‘Dear Americans, we have a functional government and you don’t. Figured we would rub it in to make ourselves feel smug. :) -Canada. ‘
They have every right to do that and we deserve it, because our government is fucked and our citizens think voting is enough.
I mean half don't even vote... So...
our citizens think voting is enough.
We now go live to the DNC headquarters
Meanwhile, in half of the country:
Voting is enough actually, you just don't do it for some reason, and now you have to do something else. And if you managed to screw up voting, the easiest thing there is, my hopes are quite low.
Dear Americans, we have a functional government
I feel comparing yourself to the US isn't a fair standard.
Wasn't america pro freedom of speach? crazy
That's virtue signalling. The right does it a lot while accusing everyone else of it. Very typical.
America said it was, it never actually has been though.
It's just what they call propaganda over there.
Dear Americans. You voted for it. We rejected our far right politician. We can be smug. Suck our Canuk dicks.
Canadians were ready to vote in the conservatives until trump pissed them off. Instead Canadians voted in a party headed by a banker who'll also financially raid the country but with decorum.
... Its incredible to me that you managed to frame this as Canada somehow being the assholes.
No, us Americans are the assholes, for every moment we sit around and cry on the internet about how much this sucks... and not actually fucking do anything about it.
History will look back at us, correctly, as a bunch of dithering, pontificating, self-victimizing cowards, if we don't actually do something to end the Trump administration as soon as fucking possible.
The entire Western world is financially, economically and geopolitically oriented around us, our military, our currency. We were the hegemon.
Every moment that Trump and his ilk are allowed to do the insane shit they are doing, where the broader US people are not forcing him out of office, will be remembered as a moment the US population was broadly in tacit compliance with all this geopolitical version of a temper tantrum, thats causing at least hundreds of thousands of direct, uneccessary deaths, and trillions of dollars of economic destruction, around the world.
Canada has every right to be ... not even smug, they're not smug, they're just trying to point out that we seem to just be fine with having all our rights stripped away, because the way this works is, if we weren't, we would actually be doing something about it.
We are the assholes for not stopping this right the fuck now.
In my opinion, what may have happened:
Trump lackey found out at the last minute about the segment and ordered it pulled. But said order did not get to Global either due to lack of communication channel, incompetence or malicious compliance(oops we/I forgot to tell them).
It ran on Global. Canada's answer to Fox News and based out of Alberta. They are extremely pro-US and if any mainstream Canadian TV network was going to force pro-Trump content, they are at the top of that list.
No what happened was the segment was at the finish line when it was pulled. It was fully edited, it passed legal, it was on the schedule, then the billionaire plant running the network pulled it at the last minute
It didn't get pulled in Canada because it was already ready to go, the video was already sent over and everything, and the ruling class here is incompetent. It was an oversight, exactly the kind of mistake that happens over and over
Global is not like Fox news at all, what are you talking about? Your description matches Rebel News though.
Global consistently outright lies and distorts anything left and center to make it look bad and consistently promotes far right viewpoints.
E.G. look at their coverage of any story that should be pro-worker or pro-NDP. They paint it as a bad thing every time.
Can you provide an example? Fox news is extremely right biased with a poor fact checking record. Global news hasn't failed any fact checks, they use reputable sources, and show very little bias. They are corporate owned and an offshoot of Shaw, so — it makes sense they're anti-worker's rights and more centrist, but that doesn't make them like Fox at all.
I've been out of Canada for a while, so I don't know how Global news is now. I suspect that comparing it to Fox News is probably overblown by about an order of magnitude, though. It's very corporate and very stupid, but not at the Fox level.
I remember when I was living near the Roncesvalles neighborhood of Toronto during an election, and Global News decided to run a national news story looking at my riding as some kind of microcosm of the country. The whole story pitted it as a heated contest between the Liberals and Conservatives. I have no idea where they found the Conservative lawn signs for their establishing shots. The Liberals won handily that time with probably 50% of the vote to the NDP's 35%. I think the Tory got about 12%. It was an incredibly stupid and misleading story that they probably only ran because it was cheap to make (since their Toronto correspondents could drive 15 minutes from downtown in the middle of the day to interview people who don't have day jobs).
Oh no, they still suck. I haven't read Global News in a while, I'm just aware of them. Part of my job includes collating news from around the world, which is why I started a few news coms here to diversify the feed a bit.
I haven't seen that article, so I can't speak to it. I did once make a statement, as a teenager, to a global news reporter that got sensationalized in print, so I believe you about coercing stories that draw more readers. It's just a big difference between corporate spin-doctor shenanigans and fox news' pulling shit straight out of their asses.
Global is owned by Corus, which was spun off from Shaw in ‘99. Corus is headquartered in Toronto. Where did you get your information from?
...okay but I hope you can admit that while Global news is the Canadian mainstream news media equivalent to Fox News, that there is a huge difference between the two. I'd still consider Global news as reputable a source as any other mainstream Canadian news broadcaster. Whereas I don't consider Fox News to be news, journalism or anything other than propaganda and entertainment.
Global isn't Canada's answer to Fox News. Canada doesn't have a Fox News.
Also, did it actually air on Global? From what I heard it was available on their app. That's more plausible because it's a different pathway. Instead of just simultaneously airing what's being aired in the US, they have to break it up into different segments which they load up on some CDN.
Im OOTL
A 60 Minutes segment about CECOT was pulled from the air in the US but aired in Canada, supposedly by mistake according to US news outlets. It covered the horrible treatment, abuse, and wrongful detention of prisoners there, which apparently the US news corps didn't like
EDIT: It's actively being removed from YouTube when people post it - you can watch it on the Internet Archive or on CatBox
someone shod post it on xvideos
Thanks!
for anyone else who missed the context:
CECOT apparently means Terrorism Confinement Center, a maximum security prison in El Salvador: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Confinement_Center
Seeding it.
As a Canadian who is OOTL, thanks, this helps a lot
Americans need a VPN to get past their nation's censorship.
At this point, we need a socialist revolution.
At this point?
Long time coming
I couldn't find the vid released in Canada. I did find someone that read a transcript of it. Not sure how long that will be up before youtube trump suckers pull it down for bullshit reasons.
It's on torrents though.
I grew up poor, and was always too chickenshit to risk my PC on downloading. Watching a stream is always something that felt safer to me, so it's the first thing I look for. Although after some more searching, I found the internet archive version of it. I posted it on lemmy world news.
It is funny, because streaming downloads to your computer as well. It just doesn't save the file.
Thanks for your service!
Nobody goes after torrenting in Canada, it's effectively legal (not actually, but it's difficult to get a conviction, and as a result is not enforced). Essentially, if you're not making money from piracy, they don't care.
Is this it? I haven't got to watching it yet, but it's supposed to be. Apologies if I was misinformed.
Edit: forgot the link, https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment#reviews
Also it seems someone posted it below, so I think it's correct.
Can't wait to get a nastygram for using a youtube alternative
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