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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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I love Nothmexico!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This guys right, we gotta try not to feed the trolls.

Also don't be a sucker! https://youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No feed them. "Dont feed the trolls" is how the left has been losing so much political and social capital the past decade. People are all conflict adverse they've forfeited so much ground online and socially. I can tell you all the talking points on the right, I couldn't tell you any on the left let alone anyone who is a good source of information because "doing feed the trolls" results in no left leaning voices or spaces that matter. Instead over feed them. The one thing the left has going for it is there are more of us. We need to use that to our advantage. The advantage being if we realized this, we could have 10 messages for everyone of theirs. Which is what the right has done instead for the past decade. They flood every space they can. Hell I still see them on over passes, in the news, on podcasts, in comedy. Take it all back. Stop the mentality that we win when we don't engage. We don't. We win when they're exhausted not us

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I enter civil discourse with opposing views all day erryday, but that's a nice point. We need values but I think the order of operations should be to engage civily, agree to disagree, then finally block so they don't feel empowered by their position.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

We've got monuments in Europe for it and everything

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wanted to ask - Where on the fediverse are people seeing this? I took a quick peek at lemmy.world/c/politics and lemmy.world/c/world (in particular https://lemmy.world/post/26969666 ) and I didn't see anything like what this post is describing there.

A lot of the comments from this post point to examples from Spez's site or Musk's site, which would make more sense to me. But lemmy? C'mon..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

If I had to guess, it would be hexbear.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

As someone who lives in America, I would like to say, please keep it up my Canadian friends! The more the rest of the world buys and builds their own, the more you undermine Lil Donnie's Fascist Clown Show, and create better options for everyone in the long-term.

Breaking U.S. tech dominance is one of the best ways to put some equality back in the world.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As a Canadian, I’m worried that this stoking of anti-Canadian sentiment among the right wing in the US is a pretext to an invasion to try to make good on the “51st state” promise.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Entirely possible. We’ve seen it before with other countries and now it’s been turned on us. We never should have been so close with the US. Now it’s time to disentangle.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As a fellow American, I have nothing but love for our Canadian neighbors!

Whatever happens the next few years, I can only hope we get the opportunity to have an election and vote some adults back in, and start repairing relationships. Yes, I threw up a little with that. 😒.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Definitely not the case that all USians are following the current mad prez...

Heck, Canada remains a favourite for many from the US still, see https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/12/donald-trump-transphobia-us-family-seeking-asylum/ (and good luck to them!)

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