Good. It's about time people stopped treating the US flag with respect in western countries.
And in the US. The flag doesn't deserve any respect as it's a sign of oppression and Nazis. If I see anyone with a flag that's not accompanied by a pride flag or something else liberal, I assume they are racist nationalists because that's all it represents now.
I completely understand the feeling. After the 2022 "freedom convoys" the maple leaf became associated with similar kinds of people. Canada Day 2022 was not a day filled with patriotism. It slowly made its way back to normal over the next 2 years, but up until the last few months someone with a flag flying from their car window still gave off a particular negative vibe. Now it's back and bigger than ever.
If we stop being shitty, the boos will stop. It's not too hard to understand. I never thought we'd be this bad.
It hasn't been treated with respect for a while. First, the type of people to loudly fly it are usually doing so with performative patriotism. Or they'll ignore the US Flag Code by wearing it as clothing, using it in advertisements and bedding, draped over vehicles, etc. They often fly it alongside the flag of Trump (who's actively destroying our country with an unelected fascist), the flag of the traitors to our country (secessionist racists), the flag of supporting the successors to slave-catchers (police bullies with qualified immunity abusing the law), or even the flag of our literal enemies in the last World War (the Nazi swastika).
What is a country beside land and words written on old paper long ago? It's the people. Personally, I think we have a pretty great flag, but if you're actively hurting people in the country and glad about it, you're disrespecting this country more than anything you could do to its flag...
Good for y'all. A bunch of absolute dickheads were booing the Canadian anthem at a hockey game down here recently. Sorry you guys are forced to be our neighbors
Kinda lame to boo someone you're bullying. Loser behavior if you ask me.
Well, it's America. Kicking someone we're bullying is our national past time
It's kinda the definition of bullying...
We've always known this. Look at all the houses with the flags in front. Look at the military parading everywhere and the jets flying overhead during sporting events. The country is the epitome of "little dick energy".
A weak person punches down and yet this is what America is doing.
That was probably in response to us booing your anthem, we've been (rightfully) doing it at every hockey game I've seen since Trump's first tarrif announcement. Fuck America.
I'm sorry to all of you down there who didn't vote for this shit. I hope you guys can make it through this, and try to fix things afterwards
Thanks. I'm hoping we can, but also I'm hoping I can get tf out of here
I'd say I want to go to Canada, but somehow yalls real estate market is worse than ours
We managed to piss off some of the most infamously nice people on the planet for no reason whatsoever.
most infamously nice people on the planet
Do the First Nations know this?
Yeah, you got me there.
Yea, I’m sick of this white washed narrative.
White Canadians can be just as xenophobic and racist as Americans.
Ever read up on Canada’s forces in WW1? They can be brutal when they need to be. 😄
Isn't a lot of the Geneva Convention a reaction to Canada's WW1 conduct?
Portions of it made before WW2, yes.
When the "Sorry!" ends, the war crimes begin.
Oh, I believe it. I'm just still amazed that we decided to piss off the people that are internationally famous for being polite for literally no sane reason at all.
We are polite because if we weren't our own society would crumble. We would kill one another. It isn't as much politeness as it is a necessary respect for our fellow man.
We are well known for being ruthless in battle. Not just WWI, we have a very colorful war history spanning up to modern day.
Both our national sports are played at a speed and ferocity that is hard to rival. During gameplay in one of these sports, when someone is offended they are expected to fist fight over that offence. EXPECTED. They then get asked to "sit out" and cool down for a literal couple of minutes before they are permitted to rejoin the action. These games also often erupt into fights in the stands and parking lots not just between the players. Often between the parents of these players should the players themselves be at an age where they are not permitted to fight within the game. If it's playoffs or a big game no one cares what you broke or what hurts. You lace em up and get the fuck out there. It's important.
"Just fuckin' punch 'em in the mouth" is something we all get told by our parents as kids having to deal with bullies. I've also told my kids this. It works and we do it. Fuck the school suspension.
We all own guns. We don't use 'em like you do but we certainly know how and so do our kids. Our rural brethren are masters in the bush, mountains and oceans because we enjoy it.
We have vast resources of young French Canadians who have travelled the world and learned all sorts of crazy skills no one else can manage just because they could. They're athletic (reference: the French power gut, this category of Canadian also includes Acadian and Metis) and keen to fuck shit up. They're like Australians, you find them everywhere you go. They party a lot. They're friendly as shit and kinda goofy. But when they get pissed...they're the real ones.
We also tried to exterminate our natives and still do but they're fuck off strong and resilient. They're getting pissed too. You really really really don't want that. Trust me on this one. You just don't. Imagine the toughest person you know the. Times that by colonialism, religion, disease, sugar and an unshakable spirit. Also beyond athletic and revengeful.
And many of us are not nationalistic. We would not be going into it for your country or our flag or our leader. We would be doing it for our families and neighbors and friends and people like us around the world who are over the bullshit. When you are fighting for that there is no beating it. Americas leaders could stand to have learned this numerous times in their past.
Poor choice indeed.
We're pretty popular. It's awesome that we're great again.
I'm tired of this shit.
The American anthem was booed at the OHL game I was at last weekend. I'm not sure why it's played in the first place, my understanding is that we only play the American anthem when we play an American team in the NHL. The OHL is Ontario only. Maybe someone with some more knowledge can explain that part to me.
Flint Firebirds, Saginaw Spirit, and the Erie Otters are American teams that play in the OHL.
Ah, it was a Guelph vs Saginaw game. That makes sense thanks! I didn't realize there was a few American teams.
US* anthem
Is that senior, whale-shit, hockey?
The OHL is farm teams for the NHL. Three of the players in the game had been drafted already.
I was making a Shoresey reference as it's the only context I have for Canadian minor league hockey.
Ah, gotcha haha. As a good Canadian I've watched Letterkenny but not Shorsey yet.
I just can't with Letterkenny. I've tried. Maybe it's because I was a big Trailer Park Boys fan, and for some reason I can't stop my brain from making comparisons.
But for whatever reason, Shoresey works for me.
AHL and ECHL are the farm teams for NHL.
OHL is major junior level in the CHL along with the QMJHL and WHL
I normally find this kind of thing petty, but there's nothing normal about this mess... go Canada! Yay to the boo!
Yeah, but Canadian beer sucks!
Edit: it's a reference from a movie called "Canadian Bacon"
Objectively false. Canadian beer, especially from BC, is some of the best on the planet.
I'm Canadian/British and when I visited friends in Vienna we got drunk like every day. Anyways, one of those days there a beer festival and all of us had this one beer and we were like: this is obviously our favourite and we'd like to buy lots of it. They said, sorry you can't buy it here, it was from BC. We were so upset, we were like "why did you even show up if you're gonna just torment us like this!" Man, I really wish I wasn't so drunk that I forgot the beer name. I swear I asked the nice person like five times and telling myself I'd remember, lol.
I was living in London, UK for a long while and wasn't planning on going back to Canada any time soon which is why I couldn't just smugly taunt my friends.
I hate all beer, bleh.
Rick Hillier was also trying to encourage Canadians not to boo their closest neighbour’s anthem.
Rick Hillier can fuck himself with a rusty pipe.
Growing number of us Americans say to keep the Boos coming.
We need more and more of it. We need every one of these clueless dipshits who didn't vote. I have no hope for the magats. They are a lost cause.
This^
Boo us!
I want united, seething hatred of us to permeate every bubble Americans are hiding themselves in.
I'm in the US, and this is the first thing my coworker said to me this morning lol. "Did you hear what happened this weekend?" I was like, good for them.
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