I’ve opened Lemmy today to lots of anti Canadian sentiment on any recent comments about how messed up 'murica is and it’s constant attacks on Canadian sovereignty.

Don’t get sucked in. Let them yell into a void. The online campaign has begun in earnest on Lemmy and it’s time to point it out and recognise it for what it is.

These are not real people. They are actors trying to affect our decisions as always happens when American exceptionalism is challenged. Our government had the balls to stand up and say no. We have the balls to do the same. They do not like it and will attack you for it.

Don’t fall for the bait.

  • Montreal_Metro@lemmy.caEnglish
    543·
    1 day ago

    Only Nazis hate Canadians. Because we are very good at destroying Nazis. It’s our national past time.

    • Englishgrinn@lemmy.caEnglish
      61·
      15 hours ago

      I would like “Kills Nazis” to be a common, simple part of Canadian identity, like hockey and manners. Basically, I want this:

      “Oh Bob? Yeah he’s just a good old Canadian boy. Smooth wristshot, absolute sniper. Always helps his neighbour shovel the walk. There was a demonstration by a bunch of those “Sons of Odin” fuckers downtown last week and he stopped by to huck bricks at them and protect counterprotestors. You know, we should have him over for a beer and some steaks”

      • Maeve@midwest.social
        2·
        15 hours ago

        “Sons of Odin” ? Is this a white supremacist gang like KKK, Nazis, etc or your own word choice?

        • Englishgrinn@lemmy.caEnglish
          5·
          14 hours ago

          Sons of Odin are a Canadian white supremacist movement with Viking inspired iconography and a stated mission to “stop the spread of Shariah Law”. They were started in 2018 and started with a very media-savvy push as a “service organization” doing park clean ups and handing out water and granola bars to homeless people. Their intent was to grow to spread their Xenophobia and anti-islamic rhetoric.

          They aren’t a large group, maybe 15k members coast to coast and that’s spread pretty thinly. As for why I picked them? I dunno- memorable name and more “Canadian” than name dropping the Klan.

          • Maeve@midwest.socialEnglish
            1·
            14 hours ago

            Thanks for clarification. It’s sad they try to ruin mythos that we should be able to embrace as unifying, within ourselves and with each other, by using it to divide.

            • Englishgrinn@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              12 hours ago

              Despite every horrible thing they stand for - it is completely reasonable to me if the thing you’re most pissed at them for is cultural appropriation of Norse Mythology. I know when people use my country’s flag in their hate-fests, it angers me almost as much as the hate itself.

              • rozcakj@lemmy.caEnglish
                2·
                6 hours ago

                Re-using (poorly) nordic/viking imagery, mythology and symbolism has been a core staple of Nazi’s, and white supremacists for… ever…

              • Maeve@midwest.social
                2·
                12 hours ago

                It’s not the most anything to me, I just think it’s sad along with other things. A sad sad situation, all around.