• Daniel Quinn@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    What is it with so many maps drawn by Americans pretending Canada doesn’t exist?

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        3 days ago

        It’s a fully accurate map actually. Every time one of these gets made I immediately fall into the ocean and have to help rebuild my country again from the ground up. It’s not something many people talk about but it’s a real challenge in the Canadian way of life.

    • EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      IIRC, I believe this is from a KGB operation to promote socialist and anti-capitalist sentiments in the US population.

      What’s with so many maps drawn by the USSR pretending Canada doesn’t exist?

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      3 days ago

      Internet leftists heavily subscribe to the idea of spheres of influence. Canada (and Western Europe) fall into the US sphere. What the citizens of those countries think or want is of no importance.

      This also explains the .ml’s support for Russia over Ukraine. In their worldview, Ukraine belongs solely to Russia, and Ukrainians resistance to that can only be explained by actions of the CIA, since Ukrainian citizens can have no agency of their own.

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        3 days ago

        I’ve never seen such a reductionist view presented as so enlightened.

        “Internet leftists heavily subscribe” is just a tad of an overgeneralization mate

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          20 hours ago

          Of course you’re absolutely right. I was hoping to avoid calling out the .ml denizens specifically. But here we are.

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        3 days ago

        States function according to their strategic interests and trade relations, not as pot luck dinners.