#call canadians americans

[sanzuphobe]

i hate those ‘europe is not 1 country’ people omg shut uppppppp

[handweavers]

something really funny that once you notice you can't unsee: whenever a musician/band/artist's bio describes themself as 'north american' they are canadian but trying not to alienate their usamerican audience lmfao. whenever someone is described as "an important figure in north american folk music" they were probably born in like nova scotia or alberta it's so funny

[just-wublrful]

not to be obnoxious on main but classic literature is not global literature. it's western literature at best

[dreamertrilogys]

there’s a lot of posts on how white suburbs are deeply awful + filled w ppl unable to conceptualize a world outside their own bubble + steeped in racism etc. which obviously is true and all but as someone who’s personally seen many suburbs filled w/ diff ethnic groups (not functionally diverse suburbs just for example suburb 1 filled entirely w chinese immigrants, 2 filled w only pakistanis, etc) the overall results aren’t much better. like at the end of the day the issue lies not in the whiteness of suburban residents but rather the way their lifestyles (car dependancy -> can’t go anywhere else/see other ppl, have never sat on the bus and seen regular ppl etc) allow them to genuinely live their entire lives in an extremely minuscule bubble of homogenous ppl who look & live (esp economically!!!) exactly like them

[mo-gxn]

stupid lotf got me researching 1940s english boarding schools

they had bands and orchestras- right? my research isn’t telling me crap😭

[bo-bichette]

okay sports blogs this is ridiculous and i need to know. how many hockey teams do y’all follow??? cause i swear there’s like 10 new teams on my dash every day

[royaltea000]

ame creampieing is something i didnt know i needed to see now make canada pound gil next :3

I bet Matt pounding Gil would be so unexpected but boy all those hours hiking the Canadian wilderness weren’t for nothin those thighs put in WORK

[cogumellow]

nobody's home // northern ontario, canada // 2008 // ©

[heedra]

im currently keeping tabs on petfinder to see about adopting a couple more rescue rats into my group rn but i live right by the canadian border and every time i search for rats close to me its like "you want rats? well there are twenty fucking rats sixteen miles from you in Twiddlingsford, BC. and one single rat 80 miles from you in Bucket, WA. Ok?"

[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.

[thegirlwiththemooglehat]

I have to stop looking at haveyouheardthisband, every time i get too angry

[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 🙄

[screechingsandwichhologram]

my uninformed american opinion is that i will be calling it derry not londonderry because im american and therefore will always support ireland if its ireland vs the british.

(i wasn't even going to post this but i wrote a whole essay in the tags so i don't want to waste that)

[dreamieparadise]

Watching a movie review on tiktok and op went off about how "the dialouge was so strange" and it reminded me of when people complained about both Life Is Strange AND Persona 5 for that but both sounded completely normal to my ears???

Life Is Strange was especially weird bc they used the slang properly from what I've seen. I think ppl were just... being weird? But maybe it's because I am Canadian. Lol

Admittedly, though, I think my own wording can be odd to some, so maybe that's why I can't see the ~issue~?

[cadmium-free]

shortly after I moved back to Canada I was having a conversation with a group of people about a book and one person replied to me mentioning that I knew the author of the book with a VERY loud "get out of town!" which made me visibly flinch which then made everyone in the room rush to assure me that it was just a "Canadian figure of speech" and that "Americans don't know it" and i'm haunted by that interaction every single day of my life. anyways that's both a fun little insight in how easy i am to startle AND weird shit canadians think about americans

[medicinemane]

And maybe you'll be like "but if you don't trust businesses, how can you trust welfare?"

I fucking don't. My mom trying to get on food stamps fucked me up because a lady I never met without my permission got my SSN from my mom and started editing my files. My heart still races to this very second whenever I think about it, it kinda messed me up bad and I'll never ever ever see any kind of recourse

And I'm terrified that I'm gonna lose my medicaid just cause I inherited some money from my grandpa

And I've never even applied for disability cause it kinda doesn't matter finding out if I'd qualify or not cause of my depression, when the rules are so restrictive I don't know if I've even be allowed to keep my house

I do not fucking trust these things on a personal level. I feel like out of a lot of people I have the most to fear from them cause I'm on the edge of having things work, and that gets you punished

...but I need medicaid in order to have insurance (and when you strip out the finance side of medicaid, I love medicaid... they're honestly incredible insurance... I just... I just... dental is like 90% of why medicaid is so important to me, ever since I found out this state pays for it I've actually been able to do cleanings which is important to me cause I can't always get myself to brush)

And I think things like disability and food stamps are pretty damn important on a personal level, and honestly are also good for the economy cause they get people spending... it's practically a free cash infusion into the economy, cause these are people who need to buy stuff

There's just so much important stuff welfare does that it's worth dealing with government

No, what I want is more accountability so if someone gets my SSN from a 3rd party like my mom they're held to HIPPA styles standards where that's not ok to access my files without my permission (She changed my fucking address and tried to get medicaid to investigate me for fraud! Never even met me)

Like have some accountability there and in every situation

Secondly I want less punitive focused rules. I'd frankly prefer bezos get on disability than smack down some poor sod cause they got $2000 in the bank or cause their friend lets them live with them for free

If there's gonna be a cut off on these programs, it needs to be a solid step above the poverty line, cause... by definition I assume poverty line denotes kinda the minimum expected income people can reasonably live off of, and if you take away benefits people are gonna lose a chunk of money to covering that stuff themself, so you need a buffer before you kick people off

I don't fucking trust the government for a second, I've actively been fucked by them and on a personal level I avoid everything but medicaid and only that cause everything but the money is pleasant to deal with and I kinda need it (honestly if I was rich I'm not even kidding that I'd rather give medicaid like $400 a month than some insurance company, I sincerely like them as insurance)

But I'd trust them a lot more if they were less punitive, less out to hunt me down and gut me cause someone handed me a fiver or cause I started to get on my feet, and if government employees had concrete rules they had to follow that were actually transparent and enforced

Like 90% of my problems with welfare go away if they're held accountable and there's less "catch the welfare cheats" mentality going around

I don't trust the government in the slightest, but sadly there some jobs it kinda has to do, so I'd just rather force it to be an open book where the public can keep an eye on it and if they step out of line there's consequences (sort of like I don't trust most mega corps but happen to sometimes need stuff from them... did you know literally every cell service provider has been illegally selling shit like your location data to random people like bounty hunters, and the FCC just slapped them with a fine that's 0.02% of their yearly incomes and debated even doing that? I even can offer a source on that)

...I don't trust much of any authority cause they constantly fail me and kinda screw me. Don't trust doctors either, but I still gotta go to them, you know? ...they're just... they're real bad at listening... so many systems need systemic change

(You know who I really don't trust is the cops. I could point to so many examples. My uncle doesn't trust cops either, and he's an ex Fire and SWAT paramedic, he worked with them and we still got into a long conversation where he basically tore into them far better than I can)

(I don't trust authority that's not accountable)