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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Wow, this is HUGE news for Canada - fantastic! I love to see us closer to the EU and I hope we can bulk up our defence sector to what it was in the 50s before we let Americans gut it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Urgently looking for a scapegoat before Hungarians start emulating Serbians.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

It's what happens when a population has at least a moderate amount of critical thinking skills and awareness of current affairs.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

They won't have a source because it isn't true. We overwhelmingly reject any notion of joining the US, and that feeling has only hardened in the last few weeks. Trump — and the lack of anybody stopping him — have destroyed 100 years of friendship. https://angusreid.org/trump-tariffs-canada-retaliation-usa/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Only if there enough girth (population) to back it up.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Reminder that Canada has a population of over 40 million people and the Canada-US border is three times the length of the Eastern Front in WWII, which is by a long shot the largest front of any war in human history.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Frankly I don't think of Israel as a first-world country, so that hadn't crossed my mind.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In Canada though, we’ve seen a fairly strong repudiation of Maple MAGA and the Qonvoy movement.

Not only that, but the speed and unity behind our response to American threats has been remarkable. I haven't felt our country so united since... Maybe the early 00s? It greatly reassures me that American brain rot hasn't permeated Canada as much as I had feared.

As for the article in the OP, it also bears mentioning that the American education system(s) makes us look like a country of geniuses. At this point it's clear that the average US citizen is not fully equipped to understand the issues at hand.

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

This is the first time I've seen NZ lumped into SEA and I find it deeply funny for some reason. With that said, CANZUK is getting much more attention these days, and at the moment I'm leaning in favour of it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Brexit was indeed a dumb move, but let's be honest here, it's nowhere near what's happening in the US right now. I can't think of anything comparable in a first-world country, at least not since WWII.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (10 children)

The more I see stories like this, the more I wonder if Americans can make it out of this hole they've dug. The average inhabitant seems... rather lacking, compared to other developed countries.

 

Lots of bands cite Rush as an influence, but some show it overtly in their songs. The guys in Dream Theater for example are huge Rush fans, and one of their songs that most exemplifies it is The Count of Tuscany. Check out this instrumental version of the track – the intro is pure Rush, from the "swoosh" effect to the drum fill all the way across the toms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAlHlky5ovg

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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https://www.youtube.com/@StickHits

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