Annoyed at both US and Canadian liberals acting like Canada is an oppressed Global South country that is under the boot of US imperialism and full of progressive revolutionaries when it’s actually one of the wealthiest countries in the world and an enthusiastic ally of the US in its imperialism most of the time, and when it isn’t, it has its own imperialist and colonialist projects, especially mining, both in the Global South and on stolen Indigenous land within so called Canada - don’t even get me started on how reactionary Canadian settlers are either, and it’s not just the white ones born here bc a lot of non-white diaspora and immigrants are just as nationalistic and hate both Indigenous peoples and the Global South, even if their families are originally from the latter.
I saw a Reddit thread from someone in Europe going, “Wow, Canada, I always thought you were just a smaller America, but you’ve really proven yourself to be a democratic power who protects the liberties of your people. The world’s eyes are watching you and we’re all really impressed.”
Followed by Canadians being like, “thank you uwu i hate when people compare us to Americans and it’s so nice to be recognized for our contributions to civil liberties”
It was the smuggest smugfest for a country that only just barely kinda-apologized for the hundreds of thousands First Nations children they slaughtered and dumped into mass graves outside of the residential schools they abducted and sent those children to, and on the heels of suing to say, “No, we don’t have to provide clean water to reserves, we only do that as a favour”
Embarrassing.
I. HAVE. A. SUGGESTION!!!