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KinglyCitrusKen Layne
11/06/13 11:25am
A lot of your points, if obviously hyperbolic, might have made sense 10 years ago. But today? Take another look, and this time, pay attention. Their national government is in the clutches of an ironclad conservative majority, led by a fascist idiot asshole named Stephen Harper. Much like conservatives in the US, he and his party are doing their damnedest to roll back every single progressive victory of the last fifty years.

He has greatly expanded the military while cutting education, healthcare and old-age assistance. His record on the environment is atrocious - he's a global warming denier, and his party has made massive cuts to environmental protection, eliminated or ignored nearly all oil-industry regulations, and conducted a campaign to run pro-AGW scientists out of national academies and deprive them of public funds. He tried once, in 2006, to to get rid of same-sex marriage - but thankfully, that's too entrenched there at this point. He's even cracking down on the medical marijuana industry and trying his damnedest to destroy the long-standing Vancouver pro-drug organizations and culture.

This is all driven, of course, by the oil sands. Massive oil-company investment and bribery has seized the country and bent it largely to the whim of a few corporations. As long as the jobs and oil money keep flowing in, Harper can basically do whatever he likes, particularly given how divided and weak the liberal opposition is. The irony is that while America is growing more progressive and, well, Canadian, Canada itself is essentially morphing into a rogue petro-state where conservatives have a free and unfettered hand to fuck up everything good that came out of the 20th century.
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  ninjaginKinglyCitrus
  11/06/13 12:01pm
  Thank you for saying this. I have met many conservative Canadians (they must have been underground for awhile) and in general I don't think they're more or less nice than people in lower 48.
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  Ken Yadiggit, Adiosninjagin
  11/06/13 12:22pm
  Conservative Canadians are brain-cell lacking, venom-spitting whackadoos. Honestly, as a Canadian I can say there is obviously a difference between Americans and Canadians socially, but in the end there are good people and bad people everywhere. But I've found that while Conservative Americans tend just to be dumb and loud, Conservative Canadians are rather vile.
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Missy PantsKen Layne
11/06/13 10:37am
I'm only commenting to say Littlest Hobo is the best TV show ever and you mock it at your own peril! (Even Bret Mackenzie loves the Littlest Hobo!)

GIF

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  ManchuCandidateMissy Pants
  11/06/13 10:41am
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  not-youMissy Pants
  11/06/13 10:43am
  Maybe tomorrow I'm gonna settle down
  
  Until tomorrow I'll just keep moving on.
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KrungKen Layne
11/06/13 10:51am
Uhhh...we're 100% as fat as Americans. Believe me. Our false sense of superiority over Americans is baseless. We're just as bad as you are. So don't feel bad.
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  lmpKrung
  11/06/13 10:55am
  Perhaps the rest of Canada is as fat as Americans, but in my experience in Montreal, the Quebecois are definitely not fat.
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  Krunglmp
  11/06/13 10:57am
  Quebecois aren't Canadians. ZING!
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StoneyButternutKen Layne
11/06/13 10:50am
Not smoking ghetto drugs... You sound like a midwestern housewife.

I used to fish for two months every summer in northern Canada. I love Canada. They stiched me up for free ( tore my leg up on a jagged rock ). Clean water, descent food, and seemingly backwards english. What's not to love ?
Ooh, I do despise the French-Canadiens. Made one of those snobby shits eat yellow snow once. I was a proud American that night. A proud drunk American.
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  benjaminalloverStoneyButternut
  11/06/13 11:28am
  Wow. Hostile, eh?
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  StoneyButternutbenjaminallover
  11/06/13 11:39am
  Sorry, but when I see any guy slap a woman, he got what he deserved.
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TruthKen Layne
11/06/13 12:25pm
Fun fact: When Canadians say "about", they don't say, "aboot," like a shoe.

They say, "aboat." Like those things in the water.

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  anyah8sbunniesTruth
  11/06/13 1:43pm
  we don't say 'aboot' or 'aboat'
  
  we say about.
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  Truthanyah8sbunnies
  11/06/13 1:54pm
  I work with three Canadians from the greater Toronto area. The accent definitely sounds like aboat. It's not a bad thing. I'll take that all day over New Yorkers that insist that there is a "w" in coffee.
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mymomsawmyjunkKen Layne
11/06/13 10:33am
I had a very difference experience travelling in Canada, my wife and I expected everyone to be overflowing with nice and they were more often borderline rude. We were confused until someone reminded us that they are basically British, then it all came together.
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  FiveGuysNamedMoemymomsawmyjunk
  11/06/13 10:50am
  Canadians tend to be reserved and polite as opposed to friendly. They also tend to be much warmer the farther east you travel. Westcoasters are assholes (I say with pride).
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  muffin_cupcakemymomsawmyjunk
  11/06/13 11:08am
  When I went to Canada, I ended up just trolling. I would spread my Canadian money out on the counter and emphasize my southern accent: "Y'all's money is so confusing! Which one is a dollar?"
  
  So much anti-American sneering is a failure to understand that our population is disadvantaged compared to Canada's. The U.S. might be an arrogant global superpower, but the stereotypes of average Americans come from inequality. "Americans are so fat [terrible food and lacking good healthcare] and stupid [poor, under-educated] and ignorant about the world [no money for travel]." It's a privilege to live in Canada, where you have universal healthcare and a better education system.
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lemonsmarkKen Layne
11/06/13 10:36am
Yeah Canada is awesome!

Isn't it true you guys can't even stream Netflix because of your terrible fiber infrastructure?
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  secretagentmanlemonsmark
  11/06/13 11:01am
  We have Netflix Canada. Not as much content, but still ok.
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PhilosopherRabbitKen Layne
11/06/13 10:43am
I'm Canadian and Americans are much nicer people. No matter where I've gone in America, Yanks are just more pleasant.

I like Canada's health care system, our gun control, our low crime rates and economic growth—but Americans are nicer people.
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  arrowinthekneePhilosopherRabbit
  11/06/13 10:59am
  Wow, you met all 313.9 million Americans, and they're all nice, you say? Nicer than the 34.88 million Canadians that you have also met?
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  PhilosopherRabbitarrowintheknee
  11/06/13 11:37am
  Random sampling.
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La.M.Ken Layne
11/06/13 11:09am
Further evidence of Jim Cooke's genius.

Can I commission him to do a family portrait?
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  JohninLALa.M.
  11/06/13 11:41am
  I would love to see his take on a "Murica!"-type parody.
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  Mrs. Gideon RegretsJohninLA
  11/07/13 1:31am
  For some reason I thought Jim was responsible for this classic Gawker illustration of down-home Americana, but apparently it's by some cat called Sam Spratt.
  
  Your Worst Thanksgiving Horror Stories Your Worst Thanksgiving Horror Stories Your Worst Thanksgiving Horror Stories
  
  Our second annual Thanksgiving Horror Stories contest generated many more tales of woe than last… Read more Read more
  
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LibshkiKen Layne
11/06/13 10:38am
We Canadians live in igloos and can only say "sorry" and "eh". So take off ya hoser.
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  HragLibshki
  11/06/13 10:43am
  When Americans talk about Canada, they often sound dumb. Then again when Americans talk about most things outside the US they can sound dumb.
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  LibshkiHrag
  11/06/13 10:45am
  Are you American and dumb?
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