Our existence is a refutation of the idea that the whole world aspires to be American. We speak the same language, eat the same food, play the same sports, and have more opportunity to voluntarily become American than any other group of people on Earth. The fact that we'd rather "Freeze in the Dark" than pledge allegiance to their flag contradicts the foundation of their ideology. Of course they hate us, because we are a threat to their national myth. This was inevitable. The question is, do we have the courage we need to respond to this threat?

Some of us do. I fear that far too many of my fellow Albertans are cowards who would rather squander our fiscal leadership whining than actually build a nation. The fawning over the boots of foreign owners is really sad. We were raised better than this. A fact we might remember if we hadn't accumulated the trash that washed out of every other province for decades now.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Why the hell would we want to be part of that shit hole?

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 weeks ago

cf. "Gilead"

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Alberta would love it.

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

not all of Alberta, 200,000 at most

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Just know that here in the Pacific Northwest, the people are on your side, not his.

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Many, but I'm afraid you don't speak for all. There are plenty outside the cities that would be more than happy to hate us and everything we represent. It's why more than any other belief system, there's no one more hated by the religious than the apostate. The idea that "One of Us" can, in fact, live quite happily believing in something else entirely is a direct threat to your neighbours core identity and if God won't punish us directly for this heresy, then they will do it for him.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

You don't even fight or kill them when they invade your own country.

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

They are in no condition to physically fight anyone. Neither are we for that matter, however we have time to figure that out before the SHTF.

[–] Awooooooga@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Would you fight and kill your countrymen for Canada if they invaded us?

If not, please shut up!

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah that was kind of my point

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

play the same sports

No we don't.

Canadian/American football became a gay sport here precisely because of the association with the US.

Football/soccer the reason anyone invested in it calls it football is because the Americans call it soccer.

We also don't eat the same food that's pretty self explanatory, and we speak French or the King's English.

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There's nuance, but it's a distinction of degrees, not of kinds.

-Canadian football is actually more challenging than American football, but it's always had some... overtones.

-We call soccer football because the sport is called football. I was never entirely sure why they called the other game football since 95% of the time the ball is in your hands. They also have tried to learn hockey. It's very kind of all our best players to go down there and help them not embarrass themselves.

-We both have rather eclectic food tastes (a brown English gravy on cheese curds and fries? Les Parisiens sont choqués et alarmés), although I will grant we don't stick corn and/or corn syrup in everything and are less obsessed with tacos. We're rather fond of maple anything and a good donair is lovely though.

-Their Cajuns speak something vaguely resembling French (let's not get into the reason for that too deeply) and the rest of them speak something vaguely resembling English. It's not polite to make fun of them just because they can't spell or speak clearly, their education systems are deeply backward.

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've heard that American football is called football because it is played in feet and yards. not sure if that;s true, I don;t know anything about the game.

Cajuns are the decedents of Acadians who migrated to the US after Canada burned their villages in the great expulsion.

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Shhh... we don't talk about the atrocities... the fact that "Cajun" is just "Acadian" said with a very heavy accent is a happy accident.

Remember the motto. "It's not a war crime the first time."

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We speak the same language

not really, we spell colour, and neighbour properly with a "u", and pronounce the letter "z" zed not zee. We also pronounce lieutenant leftenant not the incorrect loo-tenant. We also pour a Queen's Pint, I guess King's Pint now, not your pissy 16oz "pint"

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

I know, but a different dialect is still one language. We are mutually intelligible to each other. There's less variation between us than there is within the UK, so I don't think we can argue it isn't the same language even if they are sloppier with it.

[–] tangeli@piefed.social 23 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

The same day, Michigan Rep. John James weighed in on social media with what he called a “FINAL WARNING TO CANADA.”

“Sovereignty comes with responsibility,” the Republican wrote, “and the responsibility to prevent a foreseeable disaster from crossing into another country’s airspace has not been met.”

The primary disaster that is crossing the border is the utter corruption of US politics. No need to foresee anything. It is happening right now, in Ottawa. It is happening right now in Alberta. If not stopped, it will destroy Canada as surely as it has destroyed the United States.

[–] badmancrooks@kopitalk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Albertan here, I'm pretty sure I've been yelling this from every soapbox I've had access to since Jason Kenney was Premier, at this point, feeling pretty hopeless that Alberta is gonna do anything to prevent a yes vote to separating. Even if they can't.

[–] tangeli@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Sadly, too many take for granted what they have: don't understand or appreciate it. There are some very hard lessons coming. There are aspects of Canadian culture and government that all Canadians should be fiercely proud and defensive of, but the US is extremely experienced and effective at sowing discord and conflict: divide and conquer. Petty grievances will be played up, a few will have their vanity and greed played to, then the rug will be pulled and all will be lost.

[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

In that case the US lost it a while back and should fall back into UK rule.

[–] waggz@programming.dev 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Canada should send the US a bill for all the planes they had to take care of during 9/11.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And all the fire planes we sent to LA.

USA is the asshole neighbor who borrows your tools and returns them broken, and blames you for not buying better tools.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Always has been. If we weren't doing anything about it before then why would we start now?

[–] NotSafeForWorld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Good point

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 weeks ago

Of course. Big orange rapist sheep says baaaaaa and all the other govt sheep jump in line and baaaa baaa it goes.

[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

They’re slowly laying the groundwork to say that Canada has lost the privilege of sovereignty and that their invasion is needed to save us. I have little doubt they’ll eventually find some silly reason to justify needing Canada because in American exceptionalism, they always deserve to get whatever their whims demand.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Then again, it may not be. Now that's News!