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ragepaw

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  • Trump shares racist image of the Obamas. White House says backlash is 'fake outrage'

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  • I worked with a guy, who grew up in the US Deep South. He told me he joined the marines after Sept 11, 2001 to (and this is the quote he used) to get revenge on, and kill the "ragheads" that attacked his country.

    He told me the cure for his racist idiocy was going to Afghanistan and meeting the people there and discovering they're just normal people like the ones he knew back home and it wrecked (and fixed) his world view.

  • Trump shares racist image of the Obamas. White House says backlash is 'fake outrage'

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  • I don't think it's hard for outsiders to understand. I think it's harder for Americans to understand. Those of us on the outside can see it easily and obviously. And it's not subtle.

    In the movie U-571, it depicts the Americans capturing the first enigma machine, thus helping to lead to an end to WW2. The reality is, the Royal Navy had them before the US even entered the war.

    As a Canadian, I know that we were heavily involved with freeing the Iranian hostages, but if you watch the movie Argo, you would think the United States did everything. Jimmy Carter, President at the time of the event, decried the movie saying that Canada did 90% of the op.

    The Great Escape portrays the escape from Stalag Luft III as an American affair, when it was a Commonwealth operation, and not a single American escaped.

    Black Hawk Down. If you watched the movie, you would think the rescue was done by US forces, completely disregarding the fact it was largely Pakistani and Malaysian forces that rescued the American service people.

    That's not even getting into the non-war movies where the US is represented as the ultimate moral authority in all things.

    How about the "World Series", where with the exception of one team, every one is in the United States.

    Co-opting the term "American". The Americas includes more than just the USA. Mexicans, Argentinians, Canadians, Hondurans, Columbians, etc. are all "American".

    Even the implication that no one outside the United States would understand how bad the propaganda there is, is American exceptionalism.

  • Ailing Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

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  • That too

  • Ailing Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

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  • NOOOOOOOOO!

    KEEP HIM ALIVE!!!!

    He should be forced to watch the result of the years of his corruption, evil and vileness.

  • Pierre Poilievre wins leadership review with 87.4% approval

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  • Toss the ass

    Dump the dick

    Turf the Prick

    Fire the Fool

    Damn. I should have joined the PC party and started spreading these around.

  • Pierre Poilievre wins leadership review with 87.4% approval

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  • Just cause he lost to Carney doesn’t automatically make him a bad party leader.

    No, it's his personality, fecklessness, inability to have a thought that doesn't start with blaming someone else for something, smarminess and completely lacking empathy that makes him a bad leader.

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  • Report him to immigration authorities for being in my country illegally.

  • View from Europe: The Increasingly Convincing Case for Canada Joining the EU

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  • It's actually changing here too, at least in cities. Bike lanes being added, streets being repurposed back to foot and bike traffic. Improved public transit.

    I don't even think the electrical changes would be hard because of US integration, it would be hard because of so much of it. We could switch. Most houses already have a 240 circuit needed for things like car chargers, dryers and ovens. You could easily retrofit a house. But the grid feeding that house would need to be rebuilt from the ground (pun intended) up.

    Edit: re electricity: We apparently did this in the early 50s once already. We were on a 25hz system, and power technicians went to every single house and retrofitted them to go from 25 to 60hz. Wild. I just learned that.

  • View from Europe: The Increasingly Convincing Case for Canada Joining the EU

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  • Cyprus is in Asia, and is a member of the EU and was allowed because it was "politically and culturally European". It could be argued that Canada would qualify under those same circumstances.

    We even have something that Cyprus doesn't, and land border with an EU country (Denmark), and a sea border with an EU country (France).

    And while we were independent of the UK from a governmental point of view, we were still a dominion of the UK until 1982, which means we even have historical precedence in the EU as an overseas territory, though never in an official way.

  • US to send ICE agents to Winter Olympics, prompting Italian anger

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  • The US is entitled to bring their own security forces, as fucking dumb as it is.

    Neither ICE, nor CBP are security forces. Neither would be there operating in their official role. This is not USSS, or FBI, or even military. These are two agencies whose job it is supposed to be to deal with customs and immigration issues within the confines of the US.

    Italy really should tell them to get fucked.

  • Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ?

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  • Did everyone forget he drove around with a dead animal, and dumped it into a park?

    No one should listen to this insane lunatics ramblings. But the addiction is a symptom, not the problem. He likely became an addict because he was mentally ill. Or, the addiction (and brain worm, and eating random dead things) made him mentally ill.

    Either way, someone with delusions shouldn't be in charge of anything.

  • NORAD pact would change if Canada pulls back from F-35 order, warns U.S. ambassador

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  • Extorting motherfucker.

    We are not saying we're buying nothing, we would be buying a trusted partners aircraft, and not planes from an imperialist fascist oligarchy.

    Actually that's not even true.

    WE WOULD BE BUILDING OUR OWN FUCKING AIRCRAFT

  • NORAD pact would change if Canada pulls back from F-35 order, warns U.S. ambassador

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  • His face is also very punchable on it's own.

  • It’s a Brutal Flu Year. Why Are Canadians Shunning Vaccinations?

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  • I got both 3 days ago. My arm is still sore.

  • World would be a ‘better place’ if US took over Greenland, says Nigel Farage

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  • You're right. I stand corrected.

  • 17 per cent of Americans want the U.S. to annex Canada: survey

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  • You understand a big problem Canadians have with Americans, is that even when you disagree with your "leader", you're still talking about carving up our country.

    You know we find that incredibly disrespectful, right?

  • 17 per cent of Americans want the U.S. to annex Canada: survey

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  • No. Not every voice needs to be heard. In a democracy, every voice should have the same opportunity to be heard. By saying every voice needs to be heard, you are saying everyone should listen to the fucknuts and assholes.

    No.

  • World would be a ‘better place’ if US took over Greenland, says Nigel Farage

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  • The world would be a better place if Trump and Nigel Farage were fired off into the sun.

  • Carney’s Message to the World: The Rules No Longer Protect You | The Walrus

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  • Did you watch the speech? He said pretty much that point.

    Or are you anti-red no matter what because you have the imbecile like belief that politics is a team sport, and you always root for your team, even when they're a bunch of losers.