• rozodru@pie.andmc.ca
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    23 hours ago

    In Ontario and Alberta we have a lot, like seriously a lot, of really dumb people. Anti-Vaxers, Maple MAGAs, etc. Ever wanted to see the Confederate flag flown in the most Northern part of the continent possible? cool, go to Dryden Ontario.

    84% of the cases came from these places.

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      23 hours ago

      Ever wanted to see the Confederate flag flown in the most Northern part of the continent possible? cool, go to Dryden Ontario.

      Fuuuuuck, that’s next-level stupid. I remember some stupid redneck I had the displeasure of knowing had one hanging up in his room in Pennsylvania. I asked him if he knew he was born and also now living ABOVE the Mason-Dixon line and WTF is that flag even hanging up there for?

      Dude stared at me like a dog trying to comprehend calculus. Mumbled something about “heritage”. I asked what that could even mean since he was born in York, PA.

      But FFS, flying that traitorous flag of losers up in Canada? What. The. Actual. Fuck.

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        23 hours ago

        Saw it walking in a small town in the Netherlands, once. Disconcerting.

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          This was back in the early 90s. I’m assuming now that Republicans like Pedonald and Nick Fuentes are now going mask-off with their fascism, and creating a permission structure for assholes, wingers are probably upping the ante to show how “edgy” they are. Back then flying a Confederate flag north of the Mason-Dixon line was just a way of signaling what a dickhead you are w/o just putting up a swastika outright, because it had deniability, at least to other assholes and the rather clueless (“heritage”, lol).

          But now, I would not be surprised if a few dickheads are putting up a few swastikas now because the flag of Southern losers is probably quite basic bitch stuff.

          In the Netherlands, I’m assuming flying that flag was much the same kind of reverse-virtue signaling. I know parts of Europe also (used to?) ban Nazi things, so I’m assuming this was a way of not violating the law, while still showing what a tool you are.

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      23 hours ago

      I knew alberta was full of rednecks, but it saddens me to hear that the province of the capital, ontario is also full of them too.