#canadian bias

[thedeafprophet]

I was gonna say I wanna make a french oc just to piss people off.... but I do already have Jamie's Ex lmao

[vormoranox]

All of the news-related billboards or square images I've made so far. As some have pointed out, the 70% refers to print media; if someone wants a version of that one that has this as a small footnote, I can add it, just let me know. Feel free to use these.

[slytherinshua]

I’m in love with mark lee

[wanderingmind867]

I think Superman and Batman really paint a picture of almost two different philosophies. Superman is Hope personified, he embodies light and positivity. Batman is like the personification of Cynicism and Pessimism, a man who's very dark and edgy and intimidating. A man who's paranoid, doesn't trust easily and doesn't have many friends. And let me just say: batman is the one who's more relatable, but he's also the one I dislike. Maybe that says something about me. Because I'm as cynical and pessimistic as characters like batman, that makes me gravitate towards Superman. I need that happy, hopeful feeling. I need it to ground myself. So superman is definitely the more important character to me.

[lil-shiro]

I'm wondering about how's lance's public perception in canada, I hope its good, because knowing how much hate he receive online I was pleasantly surprised that he was received warmly during his home race.

This is a difficult question to answer because i'm just a single data point, but i'll give my opinion.

Just for context though, I don't consider motorsports in general very mainstream in Canada (at least compared to other places). If you asked someone on the street who Lance was, maybe 2/10 people would know. Motorsports was bigger here until the gov made tobacco sponsorships illegal in 1988. After that there was (and still is) little corporate interest in supporting or sponsoring motorsport.

Anyways onto your actual question.

There are only 20 drivers on the grid, therefore having a driver who reps your own flag, feels good for the most part. I think that's a general consensus.

So, of course there are Canadians who cheer for Lance, or don't mind him just cause he's Canadian. Maybe they only really pay attention to him during the Canadian GP. But there's also people who don't give a shit about that and neg on him anyways.

In Montreal at least, I think he gets very good support. He always shouts out his favourite businesses, donates to charities here, and can actually speak french (this is big). So yeah he always gets a good reception at home which im really happy about. I can't really speak about other places. Overall I don't think it's mega negative though, majority are probably? neutral.

Maybe I sound like a hypocrite since I've mentioned before that i hate when people say im a lance fan just because im canadian. But i can't lie and say that the familiarity doesn't feel good. Like that tim's car and suit was everything i ever needed in life 😭 I really want them to lean into that type of marketing more.

I'll save you from myself ranting about this but idk lmk if you wanna know more about motorsports in Canada. It does exist outside of IndyCar and F1, just on smaller, lesser known scale.

[graceoutinspace]

what's your and the rest of the crew's favorite flavor ice cream? also will there be any ice cream on the space ship?

My favourite ice cream is really whatever is the most appealing at the time. It's the toppings that matter, to me. If there are no toppings to optimize my choice for, then something chocolatey.

Yáo says lemon sorbet. I don't think that's technically ice-cream, but I'll let it pass.

Ilyukhina says anything spiked. Otherwise, "the shitty kind of ice cream sandwich Americans lose their minds over -- and I get the appeal".

DuBois says something with caramel and/or coffee flavouring. Mocha fudge, for example.

Shapiro deadpanned, grabbed me by the shoulders, shook me, and repeated over and over "Moon mist. Moon mist! MOON MIST!" I'm not sure if that's an ice-cream flavour or a curse.

Stratt glared at me (again) and told me to get back to work (again). When pressed, she said "Eh, whatever's good. Get back to work!"

[iammadelinepod]

Canada Day is still such a problematic thing. Unless and until we treat first Nation communities with respect and inclusion and basic human rights supports and address race bias and the amplification that first Nation women experience on gender bias plus disabled first Nation person's experience over and above the usual nonsense (IE how with many disenfranchised and discriminated upon diseases like long viral diseases these communities are not even getting diagnosed). Also lgbtqia+ and two spirit first Nations experience an exponential amount of discrimination over and above the usual horror.

We have not yet met the bar of adequate on how we treat our first nation communities. The lack of addressing of gender, race, disability and disease bias within Canada must be recognized as being far over and above that difficulty for first Nation communities as well as people of color particularly, women of color.

It is nice to celebrate a long weekend, Canada has done some good things, but we think we're farther along our human rights accomplishments journey than we are. We have a long way to go. Until we do a Country-Wide *putting on of our big person underpants* and addressing bias in all of its forms within the education, bureaucratic, governmental, legislative, and corporate systems, I don't see how any of this changes, ever.

What's happening to me, the death March off a cliff of gender and disease bias is beyond horrific. But even in the midst of the difficulties I'm experiencing I can only think wow, how much harder it must be for racial discrimination on top of that especially for our first nation communities

The first 5 episodes of the podcast give you a synopsis of what's happening to me. And if you choose to listen remember how much worse it is for those POC communities (I'm not sure it's letting me properly post it via the link feature in Tumblr so I guess you'll have to copy and paste it if that's not clickable) https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/i-am-madeline/episodes/Ep--1---How-do-you-solve-a-problem-e110jks

Here's the latest episode, *Queen Of The Cranky Arses* https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/i-am-madeline/episodes/Queen-Of-The-Cranky-Arses-e2lbfaj

The GoFundMe has most of the news media article links and updates if you need more information(I think I put them in the pinned post of this tumbler as well. But honestly I'm so tired I can't remember). If you decide you'd like to donate the media pieces have links to the GoFundMe so you know that it's for real and it's me.

(but here's the last article for convenience sake https://ricochet.media/en/3991/Canada-MAID-policy-death-by-poverty )

https://gofund.me/cff39173

[a1exkra1ie]

I'm reading a book about war propaganda in Canada in the late 19th to early 20th century and it's really interesting but it's so anglo-centric

[justbackgroundnoise]

anyone who is still hung up on the Canada drone thing and continues to say Canada should have been kicked out of the Olympics because they have the “upper hand on all of their opponents” must not be people who have ever really played soccer, followed soccer, or are people who really understand how the game actually works. does the drone thing suck and is it so stupid that any coach would even try this? absolutely! but you can do all the prep in the world (in whatever that means) and it can ultimately be for absolutely nothing because soccer is a game of in the moment decisions and big emotions.

A soccer game is 90 minutes and it is unbelievable how much can happen and how much can change within even a fraction of that time frame. A player can get hurt and maybe a team’s star gets subbed out which leaves them without their number one goal scorer, someone gets two yellows or a straight red and a team goes down to ten men which changes how they attack and defend, someone decides they want to cross the ball to change the field of play but they give the ball directly to an opponent who gets a breakaway, a team can adjust their formation fifteen minutes into a match to account for pressure from attackers or a tight midfield that they didn’t anticipate, the goalie spills a ball and the other team scores on a rebound, etc. There is SO much happening and so much changing so quickly in a soccer game that this notion that Canada knows how to beat their opponents now because of “drone spying” is kind of silly. Yes it’s a team sport but players can make choices for themselves on the pitch that affect the game in ways no one but themselves can control or make up for and in this game things happen swiftly and unexpectedly most of the time. that’s just how soccer works.

I’m not making excuses for bad coaching and stupid choices and I’m glad the people directly responsible were penalized for it but don’t assume that because of all of that, the Canadian players have this incredible in depth advantage and can beat every team they play cause….that’s just not it lol

[vormoranox]

I made these anti-US-ownership-of-Canadian-media designs into bumper stickers on Redbubble! Rectangle/square, English/French all available.

Link: "Save the CBC" collection; general shop.

Also other product types - magnets, bags, etc.

I haven't used redbubble before so I don't know what the margins are like, but if I make sales on these I plan to donate the vast majority of proceeds to SaveTheCBC.ca or similar initiatives. I might keep $2 to myself every so often to reward myself with a lil treat.

By the way, Pollievre wants to gut the CBC so that the American-owned news media in Canada like all of the 'Sun' papers by Postmedia can keep pushing for him and his pro-US, pro-Trump, anti-Canada rhetoritc. VOTE IN THE FEDERAL ELECTION! ANYBODY BUT CONSERVATIVE!

[aka-click]

Dangers of Disinformation/Misinformation

So, I was getting tired of an acquaintance who was continually posting extremely biased and often misinformed things on another site. At the end of another one of these ridiculous copy-pasted posts, was the question "So, what really divides Canadians?"

Well, that was a question that I was entirely prepared to answer.

TL:DR - do your research and beware of emotional reactions and confirmation bias. ---------------------------- Here is the exact response to her post

I am going to ignore much of what is posted here, though I will say ALL sides of the political spectrum are guilty of much wrongdoing and to focus or accuse only one side is a misinformation tactic.

What I will do, is answer the question at the end of the post and, I am sorry, it is a long answer that only covers one of the biggest aspects of the question:

What divides Canadians?

I think the best place to start is with the recently released Special Report on Foreign Interference. Whether foreign or domestic in origin, the biggest threat to our democratic processes is disinformation (intentional) and misinformation (unintentional) through both traditional and social media. These things aim to distort the public’s perception of reality.

What starts as disinformation can quickly become misinformation as people spread it without checking to make sure of the facts is due to confirmation bias. Now, this can occur on all sides of the political spectrum. Beyond confirmation bias, one of the reasons disinformation is so dangerous is because it designed to feed into our emotions and amplify them.

Some of the easiest emotions to manipulate are things like fear and anger in its many forms which is why much of the disinformation seen focuses on negative aspects. When disinformation is used to target any particular group of people, combined with the right language, it will create an intentional othering of that group. This is the beginning of a division between groups of people.

Now, anyone can be affected by these tactics as some methods are more subtle than others to try and catch those who can be more critical of the things they hear and read. It can be as simple as choosing a word with the same meaning, but a different connotation or emotional resonance to push thoughts and emotions towards certain beliefs.

And, the more one moves towards certain beliefs, the easier it is to manipulate those beliefs.

Now this is just basics, of the issue, but one of the largest things that create a divide between people, but that also leaves the question of:

What can we do to stop the spread of disinformation and misinformation?

There are a few things actually. First, always get your news and information from multiple sources. Ideally, find unbiased sources when possible. Media Bias Fact Check is a website that can help you check the bias of your sources and give you information on how factual their information is.

Avoid copy-paste posts that feed into your emotions without double-checking the facts of what is behind it yourself using multiple sources. The benefit is that if someone does choose to argue with what you posted, you have the facts to back it up.

Remember, no group is a monolith and one person is not always representative of an entire group. If what you are sharing uses language that seems to indicate either of these things, then you might want to do some more research or thinking before sharing it.

Lastly, take the time to think about your beliefs, about what facts support them, and be willing to have open and honest dialogue about it. Connecting with others, even through differing beliefs, can help keep people connected, foster understanding, and reduce the divide between us.

Most importantly, no matter what, keep learning, expanding and checking facts and when it comes time to voting, forget what the leaders of any party are saying. Anyone can say anything they want, that doesn’t mean they truly believe it or will follow through with it once elected into office.

If you want to know what they really think, the voting records for politicians are easy to find online for MPs and MLAs.

[thirdset]

ok im late but, never in doubt <3

[supersoftly]

Reading local newspapers opinion pieces just invokes the Lucky Star OP, visually dancing over the page as it plays 'Out of Touch' in my brain.

[xbraveheartx]

Image credit to this youtube video of the song itself

Je t'ai rencontrée simplement | I met you simply Et tu n'as rien fait pour chercher à me plaire | And you did nothing to try and please me Je t'aime pourtant | Yet I love you D'un amour ardent | With an ardent love Dont rien, je le sens, ne pourra me défaire | Of which nothing, I feel, will be able to undo me Tu seras toujours mon amante | You will always be my lover Et je crois à toi comme au bonheur suprême | And I believe in you as in supreme happiness Je te fuis parfois, mais je reviens quand même | I run away from you sometimes, but I return all the same C'est plus fort que moi, Je t'aime | It's stronger than me, I love you

Interesting how this has been made to be the ending theme for the game, and in turn, the overarching theme woven through.

[rambunctioustoons]

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death road to canada au.