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A few hours after President Donald Trump announced that he would impose steep tariffs on Canada, hockey fans in the capital Ottawa booed the Star-Spangled Banner during a National Hockey League game against a visiting US team.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (19 children)

The real pressing question is, who the fuck plays a national anthem for anything other national teams? How deranged of a society one has to live in to think this kind of brainwashing is normal. Holy Dr House, It's collective dementia.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (18 children)

It's just what they do in the NHL. Any time a US and Canadian team play each other, they play both anthems. You know, out of the mutual respect we felt for each other until about two days ago.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (11 children)

M8, let me tell you about the UEFA champions league, FIBA BCL, et al. It's not a national team, playing the anthem is levels of deranged that shouldn't exist in a civilised society. Don't let yourself be numbed into thinking that's normal, it Isn't. That's a 3rd reich levels of nationalism. Holy shit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I actually do agree that it's weird. But dude, it's not fucking Nazi level. Don't downplay the level of shit those guys were up to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'm not downplaying the Nazis, their indoctrination through similar tactics was pervasive. Mistakes of the past repeat in the future and all that cautioning. That's how you breed a generation of young people that vote for orange turds or frustrated painters.

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