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Normally I wouldn’t post a Fox News link, but this is funny. Canadian-born actor William Shatner snarked live on TV about the Trump plan of Canada becoming the 51st state and called on PM Mark Carney to make a counter proposal.
Shatner: “Do a real estate deal! Make a counter offer! Let’s offer — Canada offer — to the United States to be the eleventh province! Think of the joy! … It’s the best thing!”
Fox News host Jesse Watters [laughing]: “He should have said that. … That would have brought the house down.”
Shatner: “I mean, everybody is so serious about what is an un-serious offer … Canada’s been around for a hundred fifty years …”
Watters: “Isn’t it about persistence? … “Carney says, it’s not for sale … Trump says never say never …”
Shatner: “At a certain point, persistence becomes insulting!
Here is the Fox News link to the video (Shatner appears at ~3 min).
Most of you may know this already: https://buycanadianmart.ca/
Addition:
Canadian retailers are seeing a surge in domestic sales amid the ‘Buy Canadian’ movement – (April 2025)
The “Buy Canadian” movement is already delivering promising results across the retail sector. Major retailers such as Loblaws Companies have reported a 10 per cent increase in sales of Canadian-made products. Sobey’s parent company Empire also noted a decline in sales of U.S.-sourced goods.
Importantly, the shift isn’t limited to big retailers or headline product categories. Smaller retailers and established brands are also seeing tangible benefits.
It may not be surprising, but when I read the headline I thought exactly the same :-)
1·1 month agoWhat does ‘dishonest’ mean in this context?
Your comment supports exactly what I said. I have been here on Lemmy for only a short period of time, but I have been observing that whenever one posts an article critical of China, this user gets whatabouted to death (and sometimes called “idiot”, “F@ing liberal”, and other names). One user here in this thread even asked me whether I support the war in Israel (!) - because I posted an article on China “building a cyber army of hackers.”
What is this?
Such behavior is so widespread here on Lemmy that I argue it must be orchestrated, this doesn’t rise up organically. And it appears to be supported not only by users but also by many admins and mods.
I will stop responding to this kind of comments, btw. This is off-topic and leads to nowhere.
As a response to several of the posts in this thread: It is really amazing how many people here on Lemmy are downplaying or even denying China’s crimes (even many admins and mods). You can post articles critical of the US, EU, Australian or any other government, but if you post a China-critical text you are whatabouted to death. The tonality of many of these comments alone is very telling.
“These biases stem from entrenched gender patterns in the training data as well as from an agreeableness bias induced during the reinforcement learning from human feedback stage.”
No surprise.
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Quick question also to you: Do you fundamentally disagree with what Israel and the US are accused of but fully support China’s domestic surveillance, transnational repression, supression of free speech and freedom of the press, bullying of its neighbours, aggression against Taiwan, just because they are perpetrated by “the good guys”?
'China has almost doubled their aggression in cyber’, experts say
Today, Western governments have been more outspoken in linking China to cyber attacks and sanctioned organizations linked to malicious cyber activity. Despite this growing awareness of the threat posed by China-backed groups, … people still don’t have a firm grasp on the extent to which China has infiltrated enterprise systems …
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This is not about ‘bolstering cybersecurity’ but rather about attacking other countries. There is nothing even remotely similar to a ‘Tianfu Cup’ in any other country.
As I asked already in another thread: Why is it that whenever one posts something critical of China here on Lemmy, there is some commentary arguing that the US is doing the same? I don’t understand that.
That’s whataboutery back and forth.
Canada should move towards integration with Europe instead of the U.S.
Trump’s chaotic global tariff war, which has upended the international order, shows no sign of letting up. Presidents of the U.S. have long used trade as an instrument of power to assert economic and military dominance over the global economy. Trump however, does so against Canada and other allies—a vision driven by his pathological narcissistic view of the world, unrestrained by his sycophantic entourage.
Canada is seeking to reduce dependence on the U.S. by strengthening domestic production and defence capacity, and by forging economic diversification and security partnerships with allies—including with the 27-member European Union, Canada’s second-largest trading partner.
Canadians and Europeans have much in common. A large majority support retaliatory tariffs against the U.S… Canadian and European citizens have boycotted U.S. goods and services, travel to the U.S., and Tesla products …
There are also articles about this. Feel free to apply the whataboutery also there. (s/ just to be safe, it would indeed be better to stop whataboutering and stay on topic.)
… indicating that [China’s] BGI units’ “collection and analysis of genetic data poses a significant risk of contributing to monitoring and surveillance by the government of China, which has been utilised in the repression of ethnic minorities in China”. It also claimed “the actions of these entities concerning the collection and analysis of genetic data present a significant risk of diversion to China’s military programs”.
One of the more elaborated news on that topic:
Chinese officials have implicitly acknowledged responsibility for a series of sophisticated cyber intrusions targeting critical U.S. infrastructure.
During a high-level meeting in Geneva with American officials, representatives from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs indirectly linked years of computer network breaches at U.S. ports, water utilities, airports, and other critical targets to increasing U.S. policy support for Taiwan […]
Wang Lei, a top cyber official with China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, made the comments after U.S. representatives emphasized that China appeared not to understand how dangerous prepositioning in civilian critical infrastructure was, and how such actions could be viewed as an act of war […]
The admission is considered extraordinary, as Chinese officials have typically denied involvement in cyber operations, blamed criminal entities, or accused the U.S. of fabricating allegations.
Dakota Cary, a China expert at cybersecurity firm SentinelOne, noted that such an acknowledgment, even indirectly, likely required instructions from the highest levels of President Xi Jinping’s government.
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I don’t know where you got this, but do yourself a favor a stay away from whatever it is.
Members of several of the organizations involved in our coalition have long been the focus of Chinese state-sponsored menace and harassment. In fact, we documented those serious concerns, along with a number of recommended actions, in comprehensive reports provided to your government in 2017 and 2020 […]
It is important that the Government of Canada cease to tolerate such activities of Chinese diplomats in Canada, which are clearly inconsistent with their legitimate function as defined by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Similarly, the Chinese state’s use of proxies to spread toxic disinformation and intimidate diaspora members in Canada must be much more actively addressed through legal prosecution and other measures.
We are pleased that Canada will be raising concerns that transnational repression undermines sovereignty and democratic values at the upcoming G-7.
As an addition: Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the UK also announced new sanctions against Russia at the start of this week.
Which country would you like to migrate to?