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@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange Ya. As a Canadian, the flag thing is ick. For me the problem is I get accused of being American because of my Canadian accent, and I have to dodge all kinds of hostile behaviour until I explain that I live in Canada, in the time zone one hour earlier than EST (What? There’s another time zone earlier? Yep and yet another a half-hour earlier than that in the same continent). That is the secret handshake that proves I’m really Canadian. ONce I’m known as Canadian, shoulders relax, smiles appear, and the topic of conversation gets normal again. Canadians have a long history of wearing Canadian flags on clothing and personal items not to signal Canadian-ness but to signal not-American-ness. Americans have figured out that they get treated better abroad if they signal Canadian-ness to hide their American-ness, so they wear Canadian flags. Then they do not-Canadian things, like apologizing to inanimate objects, and it effs it up for everyone. Of course most midwesterners, like Minnesotans, are honourably Canadians. And of course, we have our own American-funded fascists who did the truck convoy to Ottawa and threatened to take over the government. They covered everything in Canadian flags and all other Canadians avoided Canadian flags for years. Until, of course, Trump started threatening to invade, annex, claim mineral and oil rights in Canada and our relationship with the US forever changed from buddies, mates, and neighbours to icy politeness, making new friends globally, and keeping an eye on the crazy uncle who won’t step away from the booze and keeps trying to open the gun cabinet. But then the Canadian response was based on a great Canadian hockey legend, not American blood and soil patriotism. Elbows Up! Anyway, Canadians have been side-eyeing our neighbours for some time now, and the rest of the world is only now catching up.