New Canadian tourism ad just dropped.
@georgetakei ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

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Letโ€™s go, Iโ€™ll drive.

@georgetakei Without the guns, without the disease outbreaks, without bankrupting hospital bills, without surprise visits to the Gulag, ...
@georgetakei Iโ€™ve got no need to visit the North American continent, but if ever I do โ€ฆ
@georgetakei if I have a USA visa can I use it for Canada?
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Find out the entry requirements based on the country or territory you are travelling from and what documents you will need.

@Anne_Delong @danieltache @georgetakei Somehow I don't think anyone's borders are going to stay open to American refugees for long.

Between the numbers and mostly ill-founded fears of spillover violence this could get bad fast.

If you want out, now's the time. Otherwise prepare to stay and fight alongside us.

@georgetakei

Honestly, itโ€™s not just the fascism thatโ€™s the problem.

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Only partially true. PP will prove otherwise.
@georgetakei But only if youโ€™re vaccinated.
@georgetakei I'm waiting for them to provide an American retiree visa. :) But Mexico looks nice also actually.
@georgetakei but you know, fascism adjacent
@georgetakei Must be doubly hard for you to witness as this isn't your first rodeo, as a Japanese-American of a certain age.
@georgetakei Please dont *even* compare us to the US.

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Strong disagree. Canada is so much better than the US!

@georgetakei Not accurate ask an indigenous Canadian.

@georgetakei

The last 4 days were such a clown show.
- The stock market taking a huge dive Monday and then again Tuesday morning.
- #BigHands' 2-hour incoherence speech
- a very very strong BC provincial budget
- Trudeau's very very strong speech
- Even before #MoscowDon spoke Tuesday night, others in their government were blinking and we have another tariff delay
We have to destroy this man: defeated shamed humiliated and mocked. There's no compromise. End all the tariffs. #cdnpoli #bcpoli

@georgetakei Oh no, there's plenty of that here, sorry to say.
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So we're just going to pretend the Convoy revolt didn't happen?
@georgetakei Although, given the way things are going here, weโ€™re slowly getting there.
@georgetakei This is awesome, Uncle George. Thank you!

@georgetakei @energisch_

And a public health insurance for everyone!

Not as good as in Europe, but hey!

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I like it ! Long live #Canada !!!

@georgetakei Les Canadiens sont et resteront les cousins des franรงais !๐Ÿ˜‰
@georgetakei also fewer trailer parks I checked.
@georgetakei it's true... Canada even has its own history of ethnic cleansing.

@georgetakei @woozle

Their treatment plan for people with expensive health problems is to actively kill them. They will stop paying for your meds and leave you the choice to die slowly from your disease or quickly from a doctor's syringe. They're a kill shelter for people (similar to the Netherlands, btw.).

There is no country without fascism. Ignoring this makes it possible for them to spread the fascism further and further. Fascism plus gaslighting and you're doing their propaganda for them.

And celebrating a whole ass country like this is nationalism.

@Antimony I think the nationalism aspect was more of a joke than serious -- but yeah, here again we see the "choice between evils" phenomenon at work, serving to normalize the "lesser evil" as acceptable.

i.e.: Canada's healthcare is clearly better than here in the US -- but only because ours in the US sucks so very badly.

We already needed a revolution before the current coup happened...

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@woozle @georgetakei

Sure, and I didn't write a serious reply like that to someone's poor attempt at "just a joke" but to the post of a very popular account with a long tail of comments by people who just loved to go with the "fascism free" nationalism. :|

I'm also aware that probably everyone who left their heil Canadas there will sneer at me for "not getting the joke". But well. That's how this world works. I'm aware.

@Antimony Ahh yeah, I get what you mean -- it was time for a counterpoint. (I often wish there was a way to reply to multiple comments, because more than one of them are repeating the thing you want to comment on.)

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@woozle @georgetakei
That would be a good feature!
@georgetakei .......and without the Gunfetish.....