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> A GOP downvote pile-on is now pretty good evidence of having said something truthful, especially when it's accompanied by an equally strong (or stronger) updraft of upvotes from other tendencies.

You aren't american. Why do you even care? So many foreigners like you have an unhealthy obsession with american politics, culture, etc. Honestly, don't you have anything going on in your own country to occupy your time? It never occurs to me to waste my time discussing other countries' politics in other countries' forum. The propagandists say that it's the russians or the chinese that are meddling in american politics, but that hasn't been my experience online. It's foreigners like you. I just don't get it.

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> You aren't american. Why do you even care?

It feels extremely naive to think that American politics and culture don't affect the rest of the world.

Babe, I've spent at least half my adult life living in the USA. Not only that, but I'm from literal Canada, which is basically a thin, one-dimensional strip extending from the Pacific to the Atlantic, right above your circus, suspended like a trapeze. We are saturated in your news, your media, and your politics.

You honestly think that people living half an hour from the border don't get an opinion? When did America get in the business of deciding who could have opinions, anyway? So much for the land of free speech. RIP

> We are saturated in your news, your media, and your politics.

That's my point. Why not saturate yourselves with your own news, your own media, your own politics. Canada surely must have something going for it?

> You honestly think that people living half an hour from the border don't get an opinion?

I'm not far from the canadian border and I don't a shit about canadian politics. You don't have to obsess over foreign politics. You'll live longer.

> When did americans get in the business of licensing who could have opinions, anyway?

Since 1776?

> So much for the land of free speech. RIP

Chalk it up to foreign meddling.

POV: Republicans are now afraid of [checks notes] Canadian 'foreign meddling'.

Only thirty years ago, this was parody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbfBzWJVbX4

Is there anything you all aren't afraid of?

> POV: Republicans are now afraid of [checks notes] Canadian 'foreign meddling'.

This is the first time I've ever been mistaken for being a republican. Not surprised my comment went right over your head. Your brain is so fried with politics that you can't understand that I'm trying to help you. Nothing you say or do will affect politics. You might as well go scream at a mountain for being in the way. I used to think highly of canadians. But the more canadians I run into, the more pathetic they come across. Maybe it's because the good canadians live their lives while the bad waste their time screaming about other countries' politics. Or maybe familiarity breeds contempt.

Go get a life instead of worrying about foreign politics. And let me clue you in on a little secret, both the republican and the democratic party are shit and they both work for the same master. If there is anything more pathetic than a trumptard, it's a canadian obsessed with republicans or democrats.

> You don't have to obsess over foreign politics. You'll live longer.

And obsessing over what other people care about?

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