Is it weird to be an American interested in Canadian news?

uh huh
so why would Canadian’s informing themselves on the happenings of our neighbors be unhealthy?🤔🤔🤔🤔

He added that it’s come at the expense of Canadians consuming news about their own country’s politics.

that’s not how that works, just cause I inform myself on what’s happening in the US cause I also have friends there doesn’t mean I’m less informed on what’s happening over here, in fact:

I’d say it’s the opposite as I’m more concerned and informed about the pros that’s US citizens are gaining such as Right to Repair and the cons of the degradation of citizen rights that are being replicated here

Consuming anything from Fox news is def bad as you’re not even consuming junk food at that point but rage bait poison

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But that is what they consume.

Didn’t something just come out that Alberta has a higher trump approval rating than anywhere in america or some dumb shit like that?

That doesn’t happen by consuming responsible news sources. That happens from Fox non-news.

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8 points

Remember when Princess Diana died? People in the US were pretty interesting in that, I thought it was weird.

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yup

people can and should be allowed to be interested in things foreign to themselves

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36 points

Watching any American media is toxic to one’s health

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It’s not all the same and your comment is bigoted.

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18 points

It is the same, and your less than two week old account and comment history are highly questionable in both intent and motivation. While your accusation lacks depth and merit.

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I’ve been here since the Great Reddit Migration of June 2023. But first I started on kbin.social. Died. Moved to kbin.run. Died. So now here I am.

Your accusation lacks depth and merit .

You also very clearly did not read any of my comments because not a single one of them is a trolling sort of comment. It looks pretty pathetic trying to “win” the way you are.

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Also, I question how active you really are if you don’t recognize my username because I have been very active for over a year now. Too active because I have too much time on my hands. I have maintained the same username throughout four different instances.

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35 points

I mean, yeah duh? What, you think that conservative right-wing movement was fully homegrown? Some of them are flying the Confederate flag in Alberta! Hatred is America’s export now.

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That boat sailed with Murdoch buying out all the news companies and beaming his rags and “news” channels around the western world after he conquered Australia. He used his power to weaken laws that used to hedge against this kind of nonsense.

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Some of them are flying the Confederate flag in Alberta!

Historically Europe (and the British Empire) sided with the confederacy because they saw a united USA as a potential industrial rival, whereas the south was more of a resource colony. Interestingly there was a major class divide in Europe where the working classes were anti-slavery and therefore anti-confederate wheras the upper classes saw the confederate cause being in their interest. There’s a book about this called A Cause for All Nations by Don Doyle.

My understanding is that nowadays the confederate flag is used by people outside the USA who are on the fascist end of the spectrum for whom Nazi or fascist symbols are too extreme (or just illegal) in their countries.

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To be fair its global (eg.US and Hungary). Fascism always has been (eg Germany and Japan)

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God, tell me about it. My mother watches Fox and gets her opinions of US politics from there with predictable results, and she’s even infected my dad with the idiocy, and he’s just a sweet guy that’s getting radicalized by that bullshit.

It’s scary to watch, I can’t imagine how people deal with this constant propaganda in the actual US.

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We cut off our families who watch Fox.

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Oh down here we mostly just cope however we can. Or get radicalized in whichever direction seems right

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25 points

That’s ok, so are Americans.

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