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[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was stupid with the freedom fries and it's still stupid today

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[–] CherryBullets@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's funny and the Americans being salty about this one, when their country is becoming more and more fascist every day, are even funnier. Get mad about real important things, not this 😂

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Those Americans need to look in a mirror first, with their "freedom fries", because France decided not to back them in their needless war in Iraq.

[–] TheWilliamist@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The last bit of this song always comes back to me whenever I hear that phrase…

Freedom fries and burns and scars Liberator goes too far Freedom fries and screams and yells The promised land is a promised hell — Robert Plant from the album Mighty Rearranger

[–] badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

We No Speak Americano. (C) 2010 Sweat It Out is a Sydney-based record label started by the late and great AJAX

[–] Zzyzx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Next thing you know Lady Gaga is going to rename her song to Canadiano

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (5 children)

while I support Canada boycotting the US, you have to admit this in particular is "freedom fries" tier patriotism. it was embarrassing then, and it is embarrassing now.

[–] parrhesia@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If politicians are pushing this particular change, it would be a bit cringe imo but I chuckled when I saw it.

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[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Except back then the US was the aggressor, and now the US is the aggressor. I wouldn't equivocate "you don't want to blindly follow me into a pointless war" to "you're targeting me in a trade war"

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[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, no. If you didn't support their pointless wars back then, they would call you a traitor. Fuck me for not wanting my friends to die.

[–] Cinder_bloc@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

You could not support their wars, and also not stoop to their level of pettiness.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand what this has to do with anything I said.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The "freedom fries" 20 years ago occurred because France did not want to support our stupid middle eastern wars. That spawned the stupid movement to stop calling them French fries. If you were not pro-war in the US in the early 2000's, a lot of people would suggest you were unpatriotic.

That is why they said. Because you brought it up.

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[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

We changed the nane of a product because you haven't joined us wilding an unjustified war on brown people

vs.

We changed the name of a product because you waged an unjustified trade war against us for no reason, even tough we have been your closest alley.

Not the same.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I didn't question motivations. I already said I support boycotting the US. this is not a method of protest that does anything. it's lame and stupid. Americano is not even American, nor is it Canadian. it's just dumb. it's like saying you remember watching Canadian Pie as a teen.

[–] Senal@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I didn't say it isn't. i said it's not American, as in it doesn't come from the US.

[–] Senal@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

Americano is not even American

I mean that's a pretty specific phrasing.

I said it’s not American, as in it doesn’t come from the US.

Those are not the same things, but i know what you mean now, so thanks.

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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Depends. Tongue in cheek it's pretty funny.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I would agree if this was Mexico doing it as a response to the gulf thing... then it would have made some sense in context.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Have you not heard about the tariffs and threats of annexation from Trump?

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[–] Hupf@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago
[–] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

A canadiano is actually a cup of drip coffee with two espresso shots

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What desperate soul invented this, I hope they're doing better now, wherever they are

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[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I could’ve sworn that was a redeye

[–] Krompus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yes, but one shot.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago
[–] nope@jlai.lu 7 points 2 months ago

America? No.

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