Is it weird to be an American interested in Canadian news?
“news”
Americans consume an unhealthy amount of American “news”. And food.
That’s ok, so are Americans.
As an American who sometimes watches Canadian TV due to living near the border, your news stations are obsessed with American events (almost all negative stories) to the point that its likely being used to distract Canadians from their own country’s problems.
Yeah, but you have to realise, we’re your hat. Whatever happens down there fucks us just as hard. Hell, that applies to a degree for the whole world. You can’t be “leader of the free world” and then complain people are paying attention to your leadership.
I’m American and I don’t willingly watch American news
We have some great news media, though. I haven’t found a good SA or EU or Canadian equivalent for Democracy Now
Never heard of Democracy Now but don’t write off CBC just because they’re gov funded. As long as you know their bias I’ve found CBC to be pretty good in delivering factual news. The thing they engage in most is lying by omission - not covering inconvenient topics.
I mean, yeah duh? What, you think that conservative right-wing movement was fully homegrown? Some of them are flying the Confederate flag in Alberta! Hatred is America’s export now.
That boat sailed with Murdoch buying out all the news companies and beaming his rags and “news” channels around the western world after he conquered Australia. He used his power to weaken laws that used to hedge against this kind of nonsense.
To be fair its global (eg.US and Hungary). Fascism always has been (eg Germany and Japan)
Some of them are flying the Confederate flag in Alberta!
Historically Europe (and the British Empire) sided with the confederacy because they saw a united USA as a potential industrial rival, whereas the south was more of a resource colony. Interestingly there was a major class divide in Europe where the working classes were anti-slavery and therefore anti-confederate wheras the upper classes saw the confederate cause being in their interest. There’s a book about this called A Cause for All Nations by Don Doyle.
My understanding is that nowadays the confederate flag is used by people outside the USA who are on the fascist end of the spectrum for whom Nazi or fascist symbols are too extreme (or just illegal) in their countries.
Like it or not, what happens in America ripples through the whole world. Doubly so in Canada because we share a very long border.
Our politicians especially tend to follow the trends that politicians down there set; to the point where we have our own little mini-DeSantis running for Prime Minister.
our own little mini-DeSantis
the one who wants to de-fund the CBC so that Canadians can consume even less Canadian news.
What’s the Canadian equivalent of Florida?
Unfortunately Saskatchewan (my province). Alberta next door is Texas, and Saskatchewan wants to be like them, but our government is far far dumber.
Our Mini-Desantis is Pierre Pollieve.
uh huh
so why would Canadian’s informing themselves on the happenings of our neighbors be unhealthy?🤔🤔🤔🤔He added that it’s come at the expense of Canadians consuming news about their own country’s politics.
that’s not how that works, just cause I inform myself on what’s happening in the US cause I also have friends there doesn’t mean I’m less informed on what’s happening over here, in fact:
I’d say it’s the opposite as I’m more concerned and informed about the pros that’s US citizens are gaining such as Right to Repair and the cons of the degradation of citizen rights that are being replicated here
Remember when Princess Diana died? People in the US were pretty interesting in that, I thought it was weird.
yup
people can and should be allowed to be interested in things foreign to themselves
But that is what they consume.
Didn’t something just come out that Alberta has a higher trump approval rating than anywhere in america or some dumb shit like that?
That doesn’t happen by consuming responsible news sources. That happens from Fox non-news.
God, tell me about it. My mother watches Fox and gets her opinions of US politics from there with predictable results, and she’s even infected my dad with the idiocy, and he’s just a sweet guy that’s getting radicalized by that bullshit.
It’s scary to watch, I can’t imagine how people deal with this constant propaganda in the actual US.
We cut off our families who watch Fox.
Oh down here we mostly just cope however we can. Or get radicalized in whichever direction seems right
Decouple our economy and politics and then we’ll talk.
Literally can not be done. Canada doesn’t manufacture enough to become self sufficient (thanks outsourcing).
Well, you don’t need total autarky. Just a way of running our major sectors over the ocean if we’re forced to.
My mom was watching CNN in her bedroom to watch the trump Train wreck whenever she visited us. We cancelled our cable subscription to get rid of it and we just get OTA local news now.
Really no loss, if a big news event happens it’s still carried live here on Canadian stations.
Watching any American media is toxic to one’s health
It’s not all the same and your comment is bigoted.
It is the same, and your less than two week old account and comment history are highly questionable in both intent and motivation. While your accusation lacks depth and merit.
Also, I question how active you really are if you don’t recognize my username because I have been very active for over a year now. Too active because I have too much time on my hands. I have maintained the same username throughout four different instances.
Anyone can make an account on a new instance with that name and claim to be the original person, so “same name, difference instance” isn’t a way to tell who someone is. When you spin up a new account, it’s a new account.
That being said, I don’t think your post history is highly questionable.
Good Lord did you read that out loud before you posted it? I mean you have to know how that sounds right?
I recognize frequent posters, so I assume others do too, but I guess not.
that’s an interesting way to say “don’t you people know who I am”
I’ve been here since the Great Reddit Migration of June 2023. But first I started on kbin.social. Died. Moved to kbin.run. Died. So now here I am.
Your accusation lacks depth and merit .
You also very clearly did not read any of my comments because not a single one of them is a trolling sort of comment. It looks pretty pathetic trying to “win” the way you are.
Is he afraid we are going to use it all up? If you don’t want the world watching then don’t be a godamned circus fire 24/7.
I would absolutely love to stop following American news, and that will happen when I don’t have to worry about Trumpf infecting world politics.
Well, Canada is a part of North America so it makes sense
