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submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by ZDL@lazysoci.al to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca

Guard the Leaf is a Canadian who (used to be?) in Malaysia who got so incensed about the USA's unprovoked attack on Canada that he started a YouTube channel to rant about it. (It was demonetized, naturally, since apparently telling people the truth about the USA and Canadians' feelings about it is against community norms. While rampant racism is protected speech.)

He now has that channel, a discord server, a substack, and presence on a lot of other little non-American social media sites. He's developed quite a following and keeps up daily rants about the USA vs. Canada.

And he brought up a really good point here.

In the first Trump presidency, Trump levied tariffs on two major Canadian products. Then Biden came in, and while sure, Biden used friendlier words toward Canada the tariffs never came down.

Now the Great Blue Hope Himself, Gavin Newsom, is prevaricating when directly asked if he'd undo the Trump attack on Canada.

Demoncrats are no better than their Repugnican counterparts. They're both the faces of American fascism. The Demoncrats are just more polite about it.

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[-] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 5 points 18 hours ago

I like Guard the Leaf, I do but the fact that he chose discord over something else was a lttle much for me, and that he is using substack rather than a Canadian platform is a little iffy as well.

Yeah. Not so great. But if you want to reach a broad audience, you gotta publish where they go to get informed. Unfortunately, those platforms are all American owned at the moment.

[-] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 3 points 17 hours ago

I understand using Youtube, but once Gaurd the Leaf had a following he did not need to go to discord or substack. There are other options, and I am sure the following he has would have been happy to go to say Matrix, and give it a try. Rather than substack he could have either hosted his own or got a .ca domain hosted elsewhere (I am a fan of easyDNS right now).

[-] ZDL@lazysoci.al 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I would definitively not have followed him to Matrix. That is a festering boil of a UX. Worst experience ever. Never going back.

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