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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In America, our guts grow way faster than our brains, bc that's where we do most of our thinking. :-D

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ohhh that makes sense! You have some REALLY smart people over there!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Damn straight - it has it right there in our flag (the red is bacon 🥓)!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Holy fucking shit. How have I never seen that version of your flag before? That other one is so boring why isn't this one flying everywhere?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bold of you to presume that it isn't!? :-P

And if you think that's something, wait till you see our history books:

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And our newspapers:

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(save us from ourselves?)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well damn! No wonder you guys are so patriotic! I think I might be a bit jealous of your freedom and your news industry.

(Wish I could help 😞 I'm just up here in this other little North American country. The really cold one. Just wishing someone saves you from yourselves before that stink moves too far up and gets embedded in the carpet. Unfortunately we've been getting more and more whiffs of it in the past couple years. We may need help too.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's spreading all over the world. Again. Except this time we seem to be for rather than against it, for some reason? :-(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well it sure is how it seems depending on where you look. Just gotta hope that a majority of people haven't lost their mind yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, I feel like I have lost mine at least:-).

Btw in case it is fun, here is a video from John Oliver about authoritarianism.

Stay strong! (and warm if at all possible:-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately that link doesn't seem to work in Canadia but I'll look it up. I love John Oliver.

o7 <3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh that's weird. If it helps, here's another link that my phone automatically translates the above into: https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=RyyrDneVyLze3rWE&v=ximgPmJ9A5s&feature=youtu.be. Anyway it's just the word "Authoritarianism". Enjoy!:-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (47 children)

Urgh it doesn't work 😭 I've tried searching for it and it doesn't come up, just random playlists named Authoritarianism that don't actually contain the video. I'll have to pirate it. Sorry John :(

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