Just did my part 🚫🎞️🇨🇦
regardless, this would be a good time for countries to strengthen laws protecting against foreign ownership of media companies and heavily regulating foreign media companies operating in countries instead of opening up the floodgates and letting american companies control the culture.
Context?
Nice rock you live under.
Trump’s been threatening to Anschluss Canada as the 51st state and been planning on tariffs and other fuckery to harm Canada. So a lot of Canadians are cancelling services provided by US-based companies and pirating entertainment instead.
Are people really buying into this 51st state nonsense? It’s never going to happen. Orange man is a legit professional shit talker. Damn near everything he states shouldn’t be taken seriously. I’ve easily learned to ignore his words and simply focus on his actions.
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Unfortunately, you really can’t afford to ignore his words, because sometimes they do lead to actions. Hell, people ignoring his words is how he got re-elected in the first place.
I want to cancel my american owned subscriptions and I’m a american
Eagerly awaiting European owned competitors to american big tech products
Maybe we’ve always been the bad guys, but it sucks that the US is openly being the bad guys now. This isn’t the country I was indoctrinated to think it was. Sad.
My theory is the following, i think what saved the US from being stuck on cold war propaganda was the internet. For a long time the US was truly great. It was a steadfast ally, a reliable trade partner and it helped rebuild the EU post WW2. It had railroads everywhere, cable cars everywhere, struggled and won against prohibition and oligarchs, treading ground on worker’s rights and rights of minorities.
Then the cold war came and things went seriously downhill. Because of the cold war a lot of things were done in secret and a lot was invested in propaganda. Corporations were allowed to do many things in secret. People in the US were told they were the best at everything and everyone else sucked. They never heard what the world really did think of them, only here and there by immigrants, who were seen as an inferior class anyway.
Then the internet came and finally the US heard what the world thinks of them and boy, it wasn’t pretty. Took a while too, many places didn’t have the infrastructure ready. The world wasn’t happy, the US had been doing very bad things in secret and so, US people finally saw what their country leaders had been doing.
The US isn’t a hopeless case but the US is at war with itself. A war that started in the 1800s and still rages on against an oligarch class that managed to inflitrate itself within the higher echelons of the government. Who took their railways away and their cable cars. Who took their days off and their workers rights and in some cases, even took away their right to strike (like the railroad workers).
They can’t vote their way out of this, both parties are deeply corrupt. The ones that could stop it, the regulatory agencies, are currently being gutted out. Now is a critical time for the US to change and make regulatory organs apolitical and independent from the executive branch. What is done now will define if the US will become an oligarchic dystopia or will return to its roots. I believe the destruction caused by Trump will invariably lead to the demise of the oligarchy, for oligarchy persists in denial and secret and what Trump is doing is reckless and obvious. But a time of shame has come to the US for what has been done.
Once people in the US realize that the bipartisan struggle is an artificial struggle and that no president is coming to save them, republican or democrat, hopefully protests will spring up everywhere and when they start, real meaninful change can appear. Every American knows the establishment is everywhere. Every American knows they’re in a class war.
Every American wants to fight it, but the Republicans say Democrats are the establishment and the Democrats say Republicans are the establishment. To overcome this both Republicans and Democrats must recognize they are fighting the same enemy and it’s not each other. The republican party and the democrat party are both artificial constructs of many political views that don’t translate to anything in the real world of politics. They’re amalgamations of parties that have differing political views who might win elections but won’t effect meaningful change on account of that. It serves the interest of the oligarchs that no matter which party wins, they win.
I was at a bar a while back and the talk stuck with me. He was a Israeli who moved to America about twenty years ago and still visits Israel to see his family.
He said, “Americans have to stop seeing America as being #1 at anything.” We talked about Israel and Palestine, we talked about the current White House bs, and afterwards, I finally understood what he was saying, especially with the lens of him being an Israeli.
America is America. It’s a place that exists. The rest of the world has a lot better everything. It’s like living in a small backwater town: You know it’s shit, and it wont magically become something it’s not, especially if the Mayor and the Sheriff are inbred hicks who bang each other’s sister wives. Maybe you grow your nestegg until you can move. Or maybe you carve out a piece of the shit hole. But know that it’s a shit hole.
That’s America. Just keep milking because the lunatics are out of their cage.
The US have always been the bad guys. Even independence was about being able to do more genocide and land stealing without the British getting in the way.
Canada also has a brutal history of both slavery and genocide.
Accepting that is the first step to overcoming systemic racism and building communities that we can all thrive in.
Friendly reminder that practically speaking most countries have committed genocide if they’ve been around longer than a century ish.
you be the first to give up your land and give it back to the Indians… but u wont :)
People dont own land anymore. We live and die in ever-inflating rental properties.
My parents are teachers. They own land. It’s not quite as impossible as people like to pretend. Hell, my 20 year old cousin has a house
You’re right. Everybody is just being dramatic and pretending they can’t afford to own a home. Especially the people having their homes repossessed. They are the biggest fakers of all.
Everywhere in the world had slavery.
Thats not true
I’m an American and I canceled mine years ago! (Except youtube premium)
Not trying to yuck someone’s yum, but what are the perks for youtube premium?
No ads and unlimited YouTube music. I do the family plan for my mom, wife and young daughter. We get our money’s worth for sure.
Just a reminder to use your local library, they’ll often have plenty of movies and TV shows to rent either at a very low price or fully free. Perfect complement for the seven seas
Local library here has streaming services with lots of classic movies (watched some Akira Kurosawa flicks). And other streaming services thru there have educational kids’ stuff. Also, free museum passes. Telescopes. Musical instruments. Video games. Online newspapers and magazines. Pretty badass.
Canada here! Literally cancelled Netflix last week and talked to my SO about using the money instead to pay for a seedbox lol.
Also trying to do a grocery run without buying any American products is a challenge but doable! Loading up on Dr. Oetkers pizza and Romanian pasta
Dr. Oetkers
You guys get Dr. Oetker over there? Extremely jealous!
Safeway had them on sale for like $3.50 so we loaded up lol
You have Safeway in Canada? Doesn’t that defeat the point of not buying American?
The Canadian stores have been owned by Sobeys since 2013!
Oh fantastic, nice to know!
Netflix is really shit as a subscription anyway, it’s gone downhill with the amount of ‘tiers’ and constant slop production that encourages cancelled 1-season shows over longer, fan-driven works.
Cancelled my Netflix and prime and subbed to CBC gem.
One big problem with our country is that our own identity and culture has been eroded by American pop culture. It’s honestly good to get away from American media and focus on Canadian made content otherwise we our identity and culture just blends into American culture and I hate that.
It’s tragic too when there is so much Canadian media that gets overshadowed as a result. I’ve been picking up Orphan Black again which is a fantastic series, but too many Americans have never heard of it.
hello fellow clonecluber <3
Hell yeah! On my previous watch, I only got through almost 2 seasons, hopefully I will finish this time. I’ve forgotten a lot, so it’s kind of nice not knowing what to expect again.
spoiler
I was looking up the show on TV Tropes, and I completely forgot about Helena’s crazy cult arc, for example…
I remember being obsessed with this podcast, too, if you’re interested (I believe it started with the third season)
https://pca.st/podcast/b25a41b0-c89f-0132-3e65-0b39892d38e0
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clonecast-the-official-orphan-black-podcast/id987144344
They only had a Twitter and FB, so there’s not really a website to link to. I don’t know if it still works but it was pretty fun back in the day.
Ah thanks, not one for podcasts but good to be aware of!
My wife loved orphan black! I didn’t know it was Canadian. We both loved Kim’s convenience. And Kenny vs Spenny is an all time great.
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People paid for Netflix?
Suckers come from both sides of the border