fun in making them exhausted. That's their move. Have fun shit posting. Give their energy back

[-] Maeve@midwest.social 1 points 19 hours ago

I'm saying our energy is better used, but maybe there are enough of us to spread it where we see fit. Onward!

[-] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

I don't know if this is true on not but in the settings for your account it has a toggle to not allow bot comments to show up. It might only work for people that select the "bot account" option but just in case it's an auto filter I'd say try it out, I have felt like I've not seen bots since moving over from reddit

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 48 points 1 day ago

Lol wut. I think its bots. Very few people hate Canadians.

[-] Devanismyname@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago

Give it a few months. The right wing propaganda machine always finds a way.

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[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 24 points 1 day ago

I'm guessing whomever/wherever you're seeing is either defederated or, more likely, blocked by me. In any case, pay them no mind if you do see them.

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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago

I’m not seeing a lot of this thankfully — makes me wonder if a lot of these anti-Canada posts are coming from a particular instance I’ve already blocked.

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