I fuckin hate the US. I gotta get out of here.
this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2025
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Stick around and help un fuck it, it's just going to spread
Oh no! It looks like they have their 51st state!
So they reached their goal, yeah, but I still made a donation in honour/honor of Felon Drink Bleach, Couch Guyliner, Space Karen, and the rest of the Nazi circus.
You too can help and be a part of this wave. Small donations are totally fine.
My god, it's so petty, seriously.
If I were Canada, I'd make a new door on the Canadian side and then I'd build a brick wall right at the demarcation line. Let the Americans have their 40% of the building, devoid of books and stage. They'll have a bunch of chairs to sit in.
Fucking enjoy.
Ya if Canada don't protect those books, America would destroy them soon anyways (with how much the current party hates libraries). This has to be the correct response.
Time for my daily “Fuck the USA”
☠️ I hear there's another good way to access information without paying.
Why can't Canadians build another entrance from Canada side?
Probably will. But the library was built in the way it was as a symbol of peace and friendship between the US and Canada. I suppose the new entrance will symbolize the classlessness and pettiness of the US.
If we aren’t allowed in anymore, maybe we turn our 60% of the library into a smouldering fire pit? Or maybe a park? Or a museum detailing the rise and fall of US-Canadian diplomacy?
Petty and small minded. Sums up Trump’s administration perfectly.
Canadians should install a new door on their side 😂
It would be a lovely escape hatch for the Americans who have had enough.
We're going to ban Americans from crossing into our side.
Or we can be classy and accept our American brothers and sisters. (Moreover, that demographic might have empathy, be cultured, and well educated.)
Besides, I personally wouldn't want to fall into that negative cycle of anger that Felon Drink Bleach, Couch Guyliner, Space Karen would desire.
EDIT: grammar
Hey thank you. I've seen a lot of canadian saying the same thing about us that dear leader says about immigrants and its heartning to remember that not everyone falls into the trap of wrath.
Petty.
I have to admit, I've been waiting for reports like this.
Eager small-time executioners that want to go the extra mile for the big guy.
Trampling a small green shoot, on purpose.
In 2018 a Quebec man named Alexis Vlachos pleaded guilty in a Vermont court to charges relating to a plot to use the library to smuggle backpacks full of handguns into Canada on at least two occasions. He was later sentenced to 51 months in a US prison.
That seems like an unnecessarily-complicated plot to smuggle a small quantity of handguns into Canada.
I mean, yeah, in theory a vehicle could be randomly searched by Canadian customs, but, then hypothetically, they could have looked into the odd guy at the library (which, apparently, they did).
searches YouTube
Here's a Canadian driving across the border into Canada:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjXIVYfwoXc
Guy drives up, answers a couple questions from Canadian customs, drives on.
Upstairs, in the opera house, the audience sits in the US while the performers are in Canada.
Would be really funny if the Canadian performers started performing original plays that mocked the current US administration.
I'm sure there would be enough demand for that.
So bar us access to the Canadian side without a full border crossing procedures. Or pull a Israel and declare it a security buffer zone for Canada.