#and ESPECIALLY FUCKING CANADIANS

[turtlemagnum]

i fucking hate whenever a non-american tries to describe the US as just one thing, one biome, a few big cities, y'know? aside from being one of the most diverse countries in terms of demographics, we've also got some of the highest diversity in terms of environments and shit. we've got tundras, mountains, forests, the biggest freshwater lakes in the fucking world, desert, swamps, if it's a fucking kind of nature? we've fucking got it. but nooo, we're an "urban" country, because only major fucking cities matter, right??? and yeah, we've got cities too, i don't wanna downplay that, but we're so much more than just one thing, y'know? and the worst part is, i'm pretty sure this shit happens to other countries, too!!! this fucking sucks!!! people contain multitudes, why can't the space we inhabit contain multitudes too!!!! god i hate europeans, i've noticed the british especially are bad about this shit

[dentalcaring]

the hard part is i can see (white especially) non-americans rubbing it in and it’s like okay yes you don’t need to kick scared people when they’re down, though. both options were objectively fucking bad but as a VERY POOR nonbinary indigenous dyke on HRT who relies on medicare it’s objectively hard not to feel completely hopeless

americans know that america is fucking evil. we know. indigenous people in america especially know that, and we are going to be especially vulnerable for these next four years

please be empathetic today to people who are scared and upset. don’t rub it in

[histskins]

yessss time for nonamericans to act like they're soooo much better and smarter than us god i love how this happens every time anything bad happens here

[molliemoo3]

For the 2nd time in 2 months someone commentating on an fia world championship series has felt the need to bring up driver weights, like it isn't something so many drivers have struggled with, like its fucking nothing, and I just dont understand why they feel the need to say it????? The minimum weights were introduced for a reason and unless you were born yesterday i dont think its difficult to figure out, implying drivers are worse at their jobs or severely disadvantaged is fucking vile

[awkward-teabag]

After every (American) election, there's always a bunch of posts going around exposing psyops or pointing out how there were posts on this site designed to get people to not vote blue.

And in the lead up to every (American) election, there's a bunch of posts being reblogged that are clearly either psyops or manipulative posts that tell people it's perfectly okay for them not to vote at all.

Like, there's history going back years on this hellsite where the alt-right intentionally tried to undermine or indoctrinate people so they get/stay in power. History a lot of y'all know of or were even there for and saw go down in real time.

But sure, be uncritical of what you reblog, don't bother looking at the source website, or just put things out there without caveats or nuance.

[historia-vitae-magistras]

Sometimes I get a bit ticked about the whole "invisible Canada" thing, but I went to a visiting scholar lecture about the Battle of the North Atlantic in WW2 from a British academic this morning, and he verbatim said: "Canada isn't involved enough it makes a difference." And the friend I went with pats my shoulder like, "I'm sure you guys did everything that you could do."

If that isn't the most concise summation of general opinions of Atlantic history I've ever seen, I'll never see a better one.

[kyleiskoool]

massive rod family/heritage headcanon dump:

okay so i kind-of feel like rod is french canadian. i really love making people french canadian gang... so yeah rod can speak french pretty fluently. also the canadian part purely bc of mgwlic. so it makes sense for him to say that he had a girlfriend in canada. (because rod isnt dumb, he wouldve thought it out a little bit guys) but yeah i loveeee making it so people can speak french.

okay but dont get me wrong, french is a romantic language but when rod speaks it he is the least romantic peraon ever. he speaks really direct bc all of the times he spoke french it was yelling at his parents (just wait ill expand on it). but when he gets mad he starts spouting shit off in french (nicky has picked up a few new phrases). but yeah he spoke french from birth and learnt english a bit at home and went to an english speaking school.

parental wise? i love rod so he's getting the lesbian mum treatment (me applying the fact my mum left- dw half of this isnt what happened in my life).

okay so rod grew up in a right winged family (thats why hes republican) in french canada. he has an older brother (but he is ALOT older like 11yrs older so he never rly knew her) and mum and dad. and then other relatives that r irrelevant. everything was pretty typical. he never really spoke to his brother but he was at christmas and stuff.

trauma time 😜

rods mum up and left at like 9 years old to go live with a lesbian lover. rods dad is PISSED bc theyre like highly conservative. even though he was homophobic before this CEMENTS that ideology in his mind. he doubles down and drills it into rods head that being gay is bad and he is nothing if he was gay. he never saw his mother after she left.

this is why he is so scared to come out. hes scared that everyone thinks this way and theyre all out to get him and abandon him. so he also doubts it when he feels it because he doesnt want to be bad. but yeah :( thats why he bonded with nicky so much because he secretly thought nicky was rly brave for supporting the lgbtq but he was still scared that somehow his dad would find out.

this goes into more that rods dad refused to let him do anything 'feminine'. he trued to get rod to play a sport but he couldn't for the life of him so he took up an instrument (the clarinet) instead. he always wanted to do the musical and sing, but once again, it wasnt seen as 'manly' enough. thats why he loves going to shows and is so wowed when be sees nicky in shows.

his brother definitely started talking to him a bit more when rod was in college. rod reached out first asking for advice. his brother pretty much said 'study, dont get kept up in emotional things and find a roommate with the same interests as you'. after that, his brother kept tabs on him as he moved on with life. he tries to help princeton in the same way his brother helped him.

his brother heard about his mum and didnt really care. he was definitely never that homophobic or conservative (thats why he moved out so quickly) so he never really cared about his mum being lesbian.

okay wait im just gonna do this here. this is a yap abt how rod and nicky became friends bc like why not.

okay so rod was majoring business or something i cant be fucked to care. anyways, he usually studied in the library or the caf at night. and he saw alot of faces but nickys just stood out to him for some reason. he eventually figured out he was a theatre major and that his name was an n name. he keeps mentioning this guy to his business major friends and they have no clue who he is. they try to ask around too and find little info except for his name (nicky) and the fact he was in the last musical

anyways, as rod really loves theatre, he usually goes to the theatreclubs shows if he has any spare money. he buys a ticket to a show and notices that THAT GUY that he always sees around is the LEAD. rod has to do a double take and in the intermission he buys a program. rod spends the rest of the show just looking at him and just fawning over his singing and acting.

the show finishes and mostly everyone leaves. rod sticks around, looking at his headshot just making sure that he knows what guy it is. nicky ends up coming out, smiling but ultimately looking tired. rod doesnt see anyone approach him and nicky is streamlining it to the door. rod ends up running over and just complimenting his performance. nicky lights up so much and thanks him over and over.

rod mentions that he's seen him around. nicky perks up and says that he thinks one of his friends is in his class. he goes 'youre ryan.. right?' and rod just laughs and goes 'haha, no im rod' and nicky is like 'YEP THATS RIGHT! i was so close'. rod just smiles and is like 'ill see you around, you got any more shows?' nicky tells him they have like 3 more shows and rod asks if he's got any classes. nicky says that he doesnt but he has a test the next day and needs to study. rod suggests that they study together because he also has a test soon.

nicky agrees and they plan on seeing each other the next day. and their friendship is born!

anyways, nicky is so flustered bc the guy he lowkey had a hallway crush on had invited him to study and rod was like 'YAYYAYAYAYYAYAYA I TALKED TO THE GUY I WANTED TO BE FRIENDS WITH'

okay guys thats the end of a very VERY big yap. i hope you guys enjoyed my stupid headcanon rant about rod because i have very big feelings about this. i very much want to write a oneshot about college rodnicky. (theatrekid nicky is my number one headcanon) !!! also desperate want to draw rods family !!!

okay gang leave a #thumbs up and subscribe if you enjoyed the video. see you in the next one!

[maidofmetal]

sorry I don't think it's funny when u refer to undocumented immigrants as illegals like I get ur just making a joke but uhh fuck off with that racist nonsense 🙄

[vogelmeister]

i haven’t seen the tv show “the americans” but thinking about the true story behind it fucks me up

[very-lost-hobbit]

Time for some malicious compliance for the "parental ""rights""" Bullshit some of the provinces are pushing, at least until a court somewhere overthrows them as the illegal human rights violations they are. "Hello Mrs. Anderson I'm just calling to ask if it's alright for your son to go by Brandon A, as there are 3 other Brandons in his class. 😊 Is this alright with you? 😊 We need these consent forms to be signed, please. 😊 Oh he also likes going by A-man and his nickname this week is pudding because of that incident, you know how kids are.😊 I'm afraid I'll need consent forms for those as well (and lets not forget he'll piss and moan about you being a buzzkill if you don't)😊 If you find this fucking annoying and a waste of your time and mine when I should be teaching your kid long division, take it up with Premiers Higgs, Moe, or Smith. Or all three at once. 😊 Yes I WILL be contacting you again if he decides he wants the nickname "Super Awesome Cool Dude" 😊

[timeisacephalopod]

Part of being Canadian is how similar we are to the US, and honestly not a single person on earth I think could genuinely pin point the difference between Canadian and American culture but the average Canadian. Americans assume we're the same as them (we aren't), even a bunch of Canadians think we're Americans, especially around voting seasons, and about half our cultural identity is "we're Not American!" but there are some cultural differences and if we all spoke French equally we could have had a language distinction but nooooo. Despite not being America unfortunately such a fuck off massive country right below your teeny tiny ass country (population wise) does result in a cultural avalanche from said fuck off massive country. Especially when you share a language.

The war of 1812 will forever be funny to me though because Americans were like "hmm maybe Canadians would also like to tell the British to fuck off, we will invade to show them!" And Canada was like *burns down the white house* and we've been tentatively chill with each other ever since lmao (even when we probably like. Shouldn't be cool with America but like. We could not risk that implosion politically or otherwise it'd be suicide).

[shiverandqueeef]

looking at the notes of your bands poll is like. nobody knows how to not be over-familiar and violently aggressive to strangers on line. @ everyone in your reblogs Cool It Or Else.

*long beleaguered sigh* yeeeeaaaaaaah. tbf it's only a handful of people who have been outright crossing a line (don't? threaten to kill me??? i mean there is a cute jokey way to do that but i don't know you and you have worded it very aggressively)

also i have almost certainly been guilty of the same behavouir myself - especially the whole 'demanding to know why [insert whatever] hasn't been included on the post without first checking the notes to find out if OP has already added the thing'.

It's just so so frustrating to have so many ppl in the notes expressing outrage (even fun, good-natured "outrage") over either a band/musician they like not being included (they are in a different poll! they were included!!! AHHHH!!!!) or demanding to know where fucking celine dion or rush is because i didn't make it clear in the first poll that the whole point was "popular in canada, unknown(ish) everywhere else" i think i kind of assumed it was obvious...but uh. turns out people can not, in fact, read my mind. also pissing on the poor and all that.

anyways. im still having fun with it. but yeah, i am unfortunately at a follower count that is high enough for there to be a decent chance of a post taking off, but too low for any secondary/follow up posts to circulate at nearly the same level. all my (relatively) popular posts have a lot of very angry and/or confused ppl in the notes demanding to know something that has already very much been answered lol. and i have yet to master the whole not caring about people being wrong on the internet thing. it's been 10+ years of being on the internet (and frequently the person who is wrong lmao) but i still haven't figured it out! 😂

[neondiamond]

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[inkykeiji]

I kneww you'd love Mikey heh

ANONNNNNN 。ﾟ(ﾟﾉД｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡ PLEASE YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND i love him so much my chest physically caves in at the thought of him like !!!!!!!!!!! i am so embarrassingly, pathetically, obsessively in love with him <333333

[bat-the-misfit]

really can't believe they actually hired a Mexican actor to play a Brazilian character

americans really love treating us latines like shit right?

[mildew-dread-mold]

ok. genuine question. do east asians with lighter skin (chinese, japanese, korean, vietnamese, and more) count as people of colour?