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submitted 1 week ago by RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world

“I know China very well, President Xi is a friend of mine, I know him very well…The first thing they’re going to do is say you are not allowed to play ice hockey anymore. That’s not good. Canada’s not going to like that,” the president added.

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[-] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago

First, when you use someone who obviously has dementia as your reference point for what a group of people do, you are probably wrong unless the groups you're referring to is people with dementia.

Second, promoters use the terms people are most likely to associate with the products they're promoting, not what it is or think it should be called. That's why you'll hear diamond advertisements use the word diamond and not carbon allotrope, because one of them has no relevance to their customers.

Third, I'm not here to talk about Trump. Ive been saying shitty things about him since before Lemmy existed, and this tidbit is almost completely irrelevant to the issues Canada has with respect to Trump. I'm here to talk about your hot take that is probably relevant to the 2% of Americans (that number is for color and is neither an opinion nor an assertion, and if it is a fact, that is purely coincidental) who naturally assume hockey refers to field hockey or who have declined sufficiently due to dementia that they have difficulty with context when speaking.

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