I didn’t get as far as those tweets because I didn’t find it interesting or funny. Life is too short.
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Anti-aircraft guns are a less bad method of execution than lethal injection.
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Kind of hard to tell when it’s “obviously a joke” and when it’s real on the same forum that has hundreds of posts equating Biden and Trump.
Must be the dumb Canadian in me (lol xenophobia).
kind of irritating hearing someone who has been to Canada a few times on vacation lecture you about your country, no?
honestly it wouldn’t be too bad. It’d be pretty quick I’d imagine.
Rotfl. This entire thread is nothing but people commenting on a country they have literally never been too but because I comment on America you get all rustled.
And no, it doesn’t bother me when others comment on Canada. It’s just telling when they do so with silly stereotypes and xenophobia.
Right, and you have Americans telling you your America commentary is dumb.
But no Stanley Cups in 25+ years
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My power rankings would probably go Canada > US > NK but I’m open to suggestions
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The big problem with that meme is that it’s not particularly clever.
wtf was clovis lecturing about? He just said the twitter thread sucked. Stfu with the nationalism here.
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I mean, he’s right, in that there’s a degree vs kind distinction. But I think there’s a lot of people — mostly people who will never see that thread, admittedly — who would insist that the distinction between NK and USA#1 is one strictly of kind and not at all of degree.
sure, but this has nothing to do with him being canadian and “lecturing americans”.
He did say “America sucks”, which I suppose Americans are primed to bristle at, even if he’s right, lol.
lol wut, he got fire for saying he didn’t think america sucked as much as the thread supposedly suggested.
¯_(ツ)_/¯ maybe it’s different when they say it.
As long as it’s played for laughs I’m fine with it.
But it reminds me of an arguments I had with my Chomsky/situationist-loving friends in college.
Me: “I mean I know we like to rag about how much our freedom is an illusion here in the US. But you don’t really think Soviet citizens actually have more freedom, do you? I mean I know all this stuff is fun but let’s just have a quick reality check.”
Them, sneeringly: “Yes. Of course. Don’t be so naive. Stop buying into the corporate oppressors’ line, mannnn.”
I was actually pretty surprised. I figured we were all in on the joke, but I mean lets not get totally crazy and say the average US citizen has less freedoms than a Soviet citizen. But nope, that’s really what they believed - in some hopelessly vague way that couldn’t be quantified of course.
Definitely some reverse reverse cargo cult going on or something. Not you clever people, you get it. You know it is all a lie.
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Well, it appears that we may be getting there eventually comrade.
Well, maybe they didn’t read Chomsky. I’ve never heard him say that Americans were any where near as unfree as Russians in the Soviet era. The real argument about America Bad vs. whatever dictator bad often boils down to whatever dictator oppressing or murdering people that live in the same country and the US Government oppressing and murdering people who live in other countries.
Honestly it boggles me a bit when people say something like "he killed millions of his own people! as if it’s less bad to have killed people in other countries.
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Chompsky always says USA#1 is remarkably free, just we have some other problems