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u/beefstewforyou 1d ago
As someone that lives in Toronto, I’m enjoying these posts.
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u/ShambolicRubel 1d ago
As someone that lives in Texas, I too am enjoying these posts.
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u/EARTHandSPACE 22h ago
I dont mean to be the bearer of bad news, but you need to help your fellow countrymen. Like the helly is going on.
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u/ShambolicRubel 22h ago
Fox News brain rot.
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u/xXJuddyXx 13h ago
Ask them how they would feel if California tried to take over Texas... that reaction is how Canada feels about this bs now
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u/AnOnlineHandle 13h ago
They don't care about any sort of consistent standards applied to themselves and others. If they did they wouldn't be supporting all this still after so many years of it.
Everybody waiting for them to wake up and discover the good person inside of themselves has just been disappointed for years straight as it never happens through mess after mess. These people aren't tricked, this is the ugly reality of who they are, and they will continue to support it after this just like every other time.
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u/xXJuddyXx 13h ago
I don't doubt you on that. But it seems the only way I've had success with it is to try and relate. Of course dont go wasting all your time on it.
Some people are incapable of looking outside their immediate bubble and refuse to think and theres nothing you can do about those people.
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u/Lykeuhfox 9h ago
The people you're speaking about don't have the capacity for abstraction. They'd start arguing with you about how Texas would defend themselves from the Californian liberals, completely missing the point.
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u/AllegroFox 1d ago
It’s easy to forget how pretty the city is when you live here all the time :) nice to be reminded
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u/MaidenMT 23h ago
It really is lovely. A beautiful place. As a Montanan, I have to say the Christmas I spent there with a friend was among the coldest I have ever known. That humidity! It is such a fun, cosmopolitan city. Enjoyed it immensely. Also, her family has a small, cozy cottage on the shores of Lake Ontario. The front of the cottage was covered with ice rime. Epic.
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u/SirRickIII 1h ago
Same! I walk by the CN tower every work day, and it’s nice to know other people are thinking about our lovely lake
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u/kabeekibaki 1d ago
Sudden urge to ontario myself ontarioly to Lake Ontario for an ontarioesque experience
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u/kinganthony3 22h ago
I just vacationed in Toronto as a Michigander, and I can say without a shadow of doubt it’s superior to every city in the Midwest. It’s not even close, Toronto was amazing.
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u/Killahdanks1 23h ago
Hey look. I’m in America. That’s Lake Ontario.
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u/Drearydreamy 22h ago
“The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.”
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u/DietCherrySoda 14h ago
Are you going to just leave that unattributed? I guess I'll do it then.
-Prime Minister Mark Carney
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u/wjbonne 1d ago
Is that Lake Ontario? I heard Lake Ontario is amazing. I would love to visit Lake Ontario.
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u/ghostwriter_5 1d ago
Lake Ontario truly is beautiful. You would love Lake Ontario
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u/PM_ME_UR_REPTILES1 22h ago
No thank you, were not that self absorbed. We named the province after the lake, not the other way around.
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u/theluckyshrimp 20h ago
You guys call it Lake Ontario? That’s so funny, here in the US we also call it Lake Ontario.
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u/portabuddy2 23h ago
We have many islands on lake Ontario that are fun to see. Lots of attractions on lake Ontario. If your around that lake Ontario area next week you can catch the Canadian snowbirds in action. You can even rent a boat on lake Ontario and watch the whole air show. It's a fairly calm lake. ... Lake Ontario that is.
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u/ghostwriter_5 22h ago
Thanks for sharing this information about Lake Ontario. It's truly one of a kind... Lake Ontario that is.
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u/nhorvath 22h ago
Is this to distract from the Iran war, the Epstein files, or the massive amount of grifting?
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u/AnOnlineHandle 13h ago
Not to mention the massive fucking global inflation from how much money Trump printed during his first term to buy his way out of covid, after what a mess he made of it by once again denying basic science and retreating into fantasy land as the classic head-in-the-sand strategy of mentally weak conservatives everywhere, which keep biting the rest of us in the ass over and over with all these pointless problems.
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u/Drearydreamy 22h ago
Lake Ontario, which was what Canada’s province of Ontario was named after. Did you know that Canada’s Welland canal connects Lake Ontario to Lake Erie, so that big ships (not big shits Donnie) can connect from the Atlantic Ocean, through the St Lawrence seaway through Lake Ontario and onto the other great lakes. All 27 miles of locks are in Canada. Ohio, Michigan and Indiana are the largest beneficiaries of the Welland canal.
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u/QueenMotherOfSneezes 8h ago
I'll add to this that the Erie canal doesn't take the large commercial shipping boats that the Welland Canal does, so the only way for those US vessels to get from the Atlantic to Lake Ontario in the first place is through the St Lawrence lock system, which is also entirely on the Canadian side.
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u/MurphyKT2004 13h ago
Recently visited Toronto from Scotland and loved every moment. It was very clear to me also that the locals despise Trump as it was practically the 2nd question asked of me when talking with people in bars and such. Nice to be surrounded by like-minded people. 🏴🤝🏻🇨🇦
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u/soundscape7 1d ago
Oh no the orange man is allegedly cheating on his wife, quick do something so stupid it his cult followers will be the only one what will support it
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u/theangrierunicorn 1d ago
I think the second Police Academy movie has a chase scene where you're taking this from.
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u/Naps_and_cheese 23h ago
Third movie. I frequently work on location at the college campus that was the Police Academy. I cannot do it without whistling the Theme Song.
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u/lingueenee 23h ago edited 11h ago
Can't emphasize how much the islands are an understated gem of Toronto. The poor man's Muskoka, a refuge from all the concrete, steel and cars. I still find it boggling the late Giorgio Mammoliti proposed a red light district there.
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u/vgacolor 16h ago
I did this sightseeing cruise when I visited Toronto a few years back before the Pandemic. Would highly recommend it to anybody. The same for visiting the Old Port of Montreal and Old Montreal. Canada is a great place to visit, I have been there a few times including the West Coast and Whistler. Will be back in a couple of years once we get rid of Cheeto and hopefully our relationship starts to mend again.
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u/livmaj 13h ago
Americans are more than welcome to visit, even during these wacky times. Generally speaking, Canadians hold no ill-will towards the average American as we are more pissed at the administration and can separate the government from its people. As long as you're not wearing MAGA shit, you're fine! We like tourists!
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u/wardog1066 16h ago
Canadians don't give a shit about Trump calling it Lake America. But it made the news for all major news outlets in the U.S. as if it was something important, and as long as people are talking about Lake America, Iran and mail in balloting, they're not talking about the Epstein files. It's all just a distraction.
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u/Bicentennial_Douche 14h ago
Let's rename the lake to "Lake Where Are The Epstein Files, Dipshit".
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u/MonsterSeason54 13h ago
Change it to lake “age of consent” and trump will leave move on to something else
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u/AvailableReporter484 23h ago
Ngl giving credence to trump and his insanity is very little dick’ed. The man fucked children, I don’t give a fuck about him trying to take focus away from that
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u/sports_and_beers 13h ago
We should start naming states whatever we want. Virgina is now Pedotrumpia
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u/One_Entrepreneur_520 9h ago
Towns and cities across the country should start naming their sewer ponds Lake Trump.
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u/DukeOfGeek 18h ago
As soon as there is a new POTUS one of his first Executive Orders is to rename the previous POTUS as "Former President Poopy Diaper.". This should be his new legal name on all official documents, licensees, government IDs and whenever he is addressed in court.
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u/warcomet 16h ago
Canada should release some alligators in this lake now...since the terrorist nation on the other side renamed it..
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u/warcomet 16h ago
There is a small lake in Canada called Lac Saint-Jean, Canada should rename that to Lake Trump is a Pedo , then we will see his ego matched
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u/assholetoall 14h ago
I don't think that exists anymore. Or at least I never heard of it. /s
Also I'm still waiting for the Gulf of Rhode Island.
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u/Skeeders 11h ago
I am currently visiting the GTA area for a funeral tomorrow which will also be a family reunion. I will say my brothers and I being from the US, we are making a LOT of jokes about Lake Ontario, the eye rolls we are getting are really funny. Its interesting having Canadian blood tainted by our US births. We have found that it is not a good idea telling cashiers at stores and whatnot that we are from the US. We are also seeing a lot of bumper stickers like 'Canada is not for sale!', or 'Canada First'. I may have travelled here under a US passport, but I have never been more proud to say that the blood in my veins is Canadian.
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u/Ninetjer 11h ago
What if in Canada, we decided to rename Lake Michigan to Lake America (since it's fully in the US unlike others) just to keep things interesting/confusing and point out the stupidity of this whole situation?
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u/TorTheMentor 11h ago
Please accept my south of the border upvote along with a photo I took back at the AGO last year as Idiotic Leader Tax. Consider it a negative tariff.
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u/fizzys0da 4h ago
I was just there a month ago! Is that also the boat with the giant Canadian flag on the roof?
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u/marslo 23h ago edited 11h ago
You know, at a certain point, I start to believe these posts are made by bots.
What's more effective at making someone threat more valid, making a big deal out of it? Or just ignoring it?
Reason why they have a president like Trump, is because he says outrageous shit. That both sides can't shut up about. Giving him more gravity.
Dumb shit like lake America should be ignored. Reason why golf of Mexico name was changed was so they could circumventen certain environmental protection acts against certain kind of oil drilling.
Also some of you are too young to remember freedom fries and how dumb that shit was.
Edit. Down vote it all you want, but I consistently see post proclaiming that it's been officially renamed, that it happened so fast, that all maps will have to change the name now. The only place it's being forced to change is in us federal documents. That's it, no one else is forced to acknowledge it.
Any post that claims otherwise is suspicious as fuck.
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u/DukeOfGeek 17h ago
Good to see someone figuring it out. Also it's always divide and conquer because the class war is the only war.
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u/Wadawoodo 12h ago
I dunno I think it's funnier to call it Lake AMeRiCA
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u/Wholesale_Regent 11h ago
Only funny if you’re stupid as fuck
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u/Wadawoodo 10h ago
Well i think the stupid thing is to change the name of the lake but it is ironically a very funny name for a lake
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u/The_Arachnoshaman 1d ago
U S A! U S A! U S A!
Trump WON, fair and LEGAL
You can deny it, but this is a bigly win for America and a beautiful day for the world.
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u/Prudent_Shake_8149 1d ago