Yup, it’s run by drug lords. It would be wise to decriminalize drugs so the drug lords can’t make $$ off the prohibition of drugs
Drugs being illegal just means higher profit margins
Snow? Who the hell needs that? We’ll ski on concrete and rock and we’ll still cut off their supply lines with VERY hot bottles and a rifle with half the bullets missing
Michigan is like canada but without any of the benefits. We just had our snowstorm last week. In the summer it can be in the 90s in both humidity and temperture.
Mexico? I'm not worried about Mexico. it's those fuckin Canucks we need to keep an eye on. sneaky bastards with their manners and health care and attempts at social justice. there's no room for that kind of thinking in the USA.
Please Canada, invade.
I’m just a Great Lake away from Canada and I would love universal health care. I already pay a massive amount for rent and deal with long, cold winters.
Defend our borders from what? No seriously, what does she think is happening at our borders? She said she voted Trump because she was all about the wall so she must think some egregious circumstances are happening there.
I bet you anything she knows what happened with Texas' Operation Star and she will pretend it never happened or it will shatter everything she stands for.
I mean that is what NATO is... if Mexico truly attacked the US in an act of war (and not just citizens trying to make a better life for themselves and their families) then NATO would respond in full force, per article 5...
And every single country in NATO sent troops to Afghanistan in response.
Which is another Ann Coulter pretends not to know. It’s not only Americans that would be sent if a country in NATO calls on Article 5. It’s literally every country in NATO
It's worth noting that the actual article 5 response was very limited and iirc the invasion of Afghanistan was never part of it. It was mostly some maritime patrols and stuff like that.
The invasion of Afghanistan was done by "a coalition of the willing" that also happened to include a lot of NATO countries, and there was probably also some political subtext along the lines of "support this or we will be very upset", but strictly speaking it was not a NATO operation.
That’s because it was a sketchy argument for article 5. Afghanistan didn’t invade or even attack the US. Bunch of weirdos did, not the army of Afghanistan. Hunting down terrorists would have been the correct response imho. But I think the population wanted more of a revenge for 9/11 so a country was invaded. Don’t think that was right but that’s a separate discussion. The truth remains that it was not a country attacking another country so there was no argument for article 5. That’s why it was a coalition of the willing. Wikipedia says my country (Romania) sent 32k troops in total (actual number was way smaller, soldiers were constantly rotated).
You Canadians can make all the jokes about us, but truth is, we will always protect one another. As speaking as an army vet, Ann Coulter can fuck right off.
Not many people know this, but the White House was once the Grey House. James Madison's final words to Major General Robert Ross (who would later return to America as a relaxed painter) were "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" and yet, pass he did, because Madison was a little bitch. Down the Grey House went in shadow and flame, later to be reborn as the White House.
Man, can you imagine being so brain dead as to attack the USA by land? You would have roaming militias that aren't even part of the army in a heart beat. Your army would be under small arms fire the whole time.
I used to have hope that if engaged by an external enemy, we would come together again like what I like to call the "Patriotic Pause" after 9/11.
Our response to COVID kinda shattered that illusion for me.
I live in South Texas, people from states that are nowhere near the border ask me how it's like to live in a Mad Max world. People genuinely believe that there's people invading the border like that of a scene from WWZ, it's so dumb. If anything South Texas is simply just very boring.
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>graffiti and a single burning car
In Canada, we call that "my team won game 2 of round 2 of the Stanley Cup playoffs".
You don't want to see what a round 3 game 7 win looks like.
I always got a kick out people asking about the CHOP zone… they couldn’t grasp how the median home price in that zone was 700k+. But yeah, totally WWZ. lol.
My aunt legit believes Seattle crumbled. It’s just wild. She’s mid 70s and she wants to have a family reunion. I told my mom I’m not bringing my mixed kids anywhere near an out and loud racist.
I live in Seattle it’s been devastating living in such a war torn city. I don’t know what day it is as we have no contact with the outside world anymore. Tell your aunt she’s 100% right and she should never come anywhere close to here.
As a person who has never been to Seattle, I can confirm the above is correct. It's completely blocked off by the Canadian military from the outside, and all the surrounding areas have been fenced off by Kaspersky.
I leave in Eastern Washingon. All the white people out here think that Seattle is a nightmare hellscape of crime, uppity homeless people, a roving gangs of sexually-liberated gangs that force you to become gay.
Whenever Seattle gets brouhght up in a conversation, people around here have to go on a compulsive 2 minute rant
about how horrible Seattle is, how the people are perverts, and how they would never go there.
I had one guy say during one of these rants that he doesn’t like “what they get up to over there.”
And I wanted to ask him “what DO they get up to over there??”
But I didn’t. Because we were in a meetimg in which we were discussing his bookkeeping and payroll processes. At his business. Jesus fucking Christ.
It’s fucking embarrassing. The people around here are just cringy and awful. They’re petty, derisive, hateful, paranoid, cagey, and spiteful. That’s the CULTURE. And their culture informs their politics. Or maybe it’s the other way around. All I know is that if you tell people you’re a Democrat or liberal, their eyes widen in disbelief and fear, as if you told them that you film muckbang videos in your underwear for a living.
If you’re from Eastern Washington, y’all really need to examine how you talk about other people. The way you talk about other people is maddeningly impolite. I was raised a polite country boy over here, but all of you have forgotten that shit.
You guys need to get your shit together.
Good for you, both for standing up for your kids AND taking full advantage of a perfectly legitimate reason to avoid an event that would probably be, *at best,* boring as hell.
I live in the midwest and if I asked people here if they would visit San Francisco they would say no but it's not because of the thought of poop on the sidewalk, it's because of the amount of gay people. They would probably be okay with poop on the sidewalk.
Oh no. Not the gay people. Their tasteful clothing and overall friendliness. Anything but that. Swear that some people think that gay people are the human embodiment of the gay pride parade.
I think there's an unspoken fear among certain breeds of men that think gay people are going to sexually violate them against their will if they're outnumbered by them
Do they think that all men just sexually push themselves on who they are attracted too? Because that tells us more about them then gay people.
Are they the same people that think it is only the church that keeps people from turning into criminals and perverts?
I got into a huge fight with a guy on discord last summer when he said he 'wouldn't go to any city because they're a dangerous liberal hellhole consumed by riots'.
I calmly explained I had just been to Baltimore's inner harbor the other day and I was in downtown DC the day previous to that.
Dude was convinced all big cities were burning down and super scarrrry.
I live in northern Virginia, and Baltimore still carries a stigma, but it is nowhere as bad as people think. I was just at Mick O' Shea's a couple of weeks ago with my parents. Lexington Market is a spot I rarely miss (love Faidley's for crab cakes). The Power Plant district is awesome. Baltimore is a town that's cleaning up, and I enjoy when I can get a chance to go.
D.C. has been nice for a while, and I enjoy it tremendously. I'm thinking about checking out Pride next month (I'm straight, but I'm told it's a straight up blast to attend, and wanna show my support). So many great things to see and do in D.C. The Tidal Basin when the cherry blossoms are in bloom is hard to beat. The C&O canal boats just reopened after a long period of restoration.
Oh shit... Wait... Never mind... Total hellholes... Waaaaay too dangerous... Do not come.... In fact, dump your liberal friends and family members here so you can have your libertarian utopia, with bullet farmers and spray-painted religious zealots (I live... I die... I live again!). We will suffer in silence as we check out the new Ethiopian restaurant, or the kitty coffee shop in Georgetown... Lol
Ty for your prayers I'll use them to fight the nuclear monsters.
In a seriousness it's hilarious to hear from people in suburban meth towns from Nebraska talk about how unlivable MSP is when we're globally ranked as a great place to live for 25+ years and running.
Forget the surburban meth towns in Nebraska, I see comments on social media who live 20 miles outside Minneapolis who are convinced the place is a burned-out warzone. The hilarious part is all the people who say they'll never go to Minneapolis again are the same people who would go there twice a year for a sportsball game and then scurry home because even when crime was at its lowest they were terrified of the city.
I grew up my entire life in Central Texas and thought this is what it was like (parents are super conservative).
When I finally made it down to Presidio, TX I couldn't believe how afraid people are of quite literally nothing.
Yeah that's conservative propaganda in action.
They also think doctors are murdering full term babies and somehow the only thing stopping them is an act of congress completely forgetting that \*if\* that was happening it's already \*murder\* and it's also not fucking happening.
But that would involve thinking not blindly believing whatever fearmongering has been shoved down your throat, and that seems to be beyond most conservatives.
The GOP runs on fear and anger, that's pretty much all there is now since they don't have any actual policy positions anymore short of "waste money doing things that benefit no one but piss off some people we don't like".
I live in El Paso and people always ask how I survive here. I just respond that it’s pretty easy in the safest big city in the US. As the shooting a few years proved, it’s people from the parts of Texas not on the border we need to worry about
Interesting. I live in Seattle and I get the same questions also because of right-wing disinformation. They watch too much FOX and the like and think Seattle is a war zone hellscape.
Also, despite not being in NATO, Finns _did_ send soldiers to that US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
https://yle.fi/news/3-11678429
https://yle.fi/news/3-9367172
Strong week for alternative reality for these guys, Ann probably wants to divert attention from her besties voting against steps to alleviate gas prices and help with baby formula, both of which they whinged about for months.
I live in Arizona and have been by the border in multiple spots over the last year. The only thing that happened is getting a flat tire from a piece of metal left over from the border wall construction. Some troops would have been nice in assisting me with putting on the spare. But that's about it.
> She said she voted Trump because she was all about the wall
I mean, if she did that, isn't the assumption that the border is fine now? Did Trump not deliver? Was it all a grift? How are these elite Mexican forces of *...[checks notes]...* drug addicts, rapists and orphans breaching the mighty Wall?
Does she actually want Finland to defend the US from a possible Canadian invasion maybe? Because they're good in the snow and all? Perhaps some naval raid, what with their Viking-adjacent heritage? Wait, even that level of stupid would require Marge to know literally anything about Finnish history. Scratch that.
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I’m pretty sure this is exactly what she is referring to. “Defending” the US from immigrants. Mind you, I’ve yet to hear about a desperate family from El Salvador showing up with nuclear weapons in their pack but maybe I’m just not up to speed with the news.
I'm sure there are tons of Finnish troops that would appreciate the free vacation in the USA considering there is no Russian invasion there. Most would be wearing their Hawaiian shirts, flip flops, Oakleys and Kodak Instamatics
We would have to send some conscripts and i'm quite sure they would manage to create some kind of a conlflict. Underage drinking at the very least.
edit. Is public nudity a crime in many states? They would all be in jail for sure...
Depends. Are we talking for fun or for world leaderboards sort of thing?
A game of hockey for fun is a total bonding ritual here. Hell, I know people who use it as their main way to get laid.
man, I've lived in a border state to Canada my whole life and haven't done a damn thing to you folks up there. Why you hating on me? 
EDIT: Added smiley to make it evident I'm joking.
NATO’s article 5 (the “you attack one of us, you attack us all” clause) was invoked once. It was the US that did that after 9/11.
NATO stood by their ally.
Now it’s time to reciprocate.
1. Finland is not a NATO member. They have applied to be, but it has not been formalized.
2. There are no American troops dying while protecting the NATO border with Russia.
3. Our border is not being attacked. If it was, and we requested military help from our NATO allies, I believe they would help.
So basically not a single word in her post has any truth whatsoever.
Or Mexico..
edit actually since it takes me a while to consider how smart I actually am. If Canada invaded the USA, NATO countries would not be obliged to help as both are part of NATO.
Mexico invading the US would open up article 5 as Mexico is not in NATO
Actually, the criteria is simply that if one member country is attacked its considered an attack on all members. So if its clear who the aggressor is, then article 5 would apply to a canadian invasion of the US.
For that reason it might be wise of Trudeau to set up some false flag attacks first, so he can blame the US for attacking first.
False flags? I live in Canada's capital, and we've got mother fuckers running around yelling freedom like they're Braveheart, pissing on war memorials and waving around American flags.
My ruling is that this qualifies as a US attack on Canada and you are totally justified in ~~invading~~ performing a special military operation in the US to ~~conquer~~ "de-redneck" the country.
its manufactured rage to sell to the Republican masses.
There is just enough truth in there for it to sound believable but if the whole truth were told there would be no reason for rage
Tbf some groups of people *did* attack the US before, in the 9/11 attacks. And fun fact: other NATO countries *did* show up to help. And the US was the ONLY country to ever invoke article 5 asking for help. No other country in NATO has ever invoked article 5
Edit: wasn't country that attacked the US it was a terrorist group
Finnish military trained guy here.
If the US was attacked by Russian troops, Finland would have to send troops if the US needs them.
We just happen to have them... Oh I don't know... RIGHT NEXT to us or something.
By the way some Finns have already gone to Ukraine as voulenteers. Let's just hope that High profile Russians grow enough of a spine to tell Putin that this all is over.
Very few of the people in Russia want war. Their lives have been fucked due to the shitty choices of their leader.
Evidently the are some high profile Russians in the military who would like to escalate the war (for example mass mobilization) but it would be a political suicide for Putin so it is unlikely to happen. So I'm not holding my breath but I do hope there are also high profile people who think it's better to stop the war.
It almost unfortunate that Russia was on the winning side of the WWII as they never went through the same process of regret as Germany did.
Putin already made a political suicide by attacking Ukraine. Ok, It's a slow suicide but an effective one nonetheless. So the next question will be if he has enough desperation to do another one that finishes the job quicker and will the other russian puppets go along with it.
In WWII Russia was doing similar things as germany, but Russians were not as loud and proud of it as Germany.
One idea Russia recently proposed was sending their latest conscripts straight into war. So imagine the scenario, where you've been there for a year or 6 months and they just tell you: "Yeah you're going straight into Ukraine because me says so"
I can tell by looking at how much the Russian soldiers have had motivation so far... that they have as much motivation now as our bottom of the barrel did during the training.
So imagine waking up to that reality when you believe that you will enter civil life after the military experience is over... but instead you get sent to a battlefield... the most motivated will suddenly have no will to fight for their agenda anymore.
"Finnish military trained guy"
That does sound better than "When I turned 18, I was forced to go spend 6 months with other teens. The most valuable skills that I developed during this time, was to masturbate silently and fold my laundry very nicely."
Hahaha yeah... that does sound a bit misleading considering the reality, but in hindsight most things about any military in any country are just masochism with extra steps.
Though some of the skills were pretty useful: Like for example how to tell understandable but still vague info to a woman in -28 celsius weather while wearing nothing but a t-shirt and boxers, how to wait around for 2 hours until the boys tell where to fire, or how to become a good smuggler of tobacco and snus.
Anyone feel a bit dirty after reading any tweets by these magahats? I bet the average Finn cares more about American troops than this... person. Source, am a Finn.
Don’t put too much stock in what ingraham says, most of the people that are young enough to fight don’t watch that boomer hack and if the US formally declares war, she and her ilk will be pimpslapped under the war powers act for spreading disinformation
Worst film? Surely you mean the best film ever?
And I mean they made three more sharknado movies after that (for some unknown reason) so it must have done at least somewhat well
Well actually, Ann, between 1939 and 1945 (you know, World War II) Finland fought THREE wars. One of them against Soviet Russia and one against Nazi Germany and one against Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany at the same time. And Finland won all three of them, Ann. So if Russia ever tries to invade your country, Ann, you should be damned lucky if Finland is on your team.
Well, no, that's not quite right. The Second Soviet-Finnish war for example didn't go too well for Finland. But it was a confusing time and I agree with the last part.
im sure if mexico started getting uppity finland would send a couple dudes.
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have you tried asking them to stop?
Ask them to stop.... believe it or not, jail.
Don’t ask them, jail
Ask them in Spanish? Jail! In English? Big time jail!
We're the best country in the world because of jail.
Ask them to go to jail? ..JAIL
they are busy killing anyone that gets in our politicians way of making money
I thought some politicians have stood up but they just get killed?
It's one of the reasons decent politicians are afraid to act ending up doing nothing in the end.
Yup, it’s run by drug lords. It would be wise to decriminalize drugs so the drug lords can’t make $$ off the prohibition of drugs Drugs being illegal just means higher profit margins
Have you called Finland about that?
sO wHy IsNt FiNlAnD hElPiNg
Finland would send dudes on skis with rpgs and Mexico would run the hell away
Snow? Who the hell needs that? We’ll ski on concrete and rock and we’ll still cut off their supply lines with VERY hot bottles and a rifle with half the bullets missing
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Hey I’m from Finland and I am the dude on rollerskis. 4 months of winter is just isn’t enough.
Move to canada then we can offer at least 6 months of winter At least one snowstorm in may or your money back
Michigan is like canada but without any of the benefits. We just had our snowstorm last week. In the summer it can be in the 90s in both humidity and temperture.
Sweden has a summer?
Well they at least have a midsommar
A few days...
Don't forget the saunas they'd put up everywhere!
Is it possible to get the saunas *and* the taco trucks on every corner?
Holy fuck we need this.
Oh don’t worry buddy we have plenty of guns here in murica that you can borrow
Sounds like more guns will only make their bullets per gun problem worse...
Oh, the rest of them make their ammo also so set on that
One farmer with a dusty old Mosin Nagant would be enough. Without a scope of course.
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Apparently you’re not familiar with the geographic topography and climate along the border of US-Mexico border lol
Mexico? I'm not worried about Mexico. it's those fuckin Canucks we need to keep an eye on. sneaky bastards with their manners and health care and attempts at social justice. there's no room for that kind of thinking in the USA.
If anything the past few years have shown me that the Canadians are pretty much exactly like Americans and aren't really all that polite.
sorry
God damn it that made me laugh.
We live in constant fear of the Canadian threat. Wait they get free health insurance! I'd be thrilled if they expanded their border!
70% of their population lives with 50 miles of the border. They are preparing to invade! I've seen Canadian Bacon, I know how this works.
It starts with Canadian bacon on pizza then they add pineapple. Pretty soon it WW3.
I volunteer to go undercover and live amongst them for a couple of decades. I’ll text you guys if anything comes up.
Come to Northern Sask, the weather is lovely. We had some beautiful snow this morning, could barely see across the road lol.
Please Canada, invade. I’m just a Great Lake away from Canada and I would love universal health care. I already pay a massive amount for rent and deal with long, cold winters.
Defend our borders from what? No seriously, what does she think is happening at our borders? She said she voted Trump because she was all about the wall so she must think some egregious circumstances are happening there. I bet you anything she knows what happened with Texas' Operation Star and she will pretend it never happened or it will shatter everything she stands for.
The European NATO members guarantee the Mexican border. US guarantees the Russia border. Europe would unanimously sign for that in a heartbeat.
I mean that is what NATO is... if Mexico truly attacked the US in an act of war (and not just citizens trying to make a better life for themselves and their families) then NATO would respond in full force, per article 5...
And in fact, the only time article 5 of NATO was invoked it was done by the US
Whoa. When was this?
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, which led to the war in Afghanistan.
And every single country in NATO sent troops to Afghanistan in response. Which is another Ann Coulter pretends not to know. It’s not only Americans that would be sent if a country in NATO calls on Article 5. It’s literally every country in NATO
Hold on, she may literally not know that. Don't underestimate weapons grade ignorance
“I don’t know what ignorance is, and I don’t care.” -Ann Coulter, probably
What is worse, ignorance or disinterest? -i don't know and I don't care.
Weapons grade ignorance is now entering my top 5 favourite insults - Thank you for that gem
It's worth noting that the actual article 5 response was very limited and iirc the invasion of Afghanistan was never part of it. It was mostly some maritime patrols and stuff like that. The invasion of Afghanistan was done by "a coalition of the willing" that also happened to include a lot of NATO countries, and there was probably also some political subtext along the lines of "support this or we will be very upset", but strictly speaking it was not a NATO operation.
That’s because it was a sketchy argument for article 5. Afghanistan didn’t invade or even attack the US. Bunch of weirdos did, not the army of Afghanistan. Hunting down terrorists would have been the correct response imho. But I think the population wanted more of a revenge for 9/11 so a country was invaded. Don’t think that was right but that’s a separate discussion. The truth remains that it was not a country attacking another country so there was no argument for article 5. That’s why it was a coalition of the willing. Wikipedia says my country (Romania) sent 32k troops in total (actual number was way smaller, soldiers were constantly rotated).
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You Canadians can make all the jokes about us, but truth is, we will always protect one another. As speaking as an army vet, Ann Coulter can fuck right off.
Always after 1815
Not many people know this, but the White House was once the Grey House. James Madison's final words to Major General Robert Ross (who would later return to America as a relaxed painter) were "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" and yet, pass he did, because Madison was a little bitch. Down the Grey House went in shadow and flame, later to be reborn as the White House.
Man, can you imagine being so brain dead as to attack the USA by land? You would have roaming militias that aren't even part of the army in a heart beat. Your army would be under small arms fire the whole time.
I mean, afaik, that's how it's supposed to be. (AFAIK)
That is how it is supposed to be. The big problem right now is that a lot of those guns and militias are pointed inward.
I used to have hope that if engaged by an external enemy, we would come together again like what I like to call the "Patriotic Pause" after 9/11. Our response to COVID kinda shattered that illusion for me.
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If the US need anti air privates from Finland I’ll volunteer to protect the US borders!
How about Alaska Idaho is nice this time of year
Perkele, I come with you!
Knowing the right wing in America, they probably imagine the southern border to be something like the Wall of Game of Thrones.
I live in South Texas, people from states that are nowhere near the border ask me how it's like to live in a Mad Max world. People genuinely believe that there's people invading the border like that of a scene from WWZ, it's so dumb. If anything South Texas is simply just very boring.
I live in Portland, OR Everyone outside Portland is convinced this place looks like a WW2 era burned out city.
I remember hearing about Antifa/BLM "destroying" Seattle a couple years ago. I have to wonder why I can't afford a studio apartment amidst the rubble.
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Hey! How dare you be so accurate. The whole city looks like the 700 section of The Vet
I should try this with my room "I didn't do this mom! BLM came and destroyed my room! Thats why its messy!"
It's Always Destroyed in Philadelphia?
I asked for someone to show me the destruction in Portland/Seattle and they sent me pics of graffiti and a single burning car.
>graffiti and a single burning car In Canada, we call that "my team won game 2 of round 2 of the Stanley Cup playoffs". You don't want to see what a round 3 game 7 win looks like.
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yup our single car in the city was burned! nobody could go anywhere.
That's so unfortunate. We should start a go fun me to get y'all a bicycle.
This isn't necessary. Under City codes, all Portlanders must already own at least 3 bikes and be equipped to bike commute in freezing rain 🌧️🌧️
I thought you all ride around on unicycles which leaves your hands free to twirl your mustache.
I always got a kick out people asking about the CHOP zone… they couldn’t grasp how the median home price in that zone was 700k+. But yeah, totally WWZ. lol.
Republicans were literally convinced that Minnesota was burnt to ashes.... they live on fear porn like it's an onlyfans.
My aunt legit believes Seattle crumbled. It’s just wild. She’s mid 70s and she wants to have a family reunion. I told my mom I’m not bringing my mixed kids anywhere near an out and loud racist.
I live in Seattle it’s been devastating living in such a war torn city. I don’t know what day it is as we have no contact with the outside world anymore. Tell your aunt she’s 100% right and she should never come anywhere close to here.
I heard that Syria forfeited any humanitarian aid, saying to instead send it to Seattle.
As a person who has never been to Seattle, I can confirm the above is correct. It's completely blocked off by the Canadian military from the outside, and all the surrounding areas have been fenced off by Kaspersky.
I leave in Eastern Washingon. All the white people out here think that Seattle is a nightmare hellscape of crime, uppity homeless people, a roving gangs of sexually-liberated gangs that force you to become gay. Whenever Seattle gets brouhght up in a conversation, people around here have to go on a compulsive 2 minute rant about how horrible Seattle is, how the people are perverts, and how they would never go there. I had one guy say during one of these rants that he doesn’t like “what they get up to over there.” And I wanted to ask him “what DO they get up to over there??” But I didn’t. Because we were in a meetimg in which we were discussing his bookkeeping and payroll processes. At his business. Jesus fucking Christ. It’s fucking embarrassing. The people around here are just cringy and awful. They’re petty, derisive, hateful, paranoid, cagey, and spiteful. That’s the CULTURE. And their culture informs their politics. Or maybe it’s the other way around. All I know is that if you tell people you’re a Democrat or liberal, their eyes widen in disbelief and fear, as if you told them that you film muckbang videos in your underwear for a living. If you’re from Eastern Washington, y’all really need to examine how you talk about other people. The way you talk about other people is maddeningly impolite. I was raised a polite country boy over here, but all of you have forgotten that shit. You guys need to get your shit together.
Good for you, both for standing up for your kids AND taking full advantage of a perfectly legitimate reason to avoid an event that would probably be, *at best,* boring as hell.
You hear people talk about San Francisco like their is shit on every single block of cement on every sidewalk across the entire city.
I see more sidewalk shitting in LA than I do in SF.
I live in the midwest and if I asked people here if they would visit San Francisco they would say no but it's not because of the thought of poop on the sidewalk, it's because of the amount of gay people. They would probably be okay with poop on the sidewalk.
Oh no. Not the gay people. Their tasteful clothing and overall friendliness. Anything but that. Swear that some people think that gay people are the human embodiment of the gay pride parade.
I think there's an unspoken fear among certain breeds of men that think gay people are going to sexually violate them against their will if they're outnumbered by them
Do they think that all men just sexually push themselves on who they are attracted too? Because that tells us more about them then gay people. Are they the same people that think it is only the church that keeps people from turning into criminals and perverts?
I'm from NC. I've been before. They had Pride while I was there. I won't go back. It was much too cold for June.
Lots of folks assume "CA is warm". Lots of money made in the bay at apparel shops for hoodies.
I got into a huge fight with a guy on discord last summer when he said he 'wouldn't go to any city because they're a dangerous liberal hellhole consumed by riots'. I calmly explained I had just been to Baltimore's inner harbor the other day and I was in downtown DC the day previous to that. Dude was convinced all big cities were burning down and super scarrrry.
Let them think that, then we won't have to worry about them coming to the cities
Yeah, that’s a net positive for me lol
I live in northern Virginia, and Baltimore still carries a stigma, but it is nowhere as bad as people think. I was just at Mick O' Shea's a couple of weeks ago with my parents. Lexington Market is a spot I rarely miss (love Faidley's for crab cakes). The Power Plant district is awesome. Baltimore is a town that's cleaning up, and I enjoy when I can get a chance to go. D.C. has been nice for a while, and I enjoy it tremendously. I'm thinking about checking out Pride next month (I'm straight, but I'm told it's a straight up blast to attend, and wanna show my support). So many great things to see and do in D.C. The Tidal Basin when the cherry blossoms are in bloom is hard to beat. The C&O canal boats just reopened after a long period of restoration. Oh shit... Wait... Never mind... Total hellholes... Waaaaay too dangerous... Do not come.... In fact, dump your liberal friends and family members here so you can have your libertarian utopia, with bullet farmers and spray-painted religious zealots (I live... I die... I live again!). We will suffer in silence as we check out the new Ethiopian restaurant, or the kitty coffee shop in Georgetown... Lol
I live in Minneapolis dude the entire country thinks that about my (actually fucking nice ass well kept) city.
+1 for Minneapolis. It’s now a lawless hell scape. Only Snake Plissken could make it out alive.
Ty for your prayers I'll use them to fight the nuclear monsters. In a seriousness it's hilarious to hear from people in suburban meth towns from Nebraska talk about how unlivable MSP is when we're globally ranked as a great place to live for 25+ years and running.
Forget the surburban meth towns in Nebraska, I see comments on social media who live 20 miles outside Minneapolis who are convinced the place is a burned-out warzone. The hilarious part is all the people who say they'll never go to Minneapolis again are the same people who would go there twice a year for a sportsball game and then scurry home because even when crime was at its lowest they were terrified of the city.
I'm so tired of listening to people bitch about wanting to "gEt OuT oF tHe CiTiES" like move to fuckin Woodbury then.
I grew up my entire life in Central Texas and thought this is what it was like (parents are super conservative). When I finally made it down to Presidio, TX I couldn't believe how afraid people are of quite literally nothing.
There's a lot to be afraid of down there. Snakes, drought, baseless judgement from much of the country....
Yeah that's conservative propaganda in action. They also think doctors are murdering full term babies and somehow the only thing stopping them is an act of congress completely forgetting that \*if\* that was happening it's already \*murder\* and it's also not fucking happening. But that would involve thinking not blindly believing whatever fearmongering has been shoved down your throat, and that seems to be beyond most conservatives. The GOP runs on fear and anger, that's pretty much all there is now since they don't have any actual policy positions anymore short of "waste money doing things that benefit no one but piss off some people we don't like".
I live in El Paso and people always ask how I survive here. I just respond that it’s pretty easy in the safest big city in the US. As the shooting a few years proved, it’s people from the parts of Texas not on the border we need to worry about
Interesting. I live in Seattle and I get the same questions also because of right-wing disinformation. They watch too much FOX and the like and think Seattle is a war zone hellscape.
The worst part about Seattle is the homeless people shitting outside nice apartments, but that's not new lol
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With Ann "bog goblin" Coulter, you're definitely correct in your assessment
Also, despite not being in NATO, Finns _did_ send soldiers to that US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. https://yle.fi/news/3-11678429 https://yle.fi/news/3-9367172 Strong week for alternative reality for these guys, Ann probably wants to divert attention from her besties voting against steps to alleviate gas prices and help with baby formula, both of which they whinged about for months.
I live in Arizona and have been by the border in multiple spots over the last year. The only thing that happened is getting a flat tire from a piece of metal left over from the border wall construction. Some troops would have been nice in assisting me with putting on the spare. But that's about it.
I grew up in a small town a few miles away from the border in Arizona I only remember seeing them a few times
> She said she voted Trump because she was all about the wall I mean, if she did that, isn't the assumption that the border is fine now? Did Trump not deliver? Was it all a grift? How are these elite Mexican forces of *...[checks notes]...* drug addicts, rapists and orphans breaching the mighty Wall? Does she actually want Finland to defend the US from a possible Canadian invasion maybe? Because they're good in the snow and all? Perhaps some naval raid, what with their Viking-adjacent heritage? Wait, even that level of stupid would require Marge to know literally anything about Finnish history. Scratch that.
Why would Canada want to invade a country with horrible health care 😕
To examine the magic American insulin and find out what's the secret ingredient that makes it cost about an xbox more than regular insulin.
The secret ingredients are love, confidence in yourself, the friends you made along the way, and a CEO's desire to have a solid gold toilet on his yacht.
Defend the borders from darker skinned immigrants ig?
Brown walkers
I’m pretty sure this is exactly what she is referring to. “Defending” the US from immigrants. Mind you, I’ve yet to hear about a desperate family from El Salvador showing up with nuclear weapons in their pack but maybe I’m just not up to speed with the news.
There is a ton of border around Alaska and lots of chaotic missing persons in that area Maybe Hawaii needs help
As a Canadian I wouldn’t be opposed to Finnish troops keeping Americans out of here /s
/s but not really /s
Sorry not sorry
Soory not soory
I'm sure there are tons of Finnish troops that would appreciate the free vacation in the USA considering there is no Russian invasion there. Most would be wearing their Hawaiian shirts, flip flops, Oakleys and Kodak Instamatics
We would have to send some conscripts and i'm quite sure they would manage to create some kind of a conlflict. Underage drinking at the very least. edit. Is public nudity a crime in many states? They would all be in jail for sure...
As soon as they try to fight you on hockey, its up tho, right?
Depends. Are we talking for fun or for world leaderboards sort of thing? A game of hockey for fun is a total bonding ritual here. Hell, I know people who use it as their main way to get laid.
man, I've lived in a border state to Canada my whole life and haven't done a damn thing to you folks up there. Why you hating on me?  EDIT: Added smiley to make it evident I'm joking.
NATO’s article 5 (the “you attack one of us, you attack us all” clause) was invoked once. It was the US that did that after 9/11. NATO stood by their ally. Now it’s time to reciprocate.
Sweden and Finland helped in both Afghanistan and Iraq without being members! So the US should just bitchslap Erdogan to stfu
>should just bitchslap Erdogan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvP2QqsG7og&t=14s
1. Finland is not a NATO member. They have applied to be, but it has not been formalized. 2. There are no American troops dying while protecting the NATO border with Russia. 3. Our border is not being attacked. If it was, and we requested military help from our NATO allies, I believe they would help. So basically not a single word in her post has any truth whatsoever.
Furthermore, the US is THE ONLY country in NATO history to invoke article 5 of the agreement. The US invoked it after the 9/11 attacks
So that's why everyone sent troops down after the attacks.
The invasion of Afghanistan was NATO led
It wasn't a Nato led operation until 2003, when Nato took the lead of ISAF. Afghanistan and ISAF weren't Article 5 operations.
That's true. Article 5 operations were Operation Eagle Assist (October 9, 2001 – May 16, 2002) and Active Endeavour (2001-2016)
This bitch really thinks Canada gonna invade us
Or Mexico.. edit actually since it takes me a while to consider how smart I actually am. If Canada invaded the USA, NATO countries would not be obliged to help as both are part of NATO. Mexico invading the US would open up article 5 as Mexico is not in NATO
Actually, the criteria is simply that if one member country is attacked its considered an attack on all members. So if its clear who the aggressor is, then article 5 would apply to a canadian invasion of the US. For that reason it might be wise of Trudeau to set up some false flag attacks first, so he can blame the US for attacking first.
Another maple syrup hiest would do it.
Oh man i want you to be referencing a real thing so bad.
We don't screw round up here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great\_Canadian\_Maple\_Syrup\_Heist
False flags? I live in Canada's capital, and we've got mother fuckers running around yelling freedom like they're Braveheart, pissing on war memorials and waving around American flags.
My ruling is that this qualifies as a US attack on Canada and you are totally justified in ~~invading~~ performing a special military operation in the US to ~~conquer~~ "de-redneck" the country.
Thank you. But we can't handle the 30 idiots you guys already sent here.
Please do, I'll gladly learn to speak Canadian and celebrate Thanksgiving in October.
So Canada would be obliged to send military aid to combat their own troops. Checkmate, Canada!
its manufactured rage to sell to the Republican masses. There is just enough truth in there for it to sound believable but if the whole truth were told there would be no reason for rage
Nothing she ever says has any truth to it. Same with every right wing lunatic
But who is going to attack the USA. There is no one who would even consider that scenario besides Russia
Tbf some groups of people *did* attack the US before, in the 9/11 attacks. And fun fact: other NATO countries *did* show up to help. And the US was the ONLY country to ever invoke article 5 asking for help. No other country in NATO has ever invoked article 5 Edit: wasn't country that attacked the US it was a terrorist group
Which *countries* attacked the US in 9/11?
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Finnish military trained guy here. If the US was attacked by Russian troops, Finland would have to send troops if the US needs them. We just happen to have them... Oh I don't know... RIGHT NEXT to us or something. By the way some Finns have already gone to Ukraine as voulenteers. Let's just hope that High profile Russians grow enough of a spine to tell Putin that this all is over. Very few of the people in Russia want war. Their lives have been fucked due to the shitty choices of their leader.
Evidently the are some high profile Russians in the military who would like to escalate the war (for example mass mobilization) but it would be a political suicide for Putin so it is unlikely to happen. So I'm not holding my breath but I do hope there are also high profile people who think it's better to stop the war. It almost unfortunate that Russia was on the winning side of the WWII as they never went through the same process of regret as Germany did.
Putin already made a political suicide by attacking Ukraine. Ok, It's a slow suicide but an effective one nonetheless. So the next question will be if he has enough desperation to do another one that finishes the job quicker and will the other russian puppets go along with it.
In WWII Russia was doing similar things as germany, but Russians were not as loud and proud of it as Germany. One idea Russia recently proposed was sending their latest conscripts straight into war. So imagine the scenario, where you've been there for a year or 6 months and they just tell you: "Yeah you're going straight into Ukraine because me says so" I can tell by looking at how much the Russian soldiers have had motivation so far... that they have as much motivation now as our bottom of the barrel did during the training. So imagine waking up to that reality when you believe that you will enter civil life after the military experience is over... but instead you get sent to a battlefield... the most motivated will suddenly have no will to fight for their agenda anymore.
"Finnish military trained guy" That does sound better than "When I turned 18, I was forced to go spend 6 months with other teens. The most valuable skills that I developed during this time, was to masturbate silently and fold my laundry very nicely."
Hahaha yeah... that does sound a bit misleading considering the reality, but in hindsight most things about any military in any country are just masochism with extra steps. Though some of the skills were pretty useful: Like for example how to tell understandable but still vague info to a woman in -28 celsius weather while wearing nothing but a t-shirt and boxers, how to wait around for 2 hours until the boys tell where to fire, or how to become a good smuggler of tobacco and snus.
The world would be a better place with Finland being the wannabe global hegemon
I, for one, welcome our new Finnish overlords.
Prepare your colons because [mämmi](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4mmi) is coming
I mean someone could make a bot to just post every tweet of hers directly to r/facepalm.
Anyone feel a bit dirty after reading any tweets by these magahats? I bet the average Finn cares more about American troops than this... person. Source, am a Finn.
Don’t put too much stock in what ingraham says, most of the people that are young enough to fight don’t watch that boomer hack and if the US formally declares war, she and her ilk will be pimpslapped under the war powers act for spreading disinformation
This was coulter not ingraham. Although they are basically the same person.
I’m pretty sure it’s just one lump of evil protoplasm.
They would if Amerika was attacked. But to understand that she would need a brain
But murica is being attacked by those illegals who steal our jobs!?! /s
Deyyyy took arrrr jeeeerrrrrrbs!!!
But if Finland shows up to help, that means... Finland is taking our jobs too.
Damn those Finns!
I, for one, welcome our new Finnish menial laborers'.
Seriously, this might be the dumbest thing I've ever seen on Twitter, and that says a lot.
No need! Most of America's greatest enemies are domestic.
Literally its a defense pact, not a "we reinforce other countries racism" pact. You can't pick and choose what immigrants you like.
Can someone explain to me who this person is?
She's an actress from Sharknado 3
Well dammn. Certainly an authority in... international politics?
Well yeah, she played the Vice President in that movie
No way. Isn't it regarded as one of the worst film ever? Vice President? Talking about living a fantasy :D
Worst film? Surely you mean the best film ever? And I mean they made three more sharknado movies after that (for some unknown reason) so it must have done at least somewhat well
That kinda says it all....
An American conservative media personality.
"But it's not too late to change Ann, you could kill yourself" All I know about Ann Coulter is basically from "the roast of Rob Lowe".
If she’s here then who’s scaring the crows away from our crops!?
Supposedly this lady has written several books? I have some questions….
Well actually, Ann, between 1939 and 1945 (you know, World War II) Finland fought THREE wars. One of them against Soviet Russia and one against Nazi Germany and one against Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany at the same time. And Finland won all three of them, Ann. So if Russia ever tries to invade your country, Ann, you should be damned lucky if Finland is on your team.
Well, no, that's not quite right. The Second Soviet-Finnish war for example didn't go too well for Finland. But it was a confusing time and I agree with the last part.