U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming an ‘unhealthy’ amount of American news
Is it weird to be an American interested in Canadian news?
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They are. As an American I don't get why my Canadian friends are so engaged. It's not right.
We are worried about what we would have to do if you guys starts shooting at each other. Like where would we put the refugees.
Just be like us and say "fuck you, fix your own shit in your shithole country! Don't come here and take our jobs!" Hell maybe even start a wall and make Trump pay for it.
We deserve it. :/
Yeah but its an Americans right to take other countries as they need, its in the bloody constitution - and we all know that is equivalent to global law
Nah man, we are Canada, that's not us. Plus, you're our cousins, we love you guys. We just need to make sure you comply with our language laws.
To be fair, it's because US politics at the moment is a train-wreck in progress and its hard to look away. Or, more accurately, the US news portrays US politics as a train-wreck in progress, with civil war and right-wing dictatorship just over the horizon. Both political parties and the whole media establishment are literally spending billions of dollars to attract eyeballs, so the drama of US presidential politics is off-the-scale and the whole world is watching, not just Canada.
Canadian politics at the moment is a snooze-fest by comparison. However, when crazy US-style drama does go down in Canada, like when our COVID trucker convoy noisily occupied Ottawa for a few weeks, we were glued to that instead.
For Americans, you can think of Canada as being like Minnesota. Sure, we get a dramatic event every once in a while, but mostly it's boringly reasonable, center-left, earnest, and low-drama.
For instance, half of the content on Lemmy is American politics and news. It can be hard as a non-American to find a good balance of content that’s closer to home.
Half is a bit conservative. For non news/politics stuff, it's a fraction that has anything to do specifically with the USA. If it's news/politics related it's well over 75%
The US is the greatest threat to all life in the world with their massive Nuclear arsenal. If New York takes an ICBM, it'll affect Toronto and likely Ottawa too.
I treat it like a reality TV show. The characters are pretty engaging and if I acknowledge that it's real life I get depressed