Dude, most Canadians think about the US a lot.
You ever listen to the CBC Power & Politics podcast? 25% - 50% of their coverage is about the US.
Probably for good reason, the US has a lot of influence over our lives. But let’s not be delulu.
This is the most cope shit ever. This is literally a boycott US community, everybody here is constantly thinking about them. I haven’t witnessed more blatant projection in so long. Flip the flags around and that is the reality of this community.
I 100% agree they should be flipped. Also, Don Draper was lying when he said that, so it’s like doubly apt. Canada feels bad for the US but also is living in their shadow. The USA does think of Canada and has an irrational need to put us down.
The USA does think of Canada and has an irrational need to put us down.
It’s very rational. They need to make sure we never develop any self-esteem so they can continue their abusive relationship with us forever.
Every time I watch a clip of Fox News talking about Canada, it feels like watching the equivalent of what North Korea propaganda probably says about South Korea in their news. It is pure disinformation and propaganda trying to convince their audience that the outside world is different and scary and that they are in the best place in the world. They know their target audience hasn’t and never will travel outside of their own state to know any better.
“IN CANADA, YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR HEALTHCARE”
Me, waiting for healthcare in the US:
Anyone who has ever had a serious medical issue in Canada knows our medical system is fantastic. Top doctors, machines and treatments.
Where we drop the ball is on elective surgies, hip replacements, knees etc. People can pay to have this done privately or out of country if they have the money, but anything life threatening is handled very quickly and efficiently.
I’m still happy to live in this system over America any day, but yeah, not sure why I hear that argument being used so much…
You might have to wait if what you have is a non life threatening condition as people who have a life-threatening condition will take priority over you no matter who you are. It is the trade-off for a more cost effective system. But after you’ve received your treatment you leave the hospital without even seeing a bill except maybe for a parking fee.
Meanwhile in the US, unless you are wealthy enough to afford to pay for your own healthcare or at least a premium health insurance you are left to wait with life threatening conditions and might even be left to die by your insurance company who will purposefully delay until your death to maximize their profits. And then they’ll still send you an eye-watering bill on top of having charged you a premium that is twice what Canadians pay in their taxes for their healthcare.
Fun fact Mississippi is the state with the lowest passport ownership in the US.
But also that’s a net positive for the world at large.
Most USAnals live within 160km (100 miles) of their place of birth. 40% have never had a passport which is an increasingly accurate proxy, since the border tightenings of 2007, for having never left the country. Of those who’ve actually left, an overwhelming majority have only gone as far afield as Canada or Mexico. A significantly smaller fraction have gone as far afield as Europe. A very tiny fraction have gone anywhere truly distant and alien, culturally speaking.
And yet these are the people who think they should rule the world.
Of those who’ve actually left, an overwhelming majority have only gone as far afield as Canada or Mexico.
I mean, yeah, Canada and Mexico are zero kilometers away from the U.S., and there are a few island countries, but for the most part, to get to another country, people from the U.S. would have to travel to a whole other continent.
If you want to be consistent, you’d need to compare what percentage of people from each other contintent have travelled to another continent, and you’d need to consider what percentage of people on other continents live close to another continent.
I am not saying that most people in the U.S. have experience with international travel, just that to illustrate your point, I think you’ve gone too far and included some information which doesn’t actually distinguish the U.S. quite as much as you think.
You’re missing a key point here.
Of course there’s more people travelling to neighbouring countries than non-neighbouring ones. Simple cost explains that.
But there’s no real meaningful increase in costs between flying to Europe and flying to Asia, say. Doing a quick eyeball check, ticket prices from NYC to Seoul, for example, are about $400-500. Flights from NYC to Frankfurt are about $200-300. South Korea, however, is significantly cheaper than Germany for tourism. Depending on whose numbers you go by, SK is anywhere from 33% to 50% cheaper than Germany for tourism, so the extra $200 for the tickets is more than made up for in literally two days of actually being in the country.
Costs scale roughly the same across Europe, and SK is kind of the middle of the pack costs-wise for Asia, so it’s a decent proxy. (Japan is more expensive, China and Vietnam are cheaper.)
Yet far more people fly to Europe, when they bother going beyond North America, than to Asia. Meaning far more people are flying to places that are culturally not that different from their own, comparatively, despite the fact that the latter is cheaper. By far.
(How far? A friend of mine in Canada came to visit me for two months one summer and worked out that they’d turned a profit, despite the then very high air fares, after the first month just in savings on electricity and food costs living at home.)
USAnals are very parochial (40% never having had a passport), and when they do step outside of their parochial bounds, they go to places that are very similar to home anyway, even when places that are actually different cost less.
I’m really not sure europe is very different there, beyond the fact that european countries as a whole are more culturally diverse than US states, or the US vs. Canada. And even then many people only travel to tourist destinations within europe that won’t let you really experience a different local culture anyway.
It’s still probably true that europeans experience a bit more cultural diversity because it’s just easier to do, but I find it hard to blame the american people for that when so many are too poor to even think of traveling far, and experiencing something other than canada or mexico is significantly harder than to go e.g. from germany to romania.
Trump has done more to destroy the U.S. Empire in 6 months than anyone else in history. And the people of the world will benefit when it collapses… unless the U.S. takes everything out when it goes.
The world will only benefit from a US collapse if Europe or India step up to take America’s place. And both of those are struggling with far-right movements of their own.
This is a no-win scenario, and it’s insane that some people think that the US electing a literal fascist is a good thing because it hurts the people they want to see hurt (Americans).
If the people of the world don’t take advantage of the current us, well, its on them. Never has there been a worse version.
Ehhhhhh, there’s been worse. Just less internationally fucked up.
Americans who still have pride in their nation are a sad joke.
Respectful countries will receive our
Plastic play money?
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I JEST! I JEST! PLEASE DON’T KILL ME! IT’S MY MONEY TOO! 🤣
I do love the vertical $10 bill
https://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/bank-note-series/vertical-series/vertical10/
Are you telling me I can get some dix for ten dollars?! What a bargain lol
It is economy
