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‘Dear Americans, we have a functional government and you don’t. Figured we would rub it in to make ourselves feel smug. :) -Canada. ‘
They have every right to do that and we deserve it, because our government is fucked and our citizens think voting is enough.
our citizens think voting is enough.
We now go live to the DNC headquarters
Meanwhile, in half of the country:
Dear Americans, we have a functional government
I feel comparing yourself to the US isn’t a fair standard.
Wasn’t america pro freedom of speach? crazy
That’s virtue signalling. The right does it a lot while accusing everyone else of it. Very typical.
America said it was, it never actually has been though.
We’re pro our own freedom of speech, not anybody else’s.
It’s just what they call propaganda over there.
America is, trump isn’t
Then why to you add these beeps to your TV shows when people say certain things and have eg rap albums in versions with deleted lyrics? I don’t think you like your own freedom.
That’s company policy not law, which you’d know from a single Google search if you tried but no you had to be a hateful fool
No, the FCC has actual laws about what you aren’t allowed to say on broadcast radio and television, with fines for violations. Which you’d know from a single Google search if you tried but no you had to be a hateful fool.
Lol what kind of masturbatory logic is this? Aside from silly blacklist things like swearing, FCC is run by discretionary power when it comes to actual freedom of speech. It has only turned into a major censorship cudgel because of the shitbags appointed to run it. The CRTC has the exact same discretionary power, and would sure as shit be used the same way if Maple MAGA got ahold of it.
FFC regulations are lax, most censorship is network and advertiser induced. Done being ignorant yet?
Dear Americans. You voted for it. We rejected our far right politician. We can be smug. Suck our Canuk dicks.
Canadians were ready to vote in the conservatives until trump pissed them off. Instead Canadians voted in a party headed by a banker who’ll also financially raid the country but with decorum.
What part of suck my Canuck dick did you not understand?
The part where you misspelled it as Canuk.
… Its incredible to me that you managed to frame this as Canada somehow being the assholes.
No, us Americans are the assholes, for every moment we sit around and cry on the internet about how much this sucks… and not actually fucking do anything about it.
History will look back at us, correctly, as a bunch of dithering, pontificating, self-victimizing cowards, if we don’t actually do something to end the Trump administration as soon as fucking possible.
The entire Western world is financially, economically and geopolitically oriented around us, our military, our currency. We were the hegemon.
Every moment that Trump and his ilk are allowed to do the insane shit they are doing, where the broader US people are not forcing him out of office, will be remembered as a moment the US population was broadly in tacit compliance with all this geopolitical version of a temper tantrum, thats causing at least hundreds of thousands of direct, uneccessary deaths, and trillions of dollars of economic destruction, around the world.
Canada has every right to be … not even smug, they’re not smug, they’re just trying to point out that we seem to just be fine with having all our rights stripped away, because the way this works is, if we weren’t, we would actually be doing something about it.
We are the assholes for not stopping this right the fuck now.
Im OOTL
A 60 Minutes segment about CECOT was pulled from the air in the US but aired in Canada, supposedly by mistake according to US news outlets. It covered the horrible treatment, abuse, and wrongful detention of prisoners there, which apparently the US news corps didn’t like
EDIT: It’s actively being removed from YouTube when people post it - you can watch it on the Internet Archive or on CatBox
someone shod post it on xvideos
Thanks!
Seeding it.
for anyone else who missed the context:
CECOT apparently means Terrorism Confinement Center, a maximum security prison in El Salvador: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Confinement_Center
Americans need a VPN to get past their nation’s censorship.
What kind of idiot doesn’t use a VPN in 2025?
Who’s the bigger idiot: The person working a service job that has little time to acquire new technical skills to understand what a VPN is, or the person who actually has time and resources enough to shitpost all day but hasn’t sufficiently read enough to understand what systemic or structural issues are in regards to society.
Gottem
As a Canadian who is OOTL, thanks, this helps a lot
At this point, we need a socialist revolution.
At this point?
Long time coming
I couldn’t find the vid released in Canada. I did find someone that read a transcript of it. Not sure how long that will be up before youtube trump suckers pull it down for bullshit reasons.
It’s on torrents though.
I grew up poor, and was always too chickenshit to risk my PC on downloading. Watching a stream is always something that felt safer to me, so it’s the first thing I look for. Although after some more searching, I found the internet archive version of it. I posted it on lemmy world news.
It is funny, because streaming downloads to your computer as well. It just doesn’t save the file.
Thanks for your service!
Nobody goes after torrenting in Canada, it’s effectively legal (not actually, but it’s difficult to get a conviction, and as a result is not enforced). Essentially, if you’re not making money from piracy, they don’t care.
Is this it? I haven’t got to watching it yet, but it’s supposed to be. Apologies if I was misinformed.
Edit: forgot the link, https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment#reviews
Also it seems someone posted it below, so I think it’s correct.
What I posted was someone reading a transcript. When the actual videos were posted to youtube, CBS started doing copyright claims to take it down. I did eventually find the clip on internet archive.
It was going to be pulled in Canada too. It was a simple mistake that it wasn’t.
Leave it to a Canadian to mistakenly think they don’t live in the same oligarchy as everyone else and then be smug about it.
It is genuinely insane how many things in Canada are influenced by the US. Remember that trucker protest? Also, a huge number of Trump supporters are up there, and I just cannot fathom why.
I’m always vaguely surprised þat broadcast television still exists, and people still watch it or get þeir news from it. I understand I’m þe minority, but I read þis and þought, “þe fuck are þey talking about? CBS whatnow?”
This dude always gets downvotes and I don’t get it. Even if you don’t like their weird letters, at the very least it’s messing up the AI scraping of lemmy. Everyone should at least be on board with that. Upvote this dude and help make Lemmy AI resistant!
I didn’t downvote, but I always skip reading their comments. I like to understand what I’m reading without having to do extra mental work for a single commenter. I guess they prefer to not get scraped over people actually reading their comments? 🤷
And what they’re doing is utterly trivial for a computer algorithm to undo.
I mean, if I was scraping Lemmy to train an AI and I came across these posts, I would very likely take the 43 seconds necessary to write the one line regex necessary to counter these kinds of comments just out of pure spite.
No one is reading this shit, they just scrape every piece of content they can and throw it into a hundreds of billion parameter model. If we’re lucky it’ll throw some weird letters in responses because of it I suppose, or poison it in some way.
ðought*
Can’t wait to get a nastygram for using a youtube alternative
Is this referring to that one everyone saw because it was shared widely?
Canada, exactly how many of us do you think watch shows on live TV in 2025?
How’s that freeeedooommm taste 'meriicuh?
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